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Item Insurance for Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises(2017-04) ADB; Chatterjee, Arup Kumar; Wehrhahn, RodolfoItem Socio-Economic Contribution of Lower Modi-1 Hydropower Project in Chuwa Vdc of Parbat District(Central Department of Economics Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017-04) Ghimire, KamalNot AvailableItem SASEC Powering Asia in the 21st Century(2017-04) ADBItem Socio-Economic Impact On Solar Home System To The Users In Sipadole And Katunje Area, Bhaktapur District(Central Department of Rural Development Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, 2017-04) Dhonju, Hari RatnaNot availableItem Operation Optimization Based Upon Discharge and Power Requirement of Middle Marsyangdi Hydropower Station(Pulchowk Campus, 2017-04) Shrestha, SajanThis research studied the condition of units of Middle Marsyangdi Hydropower Station. The study was focused to determine state of each unit. Amongst the two units, Unit 2 was found to have 0.28m lower head loss than Unit 1. But, Unit 1 was found to have 3.68% higher efficiency than Unit 2. Optimal power generation that could be achieved with any given total discharge and any value of gross head was determined. Similarly, the minimum discharge required to meet any particular power demand at any value of gross head was also determined. Based on the study of state of individual unit and optimization solution, comparison of optimal operation for each second of a day with operation from historical data of the power plant was done for eight days. The comparison of actual operation and the optimal operation shows that generation gain of 1.66-7.20% from same discharge and discharge saving of 1.58-4.96% for same generation is possible through optimal operation.Item Socio-Economic Impact Study of Small Hydro Project in Solukhumbu: A Case Study of Salleri Chialsa Small Hydro Power Project Salleri, Solukhumbu, District(Central Department of Rural Development, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, 2017-04) Rai, BrihaspatiAn abstract of the dissertation Faculty of Humanities and Social Science for the Master of Arts in Rural Development submitted on March, 2017.Title:“Socio-Economic Impact Study of Small Hydro Project in Solukhumbu. A Case Study of Salleri Chialsa Small Hydro power project Salleri, Solukhumbu, District” This abstract of the dissertation illustrates how the entire study has been conducted. This dissertation is quantitative study of Ward no 5 & 6 of Dhudhkuda Municipality The major objective of the study was to know socio-economic impact of small hydro power project (SCECO) on community people of Dudhkunda Municipality. The specific objective of the study was to know improved lifestyle of community people who are the beneficiaries of the project. The study design is quantitative. It was conducted in Dudhkunda Municipality. 110 households were selected as sample size for the study. Random sampling method was used to collect information from field. Questionnaire was used as method to collect data from the field The study area was found socially diversified with different ethnic groups with Sherpa as largest ethnic community. The social status of different communities people who are beneficiaries of the project were fond improved as their children education was found improved. Economic condition of the people was found improving as they were found involving in income generating activities such as running hotels and lodge and shops after establishing hydro project. The project has played a vital role in rural development. It is concluded that the implication of hydropower project for rural development are: introduction of modern technology in rural context, which developed technical capabilities in the village needed for rural development, introduction of industrial management concept, introducing of entrepreneurship in rural village. Proper management for operation and maintenance is the essential factor for any hydropower program. The study recommends that before initiation the plant in any area training should be provided as grant from the side of government for its future sustainability.Item A Novel Method for Real Time Pothole Detection System using Smartphones with Accelerometers(Pulchowk Campus, 2017-04) MAHARJAN, SUJITWiththepopularityofsmartphones,alotofproblemarebeingsolvedthroughtheuseof mobileapplications.Oneoftheproblemisroadaccidentswhichoccursduetomainlythe poorconditionofroad.Teauthoritiesneedtokeeptherecordabouttheconditionofthe roadstobeabletomaintaintheroadsingoodcondition.Mobilephonewithembedded powerfulsensorssuchasaccelerometers,gyroscopesetcmakeitverypowerfulsothis thesistriestoexploitthesesensorstodevelopasystemcapableofautomaticallydetecting thepotholesinrealtime.AlgorithmslikeZ-THRESH,Z-DIFF,STDEV(Z)andZ-ZEROare widelyusedtodetectpotholesinrealtimebuttheyhaveveryhighfalsepositiveresult whenusedindividuallywiththresholdvalueskeptconstant.Inthisthesis,thethreshold valuesaremadedynamicandittakesthevalueasafunctionofspeed.Also,thepot- holesaredetectedbasedonresultofallfouralgorithms.Teusersonlyneedtoenable theapplicationwhiledrivingandallthedataaresenttotheserverandthepotholesare mappedinwebintherealtime.Tesystemdevelopedisevaluatedusingdataobtained fromcrawdad.orgdatasetandalsoverifedonthedatasetgeneratedthroughandroidap- plicationwhichshowbeterresultthanpreviouswork.Item Basic Statistics 2017(2017-04) ADBItem