15 research outputs found
Vortex-induced forces on oscillating bluff cylinders
No full textThesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-247).by Ramnarayan Gopalkrishnan.Sc.D
The Immortal King Rao
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in American Historical Review following peer review. The version of record Ramnarayan S Rawat, The Immortal King Rao, The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 1029–1031, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae236 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae236.
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This article will be embargoed until 09/06/2026.Vauhini Vara. The Immortal King Rao. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
“We should be free to pursue our ambitions” (Chinna Rao, owner, coconut grove)
“My ambition is to program” (King Rao)
The Immortal King Rao is an innovative piece of writing that captures the social life of caste and provides a rich ethnography of Dalit ambition, initiative, and achievement through hard work. Several reviewers have written of the novel’s dystopian themes, the existence of a single shareholder’s government managed by an algorithm that has replaced nation-states, and the “exes” or large groups of people who have rejected this system and live in autonomous island zones. Vauhini Vara uses this original framework to offer new insights into Dalit lives by showcasing Dalit ambition and achievement, simultaneously tracing Dalit lives and mobility in India and in the United States while also expanding the genre of caste fiction. As a Dalit woman whose father grew up on a coconut farm in India, Vara has written a formidable novel on breaking free from the shackles of caste through education and migration—in India and abroad
Studies on Physico-Chemical Properties of Fried Oils
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Cultural Factors in Complex Decision Making
No full textComplex decision-making is conceptualised as the process of problem solving in meaningful and important, but complex, dynamic and partially opaque situations. This process is open to a number of cultural influences, among them educational practices, environmental predictability, and power distance. Two empirical studies that explore into the cultural relativity of this type of decision making use interactive computer simulations of complex problems as research instruments. There are a number of behavioural differences between participants from India and Germany which can be explained within a culture-theoretical framework and give reason for the plea to include cultural factors in theories on human decision making
Organization Development Experiences . A Case for Enriching HRD through OD
No full textThis article reviews a few definitions of OD and identifies eight characters that are necessary to call an activity or experience as an OD activity or experience. The article then goes on to examine ten case studies (of research, consulting and OD) of what appears like an OD activity in which the author was involved as one of the facilitators for whole system or subsystem and examines each on of them for their appropriateness to be called as OD interventions. The author then goes on to derive some lessons from these experiences. The article outlines also some advantages of using traditional OD approach in various HRD interventions and offers some suggestions for making specific HRD interventions like competency mapping, 360Degree Feedback based leadership Development and Assessment and Development Centers as OD activities. The paper concludes that using an OD approach enriches HRD and yields a good ROI on HRD interventions.
Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere: Vernacular Liberalism in Late Colonial North India
No full textThis article was originally published in Comparative Studies in Society and History. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000021. © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for the Comparative Study of Society and HistoryDrawing from publications by Swami Achutanand and the Adi-Hindu Mahasabha press between 1916 and 1940, this article examines the role of this north Indian Dalit organization in creating language and categories of liberalism in the Hindi vernacular. The Mahasabha poet-activists published numerous song-booklets in a variety of Hindi song genres to intervene in ongoing discussions on the subjects of representation and equality which they characterized as mulki-haq and unch-niche. Histories of liberties in late colonial India have typically examined its emergence within dominant Hindu and Muslim middle-class groups. This article uncovers the unique contributions of Dalit poet-activists who recognized the value of liberal ideas and institutions in challenging caste and abolishing “Manu’s Kanun” (lawgiver Manu’s Hindu law codes). It highlights the methodological importance of mohalla (neighborhood) sources usually located in Dalit activists’ houses in untouchable quarters. The chapbooks found in mohalla collections have enabled the writing of a new history of the Mahasabha’s activism and of the initiatives taken by poet-activists in founding a new Dalit politics in northern India. I explore the emergence of a Dalit literate public which sustained the activities of the Mahasabha and which responded with enthusiasm to its articulation of the new social identity of Achut (untouched) and a new political identity of Adi-Hindus—original inhabitants of Hindustan (India). Offering a new methodological approach in using mohalla sources and song-booklets composed in praise of liberal institutions, this essay makes a significant contribution to the recovery of a forgotten Dalit public sphere in early twentieth-century India.This article has emerged as part of a larger project on “A New History of Democracy: Dalit Spaces, Printing, and Practices in Twentieth-Century North India,” which has been generously supported by a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a Smuts Visiting Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, a Charles Ryskamp fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. I am most grateful to the anonymous CSSH reviewers whose careful reading and comments have clarified and strengthened the arguments of this article. Many thanks to Ajay Skaria, Douglas Haynes, Francesca Orsini, K. Satyanarayana, Sharika Thiranagama, Lucinda Ramberg, Mrinalini Sinha, Samita Sen, John Dunn, Lisa Mitchell, and the late David Washbrook. Please note that references to “untouchables” should be read in quotes
Critical Analysis On Trade Secrets And Unfolding The Path Of Intellectual Property Rights Under Legal Framework
No full textThe main aim of the research paper is to unfold the path of Intellectual property rights and communicate as to how these trade secrets play pivotal
role in competitive world. It focuses on various Intellectual property such as trade secrets, Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Design and Geographical
Indications within the context of legal picture as to how these matters dealt with IPR awareness, legal Remedies on infringement of these rights. Where
in various authorities like Copyright board, Patent office and others comes in to picture. Also the paper deals with matter pertaining to assignment and
usage of classes of work by the author/ owner. The empirical study on various Anti- competitive tactics used to destroy market in IP sectors and the paper deals with as to how these reflect on Institutions, Industries, Businesses etc.
Keywords: Intellectual property rights, Trade secrets, Geographical Indication, Trademarks, Patents, Design, Anti-competition, Infringement
Author response image 1. Comparison of cell surface expression of HA-Kb in STF1 and STF1+TAP2 cells by flow cytometry.
No full textFrom soft classifiers to hard decisions
No full textA popular methodology for building binary decision-making classifiers in the presence of imperfect information is to first construct a calibrated non-binary "scoring" classifier, and then to post-process this score to obtain a binary decision. We study various fairness (or, error-balance) properties of this methodology, when the non-binary scores are calibrated over all protected groups, and with a variety of post-processing algorithms. Specifically, we show:
First, there does not exist a general way to post-process a calibrated classifier to equalize protected groups' positive or negative predictive value (PPV or NPV). For certain "nice" calibrated classifiers, either PPV or NPV can be equalized when the post-processor uses different thresholds across protected groups. Still, when the post-processing consists of a single global threshold across all groups, natural fairness properties, such as equalizing PPV in a nontrivial way, do not hold even for "nice" classifiers.
Second, when the post-processing stage is allowed to defer on some decisions (that is, to avoid making a decision by handing off some examples to a separate process), then for the non-deferred decisions, the resulting classifier can be made to equalize PPV, NPV, false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR) across the protected groups. This suggests a way to partially evade the impossibility results of Chouldechova and Kleinberg et al., which preclude equalizing all of these measures simultaneously. We also present different deferring strategies and show how they affect the fairness properties of the overall system.
We evaluate our post-processing techniques using the COMPAS data set from 2016.First author draf
Publisher Correction: Effect of hydrocortisone on mortality in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia
No full textWhen this article was first published, the corresponding author of the Institutional Author “The REMAP-CAP Investigators” was given as additional author by mistake. The Original Article has been corrected. The Publisher apologises for this mistake
