279 research outputs found
Animalia Humorosum: Aesop's animal fables made more believable with a modern twist
No full textThere is much that is unusual about this 8½” square booklet of 28 pages followed by two pages of advertisements for other books by Óla. For starters, the pages are purple with light-colored typeface and cutout colored characters in partial-page illustrations. The T of C uses superscript to indicate page numbers for the twelve fables. That same page clarifies that Ólafia L. Óla is a pseudonym for V. Subhash. In TH, the hare, not the tortoise, challenges to a race upon no provocation. The author turns this tale into the more usual “Rabbit Races the Hedgehog,” famous among Grimm’s fairytales. Every one of the species looks the same to the superficial hare. In LM, after the mouse frees the lion, the hungry lion eats the mouse. “Steer clear of known dangers.” DW is told just as in the tradition. “Better die on your feet than live on your knees.” In TB, the second traveler takes off his socks; the smell of them revolts the bear, who departs. What did the bear whisper to him? “Tell that fellow that trees offer no safety because bears are good climbers.” The ox makes up a snake friend to worry the dog out of his manger. A passing hunter saves the shepherd boy attacked by a real wolf. The mice do manage to get a bell around the cat’s neck by having it ready around their hole when the cat pokes in its head. Two foxes jump for grapes. One reacts according to the tradition. The other says the effort has been stupid. “We are foxes. We don’t eat grapes. Let’s go and catch some rabbits.” One of two crows suggests the traditional pebble approach. The other says that will take too much time and too many pebbles and will dirty the water. He manages to knock over the pitcher and they can drink both from the water spilled and the water still in the overturned pitcher. The owner of the golden goose eventually stops reading his mail, misses paying taxes, loses his property, and has to give up the goose as compensation for the unpaid taxes. The wolf escapes the lambskin and never comes back. The crow removes the doughnut from his mouth and tells the fox to move along.Ólafia L. Óla (V. Subhash
Evolved Infantry Subhash Mukhopadhyay/ বিবর্তিত পদাতিক সুভাষ মুখোপাধ্যায়
No full textWhen the present moves towards the future, leaving the past as a witness, it changes itself and reaches its end. In this change, even if the external structure changes, the ideological infrastructure remains intact. Then we do not call it change, but evolution. However, this evolution is not only an evolution of spatial geography and temporal dimensions; it is also an evolution of the mind and mood of the evolved person. Subhash Mukherjee is no exception of this thinking. He is a real example of such evolution. Not only in his political philosophy of life, but also in his literary-centered meditations, poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay did not follow a set path. He changed his opinion, but remained steadfast in his goal. He moved away from leftism ideology and joined hands
with Gandhism. That is true. However, he did not abandon communism. Evolution is the law of the ideological universe. But we must see to it that, that evolved consciousness does not hurt the collective convictions. Subhash Mukhopadhyay is a skilled thinker-artist in this work.
Therefore, in the article under discussion, the primary intention of the author will be to create an outline of evolution in terms of Subhash Mukhopadhyay’s criticism of life, social consciousness, political thought, poetic thought, poetic justice, linguistic thought, aesthetic sense etc. It is to be noted that more examples will be provided from the poet\u27s various poems to authenticate the logical tradition of the discussion. However, for the purpose of presenting the subject matter of the article, various literary forms such as novels, letters or songs will also be used in addition to the poet\u27s poems. And by the end of the article, following these steps, we will reach the evolved consciousness of poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay
Bollywood cinema: A critical genealogy
No full text"Bollywood" has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: "a name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Bombay. Origin 1970s. Blend of Bombay and Hollywood." The incorporation of the word in the OED acknowledges the strength of a film industry which, with the coming of sound in 1931, has produced some 9,000 films. (This must not be confused with the output of Indian cinema generally, which would be four times more). What is less evident from the OED definition is the way in which the word has acquired its current meaning and has displaced its earlier descriptors (Bombay Cinema, Indian Popular Cinema, Hindi Cinema), functioning, perhaps even horrifyingly, as an "empty signifier" (Prasad) that may be variously used for a reading of popular Indian cinema. The triumph of the term (over the others) is nothing less than spectacular and indicates, furthermore, the growing global sweep of this cinema not just as cinema qua cinema but as cinema qua social effects and