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Heteroconium tulsiense Rashmi Dubey 2022, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Heteroconium tulsiense</i> Rashmi Dubey <i>sp. nov.</i> (Figs 1, 2) <p> <i>Mycobank</i> MB-839843</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>:—Named after place of collection, Tulsi Range of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Maharashtra, India.</p> <p> <b>Holotype</b>:— INDIA. Maharashtra: Mumbai, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Tulsi Range, Tiger Reserve areas, on dry twig litter, 22 January 2017, Rashmi Dubey, BSI (WC) 209274, deposited in herbarium of Botanical Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune, Maharashtra, India.</p> <p> <b>Description:—</b> Colonies on natural substrate, effuse, hairy. Mycelium superficial and immersed, composed of septate, smooth-walled, dark brown or brown hyphae, 1–2 μm diam. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, simple, erect, mostly unbranched but aggregated near the base, straight or slightly flexuous, cylindrical, smooth, thickwalled, 3–9-septate, brown to dark brown, 33–62 × 7–9 μm. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic, terminal, cylindrical, integrated, determinate or percurrent, brown, smooth, truncate at the apex, 5–9 × 5.75–7.0 μm. Conidial secession schizolytic. Conidia holoblastic, acrogenous, blastocatenate in chains of up to four, smooth, obclavate, brown, unevenly pigmented, pale brown ends, rounded at apex, truncate at base, thick-walled, 31–45 × 7.5–8.7 μm, 4–7-septate, slightly constricted at the septa.</p> <p> <b>Known distribution:—</b> Only known from type locality in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Maharashtra, India.</p>Published as part of <i>Dubey, Rashmi & Pandey, Amit D., 2022, Heteroconium tulsiense (Antennulariellaceae): a novel microfungus from Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Maharashtra, India, pp. 190-196 in Phytotaxa 536 (2)</i> on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.536.2.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6257685">http://zenodo.org/record/6257685</a>
Artists’ Moving Image: South Asian Trajectories
No full textA special South Asia-focused journal edition of the journal, 'Moving Image Review and Art Journal'. The edition includes eight articles, features, reviews and interviews as well as a contextual preface by the editors, Lucia King and Rashmi Sawhney. Trajectories of film history and the practices of 'artists' moving image' makers from South Asia are traced and critiqued, including the significant impact of documentary film experimentation from the 1960s to the present. Author contributors are: Nancy Adajania, Avijit Mukul Kishore, Adnan Madani, Shai Heredia, Nicole Wolf, Kaushik Bhamik, Lucia King and Rashmi Sawhney
VisionMix Artists, Filmmakers & Curators' Workshop
No full textA catalogue of a symposium and public film screening series held at the Goethe institute and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Curated by Lucia King as Founding Curator of the VisionMix international network of artists, curators and filmmakers. Co-author/curator and network Director, Rashmi Sawhney. Featuring programme details, contributors biographies and critical preface
Waste-to-Energy as a Method of Refuse Disposal: An Analysis of Sustainable Technologies and Their Environmental Impact
No full textNowadays, waste-to-energy (WtE) is considered the most effective disposal system for nonrecyclable materials. There is general concern with regard to potential environmental and health risks connected with WtE plants. Data from epidemiological studies, conducted since the 1980s, had shown that old-generation plants have a negative environmental impact. Owing to innovations in both technology and methodology involved in waste processing, new-generation WtE plants have considerably mitigated such negative impact. The aim of the study is to assess how legislation, technological innovation, and mitigation strategies can help and reduce the repercussions that waste-to-energy might have on both the environment and people’s health. The first step in this study consisted in investigating the current European and Italian legislation, as well as the operating mechanisms and technologies available to mitigate environmental impacts. Successively, the second step consisted in verifying their actual effectiveness when applied to the most recent plants. In particular, ten modern incinerations, new or restored in the last decade, were examined in detail. The case studies’ analysis and their comparison showed that, when adequately submitted to a health impact assessment (HIA) and in presence of valid monitoring plans, the most advanced facilities are able to keep emissions way below the limits prescribed by the law, mitigating environmental and health impacts. In addition, the study highlighted some areas of possible future interventions and actions. Finally, the outcome of the research is to propose a set of guidelines, legal tools, and appropriate technologies, as exportable and scalable healthy strategies in several contexts
Energy and emission impact quantification of pavement preservation using life cycle assessment
No full textThis study aims at developing a life cycle assessment (LCA) model to quantify the impact of pavement preservation on energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the past, most of the research focused on the environmental impact of pavements at material and construction stages but ignored the usage stage. The construction stage analyzed in this study contains energy consumption and GHG emissions at material, manufacture, transportation and placement phases. Vehicle operating cost and fuel economy is affected by change in tire rolling resistance during usage stage. This also affects GHG emissions significantly. In this study the Highway Development and Management (HDM-4) model and the Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) were used to analyze fuel consumption and emissions caused by different vehicles on the pavements treated by different preservation treatments. Surface characteristics such as roughness, texture and deflection were taken into account in tire rolling resistance along with general factors such as speed, traffic volume, and road grade. Two pavement sections with different roughness from the long-term pavement performance (LTPP) database were used in the analysis to illustrate the importance of considering usage stage in LCA. The thin overlay was found to have the highest energy consumption and emissions among four preservation treatments during construction stage, but at the same time resulted in the greatest reduction of energy and emission at usage stage. If only construction stage is considered, energy and emissions are ruled by use of amount of material and manufacture process. The reductions of GHG emission at usage stage are much greater than the GHG emission produced at construction stage for all preservation treatments. Excluding the usage stage will omit the fact that construction stage has less impact on pavement LCA than usage stage. Combining both construction and usage stages gave a life-cycle impact of pavement preservation on energy and GHG emission. The results show that there is a significant amount of change in energy consumption and emissions when traffic factors and pavement surface characteristics are considered during usage stage. The study results provide valuable insights in selecting sustainable pavement maintenance strategies from an environmental view point.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rashmi Gangara
A new determination of molecular mobility in amorphous materials:
No full textThis research investigated how the steady-state and time-resolved emission and intensity of phosphorescence from vanillin (4-hydroxy-3-methoxy benzaldehyde), a commonly used flavor compound, can be used to probe molecular mobility when dispersed within amorphous pure sucrose films. The luminescence properties and photophysical events of vanillin as a triplet state probe in amorphous sucrose films as a function of temperature was successfully characterized. The peak energy, bandwidth and lifetime data suggest that it is sensitive to molecular mobility and can be used monitor molecular mobility in amorphous sucrose films. Time-resolved phosphorescence intensity decays from vanillin were multiexponential both below and above the glass transition temperature, indicating that the pure (single component) amorphous matrix was dynamically heterogeneous on the molecular level.
