220 research outputs found
Deepti Garg Interview
No full textDeepti Garg (MS 2006) was interviewed by Laura Narvaez via the Zoom internet-based conferencing software on March 28, 2024. She spoke about her experience coming to SMU as an international student from Ghaziabad, India. Ms. Garg became familiar with SMU after speaking to her counselors about studying in the US after getting her master's degree in Computer Science. She remembers creating a community with other students from India where they would celebrate festivals throughout the year to stay in touch with their culture. In 2007, she returned to India as an assistant professor at a private engineering college, remembering her time at SMU fondly for the confidence she acquired
Food Security in South Asia : Issues and Opportunities
Full text linkFood security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification - all these factors can be a threat to food security. South Asia still has the highest number of people (423 millions) living on less than one dollar a day. The region has the highest concentration of undernourished (299 million) and poor people with about 40 per cent of the worlds hungry. Despite an annual 1.7 per cent reduction in the prevalence of undernourishment in the region in the past decade, the failure to reduce the absolute number of the undernourished remains a major cause for concern. Estimates by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) indicate that by 2010, Asia will still account for about one-half of the worlds undernourished population, of which two-thirds will be from South Asia. Though SAARC countries have established a food bank to meet the needs of food security in the region, it has not been operational even during times of crisis. This is despite the felt need of member nations to evolve mechanisms to make the SAARC Food Security Reserve operational. It is against this background that this study has been undertaken. Conducted in collaboration with think-tanks from South Asian countries, it aims to identify issues relating to food security, the policy initiatives taken to tackle these issues, evaluate these policies and suggest measures to overcome identified constraints in order to improve the food security situation in the region.South Asia, food security, Safety Nets, Food Bank
Correlation between the steepness of the articular eminence and the occurrence of anterior disc displacement of the temporomandibular joint based on Condylographic tracings
No full textThis study is conducted to evaluate if there is any correlation between the steepness of the articular eminence and the occurrence of anterior disc displacement of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ).
Background:
The term “Temporomandibular disorders (TMD)” represents a cluster of assorted pain and dysfunction conditions in the masticatory system. These conditions have been recognized since the 1930s and have been given various names. The articular eminence is a part of the temporal bone on which the condylar process slides during mandibular movements and forms the anterior limit of glenoid fossa. The articular eminence inclination is defined as the angle formed by the articular eminence and the axis orbital plane. The normal value of this angle in adults has been reported to be 30°–60° Articular eminences having inclination values smaller than 30° have been characterized as flat, whereas those having values greater than 60° have been characterized as steep. Some studies have provided data suggesting that steeper articular eminence is a predisposing factor for TMD, while other investigations failed to confirm this issue. Furthermore, there are some studies demonstrating that the healthy control group has a steeper slope than patients with TMD. There are various diagnostic imaging techniques for the evaluation of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) structures. However, computerized tomography (CT) and cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) are the primary techniques of choice for optimal imaging of the osseous components. Although CT is widely used as a diagnostic tool in medicine, its application in dentistry is limited. CBCT has a high dimensional accuracy in measuring maxillofacial structures including TMJ. But in all previous studies, the measurements were made on static images and there is a huge lack of mandibular dynamics.
Aim:
The Aim of this master study is to evaluate if there is any positive or negative correlation between the steepness of the articular eminence and the occurrence of anterior disc displacement in temporomandibular joint (TMJ) based truly upon the Condylographic interpretations.
Study Design:
Descriptive observational study with retrospective and prospective model. Electronic Condylography (CADIAX 4 Gamma Dental Klosterneuburg, Austria) of 38 patients with reducible joint luxations visiting department of Prosthetic dentistry, University Dental Clinic, Vienna, were compared to 20 healthy individuals (students of the University Dental Clinic, Vienna) as control group.
Results:
Analysis of variance and FLEISS test, confirmed highly statistical significance (P < .05) at 1 to 8 mm of excursive versus incursive movements compared to healthy patients. The study showed that the patient group has steeper SCI as compared to the control group. The difference of SCI between the incursive and the excursive tracing is more significant in patient group as compared to the control group. The strength of the study is the evaluation of difference of SCI between the incursive and excursive tracings. This study demonstrated that there is a strong significance in the dynamics of mandibular kinematics. The steepness of articular eminence is only one of the contributing factors. Rather it is the difference of the SCI between the excursive and incursive movements which is of much more importance. and is closely related to the synchronized smooth mandibular movements. The excursive and incursive tracings were coinciding in healthy individuals Whereas in patients with reducible joint luxation there is a separation as well as clicking phenomemon between the excursive and incursive tracings. Therefore, in our diagnostic procedures we should emphasize on the significance of the dynamic condylographic data and combine them with the clinical findings in early diagnosis and treatment planning.eingereicht von Deepti GargMasterarbeit Medizinische Universität Wien 202
Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers
No full textThis essay critiques the repression and violence engendered by the dominant ideologies governing the construction of beauty and femininity in contemporary America. By foregrounding the politics of body image it argues that while the imperative to assimilate into the cultural mainstream is a palpable reality for ethnic groups in America; this dictum becomes particularly coercive for ethnic women who must not only conform outwardly to the sociocultural codes but also alter their appearance significantly in order to be accommodated by dominant white discourses on beauty and femininity. Accordingly, it examines how the myth of feminine beauty acts as a diabolic force and drives women toward an obsessive quest for perfect physicality. Furthermore, it reads the hegemonic beauty ideology as a contemporary Gothic trope that perpetrates tremendous psychological and physical violence on subjects entrapped within the discourse of an ideal body image. The essay, therefore, briefly discusses fictional works by Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Mexican women writers from America who have critiqued the transformations of ethnic women into pathetic victims for having submitted to the dictates of the beauty myth. It then offers a close reading of Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s novel Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers (1996), a coming-of-age narrative of Lovey Nariyoshi, a Japanese American teenager, residing in Hawaii in the 1970s. Yamanaka’s novel demonstrates how Japanese American women struggle with the pressures and violence of assimilation and are forced to transform their physicality to forge an identity that is both conventional and normative and in their attempts suffer horrific psychic and physical violence
