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East-West Center Oral History Project : Vijayan Munusamy
Get PDFInterviewed by Carolyn Eguchi, October 14, 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii.For more about the East-West Center, see https://www.eastwestcenter.org/Coming to the Center from Bagan Serai, Perak, Malaysia as a degree fellow in 2001, Vijayan Munusamy quickly became a leader among EWC students. As president of the EWC Participants' Association, he initiated the 'Global Peace Circle' at the East-West Fest 2002, an event signifying multicultural understanding where 1000 student-made ti leaf leis were given to the public.Click on the PDFs to read more. Includes photograph, interview quotes, and the full interview narrative
Forensic accounting I / Hari Ramulu Munusamy
Get PDFForensic and investigative accounting is a relatively new and evolving discipline, with its primary growth in the last two to three decades. Its roots, however, are based on the principles, practices, and approaches that have been in place for some time. There is still flexibility as to the final makeup and application of the principles, practices, and approaches that will ultimately define the profession.
This is the challenge to the imagination and creativity of the forensic accounting practitioner
Forensic accounting 2 – fraud / Hari Ramulu Munusamy
Get PDFForensic Accounting (1) introduced briefly FORENSIC AND INVESTIGATNE ACCOUNTING, the need for forensic accounting, definition of related terminologies, what forensic accountants do, typical approaches to forensic accounting assignment, characteristics of a forensic accountant, the litmus test and the seven deadly sins of fraud perpetrators. Forensic Accounting (2) deals with FRAUD. This issue is given substantial consideration, as forensic accounting often involves allegations of fraud. The article is not intended to be exhaustive consideration of the topic, but an endeavor to justify the essence and understanding of frau
Ergonomic facilities in special education school / Uma Mageswary K. Munusamy
Get PDFThis study is about the identification of ergonomic facilities provided in
different types of special schools through questionnaire instrument and observation
during the school survey visit. These schools are of students with vision disability,
hearing deficiency and learning disability. The facilities provided in the Special
Education School are not exactly the same as the normal schools. Thus it has to be
given attention while providing ergonomic facilities in order to serve the student’s need
respectively. There were different categories of ergonomic facility provided around all
these special education schools in terms of classroom condition, lighting, ventilation,
furniture, library and other basic necessity. This research project also involves the
evaluation of the importance for providing ergonomic facilities in the Special Education
School from the perceptive of school management, teachers and non-academic staff.
The facilities provided in the Special Education Schools should not only be safe but also
help the students to improve the potential and carry out their daily activity without any
difficulties.
Keywords: Disability, Ergonomics, Facilities, Special Education Schoo
Forensic accounting: Perpetrators of fraud / Hari Ramulu Munusamy
Get PDFFraud can be perpetrated by an individual, two or more
individuals, or by many groups or 'separate entities'.
Most fraud cases are not reported due to risk of
embarrassment and resulting reduction in the level of
customer or shareholder confidence. Reported fraud cases
(a majority of the worst kind) are committed by a
company's own employees or managers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Phytoremediation of landfill leachate using hibiscus cannabinus and acacia mangium / Meera a/p Munusamy
Get PDFResource managers are challenged with waste disposal, leachate produced from its degradation and its impacts to the environment. Jeram landfill leachate contains high
amount of Fe, As, CN and NH3-N. Knowledge about the response of Hibiscus cannabinus (Kenaf) and Acacia mangium (Akasia) to landfill leachate irrigation is limited; therefore this study was initiated to investigate the effect of phytoremediation on Jeram landfill leachate.
