116 research outputs found
Animalia Humorosum: Aesop's animal fables made more believable with a modern twist
No full textThere is much that is unusual about this 8½” square booklet of 28 pages followed by two pages of advertisements for other books by Óla. For starters, the pages are purple with light-colored typeface and cutout colored characters in partial-page illustrations. The T of C uses superscript to indicate page numbers for the twelve fables. That same page clarifies that Ólafia L. Óla is a pseudonym for V. Subhash. In TH, the hare, not the tortoise, challenges to a race upon no provocation. The author turns this tale into the more usual “Rabbit Races the Hedgehog,” famous among Grimm’s fairytales. Every one of the species looks the same to the superficial hare. In LM, after the mouse frees the lion, the hungry lion eats the mouse. “Steer clear of known dangers.” DW is told just as in the tradition. “Better die on your feet than live on your knees.” In TB, the second traveler takes off his socks; the smell of them revolts the bear, who departs. What did the bear whisper to him? “Tell that fellow that trees offer no safety because bears are good climbers.” The ox makes up a snake friend to worry the dog out of his manger. A passing hunter saves the shepherd boy attacked by a real wolf. The mice do manage to get a bell around the cat’s neck by having it ready around their hole when the cat pokes in its head. Two foxes jump for grapes. One reacts according to the tradition. The other says the effort has been stupid. “We are foxes. We don’t eat grapes. Let’s go and catch some rabbits.” One of two crows suggests the traditional pebble approach. The other says that will take too much time and too many pebbles and will dirty the water. He manages to knock over the pitcher and they can drink both from the water spilled and the water still in the overturned pitcher. The owner of the golden goose eventually stops reading his mail, misses paying taxes, loses his property, and has to give up the goose as compensation for the unpaid taxes. The wolf escapes the lambskin and never comes back. The crow removes the doughnut from his mouth and tells the fox to move along.Ólafia L. Óla (V. Subhash
Evolved Infantry Subhash Mukhopadhyay/ বিবর্তিত পদাতিক সুভাষ মুখোপাধ্যায়
No full textWhen the present moves towards the future, leaving the past as a witness, it changes itself and reaches its end. In this change, even if the external structure changes, the ideological infrastructure remains intact. Then we do not call it change, but evolution. However, this evolution is not only an evolution of spatial geography and temporal dimensions; it is also an evolution of the mind and mood of the evolved person. Subhash Mukherjee is no exception of this thinking. He is a real example of such evolution. Not only in his political philosophy of life, but also in his literary-centered meditations, poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay did not follow a set path. He changed his opinion, but remained steadfast in his goal. He moved away from leftism ideology and joined hands
with Gandhism. That is true. However, he did not abandon communism. Evolution is the law of the ideological universe. But we must see to it that, that evolved consciousness does not hurt the collective convictions. Subhash Mukhopadhyay is a skilled thinker-artist in this work.
Therefore, in the article under discussion, the primary intention of the author will be to create an outline of evolution in terms of Subhash Mukhopadhyay’s criticism of life, social consciousness, political thought, poetic thought, poetic justice, linguistic thought, aesthetic sense etc. It is to be noted that more examples will be provided from the poet\u27s various poems to authenticate the logical tradition of the discussion. However, for the purpose of presenting the subject matter of the article, various literary forms such as novels, letters or songs will also be used in addition to the poet\u27s poems. And by the end of the article, following these steps, we will reach the evolved consciousness of poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay
Decoding "Public authority" under the RTI act: a comment on Subhash Chandra Aggarwal v. Indian national congress
No full textThe June, 2013 order of the Central Information Commission ("CIC") in Subhash Chandra Aggarwal v. Indian National Congress which brought political parties within the scope of the Right to Information ("RTI") Act, has highlighted some issues regarding the drafting and interpretation of the RTI Act. The CIC held that the six national political parties which were respondents
in the case, have the ingredients that qualify them as "public authorities" within the meaning of section 2(h) of the RTI Act. In this comment the author argues that the reasoning for holding what constitutes substantial financing that makes a body a "public authority" is not clear and the interpretation of the definition of "public authority" is inconsisten
Prader–Willi syndrome: A syndromic cause of morbid obesity
No full textPrader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex multisystem genetic disorder with a prevalence of about 1/10,000–1/30,000. It is also the first known disorder of human genomic imprinting. We report a case of a child with PWS presenting with hypotonia and feeding difficulty in the neonatal period and infancy with characteristic facial features, hyperphagia, early onset of morbid obesity, short hands and feet, intellectual disability, and other behavioral problems
Regional Languages in Indian Legal Higher Education: A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis
No full textThis empirical study examines the implementation of regional languages in Indian legal higher education by analyzing both challenges and potential solutions through a comprehensive mixed-methods approach. The study employed a mixed-methods design with a sample of 500 participants across 10 states, including 100 faculty members and 400 students from 25 law colleges. The data collection utilized validated questionnaires, achieving a response rate of 94.4%. This study tested four hypotheses using both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. The research confirmed all the hypotheses, revealing a significant positive correlation between regional language support and academic performance (χ² = 15.82, p = 0.003). Students receiving bilingual instruction demonstrated 23% better comprehension and 15% higher retention rates. Resource availability emerged as the primary implementation factor, accounting for 38% of the variance. Faculty support was strongly correlated with institutional readiness (r = 0.68, p < 0.01). The findings support the implementation of a flexible, bilingual approach to legal education, emphasizing the need for substantial resource development, faculty training, and institutional support. This study bridges a crucial gap in the existing literature by providing robust empirical evidence on the effectiveness of regional language implementation in legal education and offering concrete recommendations for policy development and implementation strategies
