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International peace activist Supriya Vani talks about her book "Battling injustice"
No full textSupriya Vani, international peace activist and author of "Battling injustice: the stories of 16 women Nobel Peace Laureates," delivers a talk about her book. Vani describes each of the women's accomplishments that made them worthy of winning a Nobel Peace Prize and specifically how they each furthered gender equality and women's rights. Vani also discusses her experiences interviewing the living award recipients and the overall research that went into her book. Vani answers questions from the audience
Maximizing the health benefits of lycopene isomers
No full textLycopene is an acyclic C40 non polar carotenoid found in tomatoes. In nature, the predominant form is the all-trans isomeric form which represents 80-97% of lycopene in tomato and tomato related products. However on consumption of tomato products, >50% of the lycopene is found in the cis isomeric form in the body, thereby implying that the cis isomeric form is the more bioavailable /bioactive form in the human body.
The major objective of our study was to validate the bioactivity of lycopene isomers. Three approaches were used to achieve this goal. 1). An ab initio computational model to study the structure of isomers. 2). Develop a method to isolate isomers. 3). Study antioxidant activity and cellular proliferation activity of isomers in in- vitro condition.
Computational modeling studies showed that lycopene isomers differ in their electronic distribution on the molecules. Cellular Antioxidant Activity (CAA) method showed that cis isomers have higher CAA compared to all-trans isomers.
The cellular proliferation assay known as the MTT assay indicated larger decrease in proliferation of cis isomer treated prostate cancer cells. The anti-inflammatory assay (measures the amount of nitric oxide (NO) produced by mouse macrophages (RAW 264.7)) showed marginal difference in activity between control and isomer treated cells.
Non-thermal processing techniques like High Hydrostatic Pressure (HHP) processing and Pulse Electric Field (PEF) were used to increase the yield of beneficial cis lycopene isomer in the processed product. The results showed an qualitative increase in cis isomer after non-thermal processing.
This study helps us get deeper insights on the activity of cis and all-trans lycopene isomers at a basic molecular level, which correlates to the activity at a chemical and biological level. Non-thermal processing methods like High Hydrostatic Pressure processing and Pulse Electric Field processing methods can cause lycopene isomerization. These can be used as alternative means of processing to get tomato products that can yield health benefits to the consumers.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Supriya Varm
The Idea of Form, Informality, and Aspirations of Workers
No full textThe literature on informality is rich and diverse. Two of the dominant analytical themes are the conceptual analysis of the idea of informal, and the role of the informal economy in the overall productivity and growth of the economy. Additionally, there are literature on organisations and trade unionisms of informal workers, case studies of specific informal entrepreneurships, and interactions between informal entrepreneurs and workers with the government and the civil society. We briefly discuss some of these analytical approaches that are closer to our agenda in the present volume.
We do not take informality as a neo-liberalism induced aberration per se; we attempt to look at informality from a wider perspective that does not only hold neo-liberal globalisation responsible for informal activities. However, we understand that neoliberalism has aggravated precarious conditions associated with informality and has narrowed down the possible responses to informality so far as the interests of workers are concerned. Unlike some scholars’ preoccupation, we are also not concerned only with the re-emergence of informalisation; we are concerned about the idea of informality and its relation with the workers albeit with a focus on workers’ own experience of working informally. Moreover, the abovementioned works principally focus on countries in the global South, an orientation we hope to overcome in this book by integrating perspectives from both the global South as well as from the North, albeit illustratively. However, a caveat must be added that since the informality phenomenon is much more pervasive in the South, our collection too has more contributions from this region reflecting the pervasiveness.
A good starting point towards a contextual understanding of the informal could be the idea of informal itself. We analyse the theoretical and policy-related usefulness of the idea of informal and argue for a worker-centric understanding of the concept, thereby indicating a way to overcome a neoliberalism dominated economy-centric conceptualisation of the informal. Pushing the boundaries of the idea of informal, we propose the recognition of unremunerated work as socially valuable and a category of informal work. However, for policy-purposes, we argue that we need to focus on each specific category of informal work and put workers at the centre of the policy-making proces
What's The Bleeding Problem? Challenges and Potential of Informed Choice for Inclusive and Sustainable Menstrual Outcomes
No full textThis dataset is from a community-based intervention in India that provided women either information about period products or provided information plus a reusable cloth or disposable pad
New Publications by Supriya Chaudhuri and Pralay Kanungo
No full textWe are pleased to announce the publication of several articles and chapters by members of our research group. Supriya Chaudhuri, who recently joined us as a fellow and researches early modern literature, has recently published six articles: ‘Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing and Knowing in Othello’ and ‘What does the Slave know? A Response to Stephen Spiess’ in Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and his World, ed. S. Mukherji (Medieval Institute Publications: De Gruyter, 2019), 75-88; 153-55 ‘India..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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