303 research outputs found
Designing a business Plan for a European-Nepalese Fusion Restaurant in Nepal
No full textThe author draws up a business plan in this thesis on the basis of research, personal experi-ences and understanding with the intention of implementing it in real life. The main objec-tive of this thesis is to generate a business plan for authors own restaurant. The author intends to establish a European-Nepalese fusion restaurant in Nepal which will serve break-fast, lunch and dinner alongside non-alcoholic beverages.
The theoretical framework of the thesis theories, such as food culture in Nepal and Europe, where European, Nepalese food culture and fusion food trends are briefly discussed. It helps the author to deeply understand both food cultures and the potential of establishing a fusion food restaurant in Nepal. Entrepreneurship provides an idea on how to start and op-erate the business, factors affecting entrepreneurship as well as entrepreneurship opportu-nities in Nepal. The theory section also includes a business plan where the types of a busi-ness plan and its advantages, financial planning in business plan are included. It provides some knowledge about the process of building a business plan for a restaurant and factors to focus on. The business plan teaches the importance of creating a business plan for any company and how it is prepared in relation with the business canvas model. The business model canvas illustrates the key factors of the company which are the most essential factors to start and operate any business.
The research methods used for the development of this thesis are online interview and net-scouting. The online interview was conducted with the owner and manager of Sri Sai palace restaurant and bar located in Jhapa, Nepal, with the concept of obtaining genereal information about planning and opening a new restaurant in Nepal. Similarly, net-scouting was done obout three Nepalese restaurants located in the capital region of Nepal inorder to have an idea about the ideal location, products and services and customers.
The outcome of this thesis helped the author to have a better understanding of creating an effective business plan, how to write it and eventually apply it in the real market. The information collected during the thesis process helped the author to have a better understanding of the factors needed to operate a restaurant. The interview provided specific information to establish and operate a restaurant in Nepal. The results of net-scouting helped the author to focus on the specif areas to ensure the success of the business
Improvement of the Energy System of a Nepali Village Through Innovative Exploitation of Local Resources
No full textImpact of COVID-19 induced lockdown on land surface temperature, aerosol, and urban heat in Europe and North America
No full textThe outbreak of SARS CoV-2 (COVID-19) has posed a serious threat to human beings, society, and economic activities all over the world. Worldwide rigorous containment measures for limiting the spread of the virus have several beneficial environmental implications due to decreased anthropogenic emissions and air pollutants, which provide a unique opportunity to understand and quantify the human impact on atmospheric environment. In the present study, the associated changes in Land Surface Temperature (LST), aerosol, and atmospheric water vapor content were investigated over highly COVID-19 impacted areas, namely, Europe and North America. The key findings revealed a large-scale negative standardized LST anomaly during nighttime across Europe (-0.11 °C to -2.6 °C), USA (-0.70 °C) and Canada (-0.27 °C) in March-May of the pandemic year 2020 compared to the mean of 2015-2019, which can be partly ascribed to the lockdown effect. The reduced LST was corroborated with the negative anomaly of air temperature measured at meteorological stations (i.e. -0.46 °C to -0.96 °C). A larger decrease in nighttime LST was also seen in urban areas (by ∼1-2 °C) compared to rural landscapes, which suggests a weakness of the urban heat island effect during the lockdown period due to large decrease in absorbing aerosols and air pollutants. On the contrary, daytime LST increased over most parts of Europe due to less attenuation of solar radiation by atmospheric aerosols. Synoptic meteorological variability and several surface-related factors may mask these changes and significantly affect the variations in LST, aerosols and water vapor content. The changes in LST may be a temporary phenomenon during the lockdown but provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the effects of various forcing controlling factors in urban microclimate and a strong evidence base for potential environmental benefits through urban planning and policy implementation
Scheduling and management of data intensive application workflows in grid and cloud computing environments
No full text© 2010 Dr. Suraj PandeyLarge-scale scientific experiments are being conducted in collaboration with teams that are dispersed globally. Each team shares its data and utilizes distributed resources for conducting experiments. As a result, scientific data are replicated and cached at distributed locations around the world. These data are part of application workflows, which are designed for reducing the complexity of executing and managing on distributed computing environments. In order to execute these workflows in time and cost efficient manner, a workflow management system must take into account the presence of multiple data sources in addition to distributed compute resources provided by platforms such as Grids and Clouds.
