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Rethinking Civic Space In An Age of Intersectional Crises: A Briefing For Funders
No full textAuthors Ben Hayes and Poonam Joshi summarise the key findings of the Funders' Initiative for Civil Society (FICS) 2019 strategic review, which sought to elaborate a strategic framework through which independent funders could respond more effectively to the phenomenon of closing civic space through collaborative and targeted interventions.This paper incorporates preliminary thoughts on the Covid-19 crisis alongside more developed 'futures thinking' about climate and technological change. It makes the case that – as funders who invest in progressive causes and movements – we must find new ways to expand the space for civic participation.This is the first of a series of recommendations FICS will publish for funders on how to disrupt and reform the drivers of closing civic space
C.difficile infection rate in patients with IBD is falling in line with that of the general population
No full textPoster presentatio
Floristic diversity in Cold Desert regions of Uttarakhand Himalaya, India
No full textSekar, Chandra, Pandey, Aseesh, Giri, Lalit, Joshi, Bhaskar Chandra, Bhatt, Deepika, Bhojak, Puja, Dey, Dipti, Thapliyal, Neha, Bisht, Kapil, Bisht, Monika, Negi, Vikram Singh, Mehta, Poonam (2022): Floristic diversity in Cold Desert regions of Uttarakhand Himalaya, India. Phytotaxa 537 (1): 1-62, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.537.1.
FIGURE. Map of the study area (Source: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org) in Floristic diversity in Cold Desert regions of Uttarakhand Himalaya, India
No full textFIGURE. Map of the study area (Source: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org)Published as part of Sekar, Chandra, Pandey, Aseesh, Giri, Lalit, Joshi, Bhaskar Chandra, Bhatt, Deepika, Bhojak, Puja, Dey, Dipti, Thapliyal, Neha, Bisht, Kapil, Bisht, Monika, Negi, Vikram Singh & Mehta, Poonam, 2022, Floristic diversity in Cold Desert regions of Uttarakhand Himalaya, India, pp. 1-62 in Phytotaxa 537 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.537.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/633195
FIGURE. Dominant families of cold desert of Uttarakhand. in Floristic diversity in Cold Desert regions of Uttarakhand Himalaya, India
No full textFIGURE. Dominant families of cold desert of Uttarakhand.Published as part of Sekar, Chandra, Pandey, Aseesh, Giri, Lalit, Joshi, Bhaskar Chandra, Bhatt, Deepika, Bhojak, Puja, Dey, Dipti, Thapliyal, Neha, Bisht, Kapil, Bisht, Monika, Negi, Vikram Singh & Mehta, Poonam, 2022, Floristic diversity in Cold Desert regions of Uttarakhand Himalaya, India, pp. 1-62 in Phytotaxa 537 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.537.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/633195
India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity by Vijay Joshi
No full textVijay Joshi‟s India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity is an important addition to the list of books on the Indian economy–Jean Dréze and Amartya Sen‟s An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions and Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya‟s Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries–written for the interested general reader as well as the specialist. In addition, those readers familiar with the literature assessing and evaluating India‟s economic reforms will remember Joshi as the co-author of India: Macroeconomics and Political Economy, 1964-1991(1994) and India's Economic Reforms, 1991-2001(1996) along with the late I. M. D. Little
Tuning Transitions in Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence
No full textRayleigh-Bénard convection is a canonical system for the investigation of buoyancy-driven natural convection phenomena which abound in nature and technology. Under the influence of rotation and depending on the system parameters, the flow exhibits different regimes with disparate heat transfer characteristics even in the turbulent state. The present study attempts to tune the transitions between these regimes and thus control the heat transfer in practical applications. In particular, we explore the effect of addition of neutrally-buoyant thermally-conducting particles to the fluid. Following an experimental approach, we study the flow structure and heat transfer as functions of particle concentration and system parameters
