8 research outputs found
Export of Indian Silk Goods
No full text The study of recent trends of export of Indian silk goods reveals that mulberry silk goods shared to the extent of 95 per cent and other silk items such as tasar and mixed silk fabrics together contributed 5 per cent of total silk export during 1990-2000. The growth rates for quantity and value of export for all mulberry silk goods together were estimated to be 0.49 and 7.98 per cent during the same period. The variety-wise export analysis shows that dress material and readymade garments put together shared 62.37 per cent of total export value during 1990-1991, their share declined to 60.42 per cent in 2000-2001. The growth rates of country-wise export earnings showed that Hong Kong, France and Italy were 16.04, 13.95 and 10.00 per cent for 1990-91 to 1999-2000. India has huge potential for increasing export earnings as it has better comparative advantages than that of China. Therefore, India has to make more efforts in increasing quality silk production to meet the growing domestic and export demands of silk products in near future. </jats:p
Impact of Japan International Co-Operation Agency (JICA) Extension Project on Quality Silk Production: a Case Study
No full textSericulture, as an agro-based enterprise, occupies an important position in Indian economy due to its high employment potential, low capital intensive and remunerative nature of the production that churns out value added products of economic importance. India is the second largest producer of raw silk, next only to China accounting for more than 13 per cent of the global silk production. The total annual production of raw silk in India was 18.48 thousand MT, of which mulberry raw silk output aggregated to about 16.53 thousand MT during 2006-07. However, the major concern of the Indian silk industry is the low level of quality and productivity as compared to other major silk producing countries such as China and Brazil. The major reason for the above problem is that the silk is produced by the use of crossbreed cocoons for reeling raw silk. The silk reeled out of these crossbreed cocoons produced in India reaches a maximum grade of C by the international standards. This silk is not preferred in the high-speed looms and mill sectors due to less uniformity, short filament length, more winding breaks and high degumming losses as compared to imported silk (Naik and Babu, 199
Colonial Shadows and Female Light: Paule Marshall’s Vision of Resistance in Brown Girl, Brownstones and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
No full textIn the present studies, Paule Marshall’s presentation of resistance displayed by Black women across colonial history and within recent times highlights the works Brown Girl, Brownstones and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People. The paper applies a postcolonial feminist viewpoint to explore how Marshall develops broad female protagonists who face obstacles from disappearance from culture, poverty and patriarchy. With inspiration from postcolonial theory, Black feminist thought and intersectionality, the analysis finds that Marshall highlights diasporic identity as something involving hardship and strength. Paule Marshall tells important stories in African American and Caribbean literature about Black womanhood, fighting for freedom and transformation in times of colonization and later years. This article investigates how Marshall’s female characters in Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1969) stand up to the legacies left by colonialism. Postcolonial and feminist theory help the author point out that Marshall observes resistance not merely as disruptive action, but as something rooted in spirituality, community life and the need to redefine oneself and one’s culture. Furthermore, the study talks about symbols and actual places of resistance, where personal development and collective memory combine to represent autonomy and picture a future free from colonialism. Marshall’s stories reveal the continuing role of women in carrying culture and driving progress in these still colonial influenced societies
Effect of Laser Cutting on Core Losses in Electrical Machines - Measurements and Modeling
No full text| openaire: EC/FP7/339380/EU//ALEMCutting of the electrical steel sheets to appropriate shape and size is performed during the manufacturing of electrical machines that leads to the magnetic material deterioration near the cutting edge. Epstein frame measurements of electrical steel samples of different widths cut by laser cutting are carried out in the range of 20-400 Hz frequency of sinusoidal excitations. Two stators one with laser cut and another one with electric discharge wire cutting are manufactured and the effect of cutting on core losses is analyzed. The effect of cutting on the magnetic permeability and core losses are modeled with analytical equations. Furthermore, the model is implemented in the finite-element (FE) simulation of the Epstein frame test setup. The presented loss model is found to reproduce the measurement results reasonably. The loss model is then applied to the simulation of a cage induction machine with time-stepping FE analysis (FEA). A significant increase in core losses was observed both in simulations and measurements due to the effect of laser cutting. The presented cutting model closely follows the measured core losses.Peer reviewe
Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
No full textThis thesis explores the representations of, and the relationship between. the migrant and the nation in selected works of the Bombay-born novelists Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie. I explore each writer's engagement with contemporary debates surrounding the material, political, social and imaginative consequences of the crisis in secularism in India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and consider how this engagement is informed by their
migrant positions beyond India's borders. A primary concern is the way in which Mistry's and Rushdie's representations of the nation, and of migrant and diasporic subjects, intersects with the representation of Bombay in their work.
