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    Mt. Borah

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    A mountain rises above some wooded foothills. Description reads: ""Telephoto view of Mt. Borah (12,655 ft. elevation) highest mountain in Idaho, taken from Grazing Service CCC Camp Chilly #111. Forest: Challis, State: Idaho, Date: 7/1940, Author: P.S. Bieler""

    Updating Senator Borah: A Nuclear Kellogg-Briand Pact

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    In recognizing the legacy of Senator William E. Borah, the author shares his remarks from the Borah Symposium at the University of Idaho, about the Senator\u27s personality and character, his contribution and later characterization to international law and national security, specifically the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, and finally, a proposal to a modern reincarnation to the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the newer threats of this era

    Updating Senator Borah: A Nuclear Kellogg-Briand Pact

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    In recognizing the legacy of Senator William E. Borah, the author shares his remarks from the Borah Symposium at the University of Idaho, about the Senator\u27s personality and character, his contribution and later characterization to international law and national security, specifically the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, and finally, a proposal to a modern reincarnation to the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the newer threats of this era

    Peliosanthes Borah & Taram & Tanaka 2024

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    <p> <i>Peliosanthes maheswariana</i></p> <p>D.Borah, N.Tanaka & Taram, sp. nov.</p> <p>(Figs 1, 2; Table 1).</p> <p> <i>Peliosanthes maheswariana</i> sp. nov. is similar to <i>P. sinica</i> F.T.Wang & Tang in having an elongate proximally creeping stem, short anthers and a pistil distally abruptly tapering into a conical style, but differs mainly by the larger leaves with more numerous longitudinal veins, longer peduncle, larger drooping (vs ascending) flowers, internally whitish yellow (vs purple or greenish purple) perianth, larger corona with a relatively narrow distal opening, and almost superior (vs half-inferior) ovary.</p> <p> TYPE MATERIAL. — <b>India</b> • Arunachal Pradesh, West Kameng district, West Kameng; alt. 800-900 m; 10.I.2023; <i>D. Borah 4045</i> (holo-, ASSAM!; iso-, ARUN!).</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY. — The species is named in honor of Shri. Maheswar Borah, a dedicated plant grower of Biswanath, Assam, who has funded the trips of the first author to remote localities of the region in search of plants.</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION. — NE India (Arunachal Pradesh).</p> <p>PHENOLOGY. — Flowering in December-February.</p> <p> HABITAT AND ECOLOGY. — The new species was growing abundantly on rocks or forest floor in the slopes of the type locality above 800 m a.s.l. The area was very close to a perennial stream, but the area remains dry from November to March. It was growing in association with <i>Begonia hatacoa</i> Buch. -Ham. ex D.Don, <i>Dendrocnide sinuata</i> (Blume) Chew, <i>Begonia</i> sp., <i>Pothos</i> sp., <i>Syzygium</i> sp., <i>Psychotria</i> sp., <i>Dalhousiea bracteata</i> (Roxb.) Graham ex Benth., <i>Pseuderanthemum leptanthum</i> (C.B.Clarke) Lindau, etc.</p> <p>DESCRIPTION</p> <p> Terrestrial or lithophytic, glabrous evergreen perennial herbs. <b>Stem</b> distally erect to ascending, proximally creeping and rhizome-like, part above ground up to 1 m tall (including leaves on top of stem), proximal creeping part up to 1 m long, terete, up to 0.8 cm in diam., green, annual nodes spaced at intervals of 8-14.5 cm, up to <i>c.</i> 1.8 cm in diam.; <b>scaly leaves</b> (scales) deltoid-ovate, lanceolate, or narrowly deltoid, 1-20 cm long, 0.8-2 cm wide at base (when expanded), acute or acuminate, brownish, hyaline along margins, ephemeral, those sheathing apical portion of stem several, basally imbricate; scars (nodes) of scales between annual nodes 11-15, often with fibrous remnants, spaced at intervals up to 1.7 cm long. <b>Roots</b> 1 to a few (<i>c.