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Reading: Amit Majmudar
No full textBecause of COVID-19 this event is canceled.
Amit Majmudar, a multi-genre author and translator, offers a Sacred Arts Festival reading that explores the concept of Building Bridges.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Sacred Arts Festival
Technology product coolness and its implication for brand love
No full textIncreased similarity of features of technology products has led to a waning of unique differentiating factors. In an absence of any tangible unique selling proposition, coolness has emerged as one of the compelling differentiators. This study investigates the coolness of technology products through in-depth interviews and an application of the critical incident technique (CIT). Thereafter, the findings of the qualitative study are empirically validated by collecting data through survey methodology and analyzing it by using structural equation modeling technique. Six dimensions of perceived coolness, viz., rebelliousness, desirability, innovativeness of technology, reliability, attractiveness, and usability are identified and empirically validated. The impact of coolness on brand love (which is a brand-related outcome of coolness), an under-researched construct, is studied and the relationship is found to be positive
Assessment of groundwater level fluctuation by using remote sensing and GIS in West Bokaro coalfield, Jharkhand, India
No full textExploring young students creativity: The effect of model eliciting activities
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to show how engaging students in real-life mathematical situations can stimulate their mathematical creative thinking. We analyzed the mathematical modeling of two girls, aged 10 and 13 years, as they worked on an authentic task involving the selection of a track team. The girls displayed several modeling cycles that revealed their thinking processes, as well as cognitive and affective features that may serve as the foundation for a methodology that uses model-eliciting activities to promote the mathematical creative process
Reviewing the Author-Function in the Age of Wikipedia
Get PDFIn Reviewing the Author-Function in the Age of Wikipedia, Amit Ray and Erhardt Graeff examine how wiki technology challenges traditional concepts of authorship and authority in knowledge production. The authors build on poststructuralist theory, particularly Roland Barthes\u27s Death of the Author and Michel Foucault\u27s concept of the author-function, to analyze how wikis destabilize individual authorship in favor of collaborative, community-driven content creation.
The essay argues that wikis represent a fundamental shift from the Romantic notion of the solitary author-genius to what they term the wiki writing process —a dynamic system where traditional roles of reader, writer, and editor blur into a unified community of users. Using Wikipedia as a primary case study, the authors demonstrate how the platform\u27s structure (article, discussion, and history pages) creates a digital palimpsest that archives all contributions while enabling continuous revision.
Through analysis of Wikipedia\u27s editing patterns and community oversight mechanisms, Ray and Graeff show how wikis embody poststructuralist principles in practice, creating what they call serial collaborations that exist in perpetual flux. The authors conclude that wikis represent an evolved form of textual production that realizes Foucault\u27s vision of discourse freed from traditional authorial constraints, offering new possibilities for collaborative knowledge creation while challenging established notions of intellectual authority and ownership
Effect of Nyctanthes Arbortristis Linn. Leaves Against Streptozotocin Induced Oxidative Stress in Rats
No full textAbstract: Nyctanthes arbortristis Linn. (Fam: Nyctanthaceae) is commonly known as ‘Harsinghar’ and its leaves are traditionally used to treat fevers, rheumatism, liver disorders and as expectorant. The present work is aimed to evaluate the effect of leaves of N. arbortristis on antioxidant enzymes status in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. STZ diabetic rats showed decreased levels of antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) in serum as compared to normal. Diabetic animals were treated with 50% ethanolic extract of N. arbortristis Leaves (NAEt; 100 and 200 mg/kg b.w) for three weeks. Oral administration of NAEt showed the marked reduction in elevated level of serum glucose as compared with diabetic group. NAEt significantly increased SOD (p<0.05), CAT (p<0.05, p<0.01), GPx (p<0.01) in serum at a dose of 100 and 200 mg/kg. Further, NAEt significantly inhibited the lipid peroxidation by reducing TBARS in liver. The results suggested that oral administration of NAEt possesses significant antidiabetic and antioxidant potential. It was concluded that antidiabetic effect of N. arbortristis may due to its antioxidant compounds which neutralizes the oxidative stress in diabetic condition.
Keywords: Nyctanthes arbortristis, Streptozotocin, superoxide dismutase, catalase, serum glucose
Cite as: Altaf Husain, Ujjwal Tiwari, Vijay Sharma, Amit Kumar, & Nadeem Rais. (2010). Effect of Nyctanthes Arbortristis Linn. Leaves Against Streptozotocin Induced Oxidative Stress in Rats. International Journal of Pharma Professional's Research, 1(1), 10–13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7702654
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.770265
Cost Performance of Thin Film and Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells -A Comparative Study
No full textAbstract (Sahay Amit et al 2013
The Architecture of India
Get PDFBook review of "India: Modern Architecture in History" and author interview with Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastav
Antigiardial activity of novel triazolyl quinolone-based chalcone derivatives: when oxygen makes the difference
Get PDFGiardiasis is a common diarrheal disease worldwide caused by the protozoan parasite Giardia (G.) intestinalis. It is urgent to develop novel drugs to treat giardiasis, due to increasing clinical resistance to the gold standard drug metronidazole (MTZ). New potential antiparasitic compounds are usually tested for their killing efficacy against G. intestinalis under anaerobic conditions, in which MTZ is maximally effective. On the other hand, though commonly regarded as an ‘anaerobic pathogen’, G. intestinalis is exposed to relatively high O2 levels in vivo, living attached to the mucosa of the proximal small intestine. It is thus important to test the effect of O2 when searching for novel potential antigiardial agents, as outlined in a previous study (Bahadur, Mastronicola et al. (2014) Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 58, 543). Here, forty-five novel chalcone derivatives with triazolyl-quinolone scaffold were synthesized, purified and characterized by high resolution mass spectrometry, 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy. Efficacy of the compounds against G. intestinalis trophozoites was tested under both anaerobic and microaerobic conditions, and selectivity was assessed in a counter-screen on human epithelial colorectal adenocarcinoma cells. MTZ was used as a positive control in the assays. All the tested compounds proved to be more effective against the parasite in the presence of O2, with the exception of MTZ that was less effective. Under anaerobiosis eighteen compounds were found to be as effective as MTZ or more (up to 3-4 fold); the same compounds proved to be up to > 100 fold more effective than MTZ under microaerobic conditions. Four of them represent potential candidates for the design of novel antigiardial drugs, being highly selective against Giardia trophozoites. This study further underlines the importance of taking O2 into account when testing novel potential antigiardial compounds
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