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Conversations with authors: Saskya Jain
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Saskya Jain about her life and the inspiration for her work
PIC917406 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for A novel approach to hot die-less clinching process for high strength AA7075-T6 sheets
No full textSupplemental material, PIC917406 Supplemental Material for A novel approach to hot die-less clinching process for high strength AA7075-T6 sheets by Mostafa K S Atia and Mukesh K Jain in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science</p
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives
No full textJain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature. The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors to create and express novel visions of moral personhood. In making this argument, the book examines three versions of the Rāma story composed by two authors, separated in time and space by over 800 years and thousands of miles. The first is Raviṣeṇa, who composed the Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa (“The Deeds of Padma”), and the second is Brahma Jinadāsa, author of both a Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa and a vernacular (bhāṣā) version of the story titled Rām Rās (“The Story of Rām”). While the three compositions narrate the same basic story and work to shape ethical subjects, they do so in different ways and with different visions of what a moral person actually is. A close comparative reading focused on the differences between these three texts reveals the diverse visions of moral personhood held by Jains in premodernity and demonstrates the innovative narrative strategies authors utilized in order to actualize those visions. The book is thus a valuable contribution to the fields of Jain studies and religion and literature in premodern South Asia
THE JAIN CENTRE IN LEICESTER
No full textThis dissertation discusses the formative years of the Jain Centre, Leicester, from 1979 when Jain Samaj Leicester, the community body of the Jains in Leicester, bought a dilapidated former chapel and set about converting it into a centre for the community. Central in the plan was the religious dimension which was to unite four "sects" of Jainism under one roof, Svetambara, Digambara, Sthanakvasi and the devotees of Srimad Rajchandra. The prehistory of Jain Samaj is looked at briefly, from the first meetings in members' homes and the formal foundation of Jain Samaj Leicester in 1973. In the main body of the dissertation, in Chapter Three, the approach is largely historical, with the key events being singled out for detailed examination. The account is taken right up-to-date, to 2001. A final chapter analyses the factors which led to the success of this venture.
Chapter One provides essential introductory orientation on the Jains, both as a community and as followers of an ancient religion, relating this to the situation of the Jains in Leicester. In a second part of this chapter sources and methodology are outlined. Primary sources comprise
(a) Information from members of the Jain community,
(b) Participant observation by the author over a quarter of a century,
(c) A large collection of written material put together over the years and comprising letters, notices and much more from Jain Samaj and others, and runs of the newsletters and journal published by Jain Samaj, as well as news cuttings, particularly from the local press.
These three sources have been of roughly equal weight.
Secondary sources are the author's own collection of some 200 books and pamphlets on Jainism and the Jains, together with the resources of other libraries particularly that of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Chapter Two provides a description of the Jain Centre and examines some aspects of its functioning. Chapter Four is devoted to the temple, its architecture and iconography, and the religious life centred there.
Finally, in Chapter Five an analysis is made of some key aspects of the Centre's history, and a tentative forecast of the future is attempted
Interview with S. Lochlann Jain
No full textProf. S. Lochlann Jain (he/him, they/them) is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Visiting Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. Jain is an award-winning scholar, artist, and author of three books: Injury (Princeton University Press, 2006), Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013), and Things that Art (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Jain’s work lies at the intersection of science and technology studies, history, political economy, gender and sexuality, biology, and medicine and aims to unsettle some of the deeply held assumptions about objectivity that underlie the politics and history of medical research. His book Malignant traces the contested concepts of cancer that lie at the core of debates over cause, treatment, responsibility, and national progress, aiming to show why cancer remains such an intractable medical, social, and economic problem that takes millions of lives, while it both costs and generates billions of dollars.
Jain has won numerous prizes in anthropology, medical journalism, and science and technology studies, including the Staley Prize, June Roth Memorial Award, Fleck Prize, Edelstein Prize, Victor Turner Prize, and the Diana Forsythe Prize. His work has been supported by Stanford Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the National Humanities Center
Evaluating the reliability of an authoritative discourse in a Jain epistemological eulogy of the 6th c.
