Puskar Sing Raikhola

Jul. 8 2008 UP
Pushkar Singh Raikhola
Graduate School of Social Studies, Nepal
Every long journey starts from a single step. For example, being a faculty member from my host university, they selected me as a candidate to pursue a doctoral degree at Doshisha University. This was a great opportunity as well as a challenge for my academic journey toenhance my career.Doshisha University is said to be one of the highly esteemed universities in Japan. Every Faculty and Graduate School, including Graduate School of Social Studies which I am attending, has distinct features. Doshisha has maintained an exemplary academic environment to ensure quality education throughout the century. While becoming accustomed to life in Kyoto, one thing I have found, along with other experiences I have had here, is that the Japanese are pretty flexible when it comes to religion. They visit Shinto shrines for the New Year, hold funerals at Buddhist temples, celebrate Christmas and get married in Church. Kyoto is also famous for festivals and many varieties of food. The restaurants here are of truly exceptional caliber. You get a warm welcome when walking into them and the clientèle are completely respected. Eating in Kyoto is usually a casual, friendly and affordable affair.When Spring comes, Japan's famed cherry trees have captured the hearts of visitors. The Springtime blossoming of cherry trees is a time for nationwide camaraderie in Japan,where friends and colleagues hold boisterous picnics to enjoy the short lived beauty of the blossoms. Kyoto is not just a historical city but also an academic place where friendships can be formed with many international students from every corner of the globe. I found Doshisha was a well-selected place for the study of Japanese culture, among other disciplines.During my one-and-a-half year period of study at Doshisha, I have made a fair share of memories that will warm my heart forever.

http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/living/index.php?i=35

http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/international/pdf/brochure.pdf

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BIDUR GHIMIRE

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BINAYA KUMAR MISHRA

Contact address: mishra_binaya@hotmail.com

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BADRI BHAKTA SHRESTHA

Email : badish10@yahoo.com




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Dr. RAM BAHADUR GURUNG

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Dr. KESHAB SHRESTHA

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President, Dr. Keshab Shrestha Associate Professor/NHM.
Executive commitee members and advisory members of CENEED, Nepal
http://www.ceneed.org/executive_commitee.htm


BOOKS BY HIM

1. Keshab Shrestha 1998, Dictionary of Nepalese Plant Names, Mandala Book point, Kathmandu, Nepal.

IN MEDIA
1. FROM NEPAL NEWS.COM
IUCN rises up to document invasive alien species of flora
By Damaru Lal Bhandari

KATHMANDU, Oct 30: Come December the Nepal office of the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will embark on a study on invasive alien species (IAS) of plants. IAS are species of organisms, which have been moved to a new habitat and are known to harm the ecosystems.
The study will be conducted in selected locations of Gandaki, Koshi and Karnali river basins from December. Which means IUCN staff shall lead local environmental activists, environmental organisations and school students in identifying IAS and draw up theinventory.
"Once we have the inventory we can launch campaign aimed at raising awareness about alien species among farmers and institutions involved in conservation efforts," said Sagendra Tiwari, programme co-ordinator of IUCN-Nepal. The study shall also focus on the ways the local people have tended to receive them.
"The vital purpose, of course, is to ascertain the way the farmers and conservationists have tended to cope with them and loss incurred by them," said Tiwari, adding additional concern is to find out their adverse impact on agriculture, forestry and fishery.
The intervention from IUCN comes in the wake of claims that native species of vegetation and habitats were facing threat from scores of alien species of plants. More common to the city dweller is water hyacinth, which can be seen spreading out over abandoned ponds of the Kathmandu Valley.
But Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC) has advised caution before damning the species as "alien." " We must concentrate on eking out benefits from them rather then saying they don’t belong here," said Bimal Kumar Baniya, a NARC officer.
He, however, conceded that some of the species like mikania micrantha, known locally as banmara, were really aggressive but "still do not make a case for disowning them."
" We are not yet in a position to correctly judge the scenario. But the problem with certain alien species is they predominate over local species, culminating in their eventual extinction," Tiwari further said.
In fact, it was Tiwari who drew up an inventory of IAS of plants based on review of literature. There are nearly 80 species, 10 of them most pervasive.
"Foreign plants like water hyacinth casts adverse impact on fish ponds," said Dharani Man Singh, Fisheries Development Officer associated with Fisheries Development Directorate.
Singh, however, hastened on to add," We have introduced Chinese grass carp. It is a fish which feeds on water hyacinth ruling out its growth. This is the strategy we have followed to protect fish ponds."
Dr. Keshab Shrestha, Director of Natural History Museum, has appreciated the efforts coming from IUCN on the issue of alien invasive species of plants.
"Of course, they are doing a good job. But still what we can say is the study is restricted to enumerating the species rather than eradicating them," he said. He also stressed the need to popularise indigenous species of flowering and decorative plants.
As Tiwari said, " We have decided to exercise restraint before damning them. We are conducting a study, which will be followed by recommendation."
However, species which fall under Sino-Japanese, South East Asian, Indian, African-Asian desert, Irano-Turranean and Central Asiatic region are not considered as alien to Nepal.

