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‘Time and Space do not care what I believe’: Robert Masterson, American Poet and Author in Conversation with Ajit Kumar
No full textProfessor Robert Masterson lives and works in the megalopolis of New York City, but spent his formative years in the American West, growing up and going to school in Colorado and New Mexico. First published at age 19, Masterson has written award-winning fiction, journalism, and creative nonfiction steadily ever since. His books of poetry and short prose, Trial by Water (1982), Artificial Rats & Electric Cats (2008), and Garnish Trouble (2011), have become collector’s items. Masterson’s work as a lecturer, a writer, and a teacher has taken him around the world, and his work appears in numerous anthologies, journals, magazines, newspapers, and on websites across the Internet. He is a professor of English at the City University of New York’s BMCC campus and divides his time between New York, New Mexico, and travel. Dr Ajit Kumar interviewed Professor Masterson about his different literary books and many other less shared facts of his life
Core strategies to improve outcomes for youth and families in Oregon in a trauma informed system
No full textAjit N. Jetmalani, MD.Title from PDF caption (viewed on December 2, 2019).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-15).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Against the Stream: Ajit Singh and His Battles
No full textThis book pays homage to Ajit Singh, economist and intellectual fighter for
many causes. It does so through intertwined narratives including, among the
major strands, Singh’s life and works, the Faculty of Economics and Politics
in Cambridge, and the Punjab and Sikhism — all of which the author manages
to weave together with rich prose, fine scholarship and passionate commitment
to the subject
Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh [electronic resource] : An Intellectual Biography of the Radical Sikh Economist /
No full textThis book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics. Unorthodox, outspoken, and invariably rigorous, Ajit Singh made highly significant contributions to industrial economics, corporate governance and finance, and stock markets – developing empirically sound refutations of neoclassical tenets. He was much respected for his challenges both to orthodox economics, and to the one-size-fits-all free-market policy prescriptions of the Bretton Woods institutions in relation to late-industrialising developing economies. Throughout his career, Ajit remained an analyst and apostle of State-enabled accelerated industrialisation as the key to transformative development in the post-colonial Global South. The author traces Ajit Singh’s radical perspectives to their roots in the early post-colonial nationalist societal aspirations for self-determination and autonomous and rapid egalitarian development – whether in his native Punjab, India, or the third world – and further explores the nuanced interface between Ajit’s simultaneous affinity, seemingly paradoxical, both with socialism and Sikhism. This intellectual biography will appeal to students and researchers in Development Economics, History of Economic Thought, Development Studies, and Post-Keynesian Economics, as well as to policy makers and development practitioners in the fields of industrialisation, development and finance within the strategic framework of contemporary globalisation.1. The Early Years: Forging the Imaginary -- 2. Washington, First Stop: Sikhism, Racism, and Steel -- 3. Berkeley, The Launch Pad -- 4. Cambridge: Home From Home -- 5. Faculty Wars -- 6. King of Queens’ -- 7. Economics as Concentrated Politics -- 8. Punjab in the Soul -- 9. A Man For All Seasons -- 10. Cambridge to the End: The Final Battle.This book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics. Unorthodox, outspoken, and invariably rigorous, Ajit Singh made highly significant contributions to industrial economics, corporate governance and finance, and stock markets – developing empirically sound refutations of neoclassical tenets. He was much respected for his challenges both to orthodox economics, and to the one-size-fits-all free-market policy prescriptions of the Bretton Woods institutions in relation to late-industrialising developing economies. Throughout his career, Ajit remained an analyst and apostle of State-enabled accelerated industrialisation as the key to transformative development in the post-colonial Global South. The author traces Ajit Singh’s radical perspectives to their roots in the early post-colonial nationalist societal aspirations for self-determination and autonomous and rapid egalitarian development – whether in his native Punjab, India, or the third world – and further explores the nuanced interface between Ajit’s simultaneous affinity, seemingly paradoxical, both with socialism and Sikhism. This intellectual biography will appeal to students and researchers in Development Economics, History of Economic Thought, Development Studies, and Post-Keynesian Economics, as well as to policy makers and development practitioners in the fields of industrialisation, development and finance within the strategic framework of contemporary globalisation
Coherency matrices for characterization of vector optical fields
No full textWe describe optical coherency matrices as a generalized method for characterizing the statistical properties of optical fields. We then use this formalism to classify optical fields, in terms of separability, and transfer of entropy between multiple degrees of freedom.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-12-01The student, Varun Ajit Kelkar, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-12 at 20:22.The student, Varun Ajit Kelkar, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-07-12 at 20:30.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-15 at 11:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14293 on 2020-02-28 at 17:34:54Made available in DSpace on 2020-03-02T22:28:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Implementing the market approach to enterprise support - an evaluation of ten matching grant schemes
No full textDeveloping viable new business is critical to recovery, and long-term growth, especially in transition economies. There has been a long history of public support of enterprise development, starting with centralized state agency initiatives, but moving more recently to decentralized instruments for development of the business services market. The window of time during which the benefits of intervention are likely to be greatest: when a market is in its infancy, and its development is constrained by uncertainty, and lack of information. Interventions for enterprise support should be demand-responsive, and flexibly organized. In some circumstances, centralized assistance may still be effective, but it is generally better to use competitive private service providers responding to enterprises'changing needs. The main task is to stimulate the private services sector, improving its capacity to respond to the demands of new, and expanding private enterprises. Support for enterprises has tended to be either free, or heavily subsidized. But such subsidies can be justified only if interventions efficiently supply goods. Providing technical, and management know-how can be a public good if it generates externalities- if, for example, know-how benefits can be disseminated at proportionately low additional cost. Any subsidy for an intervention should be temporary, and should be phased out when the main objective of intervention is achieved - that is, when the market takes off. Grants should generally be for know-how, not for equipment. There may be a case for unbundling the know-how component of loans (including feasibility studies, and follow-up expert services) for grant funding. A package combining loans and grants - through a single financial institution, or through separate institutions - may work provided safeguards can be put in place to prevent perverse use of grants. The matching grant model, which is used increasingly in the World Bank, and elsewhere, is one solution - but it must be justified, and carefully designed. After evaluating ten matching grant funds, the author concludes that performance is mixed. Best practice models are needed. Ensuring economic benefits requires proactive management, with clear objectives of market facilitation ("making a market"). And it requires a balance between rapid grant approval procedures, and careful selection of services for grants.Economic Theory&Research,Decentralization,Enterprise Development&Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,ICT Policy and Strategies
Essays on theories of value in the classical tradition
No full text“This volume revisits the foundations of classical political economy and outlines on that basis a new research paradigm. Ajit Sinha presents an extremely ambitious and challenging work that opens new and invaluable vistas on classical economic theory and economics at large.”
