In the next decade, India is likely to witness changes in its cotton and textile sectors as many of the constraints on production, marketing, and trade of cotton and textile products are set to be eliminated. Some of the internal constraints include export constraints on yarn, government fixing of cotton ginning and pressing fees, and subsidization of raw cotton production. Similarly, one of th...

Lack of cost information is a barrier to acceptance 3D woven preforms as reinforcements for composite materials, compared with 2D preforms. A parametric, resource-based technical model (TCM) was developed based on novel relationship equating manufacturing time and preform complexity. Manufacturing time, therefore cost, found scale complexity seventeen bespoke manufactured Two sub-models were de...

When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! Rudyard Kipling Readers who know only the first line of Rudyard Kipling's famously misconstrued "The Ballad of East and West" might fear the worst for the prospects of a survey of global architectural history. Frequently overlooked, though, is the closing line of the refrain, in which Kipling suggests that proble...

Almost all locomotor animals respond to visual looming or to discrete changes in optical size. The need to detect and process looming remains critically important for humans in everyday life. Road traffic statistics confirm that children up to 15 years old are overrepresented in pedestrian casualties. We demonstrate that, for a given pedestrian crossing time, vehicles traveling faster loom less...

Handloom is the mostly widely established cottage industry of North East India (NE) that is most wide spread throughout the region. It employs a large skilled and unskilled workforce and which, in North East, mainly consists of women workers. In the present era of commercialization, handloom sector is also witnessing changes and large number, of women are adopting the weaving activity as their ...

HE anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways iq T which different peoples behave in similar situations that he is not apt to. be surprised by even the most exotic customs. In fact, if all of thelogically possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the world, he is apt to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed tribe. This point has...