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Medha K. Karve oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Medha Karve was born in Mumbai, India in 1957 to parents of first-generation Indian-Americans. When she was 9 years old, her father immigrated to the US as a scientist at Yale University with his family and was one of the first scientists to study moon rocks after the Apollo moon landing, after the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 loosened quota-based immigration controls. With her father’s work relocations, the family moved from Connecticut, New Haven, then to Puerto Rico for 1.5 years where it was deemed unsuitable to raise children, hence to California. Medha went to UC Santa Cruz for her undergraduate degree. A liberal and “Americanized” as she admitted herself, she married the arranged marriage way after speaking with her husband, Shashank Karve, on the phone, who she ended up visiting in person; and with whom, she moved to Houston and has been here for 40 years.
Along with her husband, Shashank Karve, the philanthropist couple has been supporting arts, culture and charitable initiatives around the world, including the collection of South Asian Arts in Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the MIT D-Lab (which develops practical solutions to global poverty challenge), Pratham (an India-based nonprofit that helps educate underprivileged children in India). the Jaipur Literature Festival and many others. Medha is a docent at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), and a strong supporter for the arts, especially South Asian Art
Book review: standardizing diversity: the political economy of language regimes
No full textWhat explains the different language regime choices and what are the economic repercussions of these decisions? In Standardizing Diversity: The Political Economy of Language Regimes the author argues we need to pay more attention to the role that a neutral language of inter-ethnic communication plays in generating a sense of fairness, equality and inclusivity in heterogeneous multilingual societies. By focusing on Malaysia and Singapore as case studies, Medha finds this to be a highly readable book that focuses on the role and impact of lingua francas—common, link languages between speakers with different mother tongues
Exploring the Relationship Between Sharirika Prakriti and Medha: An Ayurvedic Perspective on Intelligence
Full text linkEkavimshatika Guggulu is mentioned in Bhavaprakasha Madhyamakhanda Kushta Adhyaya and Bala Taila mentioned in Bhela Samhita Vata Vyadhi Adhyaya. Most of the drugs in Ayurveda, a holistic medical science, emphasizes the importance of Prakriti, a unique concept that determines an individual\u27s physical, mental, and socio-behavioral health. Prakriti is determined at the time of fertilization by the dominance of Dosha in Shukra (sperm) and Shonita (ovum) and remains unchanged throughout life. Medha, or intellect, is another crucial concept in Ayurveda that encompasses both grasping power (Grahanshakti) and understanding (Dharanshakti). This study aimed to explore the relationship between Sharirika Prakriti and Medha by analysing classical Ayurvedic literature, dictionaries, and research publications, as well as comparing the concept of Medha with the modern psychological concept of intelligence quotient (IQ). The analysis reveals that Vata Prakriti individuals have good short-term memory but poor long-term memory, while Pitta Prakriti individuals are intelligent and dominate conversations. Kapha Prakriti individuals exhibit self-control, strong faith in Sastras, and exceptional memory, although they take longer to grasp the subjects. The seat of the Medha is inferred to be the Hridaya (heart), as it is the location of Sadhaka Pitta, which is responsible for the manifestation of Medha. This study highlights the potential of integrating traditional Ayurvedic wisdom with contemporary psychological assessments to develop a more comprehensive understanding of human intelligence and cognitive functioning
Medha Shekhar's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Interventions: An Evidence Gap Map
No full textThis paper presents an evidence gap map of forest conservation interventions in low- and middle-income countries based on evidence published over the period 2016 to mid-2018. It serves as an update to a similar effort by 3ie, with refinements to the framework that distributes studies across three tiers based on quality and considers environmental and socioeconomic outcomes. Compared to the previous evidence gap map, the evaluation of forest conservation outcomes has clearly accelerated in recent years, but from a modest base: the body of evidence still remains insufficient across most intervention types. Community-based management (especially in South Asia) and protected areas are well represented, though the latter distinguishes few subcategories. In turn, both PES and REDD+ evaluations are less available, and the latter surprisingly features more welfare than forest conservation or carbon impacts. Capacity-building interventions are almost absent in the matrix. It is also notable that policy mixes, often dominant in real-world implementation, have so far received little scrutiny. Among forest types, conservation interventions in mangroves lag behind, despite their environmental importance. Geographically, Asia and Latin America generally publish much more evaluated evidence than Africa. In conclusion, despite the incipient progress we have undoubtedly seen, many important knowledge gaps still remain
Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Interventions: An Evidence Gap Map
