843 research outputs found
Bryophyte colonization on the monuments of Champaner Pavagadh - UNESCO World Heritage Site and its association with geological substrates
No full textMehta, Disha, Shah, Dharmendra (2023): Bryophyte colonization on the monuments of Champaner Pavagadh - UNESCO World Heritage Site and its association with geological substrates. Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (8): 183-195, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2023v44a8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.
FIG. 7 in Bryophyte colonization on the monuments of Champaner Pavagadh - UNESCO World Heritage Site and its association with geological substrates
No full textFIG. 7. — Estimation of Calcium concentration (ppm) of Hyophila involuta (Hook.) Jaeg. and Asterella wallichiana (Lehm. & Lindenb.) Grolle: red circles, clusters showing Hyophila involuta; green circles, clusters showing Asterella wallichiana.Published as part of Mehta, Disha & Shah, Dharmendra, 2023, Bryophyte colonization on the monuments of Champaner Pavagadh - UNESCO World Heritage Site and its association with geological substrates, pp. 183-195 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (8) on page 192, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2023v44a8, http://zenodo.org/record/830275
FIG. 8 in Bryophyte colonization on the monuments of Champaner Pavagadh - UNESCO World Heritage Site and its association with geological substrates
No full textFIG. 8. — Pictorial representation of the steps involved in colonization and deterioration of the substrate by bryophytes: A, wall structure with rough surface; B, settled dust and humus to capture spores; C, covered by protonema; D, growth of mature gametophyte; E, penetration of rhizoids; F, enlargement of cracks deteriorating the wall structure.Published as part of Mehta, Disha & Shah, Dharmendra, 2023, Bryophyte colonization on the monuments of Champaner Pavagadh - UNESCO World Heritage Site and its association with geological substrates, pp. 183-195 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (8) on page 193, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2023v44a8, http://zenodo.org/record/830275
C. C. Mehta
No full textOn the life and works of Chandravadan Chimanlal Mehta, b. 1901, Gujarati author
Mobilities in Religious Knowledge: Phiroz Mehta and the Logics of Transreligiosity in 1970s–80s South London
No full textThis paper examines transreligiosity in the context of the transmission of South Asian concepts of spirituality to the UK in the 20th century. Between the 1920s and 1990s, Indian teacher and author Phiroz Mehta (1902–1994) crossed borders in a colonial and postcolonial shuttling between India and the UK but also transgressed conceptual and practice borders of religion, teaching Indian religious concepts to post-Christian spiritual seekers in 1970s–80s South London. Mehta cultivated an elasticity between many religious and philosophical traditions, recognising the post-institutional fatigue of subjects who sought alternative forms of ‘belonging without believing’. Privileging the domestic space for teaching, as well as transitory ‘camp’ gatherings in the UK and Germany, Mehta often operated in the social margins, combining teachings from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity with Zoroastrianism, Judaism (specifically Kabbalah), and Daoism. He offered his tutees the freedom to practice religion in whatever way they chose by drawing on a broad range of traditions concurrently to create a transreligiosity. This paper examines Panagiotopoulos and Roussou’s ‘transgressional webs of practising individualised forms of alternative spirituality’ in relation to Mehta’s followers in the 1970s-1980s and asks how transreligiosity relates to other theoretical analyses, such as religious exoticism, bricolage, religious appropriation, cultural re-articulation or assemblage. This paper focuses on qualitative interviews with original members of the Mehta community conducted between 2021 and 2022.</p
Design and development of a mechatronic training simulator for adult ECMO
No full textWidespread adoption of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in adults has been limited by unfamiliarity with the procedure, including cannulation and safe handling of the ECMO equipment. We present the design and development of a mechatronic training simulator for ECMO that can help medical professionals acquire the needed skills, gain familiarity, and reduce errors by practicing before performing the procedure on real patients. The trainer is designed as an ultrasound-compatible, wholesome simulator with realistic components such as synthetic blood vessels, cannulation pads, and a color-changing blood simulant to simulate oxygenation and deoxygenation. The simulator is integrated with a mathematical model of human physiology to simulate real-time patient vitals and training scenarios, and to control the trainer hardware. We present results related to successful cannulation under ultrasound scanning and a simple patient scenario of hypovolemia.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Iti Mehta, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-24 at 10:58.The student, Iti Mehta, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-04-24 at 11:11.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-04-24 at 12:45.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13873 on 2019-08-22 at 15:08:02Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:36:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Optimal Bioeconomic Management Strategies for Prevention and Control of Invasive Alien Species
