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Wind energy engineering / Pramod Jain.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.book fair 2012xvii, 330 p. :From the Publisher: A practical guide to wind energy engineering and management. This authoritative resource offers comprehensive details on effectively using wind energy as a viable and economical energy source. Featuring a multidisciplinary approach, Wind Energy Engineering covers physics, meteorology, aerodynamics, wind measurement, wind turbine specifications, electricity, and integration with the grid. Planning, site selection, cost assessment, environmental impact, and project management are also discussed. Filled with diagrams, tables, charts, graphs, and statistics, this is a definitive reference to current and future developments in wind energy. Wind Energy Engineering covers: The business of wind energy worldwide; Wind energy basics; Meteorological properties of wind and air; Aerodynamics of wind turbine blades; Wind measurement, data management, and reporting; Wind resource assessment; Advanced topics in resource assessment, including wake, losses, and uncertainty; Wind turbine generator components; Electricity and generator basics; Deploying wind turbines in the grid; Environmental impact of wind projects; Financial modeling, planning, and execution of wind projects
Conversations with authors: Saskya Jain
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Saskya Jain about her life and the inspiration for her work
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives
No full textJain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature. The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors to create and express novel visions of moral personhood. In making this argument, the book examines three versions of the Rāma story composed by two authors, separated in time and space by over 800 years and thousands of miles. The first is Raviṣeṇa, who composed the Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa (“The Deeds of Padma”), and the second is Brahma Jinadāsa, author of both a Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa and a vernacular (bhāṣā) version of the story titled Rām Rās (“The Story of Rām”). While the three compositions narrate the same basic story and work to shape ethical subjects, they do so in different ways and with different visions of what a moral person actually is. A close comparative reading focused on the differences between these three texts reveals the diverse visions of moral personhood held by Jains in premodernity and demonstrates the innovative narrative strategies authors utilized in order to actualize those visions. The book is thus a valuable contribution to the fields of Jain studies and religion and literature in premodern South Asia
THE JAIN CENTRE IN LEICESTER
No full textThis dissertation discusses the formative years of the Jain Centre, Leicester, from 1979 when Jain Samaj Leicester, the community body of the Jains in Leicester, bought a dilapidated former chapel and set about converting it into a centre for the community. Central in the plan was the religious dimension which was to unite four "sects" of Jainism under one roof, Svetambara, Digambara, Sthanakvasi and the devotees of Srimad Rajchandra. The prehistory of Jain Samaj is looked at briefly, from the first meetings in members' homes and the formal foundation of Jain Samaj Leicester in 1973. In the main body of the dissertation, in Chapter Three, the approach is largely historical, with the key events being singled out for detailed examination. The account is taken right up-to-date, to 2001. A final chapter analyses the factors which led to the success of this venture.
Chapter One provides essential introductory orientation on the Jains, both as a community and as followers of an ancient religion, relating this to the situation of the Jains in Leicester. In a second part of this chapter sources and methodology are outlined. Primary sources comprise
(a) Information from members of the Jain community,
(b) Participant observation by the author over a quarter of a century,
(c) A large collection of written material put together over the years and comprising letters, notices and much more from Jain Samaj and others, and runs of the newsletters and journal published by Jain Samaj, as well as news cuttings, particularly from the local press.
These three sources have been of roughly equal weight.
Secondary sources are the author's own collection of some 200 books and pamphlets on Jainism and the Jains, together with the resources of other libraries particularly that of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Chapter Two provides a description of the Jain Centre and examines some aspects of its functioning. Chapter Four is devoted to the temple, its architecture and iconography, and the religious life centred there.
Finally, in Chapter Five an analysis is made of some key aspects of the Centre's history, and a tentative forecast of the future is attempted
Interview with S. Lochlann Jain
No full textProf. S. Lochlann Jain (he/him, they/them) is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Visiting Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. Jain is an award-winning scholar, artist, and author of three books: Injury (Princeton University Press, 2006), Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013), and Things that Art (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Jain’s work lies at the intersection of science and technology studies, history, political economy, gender and sexuality, biology, and medicine and aims to unsettle some of the deeply held assumptions about objectivity that underlie the politics and history of medical research. His book Malignant traces the contested concepts of cancer that lie at the core of debates over cause, treatment, responsibility, and national progress, aiming to show why cancer remains such an intractable medical, social, and economic problem that takes millions of lives, while it both costs and generates billions of dollars.
