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Chhoti Sadri inscription of Gauri, photo
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To engrave his virtues on the disc of the moon… Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and Their Associates
Dániel Balogh, 2019
Chhoti Sadri inscription of Gauri
Siddham OB00189
Siddham IN00203
Composite digital photograph by the author, 2018. Courtesy of Government Museum, Udaipu
sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613221144501 – Supplemental material for Acceptability and feasibility of a parent-mediated social-communication therapy for young autistic children in Brazil: A qualitative implementation study of Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613221144501 for Acceptability and feasibility of a parent-mediated social-communication therapy for young autistic children in Brazil: A qualitative implementation study of Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy by Priscilla Brandi Gomes Godoy, Lorna McWilliams, Leticia Rodrigues da Silveira, Mirian de Cesaro Revers Biasão, Fernanda Speggiorin Pereira Alarcão, Leonardo Seda, Renata Generoso Campoli, Holan Liang, Gauri Divan, Kathy Leadbitter, Jonathan Green and Elizabeth Shephard in Autism</p
sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613231182801 – Supplemental material for Using mobile health technology to assess childhood autism in low-resource community settings in India: An innovation to address the detection gap
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613231182801 for Using mobile health technology to assess childhood autism in low-resource community settings in India: An innovation to address the detection gap by Indu Dubey, Rahul Bishain, Jayashree Dasgupta, Supriya Bhavnani, Matthew K Belmonte, Teodora Gliga, Debarati Mukherjee, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Mark H Johnson, Sharat Chandran, Vikram Patel, Sheffali Gulati, Gauri Divan and Bhismadev Chakrabarti in Autism</p
Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing countries
No full textThe author analyzes contemporary rights-based and economic approaches to health care and education in developing countries. He assesses the foundations and uses of social rights in development, outlines an economic approach to improving health and education services, and then highlights the differences, similarities, and the hard questions that the economic critique poses for rights. The author argues that the policy consequences of rights overlap considerably with a modern economic approach. Both the rights-based and the economic approaches are skeptical that electoral politics and de facto market rules provide sufficient accountability for the effective and equitable provision of health and education services, and that further intrasectoral reforms in governance, particularly those that strengthen the hand of service recipients, are needed. There remain differences between the two approaches. Whether procedures for service delivery are ends in themselves, the degree of disaggregation at which outcomes should be assessed, the consequences of long-term deprivation, metrics used for making tradeoffs, and the behavioral distortions that result from subsidies are all areas where the approaches diverge. Even here, however, the differences are not irreconcilable, and advocates of the approaches need not regard each other as antagonists.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Decentralization,Public Health Promotion,Early Child and Children's Health,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Economics&Finance,Poverty Assessment,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Gender and Education
Editorial Perspective: ‘From there to here’: adapting child and adolescent mental health interventions for low-resource settings
No full textCommentary on “Empowering caregivers of children with learning and developmental disabilities: from situation analysis to community-based inclusive development in Kilifi, Kenya”
No full textPurpose: This paper is a commentary which aims to address themes arising from the article by Bunning et al. entitled “Empowering caregivers of children with learning and developmental disabilities: from situation analysis to community-based inclusive development in Kilifi, Kenya”.Design/methodology/approach: This commentary provides discussion stimulated by the paper by Bunning et al., including important areas for consideration when developing and evaluating care pathways or solutions to providing support to families of children with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries.Findings: This commentary highlights issues such as: the value of transported and home-grown approaches; the importance of empowerment and advocacy; and the benefits of equitable collaborative partnerships between researchers in low- and middle-income countries and those in high-income countries.Originality/value: This is the personal perspective of two collaborators who have been working in the field of service delivery of complex interventions for children with developmental disabilities in high- and low-income country settings
The European Union’s Role in the Formation of India’s Climate Change Policy. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 2/2012, September 2012
No full textThis paper focuses on the role of the European Union (EU) in the formation of India’s climate change policy; an increasingly high profile issue area. It is based on an extensive study of relevant literature, EU-India policy documents and the execution of thirteen semi-structured interviews with experts; many of whom have experienced EU-India cooperation on climate change first-hand. A three-point typology will be used to assess the extent of the EU’s leadership role, supporting role or equal partnership role in India, with several sub-roles within these categories. Further, for clarity and chronology purposes, three time periods will be distinguished to assess how India’s climate policy has evolved over time, alongside the EU’s role within that. The findings of the paper confirm that the EU has demonstrated signs of all three roles to some degree, although the EU-India relationship in climate policy is increasingly an equal partnership. It offers explanations for previous shortcomings in EU-India climate policy as well as policy recommendations to help ensure more effective cooperation and implementation of policies
What physiological factors influence state anger?
No full textIn this paper, we sought to understand what physiological factors influence state anger in the hopes of improving awareness of potential triggers. Previous research has predicted that an increase in heart rate, hunger, and headache pain intensity all lead to an increase in state anger. In our correlational study, we tested the strength of these relationships by examining naturalistic daily changes in their variables longitudinally over a period of 11 days. We measured heart rate by reading our pulse for one minute three times a day, and we measured our hunger, headache pain and anger levels by using a Likert scale three times a day. For each variable measured, we added the total of their three daily values together to get an average value for each day. Data pooled across participants in our correlational study showed significant positive correlations of anger with hunger and headache pain, and a significant negative correlation with heart rate. These results provide some insight into what individuals might avoid, such as becoming hungry or not treating a painful headache, to decrease the likelihood of becoming angry.Supervising Instructor & Course Number: Michael Pollock, Psyc 215 (“Biological Psychology”
Efficient redundancy techniques to reduce delay in Cloud systems
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209).Cloud services are changing the world by providing millions of people low-cost access to the computing power of data centers. Storing and processing data on shared servers in the cloud provides scalability and flexibility to these services. However the large-scale sharing of resources also causes unpredictable fluctuations in the response time of individual servers. In this thesis we use redundancy as a tool to combat this variability. We study three areas of cloud infrastructure: cloud computing, distributed storage, and streaming communication. In cloud computing, replicating a task on multiple machines and waiting for the earliest copy to finish can reduce service delay. But intuitively, it costs additional computing resources, and increases queueing load on the servers. In the first part of this thesis we analyze the eect of redundancy on queues. Surprisingly, there are regimes where replication not only reduces service delay but also reduces queueing load, thus making the system more ecient. Similarly, we can speed-up content download from cloud storage systems by requesting multiple replicas of a le and waiting for any one. In the second part of the thesis we generalize from replication to coding, and propose the (n, k) fork-join model to analyze the delay in accessing an (n, k) erasure-coded storage system. This analysis provides practical insights into how many users can access a piece of content simultaneously, and how fast they can be served. Achieving low latency is even more challenging in streaming communication because the packets need to be delivered fast and in-order. The third part of this thesis develops erasure codes to transmit redundant combinations of packets and ensure smooth playback. This thesis blends a diverse set of mathematical tools from queueing, coding theory, and renewal processes. Although we focus on cloud infrastructure, the techniques and insights are applicable to other systems with stochastically varying components.by Gauri Joshi.Ph. D
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