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Knowing-in-being a de/colonial-new materialist collective biography: creative-relational emergenc[i]es of inquiring into Indian women's materialities with/in colonial-patriarchal intra-actions
Get PDFIn this thesis I invite you to join me on a journey into knowing differently as I explore the De/Colonial interruptions that emerge in Knowing/Being/Doing a Feminist New Materialist Collective Biography with/in a collective of Indian women. Holding the onto-epistemological assumptions of Baradian (2006) Agential Realism and using Davies and Gannon’s (2012) methodology of Collective Biography, we begin this journey as an emergent collaborative inquiry into Indian women’s bodies and our traumatic entanglements within patriarchy. But what are the ethics and tensions of doing such research and producing such knowledge about Indian women in a Global North academic context? I arrive at exploring these [un]ethical, De/Colonial tensions of the collective process and thinking diffractively with the ‘data’ gathered in our collaborative writing.
Baradian ideas around research as ethico-onto-epistemological Intra-actions within the world’s becoming offers a home for tracing these disruptions and trans-paradigmatic emergences. However, rather than holding exclusionary onto-epistemological/theoretical positionings, I contend that it is embracing intra-disciplinary intra-paradigmatic incoherence, holding contradictory positionings in relationship, and letting ourselves shift and change within the process that allows us to materialise different, ethical worlds through research. Towards ethical readings/writings of the collective ‘data’ that offer more than the traumas of Global South women as written within Eurocentric representations, I think with Tuck and Yang (2014) to surrender meaning-making and embrace Refusal as an analytic practice in this thesis. At the core of this Refusal is Bhattacharya’s (2021) conceptualisation of “De/Colonial” relationality that highlights my Coloniser/Colonised positioning within western academia. Within this context, I argue that the collective and I are instead uniquely placed to offer the shifts, disruptions, and entanglements of the process, that push us towards becoming differently, as a De/Colonial praxis that disrupts the Eurocentric, colonial research paradigms/practices we inevitably get entangled in.
Consequently, in closely tracking the process and exploring emergent theory through the lens of collective ‘data’, I offer the insights I/we arrive at as ethico-onto-epistemic worldings of De/Coloniality, produced in Intra-action with a multiply marginalised Global South collective. Ndege and Onyango's (2021) themes of Decolonising research methodologies become the
central thread here and act as a springboard to unpack and disrupt the methodological, conceptual, and paradigmatic notions of a New Materialist Collective Biography in the context of research with/about Indian women. We arrive from these disruptions to the ‘contributions’ of this thesis; a dynamic world of decentring, rhizomatic departures where we might not know the marginalised other but might learn to know differently in our knowing-being-together with the process of a minoritarian collective, and the diffractive resonances of a De/Colonial praxis that refuses to end within Social Science research and practice, research, and education in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy
A conceptual framework for the assessment of integrated energy storage resources
Get PDFConcerns regarding climate change impacts, energy security and sustainability are key drivers of the growing deployment of renewable energy resources. The variability, uncertainty and intermittency associated with the integration of these resources make the operation of the conventional power grid particularly challenging. Energy storage resources (ESRs) are one of the most promising solutions to address these challenges. The unique and versatile nature of storage finds its use in applications over a broad time spectrum. Furthermore, fast acting storage helps smoothen out the variable renewable output, minimize spillage of clean energy and manage the steep ramps associated with renewable energy integration. Storage also finds its use across all three domains of the electrical network, i.e., generation, transmission and distribution.
Cost reductions, technological innovations and regulatory initiatives have invigorated the interest in storage. However, the rapid growth of the storage sector is met by daunting challenges to the implementation of storage in the grid, especially since storage is very different from the conventional grid assets. The nature of storage is unique and its implementation has to be treated as such to fully harness the value it brings to the system it is integrated into. To this end, we outline a framework in this thesis for the integration of energy storage resources into the grid. The framework provides a systematic construct to study the various aspects of ESR integration in a system. The framework is comprehensive as it reflects the physical, information, environmental and financial aspects of storage operations. The thrust of the framework is its flexibility to accommodate the wide range of applications that storage provides on different time-scales. Furthermore, the framework explicitly captures the nature of deployment of storage for a particular application and shows the necessary interactions between ESR and the various players that interact with the ESR.
