108 research outputs found
Beyond Modernity : Narrative Strategies in Hindi Short Stories of Uday Prakash
No full textThis thesis explores different genres and modes of writing in short stories of the contemporary Indian author Uday Prakash, such as magical realism, the fantastic, regionalism, postcolonial and postmodern writing. It poses the question: “In which literary genre should Uday Prakash’s writings best be categorised?” The study is based on a reading of Prakash’s collection, 10 Pratinidhi kahāniyāṃ – Ten Representative Stories, consisting of ten stories of the author’s own choice. Critics have often understood Uday Prakash as a writer of magical realism. This thesis, however, argues that the author fits better in the category of the fantastic since his narratives often are characterised by the “hesitation” before the supernatural, a central feature of this literary mode. The thesis further suggests that regionalism is present in his writings in the portrayal of both the rural and urban landscapes of India. Above all, Prakash portrays a “public landscape,” in which India as a whole is reflected in the local—rural or urban—regions he depicts and in which any Indian can identify himself. The postmodern perspective is also prevalent in his writings, evident through literary tropes such as metafiction, historiographic metafiction, intertextuality, self-reflexivity and extended use of metaphor. Central to his writing is a social or postcolonial critique. Together his stories write an alternative national history of India, focusing on the subaltern and the downtrodden, depicting how the old colonial structure and oppression have now re-emerged among the elite and political leadership of independent India. I have, in this thesis, understood Uday Prakash as a postcolonial experimentalist (uttaropaniveśvādī prayogvādī), standing in the tradition of the prayogvād of the 20th-century Hindi literary field since the characteristics of his authorship are the concoction of multiple literary modes or genres, the breaking with traditional forms of narration and the formation of creative and original narratives, all in the service of social and civilisational criticism
Complement’s C1 complex, Factor H and the X factor: A personal tribute to Prof. Robert B. Sim
No full text© 2021 by the author. It is with great sadness that I am writing this obituary for my mentor, colleague and friend, Bob, i.e., Prof. Robert B. Sim, who passed away on 6 February 2021
Digitalisation in Rural Entrepreneurship a Paradigm Shift
No full textThis study aims to fill that fissure by studying how a digitalization occurring in rural entrepreneurship. This organizing issue is challenging, because stakeholders of rural entrepreneurs are not governed by any formal authority. To answer that question, it accepts forms of organizing as a theoretical view, which provides structure to examine organizing issues. In today, rural entrepreneurship considerably impacts many issues, including economic development, employment, food supply and social security. With increasing numbers of people moving from rural to urban areas due to poor employment opportunities, and the complexity of running their own businesses, the problem of potential social unrest, amongst others, becomes more credible. It is therefore crucial that researchers, particularly in those countries with large rural populations, investigate this problem and provide ways of solving it. Such challenges facing entrepreneurship in remote or rural places require modern, innovative business leaders, skilful political thinkers, and greater numbers of trained professionals, and academics who can think dynamically, and bring their ideas into broader societal use. In most practical cases, individuals who conduct their businesses in rural areas do so by utili sing locally available resources. Their business activities improve the standard of living for local communities by creating employment opportunities for people living in proximate villages and provide sources of entrepreneurial activity to establish industrial and business units in this rural sector of the economy. Similarly, rural entrepreneurship can further be described in terms of rural industrial is at ion. The existence of rural entrepreneurship which leads to viable economies in rural areas is therefore of extreme importance. Regardless of the extent to which rural entrepreneurs engage in a variety of activities, which range far beyond simply agriculture, they are still not fully Indus try alisedin their thinking and approach, due to the number of challenges that confront them in rural regions worldwide Prof. Hiremath Uday V. "Digitalisation in Rural Entrepreneurship a Paradigm Shift" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Special Issue | International Conference on Digital Economy and its Impact on Business and Industry , October 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18716.pd
Non-intrusive characterization of properties of hydrogels:
No full textBesides biological and chemical cues, cellular behavior has been found to be affected by mechanical cues such as traction forces, surface topology and in particular mechanical properties of the substrate. In previous studies involving hydrogel substrates, mechanical characterization was performed assuming Poisson’s ratio to be equal to one-half. However, this might not be true in all cases and might alter the calculation of stiffness of hydrogels.
The present study mainly focuses on characterizing the Young's modulus (E), shear modulus (G) and Poisson's ratio (v) of soft hydrogels using a non-intrusive technique. For this purpose, an apparatus referred to as the "four magnet setup", which allows the determination of local gel elastic properties, was developed. Closed form equations involving E, G and v of the hydrogel were derived and finite element analysis was employed to validate the equations. Linear elastic properties of bis-gels and DNA gels were obtained using the apparatus and verified using rheometry and bead experiments. This is the first report in literature in which the mechanical properties consisting of E, G and v were simultaneously obtained for soft hydrogels.
A DNA gel design space involving parameters such as crosslinker concentration, side-chain concentration and lengths of DNA strands was systematically developed and the mechanical properties were evaluated using bead experiments. It was found that stiffness of DNA gels can be modulated over a wide range by modifying the various design parameters.
Addition of DNA crosslinks generates force and alters the mechanical properties, which has implications for cell and tissue culture substrate design. Two techniques have been developed to characterize the force actuating potential of DNA gels. It was found that the force generated was proportional to the elastic modulus of the gel. Also, at higher temperatures the stiffness of the gels decreased and the amount of force generated also decreased. A comparison of the force generated in both methods showed that either method can be successfully employed. The force was found to be in the range of values reported in the literature for axonal growth in spinal cord neurons.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Uday Chippad
Interactions of muscarinic receptors and choline esterases: Functional examinations of esterase inhibitors in the rat.
