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On the existence of the Dutta-Ray’s egalitarian solution
No full textA class of balanced games, called exact partition games, is introduced.
Within this class, it is shown that the egalitarian solution of Dutta and
Ray (1989) behaves as in the class of convex games. Moreover, we provide
two axiomatic characterization by means of suitable properties such as
consistency, rationality and Lorenz-fairness. As a by-product, alternative
characterizations of the egalitarian solution over the class of convex games
are obtained
I-school movement: a new facet of LIS education in India
No full textThe traditional LIS education is more than hundred years old. In India, LIS education started in the year 1911. The information explosion and subject proliferation in the post industrial society brought major changes in global information environment. The second major thrust on global information scenario was imposed by internet and communication revolution since the late nineties of the last century. Meanwhile, a new global movement in LIS education started to incorporate paradigm shifts of information behaviour, which is known as i-school movement. In this paper, a brief description of global i-school movement is given with special emphasis to India. In India, though this movement was initiated less than a decade ago, but its preamble was started since after independence through the inauguration of INSDOC followed by DRTC. The course structure of the new courses has also been discussed and its similarities with traditional courses are highlighted
I am the very beautiful city. Conversations with Bombay, documented
No full text“I am the very beautiful city. Conversations with Bombay, documented” in: Kaushik Bhaumik, Madhusree Dutta & Rohan Shivkumar (eds.) Cinema City. Chennai: Tulika Publishers. Forthcoming Dec 2013
Heavy quarkonia in quark gluon plasma as open quantum systems
Full text linkDutta N. Heavy quarkonia in quark gluon plasma as open quantum systems. Bielefeld: Universitätsbibliothek; 2013
A Line in the Sand: The India-Pakistan Border in the Films of J.P. Dutta
No full textThis article examines the visualisation and narrative construction of the India-Pakistan border, and human interactions across that liminal space, as depicted in two films directed by J.P. Dutta, the high-profile, multiple award-winning war film Border (1997) and his subsequent feature Refugee (2000), which was more loosely described in its publicity literature as 'a human story'. 1 Through these films, Dutta established his reputation as the leading Indian director of the 'war film', a genre marked by its relative absence in the Indian cinema prior to the 1990s. Both Border and Refugee thus constitute part of what has retrospectively been described as Dutta's 'war trilogy' (along with the more recent LOC Kargil of 2003, which focuses on the 1999 Himalayan conflict). 2 In the first two films of the set, which I will consider here, the border in question is not the Line-of-Control (LOC) that divides Kashmir, but rather the southern portion of the long border with Pakistan that runs from the southern bank of the Sutlej River across the Thar Desert to the Arabian Sea. Refugee, moreover, is not a war film in the accepted sense, and I will make the argument that it is not so much the martial posturing which constructs the thematic inter-relation of the two films considered here but rather their attempts to naturalise the abstract barrier created by the Radcliffe Line in the west
Dr Mousumee Dutta and Husband?
No full textThe Making of the ANU' - Installation Ceremony for First Chancellor of ANU, etc. - Helen Hughes, C. S. Daley, John Passmore, Susan Sergeantson, J. W. Davidson, C. Gibb, H. McQueen, Iain McCalman, J. J. Dedman, Adrien Albert, Prof. I. O. 'Junji' Orubuloye, Jack Caldwell, A. A. Conlon, Julius Stone, Bernie Sugarman J., Ernest Llewellyn, Sir Malcolm Seargent, Lauri Kennedy, William Herbert, Jacqueline Ta Quang, Sir Geoffrey Yeend, Kath Luff, Noel Butlin, Jim Perkins, Ted Hannan, J. Catt, W. Hogan, D. Rawson, Dr. Mousumee Dutta, Phil Peters, Bill Morrison, Dick Woollcott, Tony Powell & other
Dynamics of Network Formation Processes in the Co-Author Model
