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Novel Dimension Scaling for Optimal Mass Flow Rate Estimation in Low-Temperature Flat Plate Solar Collector based on Thermal Performance

In this study, a simplified energy equations-based dynamic model is used to develop working relationships for calculating the collector dimensions and the optimum heat transfer fluid (HTF) mass flow rate for achieving a predefined thermal efficiency. The computational results for the geometrical configuration corresponding to an average DNI, calculated from actual solar radiation data, indicate that to achieve a fixed temperature and a collector efficiency, the required HTF mass flow rate increases with an increasing level of solar radiation.

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The School of Natural Sciences and Engineering carries out original research and policy advocacy in diverse fields.  The faculty are grouped under four programmes of which the Science Communication Programme was established only in 2019-20.  During the year 2020-21, the school trained a record number of PhD students (20), post-doctoral fellows (6) and several young research fellows and project assistants due to the success of its faculty in securing long-term research funding from multiple sources.

Anindya Sinha

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Joined NIAS on 15th November 1996. Dean, Academic Affairs; 18th February 2013-Current. Most significant research contribution: Was responsible for the discovery of a new species of primate, the Arunachal macaque, in Northeastern India, although principal contributions have been in understanding the structure and evolution of the primate mind. 

Dr. Anindya Sinha's wide-ranging research interests in  behavioural ecology and cognitive psychology of primates, animal molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, conservation biology and the philosophy of biology. He has a master's degree in botany, a doctorate in molecular biology, and has earlier worked on the biochemical genetics of yeast, the social biology of wasps, and the classical genetics of human disease. He is also interested in biology education and the popularisation of science, and has lectured extensively in a variety of educational and research institutions

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‘The devil is in the detail’: Peer-review of the wildlife conservation plan by the Wildlife Institute of India for the Etalin hydropower project, Dibang valley.
The Elephant in the Room: Methods, challenges and concerns in the monitoring of Asian elephant populations
Chronic extraction of forest resources is threatening a unique wildlife habitat of the Upper Brahmaputra Valley, northeastern India
Mental health ecologies and urban wellbeing
Elephants on the Move
Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human–Elephant Interactions
Affective ethnographies of animal lives
Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human-Elephant Interactions
Living with elephants: Exploring the nature and cause of human-elephant conflict in India
The Monkey in the Towns Commons: A Natural History of the Indian Bonnet Macaque
Changing ecologies, shifting behaviours: Behavioural responses of a rainforest primate, the lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus, to a matrix of anthropogenic habitats in southern India
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self
Silent words: Semiotic assemblages as bridges to the semantics-pragmatics divide in communication.
Chronic extraction of forest resources is threatening a unique wildlife habitat of Upper Brahmaputra Valley, northeastern India
The devil is in the detail'
The banj oak Quercus leucotrichophora as a potential mitigating factor for human-langur interactions in the Garhwal Himalayas, India: People’s perceptions and ecological importance.
Macaca munzala.
The elephant in the city: The trialectics of space in the rurban elephants of southern India.
Elephants on the move: Implications for human-elephant interaction.
Animating the urban: An ethological and geographical conversation.
Gestural communication of wild bonnet macaques in the Bandipur National Park, southern India.
Sharing from the same bowl: Resource partitioning between sympatric macaque species in the Western Himalaya, India.
Nonhuman lifeworlds in urban India.
Human-captive elephant relationships in Kerala: Historical perspectives and current scenarios.
Inter-ecosystem variation in the food-collection behaviour of climbing perch Anabas testudineus, a freshwater fish.
Can living with an alien invasive fish, Tilapia, influence the shoaling decision-making and exploratory behaviour of an air-breathing freshwater fish, the climbing perch?
All-male groups in Asian elephants: A novel, adaptive social strategy in increasingly anthropogenic landscapes of southern India.
An action plan for the control of commensal, non-human primates in public places
Ramesh Maheshwari (1940–2019).
Affective ethnographies of animal lives
The banj oak Quercus leucotrichophora as a potential mitigating factor for human-langur interactions in the Garhwal Himalayas, India: People’s perceptions and ecological importance.
The Rurban elephant: Behavioural ecology of Asian elephants in response to large-scale landuse change in a human-dominated landscape in peri-urban southern India

M Sai Baba

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Prof Sai Baba is Honorary Visiting Professor at NIAS and Registrar at the M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences.  Prof. M Sai Baba was former 'TV Raman Pai Chair Professor' at NIAS and worked in the domain of Science Communication and Risk Communication.  

Present work includes, obtaining effective and informative insights on managing public perceptions and the public acceptance of public risks associated with new and emerging technologies, through science and technology communications.  Developing platforms for enhancing interaction between scientists and public using conventional and nonconventional communication media. Outlining strategies based on science and technology communication to manage the fear of hazards from novel technologies possessed by the public. 

Formerly Prof. M. Sai Baba, Outstanding Scientist was Director, Resources Management Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam and Senior Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute

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World Mental Health Day
World Tourism Day
Summary of the meetings on 'Human Reliability Program in Industries of National Importance
Communicating Ancient Indian Knowledge System for the Holistic Development of School Students for Their Physical, Mental and Spiritual Well Being
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and India: Promise, Perception and Preparedness
Ancient Indian Knowledge Systems for Holistic Development of Youth
Communicating ancient Indian knowledge system for the holistic development of the school students for their physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Method for automatic key concepts extraction: Application to documents in the domain of nuclear reactors.
Application of Multi- Objective Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Core Configuration Design of a Fast Breeder Reactor.
Global Nuclear Fuel Research during 2000-2017: A Scientometric Analysis.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and India: promise, perception and preparedness.
Pi Day
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