928 research outputs found
Food for nought
No full textThe short story, "Food for nought", is written by the listed author above, Shashi Bhat. Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Lynn Coady, Mavis Gallant, Zsuzsi Gartner, Douglas Glover, Steven Heighton, Isabel Huggan, Mark Anthony Jarman, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Russell Smith, Linda Svendsen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the years and decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. A continuation of not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. --From publisher description.Published
TWO NEW SPECIES OF POACEAE FROM INDIA
No full textTwo new species of Poaceae namely, Erayrostis santapaui K. G. Bhat & C. R. Nagendran and Chrysopogon pseitdozeylanicus K. G. Bhat & C. R. Nagendran have been described from materials collected by the senior author from Coorg- and South Kanara Districts of Karnataka State, India
Lessons from the life of Asia's first female neurosurgeon for modern neurosurgical trainees and educators worldwide
No full textThis paper was deposited with permission from the publisher.
Ozair, A., Bhat, V., & Nanda, A. (2022). Lessons from the life of Asia's first female neurosurgeon for modern neurosurgical trainees and educators worldwide. Journal of Neurosurgery, 136(4), 1164-1172. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.3.JNS2193
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sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465231180323 – Supplemental material for Efficacy and Safety of Stempeucel in Osteoarthritis of the Knee
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465231180323 for Efficacy and Safety of Stempeucel in Osteoarthritis of the Knee by Pawan Kumar Gupta, Sunil Maheshwari, Joe Joseph Cherian, Vijay Goni, Arun Kumar Sharma, Sujith Kumar Tripathy, Keerthi Talari, Vivek Pandey, Parag Kantilal Sancheti, Saurabh Singh, Syamasis Bandyopadhyay, Naresh Shetty, Surendra Umesh Kamath, Purohit Sharad Prahaldbhai, Jijy Abraham, Suresh Kannan, Samatha Bhat, Shivashankar Parshuram, Vinayaka Shahavi, Akhilesh Sharma, Nikhil N. Verma and Uday Kumar in The American Journal of Sports Medicine</p
Right for the Right Reason: Evidence Extraction for Trustworthy Tabular Reasoning
No full textThis repository contains resources developed for the paper: Gupta, V., Zhang, S., Vempala, A., He, Y., Choji, T., Srikumar V., Right for the Right Reason: Evidence Extraction for Trustworthy Tabular Reasoning. In: Proceeding of the The Association of Computational Linguistic 2022 (ACL ’22), May 2022".
It includes the relevant rows marking for the train set of the InfoTabS dataset (https://infotabs.github.io/) Gupta et. al. 2020 [1].
We followed the protocol of Gupta et al. (2022) [2] which annotated the development and test sets (alpha1, alpha2, alpha3) sets: one table and three distinct hypotheses formed a HIT. We divide the tasks equally into 110 batches, each batch having 51 HITs each having three examples. In total, we collected 81,282 annotations from 90 distinct annotators.
Overall, twenty five annotators completed over 1000 tasks, corresponding to 87.75 % of the examples, indicating a tail distribution with the annotations. Overall, 16,248 training set table-hypothesis pairs were successfully labeled with the evidence rows. On average, we obtain 89.49% F1-score with equal precision and recall for annotation agreement when compared with majority vote. It also includes an annotation template used on the mTurk platform for crowdsourcing. The cited datasets were used in this work. The cited datasets were used in this work.
Files to access the annotation follow the below structure:
annotation_batches
batches_test: contain final results “.csv” files for all the development and test set batches (taken from Gupta et. al. 2022)
batches_train: contain our annotated results “.csv” files for all the train set batches
README.md: contain the readme for the annotation batches details
main_template_row_relevant.html: content the annotation template used for each HIT i.e. marking the relevant row for each instance
annotation_stats.md: Have details of the annotation statistics
release_mturk: contain the release batches details i.e. csv for corresponding batches released
Files to recreate the annotation statistics and pre-processed data:
results_test: contain the pre-processed batch csv for dev and test set each batch. In the dev and test set. The integrated one computes the agreement stats for all the batches.(taken from Gupta et. al. 2022)
results_train: similar to resutls_train expect contain the pre-processed batch csv for train set.
scripts: contain the scripts needed to create the csv in the results_test and results_train sets. The script title denotes the function (the statistic it computes) for the scripts.
src: the scripts use these python files to create the relevant statistics.
