250 research outputs found
Interview with Lakshmi Raj Sharma, Author of The Tailor’s Needle
Full text linkInterview with Indian writer Lakshmi Raj Sharma, author of 'The Tailor's needle
Synthesis of 5H-Chromeno[4,3-b]pyridin-5-one Derivatives as a Backbone of Natural Product Polyneomarline C Scaffolds in Presence of Et3N and NH4OAc in EtOH
Full text linkReceived: 21.04.22. Revised: 07.06.22. Accepted: 07.06.22. Available online: 14.06.22.P. Patra is grateful to his supervisor Prof. Gandhi Kumar Kar, Dean of Science, Presidency University, Kolkata and Dept. of Chemistry, Jhargram Raj College.A green one-pot synthesis of 5H-Chromeno[4,3-b]pyridin-5-one derivatives which are the main core of the natural product of Polyneomarline C is described by the reaction of 4-chloro-3-formyl coumarin and different cyclic and acyclic compounds having active methylene group in presence of Et3N and NH4OAc in EtOH. The advantages of this strategy are good yields, no need for the chromatographic separation and the absence of heavy metal catalysts and toxic by-products. The 4-chloro-3-formyl coumarin is obtained by Vilsmeier Heck reaction of 4-hydroxy coumarin.This work was financially supported by the Department of Science & Technology and Biotechnology (DSTBT) of West Bengal (34(Sanc.)-ST/P/S&T/15G-1/2018 Date: 31/01/2019)
Dilip Kumar: autor-aktor
Full text linkDilip Kumar has been praised for his sublime dialog delivery, for his restrained gestures, and for his measured and controlled underplay of emotions in tragic stories as well as in light-hearted comedies. His debut in 1944 with Jwar Bhata (Ebb and Tide) met with less-than-flattering reviews. So did the next three films until his 1948 film, Jugnu (Firefly), which brought him recognition and success. Unlike his contemporaries such as Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand, who propelled their careers by launching their own production companies, Dilip Kumar relied on his talent, his unique approach to characterization, and his immersion in the projects he undertook. In the course of his career that spanned six decades, Kumar made only 62 films. However, his work is a textbook for other actors that followed. Not only did he bring respectability to a profession that had been shunned by the upper classes in India as a profession for “pimps and prostitutes,” but he also elevated film-acting and filmmaking to an academic discipline, making him worthy of the title ‘Professor Emeritus of Acting’. Rooted in the theoretical framework of Howard S. Becker’s work on the “production of culture” and “doing things together,” this paper discusses Kumar’s approach to acting, character development, and the level of his involvement and commitment to each of his projects. The author of this article argues that more than the creative control as a producer or a director, it is the artistic involvement and commitment of the main actors that shape great works of art in cinema. Dilip Kumar demonstrated it repeatedly.Dilip Kumar był chwalony za wysublimowane prowadzenie dialogów, opanowaną gestykulację oraz za wyważone i kontrolowane wyrażanie emocji zarówno w opowieściach tragicznych, jak też w beztroskich komediach. Jego debiut w 1944 w Jwar Bhata (Odpływy i przypływy) spotkał się z niezbyt pochlebnymi recenzjami. Podobnie było z kolejnymi trzema filmami, aż do filmu Jugnu (Świetlik) z 1948 roku, który przyniósł mu uznanie i sukces. W przeciwieństwie do swoich rówieśników, jak Raj Kapoor iDev Anand, którzy napędzali kariery, uruchamiając własne firmy produkcyjne, Dilip Kumar polegał na swoim talencie, unikalnym podejściu do charakteryzacji i zaangażowaniu w projekty, których się podjął. W ciągu swojej sześćdziesięcioletniej kariery Kumar nakręcił tylko 62 filmy. Jednak jego praca jest podręcznikowa dla młodszych aktorów. Nie tylko przyniósł szacunek zawodowi aktora, traktowanemu przez indyjskie klasy wyższe jako zawód „alfonsów i prostytutek”, ale także podniósł aktorstwo filmowe i filmowanie do dyscypliny akademickiej, co uczyniło Kumara godnym tytułu emerytowanego profesora aktorstwa. Artykuł ten, zakorzeniony w ramach teoretycznych pracy Howarda S. Beckera nad „produkcją kultury” i „robieniem rzeczy razem”, omawia podejście Kumara do aktorstwa i rozwoju postaci oraz poziom jego zaangażowania w każdy ze swoich projektów. Autor tego artykułu przekonuje, że to artystyczne zaangażowanie i poświęcenie głównych aktorów kształtują wielkie dzieła sztuki w kinie bardziej niż kontrola twórcza producenta czy reżysera. Dilip Kumar wielokrotnie to zademonstrował
Extensions of Natural Radioactivity to 4th-Type and of the Periodic Table to Super-heavy Nuclei: Contribution of Raj K Gupta to Cold Nuclear Phenomena
