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NOTICE!!! This person (known as Ashwin Kumar) plagiarized the text titled: "Using phenomenological research methods in qualitative health research"
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Wojnar, Danuta, and Kristen Swanson. “Phenomenology An Exploration”. Journal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses’ Association 25 (01 October 2007): 172-80; discussion 181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898010106295172.
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Name: Ashwin KumarURL: http://www.freewebs.com/ak2146Affiliation: University of Western Sydney, Australia.Country: AustraliaBio Statement:Dr. Ashwin Kumar,PO Box 571,Toongabbie,Sydney,Australia, NSW, 2146.Homepage: http://www.freewebs.com/ak2146Email: [email protected]
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Dr. Ashwin Kumar (BA, MA (Distinction), PhD) is an academic researcher whose research interests and areas of expertise include: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), ageing and social gerontology, sociology, social anthropology, sociology of care, public health, health promotion, Indigenous health, migrant and refugee health, disability and chronic illness. Ashwin is the author of 8 books and numerous academic journal articles in the field of public health, health sociology and anthropology of health and illness. His books: The Lived Experience of Caring; The Lived Experience of Ageing; The Lived Experience of Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Doing Sociology; The Basics of Sociology; Plain English Writing; Research and Writing Skills and Writing Effective Essays are available at:
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The Ribosome Cooperates with the Assembly Chaperone pICln to Initiate Formation of snRNPs
No full textSummaryThe formation of macromolecular complexes within the crowded environment of cells often requires aid from assembly chaperones. PRMT5 and SMN complexes mediate this task for the assembly of the common core of pre-mRNA processing small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs). Core formation is initiated by the PRMT5-complex subunit pICln, which pre-arranges the core proteins into spatial positions occupied in the assembled snRNP. The SMN complex then accepts these pICln-bound proteins and unites them with small nuclear RNA (snRNA). Here, we have analyzed how newly synthesized snRNP proteins are channeled into the assembly pathway to evade mis-assembly. We show that they initially remain bound to the ribosome near the polypeptide exit tunnel and dissociate upon association with pICln. Coincident with its release activity, pICln ensures the formation of cognate heterooligomers and their chaperoned guidance into the assembly pathway. Our study identifies the ribosomal quality control hub as a site where chaperone-mediated assembly of macromolecular complexes can be initiated
Automated detection of ultrastructural features at neuronal synapses
No full textSynaptic vesicles are the ultracellular structures responsible for carrying chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters from inside the axon of a neuron to the synaptic junction outside. The variation in size and location of these structures is important in the study of their use and reuse in neurons. We propose a method to locate and estimate the diameter of vesicles in electron microscope images of synapses. We train a U-Net inspired model to perform pixel-wise segmentation of the vesicles against background pixels. We then use contour detection on the resulting segmentation maps to determine individual vesicle centers and effective diameters. To our knowledge, there are no baselines in this task so we establish one on an in-house dataset. Our results show that the proposed model performed well on this task.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Ashwin Ramesh, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-12 at 19:48.The student, Ashwin Ramesh, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-05-12 at 20:03.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-05-13 at 10:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15370 on 2020-08-25 at 17:31:20Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T23:58:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Dialogic focalization in Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key
No full textThis article focuses on the dialogic focalization in Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key (2012). The study will mainly focus on the narrative construction of the novel. The novel abounds with narrative elements, such as narrative point of view which plays an integral role in providing the reader with the whole impression of the plot. Accordingly, this study will shed light on one narrative component in the selected novel i.e., the dialogic focalization. In essence, the dialogic feature of the novel carries out the authorial implied voice in the plot. The author, Sanghi, has some ideological notions and expresses them in the text. This is the monologic characteristic of the dialogic structure of the novel. On the other hand, the text has some characters who exemplify the author’s ideological insights in the plot. This is the polyphonic, or dialogic, characteristic of the dialogic element in the novel. For this reason, my study will examine the dialogic voice in the novel to explore the authorial narrative focalization. The authorial focalization will be discussed in terms of the author’s implied presence in the text in order to draw the reader’s attention to its dialogic structure. Thus, Gérard Genette’s concept of the focalization factor and Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the dialogic novel will be applied to analyze the selected novel’s narrative structure
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No full textNot AvailableIn any host-pathogen interactions, the disease severity is aggravated by host susceptibility and favourable climatic conditions for disease development. Hence for a disease to break into an epidemic state the following the susceptible host, favourable climate and virulent pathogen are prerequisite. In sugarcane, only few diseases are found to occur across the country and many of them are confined to selected locations. The foliar diseases like eye spot, brown spot, rust and others have been found to occur in specific season in a year or restricted to high humidity areas. Mostly these diseases occur to moderate levels in different varieties and their economic impact to crop cultivation is limited. However at times severe occurrences of the disease occur in the disease endemic regions due to deployment of susceptible varieties. During the last few years we have witnessed severe outbreak of brown spot caused by Cercospora longipes E.J. Butler in parts of Karnataka and Maharashtra. Detailed studies were conducted to assess the disease scenario and its severity and mycological investigations on the associated pathogen. Among the different varieties under cultivation, the disease was found to occur only in the cv CoM 0265 in the region affecting the crop productivity severely. Detailed histological studies revealed that C. longipes conidiophores fascicle emerged near the stomatal pores and each conidiophore fascicle ranged from 50-200µm in diameter with a height of ~50-250µm from the surface. Each fascicle had ~15-20 olive brown conidiophores arising from the stroma base. The conidia were hyaline, straight or slightly curved, broader at the base and a long tapering point with 5-8 septations and measured 40-70 x 3-7µm size (length x width). The associated pathogen was clearly described based on mycological parameters for the first time from India. Impact of minor diseases becoming major diseases and its impact to sugarcane is discussed in detail in the paperNot Availabl
Foundations of
No full textWe review the book Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (ed. David Kirsch, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993) and present a framework for the analysis of theories of artificial intelligence. Publishing Information To appear in Philosophical Psychology. Author Information Ashwin Ram is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology. He received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1982, and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. He received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University for his dissertation on "Question-Driven Understanding: An Integrated Theory of Story Understanding, Memory, and Learning" in 1989. His research interests lie in the areas of machine learning, natural language understanding, explanation, and cognitive science, and he has several research publications in these ..