Parallelization of Star Alignment Algorithm for Multiple Sequence Alignment using MapReduce Model(Pulchowk Campus, 2017-04) Ansari, Md HasanMultiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an important problem in molecular biology. Biological sequences are aligned with each other vertically to show possible similarities or differences among these sequences. To solve an MSA problem is to find an alignment of multiple sequences with the highest score based on a given scoring criterion among sequences. Dynamic programming algorithms like Needleman-Wunch and Smith-Waterman produce accurate alignments but these algorithms are computation intensive, computational complexity of O(n2) and are limited to a small number of short sequences. Similarly multiple sequence alignment that processes the sequences one by one, called star alignment, takes time until O(k2n2). However the computation result still has high accuracy. Consequently, it is very important to get a better way to improve the performance. To achieve this, a MapReduce model of star alignment is designed and implemented that executes in parallel on a hadoop clusters. Since hadoop already handles work/job dispatching and work balance among distributed worker nodes, we need note handle node failure and load balancing required with the traditional distributed computing. The experimental result shows that the MapReduce model of star alignment improve the execution time by 3 times with 8 physical nodes than single node with datasets size greater than 1 GB.Item Agriculture Insurance(2017-04) ADB; Chatterjee, Arup Kumar; Oza, ArmanItem Potential for Energy Recovery and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation from Municipal Solid Waste Using Waste To Energy Approach(Pulchowk Campus, 2017-04) Sodari, Krishna BahadurThis research carried out to assess potential for energy recovery from the municipal solid waste of various municipalities of Nepal by implementing different waste to energy technologies like plasma arc gasification, conventional gasification, pyrolysis, incineration and anaerobic digestion plant and also the greenhouse gas mitigation achievable by the implementation of these technologies. It was found during the study that the total waste generated was 1435 tons per day with 0.3 kg per capita contribution. The major constituent of the waste was organic with 62 % of the total waste volume. On average, total moisture content in the waste was found to be 50%. The net energy available and, thus, lost after dumping of the solid waste was 71,895,000 MJ equivalent to 4262 MWh which can run a 52 MW plasma arc gasification power plant. The capacity of plasma arc gasification plant for Kathmandu Metropolitan city was found to be 19 MW. Cumulative reduction in GHG emission from all municipalities was found to be 80,555 tons of CO2 eq per year by the implementation of plasma arc technology. Levelized cost of energy for plasma arc, gasification, pyrolysis, incineration, and anaerobic digestion plant were calculated to be NRs 8.5, 10, 11, 10 and 11 per kWh respectively. Hence, the plasma arc gasification technology can be deemed as the most feasible waste to energy technology in terms of environmental and economic prospects.Item Strategies Used By Teachers to Uplift Low Grade Students Performance In English Language(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017-04) Saud, Bhim SinghThis research entitled The Strategies Adopted by Teachers to Uplift Low Grade Students Performance in English Language was carried out to explore the strategies used by the teachers to uplift the low grade students. The sample of my study was ten teachers teaching at secondary schools of ten different schools of Kathmandu district. More specifically, 3 classes of one teacher from each school were observed. The schools were selected by using judgmental sampling procedure. The questionnaires and observation checklist were used. This study displays that the total 50 ELT teachers. 40 percent were used “Providing them clues in group discussion” 24 percent used mother tough . In the same way, the next main two strategies “Engaging them in group work with sense of co-operation” and “Providing students-wise tasks” were used for 22 percent of all strategies used for this purpose in class. Moreover, “Any other” comprised 4 percent which was observed for 13 times. 22 and 14 percent “Restructuring” and “Time gaining” respectively. It can be said that these strategies were mostly employed by the students because of lack adequate of linguistic knowledge and communicative capacity. This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter, ( i. e. 'Introduction') includes the background of the study , statement of the problem, objectives, research questions, significance, delimitations of the study and operational definition of Key terms. Similarly, the second chapter deals with the Review of Related literature and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methodology employed to conduct the study. It gives information about the design and methods of the study, population and sample, study area, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. 