No full textPaper removed by author. Please see the current version, available online January 8, 2007: Mehta, S.V. et al. Optimal detection and control strategies for invasive species management. Ecological Economics (2007), doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.10.024Environmental Economics and Policy,
Characterizing the pro-survival function of the cutA growth arrest specific gene in quiescent chicken embryo fibroblasts
No full textGenes expressed during quiescence, known as growth arrest specific (GAS) genes are of great interest due to their ability to prevent a cell from proliferating while enhancing its survivability by maintaining lipid homeostasis amongst other varied mechanisms. In response to nutritional stress, GAS genes may be upregulated, leading to quiescence instead of differentiation or senescence, implying that they are markers of quiescence. A GAS gene of particular interest is cutA. Gene profiling studies investigating gene signatures that are upregulated in response to quiescence inducing environments showed cutA to have a 50-fold increase in expression, one of the strongest responses to contact inhibition from the 28,000 genes that were analyzed. First characterized in Escherichia coli, as a divalent cation tolerance protein, cutA has a highly conserved trimeric structure across species, indicating a potentially fundamental role in cells. In this study, we confirmed the induction of cutA expression in response to oxygen depleted (hypoxia, contact inhibition) conditions that induce cellular quiescence, as well as in response to metal addition. We investigated the effect of aberrant cutA expression on cell proliferation and survival in quiescence by shRNA-mediated downregulation of the gene, which revealed that cutA does have a function in promoting cell survival in quiescence. Based on our findings, we propose a mechanism for the transcriptional activation of cutA in response to quiescent, and in response to metal addition.ThesisMaster of Science (MSc)First characterized in Escherichia coli as a divalent cation tolerance protein, cutA has since been found to have a highly conserved trimeric structure and has been implicated in various different roles across species. Its characterization in eukaryotes, however, is not well defined. Gene profiling done by the Bedard Lab identified it as a gene that is found upregulated in density-arrested chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF). In this study, we characterize its expression in reversible growth arrested CEF, as well as investigate its role in promoting cell survival in this state
They Say The Way To A Person's Heart Is Through Good Food. Can A Customer-Dominant Logic Enhance Customer Experience?: Evidence From The Restaurant Industry
No full textMarketing theory has evolved over the years from goods to service and now customer dominant logic. This shift in perspective has given rise to the need to study customer experience and value co-creation from the customer’s perspective, by launching and enquiry into their life-world. This research contextualises customer-dominant logic theory to explore whether such an approach can influence a customer’s experience of a service. An Interpretivist and phenomenological approach is undertaken to understand consumers’ life world context and their experiences of the past, along with expectations from the service in the future. The findings concur that c-d logic does influence customer experience. Managerial implications are discussed to suggest recommendations to managers on how to improve their overall business performance, without losing sight of their primary goal, that is, delivering high value meal experiences
They Say The Way To A Person's Heart Is Through Good Food. Can A Customer-Dominant Logic Enhance Customer Experience?: Evidence From The Restaurant Industry
No full textMarketing theory has evolved over the years from goods to service and now customer dominant logic. This shift in perspective has given rise to the need to study customer experience and value co-creation from the customer’s perspective, by launching and enquiry into their life-world. This research contextualises customer-dominant logic theory to explore whether such an approach can influence a customer’s experience of a service. An Interpretivist and phenomenological approach is undertaken to understand consumers’ life world context and their experiences of the past, along with expectations from the service in the future. The findings concur that c-d logic does influence customer experience. Managerial implications are discussed to suggest recommendations to managers on how to improve their overall business performance, without losing sight of their primary goal, that is, delivering high value meal experiences
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