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Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water - Live Event
No full text‘When we read and write, when we love our fellow creatures, when we walk on the beach, when we just listen and notice, we are not little cogs in the machine, but part of the remedy.’ These luminous words by Kathleen Jamie form part of the introduction to Antlers of Water, an outstanding collection of contemporary Scottish writing about nature and landscape.
The generosity of Jamie’s approach as editor of the collection goes beyond the stellar selection of contributors such as Amy Liptrot, Karine Polwart and Malachy Tallack: she also invokes the agency of readers to make a difference. ‘If, by reading, you are encouraged or confirmed in your love of the natural world, if you’re inspired simply to… look outside, then our job is done.’
In a discussion led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Making Climate Change Personal festival theme
Interview with Chitra Smith
No full textChitra Smith was born in 1922 to Czech parents in Jerusalem, Palestine. She earned her bachelors (1943) and masters (1946) degrees from Oxford University. After this, she taught adult education courses at Oxford and then worked for the British Ministry of Information and for the U. S. Government in Germany. She married Bruce Lannes Smith in 1946 but they alter divorced (1973). Smith then worked at the American University in Washington D.C. and at the Ilinois Institute of Technology before coming to MSU. She join MSU as an instructor in 1954 for the Department of Social Science. In 1964, she completed her examinations for a Ph. D. from MSU. In 1968, she moved to the new James Maidson College as an associate professor and later as the Associate Director of the Honors College in 1976. Chitra Smith retired in 1989 and died April 8, 2021. Topics/People Covered in Interview include: early life, education, World War II, Labor Club, Oxford University, Iris Murdoch, Sir William Beveridge, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Wurtenberg, Agnes Leys, Pusey House, Bill Ross, Asian Studies Center, Ruce L. Smith, Jospeh McCarthy, reductions in force, Rand Corporation, Leroy Ferguson, Walter Fee, University College, James Madison College, Herb Garfinkel, Teresa (Terry) O'Sullivan, Mary Norton, Mike MccOnnell, Orrin Hatch, Richard Zinman, Jack Painter, John Hannah, Clifton Wharton, Kathy Hunt, Paul Hunt, Eric Goodman, Tess Tavormina, Gwen Norrell, Pauline Adams, Doouglas Dunham, Stan Idzerda, Frank Blackington, Jimm Pickering, Lee Winder, Don Lammers, Warren Cohen, Lou Anna K Simon, David Scott, Laurence Boger, affirmative action, James Ash, John Cantlo
Interview with Chitra Smith
No full textChitra Smith was born in 1922 to Czech parents in Jerusalem, Palestine. She earned her bachelors (1943) and masters (1946) degrees from Oxford University. After this, she taught adult education courses at Oxford and then worked for the British Ministry of Information and for the U. S. Government in Germany. She married Bruce Lannes Smith in 1946 but they alter divorced (1973). Smith then worked at the American University in Washington D.C. and at the Ilinois Institute of Technology before coming to MSU. She join MSU as an instructor in 1954 for the Department of Social Science. In 1964, she completed her examinations for a Ph. D. from MSU. In 1968, she moved to the new James Maidson College as an associate professor and later as the Associate Director of the Honors College in 1976. Chitra Smith retired in 1989 and died April 8, 2021. Topics/People Covered in Interview include: early life, education, World War II, Labor Club, Oxford University, Iris Murdoch, Sir William Beveridge, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Wurtenberg, Agnes Leys, Pusey House, Bill Ross, Asian Studies Center, Ruce L. Smith, Jospeh McCarthy, reductions in force, Rand Corporation, Leroy Ferguson, Walter Fee, University College, James Madison College, Herb Garfinkel, Teresa (Terry) O'Sullivan, Mary Norton, Mike MccOnnell, Orrin Hatch, Richard Zinman, Jack Painter, John Hannah, Clifton Wharton, Kathy Hunt, Paul Hunt, Eric Goodman, Tess Tavormina, Gwen Norrell, Pauline Adams, Doouglas Dunham, Stan Idzerda, Frank Blackington, Jimm Pickering, Lee Winder, Don Lammers, Warren Cohen, Lou Anna K Simon, David Scott, Laurence Boger, affirmative action, James Ash, John Cantlo
Interview with Chitra Smith
No full textChitra Smith was born in 1922 to Czech parents in Jerusalem, Palestine. She earned her bachelors (1943) and masters (1946) degrees from Oxford University. After this, she taught adult education courses at Oxford and then worked for the British Ministry of Information and for the U. S. Government in Germany. She married Bruce Lannes Smith in 1946 but they alter divorced (1973). Smith then worked at the American University in Washington D.C. and at the Ilinois Institute of Technology before coming to MSU. She join MSU as an instructor in 1954 for the Department of Social Science. In 1964, she completed her examinations for a Ph. D. from MSU. In 1968, she moved to the new James Maidson College as an associate professor and later as the Associate Director of the Honors College in 1976. Chitra Smith retired in 1989 and died April 8, 2021. Topics/People Covered in Interview include: early life, education, World War II, Labor Club, Oxford University, Iris Murdoch, Sir William Beveridge, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Wurtenberg, Agnes Leys, Pusey House, Bill Ross, Asian Studies Center, Ruce L. Smith, Jospeh McCarthy, reductions in force, Rand Corporation, Leroy Ferguson, Walter Fee, University College, James Madison College, Herb Garfinkel, Teresa (Terry) O'Sullivan, Mary Norton, Mike MccOnnell, Orrin Hatch, Richard Zinman, Jack Painter, John Hannah, Clifton Wharton, Kathy Hunt, Paul Hunt, Eric Goodman, Tess Tavormina, Gwen Norrell, Pauline Adams, Doouglas Dunham, Stan Idzerda, Frank Blackington, Jimm Pickering, Lee Winder, Don Lammers, Warren Cohen, Lou Anna K Simon, David Scott, Laurence Boger, affirmative action, James Ash, John Cantlo