national cultural coding. Although Indian film producers in particular, and pockets of Indian spectators generally, continue to feel uneasy with it (the vernacular press came around to using "Bollywood" only reluctantly), its ascendancy has been such that Bombay Dreams (the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical) and the homegrown Merchants of Bollywood both become signifiers of a cultural logic which transcends cinema and is a global marker of Indian modernity. As the Melbourne (March 2006) closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games showed, Bollywood will be the cultural practice through which Indian national culture will be projected when the games are held in Delhi in 2010. International games (the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and so on) are often expressions of a nation's own emerging modernity. For India that modernity, in the realm of culture, is increasingly being interpellated by Bollywood
Decoding "Public authority" under the RTI act: a comment on Subhash Chandra Aggarwal v. Indian national congress
No full textThe June, 2013 order of the Central Information Commission ("CIC") in Subhash Chandra Aggarwal v. Indian National Congress which brought political parties within the scope of the Right to Information ("RTI") Act, has highlighted some issues regarding the drafting and interpretation of the RTI Act. The CIC held that the six national political parties which were respondents
in the case, have the ingredients that qualify them as "public authorities" within the meaning of section 2(h) of the RTI Act. In this comment the author argues that the reasoning for holding what constitutes substantial financing that makes a body a "public authority" is not clear and the interpretation of the definition of "public authority" is inconsisten
An integrative approach to study the seasonality and biodiversity of benthic diatoms in the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian Seas
No full textIl microphytobenthos (MPB) è una componente poco esplorata dell'ecosistema marino nonostante il suo elevato contributo alla produttività primaria e il ruolo chiave nella catena trofica e nei cicli biogeochimici. Questo studio mira a incrementare le conoscenze sulla biodiversità e sulla struttura di comunità delle diatomee bentoniche del Mar Mediterraneo in un ambiente subtidale. Nella prima parte della tesi, è stato studiato l'andamento stagionale delle abbondanze e della composizione specifica delle diatomee bentoniche in due stazioni dell’Adriatico settentrionale mediante microscopia ottica. Sono stati osservati 118 taxa. In entrambe le stazioni le diatomee bentoniche hanno mostrato una spiccata stagionalità, con massima abbondanza, biomassa e biodiversità in primavera e minima in estate. In entrambe le stazioni le forme mobili erano la componente più importante della comunità a diatomee seguite dalle adnate. Il plocon era meno abbondante delle altre forme di crescita, ma in autunno contribuiva in modo significativo alla biomassa. Nella seconda parte di questo studio, 59 ceppi di diatomee sono stati isolati dai sedimenti raccolti presso 2 stazioni nell'Adriatico settentrionale e 11 stazioni nel Mar Tirreno per la caratterizzazione morfologica e molecolare. Tutti i ceppi sono stati osservati e fotografati al microscopio ottico e le loro sequenze del gene 18S RNA sono state determinate e collocate in un albero filogenetico contenente 541 sequenze parziali del gene 18S rRNA. Quindi 13 ceppi scelti tra quelli con una posizione dubbia sono stati analizzati al SEM e TEM per una dettagliata analisi ultrastrutturale e per l’identificazione delle specie. Questo studio ha evidenziato la mancanza di dati relativi alle sequenze per molti taxa e la necessità di utilizzare un approccio integrato, basato sia sull'analisi morfologica sia su quella molecolare, per migliorare le conoscenze tassonomiche e il sistema di classificazione delle diatomee bentoniche e per una migliore comprensione della loro ecologia.Microphytobenthos (MPB) is a poorly explored component of marine ecosystem despite their high contribution to primary productivity and the main role in the trophic chain and in biogeochemical cycles. This study aims to increase the knowledge on the biodiversity and community structure of the subtidal benthic diatoms of the Mediterranean Sea. In the first part of the thesis, seasonal abundance and composition of benthic diatoms was studied at two stations of N Adriatic coast using light microscopy. A total of 118 taxa were observed. At both stations, benthic diatoms showed a marked seasonality, with maximum abundance, biomass and biodiversity in spring and minimum in summer. At both stations the motile forms were the most important component of the diatom communities followed by the adnate ones. The plocon forms were less abundant than the others but in autumn they contributed significantly to the biomass. In the second part of this study, 59 diatom strains were isolated from sediments collected at two stations located in the northern Adriatic and 11 stations in the Tyrrhenian Sea for morphological and molecular characterization. All strains were observed and imaged in light microscopy. Their 18S RNA gene sequences were determined and placed in a phylogenetic tree containing 541 partial sequences of the 18S rRNA gene. Then 13 strains selected among those having a questionable position were analyzed at SEM and TEM for detailed ultrastructural analysis and species identification. This study highlighted the lack of data for many taxa and the need to use an integrative approach, based on both morphological and molecular analysis, to improve the taxonomy and classification system of benthic diatoms and for a better understanding of their ecology
