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    Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia

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    Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are pro-actively undertaking skill development, training, and human resource management policies that are targeted at the service sector.services; service sector employment; service sector; south asia

    Limnology of Chanda beel

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    A limno-biological investigation was conducted in Chanda beel over a period of 8 months from June ‘95 to January ‘96. The floodplain showed temporal spatial and vertical variation in physico-chemical as well as biological conditions. During study period, physico-chemical parameters were within the suitable range forfish culture. Plankton population was higher in true beel areas. Both phytoplankton and zooplankton showed direct relationship among themselves. Presence of several indication plankton genera showed that the floodplain was eutrophic in nature

    Monorail technology - A rapid and cost effective method of decline development

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    E Chanda and B Besahttp://www.ausimm.com.au/publications/epublication.aspx?ID=431

    Limnology of Chanda beel

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    A limno-biological investigation was conducted in Chanda beel over a period of 8 months from June ‘95 to January ‘96. The floodplain showed temporal spatial and vertical variation in physico-chemical as well as biological conditions. During study period, physico-chemical parameters were within the suitable range for fish culture. Plankton population was higher in true beel areas. Both phytoplankton and zooplankton showed direct relationship among themselves. Presence of several indication plankton genera showed that the floodplain was eutrophic in nature

    Full-field in vitro measurements and in silico predictions of strain shielding in the implanted femur after total hip arthroplasty

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    Alterations in bone strain as a result of implantation may contribute towards periprosthetic bone density changes after Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA). Computational models provide full-field strain predictions in implant-bone constructs; however, these predictions should be verified using experimental models wherever possible. In the present work, finite element (FE) predictions of surface strains in intact and implanted composite femurs were verified using digital image correlation (DIC). Relationships were sought between post implantation strain states across seven defined Gruen zones (GZ) and clinically observed longer- term bone density changes. Computational predictions of strain distributions in intact and implanted femurs were compared to DIC measurements in two regions of interest. Regression analyses indicated a strong linear correlation between measurements and predictions (R = 0.927 intact, 0.926 implanted) with low standard error (SE = 38µ? intact, 26µ? implanted). Pre- to postoperative changes in measured and predicted surface strains were found to relate qualitatively to clinically-observed volumetric bone density changes across seven Gruen zones: marked proximal bone density loss corresponded with a 50-64% drop in surface strain, and slight distal density changes corresponded with 4-14% strain increase. These results support the use of DIC as a pre-clinical tool for predicting post implantation strain shielding, indicative of long-term bone adaptations

    Design of a continuous monorail drilling system for decline development

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    E Chanda, B Besa and M Kuruppuhttp://www.ausimm.com.au/publications/epublication.aspx?ID=473

    Racializing white residues: seditious Anglo-Indians and others

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    My dissertation interrogates the discursive residues of the Anglo-Indian question in decolonized India. To problematize these residues, I structure my dissertation as a fragmented genealogy of colonial and post-colonial perceptions of Anglo-Indians. I open my dissertation by showing how, since the late-nineteenth century, Anglo-Indians were claimed to be only of part-European racial provenance, and tautologically had their bodies deemed sexually deviant. Their bodies being, like those of their non-Anglo-Indian counterparts, in fact of uncertain racial intermixture, I argue that Anglo-Indians inhabit mongrel bodies—bodies in a state of continual flux of class and race, inhabiting a multiplicity of pluralized communities. The ethical end of the decolonized Indian nation-state, I accordingly suggest, is to facilitate the recognition of mongrelism as an inevitable phenomenon across groups—one that fractures monolithic conceptions of race and community. To flesh out this argument, I conduct readings from an archive of novels, historiographic treatises, short stories, memoirs, films, and cartoons. The figures whose texts I examine include, among others, colonial Anglo-Indian ‘prostitute’ Amelia Horne, Anglo-Indian anti-racism activist Cedric Dover, Bengali novelist Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, diasporic English writer Aubrey Menen, Indian cartoonist Mario Miranda, Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, Anglo-Indian politician and historiographer Frank Anthony, and British-Indian writer Ruskin Bond.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-08-01The student, Debojoy Chanda, accepted the attached license on 2018-07-04 at 01:48.The student, Debojoy Chanda, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-07-04 at 02:33.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-07-06 at 10:04.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12728 on 2018-09-27 at 11:16:29Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-27T16:30:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 CHANDA-DISSERTATION-2018.pdf: 5797174 bytes, checksum: 1ff79a8fa9d3c7c88dbbf0087da57f6d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: f787c41b81daa460345c59decf36ec07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-06Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 107771 Lift date: 2020-09-27T16:30:34Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemEmbargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 107771 Lift date: 2020-09-27T16:31:43Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemEmbargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 107771 Lift date: 2020-09-27T16:34:29Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemU of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 107771 on 2020-09-28T09:15:16Z

    Convergence (and Divergence) in the Biological Standard of Living in the United States, 1820-1900

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    Standard economic indicators suggest that the United States experienced long-run economic growth throughout the nineteenth century. However, biological indicators, including human stature, offer a different picture, rising early in the century, falling (on average) mid-century, and rising again at the end of the century. This pattern varied across geographical regions. Using a unique data set, consisting of mean adult stature by state, we test for convergence in stature among states in the nineteenth century. We find that during the period of declining mean stature, heights actually diverged. Later in the century we find a type of “negative” convergence indicating that stature among states tended to converge to a new, lower steady state. Only towards the end of the century do we find classic convergence behavior. We argue that the diversity of economic experiences across regions, e.g. urbanization, industrialization, and transportation improvements, explain this pattern of divergence and then convergence.

    Optical investigations of chemically pressurized<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">EuFe</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>(<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">As</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mn>1</mml:mn><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mi>x</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">P</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>x</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>)<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow /><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>: An<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math>-wave superconductor with strong interband interactions

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    Superconducting EuFe2(As0.82P0.18)(2) single crystals are investigated by broad-band infrared spectroscopy. Below T-c = 28 K, a superconducting gap forms at 2 Delta(0) = 9.5 meV = 3.7k(B)T(c), causing the reflectivity to sharply rise to unity at low frequency. In the range of the gap, the optical conductivity can be perfectly described by BCS theory with an s-wave gap and no nodes. From our analysis of the temperature-dependent conductivity and spectral weight at T > T-c, we deduce an increased interband coupling between hole and electron sheets on the Fermi surface when T approaches T-c.Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; DFG [SPP1458

    Content delivery in software defined networks

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    Information Centric Architectures view content as the narrow waist of the networking stack. This abstraction allows routing based on the content name, rather than the network locator of the content consumer and producer. We present ContentFlow, an Information Centric network architecture which supports content routing by mapping the content name to a OpenFlow de ned ow based on TCP and IP semantics. And, thus enables the use of OpenFlow switches to achieve content routing over a legacy IP architecture. ContentFlow is viewed as an evolutionary step between the current IP networking architecture, and a full edged ICN architecture. It supports content man- agement, content caching and content routing at the network layer, while using a legacy OpenFlow infrastructure and a modi ed controller. By e ciently using the content in- formation available in the network, ContentFlow supports e cient tra c engineering. Also, ContentFlow is transparent from the point of view of the client and the server, and can be inserted in between without modi cation at either end. The architecture and implementation of ContentFlow on top of the existing OpenFlow software de ned networking framework is described. Performance of ContentFlow is evaluated using a prototype implementation of an enterprise SDN network with Floodlight controller and multiple virtualized OpenFlow switches. The results show that ContentFlow does result in reduced content access delay in comparison to a legacy architectures.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Abhishek Chand
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