Therefore, this thesis builds upon an existing workflow architecture and proposes enhanced scheduling algorithms, specifically designed for managing data intensive applications. It begins with a comprehensive survey of scheduling techniques that formed the core of Grid systems in the past. It proposes an architecture that incorporates data management components and examines its practical feasibility by executing several real world applications such as Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization algorithms, and so forth, using distributed Grid and Cloud resources. It then proposes several heuristics based algorithms that take into account time and cost incurred for transferring data from multiple sources while scheduling tasks. All the heuristic proposed are based on multi-source-parallel-data-retrieval technique in contrast to retrieving data from a single best resource, as done in the past. In addition to non-linear modeling approach, the thesis explores iterative techniques, such as particle-swarm optimization, to obtain schedules quicker.
In summary, this thesis makes several contributions towards the scheduling and management of data intensive application workflows. The major contributions are: (i) enhanced the abstract workflow architecture by including components that handle multisource parallel data transfers; (ii) deployed several real-world application workflows using the proposed architecture and tested the feasibility of the design on real test beds; (iii) proposed a non-linear model for scheduling workflows with an objective to minimize both execution time and execution cost; (iv) proposed static and dynamic workflow scheduling heuristic that leverages the presence of multiple data sources to minimize total execution time; (v) designed and implemented a particle-swarm-optimization based heuristic that provides feasible solutions to the workflow scheduling problem with good convergence; (vi) implemented a prototype workflow management system that consists of a portal as user-interface, a workflow engine that implements all the proposed scheduling heuristic and the real-world application workflows, and plug ins to communicate with Grid and Cloud resources
A Modern History of Caste
No full textThe theory of caste and the antecedent hierarchical system has received growing interest in the past two centuries. In contemporary times, there has been a surge among researchers and scholars to locate the category of caste. Various theories have tried to base the ‘origins’ of caste in religion, society, or Indian culture since the arrival of Aryans in the Indian subcontinent (2000 BCE). This talk will look at the episodes of making caste a category of modern interest during colonial times. By centring attention on the experiences of Dalits and untouchability it reframes the approach and examines the development of anti-caste body-politics through the rise of popular Dalit social and political movements. This version of caste history departs from the reliance on the orientalist and occidental interpretations of Indian society, and inserts new theories of caste politics. Suraj Yengde’s recent appointment was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School He is currently a research associate at the department of African and African American Studies, and a non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and as well part of the founding team of the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability (IARA) at Harvard University. He has studied on four continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America), and is India’s first Dalit PhD holder from an African university (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). Suraj Yengde is an International Human Rights attorney by qualification from India and the UK, and has published over 100 essays, articles, and book reviews in multiple languages in the field of caste, race, ethnicity studies, and labour migration in the global south. Named one of the ‘25 Most Influential Young Indians‘ by GQ magazine and the ‘Most influential Young Dalit’ by Zee, Suraj is the author of Caste Matters (2019) and co-editor (with Anand Teltumbde) of the award winning anthology The Radical in Ambedkar (2018). His forthcoming books are Caste: A New History of the World (2022), and a biography of B. R. Ambedkar (2022)
Development and evaluation of graphical user interface and benchmark creation for cache management on multi-core systems
