This highlight presents some early results from an attempt to quantify the hydrological impact of AKRSP’s water harvesting work in the Meghal river basin. In the process, we discuss new ways of combining data from multiple sources to study the impact of decentralized water harvesting at the river basin scale. Faced with absence of good quality data from formal sources, we make a case for using ...

127 Autologous fat grafts have been used to treat tissue deficiencies for over 100 years.1 They have been considered the ideal softtissue filler by most investigators, because they are inexpensive, abundant, and easy to obtain.2 However, the potential high absorption rate (25 to 90 percent) of grafted fat, which may be attributable to damage to the grafts caused by tissue harvesting and graftin...

various water harvesting interventions. A direct consequence of increased groundwater recharge in an aquifer is a range of social and economic benefits accruing from it – through improved provisioning of drinking water, irrigation and other uses. One of the visible economic benefits is often through supplemental irrigation to crops and increase in cropping intensity. The question often arising ...

In this paper, we consider a MIMO networked control system with an energy harvesting sensor, where an unstable MIMO dynamic system is connected to a controller via a MIMO fading channel. We focus on the energy harvesting and MIMO precoding design at the sensor so as to stabilize the unstable MIMO dynamic plant subject to the energy availability constraint at the sensor. Using the Lyapunov optim...

Forest harvesting can increase solar radiation in the riparian zone as well as wind speed and exposure to air advected from clearings, typically causing increases in summertime air, soil, and stream temperatures and decreases in relative humidity. Stream temperature increases following forest harvesting are primarily controlled by changes in insolation but also depend on stream hydrology and ch...

Thuja plicata is a coniferous tree which displays remarkable water channelling properties. In this article, an easily fabricated mesh inspired by the hierarchical macro surface structure of Thuja plicata branchlets is described which emulates this efficient water collection behaviour. The key parameters are shown to be the pore size, pore angle, mesh rotation, tilt angle (branch droop) and laye...