Interview with Chitra Smith
No full textChitra Smith was born in 1922 to Czech parents in Jerusalem, Palestine. She earned her bachelors (1943) and masters (1946) degrees from Oxford University. After this, she taught adult education courses at Oxford and then worked for the British Ministry of Information and for the U. S. Government in Germany. She married Bruce Lannes Smith in 1946 but they alter divorced (1973). Smith then worked at the American University in Washington D.C. and at the Ilinois Institute of Technology before coming to MSU. She join MSU as an instructor in 1954 for the Department of Social Science. In 1964, she completed her examinations for a Ph. D. from MSU. In 1968, she moved to the new James Maidson College as an associate professor and later as the Associate Director of the Honors College in 1976. Chitra Smith retired in 1989 and died April 8, 2021. Topics/People Covered in Interview include: early life, education, World War II, Labor Club, Oxford University, Iris Murdoch, Sir William Beveridge, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Wurtenberg, Agnes Leys, Pusey House, Bill Ross, Asian Studies Center, Ruce L. Smith, Jospeh McCarthy, reductions in force, Rand Corporation, Leroy Ferguson, Walter Fee, University College, James Madison College, Herb Garfinkel, Teresa (Terry) O'Sullivan, Mary Norton, Mike MccOnnell, Orrin Hatch, Richard Zinman, Jack Painter, John Hannah, Clifton Wharton, Kathy Hunt, Paul Hunt, Eric Goodman, Tess Tavormina, Gwen Norrell, Pauline Adams, Doouglas Dunham, Stan Idzerda, Frank Blackington, Jimm Pickering, Lee Winder, Don Lammers, Warren Cohen, Lou Anna K Simon, David Scott, Laurence Boger, affirmative action, James Ash, John Cantlo
Interview with Chitra Smith
No full textChitra Smith was born in 1922 to Czech parents in Jerusalem, Palestine. She earned her bachelors (1943) and masters (1946) degrees from Oxford University. After this, she taught adult education courses at Oxford and then worked for the British Ministry of Information and for the U. S. Government in Germany. She married Bruce Lannes Smith in 1946 but they alter divorced (1973). Smith then worked at the American University in Washington D.C. and at the Ilinois Institute of Technology before coming to MSU. She join MSU as an instructor in 1954 for the Department of Social Science. In 1964, she completed her examinations for a Ph. D. from MSU. In 1968, she moved to the new James Maidson College as an associate professor and later as the Associate Director of the Honors College in 1976. Chitra Smith retired in 1989 and died April 8, 2021. Topics/People Covered in Interview include: early life, education, World War II, Labor Club, Oxford University, Iris Murdoch, Sir William Beveridge, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Wurtenberg, Agnes Leys, Pusey House, Bill Ross, Asian Studies Center, Ruce L. Smith, Jospeh McCarthy, reductions in force, Rand Corporation, Leroy Ferguson, Walter Fee, University College, James Madison College, Herb Garfinkel, Teresa (Terry) O'Sullivan, Mary Norton, Mike MccOnnell, Orrin Hatch, Richard Zinman, Jack Painter, John Hannah, Clifton Wharton, Kathy Hunt, Paul Hunt, Eric Goodman, Tess Tavormina, Gwen Norrell, Pauline Adams, Doouglas Dunham, Stan Idzerda, Frank Blackington, Jimm Pickering, Lee Winder, Don Lammers, Warren Cohen, Lou Anna K Simon, David Scott, Laurence Boger, affirmative action, James Ash, John Cantlo
CHITRA - A LOW COST 2-D GRAPHICS PACKAGE FOR THE DESIGN OF DISCRETE SYSTEMS
No full textA general purpose 2-D graphics package termed CHITRA has been developed, to aid the design of discrete systems. CHITRA permits the rapid interactive description and design of multiterminal subsystems and links for their interconnection. Attributes can be defined for a subsystem as a whole or for each of its terminals. The package also provides a number of FORTRAN callable access routines to aid the development of application specific post-processors.Eurographics Conference Proceeding
Chitra heart valve: Results of a multicenter clinical study
