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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
No full textServices have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are pro-actively undertaking skill development, training, and human resource management policies that are targeted at the service sector.services; service sector employment; service sector; south asia
Limnology of Chanda beel
No full textA limno-biological investigation was conducted in Chanda beel over a period of 8 months from June ‘95 to January ‘96. The floodplain showed temporal spatial and vertical variation in physico-chemical as well as biological conditions. During study period, physico-chemical parameters were within the suitable range forfish culture. Plankton population was higher in true beel areas. Both phytoplankton and zooplankton showed direct relationship among themselves. Presence of several indication plankton genera showed that the floodplain was eutrophic in nature
Monorail technology - A rapid and cost effective method of decline development
No full textE Chanda and B Besahttp://www.ausimm.com.au/publications/epublication.aspx?ID=431
Limnology of Chanda beel
No full textA limno-biological investigation was conducted in Chanda beel over a period of 8 months from June ‘95 to January ‘96. The floodplain showed temporal spatial and vertical variation in physico-chemical as well as biological conditions. During study period, physico-chemical parameters were within the suitable range for
fish culture. Plankton population was higher in true beel areas. Both phytoplankton and zooplankton showed direct relationship among themselves. Presence of several indication plankton genera showed that the floodplain was eutrophic in nature
Full-field in vitro measurements and in silico predictions of strain shielding in the implanted femur after total hip arthroplasty
No full textAlterations in bone strain as a result of implantation may contribute towards periprosthetic bone density changes after Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA). Computational models provide full-field strain predictions in implant-bone constructs; however, these predictions should be verified using experimental models wherever possible. In the present work, finite element (FE) predictions of surface strains in intact and implanted composite femurs were verified using digital image correlation (DIC). Relationships were sought between post implantation strain states across seven defined Gruen zones (GZ) and clinically observed longer- term bone density changes. Computational predictions of strain distributions in intact and implanted femurs were compared to DIC measurements in two regions of interest. Regression analyses indicated a strong linear correlation between measurements and predictions (R = 0.927 intact, 0.926 implanted) with low standard error (SE = 38µ? intact, 26µ? implanted). Pre- to postoperative changes in measured and predicted surface strains were found to relate qualitatively to clinically-observed volumetric bone density changes across seven Gruen zones: marked proximal bone density loss corresponded with a 50-64% drop in surface strain, and slight distal density changes corresponded with 4-14% strain increase. These results support the use of DIC as a pre-clinical tool for predicting post implantation strain shielding, indicative of long-term bone adaptations
Design of a continuous monorail drilling system for decline development
No full textE Chanda, B Besa and M Kuruppuhttp://www.ausimm.com.au/publications/epublication.aspx?ID=473
Convergence (and Divergence) in the Biological Standard of Living in the United States, 1820-1900
No full textStandard economic indicators suggest that the United States experienced long-run economic growth throughout the nineteenth century. However, biological indicators, including human stature, offer a different picture, rising early in the century, falling (on average) mid-century, and rising again at the end of the century. This pattern varied across geographical regions. Using a unique data set, consisting of mean adult stature by state, we test for convergence in stature among states in the nineteenth century. We find that during the period of declining mean stature, heights actually diverged. Later in the century we find a type of “negative” convergence indicating that stature among states tended to converge to a new, lower steady state. Only towards the end of the century do we find classic convergence behavior. We argue that the diversity of economic experiences across regions, e.g. urbanization, industrialization, and transportation improvements, explain this pattern of divergence and then convergence.
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No full textSuperconducting EuFe2(As0.82P0.18)(2) single crystals are investigated by broad-band infrared spectroscopy. Below T-c = 28 K, a superconducting gap forms at 2 Delta(0) = 9.5 meV = 3.7k(B)T(c), causing the reflectivity to sharply rise to unity at low frequency. In the range of the gap, the optical conductivity can be perfectly described by BCS theory with an s-wave gap and no nodes. From our analysis of the temperature-dependent conductivity and spectral weight at T > T-c, we deduce an increased interband coupling between hole and electron sheets on the Fermi surface when T approaches T-c.Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; DFG [SPP1458
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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