168 research outputs found
Supplemental Material - Probing Effect of 6 MeV Electron Beam Irradiation on Haemoglobin Protein Using Spectroscopic Techniques
No full textSupplemental Material for Probing Effect of 6 MeV Electron Beam Irradiation on Haemoglobin Protein Using Spectroscopic Techniques by Sarika B. Hinge, Sanjay Dhole, Arun Banpurkar, and Gauri Kulkarni in Dose-Response.</p
Chhoti Sadri inscription of Gauri, photo
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To engrave his virtues on the disc of the moon… Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and Their Associates
Dániel Balogh, 2019
Chhoti Sadri inscription of Gauri
Siddham OB00189
Siddham IN00203
Composite digital photograph by the author, 2018. Courtesy of Government Museum, Udaipu
Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing countries
No full textThe author analyzes contemporary rights-based and economic approaches to health care and education in developing countries. He assesses the foundations and uses of social rights in development, outlines an economic approach to improving health and education services, and then highlights the differences, similarities, and the hard questions that the economic critique poses for rights. The author argues that the policy consequences of rights overlap considerably with a modern economic approach. Both the rights-based and the economic approaches are skeptical that electoral politics and de facto market rules provide sufficient accountability for the effective and equitable provision of health and education services, and that further intrasectoral reforms in governance, particularly those that strengthen the hand of service recipients, are needed. There remain differences between the two approaches. Whether procedures for service delivery are ends in themselves, the degree of disaggregation at which outcomes should be assessed, the consequences of long-term deprivation, metrics used for making tradeoffs, and the behavioral distortions that result from subsidies are all areas where the approaches diverge. Even here, however, the differences are not irreconcilable, and advocates of the approaches need not regard each other as antagonists.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Decentralization,Public Health Promotion,Early Child and Children's Health,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Economics&Finance,Poverty Assessment,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Gender and Education
Potential of Impatiens walleriana Hook.f. as medicinal herb and otherwise - An update
No full textThe healing potential and usefulness of plants is known since historic times. Impatiens walleriana Hook.f. (Family - Balsaminaceae) is the most cultivated plant from the genus “Impatiens”. It is explored by floriculture and horticulture industries. It has culinary uses with the potential to be researched by the food industry. Many modern medicines are plant-derived and I. walleriana has the potential to be used as medicine as backed by ethnopharmacological data. I. walleriana finds a number of traditional/folk medicinal claims. All parts of the plant and in varied formulations are used traditionally to treat various ailments. The data reviewed shows its safety in uses and its nontoxic nature. Among the Impatiens species I. walleriana is the less researched one. Few studies pertaining to its antioxidant, antimicrobial and antitumor activities are reported. Phytochemical constituents have been identified and reported by some researchers. Following a detailed study of published information and reported activities current review on the one hand summarizes the research work that has been carried out on the other hand gives food for thought for researchers to undertake more work in the direction of finding its usefulness using scientific methodologies and establishing the ethnic claims
The European Union’s Role in the Formation of India’s Climate Change Policy. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 2/2012, September 2012
No full textThis paper focuses on the role of the European Union (EU) in the formation of India’s climate change policy; an increasingly high profile issue area. It is based on an extensive study of relevant literature, EU-India policy documents and the execution of thirteen semi-structured interviews with experts; many of whom have experienced EU-India cooperation on climate change first-hand. A three-point typology will be used to assess the extent of the EU’s leadership role, supporting role or equal partnership role in India, with several sub-roles within these categories. Further, for clarity and chronology purposes, three time periods will be distinguished to assess how India’s climate policy has evolved over time, alongside the EU’s role within that. The findings of the paper confirm that the EU has demonstrated signs of all three roles to some degree, although the EU-India relationship in climate policy is increasingly an equal partnership. It offers explanations for previous shortcomings in EU-India climate policy as well as policy recommendations to help ensure more effective cooperation and implementation of policies
Patterns Of Consumer Interest Across Developed And Emerging Markets
No full textIn this study, we consider online search term volume as a measure of consumer interest and investigate the patterns of consumer interest across various international markets. Prior research has suggested that online search term volume, or the number of times a particular term is submitted to a search engine, can indicate aggregate or market-level interest in that term. As such, we consider the top terms in the US (most searched for) for one calendar year and look at the patterns of interest in those terms over time in the US, as well as in foreign developed and emerging markets. As globalization continues, consumers are likely to become more culturally integrated, particularly with the rapid spread of information. We explore one approach in measuring this phenomenon. We consider five dimensions of culture for eight foreign markets – four developed and four emerging. We find high levels of cultural integration for terms related to technology products and social networks. Our results suggest implications for international marketing strategy
What physiological factors influence state anger?