During pot-culture research, Kenaf and Akasia were irrigated for a period of 120 days in a nursery. Also, hydroponic culture employing Kenaf and Akasia for uptake of
pollutants from leachate was carried out in a constructed wetland for contaminant bioconcentration study. These results detail the extensive variation in treatments of
leachate, plant responses to leachate irrigation, along with the need and efficacy of plant and growth medium selection to choose superior phytoremediator plant. Leachate which was pretreated with FeCl3 (4g/L) recorded an optimum condition for highest phytoremediation rate at 25% (0.24% N-content) in Kenaf and Akasia in both the potculture
and hydroponic-culture systems. Evaluation consisted of testing for differences in plant growth and biomass of
leaves, stems, and roots, along with total Fe, As, CN and NH3-N concentration in control and harvest soil, wastewater and in leaf, stems and root tissue. Accumulation of
Fe, As, CN and NH3-N was assessed based on mathematical models: Bioconcentration Factor (BCF), Translocation Factor (TF) and Bioaccumulation Kinetics. Kenaf sequestered 0.1–0.7 mg As, 18.5-51.7 mg Fe, 0.1-0.6 mg CN and 2.4-10.5mg NH3-N /g dry weight, which implies that Kenaf can be a bioavailable sink for toxic metals.
Akasia, being a leguminous plant recorded higher BCF than Kenaf for Fe (9.1-14.3), NH3-N (4.2-8.8), CN (1.1-4.3) and As (1.5-2.9). In hydroponic culture, Akasia marked a
iv 24% increase in contaminant uptake efficiency compared to Kenaf through rhizofiltration mechanism. The ability of Kenaf and Akasia to tolerate these metals and avoid phytotoxicity could be attributed to the phytostabilisation of the metals in the plant roots and hence reduction of toxic metal mobility (translocation factor < 1). During irrigation with leachate, Kenaf and Akasia were also found to have higher biomass compared to control plants. Kenaf and Akasia recorded 49% and 53% higher bioaccumulation capacity, respectively indicating its suitability for phytoextraction of leachate contaminated sites. The bioaccumulation rate constant of the contaminants in Kenaf and Akasia were in the range of 0.01-0.03 and 0.02–0.04/day, respectively. Half-life of contaminants in Kenaf and Akasia were 35-60 and 25-68 days, respectively.
Development of e-Phytoremediation Modeling System (e-PMS) marked an integration of biological and artificial intelligence knowledge, thus serves as Decision
Support System (DSS) platform for future research directions in phytoremediation. The user-friendly interphase and models applied determines the potential and performance of phytoremediator plants. Overall, these results documented successful uptake of nutrients without
detrimental impacts to plant health, which validated the use of landfill leachate as an irrigation and fertilization source for Kenaf and Akasia. In addition, these data will
serve as a basis for researchers and resource managers making decisions about future leachate remediation projects
Evaluation of the dopamine and serotonin receptor binding activity of selected aporphines / Vani A/P Munusamy
Get PDFAlteration in dopaminergic and serotonergic neurotransmission influences various neurological and mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and drug abuse. The naturally occurring aporphine alkaloids are well known for their activity at D1, D2 and 5-HT1A receptors, but only a few have been shown to bind to the 5-HT2A receptor. Aim of this study was to identify aporphines with significant activity at dopamine and serotonin receptors using both in silico and in vitro screening approaches. A 3D homology model of the rat 5-HT2A receptor was generated using the crystal structure of the human β2-adrenergic receptor (PDB ID: 2RH1) and validated with standard 5-HT2A receptor ligands. A filtered set of aporphines obtained from the ZINC database using (S)-boldine as the backbone structure was docked into the generated 5-HT2A receptor model. A set of 13 compounds were identified with higher or comparable activity to (S)-boldine for experimental testing across the D1, D2, 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A receptors using a medium throughput radioligand receptor binding assay. (R)-roemerine was found to have selective 5-HT2A binding affinity with 20–400-fold higher affinity for the 5-HT2A receptor versus the D1, D2, and 5-HT1A receptors. Investigation into the structures of the selected compounds revealed that substitution at positions 1 and 2, particularly with a methylenedioxy group, non-substitution at positions 10 and 11 and a protonated amino group at position 6 may be responsible for the good affinity-selectivity profile of (R)-roemerine for the 5-HT2A receptor compared to the other compounds. Further analysis of the binding modes of the selected compounds also showed that the combination of an electrostatic interaction and the hydrogen bonding between the protonated amino group of (R)-roemerine and Asp155 and a pi-cation interaction with Phe339 appears to explain its enhanced affinity and selectivity as compared to the other compounds. The results illustrate the usefulness of a
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combined in silico and in vitro approach in the search for lead molecules for the development of new selective drugs acting at dopamine and serotonin receptors
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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