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Heteroconium tulsiense Rashmi Dubey 2022, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Heteroconium tulsiense</i> Rashmi Dubey <i>sp. nov.</i> (Figs 1, 2) <p> <i>Mycobank</i> MB-839843</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>:—Named after place of collection, Tulsi Range of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Maharashtra, India.</p> <p> <b>Holotype</b>:— INDIA. Maharashtra: Mumbai, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Tulsi Range, Tiger Reserve areas, on dry twig litter, 22 January 2017, Rashmi Dubey, BSI (WC) 209274, deposited in herbarium of Botanical Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune, Maharashtra, India.</p> <p> <b>Description:—</b> Colonies on natural substrate, effuse, hairy. Mycelium superficial and immersed, composed of septate, smooth-walled, dark brown or brown hyphae, 1–2 μm diam. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, simple, erect, mostly unbranched but aggregated near the base, straight or slightly flexuous, cylindrical, smooth, thickwalled, 3–9-septate, brown to dark brown, 33–62 × 7–9 μm. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic, terminal, cylindrical, integrated, determinate or percurrent, brown, smooth, truncate at the apex, 5–9 × 5.75–7.0 μm. Conidial secession schizolytic. Conidia holoblastic, acrogenous, blastocatenate in chains of up to four, smooth, obclavate, brown, unevenly pigmented, pale brown ends, rounded at apex, truncate at base, thick-walled, 31–45 × 7.5–8.7 μm, 4–7-septate, slightly constricted at the septa.</p> <p> <b>Known distribution:—</b> Only known from type locality in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Maharashtra, India.</p>Published as part of <i>Dubey, Rashmi & Pandey, Amit D., 2022, Heteroconium tulsiense (Antennulariellaceae): a novel microfungus from Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Maharashtra, India, pp. 190-196 in Phytotaxa 536 (2)</i> on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.536.2.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6257685">http://zenodo.org/record/6257685</a>
The Blue Jackal
No full textHow surprising that I lived in Berkeley for four years and never ran across this book or this publisher while I was there! A Google search shows that Vidya Books still exists in Berkeley, though apparently with a post office box number, not a street address. This twenty-two page large-format children's book often combines text and colored illustrations on its paired pages. Sharma narrates the traditional story as an expanded fable, with pleasing development of the situation (drought and heat), scene (a small village near the jungle), and time of day (siesta). About the middle of the story, a "has" needs to be a "had" in the phrase "He has finished dyeing a load of muslin blue that morning." Perhaps the strongest illustration in the book is that of the blue jackal after he emerges from the tub. This same illustration is used on the book's dust-jacket and cover. In this telling, the jackal goes too far when he tells the other animals "Lord Krishna has made me blue in his image. He has also given me some of his special powers." This version then nicely brings the story to its climax with the long-awaited monsoon rains, which of course wash off the jackal's blue dye. "The free ride was over." When the other animals pursue the fleeing jackal, he lets out the "yowl" that is the usual give-away as to his true identity. There is an afterword on Punchtuntra stories. To my surprise, Sharma dates Dabshalim to the fourth century BCE; she says that Dabshalim "defeated the Greek Governor left behind by Alexander." There is also this statement to consider: "Some scholars connect these tales to the African Aesop…." She comments pointedly on the meaning of this story: "The story of The Blue Jackal is told in India to instill the idea of a color-blind society, as opposed to superiority of one race based on skin color." I had previously found a discontinued library copy of this book. This copy is in pristine condition and stays in the collection, while the other joins the "extras" collection.How surprising that I lived in Berkeley for four years and never ran across this book or this publisher while I was there! A Google search shows that Vidya Books still exists in Berkeley, though apparently with a post office box number, not a street address. This twenty-two page large-format children's book often combines text and colored illustrations on its paired pages. Sharma narrates the traditional story as an expanded fable, with pleasing development of the situation (drought and heat), scene (a small village near the jungle), and time of day (siesta). About the middle of the story, a "has" needs to be a "had" in the phrase "He has finished dyeing a load of muslin blue that morning." Perhaps the strongest illustration in the book is that of the blue jackal after he emerges from the tub. This same illustration is used on the book's dust-jacket and cover. In this telling, the jackal goes too far when he tells the other animals "Lord Krishna has made me blue in his image. He has also given me some of his special powers." This version then nicely brings the story to its climax with the long-awaited monsoon rains, which of course wash off the jackal's blue dye. "The free ride was over." When the other animals pursue the fleeing jackal, he lets out the "yowl" that is the usual give-away as to his true identity. There is an afterword on Punchtuntra stories. To my surprise, Sharma dates Dabshalim to the fourth century BCE; she says that Dabshalim "defeated the Greek Governor left behind by Alexander." There is also this statement to consider: "Some scholars connect these tales to the African Aesop…." She comments pointedly on the meaning of this story: "The story of The Blue Jackal is told in India to instill the idea of a color-blind society, as opposed to superiority of one race based on skin color." I had previously found a discontinued library copy of this book. This copy is in pristine condition and stays in the collection, while the other joins the "extras" collection.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Written and illustrated by Rashmi SharmaWritten and illustrated by Rashmi Sharm
