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Data and script for Bayesian hierarchical model
No full textData are from questionnaire surveys conducted across tea estates in the landscape surrounding Kaziranga, Assam, Northeast India, on stakeholder attitudes towards the Asian elephant and its conservation. Script file is for assessing stakeholder attitudes while accounting for reporting error, using a Bayesian hierarchical model implemented in R and RStudio. Associated information is provided in Conservation Biology article titled 'A Bayesian hierarchical approach to quantifying stakeholder attitudes toward conservation in the presence of reporting error', authored by Divya Vasudev and Varun Goswami
Acoustic identification of bats in the southern Western Ghats, India
No full textWordley, Claire F. R., Foui, Eleni K., Mudappa, Divya, Sankaran, Mahesh, Altringham, John D. (2014): Acoustic identification of bats in the southern Western Ghats, India. Acta Chiropterologica 16 (1): 213-222, DOI: 10.3161/150811014X68340
FIG. 4 in Acoustic identification of bats in the southern Western Ghats, India
No full textFIG. 4. Discriminant function analyses for all FM species with over two individualsPublished as part of Wordley, Claire F. R., Foui, Eleni K., Mudappa, Divya, Sankaran, Mahesh & Altringham, John D., 2014, Acoustic identification of bats in the southern Western Ghats, India, pp. 213-222 in Acta Chiropterologica 16 (1) on page 217, DOI: 10.3161/150811014X683408, http://zenodo.org/record/394360
sj-docx-1-aop-10.1177_10600280221134643 – Supplemental material for Assessing Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Severity as a Function of Maternal Buprenorphine Dose and Umbilical Cord Tissue Concentrations
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aop-10.1177_10600280221134643 for Assessing Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Severity as a Function of Maternal Buprenorphine Dose and Umbilical Cord Tissue Concentrations by Divya Rana, Allison R. McLeod, Piyamas K. Gaston, David M. Hill and Massroor Pourcyrous in Annals of Pharmacotherapy</p
Data set on the characterization of the phytoestrogenic extract and isolated compounds of the roots of Inula racemosa Hook F (Asteraceae)
No full textThe data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled ‘ Phyto estrogenic effect of Inula racemosa Hook. f – A cardio protective root drug in traditional medicine, (Mangathayaru K, Divya R, Srivani T et al., 2018) [1]. It describes the characterization details of the root extract and the compounds isolated from them that were shown to be phytoestrogenic in vivo and in vitro respectively. Keywords: Alantolactone, Isoalantolactone, Stigmasterol glycoside, Inuli
Merchants of Virtue
No full textMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Merchants of Virtue
No full textMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Improved collision detection in StarLogo Nova
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 65).StarLogo Nova is blocks-based educational software that allows students to write and play their own 3D games online. It is the online version of StarLogo TNG. This thesis explores the problem of needing more accurate collision detection in StarLogo Nova while maintaining reasonable performance. Three new collision detection systems for StarLogo Nova are developed and evaluated. Compared to the spheres used to perform collision checks in the current system, the first new system, called the TightestFitCollider, introduces a variety of bounding spheres, bounding boxes, and bounding capsules as bounding structures that may fit the models in StarLogo Nova more closely. The second system, called the HierarchicalCollider, uses hierarchies of bounding boxes to perform even more precise collision detection than the TightestFitCollider. Finally, the third system combines the first two systems, so that the advantages of each can be used as appropriate. The three systems are evaluated for their accuracy and performance within the StarLogo Nova framework.by Divya Bajekal.M. Eng
High Temporal and Spectral Resolution Interferometric Observations of Unusual Solar Radio Bursts
No full textWe report very high temporal and spectral resolution interferometric observations
of some unusual solar radio bursts near 1420 MHz. These bursts were observed on 13
September 2005, 22 minutes after the peak of a GOES class X flare from the NOAA
region 10808. Our observations show 11 episodes of narrow-band intermittent emission
within a span of ≈8 s. Each episode shows a heavily frequency-modulated band of emission
with a spectral slope of about −245.5 MHz s−1 [s superscript -1], comprising up to 8 individual blobs of
emission and lasts for 10–15 ms. The blobs themselves have a spectral slope of ≈ 0 MHz
s−1 [s superscript -1], are ≈200–250 kHz wide, appear every ≈400 kHz and last for ≈ 4–5 ms. These
bursts show a brightness temperatures in the range 1012 [10 superscript 12] K, which suggests a coherent
emission mechanism. We believe these are the first high temporal and spectral resolution
interferometric observations of such rapid and narrow bandwidth solar bursts close to 1420
MHz and present an analysis of their temporal and spectral characteristics.National Science Foundation (U.S.). Research Experience for Undergraduates (Program) (Grant AST-0138506
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