Jain has won numerous prizes in anthropology, medical journalism, and science and technology studies, including the Staley Prize, June Roth Memorial Award, Fleck Prize, Edelstein Prize, Victor Turner Prize, and the Diana Forsythe Prize. His work has been supported by Stanford Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the National Humanities Center
Internet of Things and machine learning in agriculture: technological impacts and challenges De Gruyter frontiers in computational intelligence ;, v. 8./ edited by Vishal Jain, Jyotir Moy Chatterjee, Abhishek Kumar, Pramod Singh Rathore.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Agriculture is one of the most fundamental human activities. As the farming capacity has expanded, the usage of resources such as land, fertilizer, and water has grown exponentially, and environmental pressures from modern farming techniques have stressed natural landscapes. Still, by some estimates, worldwide food production needs to increase to keep up with global food demand. 'Machine Learning and the Internet of Things' can play a promising role in the Agricultural industry, and help to increase food production while respecting the environment. This book explains how these technologies can be applied, offering many case studies developed in the research world.Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part III. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Index. Parul Verma and Umesh Kumar -- Ashish Tripathi, Arun Kumar Singh, Khararee Narayan Singh, Krishna Kant Singh, Pushpa Choudhary, and Prem Chand Vashist -- Jyoti Batra Arora -- Nilesh Uke, Trupti Thite, and Supriya Saste -- Sivakumar Rajagopal, Sonai Rajan Thangaraj, J. Paul Mansingh, and B. Prabadevi -- Aarti and Amit Kumar -- K. Krishnaveni, E. Radhamani, and K. Preethi -- Jibin Varghese, J. Jeba Praba, and John J. George -- Nikunj Rajyaguru, Shubhendu Vyas, and Kunjan Vyas -- Suvarna Pawar and Pravin Futane -- J. H. Kamdar, M. D. Jasani, J. D. Jasani, J. Jeba Praba, and John J. George -- Sapna Nigam, Rajni Jain, Sudeep Marwaha, and Alka Arora -- Sandip Kumar Roy and Preeta Sharan -- Mahua Bose and Kalyani Mali -- Tan Pham Nhat and Son Vu Truong Dao -- Shubhendu Vyas, Nikunj Rajyaguru, and Kunjan Vyas -- Yash Joshi, Sachit Mishra, and R. S. Ponmagal -- Punam Bedi, Pushkar Gole, and Sumit Kumar Agarwal -- Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Machine Learning and Internet of Things in Agriculture -- Smart farming : Using IoT and machine learning techniques / Food security and farming through IoT and machine learning / An innovative combination for new agritechnological era / Recent advancements and challenges of artificial intelligence and IoT in agriculture / Technological impacts and challenges of advanced technologies in agriculture / Applications of Internet of Things in Agriculture -- IoT-based platform for smart farming - Kaa / Internet of things platform for smart farming / Internet of things platform for smart farming / Internet of things platform for smart farming / Applications of Machine Learning in Agriculture -- Kisan-e-Mitra : A tool for soil quality analyzer and recommender system / Artificial intelligence for plant disease detection : Past, present, and future / Wheat rust disease identification using deep learning / Image-based hibiscus plant disease detection using deep learning / Rainfall prediction by applying machine learning technique / Plant leaf disease classification based on feature selection and deep neural network / Using deep learning for image-based plant disease detection / Using deep learning for image-based plant disease detection / Using deep learning for image-based plant disease detection /1 online resource (xvi, 410 pages)
Evaluating the reliability of an authoritative discourse in a Jain epistemological eulogy of the 6th c.
No full textThis paper explores the coexistence of more apologetic and of more systematic considerations in the Āpta-mīmāṁsā (ĀMī), Investigation on authority, of the Jain author Samantabhadra (530–590). First, this treatise offers a relevant case study to investigate the transition from a conception in which the reliability criterion of an authoritative discourse is the authoritative character of its utterer, to a conception in which the criteria of validity and soundness of the discourse itself are foremost. Second, Samantabhadra is one of the first authors to undertake to logically prove the omniscience of the Jain teachers. And third, he links these questions to the celebrated Jain epistemological theory of non-one-sidedness
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation
No full textJain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature.
The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors to create and express novel visions of moral personhood. In making this argument, the book examines three versions of the Rāma story composed by two authors, separated in time and space by over 800 years and thousands of miles. The first is Raviṣeṇa, who composed the Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa (“The Deeds of Padma”), and the second is Brahma Jinadāsa, author of both a Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa and a vernacular (bhāṣā) version of the story titled Rām Rās (“The Story of Rām”). While the three compositions narrate the same basic story and work to shape ethical subjects, they do so in different ways and with different visions of what a moral person actually is. A close comparative reading focused on the differences between these three texts reveals the diverse visions of moral personhood held by Jains in premodernity and demonstrates the innovative narrative strategies authors utilized in order to actualize those visions.
The book is thus a valuable contribution to the fields of Jain studies and religion and literature in premodern South Asia.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1184/thumbnail.jp
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