South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. This yearbook is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serve as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have...

Off state leakage current related power dominates the CMOS heat dissipation problem of state of the art silicon integrated circuits. In this study, this issue has been addressed in terms of a low-cost single wafer processing (SWP) technique using a single tool for the fabrication of high-κ dielectric gate stacks for sub-45 nm CMOS. A system for monolayer photoassisted deposition was modified to deposit high-quality HfO2 films with in-situ clean, in-situ oxide film deposition, and in-situ anneal capability. The system was automated with Labview 8.2 for gas/precursor delivery, substrate...

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia.

The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which...

Growth in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has exploded over the past 20 years. Continuous dynamic market and technology developments in this sector have led to a phenomenon known as convergence, which is defined in this volume as the erosion of boundaries between previously separate ICT services, networks, and business practices. Some examples include cable television networks that offer phone service, Internet television, and mergers between media and telecommunications firms. The results are exciting and hold significant promise for developing countries, which can...

Even before the economic recession in the
US its growth had slowed down. The US till recently was the
economy which was pulling the rest of the world along the
growth path has stopped doing so. India (and China both of
which have high economic growth rates) is being called a
superpower which is expected to pull the rest of the world
along the growth path and out of the recession. However, an
Analysis of the Competitive Advantage Among States in India
shows that like in China it is only the coastal...

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia.

The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be...

The forest soil supports a complex of animal communities of which soil arthropods are of prime importance since they constitute the major component of soil mesofauna and are useful bioindicators of ecosystem health. Considering the important role of soil arthropods in the decomposition process and maintenance of soil fertility in the soil ecosystem, the present study investigate the ecology of soil arthropods in the sal and teak forest ecosystem of Gorakhpur, U.P., India. The book provides more information on distributional pattern of soil arthropods chiefly Acarina and Collembola followed by...

Aphids are most important group of phytophagous insects having several biological peculiarities such as prolific breeding, polyphagism, advanced degree of polymorphism, telescopic reproduction, host alternation and high potential for rapid evolutionary changes because of parthenogenesis and polyvoltinism. Some aphids are anholocyclic (parthenogenetic), while others living in colder climate are holocyclic (sexual generation alternates with parthenogenetic ones). About 20% of the described species from India are parthenogenetic virginoparous for most of the year but capable of sexual...