SIDDHARTHA SING TULACHAN

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BALRAM K BHATTA

Email:



1. Bhatta BK, Osono T, Ishikawa H, Takeda H. Soil microfungi and soil nutrients as indicators of a pine plantation and an adjacent natural forest. European Journal of Soil Biology .

2 大園享司・Balram K. Bhatta　ミズキ落葉の分解にともなう葉圏菌類の遷移　日本生態学会第50回大会（ポスター講演）つくば国際会議場　2003年3月

3. Osono T., Bhatta, B.K. & Takeda H. (2004) Phyllosphere fungi on living and decomposing leaves of giant dogwood. Mycoscience 45: 35-41.

4. Muneto Hirobe, John Sabang, Balram K. Bhatta, et al. Leaf-litter decomposition of 15 tree species in a lowland tropical rain forest in Sarawak: decomposition rates and initial litter chemistry Ref: http://www.frienvis.nic.in/con_fj/jounralofforestresearch[9](4).htm

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HOM BAHADUR RIZAL

References
A.
http://read.jst.go.jp/ddbs/plsql/KNKY_EG_24?code=1000311901


Revised Date: 2002.12.10
Researcher Name: RIJAL Hom (Bahadur)
Date of Birth: 1969.8
Organization Name: Kyoto University　Graduate School of Engineering　Department of Global Environment Engineering
Title: Graduate Student
Mailing Address: Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-8501 Japan
E-mail: ue.rijal@archi.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Code F: 1.442
Building Science and Building Equipment :THERMAL ENVIRONMENT OF NEPALESE TRADITIONAL HOUSES
Keyword showing a research field:THERMAL ENVIRONMENT OF NEPALESE TRADITIONAL HOUSES

Current research topic
1.
INVESTIGATION AND EVALUATION ON THERMAL ENVIRONMENT OF TRADITIONAL VERNACULAR HOUSES IN NEPALNEPAL,TRADITIONAL VERNACULAR HOUSES,EVALUATION OF THERMAL ENVIRONMENT

Cord F： 442 . Building Science and Building Equipment （Collaboration in Organization）




2.

Dr. SHANTA KARKI

शान्ता कार्की
Nepal add: POBox 15142, KPC 432, Kathmandu, Nepal

Kyodai entry: 2004/4

Graduation date: 2009/3/23
 : Ph. D (Plant Breeding, Agriculture)

Research area: Plant Breeding (mPing transposon in Wild Oryza genus.)

Professional interests: Wild Oryza, Transposons, DNA sequencing and analysis, PCRs,
Current Add: Graduate school of Agriculture, laboratory of Plant Breeding, Kyoto University

Tel: 080-5306-4481

mailto:Email:shantakarki@rediffmail.com

References:

Copy the links and paste on the URL to check:
Analysis of distribution and proliferation of mPing family transposons in a wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.)