No full textIn this paper, we sought to understand what physiological factors influence state anger in the hopes of improving awareness of potential triggers. Previous research has predicted that an increase in heart rate, hunger, and headache pain intensity all lead to an increase in state anger. In our correlational study, we tested the strength of these relationships by examining naturalistic daily changes in their variables longitudinally over a period of 11 days. We measured heart rate by reading our pulse for one minute three times a day, and we measured our hunger, headache pain and anger levels by using a Likert scale three times a day. For each variable measured, we added the total of their three daily values together to get an average value for each day. Data pooled across participants in our correlational study showed significant positive correlations of anger with hunger and headache pain, and a significant negative correlation with heart rate. These results provide some insight into what individuals might avoid, such as becoming hungry or not treating a painful headache, to decrease the likelihood of becoming angry.Supervising Instructor & Course Number: Michael Pollock, Psyc 215 (“Biological Psychology”
Efficient redundancy techniques to reduce delay in Cloud systems
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209).Cloud services are changing the world by providing millions of people low-cost access to the computing power of data centers. Storing and processing data on shared servers in the cloud provides scalability and flexibility to these services. However the large-scale sharing of resources also causes unpredictable fluctuations in the response time of individual servers. In this thesis we use redundancy as a tool to combat this variability. We study three areas of cloud infrastructure: cloud computing, distributed storage, and streaming communication. In cloud computing, replicating a task on multiple machines and waiting for the earliest copy to finish can reduce service delay. But intuitively, it costs additional computing resources, and increases queueing load on the servers. In the first part of this thesis we analyze the eect of redundancy on queues. Surprisingly, there are regimes where replication not only reduces service delay but also reduces queueing load, thus making the system more ecient. Similarly, we can speed-up content download from cloud storage systems by requesting multiple replicas of a le and waiting for any one. In the second part of the thesis we generalize from replication to coding, and propose the (n, k) fork-join model to analyze the delay in accessing an (n, k) erasure-coded storage system. This analysis provides practical insights into how many users can access a piece of content simultaneously, and how fast they can be served. Achieving low latency is even more challenging in streaming communication because the packets need to be delivered fast and in-order. The third part of this thesis develops erasure codes to transmit redundant combinations of packets and ensure smooth playback. This thesis blends a diverse set of mathematical tools from queueing, coding theory, and renewal processes. Although we focus on cloud infrastructure, the techniques and insights are applicable to other systems with stochastically varying components.by Gauri Joshi.Ph. D
Hereditas. 29 Tercera Época (2019). Hereditas
No full textCarta de la directora por Lucía García Noriega y Nieto. - La gestión y puesta en valor de la zona arqueológica de Uxmal, sitio patrimonio mundial de la UNESCO por Ana Rosado Torres. - La catedral de León de Nicaragua: su historia, valores culturales y conservación por Blanca Aráuz Castillo, Bayardo Rodríguez Conrado y Haryeri Gómez Ortiz. - Xtaxkgakget Makgakaxtlawana: el esplendor de los artistas. centro de las artes indígenas (CAI) por Eneida Hernández. - 2-Diezyocho movilidad, patrimonio y espacio público: la lógica de habitar una ciudad por Gauri Ivette García Medina y Antonio Godoy González Vélez. - Algunas consideraciones sobre la adaptación del patrimonio arquitectónico para museo por Yani Herreman. - Paisajes urbanos históricos por Francisco Vidargas. - El Pueblo del Sol dentro de la tumba 7, Alfonso Caso por Elena Poniatowska. - Henry Cleere y la gestión del patrimonio arqueológico por Nelly Robles García. - Plan de acción para el patrimonio mundial en México y América Central (2018-2023). - Biblioteca del Patrimonio Mundial
Regulation of Expression and Function of Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors by Accessory Subunits
No full textNicotine binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and perturbs the biogenesis and trafficking of these channels. The α4β2 and α3β4 subtypes are the most abundantly expressed nAChRs in the central and peripheral nervous system, respectively, and are key mediators of nicotine dependence and withdrawal. These nAChRs are heteropentameric ligand-gated ion channels that form into two stoichiometries in the absence of other subunits: 3α:2β and 2α:3β; each of these contains two canonical ligand binding sites formed by the primary surface of α-subunit and an adjacent β-subunit. Nicotine exposure leads to the upregulation of the 2α:3β stoichiometry only. The only structural difference between the two stoichiometries is the subunit at the accessory position - either α or β. However, it is unknown if this structural nuance yields any biophysical differences to the overall channel function and expression. We aimed to investigate the mechanism by which nicotine modulates differential expression of α4β2 nAChRs in mammalian cells. Our studies revealed that nicotine promotes the surface expression of (α4)2(β2)3 by overcoming the effects of a native chaperone protein that otherwise facilitates (α4)3(β2)2 trafficking. Furthermore, we hypothesized that in the (α3)3(β4)2 stoichiometry, the α3 accessory subunit forms a third ligand binding site as observed in the paralogous α4β2 nAChR. To study this, we engineered a tandem dimer of α3β4 to restrict the stoichiometry and probe separable ligand binding properties using a substituted-cysteine accessibility method followed by covalent modification. This approach identified a third ligand binding site unique to the (α3)3(β4)2 stoichiometry at the α3 accessory interface that is crucial for channel activation. Understanding the stoichiometric differences in nAChRs will inform future precision drug design to target nicotine withdrawal, with the goal of alleviating symptoms while preserving the normal functions
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