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Arun Shourie and his Christian critic
No full textCritique by Fr. Augustine Kanjamala on Arun Shourie's Missionaries in India and response to it by the author
R16. Formulation and Evaluation of Doxorubicin HCl Nanoliposomes by Ethanol Injection Method
No full textCorresponding author (Pharmaceutics and Drug delivery): Arun Kumar Kotha, [email protected]://egrove.olemiss.edu/pharm_annual_posters/1015/thumbnail.jp
Understanding the value-chain of counterfeit products: A multimethod investigation
No full textThe student, - Sreekumar Arun, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-13 at 23:09.The student, - Sreekumar Arun, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-04-13 at 23:23.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-04-15 at 11:53.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16317 on 2021-09-16 at 17:03:02Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemAuthor requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemU of I OnlyThe context of this dissertation is the market for counterfeit products, which accounts for more than one trillion US dollars of trade globally every year. Entrepreneurs who manufacture and market these products are clandestine and operate in the black market. Drawing from this context, this dissertation seeks to advance knowledge on how entrepreneurs strategically use ambiguity in marketing communications, and in relationships with other firms. The first essay examines how and why equivocation is used as a persuasive strategy by sellers of counterfeit products. This essay develops a framework that can help qualitatively and quantitatively identify equivocation rhetoric in firm-generated text. The second essay examines how relationships between firms are managed when one of the firms employs ambiguity as a protection strategy. Specifically, the essay sheds light on how manufacturers and retailers of counterfeit products succeed in maintaining ambiguity, and in managing relationship tension arising from ambiguity. Put together, the essays present an investigation of how counterfeit manufacturers and retailers conduct their marketing functions despite being clandestine and illegal.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-0
Author Correction: A shared neural basis underlying psychiatric comorbidity
No full textCorrection to: Nature Medicine. Published online 24 April 2023. In the version of this article initially published, the STRATIFY data also included cohort data from the ESTRA consortium, though this was not acknowledged in the author list and the section in Methods on the Stratify dataset. The Methods are now updated, and the author list is amended to combine the STRATIFY and ESTRA consortium names and to include the following authors: Marina Bobou, M. John Broulidakis, Betteke Maria van Noort, Zuo Zhang, Lauren Robinson, Nilakshi Vaidya, Jeanne Winterer, Yuning Zhang, Sinead King, Hervé Lemaître, Ulrike Schmidt, Julia Sinclair, Argyris Stringaris and Sylvane Desrivières. The STRATIFY and ESTRA consortia are now combined to list Marina Bobou, M. John Broulidakis, Betteke Maria van Noort, Zuo Zhang, Lauren Robinson, Nilakshi Vaidya, Jeanne Winterer, Yuning Zhang, Sinead King, Gareth J. Barker, Arun L. W. Bokde, Hervé Lemaître, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Ulrike Schmidt, Julia Sinclair, Argyris Stringaris, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Sylvane Desrivières and Gunter Schumann as members, and the IMAGEN consortium is updated to also include Sylvane Desrivières. Affiliations, author contributions and acknowledgements have been updated to reflect the new authorship, and all changes have been made in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Seismic Velocities of the Whitestone Anorthosite and its Mylonitized Equivalents in the Parry Sound Shear Zone
No full textTitle: Seismic Velocities of the Whitestone Anorthosite and its Mylonitized Equivalents in the Parry Sound Shear Zone, Author: Arun Sen, Location: ThodeCompressional wave velocities of the Whitestone anorthosite and its mylonitic equivalent in the Parry Sound shear zone have been measured in the field and to two kilobars in a laboratory confining pressure vessel. Mylonitiztion of the anorthosite has resulted in a preferred orientation of constituent minerals and retrograde mineral assemblages. A seimic anisotropy is consequently developed in the mylonite such that the P-wave velocitites are lower for propagation directions perpendicular to mylonite than for its anorthosite protolith. In the field, rock weathering and surface fractures control velocity variations. At low confining pressure (shallow depth) the P-wave velocity anisotropy is controlled by fracturing which is in turn related to the mylonitic fabric. At approximately one kilobar pressure (depths close to five kilometres) where fractures and porosity are insignificant, the P-wave anisotropy is due solely to the aggregate mineral velocities and their solution and their orientations. The undeformed Whitestone anorthosite has an average P-wave velocity of 7.02 km/s measured in three perpendicular directions at 2 kilobars confining pressure. The mylonite has the following P-wave velocities at 2 kilobars confining pressure: 6.83 km/s parallel to both foliation and lineation, 6.70 km/s parallel to foliation and perpendicular to lineation, and 6.57 km/s perpendicular to foliation.ThesisBachelor of Science (BSc
Rare paternal plastid inheritance in arabidopsis
No full textPlastids and mitochondria, in a standard genetic cross, are transmitted to the seed progeny by the maternal parent in Arabidopsis thaliana. My objective was to test, if exceptional pollen transmission of plastid occurs in Arabidopsis, a species in which no plastid DNA could be detected in pollen or sperm cells by cytological methods. The maternal parent was the nuclear male sterile (ms1-1/ms1-1), spectinomycin sensitive Ler ecotype and the pollen parent was the male fertile RLD-Spc1 plant carrying a plastid-encoded spectinomycin resistance mutation. I selected for exceptional pollen transmission in the progeny by spectinomycin resistance encoded in the paternal plastid DNA. I found that plastids, in general, are inherited maternally in Arabidopsis and rare events of paternal plastid transmission to the seed progeny occurs at a low (3.9 x 10-5) frequency. This observation extends previous reports in Nicotiana tabacum (family: Solanaceae) to a cruciferous species suggesting that low frequency paternal leakage of plastids via pollen may be universal in plants previously thought to exhibit strict maternal plastid inheritance.