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsbbs/59/3/297/_pdf


A. Kyoto University : http://www.ikushu.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/member.html


B.Aishwarya Vidya Padak to outstanding students: http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2002/nov/nov09/local.htm


C.Gamma field symposium No 43:
http://www.nias.affrc.go.jp/newsletter/gfs/pdf/043.pdf


D 5th International Rice Genetics Symposium P143: page 181
http://www.irri.org/rg5/Abstracts.pdf


E. Home Page: http://shantakyoto.googlepages.com/


F: Publication: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/cssj/region/kinki/meeting_165.pdf

ROSHAN KUMAR SHRESTHA

Address in Nepal: Chode Tole, Thimi
Kyoto University entry: October 2000
Kyoto University exited: June 2005
Total duration in Kyoto University : 4 years 9 months
Status: Research Student (Oct 2000 - Mar 2001)
M.Sc. Civil Engineering Student (Apr 2001 -Mar 2003)
Doctorate Urban and Environmental EngineeringStudent (Apr 2003 - May 2005)
Research area: Earth Surface Hydrology
Current Add: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Tel: 612 623 8291
Email: roshanpost@yahoo.com










CLICK HERE TO KNOW HIM BETTER= http://www.geocities.com/roshanpost/index.html OR
http://www.geocities.com/roshanpost/index.html





REFERENCES

A. Congrat Dr. Roshan Shrestha
Dr. Roshan Kumar Shrestha has been honored with the Young Author Excellent Paper Award 2005 by the Japan Society of Hydrology & Water Resources, JSHWR. This award has been given for his paper entitled Performance Analysis of Different Meteorological Data and Resolutions Using MaScOD Hydrological Model Printed in Hydrological Processes. The award will be formally given on August 4, 2005 amid a function.
This award is given every year to one researcher under 35 who has published papers in JSHWR publications and its affiliated publications in that year. Eligible competitors for this award include associate professors, assistant professors, research associates, post doctoral researchers and company researchers under 35. This is the first time, this award has been given to a non-Japanese.
A native of Thimi, Khwopa, 33 year old Dr. Shrestha now works for a NASA funded project on global precipitation measurement by satelite observation, in the capacity of Research Associate in University of Minnesota, USA.
NESOCA Nepal extends its warmest filicitation to Dr. Shrestha for being honored with the above award and wishes every success in his new responsibility.
Here is his email address for those who wish to send congratulat0ry messages to him : roshanpost@gmail.com.

B.

RIPENDRA AWAL

Ripendra on left.















References:

A.

Ripendra Awal (Nepal)
"Floodplain Analysis and Risk Assessment of Lakhandei River"
The Lakhandei river basin is located in Sarlahi district of Central Development Region of Nepal. This river, originates in the eastern Siwalik Hills, is one of the most flood prone rivers in the country because of flash flood during monsoon rainfall. The huge loss of life and damage to properties during floods in 1993, 1995 and 1997 necessitate for the flood plain analysis and risk assessment of this river.
Floodplain analysis and risk assessment involves the study of complex interaction of hydraulics of the river flow with topographical and land use features of the floodplains. This study will use the one-dimensional numerical model HEC-RAS, ArcView GIS and HEC-GeoRAS extension for ArcView GIS will be used as an interface between the two systems for the pre-processing and post-processing of the data. Spatial analysis functionality of the GIS will be used for risk assessment. The attempt will also be made for floodplain analysis by using two-dimensional flow model FESWMS-2DH for comparative study.
The methodology for flood risk assessment will follow the approach developed by Gilard (1996). For the visualization of the results, maps are also prepared for different return periods. This will serve as an effective and efficient decision making tool which will help administrators and planners to identify areas of risk and prioritize their mitigation/response efforts, and it will also help to general public be aware of the flood risk and prepare for mitigation activities.

