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Indian Literature and the World. Multilingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere
No full textIndian Literature and the World is a collection of critical essays featuring up-to-date scholarship on the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. Multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the public sphere all shape the orientation of our volume. The essays cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, we wish to approach Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as “national allegories”
MOLECULAR BASED IDENTIFICATION OF BOLETUS EDULAIS FOUND IN JHARKHAND
No full textFood industry is dynamic and in search of innovation and nutrition content. Nutrition and food supplements demand can be fulfilled by mushroom.Agaricus(Button mushroom), Pleurotus (Oyster mushroom)and Volvariella(Paddy straw mushroom)are only popularly species cultivated and commercialized. There are many other wild mushrooms which can be commercialized with ethnomedicinal and rich nutrition content. In Jharkhand many wild mushroom species are found but they identified with many synonyms.(Srivastava and Soreng 2014) Identification is done on the basis of morphological structures and microscopic study of spores.(Pegler 1981, Wu2014) This study is to identify the wild mushroom locally called as Jamun khukhari through molecular characterization and report molecular data to NCBI GeneBank
A new subfamily of starlike functions of complex order using Srivastava-Owa fractional operator
No full textThis work is about investigation of a certain new subfamilyof starlike functions using the Srivastava-Owa fractional operator. Forfunction in this new subfamily, a number of interesting problems, likecoefficient bounds, distortion and radius bounds, which are best possible,are tackled. Various special cases deduced from the present results arealso listed. This paper brings extension and refinement to earlier works ofvarious author
Identity and Diaspora : Practices of Migration, Religion, Ethnicity & Culture in South Asia.
No full textBy Prateek Srivastava, International Affairs, Journalism
Advisor: Megan Lamkin
Presentation ID: Room417_2
Abstract: Identity and Diaspora discuss about five different ethnic crisis and violence in Asia. These communities and cases are not only lesser known but also are examples of grave violence, discrimination, and migrations. These cases deal with identity such as race, religion, color and gender and how these identities have triggered certain violence and policies within Asia. The author emphasizes understanding different aspects, like religious and racial animosity, constitutional negligence and strategic violence, ethnic discrimination, among these cases. In five chapters, the author discusses the case of Burmese Indians, Muslims in Sri Lanka, Nepalese in Bhutan, Indophobia, Assam-Bengali crisis. In this accessible and student-friendly book, author Prateek Srivastava focuses on discussing certain aspects of migration and identity crises, which happened on a low scale or were lesser known. The author also discusses the policies followed by these countries/governments and how international communities and policymakers can prepare for any such kind of crisis or event that may happen in future. These cases are described after extensive research and can act as a framework to understand the perspectives of countries, governments, and regimes for any future practice of such kinds
Kate Richards: madness
No full textKate Richards’ bleakly beautiful, confronting and important book, Madness: A Memoir, describes her 15 years coping with psychosis and depression, and her long, hard-won journey back to sanity, with the help of a wise and compassionate psychologist.
In this video, she speaks with Ranjana Srivastava, an oncologist and fellow author, about her experience – and about being able to write from deep within it, with expertise as both a medical researcher and writer.
 
Design of helix slow-wave structures for high efficiency TWTs.