No full textThis paper presents an evidence gap map of forest conservation interventions in low- and middle-income countries based on evidence published over the period 2016 to mid-2018. It serves as an update to a similar effort by 3ie, with refinements to the framework that distributes studies across three tiers based on quality and considers environmental and socioeconomic outcomes. Compared to the previous evidence gap map, the evaluation of forest conservation outcomes has clearly accelerated in recent years, but from a modest base: the body of evidence still remains insufficient across most intervention types. Community-based management (especially in South Asia) and protected areas are well represented, though the latter distinguishes few subcategories. In turn, both PES and REDD+ evaluations are less available, and the latter surprisingly features more welfare than forest conservation or carbon impacts. Capacity-building interventions are almost absent in the matrix. It is also notable that policy mixes, often dominant in real-world implementation, have so far received little scrutiny. Among forest types, conservation interventions in mangroves lag behind, despite their environmental importance. Geographically, Asia and Latin America generally publish much more evaluated evidence than Africa. In conclusion, despite the incipient progress we have undoubtedly seen, many important knowledge gaps still remain
Medha: Microcoded Hardware Accelerator for computing on Encrypted Data
Full text linkHomomorphic encryption enables computation on encrypted data, and hence it has a great potential in privacy-preserving outsourcing of computations to the cloud. Hardware acceleration of homomorphic encryption is crucial as software implementations are very slow. In this paper, we present design methodologies for building a programmable hardware accelerator for speeding up the cloud-side homomorphic evaluations on encrypted data.First, we propose a divide-and-conquer technique that enables homomorphic evaluations in the polynomial ring RQ,2N = ZQ[x]/(x2N + 1) to use a hardware accelerator that has been built for the smaller ring RQ,N = ZQ[x]/(xN + 1). The technique makes it possible to use a single hardware accelerator flexibly for supporting several homomorphic encryption parameter sets.Next, we present several architectural design methods that we use to realize the flexible and instruction-set accelerator architecture, which we call ‘Medha’. At every level of the implementation hierarchy, we explore possibilities for parallel processing. Starting from hardware-friendly parallel algorithms for the basic building blocks, we gradually build heavily parallel RNS polynomial arithmetic units. Next, many of these parallel units are interconnected elegantly so that their interconnections require the minimum number of nets, therefore making the overall architecture placement-friendly on the platform. As homomorphic encryption is computation- as well as data-centric, the speed of homomorphic evaluations depends greatly on the way the data variables are handled. For Medha, we take a memory-conservative design approach and get rid of any off-chip memory access during homomorphic evaluations.Finally, we implement Medha in a Xilinx Alveo U250 FPGA and measure timing performances of the microcoded homomorphic addition, multiplication, key-switching, and rescaling routines for the leveled fully homomorphic encryption scheme RNSHEAAN at 200 MHz clock frequency. For the large parameter sets (log Q,N) = (438, 214) and (546, 215), Medha achieves accelerations by up to 68× and 78× times respectively compared to a highly optimized software implementation Microsoft SEAL running at 2.3 GHz
Replication Data for: Contagion, Confounding, and Causality: Confronting the Three C's of Observational Political Networks Research
No full textContagion across various types of connections is a central process in the study of many political phenomena (e.g., democratization, civil conflict, voter turnout). Over the last decade the methodological literature addressing the challenges in causally identifying contagion in networks has exploded. In one of the foundational works in this literature, ShaliziThomas2011 propose a permutation test for contagion in longitudinal network data that is not confounded by selection (e.g., homophily). We illustrate the properties of this test via simulation. We assess its statistical power under various conditions of the data; including the nature of the contagion, the structure of the network through which contagion occurs, and the number of time periods included in the data. We then apply this test to an example domain that is commonly considered in the context of observational research on contagion---the international spread of democracy. We find evidence of the international contagion of democracy. We conclude with a discussion of the practical applicability of the Shalizi & Thomas test to the study of contagion in political networks.
The repository contains the R code and the Polity dataset used to produce the simulations and the Polity application results presented in the paper. It also contains the RDS objects of the simulated data and the plots produced from them
Usability of Access Ramps and Securement Systems on Transit Buses for Wheeled Mobility Device Users
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
This study evaluated six ramp conditions and three securement devices encountered by wheeled mobility device users when using transit buses. The findings will help occupational therapists anticipate potential barriers and suggest accommodation strategies to improve community mobility outcomes for clients.
Primary Author and Speaker: Brittany Perez
Additional Authors and Speakers: Jim Lenker
Contributing Authors: Victor Paquet, Lydia Kocher, Medha Nemade</jats:p
Effron_Supplemental_Material_rev – Supplemental material for Misinformation and Morality: Encountering Fake-News Headlines Makes Them Seem Less Unethical to Publish and Share
No full textSupplemental material, Effron_Supplemental_Material_rev for Misinformation and Morality: Encountering Fake-News Headlines Makes Them Seem Less Unethical to Publish and Share by Daniel A. Effron and Medha Raj in Psychological Science</p
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