3,698 research outputs found
A nonlinear mathematical model of respiratory sinus arrythmia
No full textThesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993Includes bibliographical references (leaf 62-63).by Usha B. Tedrow.B.S.B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
The Study on Programmes, Facilities and Achievements in USHA Schools of Athletics
No full textThe study on this paper focus on the various programmes, facilities and achievements that are available at USHA School of Athletics, Quilandy, Calicut District, Kerala, India. The personal interview technique was adopted for the collection of data. After obtaining permission to visit the school, through proper channel, the author visited the campus personally for the detailed study with a check list to collect data. The detail of the collected data pattern to the study was classified as General Information, Programmes, Facilities, Achievements and Special Information. Going through the analysis and interpretation of the data, it shows about the detailed information of the school and its vision, mission, various future plans and table wise detailed information about achievements and its diagrammatic representation on both state and national level. In short we can state USHA School of Athletics is best in their organization and administration looking forward its goal for achieving the Olympic medals
Growing urban anxiety and eco-dystopia in Usha K. R.’s Monkey Man
No full textUrban anxiety is the wretched condition people undergo due to urbanization, and they become apprehensive when thinking about a sustainable future. When a city becomes urban, some people are thrilled to explore the elevated opportunities it provides, while some fear the havoc of urbanization. The following research is based on Usha K.R.’s Monkey Man, which seeks to understand how Bangalore city witnessed a massive transformation due to urbanization from being a pensioner’s paradise to India’s renowned Silicon Valley and India’s giant IT hub. The objectives of this research are two-fold (i) to understand how urbanization makes people’s lives anxious, and (ii) to analyze how urbanization also causes environmental distress leading to eco-dystopia. Monkey Man has been the subject of urban studies, yet the notions of anxiety and dystopia are relevant today. It intends to remind the city dwellers that they can survive with minimal nature exposure but cannot live a wholesome life without it. The objectives of this research could be achieved by combining the idea of urbanization and eco-dystopia with ecocritical theory
Phosphate starvation-inducible gene ushA encodes a 5 ' nucleotidase required for growth of Corynebacterium glutamicum on media with nucleotides as the phosphorus source
No full textRittmann D, Sorger-Herrmann U, Wendisch VF. Phosphate starvation-inducible gene ushA encodes a 5 ' nucleotidase required for growth of Corynebacterium glutamicum on media with nucleotides as the phosphorus source. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2005;71(8):4339-4344.Phosphorus is an essential component of macromolecules, like DNA, and central metabolic intermediates, such as sugar phosphates, and bacteria possess enzymes and control mechanisms that provide an optimal supply of phosphorus from the environment. UDP-sugar hydrolases and 5' nucleotidases may play roles in signal transduction, as they do in mammals, in nucleotide salvage, as demonstrated for UshA of Escherichia coli, or in phosphorus metabolism. The Corynebacterium glutamicum gene ushA was found to encode a secreted enzyme which is active as a 5' nucleotidase and a UDP-sugar hydrolase. This enzyme was synthesized and secreted into the medium when C. glutamicum was starved for inorganic phosphate. UshA was required for growth of C. glutamicum on AMP and UDP-glucose as sole sources of phosphorus. Thus, in contrast to UshA from E. coli, C. glutamicum UshA is an important component of the phosphate starvation response of this species and is necessary to access nucleotides and related compounds as sources of phosphorus
Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature
No full textFemale friendships and visionary women / Jennifer N. Brown -- The foundations of friendship: Amicitia, literary production, and spiritual community in Marie de France / Stella Wang -- Friendship and resistance in the Vitae of Italian holy women / Andrea Boffa -- Sisters and friends: the medieval nuns of Syon Abbey / Alexandra Verini -- "Amonge maydenes moo": gender-based community, racial thinking, and aristocratic women's work in Emaré / Lydia Yaitsky Kertz -- Women's communities and the possibility of friendship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur / Usha Vishnuvajjala -- Female friendship in late medieval English literature: cultural translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- Cultivating cummarship: female friendship, alcohol, and pedagogical community in the alewife poem / Carissa M. Harris -- "All these relationships between women": Chaucer and the Bechdel test for female friendship / Karma Lochrie -- The politics of virtual friendship in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies / Christine Chism -- Prosthetic friendship and the theater of fraternity / Laurie A. Finke -- Conversations among friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and the arts of storytelling / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing -- Afterword: Friendship at a distance / Penelope Anderson
A message from Dean Usha R. Rodrigues
No full textAs we begin a new year and a new semester, I am pleased to write to you as the 14th dean of the University of Georgia School of Law. Thank you for all the warm wishes and offers of support you have sent since the announcement of my appointment. My family and I have been deeply moved by the generous welcome I have received. When I first arrived in Athens in the fall of 2005, I never imagined that nearly 20 years later I would serve in this role. What attracted me to UGA all those years ago is precisely what has kept me here: the extraordinary sense of community that we all cherish. It is that shared sense of community that has inspired me to take on this important position.