No full textBackground and aim of the study: The Chitra tilting disc valve was developed in India to meet the need for a low-cost cardiac valve. The valve has an integrally machined cobalt-based alloy cage, an ultrahigh molecular-weight polyethylene disc, and a polyester suture ring. An important feature of this valve is its soft closing sound, by virtue of a plastic occluder.Methods: Between December 1990 and January 1995, 306 patients underwent isolated aortic MR, n = 101) or mitral valve replacement (MVR, n = 205) at six institutions in India. The early mortality rate was 6.9% (seven after AVR; 14 after MVR). A total of 285 survivors was followed up until September 1998; total follow up was 1212 patient-years (pt-yr) (AVR, 445 pt-yr; MVR, 767 pt-yr).Results: There were 52 late deaths (4.3%/pt-yr; AVR 2.2%/pt-yr; MVR 5.5%/pt-yr). Thirty-five deaths were valve-related (23 were due to unknown causes). One AVR patient (0.2%/pt-yr) and 12 MVR patients (1.6%/pt-yr) developed valve thrombosis, and embolic episodes occurred in 25 patients (seven after AVR, 1.6%/pt-yr; 18 after MVR, 2.4%/pt-yr). Bleeding events and infectious endocarditis occurred infrequently (AVR 0.9 and 0.7%/pt-yr; MVR 0.4 and 0.5%/pt-yr, respectively). There was no incidence of paravalvular leak or structural dysfunction of the valve. Actuarial survival rates at seven. years were 82.4 +/- 4.0% for AVR and 65.2 +/- 5.0% for MVR. During the same interval, thrombus-free and embolism-free survival after AVR and MVR occurred in 98.9 +/- 1.1% and 94.1 +/- 1.9%, and 92.3 +/- 2.8% and 82.1 +/- 5.7% of patients, respectively. Freedom from all valve-related mortality and morbidity at seven years was 81.5 +/- 4.1% after AVR, and 64.2 +/- 5.1% after MVR.Conclusion: The Chitra valve appears to be safe and to have performance comparable with that of other currently used tilting disc valves. This valve costs substantially less than other valves, and is therefore within reach of a larger subset of Indian patients
FEMININE VISIBILITY IN A MYTHOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS
No full textChitra Banerjee Divakaruni an Indo-American author, works as a professor of English in the University of Houston. She is also a co-founder and former president of a helpline for South Asian women. She involves herself eagerly as a volunteer at women’s center at Berkeley and assists battered women through the organization. MAITRI, the organization was begun in 1991 by her with the help of a group of friends. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni an expatriate writer, pictures Indian womanhood how they are treated by men in their lives. An explicit attempt to retell the epic in novel form is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions which will be analyzed in the following. The present paper analyzes how women is treated by male as a lifeless thing in the novel. This study is an attempt to illustrate how revisionist mythmaking is a feminist endeavor to revalue the experiences of women in patriarchy and redefine women from feminist perspectives.
 
Conformational characterization of the intrinsically disordered protein α-Synuclein: a replica exchange molecular dynamics study
No full textProteins in their functional forms play a vital role in all major processes in the cell.
Protein misfolding has been associated with a large number of diseased states.
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) have gained much attention because of their
involvement in key cellular processes and predominance in diseased states. A number of
neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s
diseases have been correlated with the aggregation of IDPs.
α-synuclein is a 140 amino acid archetypal IDP implicated in the pathology of
Parkinson's disease. Aggregation of α-synuclein is sensitive to changes in amino acid
substitutions along the sequence and changes in chemical environments. Characterizing
the monomeric form is essential to understanding the conformational changes leading to
the aggregated state. In this work, ensembles of structures generated from Replica
Exchange Molecular Dynamics simulations were used to characterize aggregation-prone
states of monomeric form of α-synuclein.
The conformational characteristics of α-synuclein were evaluated in terms of the
statistical properties of the chain over a range of solvent conditions and comparing with
predictions from polymer theory, using temperature as a proxy for solvent quality.
Results of this work indicate that α-synuclein behaves as expected for a homopolymer
chain at extremes of solvent quality while at intermediate values, the identity of the
monomeric units along the sequence significantly influence the polymeric and
conformational characteristics of the chain. Comparison of the back-calculated
experimental parameters for the simulation ensemble with that of the NMR observation
shows that ensembles that fit to experimental parameters describing both local and longrange
characteristics, represented by the experimental Residual Dipolar Couplings (RDC)
and Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancements respectively, provides a better representation
of the experimental ensemble.
The conformations of the neutral and low pH ensembles of α-synuclein were
characterized by integrating molecular simulations with experimental NMR observations,
to elucidate the effect of the altered charge distribution with change in pH on the
structural properties of these ensembles. The results from this study indicate a significant
structural reorganization with change in pH in terms of the long-range interactions,
compaction of the C-terminal region at low pH leading to faster aggregation at low pH.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Chitra Narayana
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