Full text linkWe have studied here the contribution of Indian Scientists associated with Prof. Raj K. Gupta to cold nuclear phenomena during the last almost four decades, which led to the discovery of fourth kind of natural radioactivity (also known as Cluster Radioactivity, CR) and to the extension of periodic table to super heavy nuclei. It is exclusively pointed out how the Quantum Mechanical Fragmentation Theory (QMFT) advanced by Prof. Raj K. Gupta and Collaborators led to the discovery of unique phenomenon of CR along with the predictions leading to the synthesis of super heavy elements. We have also mentioned the development of dynamical theories based on QMFT, the Preformed Cluster Model(PCM) and the dynamical cluster-decay model (DCM), to study the ground and excited state decays of nuclei, respectively, by Gupta and Collaborators. It is matter of great honor and pride for us to bring out this study to enthuse the young researchers to come up with novel ideas and have inspiration from the scientific contributions of Prof. Raj K. Gupta who is coincidentally celebrating his platinum jubilee birthday anniversary this year
Social Indicators Research: A Retrospective Using Bibliometric Analysis
No full textSocial Indicators Research (SIR) publishes novel and groundbreaking research focusing on
social indicators related to quality of life and sustainability. Using bibliometrics, this study
aims to offer a retrospective of the major trends (e.g., publication, citation, and top contributing
authors, institutions, and countries) and intellectual structure of SIR. The retrospective
indicates that SIR, which has grown substantially in productivity and impact, attracts
contributions worldwide, notably from the USA, with 11 major themes revealed between
1974 and 2019. Using a zero-inflated negative binomial regression, this study also reveals
the factors that influence the citation count of SIR publications, namely article age, number
of author keywords, title novelty, title length, USA affiliation, and number of authors.
Noteworthily, this study, which represents the inaugural review of SIR, should be useful for
readers to gain rich insights into the state of research on social indicators related to quality
of life and sustainability
Gender and Public Spending on Education in Pakistan: A Case Study of Disaggregated Benefit Incidence
Full text linkIt is generally believed that education is one of the basic rights of every human being, irrespective of sex, age, creed, religion, etc. Moreover, the target of universal primary education cannot be achieved without female access to educational opportunities, which contains several external benefits. In addition, access to educational opportunities assumes prime importance for empowerment of women. However, inequalities in access to education between males and females can be found in many countries across the world including Pakistan. According to conventional wisdom, a combination of cultural, social, and economic factors are responsible for placing young girls and women at a serious disadvantage vis-a-vis access to school and the prospect of completing their education. This disadvantage can be altered through public policies including gender sensitive public spending on education. The above assertion about the role of public policy is based on the theory of public finance1, which demonstrates that public expenditure on education can affect the population in a number of ways, which has significant gender dimensions. For example, government spending on primary education is likely to generate more income for women than spending on universities, for the simple reason that there are relatively more women primary school teachers than women university lecturers. Moreover, these expenditures provide subsidized educational services, which is a form of “in kind transfers”. These “in-kind transfers” improve the current well-being of the recipients, and enhance their longer-run income-earning potential. They can be considered as both current and capital transfers to the recipients, and therefore can be termed as the “benefit incidence” of public spending. The main concern of this paper is to assess the gender dimension of the benefitincidence”. The tudy has two basic objectives. First and foremost, it aims to investigate which income group actually benefits from the government’s subsidized.
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No full textAuthor Impact Factor: tracking the dynamics of individual scientific impact
No full textThe impact factor (IF) of scientific journals has acquired a major role in the evaluations of the output of scholars, departments and whole institutions. Typically papers appearing in journals with large values of the IF receive a high weight in such evaluations. However, at the end of the day one is interested in assessing the impact of individuals, rather than papers. Here we introduce Author Impact Factor (AIF), which is the extension of the IF to authors. The AIF of an author A in year t is the average number of citations given by papers published in year t to papers published by A in a period of Δt years before year t. Due to its intrinsic dynamic character, AIF is capable to capture trends and variations of the impact of the scientific output of scholars in time, unlike the h-index, which is a growing measure taking into account the whole career path.Peer reviewe
International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, Volume 8 Growth, Development, and Poverty (6th Revised Edition)
No full textThis book is Volume Eight of an Eight-Volume set. All of the Volumes are available in KU ScholarWorks. Links to all eight volumes are available in the Abstracts file in this record.
