365 research outputs found
A Photographer’s World: The Art of Randeep Maddoke
No full textAn introductory text to photo artist Randeep Maddoke's wor
Practicing Sikhism in America
No full textThis session is part four of a six part series running through the 2018-2019 academic year titled Encountering Religious and Cultural Traditions: A Series Fostering Religious Literacy and Interreligious Understanding. In this session, Angela Madan and Randeep Ricky Singh Arora will teach about the lived experience of Sikhs in America as well as address some common misconceptions and stereotypes people have about the tradition.
Renowned scholar of religion Wilfred Cantwell Smith argued that in order to “understand Buddhists, we must not look at something called Buddhism but at the world so far as possible through Buddhist eyes.” Likewise, in order to understand Judaism, Hinduism, and so on, we must not look at Judaism, Hinduism and so on, but at the worldviews of Jews, Hindus, and so. In his New York Times Bestseller, Religious Literacy, Stephen Prothero writes “I am convinced that one needs to know something about the world’s religions in order to be truly educated,” and argues that “you need religious literacy in order to be an effective citizen.” This year-long series aims to foster religious literacy and interreligious understanding by examining the world through the eyes of religious scholars and practitioners from various traditions, especially our locally lived traditions in Minnesota. The presenters will share their own lived experiences of the traditions and address any common stereotypes and misconceptions.
Angela Madan and Randeep “Ricky” Singh Arora are Sikhs. The word Sikh means student who is learning for life and respect humanity. Madan has been a member of the Minnesota Sikh community for 20 years. Her life-long goal is “to follow a truthful way of life and to be actively involved in the communities in which I live.” Madan is a professional pharmacist. Arora serves as Secretary on the Board of the Sikh Society of Minnesota, prior to which he has served various leadership roles such as Vice-President, Secretary, Director of Outreach, and other volunteer positions since 1996. His focus is on the operations of the Gurdwara (place for congregational prayers), communications, and developing the co-curricular and multifaith activities of the Society. He also coaches and performs Punjabi folk dance Bhangra at various community events to teach about and strengthen inter-community relations. He is often an invited guest speaker on Sikhism at various local education and religious institutions. Arora holds a Master’s degree in Technology and is a professional Senior Technology Manager in St Paul. To make an accessibility request, call Disability Resources at (651) 962-631
sj-docx-1-jic-10.1177_08850666231193962 - Supplemental material for Association of Leukocyte Subpopulations Identified by Flow Cytometry with Outcomes of Sepsis in a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit: An Observational Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jic-10.1177_08850666231193962 for Association of Leukocyte Subpopulations Identified by Flow Cytometry with Outcomes of Sepsis in a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit: An Observational Study by Tejas Menon Suri, Vijay Hadda, Shadab Ali, Anita Chopra, Maroof Ahmad Khan, Jay Singh, Tamoghna Ghosh, Saurabh Mittal, Pawan Tiwari, Karan Madan, Anant Mohan and Randeep Guleria in Journal of Intensive Care Medicine</p
There is no case for scrapping MPLADS funds
No full textLast month, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that three Congress MPs from Rajasthan had misused the MPLADS funds. The party claimed that Brijendra Singh Ola of Jhunjhunu had allocated ₹25 lakh, Rahul Kaswan of Churu had allocated ₹50 lakh, and Sanjana Jatav of Bharatpur had allocated ₹45 lakh for developmental work in the Kaithal district of Haryana, instead of utilising the funds for developmental work within their constituencies in Rajasthan. This, the BJP argued, ran contrary to the core objective of MPLADS. It raised concerns about the appropriateness of allocating public funds across State boundaries. The party further alleged that the allocations were politically motivated, as Kaithal is the Assembly constituency of Aditya Surjewala, son of Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala
Structural and magnetically enhanced ferroelectric properties of Nd3+ and Fe3+ substituted Pb(Zr0.45Ti0.55)O3 ceramics
No full textFPGA Implementation of a Pseudo-Random Aggregate Spectrum Generator for RF Hardware Test and Evaluation
No full textTest and evaluation (TandE) is a critically important step before in-the-field deployment of radio-frequency (RF) hardware in order to assure that the hardware meets its design requirements and specifications. Typically, TandE is performed either in a lab setting utilizing a software simulation environment or through real-world field testing. While the former approach is typically limited by the accuracy of the simulation models (particularly of the anticipated hardware effects) and by non-real-time data rates, the latter can be extremely costly in terms of time, money, and manpower. To build upon the strengths of these approaches and to mitigate their weaknesses, this work presents the development of an FPGA-based TandE tool that allows for real-time pseudo-random aggregate signal generation for testing RF receiver hardware (such as communication receivers, spectrum sensors, etc.). In particular, a framework is developed for an FPGA-based implementation of a test signal emulator that generates randomized aggregate spectral environments containing signals with random parameters such as center frequencies, bandwidths, start times, and durations, as well as receiver and channel effects such as additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). To test the accuracy of the developed spectrum generation framework, the randomization properties of the framework are analyzed to assure correct probability distributions and independence. Additionally, FPGA implementation decisions, such as bit precision versus accuracy of the generated signal and the impact on the FPGA's hardware footprint, are analyzed.This analysis allows the test signal engineer to make informed decisions while designing a hardware-based RF test system. This framework is easily extensible to other signal types and channel models, and can be used to test a variety of signal-based applications.Master of ScienceTest and evaluation (TandE) is