216 research outputs found
When does rent-seeking augment the benefits of price and trade reform on rationed commodities? : estimates for automobiles and color televisions in Poland
No full textTo assess the impact of price and trade reform on the Polish market for autos and color televisions, the author has developed a differentiated product model in which consumers maximize utility and firms maximize profits subject to rationing constraints and price controls. This paper focuses on that model. First it discusses the institutional details of the auto and color TV markets in Poland. It then lays out the stylized facts that are incorporated in the model, and discusses the methods of allocating autos and color TVs in the context of the rent-seeking and rent dissipation literature. The final section summarizes the results which find that, all things being equal, the elimination of price controls for both autos and televisions had the effect of decreasing imports, as more domestic autos were produced and sold. The implication is that -- contrary to the Polish government's intention -- price controls were a trade distortion that increased imports: that is, they implicitly subsidized imports. The author also shows that import liberalization produces greater benefits when there are domestic price controls with rent dissipation, because import liberalization reduces the rent. The appendices include a description of the model, a discussion of the data sources, and a review of the literature on rent-seeking activities as it relates to rent dissipation under price controls.Economic Theory&Research,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets,Environmental Economics&Policies,Fiscal&Monetary Policy
TVS-BBS: Het bulletinboard van de vakgroep telecommunicatie en verkeersbegeleiding-systemen: Taakverslag
No full textHet doel van deze taakopdracht was een Bulletinboard voor de vakgroep TVS op te zetten. Een Bulletinboard is een board waar een ieder, die in het bezit is van een modem, op in kan loggen. Men kan middels dit board informatie verkrijgen over de tentamenstof, vragen stellen aan de operator (een medewerker aan de vakgroep) over de collegestof en tentamenopgaven ’downloaden’ om ze thuis te kunnen maken...Applied SciencesTelecommunicatie- en Verkeersbegeleidingssysteme
Design for Recycling of Electronic Products: Study on Smart TVs
No full textThis thesis investigates how electronic products can be designed for effective recycling, which can reduce the demand for critical raw materials and mitigate environmental and human health risks through the safe removal of hazardous substances. In collaboration with an electronics recycling facility, this study provides practical insights into e-waste recycling through a shredding experiment. By conducting a shredding experiment with four brands of smart TVs the influence of product and part characteristics on the liberation and separation of materials are studied. The insights of this experiment, with a specific focus on connections and materials, are incorporated into Design for Recycling (DfR) guidelines and introduces a novel method to assess the tensions between repairability and recyclability, called: Recyclability Maps. Key findings include the identification of connections that influence the separation of materials, such as the high liberation degree of snap-fits and the complex behaviour of screws and adhesives. This study demonstrates the critical role of product design in enhancing the recyclability of products and reducing its environmental impact. The developed DfR guidelines offer practical guidance for designers, integrating theoretical insights with empirical data from the recycling experiment. The Recyclability Map method provides a structured approach to evaluate how design choices affect the repairability and recyclability of a product. With this method the smart TVs were analysed on the tensions between these two circular design strategies.The thesis concludes that effective integration of circular design strategies requires careful selection of connections and materials during the design phase, emphasizing the importance of informed design decisions to promote sustainability.Circular Circuits projectIntegrated Product Desig
Common Fixed Point Theorems for F-Kannan–Suzuki Type Mappings in TVS-Valued Cone Metric Space with Some Applications
No full textThis research paper generalizes and extends various fixed-point results that demonstrate common fixed-point theorems for F-Kannan–Suzuki type mappings in TVS-valued cone metric spaces. The results are supported using interpretative exemplifications and applications that include nonlinear fractional as well as two-point periodic ordinary differential equations
Strindberg’s Misogyny Revisited. The Author and His Female Translators
No full textThis article describes the cooperation and relationship between the Swedish author August Strindberg and two of his translators, Mathilde Prager and the Baltic-German Laura Marholm. Both women were of utter importance to Strindberg’s introduction to the German speaking countries as well as German literary circles. They excelled not only as translators, but acted as well as literary agents supported him enormously in situations of personal crisis. Even though their cooperation records great successes and put Strindberg on the map, they both ended less than amicable. Where money issues played a role in both cases there were significant differences in how the relationships ended. In Prager’s case the feminist’s reluctance to translate some of Strindberg’s more directly misogynist plays led to amongst others to the Authors decision to grant his sole authorisation to a younger German translator. In case of Laura Marholm the friendly relationship turned in a big disappointment for her and even into deep hatred on Strindberg’s side. Marholm herself was a very extrovert and energetic woman used to handle all her husband’s affairs. So when she tried to help Strindberg in the same way the paranoid author considered it ill-willing and dominating meddling and broke all relations to her
Impact of semaphorin expression on prognostic characteristics in breast cancer
No full textRamesh Butti, Totakura VS Kumar, Ramakrishna Nimma, Gopal C Kundu Laboratory of Tumor Biology, Angiogenesis and Nanomedicine Research, National Centre for Cell Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India Abstract: Breast cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related deaths among women worldwide. Aberrant regulation of various growth factors, cytokines, and other proteins and their receptors in cancer cells drives the activation of various oncogenic signaling pathways that lead to cancer progression. Semaphorins are a class of proteins which are differentially expressed in various types of cancer including breast cancer. Earlier, these proteins were known to have a major function in the nerve cell adhesion, migration, and development of the central nervous system. However, their role in the regulation of several aspects of tumor progression has eventually emerged. There are over 30 genes encoding the semaphorins, which are divided into eight subclasses. It has been reported that some members of semaphorin classes are antiangiogenic and antimetastatic in nature, whereas others act as proangiogenic and prometastatic genes. Because of their differential expression and role in angiogenesis and metastasis, semaphorins emerged as one of the important prognostic factors for appraising breast cancer progression. Keywords: breast cancer, tumor microenvironment, semaphorins, plexins, neuropilins, cancer stem-like cells, prognostic factor, angiogenesis, metastasis, epithelial to mesenchymal transition, vascular endothelial growth facto
Mitigation of cross contamination of E.coli TVS 353 using PAW during washing of baby spinach leaves.
