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Hipped and Gabled: Similitude and Vicissitude in Kerala's Sacred Art and Architecture
No full textOn the southwestern coast of India, Kerala, with its fortuitous position in the Indian ocean trade network, has served as a beacon for merchant ships since antiquity. As early as the ninth-century, Kerala’s rulers – the Cēras (ca. 800 – 1124) and merchant polities developed a symbiotic relationship that allowed a wealth of diplomatic privileges for traders. Religious leaders who travelled with merchants are named as the benefactors of agreements between the Cēras and the guilds.
This dissertation will show that a corollary of this unique trade policy was the canonization of a shared architectural and artistic vocabulary in the region’s religious monuments. Individual chapters dedicated to the architectural style of temples, churches, synagogues, and mosques will examine this syncretism and the idiomatic mode of sacred art and architecture that came to define the Kerala style
Cloaked “Pagods”: Portuguese and “Heathen” Churches in Sixteenth-Century Malabar
No full textVasco da Gama’s arrival in Malabar on 21 May 1498, would hasten an epoch of social and cultural transformation in Malabar’s history. This article examines one development of this transformative period. Namely, it seeks to understand how the arrival of a people who came in search of “Christians and spices” would result in lasting changes to the form and the style of Christian architecture in Malabar, in present-day Kerala (southwest India). It highlights the efforts of the Estado da Índia (Portuguese State of India) to reconcile concomitant political, religious, and economic ambitions in the region by broadly sketching interventions to the practice of Christianity and the architectural style of churches in sixteenth-century Malabar. The article further proposes the reading of Portuguese-style façades in churches that, to the Portuguese, recalled Hindu temples or “pagods” as an interventional program to hide or cloak the political, religious, and historical portent of the traditional Malabar church
Prevalence and predictive risk factor analysis of potentially malignant oral mucosal lesions among gond tribes of Bhopal
No full textIntroduction:
India ranks second in the total incidence of oral cancer. The purpose of the present study is to identify the predictive risk factors for potentially premalignant oral mucosal lesions among a vulnerable Indigenous community in Bhopal.
Materials and Methods:
A cross-sectional study design with a prevalidated questionnaire including the demographic characteristics, tobacco usage, and other predictive risk factors was used to survey subjects aged between 15 and 75 years, both males and females of the Gond community in the Bhopal division. Type III Oral examination was conducted to determine oral mucosal changes.
Statistical Analysis:
Descriptive statistics were done to estimate the prevalence of oral premalignant mucosal lesions (OPMLs) and the demographic characteristics of participants. Chi-square statistics was employed to analyze the association between predictive risk factors and with the prevalence of oral premalignant lesions. Linear logistic regression was done to correlate the significance of predictive risk factors of OPMLs. P ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results:
A statistically significant association for OPMLs was observed with tobacco use, alcohol, and tobacco with alcohol usage and gender (P = 0.00). OPMLs do not show any significant association with trauma, oral ulcers, or dentures (P ≥ 0.05). The most common lesion identified was leukoplakia (39.1%), followed by Oral sub mucous fibrosis (33.33%) and both (16.66%). Lesions were most commonly seen on the buccal mucosa (60.3%), followed by the tongue (21.8%) and alveolar ridge/gingiva (9.6%). Logistic regression of predictive risk factors showed a significant correlation of OPMLs with smokeless, smoking, alcohol, and tobacco with alcohol usage.
Conclusion:
There is a higher burden of OPMLs and increased tobacco consumption observed in the Gond community residing in the rural areas of Bhopal. The increased burden of tobacco usage and oral mucosal lesions needs to be addressed, and interventions, including tobacco cessation counseling and awareness of oral hygiene practices, should be made feasible for the problem
Epiploic Appendagitis Masquerading as Acute Appendicitis: A Report of Two Cases
No full textEpiploic appendagitis (EA) is a rare clinical entity caused by an inflammatory/ischemic process involving the serosal outpouchings of the colon. Its clinical presentation of acute, localised, lower abdominal pain often mimics more common conditions like diverticulitis or appendicitis. The diagnosis of EA is challenging due to the lack of pathognomic clinical features. The definitive diagnosis primarily relies on cross-sectional imaging modalities like abdominal ultrasound or computed tomography (CT). Being a benign and self-limiting condition, it can be managed conservatively with analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs. We present two cases to highlight EA as an important differential diagnosis for cases of acute lower abdominal pain, crucial to prevent unnecessary antibiotic therapy and surgical interventions
Performance Analysis of Maximal Ratio Combining with FBMC for 5G
No full textOne of the main objectives of upcoming 5G technology is to support huge data capacity with high data rate. To support high data traffic,designs of new multicarrier techniques are essential. FBMC is considered to be one such promising technique for 5G.The major concern with the wireless time varying channels when transmitting a signal is its nature and behavior for that period of duration. When mobile systems are used for transmission and reception across these time varying channels, the signals are subjected to ISI and multipath fading. These are the key setbacks which worsen the quality of overall received signal. The author proposes a solution to this problem by the use of receiver diversity techniques with Filter Bank Multi Carrier technique
Author Correction: Pollen foraging preferences in honey bees and the nutrient profiles of the pollen
No full textNative bee watch: a Colorado citizen science field guide
No full textAdapted from the Xerces Society's California Pollinator Project: Citizen Science Pollinator Monitoring Guide, 2010, by Katharina Ullmann, Mace Vaughan, Claire Kremen, Tiffany Shih, and Matthew Shepherd.Published in March 2018.Handbook for volunteers to use to collect data on native species of bees and the plants they use most for pollen collection.Grant # 69-3A75-16-002
QoS Analysis For 5G Networks
No full textFifth generation (5G) is the wireless network technologies, which is designed to provide efficient quality of service in mind. The performance seen by the users of the network will primarily depend on QoS elements. Thus, by managing QoS – Bit rate, Throughput, Transmission delay, packet loss, and Jitter parameters can improve to manage the network resource efficiently. The 5G system is a combination of many different modulation techniques; this is done to ensure improvement in performance and further to result in greater-efficiency in the output. The author has made an attempt to analyze different modulation techniques with the coding scheme and compare the QoS performances between them. The performances have been analyzed for two schemes QPSK and QAM using Viterbi coding scheme. Thus for both the modulation technique with Viterbi coding scheme excellent performances were recorded, thereby providing an optimum solution to maintain QoS
Computational Reconstructions of Extracellular Action Potentials and Local Field Potentials of a Rat Cerebellum Using Point Neurons
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