119 research outputs found
FIGURE 3 in Rottboellia husainii (Poaceae: Andropogoneae), a new grass species from Western Himalaya, India
No full textFIGURE 3. Geographic distribution of Rottboellia husainii in Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, represented by red circle.Published as part of Tripathi, Shailja, Jaiswal, Shubham, Prasad, Dileshwar, Yadav, Rekha, Saxena, Gauri & Agnihotri, Priyanka, 2021, Rottboellia husainii (Poaceae: Andropogoneae), a new grass species from Western Himalaya, India, pp. 98-104 in Phytotaxa 507 (1) on page 102, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.507.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/542553
Chhoti Sadri inscription of Gauri, photo
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To engrave his virtues on the disc of the moon… Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and Their Associates
Dániel Balogh, 2019
Chhoti Sadri inscription of Gauri
Siddham OB00189
Siddham IN00203
Composite digital photograph by the author, 2018. Courtesy of Government Museum, Udaipu
Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing countries
No full textThe author analyzes contemporary rights-based and economic approaches to health care and education in developing countries. He assesses the foundations and uses of social rights in development, outlines an economic approach to improving health and education services, and then highlights the differences, similarities, and the hard questions that the economic critique poses for rights. The author argues that the policy consequences of rights overlap considerably with a modern economic approach. Both the rights-based and the economic approaches are skeptical that electoral politics and de facto market rules provide sufficient accountability for the effective and equitable provision of health and education services, and that further intrasectoral reforms in governance, particularly those that strengthen the hand of service recipients, are needed. There remain differences between the two approaches. Whether procedures for service delivery are ends in themselves, the degree of disaggregation at which outcomes should be assessed, the consequences of long-term deprivation, metrics used for making tradeoffs, and the behavioral distortions that result from subsidies are all areas where the approaches diverge. Even here, however, the differences are not irreconcilable, and advocates of the approaches need not regard each other as antagonists.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Decentralization,Public Health Promotion,Early Child and Children's Health,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Economics&Finance,Poverty Assessment,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Gender and Education
Human rights as demands for communicative action
No full textA key issue with human rights is how to allocate duties correlative to rights claims. But the philosophical literature, drawing largely on naturalistic or interactional accounts of human rights, develops answers to this question that do not illuminate actual human rights problems. Charles Beitz, in recent work, attempts to develop a conception of human rights more firmly rooted in, and helpful for, current practice. While a move in the right direction, his account does not incorporate the domestic practice of human rights, and as a result remains insufficiently instructive for many human rights challenges. This paper addresses the problem of allocating correlative duties by taking the practices of domestic courts in several countries as a normative benchmark. Upon reviewing how courts in Colombia, India, South Africa, Indonesia, and elsewhere have allocated duties associated with socio-economic rights, the paper finds that courts urge parties to move from an adversarial to an investigative mode, impose requirements that parties argue in good faith, and structure a public forum of communication. The conclusion argues that judicial practice involves requiring respondents to engage in communicative, instead of strategic, action, and explores the implications of this understanding of human rights.Human Rights,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Parliamentary Government,Gender and Law,Health Law
The European Union’s Role in the Formation of India’s Climate Change Policy. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 2/2012, September 2012
No full textThis paper focuses on the role of the European Union (EU) in the formation of India’s climate change policy; an increasingly high profile issue area. It is based on an extensive study of relevant literature, EU-India policy documents and the execution of thirteen semi-structured interviews with experts; many of whom have experienced EU-India cooperation on climate change first-hand. A three-point typology will be used to assess the extent of the EU’s leadership role, supporting role or equal partnership role in India, with several sub-roles within these categories. Further, for clarity and chronology purposes, three time periods will be distinguished to assess how India’s climate policy has evolved over time, alongside the EU’s role within that. The findings of the paper confirm that the EU has demonstrated signs of all three roles to some degree, although the EU-India relationship in climate policy is increasingly an equal partnership. It offers explanations for previous shortcomings in EU-India climate policy as well as policy recommendations to help ensure more effective cooperation and implementation of policies
What physiological factors influence state anger?