</i> 3) from annual nodes aged at least 1 year, wiry, some stilt-like, proximally rigid, up to 3 mm in diam. <b>Leaves</b> 1-2 from annual node, persistent usually for up to 3 years, petiolate; <i>petiole</i> rigid, subterete, 10-30 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, suberect; <i>blade</i> (narrowly) elliptic, 20-40 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, arcuate, base attenuate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, sub-plicate, glabrous, glossy on both surfaces, longitudinal veins 64-68 (16-17 thicker and 3 thinner veins within the thicker ones), cross-veinlets fine, inconspicuous, perpendicular to oblique to longitudinal veins, straight to variously curved. <b>Flowering stem</b> (including peduncle and inflorescence rachis) 25-32 cm long, usually slightly declined, flattened and narrowly two-edged; <i>peduncle</i> often slightly curved near base, rigid, up to 17 cm long, 3 mm wide, green; <i>inflorescence</i> a raceme, rachis (6) 9-15 cm long, green, bearing 18- 30 flowers. <b>Bracts</b> (including those on peduncle) antrorse, narrowly triangular to subulate, 4-23 mm long, 1.5-5 mm wide (at base), green or light green, hyaline along margins; sterile bracts on peduncle 2-5 (excluding basal ones); fertile (floral) bracts 2 (1 outer bract and 1 inner bracteole) for each flower, outer bracts exceeding floral buds, inner bracteoles 1-2 mm long, <i>c.</i> 1 mm wide, lanceolate, acuminate. <b>Flowers</b> turned toward the same side, slightly drooping, solitary in bracts, 1.3-1.6 cm across, pedicellate; <i>pedicels</i> terete, 2-3 mm long, straight and ascending when flowers are in bud, becoming curved in flower and in fruit, green, purplish or blackish green. <b>Perianth</b> bowl-shaped, fleshy, externally green to dark purple, glossy, internally whitish yellow, distally 6-cleft; <i>proximal syntepalous part</i> flatly saucer-shaped, 3.5-3.8 mm long, basally abruptly narrowed into a very small stalk much shorter than pedicel; <i>segments</i> obliquely spreading, broadly or deltoid-ovate, 4-6 mm long, 4.5-5 mm wide, apex obtuse to rounded, entire. <b>Stamens</b> 6, monadelphous; <i>corona</i> epitepalous, hemispheric or conoid with wall incurved distally, thickened toward base, wall at base 1.5-1.8 mm thick, basal outline orbicular, 6-7.5 mm in diam. at base, 3 mm high, surface whitish yellow, fleshy, apical opening relatively narrow, rounded, scarcely lobed, 2 mm in diam.; <i>anthers</i> 6, sessile, nearly vertically attached to orifice of corona, ovate, 1.2-1.3 mm long, introrse, creamy; <i>pollen</i> creamy. <b>Pistil</b> 1, 3 mm high, pale green; <i>ovary</i> almost superior (or very slightly half-inferior), hemispheric, 1.5 mm high and 3.5 mm wide at base, trilocular; <i>ovules</i> 4 per locule, borne on basal central placenta; <i>style</i> subconic, truncate at apex, 1.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide at base, <i>stigma</i> trisected, 0.8 mm wide. <b>Immature seeds</b> ovoid-ellipsoid, up to 1.5 cm long, 1 cm wide, green.</p> <p>TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS</p> <p> <i>Peliosanthes maheswariana</i> sp. nov. shares a long, proximally creeping stem with six other species so far known. Three of these six species were originally described from SW China; <i>P. sinica</i>, <i>P. pachystachya</i> W.H.Chen & Y.M.Shui (Chen & Shui 2003: 489) and <i>P. minutiflora</i> N.Tanaka, J.Murata & S.K.Wu (Tanaka <i>et al.</i> 2013: 135). The new species is distinguishable from them chiefly by the larger leaf blades with more numerous longitudinal veins, longer peduncle, larger drooping (vs ascending) flowers, internally whitish yellow (vs purple or greenish purple) perianth, larger corona with a relatively narrow distal opening, and almost superior (vs distinctly half-inferior) ovary. The other three of the six species were described from NE India; <i>P. arunachalensis</i> (Roy <i>et al.</i> 2017), <i>P. nagalandensis</i> and <i>P. tobuensis</i> (Odyuo <i>et al.</i> 2020). <i>P.maheswariana</i> sp. nov. differs from <i>P.arunachalensis</i> mainly by the longer leaf blades (20-40 vs 16.5-21.5 cm), longer racemes (6-15 vs 2-3 cm), more numerous flowers (18-30 vs 7-10), and shorter anthers (1.2-1.3 vs 3-3.5 mm); from <i>P. tobuensis</i> by the longer racemes (6-15 vs 2-4 cm), orbicular (vs hexagonal) corona and longer anthers (1.2-1.3 vs 0.3-0.4 mm); from <i>P. nagalandensis</i> by its shorter anthers (1.2-1.3 vs 2-2.5 mm) and almost superior (vs inferior) ovaries. Several selected key distinguishing characters of <i>P. maheswariana</i> sp. nov. and four other related species are compared in Table 1. For the details of differences between the six previously known long-caulescent species and an identification key to them, see Odyuo <i>et al.</i> (2020).</p> <p> The long, proximally creeping stem of these seven species (including <i>P.maheswariana</i> sp. nov.) is deemed as apomorphic (vs acaulescent or short stem). The species having this trait are hence regarded as members of a monophyletic group. It is highly desirable to conduct a further analysis of their evolutionary relationships.</p>Published as part of <i>Borah, Dipankar, Taram, Momang & Tanaka, Noriyuki, 2024, Peliosanthes maheswariana D. Borah, N. Tanaka & Taram, sp. nov. (Asparagaceae), from Arunachal Pradesh, NE India, and P. sinica new to India, pp. 1-8 in Adansonia (3) (3) 46 (1)</i> on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2024v46a1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10473197">http://zenodo.org/record/10473197</a&gt

