1,346 research outputs found
Ghosh, the shadow lines, and the Indian-English novel
No full textThe prizewinning author of novels, nonfiction, and hybrid texts, Amitav Ghosh grew up in India and trained as an anthropologist. His works have been translated in over thirty languages. They cross and mix a number of genres, from science fiction to the historical novel, incorporating ethnohistory and travelogue and even recuperating dead languages. His subjects include climate change, postcolonial identities, translocation, migration, oceanic spaces, and the human interface with the environment
ENTIRE FUNCTIONS SHARING POLYNOMIALS WITH THEIR DERIVATIVES
No full textIn this paper we study the uniqueness of entire functions sharing two polynomials with their derivatives. The results of the paper improve the corresponding results of Chang and Fang (Kodai Math.J. 25(2002), 309–320) and Lahiri-Ghosh(Present author) (Analysis ,Munich. 31(2011), 47–59)
PERCEPTIONS OF SAFETY AMONG CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS
No full textThe health and safety of construction jobsites in the United States has been a concern for a long time among industry practitioners and researchers. Despite all the efforts, the number of construction workplace fatalities has increased in the last decade. Besides that, companies and contractors suffer greatly because of the financial burden imposed as a result of safety accidents. In order to address the problem, recent studies have turned their attention to the more proactive approaches, such as assessing workers' perceptions of safety climate and safety hazards that have been utilized in various industries and yielded positive outcomes. The present study focused on measuring workers' perceptions of safety on commercial construction projects with regard to three distinct variables of safety climate, safety control, and hazard perception. The link between workplace safety performance, injury rates, and each of the aforementioned indicators has been examined in existing studies. However, limited attempts have been made to explore any possible relationship among those factors. Therefore, filling this gap became the goal of this research study. Additionally, the author sought to investigate whether employment type and previous accidents affect perceptions of safety among construction employees. A quantitative research strategy was adopted for the study. Data was gathered from construction workers (n = 118) from two large healthcare construction projects using survey questionnaires. Separate questionnaires were developed for the managerial workers and field workers in English and Spanish. Those who spend most of their time on the jobsite performing direct tasks of construction were categorized as field workers; those whose prime responsibilities include managerial duties and spend most of their time in the jobsite offices such as project engineers, superintendents, and project managers were categorized as managerial workers. Of 118 respondents who completed the survey, 31 were managerial workers and 87 were field workers. Analysis of the data showed that managerial workers had a significantly higher perception of workers’ safety than the field workers regarding all three variables considered in this study: safety climate, safety control, and hazard perception. This disparity of the perception of workers’ safety can be critical as managerial workers typically make various project-level decisions including safety policies that affect the field workers. Therefore, safety personnel should focus on minimizing the disparity in perceptions of the two groups and improve safety climate. Besides safety climate, a difference in perceptions of hazards and safety control suggests that field workers need to be involved when designing safety programs. Also, the group of workers who were involved in workplace accidents showed significantly higher hazard perception levels. Finally, the correlational analysis between the variables demonstrated a positive correlation between workers' perceptions of safety control and safety climate. It is expected that the findings of this study provide new insights for future studies seeking to improve the safety performance of the construction industry
First person – Arijita Ghosh
No full textABSTRACT
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Arijita Ghosh is the first author on “Leucine-rich repeat-containing 8B protein is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ leak in HEK293 cells”, published in Journal of Cell Science. Arijita is a PhD student in the laboratory of Amal Kanti Bera at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, investigating the role of leucine-rich repeat-containing 8 proteins in cellular calcium homeostasis.</jats:p
Understanding Terrorism in the context of Global Security
No full textUnderstanding Terrorism in the context of Global Security
Author / Authors : Shreyasi Ghosh
Page no. 89-106
Discipline : Political Science/Polity/ Democratic studies
Script/language : Roman/English
Category : Research paper
Keywords: Terrorism, Violence, Threat, Global Security, Globalization
Beyond national literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh
No full textScholarship on the writer Amitav Ghosh has addressed issues of nationalism, postcolonial identity, ecocriticism, testimony, subalternity, and historiography. But the idea of Ghosh as an Asian American author with a particular relationship to the United States and its national mythologies, has barely been considered. In this essay, I explore this neglected aspect of Ghosh’s œuvre by looking at the idea of America in his writing and by situating his work within what I term "the Bengali American grain". Reading his work alongside that of other Bengali American writers and arguing that it is more ambitious thematically and more anti-imperialistic, I probe Ghosh’s problematic relationship with the United States, asking how his hemispheric writing continues to extend and even alter the terrain often associated with Asian American literature
R v Ghosh [1982] 1 QB 1053, Court of Appeal
No full textEssential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Ghosh [1982] 1 QB 1053, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.</p
Ep. #040 - Amitav Ghosh
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic define (finally!) professionalism and offer a brief review of Leonardo DiCaprio’s soon to be released climate change documentary, Before the Flood. Then (11:43) we are very pleased to welcome to the podcast acclaimed novelist, Amitav Ghosh, author of The Shadow Lines (1988), The Hungry Tide (2004) and The Ibis trilogy (2008-2015), among many other works. We talk about his latest work of non-fiction, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and why he thinks it has proven so difficult to bring climate change into literature. We discuss the worldview of the novel and how its emphasis on creating believable narratives has excluded precisely the kinds of unlikely anthropocenic encounters that are becoming increasingly frequent across the world. Amitav argues that before an alternate world can become a reality, it needs to become an imaginative reality and this is why the arts are so crucial to coming to terms with the Anthropocene. We also discuss “serious” art’s fear of being deemed merely “illustrative” and how this may be linked to a Cold War aversion to the aesthetics of socialist realism. Now, Amitav warns, the world has risen up as a protagonist even as our means of representation aren’t up to engaging it. He predicts that the mansions of serious fiction will suffer a similar fate to the mansions of Miami beach as our waters rise. We talk about what is really being denied in climate change denial and how the privileges and comforts of a carbon-fueled lifestyle is something which neither the West nor Asia is prepared to give up. We close with Amitav’s own next novel project and how climate change inspires him personally and artistically
Understanding Terrorism in the context of Global Security
No full textUnderstanding Terrorism in the context of Global Security
Author / Authors : Shreyasi Ghosh
Page no. 89-106
Discipline : Political Science/Polity/ Democratic studies
Script/language : Roman/English
Category : Research paper
Keywords: Terrorism, Violence, Threat, Global Security, Globalization
Analysis of composite concrete steel column using new steel section
No full textConventional concrete encased steel composite columns are typically constructed by embedded “W” steel section or other sections identified in the American Institute of Steel Construction “AISC”, positioned in the center of the concrete column cross-section or around it. The importance of composite elements is found in their common use in big facilities and construction projects where the need for more elements with high compressive capacity and less cost arises. In this research, structural steel is proposed which applies to columns and can be developed to beams. The model is basically a concrete column with steel reinforcement and the proposed steel section embedded. Cost reduction and strength enlargement are the main goals of this paper.
A comparative study was done based on results from analyzing three columns, 6 ft long: Finite element analysis was done using ABAQUS software and theoretical analysis using AISC and Eurocode. In addition to a cost analysis on various steel sections. The cost was calculated based on the column weight, length, and price per pound/foot
It was concluded that the proposed steel section is cost-efficient and has comparable compressive strength values to the conventional “W” section
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