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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
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
Governance and Development in Karnataka: A Symposium in Economic and Political Weekly
No full textWP 2006-15 July 2006Governance and the “Karnataka Model of Development” Gopal Kadekodi, Ravi Kanbur and Vijayendra Rao; Change in Karnataka Over the Last Generation: Villages and the Wider Context James Manor; The Political Economy of Gram Panchayats in South India Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao; Dynamics of Local Governance in Karnataka Kripa Ananthpur; Federalism, Urban Decentralization and Citizen Participation Ramesh Ramanathan; Systematic Hierarchies and Systemic Failures: Gender and Health Inequities in Koppal District Gita Sen, Aditi Iyer and Asha George; To Be or Not to Be: Problems in Locating Women in Public Policy Devaki Jai
A novel design for an RF MEMS resistive switch on PCB substrate
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BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing
No full textUAVs are becoming versatile and valuable platforms for various applications. However, the main limitation is their flying time. We present BEAVIS, a novel aerial robotic platform striking an unparalleled trade-off between the maneuverability of drones and the long-lasting capacity of blimps. BEAVIS scores highly in applications where drones enjoy unconstrained mobility yet suffer from limited lifetime. A nonlinear flight controller exploiting novel, unexplored, aerodynamic phenomena to regulate the ambient pressure and enable all translational and yaw degrees of freedom is proposed without direct actuation in the vertical direction. BEAVIS has built-in rotor fault detection and tolerance. We explain the design and the necessary background in detail. We verify the dynamics of BEAVIS and demonstrate its distinct advantages, such as agility, over existing platforms including the degrees of freedom akin to a drone with 11.36× increased lifetime. We exemplify the potential of BEAVIS to become an invaluable platform for many applications
Aerodynamic investigation of an airfoil in deep stall using SU2
No full textAirfoils in deep stall have been a subject of extensive computational discussion in the past, with multiple efforts being performed by various institutions to test their solvers and turbulence/hybrid sub-grid scale (SGS) models for their use in massively separated flows. This case has an important application in turbomachinery where unsteady flow is encountered - including wind turbines and helicopter rotors - for studies in both aerodynamics as well as aeroacoustics. Stalling conditions are caused in these applications when there is blade-wake interaction, and also in the presence of strong gusts. The change in the local flow physics in both these cases is caused by a local variation in the angle of attack, which can affect the aerodynamic performance from entire blades. Although there have been studies in the past that have involved various hybrid SGS models and turbulence models to investigate the effect of them for this flow case, the shear-layer adapted SGS (SLA-SGS) model has not found precedence for the purpose of aerodynamic investigation in this flow case. Therefore, this thesis provides an extensive aerodynamic investigation of an airfoil in deep stall, with a comparison of flow field visualization results using this approach, and comparing aerodynamic performance parameters with other hybrid SGS models. An attempt has also been made to compare the simulation results with other turbulence models and meshing strategies for similar airfoils, to present a case to estimate the similarities and differences in performance. The results show that the there is an overprediction of the trends obtained from the 3D results compared to the 2D experimental data. The sectional 2D results also show an overpredicted output compared to experimental data. Contradictory results are obtained in comparison to the reference literature used for different SGS models.Finally, additional studies have been performed on the aerodynamics points of view, with an overview of the acoustics code implementation in SU2 being provided. This is in order to provide an insight into not only the working of the code, but also the possibilities of implementing the code for providing acoustic outputs for the present case.Aerospace Engineering | Aerodynamic
On the derived functors of the third symmetric-power functor
No full textWe compute the derived functors of the third symmetric-power functor and their cross-effects for certain values. These calculations match predictions by the first named author and largely prove them in general
Importance of marriage for Asian Indian women in the U.S.: an exploratory study
No full textThroughout the past century and across various cultures, the concept of marriage has significantly changed from being a union between two families to a union between two individuals. The change has penetrated South Asia, despite collectivism being the norm in Asian Indian culture. The current exploratory study was done to investigate an unexamined area of research namely, the pressure experienced by unmarried Asian Indian women in the United States. A qualitative research design combining ethnographic and grounded theory was used. Ten interviews were conducted with heterosexual, Asian Indian, Hindu women, above the age of 25, and raised in the United States. Four main research questions were addressed: (1) What pressures do family and community put on Asian Indian women to get married (2) What effect does remaining unmarried have on Asian Indian women (3) How do certain factors (i.e., past relationships, religion, skin color, and education) affect how desirable these women are to others, and how desirable they feel? and (4) What are Asian Indian women’s perspectives on marriage? The interview data collected were analyzed to uncover qualitative themes. These themes included the following: the women interviewed felt that all Asian Indian women were born to be brides, that Asian Indian women did not go through a process of separation-individuation as defined in Western psychology, that parents experienced a great deal of shame if their daughters remained unmarried, that a great amount of interpersonal conflict with family and friends resulted from staying single, and that most women had felt that they needed to get married before the age of thirty. Although several of the women interviewed stated that they were ambivalent about the idea of marrying someone of Indian origin, the women felt that several factors affected how desirable they were to other members of the Indian community. The findings of this study suggest important implications for clinical psychology training for mental health clinicians. The study suggests that therapists should have an increased understanding of the difference in separation-individuation between Western and Asian Indian culture, the importance of an Asian Indian woman’s external presentation, and the extreme shame that these women may experience by remaining single.Psy. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Snigdha Ramesh Ratho
Automated detection of ultrastructural features at neuronal synapses
No full textSynaptic vesicles are the ultracellular structures responsible for carrying chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters from inside the axon of a neuron to the synaptic junction outside. The variation in size and location of these structures is important in the study of their use and reuse in neurons. We propose a method to locate and estimate the diameter of vesicles in electron microscope images of synapses. We train a U-Net inspired model to perform pixel-wise segmentation of the vesicles against background pixels. We then use contour detection on the resulting segmentation maps to determine individual vesicle centers and effective diameters. To our knowledge, there are no baselines in this task so we establish one on an in-house dataset. Our results show that the proposed model performed well on this task.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Ashwin Ramesh, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-12 at 19:48.The student, Ashwin Ramesh, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-05-12 at 20:03.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-05-13 at 10:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15370 on 2020-08-25 at 17:31:20Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T23:58:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A Field Ion Microscope Study of Interfaces
No full textTitle: A Field Ion Microscope Study of Interfaces, Author: Ramesh Rajagopal, Location: ThodeThis investigation is concerned with the observation of interfaces between f.c.c. and b.c.c. crystals in the field ion microscope. A high vacuum field ion microscope was designed and constructed to operate under liquid nitrogen cooling and helium gas imaging, with facilities for vapour deposition. Platinum and iridium were deposited on tungsten field ion emitters by shadow vapour deposition. The nature and contrast of deposits obtained under various experimental conditions are examined. The atomic matching observed at interfaces is discussed within the limitations of the existing interfacial contrast theory.ThesisMaster of Engineering (ME
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