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
City Branding in Polycentric Regions: A qualitative study of implementation in three Dutch Cities
No full textThe purpose of this research is to study the implementation of ecological modernization branding in the cities of The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands. These cities use ecological modernization branding to attract people, projects and investments. For example, they may project the image of being ‘smart’ and commission projects to showcase that they are in fact a smart city. However, the overall image that appears from the literature is that there exists a substantial gap between the brand image and its actual implementation. An assessment framework is synthesized in order to carry out this study, this analytical framework addresses numerous aspects: municipal input, throughput and output factors, the local action arena, projects and outcomes to assess the implementation. To this end, the main research question is:How do the three Dutch cities in the ‘Randstad’ i.e. Utrecht, Rotterdam and The Hague implement the programs, policies and attract investments that adhere to the city brands they project?A comparative case study approach is best suited as we can identify similarities, differences and themes across regions and cities using the assessment framework to analyze the cases. Methods used will primarily be desk research and interviews to complement the comparative study and will add nuance to our understanding of ÈM branding. The results revealed three types of EM brand labels present in these cities. Engineering and Policy Analysi
Optimal Tracking of the Fast and Slow States of Sensorimotor Adaptation for Rehabilitation Robotics
No full textRobotic assistance for rehabilitation has benefited from the use of models for motor adaptation. The assist-as-needed paradigm for rehabilitation robotics was based on a single-state model of human adaptation to a neurological handicap. Recent studies have shown that human motor adaptation consists of two or more parallel adaptation processes. A two-state model of adaptation based on the presence of a fast process and a slow process has been widely adopted. The fast process adapts faster than the slow process but has a lower retention than the slow process. Designing training methods that can influence the individual adaptation processes could help make sure that patients retain what is desired (how to adapt to a neurological injury) and forget what is detrimental to rehabilitation (dynamics of the robotic assistance for example). The goal of this work is to design an optimal control paradigm for selectively influencing the slow and fast processes.A feedforward discrete-time linear-quadratic tracking controller was designed for a 2-state linear time-invariant model of sensorimotor adaptation to increase the contribution of the slow process to the net adaptation at the end of training. This control signal was implemented as the sequence of visuomotor rotations in an upper-limb reaching task. This sequence of visuomotor rotations were dubbed the Adaptation-State-Tracking (AST) perturbation. The retention behaviour after this AST perturbation was compared with that after a non-adaptive (constant-level) perturbation. A between-subject comparison of the retention behaviour showed that the AST perturbation exhibited better retention than the constant-level perturbation (p=0.0415). As far as the author is aware, this is first time the 2-state Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) model has been used to design a perturbation and to predict the subsequent behaviour of the participants. The sufficiency of the control based on the 2-state LTI model and the possibility of improving retention with optimal control could positively impact the domain of robot-assisted rehabilitation.<br/
The relationship between poverty, unemployment, and crime among the counties of the state of Georgia, 1996
No full textThis study examines the relationship between poverty, unemployment, and crime in the State of Georgia. The study addresses the question of whether there is a causal relationship between poverty, unemployment, and crime. The work analyzes aggregate data regarding crime, unemployment, education, and income among the 159 counties of the State of Georgia. The seven variables included in the analysis are violent crimes per 1000, property crimes per 1000, percentage of adults at the poverty level, percentage of adults unemployed, percentage of population that is black, percentage of population that is urban, and percentage of high school graduates. Crime was examined in terms of violent crimes and property crimes. The research found that unemployment had a weak but negative relationship with violent crimes (-.01) and property crimes (-.18). Poverty also seems to be negatively associated with property crimes (-.19). However, poverty is positively correlated with violent crime (.15). In conclusion, it is noted that all relationships are weak. The findings suggest that overall, unemployment and poverty have little effect on crime and certainly does not cause crime. Though many criminals may be either impoverished or unemployed, the research shows that there are many more people impoverished or unemployed that do not commit crimes
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