Author: Budhiraja, B., Agrawal, G., Pathak, P. A.
Urban heat island effect of a polynuclear megacity Delhi ? Compactness and thermal evaluation of four sub-cities
Publisher: Urban Climate, 2020
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Planning for sustainable cities generally focuses on compact, human-scale cities. The urban paradigms underlying each city produce morphologies which generate a distinctive local urban climate. In this paper, four sub-cities in Delhi NCR, India, are classified using local climate zone (LCZ), and then analysed for thermal performance and compactness. These sub-cities are broadly classified as a garden city (LCZ 5A), a resettlement colony (LCZ 3), a mixed land-use city (LCZ 5), and an industrial city (LCZ 56). The surface UHI (UHISurf) is estimated using Google Earth Engine with MODIS, canopy layer UHI (UHIUCL) with meteorological data, and density using Spacematrix. The nighttime UHIUCL is 7.52 °C (LCZ 5 and LCZ 5A) and the UHISurf is 5.2 °C (LCZ 5 and LCZ D). A major apprehension is the residual temperature at sunrise (5–8 °C) leading to high heat stress and detrimental health impacts. The heating and cooling rate, reduced by a factor of three is observed (LCZ 5–0.25 °C/h). The least UHI is experienced by LCZ 5A and the built density is highest in LCZ 3. The mixed-land use (LCZ 5) city performs poorly, whereas the industrial city (LCZ 56) performs optimally on both thermal and density scales.
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Author: Varma, M., Mal, H., Pahurkar, R., Swain, R
Comparative analysis of green house gases emission in conventional vehic les and electric vehicles
Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 2020
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With the global warming increasing day by day, depletion of Ozone at alarming rate. Green House gases (GHGs) emissions rate not decreasing and Countries not Milling to reduce industrial emissions at the expense offinancial growth. Authorities have now started thinking of alternate ways to reduce pollution. Some of the few are power generation from Nuclear energy, Wave, Wind, Solar energy. Increasing the efficiency of fossil fuel plants, absorbing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from these plants and not letting them go to air and store them deep inside the sea. Alternate propulsion vehicle like Electric Vehicles (EVl, Hydrogen-powered vehicle, Liquefied natural gas (LNG) to reduce Green House gases emissions to the atmosphere are a few steps towards reducing emissions. With increasing support from Governments worldwide viz. India, United States, China, Germany and Europe emphasis is being given to EV technology, and we may see EV replacing the conventional Gasoline and Diesel powered vehicle, we will observe a decline in sales figure of the same in coining years. Electric Vehicles (EVs), as expected to help save energy and reduce carbon die oxide emissions, are facing a rapid growth in China [1]. A general perception is built amongst masses that Electric vehicle (EV) is Zero-emission vehicles. This study provides a comprehensive review of the emissions from EVs and whether they reduce the Green House gases. It is based on relevant published literature related to ertvironmental more specifically to Green House gases implication of Electric vehicle. Another objective of this stud)' is to throw light on Electric Vehicle, Battery of Electnc Vehicle, Fuel Used in Electric Vehicle, Pollutions if any emitted from Electric vehicles, Life of these vehicles and Impact on Green House Gases
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Author: Chaudhry, S.
Partner opportunism and willingness to engage in project relationships
Publisher: Journal of Strategy and Management, 2020
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The paper seeks to understand the implications of partner opportunism for project relationships.
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Author: Chaudhry, S.
Exploring the Determinants of Client Opportunism: A Study of IT Service Projects
Publisher: International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, 2020
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Author: Phillott, A., Godfrey, M.H.
Assessing the evidence of infertile sea turtle eggs
Publisher: Endangered Species Research, 2020
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Author: Phillott, A. and Rees, A.F.
Sea Turtles in the Middle East and South Asia Region: MTSG Annual Regional Report 2020.
Publisher: IUCN-SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group, 2021
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Author: Rakesh, V.T. and Menon, P.
Pricing Challenge in Servitization: Can Servitization Improve Ecological Sustenance?
Publisher: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2021
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Author: Bhargava H., Sharma A., Valadi J.K.
Machine Learning for Bioinformatics. In: Suravajhala P.N. (eds) Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics.
Publisher: Springer, Singapore., 2021
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Machine learning algorithms have gathered the attention of every individual with applications in astronomy, online shopping, social media, medical diagnostics, online trading, smart devices, online education, and so on. These algorithms differ from traditional problem-solving algorithms with the ability to learn from the data without being explicitly programmed. These data exist in different formats and are typically generated from a variety of sources including data from primary or secondary research, image, video, location, geospatial and sensory data (Alonso et al. 2017). The availability of such data not only provides opportunities for data-driven decision making through data analytics but also poses serious challenges in terms of data management and storage. With the advent of cloud computing data management and storage issues can be handled with greater ease and flexibility while the data analytics part can be well addressed by the use of machine learning algorithms.
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Author: Strenio, J. and Chowdhury, J.R.
Remote Work, Sexual Harassment, and Worker Well-Being: A Study of the United States and India
Publisher: In: Wheatley, D., Hardill, I., and Buglass, S. (Eds), Handbook of Research on Remote Work and Worker Well-Being in the Post-COVID-19 Era, 2021
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Workplace sexual harassment is a serious occupational hazard, adversely affecting workers' employment trajectories, economic well-being, and mental and physical health. Prior to COVID-19, it was widespread and primarily perpetrated by men against women, both in the physical workplace and physical and virtual public spaces associated with work. This chapter examines how the transition to remote work has effected changes in the prevalence and types of sexual harassment, paying attention to its gendered nature. Remote work holds both promise and peril. While exposure to physical harassment has fallen, information and communications technology has increased the risk of sexual harassment in virtual spaces. The cases of the United States and India are explored in more detail to compare worker experiences across the Global North and Global South, in countries with vastly different socioeconomic structures. This chapter contributes to the understanding of the benefits and challenges of remote work in combatting sexual harassment.
