Climate change impacts : Implications on marine resources and resource users

The warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level. The Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by 0.76° C since 1850. Most of the warming that has occurred over the last 50 years is very likely to have been caused by human activities. In its Fourth Assessment Report projects that, without further action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the global average surface temperature is likely to rise by a further 1.8-4.0°C this century, and by up to 6.4°C in the worst case scenario. Even the lower end of this range would take the temperature increase since pre-industrial times above 2°C – the threshold beyond which irreversible and possibly catastrophic changes become far more likely

How to Handle Criticism?

Compared to all other nations Constitution of India guarantees to all its citizens the right to freedom of speech and expression. People's everyday lives are shaped through language and communication. They choose what to do with their time based on opinions and ideals formed through the discourse they are exposed to and Criticism is an inevitable part of the environment that surrounds us. Criticism is painful and praise feels good for both men and women. What other people think affects women more dramatically though. Women are relationship oriented. When people don’t like what they are up to, it can feel like disharmony or a break in their relationships, which they deeply value. Women pick up more information about what others think. A host of studies show women are more adept at reading facial expressions and body language than men. For most of history, women couldn’t protect themselves through legal, political, or financial means. Research shows that when women get negative feedback, it tends to be more personal than the feedback men get. It can also be more angry and even violent or vulgar, especially in our internet age

Know Your Warming Planet-ClimEd Series:1

This instructional material "Know Your Warming Planet" has been developed as a part of the Belmont funded project titled "Global Understanding and Learning for Local solutions: Reducing Vulnerability of marine dependent coastal communities" as a means to create awareness and impart climate change knowledge across the target populace

Critical Thinking

Women are the foundation of society and breeders and teachers of the next generation. We comprise half of the population of the world, and thus should be equals in every step with men. In order to do so, logical, analytical thinking (devoid of emotional drivers and personal pride) is crucial for a society to function healthily. To incline women to realize the benefits being more curious and analytical about the decisions that is made for them by men in their lives. If women remain as a mass of silent sufferers instead of individual thinkers who challenge status quo, then lack of societal respect for and protection of women’s personal decision-making in regard to unwanted pregnancies, style of dress, a their right to choose their partners, etc. will continue. Here lies the relevance of critical thinking that will allow them to become the experts in all fields

Organizational initiatives for addressing climate change challenge -Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

Climate change, resulting from global warming, has been moving to the main stream administrative and political initiatives in the last two decades. To address humanity’s biggest test, several organisations, institutions, panels, networks, universities and non-governmental organisations have turned the spotlight on the man made problem of climate change

Results: Recognition of Facial Expression by Digital Image Processing

Facial expression is one of most important behavioral measure for studies of emotion, cognitive processes, and social interaction. Facial expression recognition has become a promising research area. Its applications in many areas like human-computer interfaces, human emotion analysis, and medical care and cure. Automatic facial expression recognition is an interesting and challenging subject in digital signal processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, etc. In this paper use a new method of facial expression recognition based on local binary patterns (LBP). The LBP features are firstly extracted from the original images of facial expression then face area is divided into small parts from which Local Binary Pattern (LBP) histograms are extracted into a single, spatially enhanced feature histogram efficiently representing the face image

Direct predictive current-error vector control for a direct matrix converter

This paper proposes a novel control strategy for matrix converters which is coined “Direct Predictive Current-error Vector Control”. The proposed control method retains the advantageous features of both a modulation scheme and of a predictive based controller. The result is a controller that is capable of good dynamic performance and steady state response with fixed switching frequency operation. Control of load and input currents of a direct matrix converter using the proposed method is demonstrated in this paper by simulation and experimental results

ऊष्णीत गृह के बारे में जानें (Know Your Warming Planet-ClimEd Series:1B)

This instructional material "Know Your Warming Planet" has been developed as a part of the Belmont funded project titled "Global Understanding and Learning for Local solutions: Reducing Vulnerability of marine dependent coastal communities" as a means to create awareness and impart climate change knowledge across the target populace

Puducherry mangroves under sewage pollution threat need conservation

Indian mangroves have a rich diversity of soil-dwelling organisms which include micro, meio and macro forms. Mangrove ecosystem provides an ideal nursery and breeding ground for most of the marine and brackish water fish and shellfish. India has only 2.66% of the world’s mangroves1, covering an estimated area of 4827 sq. km. The present study area lies within the margins of lat. 11°90′107″– 11°90′703″N and long. 79°80′547″– 79°81′851″E. Mangrove exists as fringing vegetation over 168 ha distributed along the sides of Ariankuppam estuary, which empties into the Bay of Bengal (Coromandal coast) at Veerampatinam on the southeastern coast of Indi

Conservation of mangrove forest covers in Kochi coast

Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants of tropical and subtropical intertidal regions of the world. The specific regions where these plants occur are called mangrove ecosystems. They are breeding, feeding and nursery grounds for many estuarine and marine organisms, including finfish and shell fish. India has only 2.66% of the world’s mangroves, covering an estimated area of 4,827 sq. k