Over the past few weeks, I have been pondering the second beat of our familiar tagline: “Prepare. Connect. Lead.” The idea of connection resonates especially deeply with me, perhaps because connection is so crucial to the theory and practice of law. When students’ eyes light up with understanding, they are making connections. Perhaps they are seeing the relationship between the different fields of law, how insights from contracts apply in property or federal courts. Perhaps they are connecting doctrine with the practice of law through the many experiential opportunities we offer.
As important as these kinds of connections are, human connections are just as vital. The strong relationships that we have – between and among students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends – are critical to who we are and what we do. So, with the refrain of connect top of mind, I will share a few thoughts about where we are and where we are headed.
I want to assure you that our law school is in a good place – a very good place – thanks to the hard work so many have invested in our community. We will build on this foundation of strength, remaining focused on our core mission: to be a great national public law school that matches excellence with access.
Advancing that mission means recruiting and retaining intellectually vibrant faculty who will engage in the important national, state and local issues of our day. These faculty will educate the next generation of legal leaders. As a Tier-1 research university, UGA affords an array of opportunities to pursue interdisciplinary research and federal grants with faculty colleagues across campus. There is room for growth in this area, including with the new School of Medicine, to attract legal scholars to Athens. We also want to deepen our connections with members of the judiciary – both by helping our students secure clerkships across the country and by bringing more jurists to campus.
We will continue to measure our success by student outcomes like bar passage, employment and student debt. We want our graduates to connect their passions with their professional dreams – whether it is big law or solo practice; public service or in-house; practice in Rome, GA, or in Rome, Italy. Bottom line – wherever our students want to go, our law school can get them there.
UGA Law has risen in important national rankings – including U.S. News & World Report (#20 overall/#7 among publics) and Best Value Law School (#1 for five of the last seven years). We are seeing increased interest among prospective students, potential employers and professors. This recognition is gratifying, of course, but it is meaningful only because it is an acknowledgment of the quality of our law school. This growing external awareness of our value helps us to better connect with and serve the needs of the citizens of our state, our nation and our globe.
Under the committed leadership of the deans who came before me, we have accomplished so much. It is our strong community and shared purpose that will propel us forward as we remain a culture that values inclusive excellence, where every individual feels they are valued, supported and an integral part of our collective success.
I want to emphasize that the true strength of our institution lies in our people – the faculty, staff, alumni, students and friends of our law school. This was especially evident during and following the tragic event last week in New Orleans. I was moved by the compassion and solidarity demonstrated by our students and alumni supporting one another during such an awful time, as it spoke volumes about the community that we all hold so dear.
Please know I am deeply honored to have been chosen as your dean, and I look forward to enhancing existing relationships and building new connections as we embark on this new journey together. I am counting on each of you to help advance the mission and vision of the University of Georgia School of Law. Together we can strengthen our institution and exemplify what a great national public law school can and should be.
Sincerely,
Usha R. RodriguesDean, University Professor & M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities La
Comparison of Proteins of Brown and White Finger Millet; Before and After Processing
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
Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity: Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry
No full textThis paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in the global pulp and paper industry. This industry is important because it has traditionally accounted for significant amounts of employment and capital investment in North America and Europe. In contrast to much of the existing literature which focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment transactions in four main areas of operations: (i) mechanical, (ii) chemicals, (iii) monitoring devices and (iv) information technology. We find that firms which made decisions to implement a greater number of investment transactions in modernization achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation variables such as patents and R&D. Investment transactions in the information technology and digital monitoring devices imparted a particularly noticeable boost to productivity. These results are obtained after controlling for other firm-specific variables such as capital-intensity and mergers and acquisitions. Two broad messages emerge from our study. First, firms’ decisions to undertake investments in modernization and various forms of incremental innovations appear to be critical for achieving gains in productivity. While these may typically generate small gains on a year-to-year basis, they can compound to form meaningful differences in performance, productivity and competitive position across firms in the longer-run. Second, for some of the traditional industries like pulp and paper, R&D and patents seem to be particularly poor indicators of innovation and, more generally, how firms go about achieving gains in productivity. While this paper focuses on the pulp and paper industry, our broad framework and methodology is general and can be applied to understanding firms’ strategies related to enhancing performance and productivity in a variety of industries.Pulp and paper industry; investment; modernization; innovation; productivity; organizational behavior
Mechanical characterization and numerical simulation of a subcutaneous implantable 3D printed cell encapsulation system
No full textModelling falling film flow: an adjustable formulation
No full textInternational audienceA new two-equation model for gravity-driven liquid film flow based on the long-wave expansion has been derived. The novelty of the model consists in using a base velocity profile combining parabolic (Ruyer-Quil & Manneville, Eur. Phys. J. B, vol. 15, issue 2, 2000, pp. 357–369) and ellipse (Usha et al. , Phys. Fluids , vol. 32, issue 1, 2020, 013603) profile functions in the wall-normal coordinate. The dependence on a free parameter related to the eccentricity of an ellipse serves as an adjustable parameter. The resulting models are consistent at for inertia terms and at for viscous diffusion effects, and predict accurately the primary instability. Appropriate tuning of the adjustable parameter helps to recover accurate predictions for the asymptotic wave celerity of nonlinear solitary waves. Further, the model is shown to capture the closed separation vortices that can form underneath the troughs of precursory capillary ripples
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