444 research outputs found
Electronic health record interoperability using FHIR and blockchain: A bibliometric analysis and future perspective
No full textElectronic health records (EHRs) constitute vital statistics, current health condition, ongoing therapies, and patient data; hence, their interoperability could be useful for epidemiologic and clinical research. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and blockchain are currently “in-use” and tested for exchange of such data. The annual scientific production of publications for both FHIR and blockchain shows steady growth. The data interoperability and electronic data interchange have been introduced in the field of EHR in 2020, hence inferring that data interoperability is relatively a new domain. The thematic mapping suggested “interoperability” of EHR is well-developed and important for the structure of the research field
Merchants of Virtue
No full textMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Merchants of Virtue
No full textMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Improved collision detection in StarLogo Nova
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 65).StarLogo Nova is blocks-based educational software that allows students to write and play their own 3D games online. It is the online version of StarLogo TNG. This thesis explores the problem of needing more accurate collision detection in StarLogo Nova while maintaining reasonable performance. Three new collision detection systems for StarLogo Nova are developed and evaluated. Compared to the spheres used to perform collision checks in the current system, the first new system, called the TightestFitCollider, introduces a variety of bounding spheres, bounding boxes, and bounding capsules as bounding structures that may fit the models in StarLogo Nova more closely. The second system, called the HierarchicalCollider, uses hierarchies of bounding boxes to perform even more precise collision detection than the TightestFitCollider. Finally, the third system combines the first two systems, so that the advantages of each can be used as appropriate. The three systems are evaluated for their accuracy and performance within the StarLogo Nova framework.by Divya Bajekal.M. Eng
Micropropagation system for Carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) - an important ornamental plant
No full textMaster of Science-BiotechnologyThe present investigation was carried out on an important ornamental plant Dianthus caryophyllus belonging to family Caryophyllaceae. The different vegetative parts i.e. nodal explant, shoot apices, stem and leaves were excised from field grown mature plant and thereafter planted on variously supplemented Murashige and Skoog’s medium for multiple shoot proliferation, callus induction and de novo adventitious root and shoot formation
Dianthus exhibits a good degree of propensity of multiple shoot proliferation from nodal and shoot apex segments. Multiple shoot proliferation from nodal explants was observed on MS medium supplemented with BAP(4.4-8.8µM) or Kn(4.65-9.30 µM)either alone or in conjunction with lower concentrations of NAA(1.47-7.35µM). Out of all the combinations tried, best results were, however, obtained on MS+BAP(4.4µM) where 16-18 shoots were formed from single axillary bud and shoot apex.
The present material had a great organogenic potential as it exhibited a high efficiency of de novo adventitious root and shoot formation directly from the stem segment. Profuse growth of lateral roots occurred on the entire surface of stem segment along with adventitious shoot formation on lower concentrations of NAA(7.35µM). These roots were short and bore root hairs profusely. Further incorporation of CM(15%) to the NAA supplemented medium considerably enhanced the rooting where entire segment was covered over with clumps of roots. The roots were thin, white having dense root hairs. A high efficiency of adventitious shoot formation from the stem segment was observed. Stem segments cultured on MS medium supplemented with NAA(1.47-7.35µM) either alone or in conjunction with BAP(4.4µM) or Kn(9.30µM) and MS + BAP(4.4µM) or MS+ Kn(9.30µM) produced adventitious shoots directly on the surface of stem explants without the formation of intervening callus.
The regenerated shoots thus formed were excised and transferred to different root inducing media to form complete plantlets. Among the various growth regulators tested, NAA(7.35µM) showed the best results where rooting occurred. Attempts are underway to establish regenerated plantlets into the soil.
Callusing of the nodal segment, shoot apices, leaf and stem segments occurred immediately after culturing on optimal chemical milieu. Murashige and Skoog’s agar gelled medium supplemented with NAA (29.4 µM), with or without CM (15%) or 2,4-D (19.48 µM) + Kn(4.65 µM) turned out to be optimal for initiation and sustained growth of calli from different plant parts. The calli were pale yellow, friable and fast growing. Formation of green friable callus from the leaf explant on 2,4-D (4.87µM) + BAP(0.88 µM) + 2000mg/l casein hydrolysate was the best medium reported.