MKW 1
No full textThis version of TMCM works almost entirely in terms of food. The town visitor asks if his country host does not have other food to offer. When told No, he answers Then come with me. I will show you all the tasty food I eat everyday. Cake and juicy fruits are both mentioned and pictured. Pictured are also cheese and crackers. By contrast with most versions, here a pretty woman disturbs their feast, followed by a cat. I can't eat. I don't feel safe here! Upon arrival in the country, He was happy and safe in his home. Moral: No pleasure is greater than a safe life. Each page has two or three lines of text and a large, energetic picture. Perhaps the best illustration shows the country mouse still shaking and sweating on 13.Edited by Deept
MKW 4
No full textThis version of LM has the mouse entering the lion's cave during the lion's nap after lunch. This mouse pleads If you free me, then, one day, I will also help you. The lion's English seems a bit strange in his answer: How a small mouse like you can help me? The art establishes well from the beginning that all this takes place in a forest. Each page has two or three lines of text and a large, energetic picture. Perhaps the best illustration is the lion's wake-up look at the mouse on his paw (3). The editors were wise to choose it for the cover picture.Edited by Deept
The traveler as author: examining self-presentation and discourse in the (self) published travel blog
Full text link© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. From the perspective of Goffman’s theories of self-presentation, travel blogs can be described as narratives that indicate the different roles occupied by an individual’s online self. A blogger may discursively position the self as a traveler, rather than a tourist, a dichotomy that underpins much critical debate in the area of travel and tourism studies, thus creating tensions within the blog. These tensions are heightened when blogs presented as accounts of travel are published as guidebooks or books that promote tourism. It can be argued that in such cases the act of publishing commercializes these narratives and introduces an element of touristic discourse. Moreover, the choice of either a legacy publisher or a self-publishing service can have implications for how a travel blogger may be presented and perceived as a reputable published author. Against this background, this article explores how travel blogs negotiate the discursive tensions produced as a result of the presentation of various aspects of self, particularly as a published author and as a traveler as opposed to a tourist
An International online open access peer reviewed journal Angled-Leach in Wireless Sensor Networks
No full textdoi:10.6088/ijacit.12.10018 The need for efficient energy utilization, scalability and load balancing has increased the interest in wireless sensor networks. WSNs are being widely used all over the world in many applications such as weather monitoring, combat field reconnaissance, intrusion detection, disaster management, traffic monitoring, etc. The clustering algorithms aim to prolong the lifetime of the sensor networks as the node batteries are not rechargeable in nature. Hierarchical clustering has proven to be an effective approach in energy efficiency. We further discuss various clustering algorithms that are used for energy efficiency and bandwidth utilization. Traffic at the sink node induces delay and destruction of the nodes colliding with each other and with cluster heads. In this paper, we have proposed a new protocol (Angled-LEACH) in which information is transferred between the nodes which may not collide. It reduces the traffic and helps in energy efficiency
Designing a congestion control plane datapath with QUIC
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-67).This work explores developing datapaths for the recently proposed Congestion Control Plane (CCP) architecture and uses QUIC as a case study to build and evaluate an example datapath. The CCP moves congestion control logic off of the datapath into a separate agent running in user-space. Now, algorithm developers can write their algorithm using this API and automatically run their algorithm on any CCP enabled datapath, such as QUIC or the Linux kernel. We discuss the necessary features for datapaths to support the user-space CCP agent and develop a library, libccp, for software datapaths. We use QUIC as a case study to design a CCP datapath and evaluate various congestion control algorithms running on top of QUIC. The evaluation focuses on four aspects: (1) Do algorithms written on CCP have the same performance as QUIC algorithms? (2) Do CCP congestion control algorithms behave similarly to their native QUIC counterparts, when run on top of QUIC? (3) How expressive is the CCP API? (4) Does the same algorithm, written through CCP, behave similarly across multiple datapaths? This work reveals that while CCP QUIC algorithms have similar performance for a single flow, their behavior does not exactly match the native QUIC implementations of the same algorithms without modifications. We show that CCP can provide "write once, run anywhere" semantics for congestion control, as multiple algorithms run across QUIC and the Linux kernel exhibit similar behavior. Finally, we evaluate the expressiveness of the CCP API by implementing two algorithms: Hybrid Slow Start and Remy.by Deepti Raghavan.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
Information Extraction from Biomedical Text Using Machine Learning
Full text linkInadequate drug experimental data and the use of unlicensed drugs may cause adverse drug reactions, especially in pediatric populations. Every year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves human prescription drugs for marketing. The labels associated with these drugs include information about clinical trials and drug response in pediatric population. In order for doctors to make an informed decision about the safety and effectiveness of these drugs for children, there is a need to analyze complex and often unstructured drug labels. In this work, first, an exploratory analysis of drug labels using a Natural Language Processing pipeline is performed. Second, Machine Learning algorithms have been employed to build baseline binary classification models to identify pediatric text in unstructured drug labels. Third, a series of experiments have been executed to evaluate the accuracy of the model. The prototype is able to classify pediatrics-related text with a recall of 0.93 and precision of 0.86
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