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Bhati Vamsavali (Tod ms 78) - Reproduction, Transcription & Translation, and Glossary
No full textRichard Saran's transcription and translation of this manuscript (with the exception of fragments in verse) represents the inaugural work on this material. The significance of this manuscript lies in the paucity of knowledge about the history of the Bhatis, coupled with the dearth of published materials on the subject. The language of this manuscript also constitutes a valuable resource for linguists.The original manuscript is in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is reproduced with their permission. Enquiries regarding reproduction or access can be directed to the Society via [email protected]. Additional digitized versions of their manuscript holdings can be found at https://royalasiaticcollections.org/south-asian-manuscripts/.Note that there are two versions of most of the manuscript; a single (lower-resolution) scan of the entire text, and smaller groupings of higher-resolution scans. These groupings do not include files for leaves 1-38A, or 222B-260B.Note from author correspondence: "I still work on Tod MSS 78 and 138 from time to time. 138 is mostly translated. 78, pp. 85-198, 406-440, and 267=295 are not yet done either. However, 267-295 is duplicated by 138, 119-138. Or nearly so. 78 is not an exact copy of 138. 138 itself appears to be a hastily prepared copy, with odd spellings, abbreviations, etc. Hard to work with, although it is valuable. 215-238 appear to be unavailable in MS 78."Manuscript 78 from the James Tod Manuscript Collection (held by the Royal Asiatic Society) contains historical and genealogical records of the Bhati (Bhatti) dynasty, the Rajput clan historically associated with the desert region of Jaisalmer. The capital, Jaisalmer, was founded in 1155 AD by Jesal Singh, the Bhati ruler. The narrative has been documented until the end of the seventeenth century (according to the Barnett catalogue of the Tod collection, the narrative accounts up to Samvat 1744, which corresponds to approximately 1687 AD). The narrative commences with the mention of Manohar Das (r. 1627-1650) and then focuses on Rawal Sabal Singh (r. 1650-1659), his service in the Mughal army, how he came to the throne of Jaisalmer; including the story of his rescue of the imperial treasure stolen by the Pathans, the exploit which brought him fame and the patronage of Emperor Shah Jahan. The narrative then turns to Rawal Amar Singh (r. 1659-1701), Sabal Singh's successor and second son. Rawal Amar Singh greatly expanded the territory of Jaisalmer. Subsequently, the narrative mentions Rawal Amar Singh's successor, Rawal Jaswant Singh (r. 1701-1707), and proceeds to recount the life of Jesal Singh and his original residence at Lodruva, before finally reaching the times of Rawal Sabal Singh. The manuscript is written in prose (vāt) and verse (mainly dohā metre but also aḍil and kavitt). The language is a mixture of Rajasthani with dominant forms of eastern Rajasthani; the verse parts are also composed in Pingal (Braj Bhasha, heavily influenced by Rajasthani). 440 fol. Probably eighteenth century. Anonymous, without colophon. Paper 6 3/4" high X 7 3/4" wide.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/2/Bhati vamsavali (Tod ms 78)_OCR.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/3/Tod MS 78 & 138 Combined Glossary.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/1/Tod MS 78 & 238. Combined glossary. Final version.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/4/checked_Tod manuscript 78 38B-47B_OCR.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/5/checked_Tod manuscript 78 47B-81B_OCR.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/6/checked_Tod manuscript 78 81B-222A_OCR.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/7/checked_Tod Manuscript 78 261A-273B_OCR.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/8/checked_Tod Manuscript 78 274A-321B_OCR.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/9/checked_Tod manuscript 78 321B-345B_OCR.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196857/10/checked_Tod manuscript 78 378B-440B_OCR.pdfDescription of Tod MS 78 & 238. Combined glossary. Final version.pdf : Glossary (combined glossary of mss 78 & 238)Description of Bhati vamsavali (Tod ms 78)_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of complete Tod MS 78 text (OCR'd)Description of Tod MS 78 & 138 Combined Glossary.pdf : Glossary (combined glossary of mss 78 & 138)Description of checked_Tod manuscript 78 38B-47B_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of leaves 38B-47BDescription of checked_Tod manuscript 78 47B-81B_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of leaves 47B-81BDescription of checked_Tod manuscript 78 81B-222A_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of leaves 81B-222ADescription of checked_Tod Manuscript 78 261A-273B_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of leaves 261A-273BDescription of checked_Tod Manuscript 78 274A-321B_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of leaves 274A-321BDescription of checked_Tod manuscript 78 321B-345B_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of leaves 321B-345BDescription of checked_Tod manuscript 78 378B-440B_OCR.pdf : Photos, transcript and translation of leaves 378B-440BSEL
A Novel Image Denoising using Matched Partial Biorthogonal Wavelets and Adaptive Thresholding
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Waste-to-Energy Projects (Part II): : Comparing Approaches