Case studies to illustrate the implementation of the information, environmental and financial layers of the framework are also presented in the thesis. The studies and their results establish that the framework is an extremely useful construct for the development of tools and models to aid in planning and operational studies and the formulation of policy and incentives and as such, is helpful in bringing the vision of energy storage closer to reality.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Archana Manjunath, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-09 at 13:31.The student, Archana Manjunath, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-09 at 13:43.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-13 at 11:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9172 on 2016-07-07 at 13:49:01Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:27:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Oral Biofilm - A Microbial Home
Get PDF Oral biofilms play a major role in the etiology of oral disease. Dental plaque is a surface associated structurally and functionally organized multi-species microbial biofilm. New insights into the structure and composition of oral microbial communities have implicated shifts in the composition of the resident microbiota in the development of oral disease.  
Strategy and Steps for Analytical Method Validation
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Survey of levels of common toxic metals and pesticides residues in some selected organically grown foods of Indian origin
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Prospective study on the knowledge and practice of foot care among diabetic patients
Get PDFBackground: The magnitude of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and the amputation rates due to DFUs are high in India. Proper diabetic foot care can minimize these rates. Although numerous such studies have been done, reinforcement of awareness to practice diabetic foot care is necessary to reduce the incidents of DFUs.Methods: 134 voluntary participants from SSMC, Tumkur and Karnataka Institute of Endocrinology and Research, Bangalore were included following ethical clearance. The patients were requested to fill the validated knowledge and practice questionnaire which were presented to them in their own language. Demographic details of the participants were also collected. The responses were recorded and statistically analyzed. A score of >70% was gauged as good, 50 to 70% as satisfactory and <50% as poor.Results: Of the 134 participants, 73.13% had good knowledge on foot care, 22.8% had good foot care practice and 73.13% had a satisfactory practice score. Patients with history of foot ulcer had a mean score (±SD) of 12.75 (±1.91) knowledge score and 47.75 (±6.05) practice score which is lower compared to those without history of ulcers, 13.86 (±2.37) and 55.40 (±6.88) respectively. Patients from urban and rural areas had about the same mean scores, 13.51 (±2.50), 54.98 (±6.83) and 13.30 (±2.60), 54.73 (±7.49) (knowledge, practice score) respectively.Conclusions: Foot care among diabetics is only satisfactory and has to be improved. Knowledge is the key to better practice so early diagnosis, repeated counselling, regular follow ups and good sugar control is necessary to reduce incidents of DFUs
Determination of arsenic and fluoride in borewell water samples collected from in and around Mysore City
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Insertion and deletion tolerance of point processes
Get PDFWe develop a theory of insertion and deletion tolerance for point processes. A process is insertion-tolerant if adding a suitably chosen random point results in a point process that is absolutely continuous in law with respect to the original process. This condition and the related notion of deletion-tolerance are extensions of the so-called finite energy condition for discrete random processes. We prove several equivalent formulations of each condition, including versions involving Palm processes. Certain other seemingly natural variants of the conditions turn out not to be equivalent. We illustrate the concepts in the context of a number of examples, including Gaussian zero processes and randomly perturbed lattices, and we provide applications to continuum percolation and stable matching
Estimation of serum cortisol levels and its correlation with salivary cortisol levels in coronary artery disease patients with and without periodontitis: a cross sectional study
Get PDFBackground: Atherosclerosis refers to combination of changes in the intima of arteries, consisting of focal accumulation of lipids, complex carbohydrates, blood and blood products, fibrous tissue, calcium deposits and associated medical changes. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) refers to a group of closely related syndromes that is caused by an imbalance between myocardial oxygen demand and blood supply.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 63 patients, aged 30-65 years, with known coronary artery disease. Estimation of serum and salivary cortisol levels were assessed with specific ELISA kit for cortisol (R&D Systems) and their comparison was performed in patients with and without periodontitis. Statistical analysis was done using Mann-Whitney U test and Pearson Correlation test.Results: The clinical parameters showed statistically significant association (p<0.001) between coronary artery disease and periodontitis and comparative levels of serum and salivary cortisol displayed varying degrees of positive correlation.Conclusions:Saliva along with serum has great potential as a diagnostic fluid and it showed good correlation with cortisol levels in coronary artery disease patients with and without periodontitis. </jats:p
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