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Mukul Roy Interview
No full textBio: [by Emily Ellert] Mukul Roy was born in Udupi, India where she was raised by her mother and father [the artist declined to specify what year she was born]. She began college there and finished her first two years, called intermediary. Then she moved to Calcutta with her family and continued studying literature there. During her time in Calcutta, there were various sociopolitical movements occurring and it resulted in a lot of violence and bombings. She met her husband in Calcutta, and in 1966 they moved to England where he was continuing his studies to be a physician. During this time, Mukul quit her studies and focused on being a stay at home mom. After various moves around the U.K., for her husband’s studies, her husband got a job opportunity in Chicago. The couple moved to the South side of Chicago and stayed in an apartment provided by the hospital her husband was studying at.
In America, she felt lonely. Her husband was always busy, and she was rather bored as she had a hard time communicating in English. She decided that she wanted to get a camera and that it would be a way for her to communicate without words.
After receiving a Nikon camera from her husband, she realized she didn’t know what to do with it. She started to take classes at the Institute of Art (she believes this was the name of the college) that closed down a few semesters after she started. She decided to continue her studies at Columbia College, dabbling in some other media but ultimately sticking with photography. She received her Master’s degree and got her own exhibition at Columbia’s gallery.
At first, she was mostly taking pictures of the Chicago Indian community and was documenting various small Indian events in Chicago. She soon began to be recognized and published, with publications such as the Indian Tribune and the Chicago Tribune posting her work. More and more organizations were asking her to take pictures for them, and she began to make money off of her work.
Mukul also traveled back to India where she was hit by a huge realization: a lot had changed since she had been gone. She, herself, had changed a lot. Her old friends didn’t consider her part of the community anymore and it had a profound effect on her. She began to take pictures with a new purpose: to document anything and everything worth documenting. She didn’t want anything to be lost and have nothing she can look back on, and she wanted people to have a documented history of their community, so she pursued her art with a new passion.
After returning to Chicago, she was still working mostly in the Indian community, but branching out for certain events. She had little interest in documenting large events because they were already documented by others, but she recognizes that each person has a different perception of events. Many of her works were inspired by Indian women and the lives of Indian families in America.
She has since been exhibited at the University of Chicago, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Chicago Cultural Center, as well as being published in many, many, newspapers, magazines, and other various publications. She now lives on the North side of Chicago right on Lake Shore Drive, where she continues to work on projects for her own personal collection
Caste and Nature
No full textRarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.</p
Evaluating levy flight parameters for random searches in a 2D space
No full textThesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pag 23).It is experimentally known that the flight lengths of random searches by foragers such as honey bees statistically belong to a power law distribution. Optimality of such random searches has been a topic of extensive research because knowing their optimal parameters may help applied sciences. Viswanathan et al. have shown the inverse-square power law to be the optimal law for such random searches. This thesis explores the capability of the model presented in such that it can be applied to Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs). The thesis also identifies the minimum flight length, lmin, as an important factor that needs to be controlled based on the UAV's sensor range. We present a theoretical lmin as an explicit function of the sensor range, rv, and an estimated target density, p.by Mukul Kumar Singh.S.B
Bootstrapped spatial statistics:a more robust approach to the analysis of finite strain data
No full textStandard spatial statistics involves exploratory data analysis (EDA) and the computation of a semi-variogram from spatial data such as the finite strain data from a thrust sheet. However, the uncertainties in the computation of the most of the EDA and the semi-variogram parameters cannot be estimated; standard EDA allows the computation of the uncertainties associated with only the sample mean. Bootstrapped EDA is found to be more robust than the13; standard EDA because it allows uncertainties to be computed for all EDA parameters. Bootstrapped spatial statistics also allows the computation of a better and a more robust semivariogram than standard spatial statistics as the uncertainties associated with the semivariogram parameters can be ascertained. The range (a)= 750 m and sill (c) = 0.008 values associated with the exponential semi-variogram computed by Mukul (Journal of Structural Geology, 20 (4), 371-384, 1998) for the finite strain data from the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt in western USA, was recomputed using Bootstrapped Spatial Statistics. The range (a) was13; recomputed as 719.4 xB1;32.2048 and the sill (c) as 0.0097xB1; 0.0004. Kriging estimates obtained using the Bootstrapped semi-variogram indicate that the results are practically insensitive to the uncertainty associated with the estimation of parameters of the semi-variogram used
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Fueling the City: Coal, Land, and the Politics of Dispossession in South India