Roberto Scazzieri, Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Bologna and National Lincei Academy, Italy.
“For a quarter of a century Ajit Sinha has worked on the classical theory of value, reinterpreting Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx in terms of his own original, and often contested, interpretation of Piero Sraffa. This fascinating volume brings together several of Sinha's most perceptive and most contentious papers. Always scholarly, stimulating and provocative, it is essential reading for anyone with an interest in classical value theory.”
John King, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Australia.
This collection of essays invites the reader to trace the intellectual journey of the author from his early incisive exploration and critique of key categories in Marxian economics, through his insights into classical economic theory, culminating in his pioneering and definitive reading of the economics of Sraffa. Where the author’s position has significantly changed he provides notations and explanations, and the addition of two new chapters written especially for this volume complete the scholarly journey. Following three decades worth of study, this book brings together a set of important contributions that not only give historical perspective but makes them convenient and accessible for students and researchers today
The development of kit system for honey quality quick check from different species of stingless bee honey in Malaysia
No full textStingless bee is a large group of bees in family Apidae that have the ability to produce different types of products that valuable to humankind which are honey, bee bread, and propolis. The growing demand for honey in the market has led to the occurrence of the tampering honey with foreign substances and increases the production of artificial honey. There are lots of laboratory tests for honey adulteration however most of tests are tedious, high cost and complicated. Therefore, there should be a continuously development and testing of alternative methods that would allow faster and easier detection of honey adulteration. This research attempt to develop a simple inexpensive paper-based amperometric biosensor based on Prussian Blue (PB)-modified screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPCEs). To do so, cellulose filter paper was used as immobilization matrix for glucose oxidase (GOx), invertase (INV) and hydrogen peroxidase (HRP) as it was successfully embedded within the fibre matrix of paper via physical adsorption. The paper-based biosensor allowed a small amount (8 μL) of sample solution for both glucose sucrose analysis. The glucose biosensor had a linear calibration range between 0.5 mM to 4.5 mM (R2= 0.9925) and a detection limit of 0.15 mM. For sucrose biosensor the calibration ranges from 0.1 mM to 1.1 mM (R2=0.9897) and detection limit of 0.1 mM. Interference study of selected potential interfering compounds on the biosensor response was investigated. In addition, its performance was demonstrated in the analysis of six honey samples. The results obtained using glucose biosensor corroborated well with high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method however for sucrose biosensor, more study should be done to improve the result obtained as it has more than 70% differences with reference. From this research, it can be concluded that, the prototype sensor to determine sugar adulteration in stingless bee honey was successfully developed
Waste to wealth project with Mercu Resolution
No full textWaste generation involves serious environmental pollution and degradation which consequently increased the environmental costs for its collection, treatment and disposal. Thus, the call for environmentally and economically sustainable growth is set out loud and simple. The present and future generations must therefore ensure that all resources are conserved, fully utilized and well managed. Various waste has been explored in this research such as municipal solid waste, fish waste and food waste. These wastes were utilized to become valuable resources and at the same time to reduce waste production. A total of seven studies have been done including biological degradation of municipal solid waste using mixed culture, production of biofertilizer using landfill leachate, oil extraction for a production of fatty acid from fish waste, fish feed production from fish waste, process simulation of anaerobic digestion process for biogas production from food waste, adsorbent from landfill sludge and finally, microwave irradiation and wet rendering to improve torrefaction of food waste. In conclusion, this research has successfully turned waste into wealth which later can be used for better future
Kinetic correlations of gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient and oxygen uptake rate of heterologous protein cultivation by sonobioreactor
No full textSonobioreactor in this study is an integration system which includes the use of a sonicator with a bioreactor by the assembly of a peristaltic pump. The sonobioreactor was being applied to the production of a heterologous protein, lipase by the expression of a recombinant E. coli. The first objective of this study was to transform all the recombinant E. coli into BL21 host. The BL21 was found successful in carrying pTrcHis and pUC8, both carrying lipase gene from Staphylococcus hyicus and Rhizopus oryzae, respectively. Second objective is to investigate the characteristics of 2-L sonobioreactor for the use of recombinant E. coli cultivation. The sonobioreactor has shown some improvement of gas-liquid transfer (kLa} compared to the standalone system. Third objective is to determine the expression of lipase and plasmid stability of recombinant E. coli under sonicated and non-sonicated ultrasound regimens. The non-sonicated cultivation has shown higher lipase activity compared to the sonicated cultivation. The gradual sonication duty cycle has shown images of deformed cells of recombinant E. coli at 9K total magnification via SEM. Performances and kinetics of bioprocesses outcomes in this study may contribute to the current modelling of E. coli fermentations, especially for the recombinant protein production
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