No full textCharles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Biochemical Sciences Candidate: Uday Kumar Killi, M.Sc Supervisor: Prof. Ing. Vladimír Wsól, Ph.D. Co- Supervisor: Prof. Gunnar Tobin, D.D.S., Ph.D. Title of Doctoral Thesis: Interactions of muscarinic receptors and choline esterases: Functional examinations of esterase inhibitors in the rat. The parasympathetic nervous system regulates a number of vital body functions. The neurotransmission within the parasympathetic nervous system is exerted by acetylcholine, a phylogenetic old neurotransmitter, which acts on nicotinic and muscarinic receptors. Whilst the nicotinic receptors are located in the ganglia, the muscarinic receptors are located on the glands and smooth muscles. The muscarinic receptors belong to the large group of G glycoprotein- coupled receptors. Five subtypes exist of the muscarinic receptor (M1-M5), which can be either excitatory or inhibitory depending on subtype. Within the synaptic cleft, acetylcholinesterase hydrolyses acetylcholine and the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, by for instance pesticides, causes accumulation of acetylcholine at the synaptic cleft, which in turn causes overstimulation of cholinoceptors. Muscarinic receptors and the acetylcholinesterase are important therapeutic..
GSBPP professor co-edits research anthology on managing in the information economy
No full textA professor with the Naval Postgraduate School's Graduate School of Business and Public Policy has co-edited the first book on managing the information economy written for the business research community. Prof. Uday Apte, a specialist in service-sector operations management, is also author of three research papers in the new anthology, "Managing in the Information Economy: Current Research Issues", published by Springer Publication in June
Uday Shan-Kar and Me: Stories of Self-Orientalization, Hyphenization, and Diasporic Declarations
No full textThis article discusses how orientalism has operated and continues to operate within the North American artistic landscape of dance artists. The author starts by focusing on Uday Shankar (1900–1977), one of the major, though often overlooked, figures over the last 100 years of South Asian (and predominantly Indian) dance performance on the concert stage in the diasporic context, to consider how orientalism, the desire for authenticity, a nationalist agenda, religious fundamentalism, economic necessities, multi-cultural initiatives, and diversity desires all interact and coalesce to form an undercurrent of limited potentials about how and why South Asian dance can exist within the American performance discourse. In an auto-ethnographic move, the author then juxtaposes Shankar’s historical legacy with a new artistic project by the author (b. 1969), entitled Reorient the Orient, premiering in 2024. The writing uses archival sources such as photographs, programs, publicity materials, featured essays, newspaper previews, reviews, filmed dance footage, choreographic analysis, and personal reflections to explore how social factors and personal ambitions create awkward relationships within orientalism’s manifestations in the diasporic U.S. performance landscape
Predicting Gender of Author Using Large Language Models (LLMs)
No full textThe advent of text data from social media, blogs, movie reviews, and other textual sources has opened new avenues for research, particularly in the domain of Author Profiling. Author Profiling helps in Capturing the Stylistic features and also useful for analyzing the required elements in the written text. This Study addresses one of the tasks in Author Profiling which is termed as gender detection or Classification of Gender from Text. The main goal of this research is to obtain valuable and relevant gender characteristics that will accurately classify the Author’s gender of a review extracted from an Anime Review website. This Research uses the current State of Art Large Language Models to Automatically Capture the Gender Differences. The data is processed through the proposed Method which uses both Custom Prompting along with Fine-Tuning in order to tweak some of the weights associated with Large Language Models(LLMs). Once the LLM gets Fine-Tuned, the Model is tested with unseen Review datapoints, subsequently the Testing prompt is modified over the testing process through feedback mechanism proposed in the testing phase. Also, the Error Analysis is demonstrated through the Feedback obtained from the LLMs. Furthermore, the model surpasses existing baseline methods in accuracy, as evidenced by comparative analysis. This study contributes to the broader field of author profiling by presenting an effective model for gender detection and a thorough error analysis, highlighting potential areas for future enhancements and practical applications
Synthesis of Solanesyl Oleate in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Medium
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
A non-redundant role of complement protein C1q in normal and adverse pregnancy
No full textAvailability of data and materials: Not applicable.Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. Complement component 1q (C1q) is the recognition molecule of the classical pathway of the complement system that can bind to an array of closely spaced antigen-bound immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies. In addition to its involvement in defence against a range of pathogens and clearance of apoptotic and necrotic cells, C1q has also been implicated in immune and non-immune homeostasis. C1q is locally produced by immune cells such as monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells. C1q is also synthesized by decidual endothelial cells, thus acting as a link between decidual cells and trophoblasts, as well as contributing to the remodelling of spiral arteries. Furthermore, C1q is produced by the extravillous trophoblasts (EVTs) invading the decidua. As a pro-angiogenic molecule, C1q is also important for normal placentation processes as it favors the active angiogenesis in the developing decidua. These observations have been validated by C1q gene knock-out mice which showed pre-eclampsia (PE)-like symptoms, characterized by hypertension, proteinuria, glomerular endotheliosis, and increased soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1)/placental growth factor (PlGF) ratio, and increased oxidative stress. The role of C1q in normal and adverse human pregnancy is being studied extensively due to its absence or low level as a likely precipitating factor for the development of PE.Funding: Not applicable
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