No full textFor more than a century, coal has been the principal fuel of the city. Coal not only produces power after it is burned; it also fuels processes of urbanization and dispossession. Long after coal is distributed through power lines, coal circulates hundreds of miles across the city’s lands, rivers, and atmospheres in profoundly uneven and unpredictable ways. How has the city shaped, and been shaped by, the production and distribution of coal power? How has coal transformed social and spatial relations in the city? How might tracing contests over the meaning and politics of coal change how we conceptualize the city’s pasts and its futures? Drawing upon multi-sited fieldwork along the rapidly urbanizing coast of Chennai, this dissertation project tracks the ways in which coal circulates within and across the city’s infrastructures, from power plants and transmission lines to pipelines and ports. The dissertation calls for attention to the ways in which energy infrastructures—and their constitutive exclusions—are crucial sites from which to rethink processes of urbanization and dispossession. I argue that the circulation of coal within, across, and through urban space is accomplished through the politics of dispossession: an ensemble of legal and planning practices that dispossess artisanal fishing villages in order to expand the coal industry. The dissertation consists of five chapters that analyze how the combustion and circulation of coal hydrocarbons, from the late colonial period to the present, has made and remade spatial boundaries of the public and private, wastelands and commons, legality and illegality. In doing so, the dissertation reframes analytical debates concerning the limits of postcolonial development and dispossession.The dissertation demonstrates that the ongoing expansion of the coal industry along the shorelines of south India crucially depends upon the illicit conversion of coastal wetlands and the dispossession of the landscapes and waterscapes of artisanal fishing villages. Such processes, however, are not accomplished by coercion alone, but through technologies of environmental planning, including land use and coastal zone maps. The project also provides an account of how fishers and activists have articulated new political coalitions that challenge the expansion of the coal industry through community-based mapping techniques, environmental litigation, and grassroots mobilization across the city
Author Correction: Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions (Nature, (2023), 621, 7980, (773-781), 10.1038/s41586-023-06440-7)
No full textCorrection to: Nature Published online 23 August 2023 In the version of the article initially published, Stanislaw Miscicki’s name incorrectly appeared as Miscicki Stanislaw. Additionally, the affiliation for Thomas T. Ibanez has been updated to “AMAP, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France”, and the second affiliation for Sharif A. Mukul has been updated to “Department of Environment and Development Studies, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh”. The corrections have been made to the HTML and PDF versions of the article. © 2023, The Author(s)
Full transcript: Agyeya and the multitudes he contained
No full textAuthor and journalist Akshaya Mukul has recently published a book about the Hindi writer Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, better known as Agyeya, titled Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya. The following is a transcript of an interview with Mukul, conducted by Trisha Gupta, journalist, critic and professor at the Jindal School of Journalism and Communication”?. They discuss the book and the ‘multitudes’ that the writer contained. The following is a transcript of the interview. It has been edited for style and clarity
INEFFICIENCY AND ABUSE OF COMPULSORY LAND ACQUISITION--AN ENQUIRY INTO THE WAY FORWARD
No full textThis paper focuses on two issues--the problems with the compulsory acquisition of land, and the regulatory and institutional impediments that obstruct voluntary land transactions. We argue that any compulsory acquisition based process is intrinsically inefficient and unfair, even if it is accompanied by presumably benevolent schemes such as land-for-land and the R&R packages. Moreover, it is inherently prone to litigation. We demonstrate how what we call the 'regulatory hold-up' precludes a large number of potential transactions in agriculture land, and puts a downward pressure on land prices. The paper offers suggestions for reforming the legal and regulatory framework governing the land and its use. Finally, we discuss the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation & Resettlement (LARR) Bill 2011. We show that the bill leaves open several backdoors for the states to favour companies. Movreover, it fails to address the fundamental causes behind rampant disputes and litigation over compensation.
Problems in Task Scheduling in Multiprocessor System
No full textThis Contemporary computer systems are multiprocessor or multicomputer machines. Their efficiency depends on good methods of administering the executed works. Fast processing of a parallel application is possible only when its parts are appropriately ordered in time and space. This calls for efficient scheduling policies in parallel computer systems. In this work deterministic problems of scheduling are considered. The classical scheduling theory assumed that the application in any moment of time is executed by only one processor. This assumption has been weakened recently, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computer systems. This monograph is devoted to problems of deterministic scheduling applications or tasks according to the scheduling terminology requiring more than one processor simultaneously. We name such applications multiprocessor tasks. In this work the complexity of open multiprocessor task scheduling problems has been established. Algorithms for scheduling multiprocessor tasks on parallel and dedicated processors are proposed. For a special case of applications with regular structure which allow for dividing it into parts of arbitrary size processed independently in parallel, a method of finding optimal scattering of work in a distributed computer system is proposed. The applications with such regular characteristics are called divisible tasks. The concept of a divisible task enables creation of tractable computation models in a wide class of computer architectures such as chains, stars, meshes, hypercubes, multistage networks. Divisible task method gives rise to the evaluation of computer system performance. Examples of such performance evaluation are presented. This work summarizes earlier works of the author as well as contains new original results. Mukul Varshney | Jyotsna | Abhakiran Rajpoot | Shivani Garg "Problems in Task Scheduling in Multiprocessor System" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-4 , June 2017, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd2198.pd
Tubular duplication of colon and terminal ileum in a female child, case report, review of literature and proposal of a new classification
No full textAbstractA case of a four and a half years old girl with total colon and terminal ileal duplication with a normally situated anus, vestibular fistula, double bladder and urethra with a unique feature of loop duplication of terminal ileum and part of the colon is reported. A proposal is made for a new simplified classification
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