No full textNon thermal plasma is an emerging technology with potential application in microbial decontamination of fresh produce. In this study the mitigation of cross contamination between a spinach leaf contaminated by E. coli TVS 353 and uncontaminated leaves during washing using plasma activated water (PAW) was investigated. The specific objectives of the research were as follows: i.To evaluate the effectiveness of PAW against E. coli TVS 353 in a planktonic system.ii.To study the effectiveness of PAW for a single spinach leaf and a synthetic leaf, spot inoculated with E. coli TVS 353.
iii.To investigate the efficacy of PAW in mitigating cross contamination during washing of baby spinach leaves. The PAW was generated by exposing sterile distilled water to the atmospheric pressure plasma jet and was characterized in terms of pH and electrical conductivity. In the planktonic system study, 0.1 mL of the initial inoculum containing 10.28 CFU/ml was added in 500 mL of PAW. Maximum reduction of 1.8 ±0.10 log CFU/ml was observed after 20 min suggesting that some inactivation of E. coli TVS 353 is possible due to the reactive species found in the plasma activated water.When a single leaf inoculated at 9.20 CFU/leaf was immersed in 500 mL of PAW and agitated for 20 min, it resulted in microbial recovery of 4.26 ± 0.03 log CFU/leaf from the synthetic and 4.94 ± 0.60 log CFU/leaf from real baby spinach leaf. Overall, the inactivation of the micro-organism was more difficult in a real baby spinach leaf compared to a synthetic leaf as the synthetic leaf lacked the biological structure and texture of a real spinach leaf.
The cross-contamination study involved one inoculated real baby spinach leaf having 9.35 log CFU/leaf and ten baby spinach leaves. After agitation all eleven leaves in PAW for 10 min, bacterial recovery from the inoculated leaf was 4.30 ± 0.15 log CFU/leaf and uninoculated leaves the maximum bacterial recovery was 3.09 ±0.54 log CFU/leaf on average. After increasing the exposure time to 20 min, after agitation in PAW, the bacterial recovery from the inoculated leaf was 4.07 ±0.28 log CFU/leaf whereas from the uninoculated leaves the maximum bacterial recovery was 4.17 ± 0.19 log CFU/leaf on average. When agitation was done in sterile distilled water (SDW) for 10 min, the microbial recovery from the inoculated leaf was 6.37 ±0.07 log CFU/leaf and from the uninoculated leaves were 4.14 ±0.14 log CFU/leaf on average. After increasing the exposure time to 20 min, the microbial recovery from the inoculated leaf was 5.92± 0.55 CFU/leaf and from the uninoculated leaves was 4.48 ±0.54 log CFU/leaf on average.
Based on these results, PAW was more effective in inactivating and reducing the bacterial transfer compared to the SDW, thus reducing the cross contamination. But when comparing the results for exposure time of 10 min and 20 min for PAW treatment, the cross contamination in uninoculated leaf was reduced substantially to 3.09 log CFU/ml average leaf whereas for 20 min the uninoculated leaf had a recovery of 4.17 log CFU/ml average leaf, suggesting that at higher exposure time (20 min) microbes were either reattaching or were difficult to inactivate.M.S.Includes bibliographical reference
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climatologies, monthly climatologies and individual year-month summaries
generated from ship based observations of ICOADS R3.0 and Indian Meteorological department.You may cite this dataset as,"Kameshwari, N and Uday Bhaskar, TVS and Suprit, Kumar and Rama Rao, EP (2016) Marine Meteorological Atlas of Tropical Indian Ocean. Technical Report. INCOIS, Hyderabad."URL : "http://moeseprints.incois.gov.in/id/eprint/4419"</p
Abnormal uterine bleeding: a critical analysis of two diagnostic methods
No full textBackground: Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB) is one of the most common reasons for women to seek gynaecology consultation. The underlying causes in AUB are many and identifying the exact cause can be a real challenge to the treating gynaecologists. Objectives of current study are to study the common etiology of AUB and to study and correlate the diagnoses of Trans Vaginal Sonography (TVS) and Diagnostic Hysteroscopy (DH) with histopathology diagnosis.Methods: One hundred and thirteen women with AUB were enrolled and evaluated by conventional TVS and DH. The findings were correlated with histopathology diagnosis. The sensitivity, specificity and positive and negative predictive value of TVS and DH were calculated after comparison with final histopathology diagnosis.Results: Fibroids and polyps were the two commonest structural lesions in AUB. For submucosal fibroids, the sensitivity and specificity of DH was found to be 92% and 99% respectively while that of TVS was found to be 85 % and 100 % respectively. For polyps, the sensitivity and specificity of DH was found to be 91% and 98 % respectively and that of TVS was 68% and 93 % respectively. The coefficient of correlation for DH was better than that of TVS.Conclusions: Fibroids and polyps are the two commonest structural lesions causing AUB in the women of reproductive age group. TVS has a role as primary screening method for the initial work-up AUB before resorting to invasive procedure such as hysteroscopy
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No full textAs new types of TVs with more interactivity are becoming popular, there is a need for a convenient way to control the cursor on TV. Although wireless keyboard and mouse are available, remote control is still the most familiar UI devic
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