Herbal drugs and fingerprints : evidence based herbal drugs / Devi Datt Joshi.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.xvi, 252 pages :Evidence based herbal drugs are on hi-acceptance day by day due to health friendly nature compared to synthetic drugs. The active ingredients in herbal drugs are different chemical classes, e.g. alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids, glycosides, phenols, steroids, terpenes etc., are identified at molecular level using current analytical practices, which are unique characteristic, as finger, so known as fingerprints. The fingerprints are used for assessment of quality consistency and stability by visible observation and comparison of the standardized fingerprint pattern, have scientific potential to decipher the claims made on these drugs for authenticity and reliability of chemical constituents, with total traceability, which starts from the proper identification, season and area of collection, storage, their processing, stability during processing, and rationalizing the combinational in case of polyherbal drugs. These quality oriented documents have ample scientific logics so well accepted globally by regulatory authorities and industries, to determine intentional/ unintentional contamination, adulteration, pollutants, stability, quality, etc. parameters. Based on geo-climatic factors, a same plant species has different pharmacological properties due to different ingredients; such regional and morphological variations are identified by fingerprints, at the time of collection of the medicinal herb. The chromatographic (TLC, HPTLC, HPLC, GC,) and spectral (UV-Vis., FTIR, MNR, MS, LC-MS, GC-MS etc.) techniques have world-wide strong scientific approval as validated methods to generate the fingerprints of different chemical classes of active ingredients of herbal drugs. Presently there is a need for a book having all the fingerprinting techniques for herbal drugs at a place with theory, case studies and art to discover patentable forms. The present book is a mile stone in the subject, to be utilized by Scientists, Medical Doctors, Technicians, Industrialists, Researchers, and Students both in PG and UG level
Trends in Register Verification with a Focus on IP Employed in Networking Devices
No full textAs digital systems continue to grow in complexity, especially within networking and SoC
domains, validating hardware before fabrication has become a pressing necessity. This project
focused on verifying the register interface of a Data Aligner IP, a module frequently used in
packet-based communication systems. The IP had a set of programmable registers used for
both data path alignment and control. Since the register behavior had to remain consistent even
when traffic patterns or timing conditions changed, validating this wasn’t trivial. Early in the
project, I noticed that manual register access and checking was becoming repetitive and hard
to scale. So I put together a UVM-based testbench with SystemVerilog and integrated a RAL
model to simplify the entire process.
The Register Abstraction Layer (RAL) was integrated after experimenting with a few manual
approaches, which proved time-consuming and error-prone. By transitioning to a structured,
script-based generation flow (using spreadsheet input for spec definition), I was able to create
an accurate register model, integrate it into the environment, and perform functional coverage
analysis efficiently.
Assertions were embedded early on to catch design mismatches, and constrained-random
sequences were written to stress corner cases. We simulated the register interface, which made
debug much faster. Instead of handling register behavior manually—something that quickly
became tedious and error-prone—I used RAL to automate how access sequences were built
and how checks were run.
During development, the register specification kept changing—sometimes just small updates,
sometimes entire fields added or removed. Instead of constantly modifying sequences or
rewriting checkers every time that happened, I worked on making the testbench flexible enough
to handle these shifts. The point wasn’t to nail everything on day one—I just didn’t want to
waste time redoing the same stuff every time the spec changed. So I set things up with enough
flexibility that small changes—like renaming a field or adjusting a default—wouldn’t break
the whole environment. It wasn’t some perfect setup, but it worked, and over time it definitely
reduced the amount of rework and made life a bit easier as the project moved forward
Random walk over a hypersphere
No full textIn a recent paper the author had shown that a special case of S. M. Joshi
transform (so named after the author's reverent father) of distributions
(Sba f)(x)=〈f(y), lFl(a0;b0;ixy) lFl(a;b;−2ixy)〉
is a characteristic function of a spherical distribution. Using the methods developed in that paper; the problem of distribution of the distance CD, where C and D are points niformly distributed in a hypersphere, has been discussed in the present paper. The form of characteristic function has also been obtained by the method of projected distribution.
A generalization of Hammersley's result has also been developed. The main purpose of the paper is to show that although the use of characteristic functions, using the method of Bochner, is available in problems of random walk yet distributional S. M. Joshi transform can be used as a natural tool has been proved for the first time in the paper
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