89 research outputs found
Animalia Humorosum: Aesop's animal fables made more believable with a modern twist
No full textThere is much that is unusual about this 8½” square booklet of 28 pages followed by two pages of advertisements for other books by Óla. For starters, the pages are purple with light-colored typeface and cutout colored characters in partial-page illustrations. The T of C uses superscript to indicate page numbers for the twelve fables. That same page clarifies that Ólafia L. Óla is a pseudonym for V. Subhash. In TH, the hare, not the tortoise, challenges to a race upon no provocation. The author turns this tale into the more usual “Rabbit Races the Hedgehog,” famous among Grimm’s fairytales. Every one of the species looks the same to the superficial hare. In LM, after the mouse frees the lion, the hungry lion eats the mouse. “Steer clear of known dangers.” DW is told just as in the tradition. “Better die on your feet than live on your knees.” In TB, the second traveler takes off his socks; the smell of them revolts the bear, who departs. What did the bear whisper to him? “Tell that fellow that trees offer no safety because bears are good climbers.” The ox makes up a snake friend to worry the dog out of his manger. A passing hunter saves the shepherd boy attacked by a real wolf. The mice do manage to get a bell around the cat’s neck by having it ready around their hole when the cat pokes in its head. Two foxes jump for grapes. One reacts according to the tradition. The other says the effort has been stupid. “We are foxes. We don’t eat grapes. Let’s go and catch some rabbits.” One of two crows suggests the traditional pebble approach. The other says that will take too much time and too many pebbles and will dirty the water. He manages to knock over the pitcher and they can drink both from the water spilled and the water still in the overturned pitcher. The owner of the golden goose eventually stops reading his mail, misses paying taxes, loses his property, and has to give up the goose as compensation for the unpaid taxes. The wolf escapes the lambskin and never comes back. The crow removes the doughnut from his mouth and tells the fox to move along.Ólafia L. Óla (V. Subhash
Evolved Infantry Subhash Mukhopadhyay/ বিবর্তিত পদাতিক সুভাষ মুখোপাধ্যায়
No full textWhen the present moves towards the future, leaving the past as a witness, it changes itself and reaches its end. In this change, even if the external structure changes, the ideological infrastructure remains intact. Then we do not call it change, but evolution. However, this evolution is not only an evolution of spatial geography and temporal dimensions; it is also an evolution of the mind and mood of the evolved person. Subhash Mukherjee is no exception of this thinking. He is a real example of such evolution. Not only in his political philosophy of life, but also in his literary-centered meditations, poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay did not follow a set path. He changed his opinion, but remained steadfast in his goal. He moved away from leftism ideology and joined hands
with Gandhism. That is true. However, he did not abandon communism. Evolution is the law of the ideological universe. But we must see to it that, that evolved consciousness does not hurt the collective convictions. Subhash Mukhopadhyay is a skilled thinker-artist in this work.
Therefore, in the article under discussion, the primary intention of the author will be to create an outline of evolution in terms of Subhash Mukhopadhyay’s criticism of life, social consciousness, political thought, poetic thought, poetic justice, linguistic thought, aesthetic sense etc. It is to be noted that more examples will be provided from the poet\u27s various poems to authenticate the logical tradition of the discussion. However, for the purpose of presenting the subject matter of the article, various literary forms such as novels, letters or songs will also be used in addition to the poet\u27s poems. And by the end of the article, following these steps, we will reach the evolved consciousness of poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay
Decoding "Public authority" under the RTI act: a comment on Subhash Chandra Aggarwal v. Indian national congress
No full textThe June, 2013 order of the Central Information Commission ("CIC") in Subhash Chandra Aggarwal v. Indian National Congress which brought political parties within the scope of the Right to Information ("RTI") Act, has highlighted some issues regarding the drafting and interpretation of the RTI Act. The CIC held that the six national political parties which were respondents
in the case, have the ingredients that qualify them as "public authorities" within the meaning of section 2(h) of the RTI Act. In this comment the author argues that the reasoning for holding what constitutes substantial financing that makes a body a "public authority" is not clear and the interpretation of the definition of "public authority" is inconsisten
On generalized composite fractional q-derivative