References:
[1] InfoTabS: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured Data, Vivek Gupta, Maitrey Mehta, Pegah Nokhiz, Vivek Srikumar, ACL 2020
[2] Is My Model Using The Right Evidence? Systematic Probes for Examining Evidence-Based Tabular Reasoning, Vivek Gupta, Riyaz A. Bhat, Atreya Ghosal, Manish Srivastava, Maneesh Singh, Vivek Srikumar, TACL 2022, presented at ACL 202
Non-Parametric Approximate Dynamic Programming via the Kernel Method
No full textThis paper presents a novel non-parametric approximate dynamic programming (ADP) algorithm that enjoys graceful approximation and sample complexity guarantees. In particular, we establish both theoretically and computationally that our proposal can serve as a viable alternative to state-of-the-art parametric ADP algorithms, freeing the designer from carefully specifying an approximation architecture. We accomplish this by developing a kernel-based mathematical program for ADP. Via a computational study on a controlled queueing network, we show that our procedure is competitive with parametric ADP approaches
Fish distribution dynamics in the Aghanashini estuary of Uttara Kannada, west coast of India
No full textFish diversity (77 species) in the Aghanashini River estuary of the Indian west coast is linked to variable salinity conditions and zones I, II and III for high, medium and low salinity respectively. Zone I, the junction between Arabian Sea and the estuary, had all species in yearly succession due to freshwater conditions in monsoon to high salinity in pre-monsoon. The medium (zone II) and low (zone III) salinity mid and upstream portions had maximum of 67 and 39 fish species respectively. Maintenance of natural salinity regimes in estuary, among other ecological factors, is critical for its fish diversity
Analysis of Public Expenditure on Health Using State Level Data
No full textIncreasingly the governments are facing pressures to increase budgetary allocations to social sectors. Recently there has been suggestion to increase the government budget allocations to health sector and increase it to 3 per cent of GDP. Is this feasible goal and in what time-frame? Health being State subject in India and much depends on the ability of the State governments to allocate higher budgetary support to health sector. This inter alia depends on what are current levels of spending, what target spending as per cent of income the States assume to spend on health and given fundamental relationship between income levels and public expenditures, how fast expenditures can respond to rising income levels. We present analysis of public expenditures on health using state level public health expenditure data to provide preliminary analysis on these issues. The findings suggest that at state level governments have target of allocating only about 0.43 per cent of SGDP to health and medical care. This does not include the allocations received under central sponsored programmes such as family welfare. Given this level of spending at current levels and fiscal position of state governments the goal of spending 2 to 3 per cent of GDP on health looks very ambitious task. The analysis also suggests that elasticity of health expenditure when SGDP changes in only 0.68 which suggest that for every one percent increase in state per capita income the per capita public healthcare expenditure has increased by around 0.68 per cent.
Neuropeptide VGF Promotes Maturation of Hippocampal Dendrites That Is Reduced by Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
No full textThe neuropeptide VGF (non-acronymic) is induced by brain-derived neurotrophic factor and promotes hippocampal neurogenesis, as well as synaptic activity. However, morphological changes induced by VGF have not been elucidated. Developing hippocampal neurons were exposed to VGF through bath application or virus-mediated expression in vitro. VGF-derived peptide, TLQP-62, enhanced dendritic branching, and outgrowth. Furthermore, VGF increased dendritic spine density and the proportion of immature spines. Spine formation was associated with increased synaptic protein expression and co-localization of pre- and postsynaptic markers. Three non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected in human VGF gene. Transfection of N2a cells with plasmids containing these SNPs revealed no relative change in protein expression levels and normal protein size, except for a truncated protein from the premature stop codon, E525X. All three SNPs resulted in a lower proportion of N2a cells bearing neurites relative to wild-type VGF. Furthermore, all three mutations reduced the total length of dendrites in developing hippocampal neurons. Taken together, our results suggest VGF enhances dendritic maturation and that these effects can be altered by common mutations in the VGF gene. The findings may have implications for people suffering from psychiatric disease or other conditions who may have altered VGF levels.Peer reviewe
Ear- and grain- characteristics of the original and reconstituted version of hybrid.
No full text<p><b>A</b>: Vivek Hybrid-27; <b>B</b>: Improved Vivek Hybrid-27.</p
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