Large data query for the exploration of employee wellbeing in a call center
No full textThe need for instant customer service has increased as the reliance on technology has become our main source of assistance. Call centers provide customers with 24 hour access to customer service, but at what cost? In this exploration, the need to assess what employee wellbeing is, and how it is being affected in the Navy Federal call Center has been brought to the forefront
Synthesis, characterization and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sensing properties of WO3 nano-particles
No full textBuckling performance improvement in 3d printed variable stiffness composite laminates: Analyzing effect of steering curvature in performance of laminates
No full textOver the past decades, fibre-reinforced composite structures have been increasingly adopted into mainstream manufacturing over conventional metals owing to their higher performance attributes, such as superior strength-to-weight ratios. Composite structures offer the unique advantage of tailoring reinforcements in correspondence with design load cases. This allows for more efficient and better performing structures.Traditionally for composite laminate structures, the design space and freedom were vastly influenced by the accumulated experience in design and certification, as well as available flexibility in manufacturing processes; the available degree of freedom in aligning fibres dictated the design freedom available. With the advent of advanced processes such as automated fibre placement (AFP), reinforced tows can now be placed with more freedom and accuracy; even allowing for tows to be steered during deposition. These are called variable stiffness composite laminates. Fibre directionality within these laminates can be tailored to achieve an optimal load redistribution, thereby increasing its structural performance.Novel additive manufacturing such as Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) allow for more complex geometries to be manufacturable in a variety of materials. Such a process can allow more design space and freedom in existing optimization frameworks for designing variable stiffness laminates. Many reinforced thermoplastic materials can be processed using FDM. Short fibre reinforced materials are very readily available and can be used on all commercially available FDM platforms with minimal changes.This research culminates the three key aspects in engineering – design, material, and process. First, a suitable design framework is chosen, which in combination with added the design freedom by virtue of a novel process such as FDM, is used to design laminates optimized for buckling performance. Additional design freedom is afforded to the optimization framework by means of relaxing the manufacturability constraint – which restricts the maximum allowable curvature of each individual path within the laminate. Secondly, these laminates are manufactured using short fibre reinforced thermoplastic material, for which the shear-induced alignment of the material is analyzed to predict the effective mechanical properties under the parameters used for printing the laminates. Lastly, to validate the effect of additional design space on the effective performance of these laminates, a suitable experimental protocol is devised and used. For the optimized laminates, two cases for maximum allowable steering curvature are considered – one low and one high, and an effective quasi-isotropic laminate is used as a benchmark for comparison. Finally, all the laminates are tested under compression and analyzed. The increase in buckling performance of optimized laminates corresponding to increase in allowable steering is verified, as well as insights are drawn from the processing and experimentation to suggest future recommendations.Aerospace Engineerin
Correction to: Polymer Nanocomposites in Biomedical Engineering
No full textIn the original version of the book, the following belated corrections have been incorporated: The co-editor names ''Basheer Ahmed'' has been changed to ''M. Basheer Ahamed'' and ''Al-Maadeed Mariam Ali S A'' has been changed to ''Mariam Ali S A Al-Maadeed''.
In chapter ''Silver Nanoparticles and Its Polymer Nanocomposites Synthesis, Optimization, Biomedical Usage, and Its Various Applications'', the author name ''Snehal Kargirwar Bramhe'' has been changed to ''Snehal Kargirwar Brahme'' and the affiliations of authors ''Snehal Kargirwar Brahme'' and ''Subhash Kondawar'' were swapped. The correction book has been updated with the changes.Scopu
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