Browsing by Author "Adhikari, Binod"

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    A Case Study of the Trust for International Brand in Nepal
    (Faculty of Management, Balkumari College, Narayangrah, 2009) Adhikari, Binod
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    Critique of Consumerist Culture in West’s The Day of the Locust
    (Facuty of Art in English, 2018-04) Adhikari, Binod
    The present research paper analyzes the fragmentation and artificiality caused by consumerist culture in Nathanael west’s The Day of the Locust. Beside this, the researcher has tried to find how the social rule, costume, human desires, languages, families and materialistic desires are determined by the state, how state rules over common people and attempts to prove how state agencies break the natural desires of the people. Moreover, it tries to find out how the protagonist, Tod and other common characters are compelled to live under the shadow of capitalist ideology due to the desires of ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. In order to analyze the text, the researcher has brought the idea of Louis Althusser’s Ideological state apparatus. On the basis of Althusserian ideology, the research establishes an idea how the state ideologies shape desires of the ordinary people in the society and how common people have become victims of consumerist culture.
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    Modeling, Simulation and Thermal Analysis of the Electric Resistance Furnace used in the Heat Treatment of Clay Based Ceramics
    (I.O.E. Pulchowk Campus, 2022-09) Adhikari, Binod
    Electric resistance furnace is an improved type of furnace than the fuel fired furnaces that operate with the aid of electricity. In this type of furnace, the desired temperature inside the furnace for heat treatment of clay based ceramics is obtained by the use of a heating element which generates heat based on the Joules law of heating. Electric resistance furnace can replace the traditional fuel fired furnace in the pottery and ceramic industry as these furnaces utilize the electricity to heat treat the clay based ceramics in a more uniform manner. Any attempt to preserve the heat or minimize the losses would result in an increased efficiency of the furnace and hence the subsequent energy saving. In this study, an electric resistance furnace is modeled and an attempt to study the thermal behaviour of the furnace is made. The temperature distribution in the walls, the furnace internal environment and the material to be treated are the scope of this study. The results were then verified with the experimental data obtained from the field visit for the outer wall temperature and the furnace internal temperature. Computational study show the temperature deviation on the walls of the furnace below 14% and internal temperature below 5% than that of the experimental value. Further, an attempt to reduce the external wall temperature and heat flux is made by certain variations in the insulating material.
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    Study of Intensive Fish Farming in Madhesha, Sunsari
    (Department of Zoology, 2007) Adhikari, Binod
    The research was conducted to investigate the intensive fish culture in Madhusha VDC, Sunsari, Nepal. The study was done in a single pond (800sq.m) and stocked with indigenous and exotic carp as Rohu (Labeo rohita), Bhakur (Catla catla), Naini (Cirrhinus mrigala), Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and Big head carp (Aristichthys nobilis). The study was carried out for 180 days from November 2006 to April 2007 with regular analysis of physico-chemical parameter and growth of fish once in two month. The average weight of fingerling at the time of stocking was 15gm which reached 600gm (Grass carp at the time of harvesting), followed by Bhakur (500gm), Rohu (400gm), Naini (350gm) and Bighead Carp (300gm). The water temperature ranged between 19.5 to 30oC, dissolved oxygen from 4.2 to 8.3ppm and free CO2 from 6.3 to 9.0ppm. The total alkalinity ranged between 45 to 70ppm and the PH from 7 to 10.8ppm. The survival rate was found highest for Grass carp (75%), followed by Bhakur (72.5%), Rohu (62.5%), Naini (45%) and Bighead carp (44%). The total input in the pond was Rs. 7,540 and the total output from the pond was 734kg of fishes which was sold for Rs.62,390 at the rate of Rs.85/kg. This showed the total fish per hectare is Rs.779875 and the net profit of Rs.685,625 per hectare. Hence, this study, showed that polyculture an income generator for fish farmers and local people and contributing greatly to socio-economic development.