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Universal Oneness as the Ulterior Motive of the Incarnation of Radha and Krishna
No full textMy Affair with Radha, the debut work of Kunal Desai is the dedication to his readers who firmly believe in the divine couple Radha and Krishna. The intention of the author was to spread the awareness of the significance of divine love to the world through the example of Radha and Krishna who remain to be the epitome of transcendental oneness. The human life that has been influenced in multiple ways throughout the life time, fails to overcome the temptations and eventually ends up in misery. A solution to all the misery in the world is to experience the feeling of oneness from within, which uplifts the individual from selfishness to selflessness and eventually the individual feels empathy towards all things. A world with such human beings with the feeling of oneness, will obviously be in harmony and without any miseries.
 
Supplemental Material - Experimental and theoretical validation of nano filters fabricated through green synthesized silver nanoparticles
No full textSupplemental Material for Experimental and theoretical validation of nano filters fabricated through green synthesized silver nanoparticles by Kuravappullam V Radha, V Gopalakrishnan and Aarcha Jayakumar in Polymers from Renewable Resources</p
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
DNA Triplexes in chemistry biology and medicine
No full textThe formation of DNA triple helices offers the possibility of selectively targeting specific genes to control their expression in vivo. This anti-gene strategy provides powerful tools for the development of therapeutics (anti-cancer drugs, drugs for viral infections) at the transcriptional level. DNA triplexes are formed when an oligonucleotide binds to the major groove of double helical DNA; the third strand can bind in either a parallel motif, or an anti-parallel motif. The requirement of low pH for the protonation of cytosine in the parallel binding motif makes the formation of triple helices difficult under physiological conditions. Described in this thesis is a novel method for the synthesis of the deoxycytidine analogue, 2-amino-3-methyl-5-(2’-deoxy-?-D-ribofuranosyl)pyridine (MeP). The phosphoramidite monomer of MeP was synthesised and incorporated as a “protonated” cytidine analogue into triplex forming oligonucleotides (TFOs). It was compared with other cytosine analogues, 5-methyl-(2’-deoxy-?-D-ribofuranosyl)cytosine (MeC), 2’-Omethyl MeP (MePOMe), and 2’-O-aminoethyl MeC (MeCAE). Triplex stability studies indicate that over the pH range 6.2-8.0, the general trend observed in terms of melting temperature (Tm) was as follows: MeP > MeC > MePOMe > MeCAE. DNase I footprinting studies indicate that at pH 7.5, MeP, when incorporated into the TFO, enhances the stability of the triplex by three-fold relative to MeC. In addition, UV melting, DNase I footprinting, and gel electrophoresis studies were carried out on a triplex formed by the binding of a TFO containing MeP and a 5’-Psoralen to a target duplex. This revealed the benefits of the combined modifications on the stability of the resultant triplex. “Soaking” experiments (in vivo) were also performed with this TFO on the organism C. elegans (the worms were soaked in solutions of the TFO for TFO delivery), to observe whether the TFO would induce loss-of-function phenotypes. Tm measurements indicated that in the pH range 6.6-8.0, photo-crosslinking of the TFO to the duplex created a shift in the triplex Tm of ~ + 26 °C when compared to the un-crosslinked triple
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Využití sociálních médií v B2B prodeji
No full textTato diplomová práce se zabývá tím, jak mohou B2B obchodníci využívat sociální média v prodeji. Na základě systematické rešerše literatury, autor zjistil, že akademici, zkoumající danou problematiku, navrhují další výzkum, a to: v kterých konkrétních krocích se dají využít sociální média v prodeji (Salo, 2017). Autor se na základě toho rozhodl zjistit, jaké sociální sítě, různé technologie a pluginy se dají využít v B2B prodeji - tzv. social sellingu. Social selling se v této práci týká primárně procesu akvizice a okrajově péčí o stávající zákazníky. Autor si vybral kvalitativní průzkum pomocí 10 hloubkových polo-strukturovaných rozhovorů, aby odhalil jak, která sociální média to jsou, tak i motivaci prodejců, proč tato média používat/nepoužívat. Aby autor dodržel správnost vyhodnocení výsledků, data byla analyzována pomocí Tématické analýzy, která v této studii vykrystalizovala 2 hlavní strategické přístupy v social sellingu. Tyto přístupy (tzv. Push a Pull strategie) obsahují praktické příklady a konkrétní aktivity, které mohou prodejci využívat v každodenní praxi. Tyto výsledky jsou prezentovány s důrazem na praktičnost a jednoduchost implementace. Tvoří proto hlavní přínos autorovo výzkumu. V poslední části autor zmiňuje výzvy a manažerská doporučení, které mohou obchodníci využít v každodenním pracovním životě.This diploma thesis focuses on social media usage in B2B sales. Based on the systematic literature review conducted by the author, he has found out that recent researchers (Salo, 2017) suggest further research in the area of how and in which sales phase should various social networking sites, technologies and plugins used. To further fill this research gap, author decided to identify these social media and their usage among B2B salespeople in the so-called social selling process. The social selling process in this thesis applies mainly to acquiring new prospects and tangentially to taking care of existing clients (follow-up step). Author has chosen a qualitative research method via conducting 10 in-depth semi-structured interviews to reveal these instruments as well as motivation of a sales person on why to use social media in the selling process. The collected data was analyzed using Thematic analysis to ensure the right procedure and to identify main themes which crystalized into 2 main strategic approaches in social selling. These approaches (Push and Pull) include practical examples of concrete activities which sales people can use in their daily jobs and are presented with focus on practicality and ease of implementation. These also form the main contribution of author`s research. In the last part, author mentions challenges in social selling and recommended managerial implications for salesforce
TeX v jednoduchém unixovém prostředí
