Birds of Malaysia: covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo & Singapore by Chong, Leong Puan, Davison, Geoffrey, Kim, Chye Lim

“…The peninsula boasts some of the best lowland forest reserves in the Sundaic region, including the world-renowned Taman Negara National Park, as well as a variety of highland endemics at famous hill station birding sites like Fraser’s Hill. Three monospecific and particularly striking families, the Pityriasidae (Bornean Bristlehead), Platylophidae (Crested Jay) and Eupetidae (Rail-babbler), are best searched for in Malaysia, making the country an essential destination for ‘family collectors’. …”
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Castration delays epigenetic aging and feminizes DNA methylation at androgen-regulated loci by Victoria J Sugrue, Joseph Alan Zoller, Pritika Narayan, Ake T Lu, Oscar J Ortega-Recalde, Matthew J Grant, C Simon Bawden, Skye R Rudiger, Amin Haghani, Donna M Bond, Reuben R Hore, Michael Garratt, Karen E Sears, Nan Wang, Xiangdong William Yang, Russell G Snell, Timothy A Hore, Steve Horvath

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Green Energy Generation Using FLC Based WECS With Lithium Ion Polymer Batteries by Baskar M, Jamuna V

“…Presented scheme also provides the constant output power for the stand alone loads like Island, Hills Stations, Ships and Remote locations etc. A fuzzy-logic controller based Wind energy conversion system with permanent magnet synchronous machine is simulated using MATLAB Simulink. …”
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Photography in the “Contact Zone”: Identifying Copresence and Agency in the Studios of Darjeeling by Harris, C

“…Although initially deployed as a crucial instrument for use within colonial documentation projects, by the 1880s the camera had become more closely aligned with tourism and the other “pleasures of Imperialism” that could be enjoyed by Europeans in the hill stations of the Himalayas. With its views of the high peaks and its diverse community, Darjeeling became a prime location for the production and consumption of photographs framed according to outsiders’ criteria of landscape and ethnic type genres. …”

Foraging and roosting ecology of the Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat Cynopterus brachyotis (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in southern India by T. Karuppudurai, K. Sripathi

“…Day roosts were found at an elevation of about 1,000m in Sirumalai and Yercaud Hill stations.  Mist-netting studies, however, revealed that C. brachyotis was widely distributed at different elevations ranging from 600–1,500 m.  …”
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Testing the applicability of physiographic classification methods toward improving precipitation phase determination in conceptual models by Laurie D. Grigg, James Feiccabrino, Frederick Sherenco

“…Further refinement of classification criteria for mountain and hill stations showed that at mesoscales (>5 km), maximum elevation is a better predictor of Trs (0.89% average reduction in error) than terrain relief (0.22%), but that relief becomes increasingly important at microscales (0.90%). …”
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Widening fiscal deficit in Maharashtra state: causes and concerns by Sanjay Rode

“…Taxes must be increased on commercial vehicles, luxury hotels, entry tax at hill stations, malls and purchase of diamonds and gold, petrol and diesel. …”
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Widening fiscal deficit in Maharashtra state: causes and concerns by Sanjay Rode

“…Taxes must be increased on commercial vehicles, luxury hotels, entry tax at hill stations, malls and purchase of diamonds and gold, petrol and diesel. …”
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Radiological safety assessment of drinking water in Darjeeling hill and foothill areas: An experimental finding by Mahasin Gazi, Arindam Kumar Naskar, Mitali Mondal, Argha Deb

“…This study intends to shed light on the radiological quality of potable water in one of the most important hill stations, Darjeeling, and its surrounding foothill areas of West Bengal, India, which has not yet been explored. …”
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Design and implementation of a single-phase to three-phase space-vector pwm-based matrix converter system for induction motor drives by Velu, Vengadeshwaran

“…In real life, three phase power supply is not readily available in many places, especially in the remote locations, rural areas, hill stations, ordinary homes etc. Thus, having a converter that’s capable of converting the available single phase source to a three phase power supply will be very useful in such environments. …”
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