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Economic development in Orissa: Growth without inclusion?
Full text linkThe economy of Orissa has been lagging behind the national economy by several decades. Its per capita net state domestic product, a measure of average income, stood at Rs.20200 for 2006-07 which falls behind the national average by about 35 per cent. Moreover, the gross domestic product of the state grew by a considerable lower rate than many other states for a long time despite its high growth potential. Drawing on the experience of several countries as well as that of India, various studies concluded that economic growth was the most critical factor for reduction of incidence of poverty in the state. It now seems that there has been a turning point in the last few years and the economy of Orissa has witnessed an acceleration in terms of the gross state domestic product (GSDP). The evidence presented here clearly shows that the economy is poised for a take-off to a high growth phase, almost similar to that at the national level. On the poverty dimension, however, the recent developments have been gloomy, to say the least. The consumption expenditure surveys carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), the standard source of data for poverty analysis in India by official and non-official investigators, shows that the period 1993-2004 has witnessed a reversal of the achievements made on the poverty front during 1983-93. The prima facie evidence points towards a case of growth without inclusion and needs further probe.Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), India, Poverty
On The Cinco Sins of Psychedelic Research. An interview with Manoj Doss
No full textIn this interview, Manoj Doss addresses the "Cinco Sins of Psychedelic Research," highlighting methodological concerns and biases, including those stemming from self-experimentation and researchers' personal drug experiences. Advocating for a closer integration of cognitive psychology and neuropharmacology, he calls for empirical approaches to study psychedelics' effects on cognition and memory. Doss's critique underscores the importance of behavioral measures to advance a scientific understanding of psychedelic substances
A Big Heart for Healing Little Hearts: An Interview with Dr Manoj Durairaj
No full textThe award “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice” (“For Church and Pope”) is established by Pope Leo XIII in 1888, The award is given for distinguished service to the Church by lay people or clergy. The Pro Ecclesiae et Pro Pontifice is a medal or decoration bestowed by the Holy See on lay people who have rendered exemplary service to the Catholic Church. The award is also known as the Cross of Honour or Decoration of Honour instituted by Pope Leo XIlI in 1888 to commemorate his 50th year as a priest. It is the highest recognition the laity can receive from the Pope. We are happy that Dr. Manoj Durairaj M.S., M. Ch.(AIIMS, New Delhi), F.A.C.C., house doctor of Papal Seminary, has been recipient of this award on November 22, 2021. AUC: Asian Journal of Religious Studies is happy to publish this interview with him
Microfinance Impact Evaluation: A Managerial Perspective
Full text linkThe objective of this concept note was to introduce Impact Evaluation and highlight its need and importance during these turbulent times. As it turns out that Impact Evaluation holds promise to a host of benefits to the MFIs ranging from consumer insights to launching of new products and services and from better reporting standards to performance measurement. It will gain further prominence in coming days as focus of various stakeholders undergoes drastic shift towards social performance and understanding the consumer behavior. Not only it will be a strategic exercise but it will be adopted as a risk mitigation tool for identifying loopholes and appropriate measures to plug them.Microfinance, Impact Evaluation,
Manoj Balachandran
No full textIt offers the editorial team of the Mapana Journal of Sciences great pleasure to introduce to you the new edition. I am delighted to see the support and encouragement that this multidisciplinary UGC care listed journal is receiving from peers and significant resource experts from the fields of physical sciences, chemical sciences, mathematics, biological sciences, and computer sciences. All the authors who have contributed to the current edition have my heartfelt gratitude and respect. We have made an effort to publish six articles in this issue that are relevant to the various disciplines of chemistry, physics, mathematics and computer sciences.
The research article written by Sandipan Biswas and Shivnath Ghosh examines the polarity activity exploitation of medications for COVID-19 therapy using Valence Aware wordbook and SentimentReasoning (VADER) sentiment analysis on twitter. In this article authors have discussed the application of similar strategy in various fields. Article also gives brief idea about various stages involved in sentiment analysis. Input of tweets by various parties, tweets retrival, processing of the tweets, detection of sentiments, classification techniques and their evaluation are some of the important steps involved in the study. The article gave information about algorithm, flowchart of the sentiment analysis model. This kind of studies may help in understanding and analyzing the problem in the better way.
Rajamohan YL and Cyril A employed hydrothermal procedure for the synthesis of BaTiO3 perovskite material. The findings show that perovskite-based BaTiO3 coatings showed a noble shift in the corrosion potential of AZ31 alloys in NaCl media. Silicone resigns were critical in developing homogenous BaTiO3 perovskite material coatings on AZ31 alloy.
The review study on the use of Boltzmann systems in recommendation systems by Dheeraj Kumar Sahni and Dhiraj Khurana contributed to study the improvement of accuracy for huge data sets. As we know, recommendation systems assist e-commerce businesses in attracting new customers while also assisting customers in choosing the best product for their needs. The accuracy and the system's cold start issue are constant challenges for recommendation systems, which offer users the right environment with filters to establish the desired choices or possibilities. Therefore, combining the Boltzmann machine approach with the recommendation system helped increase the system's accuracy and provided a user-friendly environment. The authors of this review study covered Boltzmann machines, their types, and recommendation systems. In this review article authors discussed about Boltzmann machine, their types, recommendation system and their hybrid approach, and also discussed about studies which successfully established and used this hybrid approach of Recommendation system with Boltzmann machine.
Josna James introduced a new vertex covering to Intuitionistic Fuzzy graph, named it as Intuitionistic Fuzzy Path Induced Vertex Covering (IFPVC). An algorithm is proposed to determine the IFPVC set and IFPV covering number for IFG. In real life problems graph theory is one of best approaches because of the uncertainty and imprecision in such circumstances, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Graphs has a distinct advantage over graph theory and fuzzy graph theory. This study will help as a disaster management tool that helps to assess the feasibility of the suggested coverage set.
Saralaya et al. reported a novel and economically viable method for the synthesis of 2-chloro-3-[trans-4-(4-chlorophenyl)cyclohexyl]-1,4-naphthoquinone, an important intermediate for the synthesis of atovaquone, a notable anti-malarial agent. In this article, the synthesis strategy has been optimized, and a product of high quality and yield has been produced. In order to reuse the reagents that are used at different stages of the reaction, they also tried to synthesize the required molecule on a commercial scale in a manner that was both inexpensive and environmentally safe.
The realization of passive resistor-free lossy and lossless capacitance multipliers using two voltage differencing transconductance amplifiers (VDTAs) and a single grounded capacitor has been proposed by Tapas Kumar Paul, Suvajit Roy and Radha Raman Paul using PSPICE simulation. These devices, which do not require component matching constraints, are expected to be feasible options for applications like parasitic cancellation and quadrature sinusoidal oscillator circuits. As the simulation results go well with ideal theoretical calculations, the effects of non-idealities of VDTAs on the circuits have also been studied to open a broad scope towards making these simulated circuits real.
We feel immense pleasure to present these articles, which are relevant in their respective fields and can further lead the way to new research objectives. We invite our readers to have a fascinating experience of knowledge accumulation and conceptual novelty
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