Vanillin analogs (hydroxy, dihydroxy and ethyl vanillin)) phosphorescence lifetime were found to be extremely sensitive to the local environment in the amorphous sucrose in the glassy state and at the glass-to-rubber transition into the melt, and provided useful insight about the mechanism of vanillin sensitivity to molecular mobility. Based on this the capability of movement of methoxyl group about the C-O bond is thought to be the contributor to sensitivity of vanillin to matrix molecular mobility. The other possibility is that the effect is not that of larger group but rather that of group (like methoxy and ethoxy) not able to hydrogen bond to matrix, which can have a coupling the probe vibrations to the matrix.
Vanillin phosphorescence demonstrated that the average rate of matrix molecular mobility rates increases with an increase in the molecular size and Tg of the sugar in the glucose homologous series. A comparative study of mobility in three excipients sucrose, trehalose and PVP, using vanillin phosphorescence provided useful insight about their stabilizing effect.
The phosphorescence from probes erythrosin B, vanillin and tryptophan was successfully utilized to measure molecular mobility on three different time scales corresponding to each probe in amorphous sucrose and protein film. Molecular mobility was successfully studied in amorphous sucrose films by monitoring phosphorescence from the dual probe combination of erythrosin B: vanillin, erythrosin B: tryptophan and vanillin:tryptophan.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rashmi Satyanarayan Tiwar
Sleep Deprivation Impairs Productivity in Adults With Mood Disorders: A Scoping Review
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
Sleep deprivation (SD) is common in adults with mood disorders. Yet, little is known about how SD in adults with mood disorders may further restrict participation in occupations. This scoping review synthesized the literature on the effects of sleep deprivation on the productivity of adults with mood disorders.
Primary Author and Speaker: Melissa Knott
Contributing Authors: Christopher Derak, Lisa McAughey, Rashmi Mehrotra, Florence Roudbarani</jats:p
'Defensive liberal wars' : the global war on terror and the return of illiberalism in American foreign policy
No full textThis paper offers an analysis of the illiberal practices and discourse of the Global War on Terror (GWoT) and demonstrates how the United States of America used the liberal argument as a qualitative metric of its success and failure in the GWoT. I argue that 'the othering' of Salafi Jihadists as well the full military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq were both philosophically rooted in the liberal thinking of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, which have traditionally guided US foreign policy. More significantly, these liberal philosophies of history and international relations hold within them the seeds of illiberalism by depicting non-liberal, undemocratic societies/organisations as 'barbaric' - and as such prime candidates for intervention and regime change. Predicated upon this logic, the discourse of the GWoT framed Al Qaeda as a key existential threat to not only the United States but also the 'civilised world' in general and one which required a 'liberal defensive war' in response. It was the successful securitisation of Al Qaeda that essentially enabled the United States to adopt deeply illiberal policies to counter this so-called existential threat by using any means at its disposal.Peer reviewe
Supplementary_table_1 - Effect of Severe Vitamin D Deficiency at Admission on Shock Reversal in Children With Septic Shock: A Prospective Observational Study
No full textSupplementary_table_1 for Effect of Severe Vitamin D Deficiency at Admission on Shock Reversal in Children With Septic Shock: A Prospective Observational Study by Jhuma Sankar, Javed Ismail, Rashmi Das, Nishanth Dev, Anubhuti Chitkara and M. Jeeva Sankar in Journal of Intensive Care Medicine</p
Family life beyond ethnocentric beliefs:Developmental psychological challenges and exploring ethnically mixed couple relationships
No full textThe lecture focuses on family life in the globalised world. In the European context, including the academic settings, globalisation, and current global upheavals entail encounters with diverse family life. I combine the major aspects of a developmental psychological perspective, such as temporal phases and transformations, with ethical considerations, for studying family life beyond ethno/eurocentric beliefs. An empirical study in Denmark dealing with ethnically mixed marriages and parenting (Singla, 2015) illustrates the theoretical concepts. Additionally, possibilities for future academic collaboration in the field are taken up.• Hollinger, M. (2007) Ethical Reflections for a Globalized Family Curriculum: Developmental Paradigm in Trask & Harmon (eds.) Cultural Diversity and Families, New Delhi: Sage •Singla, R. (2015) Intermarriage, Mixed Parenting, Promoting Mental Health, and well-being “Crossover Love” Hampshire: Palgrave MacmillanAssociate Professor Rashmi Singla, Roskilde University Specialist in psychotherapy, affiliated with NGO TTT (Transcultural Therapeutic Team for minority youth and families)<br/
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