The callus thus formed from different vegetative parts on the medium were more or less identical in morphology. The calli obtained from all the parts were heterogenous being composed of parenchymatous ovoid, oblong, semicircular cells or those with aberrant shapes. Histogenetic differentiation in the form of tracheids was observed in all the calli. Tracheids occurred singly or in groups and possessed scalariform thickenings on their walls. No organogenetic differentiation could be effected from the calli on the various media tried.Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences, Thapar University, Patial
Antiepileptic drugs for the primary and secondary prevention of seizures after subarachnoid haemorrhage
No full textBackground: subarachnoid haemorrhage may result in seizures both acutely and in the longer term. The use of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the primary and secondary prevention of seizures after subarachnoid haemorrhage is uncertain, and there is currently no consensus on treatment.Objectives: to assess the effects of AEDs for the primary and secondary prevention of seizures after subarachnoid haemorrhage.Search methods: we searched the Cochrane Epilepsy Group Specialised Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (2013, Issue 1) in The Cochrane Library, and MEDLINE (1946 to 12th March 2013). We checked the reference lists of articles retrieved from these searches.Selection criteria: we considered all randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials in which patients were assigned to a treatment (one or more AEDs) or placebo.Data collection and analysis: two review authors (RM and JK) independently screened and assessed the methodological quality of the studies. If studies were included, one author extracted the data and the other checked it.Main results: no relevant studies were found.Authors' conclusions: there was no evidence to support or refute the use of antiepileptic drugs for the primary or secondary prevention of seizures related to subarachnoid haemorrhage. Well-designed randomised controlled trials are urgently needed to guide clinical practice
Digital in-line holographic microscopy for viewing red blood cells
No full text71 p.The fields of biology, medical physics and biomedical engineering are broad and multidisciplinary. Biophotonics is the field of science and engineering that deals with interaction of light with biological matter. It is a frontier that involves fusion of photonics and biology. Blood analysis stands as a base for any diagnostic investigations in hospitals. Till date, it is only performed through microscopic techniques. Therefore, it is useful to develop a parallel method to complement microscopic investigations. In this dissertation work, the development of holography in the field of biology is summarised.Master of Science (Biomedical Engineering
Conducting flexible paper based on Bacterial cellulose and Polyaniline composites
No full textDevelopment of new greener material for conducting paper is sought for applications such as security paper, actuators, and anti-static packaging. In the present work a conducting paper/conducting polymer composite is prepared using bacterial cellulose and polyaniline. It is required that these materials possess high conductivity, low density and good mechanical integrity. This work aims to produce bacterial nan cellulose (BC) -polyaniline (PANI) nanocomposites by in situ polymerization. The advantages of using BC over filter paper are evident from the results in this report because of its ultrafine network structure, sufficient porosity, high purity and crystallinity, good mechanical properties, water holding capability and low environmental impact. Strategies to produce these composites from BC membranes and nanowhiskers have been reported. The BC/PANI composites thus formed are expected to possess good electrical conductivity and capacitance, in addition to excellent mechanical properties and flexibility. In this work, synthesis of polyaniline has been optimized and preliminary results on BC-PANI composites have been shown
Sustainable development and environmental politics: Case studies from India and Australia
No full text This paper uses Castoriadis’s idea of the imaginary and Agnes Heller’s conceptualization of modernity as an interplay of the historical and technological imaginations, to examine how modernity engages with the idea of development to foster a particular vision of the future as always in progression. It uses the examples of Tasmania and Kerala, in Australia and India, respectively, as case studies which challenge the dominant perception of development as a linear and progressive ideology of growth that translates into ‘the development of productive forces and the rational mastery of nature’. The case studies also show how, despite the radically different paths through modernity, it is the same logics of modernity that are at work in both locations. </jats:p
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