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What is the relationship between population growth and economic indicators extensively for states of India?'
No full textThe relationship between the population and various economic indicators particularly the Nominal Gross Domestic Produc(GDP) statewise for India. The data was collected and analysed with linear Regression models which resulted in clustering algorithm to get a good silhouette score for Digital Trust and Personal data.In addition to this, the result of the relationship was linear as growth in population and mainly of middle class income group will drive up the consumption which in turn will drive up the economic indices
Volunteering as an Occupation in African-American Women in a Rural Community
No full textJyothi Gupta, Professor in the Physical Therapy Doctorate program, received a $3,645 Faculty Research & Scholarly Activities Grant to conduct a study aimed at understanding the values, motivations and benefits of volunteering among African American women in rural Mississippi. The results will be used to develop a leadership and empowerment curriculum for adolescents in the community to promote civic engagement through volunteering
Physicochemical and Genetic Analysis of an Endemic Rice Variety, Njavara (Oryza sativa L.), in Comparison to Two Popular South Indian Cultivars, Jyothi (PTB 39) and IR 64
No full textNjavara is a medicinal rice strain, endemic to Kerala, South India, bestowed with medicinal qualities.
Genetic variations and some of the physicochemical properties were studied using standard
molecular protocols and compared with those of nonmedicinal rice varieties: Jyothi and IR 64.
Njavara showed 11 unique positive and 36 unique negative markers to differentiate it from Jyothi
and IR 64. Genetic similarity coefficient studies showed two well-defined clusters separating Njavara
from Jyothi and IR 64. All the three varieties had waxy gene Wxa allele. Njavara had (CT)n repeats
at (CT)10, while Jyothi and IR 64 had repeats at (CT)11 in the 50-untranslated region of waxy gene.
Njavara showed a CGTG sequence, while Jyothi and IR 64 had a CGCG sequence at the 14th exon
of Sbe 1 gene. Njavara, Jyothi, and IR 64 have similar amylose equivalent (AE), which was
confirmed by microsatellite markers. The SSR primers for protein content and setback viscosity
primer (RM 4608) were observed to be polymorphic in case of Njavara. Njavara rice, with a distinct
gene pool and medicinal properties, can be exploited as a nutraceutical rice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Alternative Models of Economic Development and Its’ Impact on Women’s Health
No full textDeep Shikha, Professor of Economics, and Jyothi Gupta, Professor of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, were awarded $10,000 to develop a new Global Search for Justice Course, produce a documentary on transforming women’s lives through a new paradigm, and continue an on-going partnership with community organizations in India. The new course will incorporate a transformative service learning pedagogy and a global studies component: students will visit the rural communities in India and examine the intersection of women’s daily occupations and wellbeing
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
GSOHC: Global Synchronization Optimization in Heterogeneous Computing
Get PDFThe use of heterogeneous systems has become widespread and popular in the past decade with more than one type of processor, such as CPUs, GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), and FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) etc. A wide range of applications use both CPU and GPU to leverage the benefits of their unique features and strengths. Therefore, collaborative computation between CPU and GPU is essential to achieve high program performance. However, poorly placed global synchronization barriers and synchronous memory transfers are the main bottlenecks to enhanced program performance, preventing CPU and GPU computations from overlapping.
Based on this observation, we propose a new optimization technique called hetero-sync motion that can relocate such barrier instructions to new locations, resulting in improved performance in CPU-GPU heterogeneous programs. Further, we propose GSOHC, a compiler analysis and optimization framework that automatically finds opportunities for hetero-sync motion in the input program and then performs code transformation to apply the optimization. Our static analysis is a context-sensitive, flow-sensitive inter-procedural data-flow analysis with three phases to identify the optimization opportunities precisely. We have implemented GSOHC using LLVM/Clang infrastructure. On A4000, P100 and A100 GPUs, our optimization achieves speedups of up to 1.8x, 1.9x and 1.9x over the baseline, respectively
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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