The Blue Jackal
No full textHow surprising that I lived in Berkeley for four years and never ran across this book or this publisher while I was there! A Google search shows that Vidya Books still exists in Berkeley, though apparently with a post office box number, not a street address. This twenty-two page large-format children's book often combines text and colored illustrations on its paired pages. Sharma narrates the traditional story as an expanded fable, with pleasing development of the situation (drought and heat), scene (a small village near the jungle), and time of day (siesta). About the middle of the story, a has needs to be a had in the phrase He has finished dyeing a load of muslin blue that morning. Perhaps the strongest illustration in the book is that of the blue jackal after he emerges from the tub. This same illustration is used on the book's dust-jacket and cover. The dust jacket is pasted down on this library-owned copy, with clear plastic covering added. In this telling, the jackal goes too far when he tells the other animals Lord Krishna has made me blue in his image. He has also given me some of his special powers. This version then nicely brings the story to its climax with the long-awaited monsoon rains, which of course wash off the jackal's blue dye. The free ride was over. When the other animals pursue the fleeing jackal, he lets out the yowl that is the usual give-away as to his true identity. There is an afterword on Punchtuntra stories. To my surprise, Sharma dates Dabshalim to the fourth century BCE; she says that Dabshalim defeated the Greek Governor left behind by Alexander. There is also this statement to consider: Some scholars connect these tales to the African Aesop…. She comments pointedly on the meaning of this story: The story of The Blue Jackal is told in India to instill the idea of a color-blind society, as opposed to superiority of one race based on skin color. Discontinued sometime after 1994 from the Main Childrens Room of the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, presumably in Ohio.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Written and illustrated by Rashmi Sharm
Refleksioner over multikulturalisme
No full textRashmi Singla deler ud af sine indtryk fra deltagelsen i International Cross-cultural Psychology Congress, som blev afholdt i Grækenland i juli 2006 Med udgangspunktet i en kritisk omtale af konferencens hegemoniske struktur afspejlet af de key note speakers, fokuseres på de anderledes stemmer. Der inddrages internationale oplæg om hvor lang tid er etniske minoriteter "gæster", om fredelig sameksistens, multikulturalisme og fejl ved ukritisk anvendelse af "standardized" forsknings redskaber i fjerne kontekster. Artiklen afslutter med understrege betydning af relevante dimensioner som sprititualitet i psykologisk praksis. Desuden fremhæves interkulturel psykologi som en disciplin der drejer sig om sammenhænge og samspil mellem makrokosmos og mikrokosmos. Udgivelsesdato: 6.oktobe
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No full text'Defensive liberal wars' : the global war on terror and the return of illiberalism in American foreign policy
No full textThis paper offers an analysis of the illiberal practices and discourse of the Global War on Terror (GWoT) and demonstrates how the United States of America used the liberal argument as a qualitative metric of its success and failure in the GWoT. I argue that 'the othering' of Salafi Jihadists as well the full military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq were both philosophically rooted in the liberal thinking of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, which have traditionally guided US foreign policy. More significantly, these liberal philosophies of history and international relations hold within them the seeds of illiberalism by depicting non-liberal, undemocratic societies/organisations as 'barbaric' - and as such prime candidates for intervention and regime change. Predicated upon this logic, the discourse of the GWoT framed Al Qaeda as a key existential threat to not only the United States but also the 'civilised world' in general and one which required a 'liberal defensive war' in response. It was the successful securitisation of Al Qaeda that essentially enabled the United States to adopt deeply illiberal policies to counter this so-called existential threat by using any means at its disposal.Peer reviewe
Forskere fra IMT bidrog til prisvindende foredragsrække på Københavns Universitet
No full textI oktober 2023 blev ’Den Alternative Forelæsningsrække’ hyldet med en pris for årets arrangement til Studieliv23, som er en fejring af frivillige studieaktiviteter på tværs af hele Københavns Universitet. Sofie Pederen, Sabina Pultz, Rashmi Singla, Jo Krøjer, Peter Busch Jensen og Susanne Ekman, der alle er forskere fra IMT, var med til at holde oplæg til forelæsningsrækken. Den Alternative Forelæsningsrække er et samarbejde mellem PsykRådet og studentermagasinet Input. Læs mere om forelæsningsrækken her: (www.denalternative.com) <br/
