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East-West Center Oral History Project : Kuldeep Mathur
No full textInterviewed by Dan Berman, April 15, 2006 in Gurgaon, India. For more about the East-West Center, see https://www.eastwestcenter.org/Former EWC grantee Kuldeep Mathur became so sick from his 18 hour flight from India to Honolulu in 1966 (his first plane ride) that he slept for nearly 3 days, scaring his roommate. Going to American Jesuit missionary schools in his home town of Jaipur, he was well acquainted with cowboy movies, American slang, and chewing gum but nothing prepared him for Hawaii. Click on the PDFs to read more. Includes photograph, interview quotes, and the full interview narrative
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Some Europeans are more equal than others
No full textThe position of Roma migrants in the EU presents an anomaly which challenges the foundations of European Union law. As Union citizens, European migrants are entitled to freedom of movement and residence in Member States. Yet the rights intended to secure this position have been routinely and selectively denied to Roma migrants, leading to forced evictions and collective expulsions without regard t o European Law. As has been evidenced in the UK, Roma arrivals are viewed with particularly acute suspicion; a response which reflects their double stigmatization as both immigrant and Roma. At the same time, Roma migration from new Member States has expo sed a contradiction inherent in the citizenship project which strikes at the heart of the Union ’s human rights credentials. The degree of exclusion and inequality faced by Europe’s largest minority in all Member States is the most pressing internal human rights issue facing the EU. Yet the European institutions continue to lack a coherent response and defined strategy. The current European framework demanding National Action Plans is commendable in that it prevents individual states from abdicating responsibility for the situation of their Roma citizens. Nevertheless, the absence of clear targets, Roma engagement and European leadership, suggest that this strategy is doomed to failure offering little more than a distraction. In a Union predicated on, inter alia, the rule of law, respect for human rights and the protection of minorities, this detached position undermines the legitimacy of the entire citizenship project
Approximate Model Counting: Is SAT Oracle More Powerful Than NP Oracle?
No full textGiven a Boolean formula ϕ over n variables, the problem of model counting is to compute the number of solutions of ϕ. Model counting is a fundamental problem in computer science with wide-ranging applications in domains such as quantified information leakage, probabilistic reasoning, network reliability, neural network verification, and more. Owing to the #P-hardness of the problems, Stockmeyer initiated the study of the complexity of approximate counting. Stockmeyer showed that log n calls to an NP oracle are necessary and sufficient to achieve (ε,δ) guarantees. The hashing-based framework proposed by Stockmeyer has been very influential in designing practical counters over the past decade, wherein the SAT solver substitutes the NP oracle calls in practice. It is well known that an NP oracle does not fully capture the behavior of SAT solvers, as SAT solvers are also designed to provide satisfying assignments when a formula is satisfiable, without additional overhead. Accordingly, the notion of SAT oracle has been proposed to capture the behavior of SAT solver wherein given a Boolean formula, an SAT oracle returns a satisfying assignment if the formula is satisfiable or returns unsatisfiable otherwise. Since the practical state-of-the-art approximate counting techniques use SAT solvers, a natural question is whether an SAT oracle is more powerful than an NP oracle in the context of approximate model counting.
The primary contribution of this work is to study the relative power of the NP oracle and SAT oracle in the context of approximate model counting. The previous techniques proposed in the context of an NP oracle are weak to provide strong bounds in the context of SAT oracle since, in contrast to an NP oracle that provides only one bit of information, a SAT oracle can provide n bits of information. We therefore develop a new methodology to achieve the main result: a SAT oracle is no more powerful than an NP oracle in the context of approximate model counting
Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Diabetes Management Based on Miniaturized Biosensors
No full textDiabetes is a major global health concern, with 422 million people affected worldwide and more than one million deaths annually. The continuous monitoring of blood glucose levels is one of the most effective ways to treat and manage diabetes and reduce the complications due to this. Nowadays, various laboratorybased technologies are replaced with advanced biosensors to accurately monitor glucose levels in blood samples. The biosensor technology has been continuously developed over the last 50 years to be a frontline diagnostic method, and its further development requires it to perform even more complicated task of monitoring particular analytes in complex biological fluids. For the commercial success of such sensing systems, use of nanomaterials and miniaturization of sensing systems can be two viable options. Selection of proper nanomaterial can enhance the selectivity and sensitivity of the biosensor, and its nonenzymatic behavior can increase its efficiency. Miniaturization of the sensing system makes it affordable and mass producible to use by a wider population. In addition, the development of such miniaturized systems is easy to fabricate and can produce portable systems with ease of operations. In this chapter, various miniaturized optical, electrochemical, and wearable continuous glucose biosensors are discussed with the basic mechanism of glucose sensing
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
No full textAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Business Analytics and It's Impact on Business and Industry
No full textBusiness Analytics became the most effective thing for business in the last decade. Different multinational corporate companies like Google, IBM, Face book, Yahoo and eBay are the frontrunners in big data and business analytics in their respective business domains 1 .Business Analytics uses big data which is higher and richer data that shows more details about behaviors, activities, and events that happened all around. Business Analytics access this different variety of the data from huge resources with less response time. 2 .Companies that collect data might be used to produce different income generation possibilities. So they need to find out what sort of data they need and how it will be collected, sorted and analyzed. Mr. Kuldeep D. Ghorapade "Business Analytics & It's Impact on Business & Industry" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Special Issue | International Conference on Digital Economy and its Impact on Business and Industry , October 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18676.pd
Natural killer cells and hepatitis C: action and reaction
No full textIn 1989, hepatitis C virus (HCV) was first identified as the infectious agent responsible for human non-A, non-B hepatitis. Two decades later, HCV remains a global public health problem with a suboptimal response rate to treatment and the absence of a protective vaccine. Recent work has highlighted the influence of the innate immune system, and in particular natural killer cells, on the outcome and pathology of HCV infection. These cells are considerably more complex than was originally thought and their role in viral infections is currently being unravelled. This review summarises our emerging understanding of natural killer cells in HCV infection
Author Correction: Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci
No full textCorrection to: Nature Genetics, 50, 928–936 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0142-8, published online 11 June 2018.
In the version of this article initially published, the name of author Manuela Gago-Dominguez was misspelled as Manuela Gago Dominguez. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF version of the article.No Full Tex
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