No full textIn the present paper, we define a generalized composite fractional q-derivative D^{\alpha,\beta,\nu}_q and obtain some results for it. These results are image of power function under D^{\alpha,\beta,\nu}_q, composition of Riemann-Liouville type fractional q-integral I^\alpha_q with D^{\alpha,\beta,\nu}_q and q-Laplace transform of D^{\alpha,\beta,\nu}_q. We also obtain solution of a q-difference equation with derivative as D^{\alpha,\beta,\nu}_q and discuss some special cases. A q-difference equation of D^{\alpha,\beta,\nu}_q is solved using q-Laplace transform and its inverse.</p
Generalization of Taylor’s formula and differential transform method for composite fractional q-derivative
No full textLarge data query for the exploration of employee wellbeing in a call center
No full textThe need for instant customer service has increased as the reliance on technology has become our main source of assistance. Call centers provide customers with 24 hour access to customer service, but at what cost? In this exploration, the need to assess what employee wellbeing is, and how it is being affected in the Navy Federal call Center has been brought to the forefront
Synthesis, characterization and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sensing properties of WO3 nano-particles
No full textBuckling performance improvement in 3d printed variable stiffness composite laminates: Analyzing effect of steering curvature in performance of laminates
No full textOver the past decades, fibre-reinforced composite structures have been increasingly adopted into mainstream manufacturing over conventional metals owing to their higher performance attributes, such as superior strength-to-weight ratios. Composite structures offer the unique advantage of tailoring reinforcements in correspondence with design load cases. This allows for more efficient and better performing structures.Traditionally for composite laminate structures, the design space and freedom were vastly influenced by the accumulated experience in design and certification, as well as available flexibility in manufacturing processes; the available degree of freedom in aligning fibres dictated the design freedom available. With the advent of advanced processes such as automated fibre placement (AFP), reinforced tows can now be placed with more freedom and accuracy; even allowing for tows to be steered during deposition. These are called variable stiffness composite laminates. Fibre directionality within these laminates can be tailored to achieve an optimal load redistribution, thereby increasing its structural performance.Novel additive manufacturing such as Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) allow for more complex geometries to be manufacturable in a variety of materials. Such a process can allow more design space and freedom in existing optimization frameworks for designing variable stiffness laminates. Many reinforced thermoplastic materials can be processed using FDM. Short fibre reinforced materials are very readily available and can be used on all commercially available FDM platforms with minimal changes.This research culminates the three key aspects in engineering – design, material, and process. First, a suitable design framework is chosen, which in combination with added the design freedom by virtue of a novel process such as FDM, is used to design laminates optimized for buckling performance. Additional design freedom is afforded to the optimization framework by means of relaxing the manufacturability constraint – which restricts the maximum allowable curvature of each individual path within the laminate. Secondly, these laminates are manufactured using short fibre reinforced thermoplastic material, for which the shear-induced alignment of the material is analyzed to predict the effective mechanical properties under the parameters used for printing the laminates. Lastly, to validate the effect of additional design space on the effective performance of these laminates, a suitable experimental protocol is devised and used. For the optimized laminates, two cases for maximum allowable steering curvature are considered – one low and one high, and an effective quasi-isotropic laminate is used as a benchmark for comparison. Finally, all the laminates are tested under compression and analyzed. The increase in buckling performance of optimized laminates corresponding to increase in allowable steering is verified, as well as insights are drawn from the processing and experimentation to suggest future recommendations.Aerospace Engineerin
Correction to: Polymer Nanocomposites in Biomedical Engineering
No full textIn the original version of the book, the following belated corrections have been incorporated: The co-editor names ''Basheer Ahmed'' has been changed to ''M. Basheer Ahamed'' and ''Al-Maadeed Mariam Ali S A'' has been changed to ''Mariam Ali S A Al-Maadeed''.
In chapter ''Silver Nanoparticles and Its Polymer Nanocomposites Synthesis, Optimization, Biomedical Usage, and Its Various Applications'', the author name ''Snehal Kargirwar Bramhe'' has been changed to ''Snehal Kargirwar Brahme'' and the affiliations of authors ''Snehal Kargirwar Brahme'' and ''Subhash Kondawar'' were swapped. The correction book has been updated with the changes.Scopu
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