or: http://www.proventionconsortium.org/?pageid=41&regionid=20&winnerid=74

B.. http://water.nml.uib.no/researcher/?id=1066

RAJ HARI SHARMA

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PADMA BAHADUR SHAHI

Dr. Padma Bahadur Shahi

Nepal add: Ramghat-5, Surkhet

Kyodai entry: October, 2003

Graduation date : September, 2005

Degree : Post Doctoral Fellowship, JSPS

Research area: Urban Transportation

Current Add: Kathmandu Engineering College, Kalimati, Kathmandu

Tel: 977-1-4284 902(O); 977-1-016211597 (R)

Email: pb_shahi@yahoo.com






References:

A.
Shahi Padma Bahadur & Aoyama Yoshitaka
“Costs, Economies of Scale, and Factor Demand in Urban Bus Transport”
Regional science association International ,
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
and
37th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INDIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
6 - 8 January 2006 At Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Phone: +91 9343712880 (Mobile) Fax : +91-80-6584004, email: rsai2006@iimb.ernet.in Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560 076, India .

B. http://www.nepaljapan.com/view.php?section=showcontacts&ch=P

HARI RAM PARAJULI

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NETRA PRASAD GYAWALI

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NAVA RAJ PRADHAN

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NARAYAN DHAKAL

YADAV PRASAD GYAWALI

Credits:

१. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119882216/PDFSTART

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http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/ewis/article/pdfDownload.do;jsessionid=7120F86BACBF0F026185B26FED5931B2.4_5?issueNo=105

३ http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auid:8533988

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ARVIND MISHRA

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GOVINDA RIZAL

(in center)

Govinda Rizal

Nepal add: Sundhara , Kathmandu,

Kyoto University entry: April 2005

Graduation date : March 2007 (Master), March 2010, Ph. D expected)

Degree : Masters Agriculture, (Plant Breeding)
Ph. D (expected by 2010 March)

Research area:
Ph. D.: Genetic control of  proanthocyanidin and racal scavenging activites in soybean.
Masters: Improvement of Protein Quality in Soybean Through Gene Modification


Current Add: Kyoto Fu, Uji shi, Asakura, 50-1 NishiOkubo 22-205 (PC: 611-0033) Tel: 080 3812 9610 

Email: govindarizal@gmail.com

Credits: http://rizag.blogspot.com/
Home Page: http://govindarizal.googlepages.com/

Editor and Academic program coordinator (2008-2009): Kyoto University, Organizing Committee for 10th Association for Pacific Rim Universities – Doctoral Students conference.
 http://www.opir.kyoto-u.ac.jp/apru_dsc/index.html



Presentations

Kinki Crop Science Symposium, July 11, 2009, Kyoto University.


Japanese Society of Breeding, Annual Meeting, 2009, Tsukuba Japan, and Annual Meeting, 2008, Shiga, Japan.

The XVIIIth  International Roundtable on Nucleoside, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, September 8- 11, 2008, Kyoto, Japan.

International Conference on Food Factors for Health Promotion (ICoFF2007), Nov 28-31, 2007, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan.

The 3rd International Conference on Polyphenols and Health (ICPH 2007), November 25-28, 2007, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan.

Plant Breeding Seminar, Yamagata, 2007

The 5th International Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics, October 15-17, 2007 at Epochal Tsukuba International Congress center, Tsukuba, Japan.

The 46th Gamma Field Symposium, 2007, Mito, Japan.

The 9th Kyoto University International Symposium: Integrating Global Environmental Studies towards

Human Security, June 22-23, 2007, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

International Symposium on Pine Wilt Disease in Asia, Kyoto University, 15-17 February 2007, Kyoto Japan

United Nations University, seminar series on peace, Hokkaido, 2005

International Convention on Quality Control Management, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)Training
Various seminars, symposiums and conferences related to Agriculture

DUKKA BAHADUR KC

Dukka Bahadur K.C.