    Assamese Identity Issues: A Chapter Review of 'India's North-East: Identity Movements, State and Civil Society'

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    This commentary article discusses the chapter titled ‘Assam: Identity Movements and Insurgent Politics’ – ‘Assamese Identity Issues’ in Udayon Misra's book "India’s North East: Identity Movements, State and Civil Society" (2014), focusing on the Assam movement and its implications for Assamese identity. The author sheds light on how the movement was centered around the issues and questions between foreign migrants and indigenous people, highlighting the struggle for linguistic identity and the yearning for a unified homeland. The commentary also underscores the need for social and political cohesion, effective conflict management, and inclusive governance to ensure a peaceful resolution and foster the development of Assamese society. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical context, starting with rich debates spanning over many decades

    Front End to Back End- Compiler Design

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    Abstract: This research article explains how source code is assessed at the Front End and Back End of the compiler and which sections source code must pass and parse in order to generate target code. Furthermore, this paper discusses the concept of Pre-processors, Translators, Linkers, and Loaders, as well as the mechanism for using them and produces the code for the target The focus of this paper is on the concept of Compiler and Compiler Phases. Keywords: Macro, Token, Lexemes, Identifier, Operators, Operands, Sentinel, Prefix, Postfix, IC, IR, Binary program. Title: Front End to Back End- Compiler Design Author: Mr. Rupak Kumar Gogoi, Mr. Abinash Borah, Ms. Chandrani Borah International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online) Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022 Page No: 97-106 Research Publish Journals Website: www.researchpublish.com Published Date: 25-June-2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6735151 Paper Download Link (Source) https://www.researchpublish.com/papers/front-end-to-back-end--compiler-designInternational Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research, ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online), Research Publish Journals, Website: www.researchpublish.co

    A Study Of The Metric Induced By The Robin Function

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    Let D be a smoothly bounded domain in Cn , n> 1. For each point p _ D, we have the Green function G(z, p) associated to the standard sum-of-squares Laplacian Δ with pole at p and the Robin constant __ Λ(p) = lim G(z, p) −|z − p−2n+2 z→p | at p. The function p _→ Λ(p) is called the Robin function for D. Levenberg and Yamaguchi had proved that if D is a C∞-smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain, then the function log(−Λ) is a real analytic, strictly plurisubharmonic exhaustion function for D and thus induces a metric ds2 = n∂2 log(−Λ)(z) dzα ⊗ dzβ z ∂zα∂zβ α,β=1 on D, called the Λ-metric. For an arbitrary C∞-smoothly bounded domain, they computed the boundary asymptotics of Λ and its derivatives up to order 3, in terms of a defining function for the domain. As a consequence it was shown that the Λ-metric is complete on a C∞-smoothly bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain or a C∞-smoothly bounded convex domain. In this thesis, we study the boundary behaviour of the function Λ and its derivatives of all orders near a C2-smooth boundary point of an arbitrary domain. We compute the boundary asymptotics of the Λ-metric on a C∞-smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain and as a consequence obtain that on a C∞-smoothly bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain, the Λ-metric is comparable to the Kobayashi metric (and hence to the Carath´eodory and the Bergman metrics). Using the boundary asymptotics of Λ and its derivatives, we calculate the holomorphic sectional curvature of the Λ-metric on a C∞-smoothly bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain at points on the inner normals and along the normal directions. The unit ball in Cn is also characterised among all C∞-smoothly bounded strongly convex domains on which the Λ-metric has constant negative holomorphic sectional curvature. Finally we study the stability of the Λ-metric under a C2 perturbation of a C∞-smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain. (For equation pl refer the abstract pdf file

    Comments on the Green's function of a planar domain

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    We study several quantities associated to the Green's function of a multiply connected domain in the complex plane. Among them are some intrinsic properties such as geodesics, curvature, and -cohomology of the capacity metric and critical points of the Green's function. The principal idea used is an affine scaling of the domain that furnishes quantitative boundary behaviour of the Green's function and related objects

    The squeezing function: exact computations, optimal estimates, and a new application

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    We present a new application of the squeezing function sDs_D, using which one may detect when a given bounded pseudoconvex domain DCnD\varsubsetneq \mathbb{C}^n, n2n\geq 2, is not biholomorphic to any product domain. One of the ingredients used in establishing this result is also used to give an exact computation of the squeezing function (which is a constant) of any bounded symmetric domain. This extends a computation by Kubota to any Cartesian product of Cartan domains at least one of which is an exceptional domain. Our method circumvents any case-by-case analysis by rank and also provides optimal estimates for the squeezing functions of certain domains. Lastly, we identify a family of bounded domains that are holomorphic homogeneous regular.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure. Several expository observations in Sections 1-3 and references added; typos in Section 7 corrected. This is not the final accepted version; the publishers of J. Geom. Anal. -- in which the article has appeared -- do not want the final accepted version to appear publicly during a certain period. The version of record is available online: DOI given somewhere on this page>
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