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Earth’s climate is always changing. In the past, it has gone through warmer and cooler periods which last for thousands of years. The changing climate can be due to natural and anthropogenic activities. Natural causes include changes in earth's orbit, sunspot activity; ocean changes and volcanic eruptions. Recently earth’s climate has been warming alarmingly which is mainly due to human activities like burning of coal, oil and natural gas which can lead to severe impacts across the globe.

Goal: An optimal operation strategy for wind farms to maximize total energy production, minimize wake interaction, and provide grid balancing services to transmission system operators.

This issue of Catalysis Today presents a selection of contributions to the 11th International Symposium on the Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts (PREPA11), held on the campus of the “Université catholique de Louvain” (UCL) in Louvain- la-Neuve, Belgium, on July 6–10,2014. This series of symposia was initiated in 1975 on a regular 4-year interval basis. Previous proceedings of these symposia have been published in Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis. As for previous editions, this 11th symposium was made possible thanks to the organizational skills of the members of the research groups active in heterogeneous catalysis of the “Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences” of the UCL and the “Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis” of the University of Leuven, KU Leuven, Belgium. Only the oral communications and some selected posters were invited to contribute to the present publication. The submitted full manuscripts then followed a systematic and strict peer-reviewing procedure carried out by recognized experts in the field. In order to maintain a high scientific level,3 referees, and sometimes more, were invited to evaluate the manuscripts. In the end, the issue gathers 28 contributions.

Suggested citation NCF (2024). Presentations on ecological restoration, invasive alien species and ERA-India, Foundations of Land Ecosystem Restoration, 24-25 June 2024, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. Nature Conservation Foundation, dataset, Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12696810 Details This set of presentations were prepared and presented by the Nature Conservation Foundation for the online workshop: Foundations of Land Ecosystem Restoration, organised by the Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India (24 - 30 June 2024). The following presentations were made on Day 2 - 25 June 2024 in the session: Ecological Restoration Principles: Theories and debates 1) Filename: 2024 Foundations of land ecosystem restoration_NCF (with .pdf, .odp extensions for the portable document format and open document presentation format files, respectively). This file includes the following two presentations: Ecological Restoration I. Concepts and Principles by T R Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa, and Anand M. Osuri Ecological Restoration II. Interventions and Strategies by T R Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa, and Anand M. Osuri 2) Filename: 2024_monitoring_evaluation (with .pdf, and .pptx extensions for the portable document format and powerpoint presentation format files, respectively). This file includes the following presentation: Ecological Restoration Monitoring & Evaluation by Anand Osuri, T R Shankar Raman, and Divya Mudappa 3) Filename: IAS for APU restoration workshop (with .pdf, and .pptx extensions for the portable document format and powerpoint presentation format files, respectively). This file includes the following presentation: Invasive Alien Species: A restoration challenge by Geetha Ramaswami 4) Filename: Introducing the Ecological Restoration Alliance-APU (with .pdf, .odp extensions for the portable document format and open document presentation format files, respectively) This file includes the following presentation: Ecological Restoration Alliance by Arjun Singh Usage Notes The presentations are shared under a Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International license to encourage their use for educational and scientific purposes. All efforts have been made to credit sources of materials and images used in the presentation as far as possible. We request that any further uses are also properly attributed.

An attempt has been made in this special report, to give a brief overview, in Hindi, of the important aspects of wind energy and wind turbines. The history of wind turbines has been described. The wind potential of India and other countries has been addressed and the different types of wind turbines, which could harness this valuable renewable energy resource, described. In particular, the general constructional details of a typical horizontal-axis wind turbine have been given. The aerodynamic theories related to the capture of wind energy by such wind turbines have been briefly explained. The key intention of publishing this special report in Hindi is to create keen awareness among the common Indian citizens, of the importance of wind energy and the key technologies needed in India to harness it. The NAL wind turbine development program has also been described.

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of country liquor Toddy and its equivalent quantity of ethanol on lipid metabolism during gestation in rats. Female rats weighing an average of 125 g were exposed to Toddy (24.5 ml/body weight/day) and ethanol (0.52 ml/kg body weight/day) for 15 days before conception and throughout gestation. On the 19th day of gestation, altered liver function and hyperlipidemia was seen in both the treated groups. Altered liver function was evidenced by the increased activity of alcohol dehydrogenase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase or aspartate amino transferase (GOT), glutamic pyruvic transaminase or alanine amino transferase (GPT) and gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT). Hyperlipidemia was caused by increased biosynthesis and decreased degradation of lipids. The incorporation of 14C acetate in lipids and activities of HMG CoA reductase and lipogenic enzymes were elevated and activity of LPL and bile acids contents were decreased. Toddy treated rats were more severely affected than those receiving an equivalent quantity of ethanol. Toddy seemed to potentiate the toxicity induced by alcohol indicating the role of the nonethanolic portion. Hepatic functions were also affected.

Department of Applied Economics, Cochin University of Science and Technology

NCDC Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 6,(February, 1998), pp. 27-29