This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first two chapters concentrate on Mistry's fiction, the remaining three on Rushdie's work. Published between 1988 and 2002, the central novels examined are situated within debates regarding the founding principles of the Indian nation, and notions of Indianness, the rise of communalism in general and Hindu nationalism in particular, and the renaming of Bombay as Mumbai. My readings foreground the necessity of a
close understanding of the historical and political transformations taking place within Bombay and India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but also during the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that Mistry's and Rushdie's work is informed by a deepening anxiety over these socio-political transformations, and over how reconfigurations of Indianness increasingly position minority communities, and migrant and diasporic subjects, outside of definitions of national identity.
This anxiety extends into the negotiation of their own migrant positions. My reading of the differing representations of the migrant in Mistry's and Rushdie's work engages with ideas of accountability, political responsibility, and with notions of cosmopolitanism. In doing so, I question familiar assumptions regarding the migrant condition as one of predominantly empowering political agency. I argue that, while both authors emphasise the importance of the migrant sustaining a critical engagement with India's politics, they also foreground the anxious difficulties of doing so. This difficulty informs Mistry's and Rushdie's divergent negotiation of their own position as migrant writers, and I examine how their fiction is marked by an anxiety over the adequacy of writing as a mode of political engagement with the crisis in secularism and the parochialisation of Bombay, and as a means of negotiating the politics of migrancy
Emergence of a multidrug-resistant and virulent Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage mediates serotype replacement after PCV13: an international whole-genome sequencing study
No full text© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 licenseBackground: Serotype 24F is one of the emerging pneumococcal serotypes after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). We aimed to identify lineages driving the increase of serotype 24F in France and place these findings into a global context. Methods: Whole-genome sequencing was performed on a collection of serotype 24F pneumococci from asymptomatic colonisation (n=229) and invasive disease (n=190) isolates among individuals younger than 18 years in France, from 2003 to 2018. To provide a global context, we included an additional collection of 24F isolates in the Global Pneumococcal Sequencing (GPS) project database for analysis. A Global Pneumococcal Sequence Cluster (GPSC) and a clonal complex (CC) were assigned to each genome. Phylogenetic, evolutionary, and spatiotemporal analysis were conducted using the same 24F collection and supplemented with a global collection of genomes belonging to the lineage of interest from the GPS project database (n=25 590). Findings: Serotype 24F was identified in numerous countries mainly due to the clonal spread of three lineages: GPSC10 (CC230), GPSC16 (CC156), and GPSC206 (CC7701). GPSC10 was the only multidrug-resistant lineage. GPSC10 drove the increase in 24F in France and had high invasive disease potential. The international dataset of GPSC10 (n=888) revealed that this lineage expressed 16 other serotypes, with only six included in 13-valent PCV (PCV13). All serotype 24F isolates were clustered in a single clade within the GPSC10 phylogeny and long-range transmissions were detected from Europe to other continents. Spatiotemporal analysis showed GPSC10-24F took 3–5 years to spread across France and a rapid change of serotype composition from PCV13 serotype 19A to 24F during the introduction of PCV13 was observed in neighbouring country Spain. Interpretation: Our work reveals that GPSC10 alone is a challenge for serotype-based vaccine strategy. More systematic investigation to identify lineages like GPSC10 will better inform and improve next-generation preventive strategies against pneumococcal diseases. Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Sanger Institute, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