About the Author:
Born in Toronto of Indian and Celtic heritage, Rakesh (Raj) Kumar Bhala is a dual Canadian-U.S. citizen prominent in the fields of International Trade Law, Islamic Law (Sharī‘a), and Law and Literature. Raj is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, School of Law (KU Law). He is published widely world-wide – authoring over 100 scholarly articles and 13 books, including the International Trade Law Textbook, which has been used at over 100 law schools around the globe. Ingram’s Business Magazine designated him as one of “50 Kansans You Should Know.”
Raj has testified before the U.K. Parliament, House of Commons, International Trade Committee, on trade and human rights. Media frequently call upon Raj. Across 65 consecutive months (from January 2017-October 2022), “On Point” was his column on International Law and Economics, which Bloomberg Quint / BQ Prime (Mumbai) published and distributed to approximately 6.2 million readers globally.
Raj is a Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate (Cum Laude). As a Marshall Scholar, Raj earned two Master’s degrees, from the London School of Economics (LSE) in Economics, and from Oxford (Trinity College) in Management (Industrial Relations). His undergraduate degree is from Duke (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar and double-majored in Economics and Sociology. After HLS, Raj practiced at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he twice won the President’s Award for Excellence thanks to his service as a delegate to the United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), along with a Letter of Commendation from the U.S. Department of State. He is a member of the State Department’s Speaker Program.
Raj has served in officer positions at the International Bar Association (IBA) and Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), on the Executive Board of Directors of the Carriage Club of Kansas City (including as Treasurer), and been on the Alumni Association Board of the University School of Milwaukee (USM), his high school alma mater. He is grateful to his USM teachers for a liberal arts education that made all good things possible. Raj loves fitness training, has finished 115 marathons, including the “Big Five” of the “World’s Majors” (Boston twice, New York twice, Chicago twice, Berlin, and London). He enjoys studying Shakespeare and (especially since becoming Catholic at Easter Vigil 2001) Theology – and watching baseball.Does participation in cross-border importation, exportation, and direct and portfolio investment enhance human well-being? In particular, does international trade stimulate economic growth and development, and does it alleviate poverty? These hotly debated controversies are the heart of Volume Eight.
To engage in this debate, it is necessary to understand Development Economics. That is the subject of Part One. How are “growth,” “development,” and “poverty” defined and measured? Armed with clear answers, this Part describes the classic theoretical models of economic growth, development, and poverty reduction. They include Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth, and the Fei-Ranis Labor Surplus Model. The potential role of trade in them is highlighted. Equally importantly, this Part also reviews the empirical record of the contribution of trade to growth, development, and poverty across the half-century following the end of the Second War and de-colonization. Thus, the records of countries that pursued export-oriented versus import-substitution policies are contrasted.
Part Two spells out and critically analyzes the leading programs in International Trade Law designed to benefit developing and least developed countries: the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), a GATT-WTO exception to the most-favored nation (MFN) obligation. This Part also highlights one among many national-level, targeted preference schemes, namely, the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Unfortunately, GSP and AGOA have underrealized their full potential to help poor countries. This Part explains why they have not done so.
Volume Eight, and thus the eight-Volume set, conclude with a review and evaluation of the trade laws and policies of India. India is the world’s most populous country, the world’s largest democracy, and the world’s most religiously pluralistic country. Its trade regime, characterized by import substitution and protectionism in the decades after the 15 August 1947 British Partition of the Indian Sub-Continent, pivoted in 1991 to openness. But, the pivot is partial: India’s trade liberalization is inchoate, and its free trade agreement (FTA) program is only modestly ambitious. What might the future hold for India and, therefore, the world?
Overall, Volume Eight clearly manifests the interdisciplinary nature of International Trade Law through the pressing questions of inequality and injustice in the world trading system. Like the other seven Volumes of International Trade Law: A Comprehensive E-Textbook, this Volume is available Open Access, and thus freely, quickly downloadable
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