No full textDSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11472 on 2017-09-29 at 11:19:27There is a constant need to improve processor performance on any system. It is vital to be able to visualize performance owing to a caching strategy and to use custom benchmarks to study the changes in performance. This thesis details the development and the evaluation of a graphical user interface to study the performance of a caching strategy detailed in [1]. Further, the process of creating synthetic benchmarks as well as integrating existing benchmarks to run with the tool are detailed. This thesis also proposes a synchronization mechanism which identifies the core carrying out 'prefetch and lock' of this framework and stalls other online and present cores temporarily during this phase of 'colored lockdown', to provide support on systems in which 'lockdown by master' is not available.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01The student, Suraj Venkat, accepted the attached license on 2017-07-14 at 11:32.The student, Suraj Venkat, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-07-14 at 11:35.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-07-17 at 11:43.Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T17:52:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Victims of Violence: A Critical Analysis of Khalid Hussain’s Selected Stories from Satisar Ka Suraj
No full textViolence and resistance has been the major motif of the majority of conflict-zone literatures. The authors have used this motif either as a mode of resistance or as a means to outpour their traumatic experiences. Hannah Arendt, in her book On Violence, deals with the ideas as to how violence is related with power. She details how the institutional power structures exercise violence in order to maintain their rule and status quo as well as to suppress any resistance to the state power. This paper however analyses how the violence meted out either by the state or by those coercive forces who turn militant against the state affects the common lot in the remote areas of Jammu and Kashmir. For this purpose, the paper deals with a few stories from a collection of a regional author Khalid Hussain, titled Satisar Ka Suraj, (which translates as ‘The Sun of Sati Sar’)[i] written in Urdu.
[i] Satisar is one of the Old names of Jammu and Kashmir. The title of the book by Khaled Hussain is therefore well translated as the Sun of Satisar. (See Khaled Hussain pp. 25
Lightweight Resource Scaling for Cloud Applications
No full textElastic resource provisioning is a key feature of cloud computing, allowing users to scale up or down resource allocation for their applications at run-time. To date, most practical approaches to managing elasticity are based on allocation/de-allocation of the virtual machine (VM) instances to the application. This VM-level elasticity typically incurs both considerable overhead and extra costs, especially for applications with rapidly fluctuating demands. In this paper, we propose a lightweight approach to enable cost-effective elasticity for cloud applications. Our approach operates fine-grained scaling at the resource level itself (CPUs, memory, I/O, etc) in addition to VM-level scaling. We also present the design and implementation of an intelligent platform for light-weight resource management of cloud applications. We describe our algorithms for light-weight scaling and VM-level scaling and show their interaction. We then use an industry standard benchmark to evaluate the effectiveness of our approach and compare its performance against traditional approaches
A scalable parallel debugging library with pluggable communication protocols
No full textParallel debugging faces challenges in both scalability and efficiency. A number of advanced methods have been invented to improve the efficiency of parallel debugging. As the scale of system increases, these methods highly rely on a scalable communication protocol in order to be utilized in large-scale distributed environments. This paper describes a debugging middleware that provides fundamental debugging functions supporting multiple communication protocols. Its pluggable architecture allows users to select proper communication protocols as plug-ins for debugging on different platforms. It aims to be utilized by various advanced debugging technologies across different computing platforms. The performance of this debugging middleware is examined on a Cray XE Supercomputer with 21,760 CPU cores
Victims of Violence: A Critical Analysis of Khalid Hussain's Selected Stories From Satisar Ka Suraj
No full textViolence and resistance has been the major motif of the majority of conflict-zone literatures. The authors have used this motif either as a mode of resistance or as a means to outpour their traumatic experiences. Hannah Arendt, in her book On Violence, deals with the ideas as to how violence is related with power. She details how the institutional power structures exercise violence in order to maintain their rule and status quo as well as to suppress any resistance to the state power. This paper however analyses how the violence meted out either by the state or by those coercive forces who turn militant against the state affects the common lot in the remote areas of Jammu and Kashmir. For this purpose, the paper deals with a few stories from a collection of a regional author Khalid Hussain, titled Satisar Ka Suraj, (which translates as ‘The Sun of Sati Sar')[i] written in Urdu.
[i] Satisar is one of the Old names of Jammu and Kashmir. The title of the book by Khaled Hussain is therefore well translated as the Sun of Satisar. (See Khaled Hussain pp. 25
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