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
Exploration of temporal dynamics of frequency domain linear prediction cepstral coefficients for dialect classification
No full textFunding Information: The first author would like to thank the University Grants Commission India (Project No. 3582/(NET-NOV2017)) for supporting her PhD. The second author would like to thank the Academy of Finland (Projects 313390 and 330139) for supporting his stay in Finland as a Research Fellow. Funding Information: Rashmi Kethireddy received Bachelor of Technology degree from Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science, Warangal, India, in 2011, with a specialization in Information Technology (IT). She then worked in IT services for a period of two years. Post that, she received Master of Technology degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 2017, with a specialization in Computer Science Engineering. She qualified for University Grant Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) and hence was awarded with Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF). She is currently a Ph.D., scholar at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H). Her research interests include speech signal processing, acoustic analysis, machine learning, speech dialectal challenges, and speech dialect identification. Funding Information: The first author would like to thank the University Grants Commission India (Project No. 3582/(NET-NOV2017)) for supporting her PhD. The second author would like to thank the Academy of Finland (Projects 313390 and 330139) for supporting his stay in Finland as a Research Fellow. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s)Speakers exhibit dialectal traits in speech at sub-segmental, segmental, and supra-segmental levels. Any feature representation for dialect classification should appropriately represent these dialectal traits. Traditional segmental features such as mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) fail to represent sub-segmental and supra-segmental dialectal traits. This study proposes to use frequency domain linear prediction cepstral coefficients (FDLPCCs) for dialect classification inspired by its long temporal summarization during pole estimation. The i-vectors and x-vectors derived from both baseline (MFCCs, linear prediction cepstral coefficients (LPCCs), perceptual LPCCs (PLPCCs), RASTA filtered PLPCCs (PLPCC-R) and proposed (FDLPCC) features are used for identifying the dialects with support vector machine (SVM) and feed-forward neural network (FFNN) as classifiers. Proposed FDLPCC features have shown to perform better than baseline features such as MFCCs and PLPCC-Rs (best among LPCCs variants) by an absolute improvement of 3.4% and 3.9% (in unweighted average recall (UAR)), with i-vector + SVM system and 1.6% and 4.6% (in UAR), i-vector + FFNN system respectively. It is also found that there exists a complementary information between the proposed and baseline features. Furthermore current studies are compared with previous studies and it is found that performances of current studies are better than previous studies.Peer reviewe
A different approach to things: A critical theoretical presentation of non-Western ethnic minority women's opportunity for medical pluralism in Denmark
No full textForfatter: Michelle Toftegaard, stud. cand. san. Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi. Roskilde Universitet.Vejleder: Dr. Rashmi Singla, Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi, Roskilde Universitet.Baggrund: Den øgede internationale udvikling, i anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer, og dens integration med de respektive landes traditionelle medicin, peger i retningen af, at der nu anerkendes et behov for, at udvikle en sammenhængende og integreret tilgang til sundhed. Alene i Danmark fastslår tal, fra 2017, at 1.298.000 af den samlede danske, voksne befolkning har anvendt én eller flere former for alternativ behandling, inden for det seneste år. Med en løbende assimilering, af tidligere betragtede komplementære mediciner - og behandlingsformer, der i dag sikrer et samarbejde mellem det danske sundhedsvæsen og den alternative praksis, er der behov for en definition af denne praksis for, at åbne op for muligheden for medicinsk pluralisme, med respekt for den enkeltes værdiunivers og livsbetingelser.Formål: Nærværende speciale har til formål at undersøge og beskrive, de ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinders erfaringer med -, holdninger til og handlinger i relation til anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer. Med en forankring i den kritiske teoretiske forskningstradition har nærværende speciale desuden til formål at identificere de undertrykkende faktorer, der begrænser de ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinders autonomi, herunder de barrierer, som de oplever for idealet, i fremmelsen af egen sundhed og for at forebygge - og behandle sygdom, i relation til anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer. Nærværende speciales analytiske fund kan således tjene som et bidrag, ved at supplere den eksisterende viden, beroende på kvantitative data, i den vidensbase, som WHO efterspørger.Materialer og metode: Med en mixed