Kyoto university Entry: April 1997

Graduation Date: March 2006

DegreeObtained : B.Eng, M.Inf., D.Inf.Research

Area: Bioinformatics

Current Address: Atlanta, USA

NEpal Add: Satdobato, Lalitpur

email: dukkakc@gmail.com



REFERENCES

A.
Protein side-chain packing problem: a maximum edge-weight clique algorithmic approach
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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 55 archiveProceedings of the second conference on Asia-Pacific bioinformatics - Volume 29 table of contents
Dunedin, New Zealand
Pages: 191 - 200
Year of Publication: 2004
Authors
K. C. Dukka Bahadur
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Tatsuya Akutsu
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Etsuji Tomita
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Tomokazu Seki
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Publisher
Australian Computer Society, Inc. Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia
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ABSTRACT
Protein side-chain packing has an important application in homology modeling, protein structure prediction, protein design, protein docking problems and many more.Protein side-chain packing problem is computationally known to be NP-hard (Akutsu, 1997) (Chazelle, Kingsford & Singh, 2003) (Pierce & Winfree, 2002). In the field of computer science, the notion of reduction of a problem to other problems is quite often used to design algorithms and to prove the complexity of a certain problem. In this work, we have used this notion of reduction to solve protein side-chain packing problem.We have developed a deterministic algorithm based approach to solve protein side-chain packing problem based on clique-based algorithms. For this, we reduced this problem to the maximum clique finding problem. Moreover, in order to incorporate the interaction preferences between the atoms, we have then extended this approach to maximum edge-weight clique finding problem by assigning weights based on probability discriminatory function. We have then solved this clique finding problem by using the clique finding algorithm developed by two of the authors (Tomita & Seki, 2003) and its variants (Suzuki, Tomita & Seki 2002).We have tested this approach to predict the side-chain conformations of a set of proteins and have compared the results with other existing methods. We have found considerable improvement in terms of the size of the proteins and in terms of the efficiency and accuracy of the prediction.

BINAYA RAJ SHIVAKOTI

Mr. Binaya Raj Shivakoti



Nationality: Nepal

Present Nationality: Nepal

School: School of Environment, Resources and Development

Program: Agricultural Systems and Engineering

Field of Study: Agricultural Machinery and Management

Degree: Master of Science

Graduation Year: 2004

Graduation Month: August

Email: binaya.dc@rceqm.mbox.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp


Office Address: Doctoral student
Research Center for Environmental Quality Mgmnt.
(RCEQM),Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University,1-2 Yumihama,Otsu,
Shiga,520-0811
Japan
Tel.: +81-080-5302-4916
Fax: +81-77-524-9869

Home Address: Santosh Marg-308, New Baneswor-10
Kathmandu
Nepal
Tel.: 0977-1-4491631

Mailing Address: Office




Information from :

http://www.asdu.ait.ac.th/Alumni/AlumniByID.cfm?AlumniID=20040197

References Most of them in Japanese.

A. http://www.jswe-kansai.com/forum/program05.html

B. http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-bilat/core/data/07-1_jissi/MOE_kyoto.pdf

C. http://hes.pbh.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pfcreview/PFCpresen.html

D http://www.water.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/rr2002/member.html

E. http://www.eqc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/local/member.html

F. http://www.dipcon2006.itu.edu.tr/DipCon%20Program%20Final.pdf

DIWAKAR ACHARYA

Diwakar Acharya

Nepal add: Kalimatidol Kathmandu-9, Kathmandu

Kyodai entry date: April 2006

Status: Visiting Lecturer

Research area: Sanskrit and Indological Studies

Current Add: Kitashirakawa Shibuse cho 68, Sakyo ku, Kyoto 606-8283

Tel: 075-753-2803 (office) 075-702-9519 (home)

Email:acharyadiwakar@ hotmail.com
Address

Diwakar Acharya
Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto University
Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Tel.: +81 75 753 2803


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। http://www.jainheritagecentres.com/chaturmas1/chaturmassthanak.html

12th WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE Helsinki, Finland, 13-18 July, 2003 : http://www।helsinki.fi/hum/aakkl/12wsc/participants.html
If you can decipher Japanese
http://www।hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vaada/announcement.html

In Japanese : http://www।hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vaada/

http://indologica.blogg.de/eintrag.php?id=1006
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