Full text linkThis article studies the dynamics in the formation processes of a mutual consent network in game theory setting: the Co-Author Model. In this article, a limited observation is applied and analytical results are derived. Then, 2 parameters are varied: the number of individuals in the network and the initial probability of the links in the network in its initial state. A simulation result shows a finding that is consistent with an analytical result for a state of equilibrium while it also shows different possible equilibria.Dynamics, Network, Game Theory, Model,Simulation, Equilibrium, Complexity
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Ahaetulla laudankia Deepak & Narayanan & Sarkar & Dutta & Mohapatra 2019, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Ahaetulla laudankia</i> sp. nov. <p> <i>Dryophis mycterizans –</i> Sclater (1891) [in part]</p> <p> <i>Ahaetulla nasuta isabellinus –</i> Dutta et al. (2009)</p> <p>Proposed standard English name: Laudankia vine snake</p> <p> <i>Holotype.</i> ZSI-CZRC-6403, adult female, Bangriposi, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha state (22.142167N, 86.520025E), collected by Manoj V. Nair and S. K. Dutta, 15 June 2010.</p> <p> <i>Paratypes (2).</i> ZSI-CZRC-6404, adult male, Nilagiri, Balasore district, Odisha state (21.471232N, 86.634096E), collected by Vivek Sarkar, 15 March 2013; ZSI-R-26412 (Figure 4), subadult male, Madhapur, along Khajuriakata-Madhapur road, Harabhanga Tehsil, Boudh District, Odisha state (20.442518N, 84.503152E), collected by Pratyush P. Mohapatra on 5 May 2009.</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis</i></p> <p> A medium-sized <i>Ahaetulla</i> (largest TL 1184 mm (male), 1237 mm (female)) with dermal appendage; 192 <i>–</i> 202 ventrals, 154 <i>–</i> 185 divided subcaudals; 8 teeth on maxilla and 9 on palatine; dorsal scale reduction from 15 to 13 rows occurs between ventrals 143 <i>–</i> 147; ochre brown/chestnut brown dorsum with black spots, paler supralabials, white lower lip, and light orange/brick red venter with a pair of whitish line on both sides of the mid venter.</p> <p> Morphologically, <i>Ahaetulla laudankia</i> can be distinguished from all its congeners except <i>Ahaetulla nasuta</i> sensu lato (see discussion), <i>A. pulverulenta</i> and <i>A. anomala</i> in having a long dermal appendage (vs. snout without dermal appendage) (Figure 5).</p> <p> <i>Ahaetulla laudankia</i> differs from <i>A. nasuta</i> sensu lato in having a higher number of ventrals: explicitly <i>–</i> 192 <i>–</i> 202 (vs. 168 <i>–</i> 184 in <i>A. nasuta</i> from Sri Lanka (both with long and short dermal appendages); vs. 171 <i>–</i> 181 in <i>A. nasuta</i> from India (both with long and short dermal appendages); 169 <i>–</i> 181 in <i>A. nasuta</i> cf <i>isabellina</i> (see discussion), and 168 ventrals in Wall <i>’</i> s type of <i>Dryophis mycterizans isabellinus</i> = <i>A. nasuta isabellina</i>) (Tables 2, 3 and S4).</p> <p> <i>Ahaetulla laudankia</i> can be distinguished from <i>A. pulverulenta</i> in having its dermal appendage formed by a single scale with mid-dorsal groove (vs. dermal appendage formed by multiple scales without mid-dorsal groove), and dermal appendage shorter than horizontal eye diameter (vs. dermal appendage longer than horizontal eye diameter).</p> <p> <i>Ahaetulla laudankia</i> differs from <i>A. anomala</i> in having a higher number of ventral scales <i>–</i> 192 <i>–</i> 202 (vs. 170 <i>–</i> 189); dermal appendage formed by a single scale (vs. multiple scales) and coloration <i>–</i> adults of both sexes have a brown dorsum speckled with black and brick-red ventrals (vs. brown adult females and green adult males) and in having an un-patterned head (vs. head with a black rhomboidal pattern).</p> <p> Based on scale reduction, <i>Ahaetulla laudankia</i> can be distinguished from <i>A. nasuta</i> sensu lato (both morphs with long or short dermal appendages from Sri Lanka as well as India), <i>A. nasuta</i> cf. <i>isabellina</i> and <i>A. anomala</i>. In <i>A. laudankia</i> scale reduction from 15 to 13 rows occurs between ventrals 143 <i>–</i> 147 in four out of five specimens examined by us (Table 3) vs. 110 <i>–</i> 127 in <i>A. nasuta</i> with long dermal appendage and 121 <i>–</i> 137 in <i>A. nasuta</i> with a short dermal appendage from India; vs. 117 <i>–</i> 120 in <i>A. nasuta</i> with long dermal appendage and 119 <i>–</i> 132 in <i>A. nasuta</i> with short dermal appendage from Sri Lanka; vs. 110 <i>–</i> 128 in <i>A. nasuta</i> cf. <i>isabellina</i> and vs. 119 <i>–</i> 129 in <i>A. anomala</i>.