No full textIn this paper, we sought to understand what physiological factors influence state anger in the hopes of improving awareness of potential triggers. Previous research has predicted that an increase in heart rate, hunger, and headache pain intensity all lead to an increase in state anger. In our correlational study, we tested the strength of these relationships by examining naturalistic daily changes in their variables longitudinally over a period of 11 days. We measured heart rate by reading our pulse for one minute three times a day, and we measured our hunger, headache pain and anger levels by using a Likert scale three times a day. For each variable measured, we added the total of their three daily values together to get an average value for each day. Data pooled across participants in our correlational study showed significant positive correlations of anger with hunger and headache pain, and a significant negative correlation with heart rate. These results provide some insight into what individuals might avoid, such as becoming hungry or not treating a painful headache, to decrease the likelihood of becoming angry.Supervising Instructor & Course Number: Michael Pollock, Psyc 215 (“Biological Psychology”
Efficient redundancy techniques to reduce delay in Cloud systems
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.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 (pages 197-209).Cloud services are changing the world by providing millions of people low-cost access to the computing power of data centers. Storing and processing data on shared servers in the cloud provides scalability and flexibility to these services. However the large-scale sharing of resources also causes unpredictable fluctuations in the response time of individual servers. In this thesis we use redundancy as a tool to combat this variability. We study three areas of cloud infrastructure: cloud computing, distributed storage, and streaming communication. In cloud computing, replicating a task on multiple machines and waiting for the earliest copy to finish can reduce service delay. But intuitively, it costs additional computing resources, and increases queueing load on the servers. In the first part of this thesis we analyze the eect of redundancy on queues. Surprisingly, there are regimes where replication not only reduces service delay but also reduces queueing load, thus making the system more ecient. Similarly, we can speed-up content download from cloud storage systems by requesting multiple replicas of a le and waiting for any one. In the second part of the thesis we generalize from replication to coding, and propose the (n, k) fork-join model to analyze the delay in accessing an (n, k) erasure-coded storage system. This analysis provides practical insights into how many users can access a piece of content simultaneously, and how fast they can be served. Achieving low latency is even more challenging in streaming communication because the packets need to be delivered fast and in-order. The third part of this thesis develops erasure codes to transmit redundant combinations of packets and ensure smooth playback. This thesis blends a diverse set of mathematical tools from queueing, coding theory, and renewal processes. Although we focus on cloud infrastructure, the techniques and insights are applicable to other systems with stochastically varying components.by Gauri Joshi.Ph. D
Hereditas. 29 Tercera Época (2019). Hereditas
No full textCarta de la directora por Lucía García Noriega y Nieto. - La gestión y puesta en valor de la zona arqueológica de Uxmal, sitio patrimonio mundial de la UNESCO por Ana Rosado Torres. - La catedral de León de Nicaragua: su historia, valores culturales y conservación por Blanca Aráuz Castillo, Bayardo Rodríguez Conrado y Haryeri Gómez Ortiz. - Xtaxkgakget Makgakaxtlawana: el esplendor de los artistas. centro de las artes indígenas (CAI) por Eneida Hernández. - 2-Diezyocho movilidad, patrimonio y espacio público: la lógica de habitar una ciudad por Gauri Ivette García Medina y Antonio Godoy González Vélez. - Algunas consideraciones sobre la adaptación del patrimonio arquitectónico para museo por Yani Herreman. - Paisajes urbanos históricos por Francisco Vidargas. - El Pueblo del Sol dentro de la tumba 7, Alfonso Caso por Elena Poniatowska. - Henry Cleere y la gestión del patrimonio arqueológico por Nelly Robles García. - Plan de acción para el patrimonio mundial en México y América Central (2018-2023). - Biblioteca del Patrimonio Mundial
Successfully Implementing a Group for Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Parents With Mental Illness on a College Campus
No full textOutside the fold conversion, modernity, and belief
No full text"Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Implicit in such questioning is an attempt to construct an alternative epistemological and ethical foundation of national community. Viswanathan grounds her study in an examination of two stimultaneous and, she asserts, linked events: the legal emancipation of religious minorities in England and the acculturation of colonial subjects to British rule. The author views these two apparently disparate events as part of a common pattern of national consolidation that produced the English state. She seeks to explain why resistance, in both cases, frequently took the form of religious conversion, especially to "minority" or alternative religions. Confronting the general characterization of conversion as assimilative and annihilating of identity, Viswanathan demonstrates that a willful change of religion can be seen instead as an act of opposition. Outside the Fold concludes that, as a form of cultural crossing, conversion comes to represent a vital release into difference.""Through the figure of the convert, Viswanathan addresses the vexing question of the role of belief and minority discourse in modern society. She establishes new points of contact between the convert as religious dissenter and as colonial subject. This convergence provides a transcultural perspective not otherwise visible in literary and historical texts. It allows for radically new readings of significant figures as diverse as John Henry Newman, Pandita Ramabai, Annie Besant, and B. R. Ambedkar, as well as close studies of court cases, census reports, and popular English fiction. These varying texts illuminate the means by which discourses of religious identity are produced, contained, or opposed by the languages of law, reason, and classificatory knowledge. Outside the Fold is a challenging, provocative contribution to the multidisciplinary field of cultural studies. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKE
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