120 research outputs found
Interview with Indra Das
No full textIndra Das is most well-recognized as the author of The Devourers (2015), a novel that won the Lambda Literary Award for straddling the genres of sci-fi, speculative, and fantasy fiction alongside LGBT themes. Das’s short fiction is widely published is horror and sci-fi anthologies, as well as magazines like Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. He spoke candidly with Alok Amatya over email about the current literary landscape, the work of writing transgressive genre fiction, and his own experiences as an upcoming global author
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Correction: Amino Acid Transporter LAT1 (SLC7A5) Promotes Metabolic Rewiring in TNBC Progression Through the L-Trp/QPRT/Nad+ Pathway
No full textCorrection: J Exp Clin Cancer Res 44, 190 (2025) Following publication of the original article [1], the authors found that Dr. Leila Saeednejad Zanjani was not included in the final author list despite her contributions. The details are provided below: Current authors: Margot Y. Fedoroff1†, Lei Zhao1†, Shaomin Wang1, Alok Bhushan2, Haifeng Yang1, Karen M. Bussard3, Stephen C. Peiper1 and Jun He1*. Updated author list: Margot Y. Fedoroff1†, Lei Zhao1†, Shaomin Wang1, Leili Saeednejad Zanjani1, Alok Bhushan2, Haifeng Yang1, Karen M Bussard3, Stephen C Peiper1, Jun He1*. The correction does not compromise the validity of the conclusions and the overall content of the article. The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected
Why tech companies fail to jump the financial S-curve
No full textThesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).The rules of the game in the globalized business environment have changed. In the Information Technology (IT) industry, starting as a new company with a new offering or business model, climbing the upward growth trajectory of financial results, and later getting stuck in a flat or declining graph has been a common pattern for many companies. Many of them have failed to jump the financial S-curve, create and climb a new one. To address this, I have referred to seminal works, have gained insights from experts, have captured inputs from corporate leaders, have consulted academicians, and have discussed with fellow Sloan Fellows. In this thesis, I analyze and discuss the phenomenon of failing to jump the financial S-curve. I argue that tech companies overlook the hidden S-curves. To respond to these hidden S-curves, companies must allocate resources to their powers of category, company, market, offer, and execution. Resources allocated to these powers must not be traded off under the pressure of performance. The leaders should create four different zones of performance, productivity, incubation, and transformation. As a recommendation to companies and their leaders, I offer a road map to successfully jump the financial S-curve, and climb a new one again and again.by Alok Ranjan Singh.M.B.A
Devops and Software Quality: a Systematic Mapping
No full textMishra, Alok/0000-0003-1275-2050; otaiwi, ziadoon/0000-0001-6544-839XQuality pressure is one of the factors affecting processes for software development in its various stages. DevOps is one of the proposed solutions to such pressure. The primary focus of DevOps is to increase the deployment speed, frequency and quality. DevOps is a mixture of different developments and operations to its multitudinous ramifications in software development industries, DevOps have attracted the interest of many researchers. There are considerable literature surveys on this critical innovation in software development, yet, little attention has been given to DevOps impact on software quality. This research is aimed at analyzing the implications of DevOps features on software quality. DevOps can also be referred to a change in organization cultures aimed at removal of gaps between the development and operations of an organization. The adoption of DevOps in an organization provides many benefits including quality but also brings challenges to an organization. This study presents systematic mapping of the impact of DevOps on software quality. The results of this study provide a better understanding of DevOps on software quality for both professionals and researchers working in this area. The study shows research was mainly focused in automation, culture, continuous delivery, fast feedback of DevOps. There is need of further research in many areas of DevOps (for instance: measurement, development of metrics of different stages to assess its performance, culture, practices toward ensuring quality assurance, and quality factors such as usability, efficiency, software maintainability and portability). (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc
Studies on Biological Activities of Simarouba Glauca Phytochemicals (Phenolics)
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Pricing and Allocation for Quality Differentiated Online Services
No full textSubject Classification – quality-of-service oriented digital services, auctions to reveal valuations of one-time services, non-standard knapsack formulation * Author names are in alphabetical order. Alok Gupta’s research is supported by NSF CAREER grant #IIS-0301239 and #IIS-0219825, but does not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. Partial support for this research was also provided by CIDRIS and TECI- the Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative, OPIM/SBA, University of Connecticut. i We explore the problem of pricing and allocation of unique, one-time digital products in the form of data streams. We look at the short-term problem where the firm has a capacitated shared resource and multiple products/service levels. We formulate the allocatively efficient Generalized Vickrey Auction (GVA) for our setting and point out the computation challenges in determining the individual discriminatory transfer payments. We propose an alternative uniform price computationally efficient revenue maximizing knapsack formulation called the Multiple Vickrey Auction (MVA). While not incentive compatible, the MVA mechanism achieves bounded posterior regret and can be solved in real-time. It has the added benefit of realizing imputed commodity prices for the various services, a feature lacking in the discriminatory GVA approach. For service providers that are concerned about the incentive compatibility and yet want imputed service prices, we suggest a maximal MVA (mMVA) uniform pricing scheme that trades off revenue maximization with allocative efficiency. For sake of completeness we discuss the properties of a first price pay-your-bid scheme. While NP-hard and not incentive compatible, this formulation has the perceived benefit of cognitive simplicity on the part of sellers and bidders. i
The game of Ice Hockey in the Czech Republic: Analysis of Ice Hockey League in the Czech Republic
No full textBakalářská práce se zabývá ledním hokejem, českou hokejovou ligou a její analýzou. Práce je rozdělená na teoretickou a praktickou část, přičemž větší část je věnována části teoretické a to analýze české hokejové ligy. V teoretické části jsou mimo jiné zahrnuté informace o hokeji obecně, které slouží k seznámení s tímto sportem. Praktická část zahrnuje rozhovor s jedním z bývalých hokejových trenérů autora, který zde odpovídá na otázky týkající se tématu této bakalářské práce.NeobhájenoThe Bachelor Thesis deals with the ice hockey, Czech ice hockey league and its analysis. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part, but most of it is devoted to ice hockey league in the Czech Republic and its analysis. Theoretical part also introduce you this sport and presents what the game of ice hockey is. The practical part includes an interview with the author´s past head coach, who answers author´s questions related to the topic of this Bachelor Thesis
An experimental and theoretical investigation on torrefaction of a large wet wood particle
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