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Smith-Ramesh Dryad Archive
No full textThis zip archive includes the raw model output presented in Smith-Ramesh 2018, Ecology Letters, entitled "Predators in the plant-soil feedback loop: Aboveground plant-associated predators may alter the outcome of plant-soil interactions", as well as the code files used to generate the data. The data were generated using a cellular automaton model
Burial Rights and Religious Freedom in India A Constitutional Analysis of Ramesh Baghel v. State of Chhattisgarh
Full text linkThrough the ruling lately delivered by the Supreme Court in Ramesh Baghel v. State of Chhattisgarh, a rather gloomy picture has been painted of India’s unfinished territory of secularism, especially regarding religious freedom. Burial rights, an aspect of constitutional equality and fundamental human necessity, were at stake in Ramesh Baghel. What ensued, however, was to be a saga of religious exclusion, bureaucratic obstinacy, and judicial restraint
The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics
No full textThis volume is a collection of the key writings of Professor Ramesh Thakur on norms and laws regulating the international use of force. The adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle by world leaders assembled at the UN summit in 2005 is widely acknowledged to represent one of the great normative advances in international politics since 1945. The author has been involved in this shift from the dominant norm of non-intervention to R2P as an actor, public intellectual and academic and has been a key thinker in this process. These essays represent the author's writings on R2P, including reference to test cases as they arose, such as with Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008. Comprising essays by a key thinker and agent in the Responsibility to Protect debates, this book will be of much interest to students of international politics, human rights, international law, war and conflict studies, international security and IR in general
An interview with Prof. Ramesh Jain
No full textRamesh Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator. He is a Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. Earlier he has been at Georgia Tech, University of California, San Diego, University of Michigan, and some other universities in many countries. He was educated at Nagpur University (B.E.) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Ph.D.) in India. His current research is in Social Life Networks including EventShop and Objective Self, and Health Intelligence. He has been an active member of professional community serving in various positions and contributing more than 400 research papers and coauthoring several books including text books in Machine Vision and Multimedia Computing. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, IEEE, IAPR, and SPIE.
Ramesh co-founded several companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. He also advised major companies in multimedia and search technology. He still enjoys the thrill of start-up environment.
His research and entrepreneurial interests have been in computer vision, AI, multimedia, and social computing. He is the founding director of Institute for Future Health at UCI.</jats:p
An algorithmic approach to Dold-Puppe complexes
No full textA Dold-Puppe complex is the image NF\Gamma(C.) of a chain complex C. under the composition of the functors \Gamma, F and N where \Gamma and N are given by the Dold-Kan correspondence and F is a not-necessarily linear functor between two abelian categories. The first half of this paper gives an algorithm that streamlines the calculation of \Gamma(C.). The second half gives an algorithm that allows the explicit calculation of the Dold-Puppe complex NF\Gamma(C.) in terms of the cross-effect functors of F
The Life Model of Nisargadatta Maharaj as Interpreted by Ramesh Balsekar
No full textRamesh Balsekar (1917–2009) was a disciple of Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981). Nisargadatta Maharaj lived in Bombay and taught what he realized: For doing our dharma everything is provided for us. Thus we can focus our attention on discovering “Who one is“ and let life flow. In 1996 the author of this article had a short conversation with Ramesh Balsekar, who presented his way of understanding the teaching of Nisargadatta Maharaj
A novel design for an RF MEMS resistive switch on PCB substrate
No full textCopyright @ 2008 Stimulation Action on MEM
Maternal Health Financing – Issues and Options: A Study of Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat
Full text linkGovernment of Gujarat announced a “Chiranjeevi Yojana” in April 2005. The objective of this scheme is to encourage private medical practitioners to provide maternity health services in remote areas which record the highest infant and maternal mortality and thereby improve the institutional delivery rate in Gujarat. The scheme was finally launched as a one year pilot project in December 2005 in five districts viz., Banaskantha, Dahod, Kutch, Panchmahal, and Sabarkantha. The private empanelled providers are reimbursed on capitation payment basis according to which they are reimbursed at a fixed rate for deliveries carried out by them. The payments are made for a batch of 100 deliveries. This is expected to take care of case-mix differences (i.e., normal or complicated deliveries) and help the providers to keep the costs below the reimbursed amounts. The scheme proposes to use a voucher system to target the people living below poverty line. The objective of this paper is to document the experience in implementing this scheme and discuss the issues in up-scaling it further.
Introduction
No full textThe 1990s saw the United Nations, the militaries of key member states, and NGOs increasingly entangled in the complex affairs of disrupted states. Whether as deliverers of humanitarian assistance or as agents of political, social, and civic reconstruction, whether in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, or East Timor, these actors have had to learn ways of interacting with each other in order to optimize the benefits for the populations they seek to assist. Yet the challenges have proved daunting. Civil and military actors have different organizational cultures and standard operating procedures and are confronted with the need to work together to perform tasks to which different actors may attach quite different priorities.\ud
From Civil Strife to Civil Society explores the nature of these challenges, blending the experience of scholars and practitioners. It is underpinned by an understanding that recovery from disruption is a laborious process that can easily be de-railed. The first part of the book offers a rigorous examination of the dimensions of state disruption and the roles of the international community in responding to it; the second part looks at military doctrine for dealing with disorder and humanitarian emergencies; the third part examines mechanisms for ending violence and delivering justice in post-conflict times; the fourth part investigates the problems of rebuilding trust and promoting democracy; the fifth part deals with the reconstitution of the rule of law; while the sixth and seventh parts address the reestablishment of social and civil order.\u
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