Prevalence of postpartum depression and association with risk factors in a tertiary care hospital
No full textBackground: Postpartum depression also known as postnatal depression is a non-psychotic depressive disorder of variable severity and it can begin as early as after delivery and can persist indefinitely if untreated. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of postpartum depression by Edinburgh postnatal depression scale and to evaluate the factors predisposing to postpartum depression.Methods: The present prospective observation study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur from 1st March 2015 to 31st August 2016. Participants were screened for postnatal depression using EPDS. A risk factor questionnaire that covered key socio-demographic and obstetrics factors were also completed by all the subjects. Main outcome measure: prevalence of a score of 13 or higher, on the EPDS. The data of the present study was recorded into computer and after proper validation, error checking, coding and decoding, the data was compiled and analysed using the SPSS Window, Appropriate univariate and bivariate analysis were carried out using the fisher exact test or Chi-square test for categorical variables.Results: The present study concludes that the prevalence of postpartum depression is 12.8% (64/500) amongst postnatal women admitted of Obstetrics unit of NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) since the prevalence of an EPDS score ≥13 (which is suggestive of PPD) was found in a significant proportion of women, screening for PPD is indicated in all postpartum subjects to identify and promptly treat these women. Identification of a clear association between certain risk factors and PPD will lead to a prompter diagnosis of PPD.</jats:p
Large data query for the exploration of employee wellbeing in a call center
No full textThe need for instant customer service has increased as the reliance on technology has become our main source of assistance. Call centers provide customers with 24 hour access to customer service, but at what cost? In this exploration, the need to assess what employee wellbeing is, and how it is being affected in the Navy Federal call Center has been brought to the forefront
Influence of plant growth regulators on indirect shoot organogenesis and secondary metabolite production in Aconitum violaceum Jacq.
No full textInfluence of plant growth regulators on indirect regeneration and secondary metabolite production in Aconitum violaceum Jacq. was evaluated. Among the different plant growth regulators studied, 2.5 μM 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 0.25 μM kinetin (Kn) promoted the highest frequency of callus production for indirect regeneration. 6-Benzyl aninopurine (BAP) was more effective in improving shoot regeneration and secondary metabolite production compared to thidiazuron (TDZ). The highest frequency of regeneration (61.8%) was obtained when calli were transferred to Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with 1 μM BAP and 0.5 μM α-naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) and was more than two-times higher when compared to the treatments with cytokinin only. Supplementation with low NAA concentrations resulted reduction in in vitro secondary metabolite production in most cases, when compared to treatments with cytokinin only. Moreover, differences in cytokinin concentrations significantly affected secondary metabolite production in some cases. The current findings highlighted the differential effects of auxin-cytokinin interactions on indirect shoot regeneration and the production of secondary metabolites in A. violaceum.Key words: Cytokinins, auxins, plant tissue culture, indirect regeneration, aconitum violaceum, secondary metabolites
Synthesis, characterization and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sensing properties of WO3 nano-particles
No full textBuckling performance improvement in 3d printed variable stiffness composite laminates: Analyzing effect of steering curvature in performance of laminates
No full textOver the past decades, fibre-reinforced composite structures have been increasingly adopted into mainstream manufacturing over conventional metals owing to their higher performance attributes, such as superior strength-to-weight ratios. Composite structures offer the unique advantage of tailoring reinforcements in correspondence with design load cases. This allows for more efficient and better performing structures.Traditionally for composite laminate structures, the design space and freedom were vastly influenced by the accumulated experience in design and certification, as well as available flexibility in manufacturing processes; the available degree of freedom in aligning fibres dictated the design freedom available. With the advent of advanced processes such as automated fibre placement (AFP), reinforced tows can now be placed with more freedom and accuracy; even allowing for tows to be steered during deposition. These are called variable stiffness composite laminates. Fibre directionality within these laminates can be tailored to achieve an optimal load redistribution, thereby increasing its structural performance.Novel additive manufacturing such as Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) allow for more complex geometries to be manufacturable in a variety of materials. Such a process can allow more design space and freedom in existing optimization frameworks for designing variable stiffness laminates. Many reinforced thermoplastic materials can be processed using FDM. Short fibre reinforced materials are very readily available and can be used on all commercially available FDM platforms with minimal changes.This research culminates the three key aspects in engineering – design, material, and process. First, a suitable design framework is chosen, which in combination with added the design freedom by virtue of a novel process such as FDM, is used to design laminates optimized for buckling performance. Additional design freedom is afforded to the optimization framework by means of relaxing the manufacturability constraint – which restricts the maximum allowable curvature of each individual path within the laminate. Secondly, these laminates are manufactured using short fibre reinforced thermoplastic material, for which the shear-induced alignment of the material is analyzed to predict the effective mechanical properties under the parameters used for printing the laminates. Lastly, to validate the effect of additional design space on the effective performance of these laminates, a suitable experimental protocol is devised and used. For the optimized laminates, two cases for maximum allowable steering curvature are considered – one low and one high, and an effective quasi-isotropic laminate is used as a benchmark for comparison. Finally, all the laminates are tested under compression and analyzed. The increase in buckling performance of optimized laminates corresponding to increase in allowable steering is verified, as well as insights are drawn from the processing and experimentation to suggest future recommendations.Aerospace Engineerin
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