</p> <p> <i>Description of holotype (ZSI-CZRC-6403).</i> (Figure 3; Table 3). A medium sized snake (maximum recorded TL 1237 mm), ochre-brown dorsum speckled with black dots, brick-red ventral scales, tail 32.4% of the TL. Specimen partially dehydrated; 7 cm longitudinal ventral incision into coelom at 500 mm from snout tip. Body subtriangular, slightly flatten on venter, widest at midbody, gently tapering anteriorly and sharply tapering posteriorly; tail much more strongly tapered; head broader (11.9 mm) than tall (7.9 mm), distinctly wider than neck.</p> <p>In dorsal view, head elongate and triangular anterior to eye, ends with an elongated dermal appendage; temporal region gently converging posteriorly; in lateral view, head steeply tapering downwards from eye to nostril; scales on top of head smooth, abutting along midline rather than imbricate/overlapping. Length of dermal appendage smaller (2.1 mm) than horizontal eye diameter (4.7 mm) and 6% of head length (HL 34.0 mm); canthus rostral is prominent; nostrils situated anteriorly to snout, closer to snout than eye (EN 7.1 mm, NS 6.2 mm); nasals elongate and roughly lanceolate (6.1 mm), nostril squarish located on posterior end of nasal scale; frontal rhomboidal, longer than wide, wider anteriorly (FL 7.9 mm, FW 4.5 mm); parietals longer than supraocular, smaller than frontal scale and longer than prefrontals (PAL 7.1 mm, SOL 6.1 mm); left supraocular tapering down completely touching first temporal, on the right supraocular not touching the first temporal; PrF length almost equal to IN (PrFL 4.9 mm, INL 5.1 mm). One preocular and two presuboculars, lower right presubocular smaller than postocular; left postocular smaller than both presuboculars.</p> <p>Eight supralabials; 6th largest, 8th longest and 4th smallest; 1st, 2nd and 3rd SL subequal, small; 5th and 7th SL subequal but of different shapes; 1st SL touches rostral, nasal and internasal; 2nd touches internasal and prefrontals; 3rd contacts first two preoculars and prefrontals; 4th SL in contact with both preoculars while 5th touches orbit, postocular and anterior temporal; 6th contacts anterior and lower posterior temporal and 7th in touch with lower posterior temporal. Eye oval, pupil elongate (long horizontal axis); temporals 1 + 2 + 2; second pair upper temporal largest on both sides; parietals larger than other head scales; midline inter-parietal suture much longer than parietal projection behind suture, shorter than frontal; left parietal contacts frontal, supraocular, anterior, second and upper third temporal plus three other scales; right parietal contacts postocular and only two other scales instead of three. Mental small, subtriangular, wider than long; 8 asymmetric infralabials; first ILs touching each other; fifth largest; 2nd IL smallest and 5th longest. Two pairs of genials; first pair largest, longer than broad, touching each other; second pair not in contact; anterior genials contact 1st to 4th IL; posterior genials contact 4th and 5th IL. Six pre-ventrals; anteriormost ventral separated from posterior genials by 6 scales; separated from posteriormost infralabials by 8 scales. Anal scale divided, right overlapping left; 194 ventrals; 154 divided subcaudals, first pair notably smaller and less regular than second pair; terminal scute pointed, longer than wide. Dorsal scale rows 15-15-13. Scale reduction formula is as follows:</p> <p> <b>3 + 4 (145)</b></p> <p> <b>15(10)––––––- 13 (194)</b></p> <p> <b>4 + 5 (147)</b></p>Published as part of <i>Deepak, V., Narayanan, Surya, Sarkar, Vivek, Dutta, Sushil K. & Mohapatra, Pratyush P., 2019, A new species of Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Ahaetullinae) from India, pp. 497-516 in Journal of Natural History 53 (9)</i> on pages 501-512, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1589591, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3675685">http://zenodo.org/record/3675685</a>
So Much More
No full textDr. Shourik Dutta is an anesthesiology resident. He shared a poem on the struggle to exist across multiple spaces.
Excerpt:
Because I am so much more than a doctor Because I am so much more than my brown skin But I fear, no one is ready to see That I am so much mor
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