No full textTWTs for space applications commonly have a helix pitch profile which incorporates a section with increased phase velocity followed by a negative phase velocity taper. A simple method is described for the initial design of a helix slow-wave structure of this kind to achieve high overall efficiency. It is shown that the use of a section with increased phase velocity increases the beam efficiency of a TWT while reducing the generation of second harmonic power. The technique is illustrated by its application to a 70 W Ku-band TWT and the performance is shown to be comparable with that of an existing TWT
Debt maturity and firm performance : a panel study of Indian companies
No full textEconomic policy makers traditionally hold the view that, because of imperfections in capital markets, a shortage of long-term finance acts as a barrier to industrial performance and growth. Long term finance is thought to allow firms to invest in more productive technologies, even when they do not produce immediate payoffs, without fear of premature liquidation. As a result, special state-supported term-lending institutions have been established, especially in developing countries. But some believe that short-term finance may offer better incentives because it allows suppliers of finance to monitor and control firms more effectively, thus improving the firms'performance. The authors empirically investigate the determinants and consequences of the term structure of debt. Using a rich panel of data on privately owned companies in India, they also examine the influence of debt maturity structures on those firm's performance, especially on productivity. The results are not conclusive, but seem to support conventional beliefs about the importance of long term finance to firm performance. Heavy leveraging, however, has a strong negative impact on productivity. They base their econometric evidence on estimates of a maturity equation and of a production function augmented by financial variables. The data on which these results are based have been generated by a financial system in which there is little competition, in which state-owned financial institutions are not guided by the profit motive and have no control over interest rates, so one cannot say whether short term finance would have been more beneficial in a less regulated system. Moreover, by the end of the 1980s, the capital base of India's government-owned financial institutions had been severely eroded and they carried a heavy burden of nonperforming assets. This means that the benefits of long term finance must be weighed against the costs.Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Municipal Financial Management,Environmental Economics&Policies
Modeling The Elastic Differential Cross-section At Lhc
No full textAn empirical model for the pp elastic differential cross section is proposed. Inspired by early work by Barger and Phillips, we parametrize the scattering amplitude in building blocks, comprising of two exponentials with a relative phase, supplementing the dominant term at small -t with the proton form factor. This model suitably applies to LHC7 and ISR data, enabling to make simple predictions for higher LHC energies and to check whether asymptotia might be achieved. © Copyright owned by the author(s).Antchev, G., (2013) Europhys. Lett., 101, p. 21002Phillips, R.J.N., Barger, V.D., (1973) Phys. Lett., B46, p. 412Grau, A., Pacetti, S., Pancheri, G., Srivastava, Y.N., (2012) Phys. Lett., B714, p. 70D.A. Fagundes, A. Grau, S. Pacetti, G. Pancheri and Y.N. Srivastava, arXiv:1306.0452 [hep-ph]Amaldi, U., Schubert, K.R., (1980) Nucl. Phys., B166, p. 301Ambrosio, M., (1982) Phys. Lett., B115, p. 495Breakstone, A., (1984) Nucl. Phys., B248, p. 253Amos, N.A., (1985) Nucl. Phys., B262, p. 689Breakstone, A., (1985) Phys. Rev. Lett., 54, p. 2180Grau, A., Godbole, R.M., Pancheri, G., Srivastava, Y.N., (2009) Phys. Lett., B682, p. 55Achilli, A., (2011) Phys. Rev., D84, p. 094009Khuri, N.N., Kinoshita, T., (1965) Phys. Rev., 137, pp. B720Froissart, M., (1961) Phys. Rev., 123, p. 1053Martin, A., (1963) Phys. Rev., 129, p. 1432Abreu, P., (2012) Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, p. 06200
Surface chemistry of carbon nanoparticles functionally select their uptake in various stages of cancer cells
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Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemRelationship of the surface physicochemical characteristics of nanoparticles with their interactions with biological entities may provide critical information for nanomedicinal applications. In this work, we have presented the systematic synthesis of sub 50nm carbon nanoparticles (CNP) presenting neutral, anionic, and cationic surface headgroups. A subset of CNPs with ~ 10, 20, and 40nm hydrodynamic sizes are synthesized with neutral surface headgroups.
The cellular internalization of these CNPs was systematically quantified for the first time in various stages of breast cancer cells (early, late and metastatic), providing a parametric assessment of charge and size effects. Distinct activities are noticed with these systems as they interact with various stages of the cancer cells. Our results indicated that a metastatic breast cancer could be targeted with a nanosystem presenting anionic phosphate groups. On the contrary, for patients with late stage cancer, drugs could be delivered with sulfonate functionalized carbon nanoparticles with higher probability of intracellular transport.
This study will facilitate a better understanding of nanoparticle-biologic interaction and the integration of this knowledge with pathophysiology would help to engineer nanomedicine with superior likelihoods to cross the endocytic “barrier” for delivering drug inside the cancerous cells.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01The student, Indrajit Srivastava, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-15 at 12:14.The student, Indrajit Srivastava, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-04-15 at 12:25.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-04-26 at 10:41.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10779 on 2017-08-10 at 15:05:38Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T20:32:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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