methods tilgang, kombinerer nærværende speciale, empirimateriale fra 4 semistrukturerede interviews med ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinder i Danmark, med en dokumentanalyse af WHOs strategidokument WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023. For at opnå den kritiske teoretiske forskningstraditions dobbeltsidet perspektiv, inddrages såvel et oplevelses – og erfaringsperspektiv samt et betragtende perspektiv, som en strategisk tilgang i nærværende speciales analyse. Med en teoretisk referenceramme af Jürgen Habermas komplimenteres nærværende speciales analyse med hans teori om om begrebsparret systemverden/livsverden og dens karakteristika for handlings – og rationalitetstyper.Konklusion: Strategidokumentet, WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023, forsøger at udvide sin formålsrationelle styringskapacitet, på bekostning af livsverdenens kommunikative rationalitet, og efterlader brugerne af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer, i hænderne på markedets logik. Ved at stille brugerne af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer til ansvar for deres egen sundhed, trues den lige adgang til sundhed. Blandt den største barriere for idealet tilhørende de, ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinders oplevelse, i relation til anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer, i fremmelsen af egen sundhed og for at forebygge - og behandle sygdom, er deres møde med det danske sundhedsvæsen og lægerne som repræsentant herfor. Alt imens forsøger de ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinder at beskytte hinanden mod ”upålidelige” og ikke anvendelige behandlingsformer, som en strategi for fremmelsen af egen sundhed.Søgeord: Komplementær medicin og behandling, medicinsk pluralisme, sundhedsfremme, sundhedsfremmestrategi, barriere for humanisering. Author: Michelle Toftegaard, stud. cand. san. Department of People and Technology. Roskilde UniversityGuidance counselor: Dr. Rashmi Singla, Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University.Background: The increased international development in the use of complementary medicine and its therapies, as well as its integration with the respective countries' traditional medicine, point to the need to develop a coherent and integrated approach to health. In Denmark alone, figures from 2017 state that 1,288,000 citizens of the total Danish adult population have used one or more forms of alternative treatment in the past year. With an ongoing assimilation of previously considered complementary medicines and therapies, which today ensure collaboration between the Danish health service and the alternative medical practice, there is a need for a definition of this practice in order to open up the possibility of medical pluralism, with respect for the individual's concept of value and living conditions.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine what experiences, attitudes and actions non-Western ethnic minority women have in relation to the use of complementary medicine and its therapies. Rooted in the critical theoretical research tradition, this thesis also aims to identify the oppressive factors that limit the autonomy of non-Western ethnic minority women, including those barriers that they experience in regards to the ideal, in nurturing their own health and in preventing and treating illness, in relation to the use of complementary medicine and its therapies. The analytical findings of this thesis can thus serve as a contribution by supplementing the existing knowledge, building upon quantitative data, in the knowledge base requested by the WHO .Materials and method: With a mixed methods approach, this thesis combines empirical data from 4 semi-structured interviews with non-western ethnic minority women in Denmark, with a document analysis of WHO's strategy document ‘WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023’. To achieve the double-sided perspective of critical theoretical research tradition, it involves both an experience perspective as well as a considerate perspective, as a strategic approach in the analysis of this thesis. With a theoretical frame of reference by Jürgen Habermas, the present thesis's analysis is complemented with his theory of about the conceptual system world / life world and its characteristics investigating types of action and rationality.Conclusion: The strategy paper, WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023, seek to expand its objective rational management capacity at the expense of the life world communicative rationality, leaving users of complementary medicine and its treatments in the hands of market forces. By equipping the users of complementary medicine and its therapies with responsibility for their own health threatens equal access to health. Investigating ideals of the non-Western ethnic minority women, they experience one of the greatest barriers in their encounter with the Danish health service and doctors as its representatives - Ideals based on the use of complementary medicine and its therapies, in promoting self-health and in preventing and treating disease. Meanwhile, the non-Western ethnic minority women are trying to protect each other from "unreliable" and inapplicable forms of treatment, as a strategy for nurturing their own health.Searchword: Complementary medicine and treatment, medical pluralism, health promotion, health promotion strategy, barrier to humanization.<br/
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