a critically important step before in-the-field deployment of radio-frequency signal hardware in order to assure that the hardware meets its design requirements and specifications. Typically, TandE is performed either in a lab setting utilizing a software simulation or through real-world field testing. While the former approach is typically limited by the accuracy of the simulation models and by slower data rates, the latter can be extremely costly in terms of time, money, and manpower. To address these issues, a hardware-based signal generation approach that takes the best of both methods mentioned above is developed in this thesis. This approach allows the user to accurately model a radio-frequency system without requiring expensive equipment. This work presents the development of a hardware-based TandE tool that allows for real-time random signal generation for testing radio-frequency receiver hardware (such as communication receivers). In particular, a framework is developed for an implementation of a test signal emulator that allows for user-defined randomization of test signal parameters such as frequencies, signal bandwidths, start times, and durations, as well as communications receiver effects. To test the accuracy of the developed emulation framework, the randomization properties of the framework are analyzed to assure correct probability distributions and independence. Additionally, hardware implementation decisions such as bit precision versus quality of the generated signal and the impact on the hardware footprint are analyzed. Ultimately, it is shown that this framework is easily extensible to other signal types and communication channel models
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No full textCERTIFICATE OF COURSE WORK This is to certify that Mr. Randeep Singh was admitted to the candidacy of the Ph.D. Degree on July 2002, after successfully completing all the courses required for the Ph.D. Degree programme. The details of the course work done are given below
Clinicopathological and molecular epidemiological study of lung cancer patients seen at a tertiary care hospital in Northern India
No full textAims: The primary objective of this study was to estimate the clinicopathological and molecular profile of lung cancer patients along with the evaluation of their clinical characteristics at a tertiary care hospital in Northern India. Subjects and Methods: A total of 421 patients with lung cancer histology who were treated at Max Super Speciality Hospitals were included in the study. The study protocol conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and permission was obtained from the Ethics Committee before the start of the study. Clinical characteristics and molecular profiling data were collected from the patient's medical records. Results: There were 330 (78.4%) men and 91 (21.6%) women with a median age of 62 years (range: 30–93 years). Of the 421 patients, 388 (92.2%) patients had the nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) histology whereas 33 (7.8%) patients were of SCLC histology. Histology and gender had a significant association with NSCLC and SCLC (P < 0.05). Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and echinoderm microtubule-associated protein like 4-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (EML4-ALK) fusion gene testing was done in 120 and 93 patients, respectively. Of the 120 patients, 24 (20%) cases were positive for EGFR mutations whereas EML4-ALK fusion gene was present in 8 (8.6%) out of 93 patients. Conclusions: Our study confirms the importance of molecular testing in the NSCLC patient subgroup with an aim to identify the exact molecular targets that can benefit from the newer generation of targeted therapies
Physiological and Multi-Omics Approaches for Explaining Drought Stress Tolerance and Supporting Sustainable Production of Rice
No full textDrought differs from other natural disasters in several respects, largely because of the complexity of a crop’s response to it and also because we have the least understanding of a crop’s inductive mechanism for addressing drought tolerance among all abiotic stressors. Overall, the growth and productivity of crops at a global level is now thought to be an issue that is more severe and arises more frequently due to climatic change-induced drought stress. Among the major crops, rice is a frontline staple cereal crop of the developing world and is critical to sustaining populations on a daily basis. Worldwide, studies have reported a reduction in rice productivity over the years as a consequence of drought. Plants are evolutionarily primed to withstand a substantial number of environmental cues by undergoing a wide range of changes at the molecular level, involving gene, protein and metabolite interactions to protect the growing plant. Currently, an in-depth, precise and systemic understanding of fundamental biological and cellular mechanisms activated by crop plants during stress is accomplished by an umbrella of -omics technologies, such as transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics. This combination of multi-omics approaches provides a comprehensive understanding of cellular dynamics during drought or other stress conditions in comparison to a single -omics approach. Thus a greater need to utilize information (big-omics data) from various molecular pathways to develop drought-resilient crop varieties for cultivation in ever-changing climatic conditions. This review article is focused on assembling current peer-reviewed published knowledge on the use of multi-omics approaches toward expediting the development of drought-tolerant rice plants for sustainable rice production and realizing global food security
A Brief Study of Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea
No full textThe Old Man and the Sea is the high watermark of Hemingway's thought and aesthetics and explores a new intensity as T.S. Eliot viewed it. The book won for the novelist three coveted awards, Pulitzer Prize in 1952, the Order of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the highest honour from the Cuban government in recognition of Hemingway's long association with Cuba and her people and his glorification of a simple Cuban fisherman and finally it was instrumental in his being awarded the Nobel Prize 1955 (announced in 1954) which made the already famous author an International figure. This intensely vivid novel was received the entire world over as a mini epic done on a splendid design
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