11 Collected data were presented, analyzed and interpreted applying language and statistical tools like frequency and percentage in the fourth chapter. ccordingly, the fifth chapter concludes the whole study and put forwards some recommendations of the study at policy related, practice related and for further research. This chapter is followed by references and appendices to make the study reliable, valid and authentic.Item Ichthyofauna and Socio-Economic Status Of Mallah Community in the Koshi River Basin, Bhardaha Vdc, Saptari, Nepal(Central Department of Zoology Institute of Science and Technology Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu Nepal, 2017-04) Singh, Praveen KumarThe present study entitled" Ichthyofauna and socio-economic status of Mallah community in the Koshi River Basin, Bhardaha VDC, Saptari, Nepal "deals with the distribution and frequency occurrence of fishes in the Koshi River Basin. The study also includes the socio-economic status of the Mallah of the Koshi River Basin. In the present study the field work was carried out for two months i.e. month of February and month of June 2016. Altogether 12 species of fish fauna under 10 genera, 7 families and 4 orders were recorded. The fish sampling was performed by local fishermen with gear like cast nets, gill nets, Tapi. The most abundant family within catch was Cyprinidae. Labeo dero and Aspidoperia morar were the most abundant fishes in all the study sites during the month of February and June respectively. The dominant species of fish recorded was Labeo dero with highest frequency occurrence of 25.24% in the month of February and Aspidoperia morar with highest frequency occurrence 36.29% in the month of June. The most common species were cyprinids comprising altogether 6 species. The highest estimated catch was recorded in June and lowest in February. The fishermen belong to a number of ethnic groups such as Godhi, Mallah, Mukhiya, Bahardhar. There are about 85 household fishermen in Bhardaha VDC-1 to 6, Saptari of which 65 household are solely dependent on the fishing while the rest of the families have source of income from government job, agriculture and abroad employment. The socio-economic status of the fishermen communities is the lowest in the society. On the basis of age distribution data shows that the economically most active group represents only 17.83% at the age of 15-25 years and they support the rest of the family members by fishing. Similarly, the age group illustrates 35.03% at the age of 26-35 years considered as dependent group. But the age group above 35 reveals 47.13% regarded as less active group whose economic status was low as comparisons to the most active and dependent group Above 3,00,000 represents High income of the respondents income per annum. From the data it is found that 10.88% of people were low income (above NRS 3,00,000) and 60.89% people with high income ( NRS 1,00,000-3,00,000). About 4.81 % of the respondents were illiterate even though most of them were found to pass 4 or 6 class. Among literate only 1.60 % passed SLC and only 1.20% attended HSEB. The urgent attention is to be needed to improve the socio-economic status of the fishermen communities is the lowest in the society.Item Economic Impacts of Biogas Plants A Case Study of Budhabare Vdc in Jhapa District, Nepal(Central Department of Rural Development Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, 2017-04) Guragain, Srishtihis thesis entitled “ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF BIOGAS PLANTS ” (Case Study of Budhabare VDC in Jhapa District, Nepal) focuses on status of Biogas plants and its impacts on economic aspects . The general objective of the study is to examine and analyze the role biogas plants for changing economic status of local people. It has the following specific objective; to examine the economic benefits of biogas by calculating average income saving due to non-burning of fuel wood and kerosene as well as suggest relevant way outs for the betterment of biogas plants. The present study was carried out in Budhabare VDC of Jhapa district, which is located in the Eastern development region in Mechi Zone. The economic status of this village is average. Agriculture is the main occupation of this VDC. Since nobody did any kind of research in this VDC. There were 5270 household on V.D.C. among them 40 households were selected by using random sampling method; the study is used in descriptive research design. This study focuses on economic study and using descriptive research design method has fulfilled the objectives of the study. The study has been based on both secondary and primary data and information. Secondary data were used to present the background of the study and supplement and complement the findings of the study. Secondary data were collected from various sources such as books, journals, previous thesis on the subject and government publications. The household survey has been conducted in order to collect qualitative and quantitative facts about economic status of people living in the study, financial situation and the role of biogas in upliftment of economic condition. Certain information has been collected by focus discussion, key interview and observation method. Researcher has observed biogas usage along with firewood and kerosene usage, house pattern etc to guess the situation of economic status. Collected data and information were presented and analysis by using simple mathematical and statistical tools such as table graph, pie chart, percentage etc.Item Socio-Economic Contribution of Lower Modi-1 Hydropower Project in Chuwa Vdc of Parbat District(Central Department of Economics Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017-04) Ghimire, KamalNot available