No full textThis paper explores the coexistence of more apologetic and of more systematic considerations in the Āpta-mīmāṁsā (ĀMī), Investigation on authority, of the Jain author Samantabhadra (530–590). First, this treatise offers a relevant case study to investigate the transition from a conception in which the reliability criterion of an authoritative discourse is the authoritative character of its utterer, to a conception in which the criteria of validity and soundness of the discourse itself are foremost. Second, Samantabhadra is one of the first authors to undertake to logically prove the omniscience of the Jain teachers. And third, he links these questions to the celebrated Jain epistemological theory of non-one-sidedness
Transcriptome of Endophyte-Positive and Endophyte-Free Tall Fescue Under Field Stresses
No full textTall fescue is one of the primary sources of forage for livestock. It grows well in the marginal soils of the temperate zones. It hosts a fungal endophyte (Epichloë coenophiala), which helps the plants to tolerate abiotic and biotic stresses. The genomic and transcriptomic resources of tall fescue are very limited, due to a complex genetic background and outbreeding modes of pollination. The aim of this study was to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in two tissues (pseudostem and leaf blade) between novel endophyte positive (E+) and endophyte-free (E−) Texoma MaxQ II tall fescue genotypes. Samples were collected at three diurnal time points: morning (7:40–9:00 am), afternoon (1:15–2:15 pm), and evening (4:45–5:45 pm) in the field environment. By exploring the transcriptional landscape via RNA-seq, for the first time, we generated 226,054 and 224,376 transcripts from E+ and E− tall fescue, respectively through de novo assembly. The upregulated transcripts were detected fewer than the downregulated ones in both tissues (S: 803 up and 878 down; L: 783 up and 846 down) under the freezing temperatures (−3.0–0.5°C) in the morning. Gene Ontology enrichment analysis identified 3 out of top 10 significant GO terms only in the morning samples. Metabolic pathway and biosynthesis of secondary metabolite genes showed lowest number of DEGs under morning freezing stress and highest number in evening cold condition. The 1,085 DEGs were only expressed under morning stress condition and, more importantly, the eight candidate orthologous genes of rice identified under morning freezing temperatures, including orthologs of rice phytochrome A, phytochrome C, and ethylene receptor genes, might be the possible route underlying cold tolerance in tall fescue
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation
No full textJain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature.
The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors to create and express novel visions of moral personhood. In making this argument, the book examines three versions of the Rāma story composed by two authors, separated in time and space by over 800 years and thousands of miles. The first is Raviṣeṇa, who composed the Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa (“The Deeds of Padma”), and the second is Brahma Jinadāsa, author of both a Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa and a vernacular (bhāṣā) version of the story titled Rām Rās (“The Story of Rām”). While the three compositions narrate the same basic story and work to shape ethical subjects, they do so in different ways and with different visions of what a moral person actually is. A close comparative reading focused on the differences between these three texts reveals the diverse visions of moral personhood held by Jains in premodernity and demonstrates the innovative narrative strategies authors utilized in order to actualize those visions.
The book is thus a valuable contribution to the fields of Jain studies and religion and literature in premodern South Asia.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1184/thumbnail.jp
Who Are Jain - A Reappraisal [Author Copy]
No full textIt is reasonable to conclude that jain (all lower case letters) are a people who carry the following three ancestries, to a differing extent. Probably the most dominant is the kṣatrīya ancestry; “early farmers from southwestern Iran” [Quintana-Murci et al, 2001]; “early farmers of western Iran” [Lazaridis et al, 2016]; “genetic outliers from sites in Iran and Turkmenistan” [Shinde et al, 2019]; “early hunter-gatherers of Iran”; [Narsimhan et al, 2019]; we have called them simply ‘farmers-herders from the foothills of the Zagros mountains’. Next is the kirāt ancestry; ‘migrants from China and East Asia, who entered the Indian peninsula around 6,000 BCE from the north-east’. The last, and probably the least, is the native Indian ancestry. This is the ancestry derived from the early Anatomically Modern Humans who evolved in the sub-continent, or travelled there from Africa. Probably we do not find any communities in India at present who carry exclusively the native Indian ancestry; the closest we can get are the vēḍār of Sri Lanka
ELEVATED TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION AND FORMING BEHAVIOUR OF AA7075 ALUMINUM SHEET MATERIAL
No full textAluminum alloys are considered an attractive candidate in industry for automotive panels
and structural parts for their high strength to weight ratio and consequently their higher
potential for reduced fuel consumption and reduced carbon emission to environment.
Wrought aluminum alloys from AA5xxx and AA6xxx series have been predominantly
used in the manufacturing of automotive panels in the past. However, automotive industry
is looking at aluminum alloys from AA7xxx series for further light weighting of
automotive structural components. Specifically, AA7075 alloy has been of much interest
especially in the context of hot stamping process since its room temperature formability is
quite limited.
This thesis aims at understanding the room and elevated temperature formability of
automotive AA7075 sheet metal in different tempers (F, O and T6). Also, the relationship
between formability, fracture, other mechanical properties, and microstructural and
surface characteristics of this alloy are investigated in the low temperature range, 180°C-
260°C, in isothermal forming of this alloy. SEM-based microstructure studies for voidinduced
damage and fractographic analysis as well as X-Ray diffraction (XRD) studies
for analyzing undeformed and deformed grain orientation distribution (bulk texture) are
carried out for different AA7075 sheet metal tempers. In addition, a study of development
of surface roughness and material flow localization as a function of strain path and
temperature is carried out. Lastly, two different strain rate and temperature dependent
constitutive material models for AA7075 sheet are utilized in conjunction with the welliv
known Marciniak-Kuczynski (or M-K) theory to predict the forming limits in the above
experimental temperature range.ThesisCandidate in Philosoph
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