Two components needed to accomplish this study were a plastid-encoded, spectinomycin resistant mutant as the pollen parent and plastid markers to identify the origin of the plastids in the hybrid seed progeny obtained from the crosses. To identify genetic markers in the Arabidopsis thaliana plastid genome (ptDNA) I amplified and sequenced the rpl2-psbA and rbcL-accD regions in 26 ecotypes. The two regions contained eight polymorphic sites including five insertions and/or deletions (indels) involving changes in the length of A or T mononucleotide repeats and three base substitutions. The 27 alleles provided a practical set of ptDNA markers for the commonly used RLD, Ler, Col and C24 ecotypes. I used a RLD-Spc1 line carrying a plastid-encoded spectinomycin resistant mutation as the pollen parent that was compatible with the Ler maternal parent.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references
Psychedelic White : Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race
No full text"Psychedelic White is one of the most innovative, refreshingly different analyses of race I have read in the last decade." —Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely The village of Anjuna, located in the coastal Indian state of Goa, has been one of the premier destinations on the global rave scene for nearly two decades. The birthplace of Goa trance, the most psychedelic variety of electronic dance music, Anjuna first attracted adventurous Westerners in the 1970s who were drawn there by its tropical beaches, tolerant locals, and readily available drugs. Today, rave tourists travel to Goa to take part in round-the-clock dance parties and lose themselves in the crowds, the music, and the drugs. But do they really escape where they come from and who they are? A rich and theoretically sophisticated ethnography, Psychedelic White explains how race plays out in Goa’s white counterculture and grapples with how to make sense of racism when it is not supposed to be there. Goa is a site of particularly revealing forms of interracial collision, and contrary to author Arun Saldanha’s expectations that the nature of rave would create an inclusive atmosphere, he repeatedly witnessed stark segregation between white and Indian tourists. He came to understand race in its creative dimension as a shifting and fuzzy assemblage of practices, environments, sounds, and substances—dance skills, sunlight, conversation, cannabis, and tea. In doing so, his work shows how the rave scene in Goa harbors conflicting tendencies regarding race. The complicated intersection of cultures and phenotypes, Saldanha asserts, helps to consolidate whiteness. Race emerges not through rigid boundaries but rather through what he terms viscosity, the degree to which bodies gather together for pleasure and self-transformation. Challenging the prevailing conception of racial difference as a purely social construction and offering building on the works of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Psychedelic White presents nothing less than a new materialist approach to race
The ‘American Burns’: Author-function, antislavery, and William Wells Brown’s The American Fugitive
No full textMore than one author was labelled the ‘American Burns’ in the nineteenth-century. This article explores these constructions through the post-structuralist theory of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. Drawing on Foucault’s ‘author-function’, where the author as a person is replaced by the malleable discourse that surrounds his work, it proceeds to examine a largely neglected text in studies of Burns in relation to US abolitionism: William Wells Brown’s The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad (1855). In doing so, the article demonstrates the ways in which Brown uses Burns’s name to bolster his own antislavery discourse in a travelogue which was predominantly aimed at his American readership.</p
Variations in vaccination coverage by social care need: a scoping review
No full textBackground: vaccination rates vary in the UK population but are vital in maintaining public health. Social care needs (SCN) refer to the promotion of independence and wellbeing, particularly in those who may have a disability, be socially isolated, or endure economic stress. Variations in SCN may impact vaccine uptake, thereby affecting vaccination coverage, but this is poorly understood. Aim: we aim in our study to collate and interpret existing evidence on the variations in vaccination coverage among individuals with SCN. Methods Searches were conducted using Medline, Embase, Cochrane, CINAHL, and Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) from inception to June 27, 2024. Grey literature was also searched. Two authors independently screened and extracted relevant papers, with disagreements resolved by a third author. The search terms used included: “vaccination AND social need AND immunisation”, and variations of these terms. Results: we identified 606 articles with 32 meeting the inclusion criteria following full-text screening. Studies originated from various regions, with most conducted in the USA. Key SCN identified as barriers to vaccination included access issues, limited information, social vulnerability, and economic deprivation. Vaccines most affected included influenza, pneumonia, and HPV. Conclusions: our review collated evidence on vaccination uptake variations in relation to SCN, finding a limited body of research, primarily from the USA. Most studies indicated lower vaccine uptake among individuals with SCN. Greater understanding of these variations could inform improved vaccination uptake, especially in high-risk groups. Further research is needed to identify effective interventions to address these disparities in vaccination coverage.</p
Soft biometrics for surveillance: an overview
No full textBiometrics is the science of automatically recognizing people based on physical or behavioral characteristics such as face, fingerprint, iris, hand, voice, gait and signature. More recently, the use of soft biometric traits has been proposed to improve the performance of traditional biometric systems and allow identification based on human descriptions. Soft biometric traits include characteristics such as height, weight, body geometry, scars, marks and tattoos (SMT), gender, etc. These traits offer several advantages over traditional biometric techniques. Soft biometric traits can be typically described using human understandable labels and measurements, allowing for retrieval and recognition solely based on verbal descriptions. Unlike many primary biometric traits, soft biometrics can be obtained at a distance without subject cooperation and from low quality video footage, making them ideal for use in surveillance applications. This chapter will introduce the current state-of-the-art in the emerging field of soft biometric
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