No full textsummary:Při ladění TeXového dokumentu potřebujeme mnohokrát opakovaně pouštět TeX, podívat se, jak dopadl výsledek v prohlížeči DVI nebo PDF souboru, mrknout na výpis TeXu na terminálu, podívat se případně do logu a celou činnost opakovat. V tomto článku je ukázáno, jak tuto práci dělá autor článku. Proces "editor-TeX-kuk" je zde podporován jednoduchými unixovými nástroji: bashovým skriptem texloop, který si autor pro tyto účely vytvořil, dále terminálem Xterm a jednoduchým editorem, který umí navázat na klávesovou zkratku spuštění příkazu v systému. Čtenář se zde může inspirovat a přizpůsobit tyto nástroje svým vlastním potřebám. V článku je popsána funkce skriptu texloop, dále je neformálně rozveden dlouholetý vývoj autorova vztahu k textovým editorům a konečně je zde uvedena konfigurace terminálu Xterm, aby vyhovoval českému prostředí jak v kódování ISO-8859-2, tak v kódování UTF-8. Pro kódování UTF-8 si v závěru článku vygenerujeme TeXový formát csplain.summary:By debugging a TeX document it is necessary many times repeatedly to run TeX, to look for the result in DVI or PDF file, to gander the TeX output on the terminal, or eventually to have a look in the log-file, and all that action to repeat. In the paper it is show, how this work is made by author. The process '‘'editor-TeX-look' is supported by simple Unix tools: bash script texloop, created by author for these purposes, Xterm terminal and a simple editor, which is able to link to the shortcut key the activation of a system command. The reader could be inspired with the solution and to adapt these tools to his/her own needs. In the paper the function of the texloop script is described, and further the longstanding evolution of the author's relation to text editors is informal elaborated and finally a configuration of Xterm terminal, suitable for the czech environment with both ISO-8859-2 and UTF-8 encoding is introduced. For UTF-8 encoding the TeX format csplain is generated at the end of the paper
Democratizing error-efficient computing
No full textWe live in a world where errors in computing are becoming ubiquitous and come from a wide variety of sources -- from unintentional bit flips in devices to deliberate approximations and malicious attacks. Future systems must be built to extract maximum computational efficiency while operating with heterogeneous sources of errors. The paradigm of Error-Efficient Computing offers a promising solution by designing efficient computing systems that conserve resources (e.g., time, energy, cost) by allowing the system to make controlled errors.
Despite its promise, the widespread adoption of error-efficiency has been thwarted by (1) a lack of principled and uni ed methodologies to assess and exploit error-efficiency opportunities in a given system and (2) excessive programmer burden. This dissertation addresses these limitations by developing methodologies that enable systematic, principled and scalable application of error-efficiency with minimal programmer input.
Starting from first principles, the first contribution of this work is the development of automated application-level error analysis tools and techniques that can automatically determine, with high speed and accuracy, the output that a given program will produce for each of the billions of errors that the program might encounter in its computation and data. Using automated error analysis, a comprehensive view of the application's error characteristics, or in other words its error pro file, is derived without the need for programmer expertise. To demonstrate the versatility of this approach, the next contribution of this work is to show how the automatically generated application error profi les can be used to devise different (hardware- and software-based) error efficiency solutions -- from low-cost resiliency to approximate computing -- that can be customized to the application and/or user requirements and output quality targets. Finally, using the novel insight that analyzing a piece of software for (hardware) errors should be similar to testing it for software bugs, concepts from software testing are systematically adapted to significantly improve the speed and scalability of automated error analyses; while the improvements in speed and scalability make error analysis more practical within a computing stack, the methodology used lays the foundation for a principled integration of (hardware) error analysis into the software development work-flow.
Overall, the contributions of this dissertation further the goal of enabling the adoption of error-efficiency as a first-class design principle by developing systematic methodologies that allow a principled, unified, and yet, customizable way of exploiting error-efficiency.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2021-03-04 without embargo termsThe student, Radha Venkatagiri, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-03 at 12:19.The student, Radha Venkatagiri, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-12-03 at 13:36.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-12-03 at 16:26.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16059 on 2021-03-04 at 15:36:07Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:38:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Analýza perspektivy vedoucích prodeje na řízení pojišťovacích agentů v etnicky různorodých zastoupeních v Organizaci G, Malajsie.
No full textCílem této práce je odhalit klíčové faktory a výzvy spojené s řízením etnicky různorodého pojišťovacího zastoupení v oboru životního pojištění v Malajsii. Autor si klade za cíl zkoumat pohled vedoucích prodeje v Organizaci G v Malajsii na jejich způsob řízení agentů. Kombinované kvantitativní a kvalitativní metody budou použity prostřednictvím průzkumu a rozhovorů se 79 agenty a 12 vedoucími prodeje. Odpovědi budou analyzovány za účelem porozumění výzvám, kterým čelí vedoucí prodeje při řízení etnicky různorodého zastoupení, a zkoumat potenciální řešení. Autor navrhuje iniciativy a metody k posílení stylů vedení a zlepšení procesů pro udržení úspěšného zastoupení v kontextu etnické rozmanitosti.The goal of this thesis is to uncover the key factors and challenges in managing an ethnically diverse insurance agency in Malaysia's life insurance industry. The author aims to examine the sales managers' perspective in Organisation G, Malaysia, regarding their expression of managing their agents. Quantitative and qualitative methods will be employed through surveys and interviews among 79 agents and 12 sales managers. The responses will be analysed to understand the challenges sales managers face in managing a multi-ethnic agency and explore potential solutions. The author proposes initiatives and methods to enhance leadership styles and improve the processes for maintaining a successful agency in the context of multi-ethnicity
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