No full textRapid urbanisation and industrialisation have led to a huge increase in the generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) across the globe. The world’s cities generate about 1.3 billion tons of solid waste per year and this is expected to increase to 2.2 billion tons by 2025. The most common method of waste management adopted by cities is to dispose of MSW in open dumps and oversaturated landfills. The improper management of MSW has become a threat to public and environmental health. However, this waste can also be perceived as an opportunity and a source of energy through Waste to Energy (WtE) technology. WtE technologies are used to produce various by-products like electricity, heat, biofuels and compost. In developed nations, it is primarily the non-organic elements of MSW that are used in WtE incineration. Developing nations are also investing heavily in WtE incineration, irrespective of the fact that their MSW consists primarily of biodegradables. The existing WtE incineration plants in India and China are not only causing heavy pollution but also posing a serious threat to the environment and human health. In this article, the author focuses on the current status and challenges of different WtE technologies used in Europe, US, China, Japan and India. Furthermore, the author recommends that waste incineration should not be treated as a source of renewable energy and suggests anaerobic digestion methods (biomethanation) as a solution for countries with more biodegradable waste.</p
Discovering phonetic inventories with crosslingual automatic speech recognition
No full textThe high cost of data acquisition makes Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model training problematic for most existing languages, including languages that do not even have a written script, or for which the phone inventories remain unknown. Past works explored multilingual training, transfer learning, as well as zero-shot learning in order to build ASR systems for these low-resource languages. While it has been shown that the pooling of resources from multiple languages is helpful, we have not yet seen a successful application of an ASR model to a language unseen during training. A crucial step in the adaptation of ASR from seen to unseen languages is the creation of the phone inventory of the unseen language. The ultimate goal of our work is to build the phone inventory of a language unseen during training in an unsupervised way without any knowledge about the language. In this paper, we (1) investigate the influence of different factors (i.e., model architecture, phonotactic model, type of speech representation) on phone recognition in an unknown language; (2) provide an analysis of which phones transfer well across languages and which do not in order to understand the limitations of and areas for further improvement for automatic phone inventory creation; and (3) present different methods to build a phone inventory of an unseen language in an unsupervised way. To that end, we conducted mono-, multi-, and crosslingual experiments on a set of 13 phonetically diverse languages and several in-depth analyses. We found a number of universal phone tokens (IPA symbols) that are well-recognized cross-linguistically. Through a detailed analysis of results, we conclude that unique sounds, similar sounds, and tone languages remain a major challenge for phonetic inventory discovery.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Multimedia Computin
Author Correction: Comparative estimation of nitrogen in urea and its derivative products using TKN, CHNS and hand-held refractometer
No full textOne world one sun one grid: : a (modi)fication in India’s environment
No full text With a growing population and its needs, India is moving towards more pollution and less non-renewable resources left for the future generations. In this chaotic state, one thing certain is that India’s power requirement will grow. Renewable energy plays a significant role in providing sustainable and clean energy and mitigating climate change. As energy lies at the heart of the climate dilemma, producing 100 GW of solar energy by 2022 is a commendable but ambitious goal of India under Paris Accord of Climate Change. It is evident that the development of the Indian solar energy sector hinges on the combination of legislative framework, financial mechanisms, local manufacturing sector, environmentally sound technology, etc. Despite the growing impetus of solar energy in India, there are still gaps in its governance. In this article, the author focuses on the current status, challenges and future prospects of solar energy development in India and sums up the way forward with recommendations to address some of these gaps.</p
Detecting signatures of natural selection in genetic data
No full textI report on three studies where I identify signatures of natural selection in humans, and dissect the genetic architecture of complex phenotypic traits in yeast. In chapter 2, I discuss the results of a quantitative trait mapping study, where we showed that yeast growth can be characterized by multiple biologically-relevant growth parameters obtained by fitting yeast growth OD data to a sigmoid function. We identified quantita- tive trait loci (QTL) and gene-gene interactions driving variation in these yeast growth parameters. We analyzed the environment dependence of these QTLs and gene-gene interactions, and identified a common gene, FLO8, which interacts with other genes in an environment specific fashion to affect distinct growth phenotypes. In chapter 3, I describe our published study where we applied quantitative trait locus mapping to wildtype yeast strains, and identified linked clusters of genetic variants that contributed to variation in the sporulation efficiency of these strains. In chapter 4, I describe our work on identifying signatures of natural selection in the human lineage, specifically in the Maasai people in East Africa. Our work suggests that the Maasai have under- gone recent diet induced positive natural selection that may confer protection against hyperlipidemia and cardiac diseases.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Aatish Bhati