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Author: Samanta, T
Hymen interrupted: Negotiating body, markets, and consumerist modernity in India
Publisher: Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021
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In this commentary, I contend that in a context marked by a slow but steady rise in sexual liberalism around the ideals of female sexuality and desire, the pressure to remain virginal is manifested through a potent nexus of markets and moral economies associated with gender and intimacy. Drawing on qualitative interviews with surgeons specialising in female genital aesthetic surgeries, particularly hymenoplasty, in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore, I show how restorative cosmetic surgeries on healthy bodies are proffered through the language of duty, autonomous choice, and the (neoliberal) market. Further, building on the sociological concepts of "moral consumption" and "progress through pleasure", I show how consumerism-led modernity makes pleasure a 'biopolitical burden', and the cosmetic industry, a regulatory vehicle, disciplining female sexuality to conform with male honour codes. I question what this holds for the sexual and reproductive health politics of young people in India, in a context marked by pervasive asymmetries of socialisation, gender relations, and sexual experience. I conclude with a call to unsettle the social-moral ideals around female sexuality and to rethink the medical-legal frameworks around the cosmetic industry so that young people are not unwittingly co-opted into its production of ideal, patriarchal subjects
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Author: Sasi Kiran
Handbook of Ageing, Health and Public Policy
Publisher: Of Cold Baths, Tender Coconuts and Lethal Injections, 2021
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Author: Kisana, R. and Shah, N.
No one understands what we go through?: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic
Publisher: Gender & Development, 2021
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This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health risks and needs. We document their internal negotiation of health risks, and their narratives pertaining to chronic health issues and deteriorating mental health arising from COVID-19-related uncertainty. We also probe on how their family roles and obligations intersect with their de-prioritisation of self-care. The investigation reveals narratives of lack of agency at work, invisibilised and endemic mental wellness issues, and neglect of personal well-being at the cost of centring the needs of the family.
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Author: Donnelly, S., Manning, M., Mannan, H., Wilson, A.G., Kroll, T.
Renegotiating dimensions of the self: A systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis of the lived experience of self-managing rheumatoid arthritis
Publisher: Health Expectations, 2020
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Background: As chronic illnesses, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), place an increased burden on health-care systems, the ability of individuals to self-manage these diseases is crucial. Objective: To identify and synthesize the lived experience of self-management described by adults living with RA. Design: A systematic search of five electronic databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO and ASSIA) was undertaken to identify relevant studies. Data were extracted and quality-assessed using CASP guidelines. A meta-synthesis was conducted based on Thomas and Harden's thematic synthesis approach. Results: The search identified 8423 publications. After removing duplicates, 6527 records remained of which 32 studies met the inclusion criteria. Quality of studies was moderate to high, yet a considerable lack of reflection on researcher bias was evident. Our analysis identified 28 dimensions of self-management RA across six domains: (a) cognitive-emotional, (b) behavioural, (c) social, (d) environmental, (e) physical and (f) technological. Cognitive-emotional experiences dominated the analysis. Renegotiating ‘the self’ (self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy) was a key focus of self-management among individuals with RA. Conclusion: Our findings highlight the focus of ‘the self’ as a central concern in the self-management of RA. Standardized self-management programmes may primarily focus on disease management and daily functioning. However, we suggest that personal biographies and circumstances should move to the fore of self-management support. Registration: PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews 2018: CRD42018100450. Patient or Public Contribution: Patient and public involvement was not explicit in this review. However, three authors provided a patient perspective on the self-management of arthritis and autoimmune disease.
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Author: Liu, R. C.
China’s “great overseas propaganda” under the belt and road initiative
Publisher: In: China?s Search for ?National Rejuvenation?: Domestic and Foreign Policies under Xi Jinping, 2020
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This chapter aims to delineate and trace the development of China’s “Great Overseas Propaganda” strategy in the context of the BRI. It suggests that the CPC’s propaganda campaign has evolved and become more intricate and indirect with the Party in the background. To increase China’s visibility, the CPC has used multipronged ways, including acquisition of and collaboration with foreign media (especially, media entities in BRI countries); increasing appearance via internet-based media and reliance on Chinese social media platforms to indirectly spread propaganda and create positive images of China. The “Grand Overseas Propaganda” strategy and BRI are mutually supporting: while infrastructure diplomacy creates the demand for positive news of China either domestically or in the host countries, by “telling a good story about China”, “Grand Overseas Propaganda” also facilitates China’s infrastructure export to other countries.
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Author: Shah, S. S. and Patki, S. M.
Getting traditionally rooted Indian leadership to embrace digital leadership: challenges and way forward with reference to LMX
Publisher: Leadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
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Leadership has been a topic of great interest for researchers, business people, educators, and government officials alike over the years. Leadership as a theoretical construct has undergone a great deal of changes as a result of changes such as modernization, globalization and most recently digitalization. Taking into account the various changes that the internet and cloud computing has introduced in the organizational systems and processes across the globe, it is prudent to understand the relationship between leadership and digitalization to foresee how leaders should prepare themselves to cater to the challenges of the future. Leadership is indeed an ever-evolving concept, and so is technology; of which digitalization is an outcome. Most inquiries about such a relation are being well executed by the western cultures. Exploring the relationship between leadership and digitalization in the eastern cultures, especially India becomes more significant; as the technology is booming and drastically changing how daily activities are carried out as an influence of digitalization. With over 40% of the Indian population subscribed to the internet, and through the efforts made by the public and private sectors, India is on the way to being a technologically advanced country. India is also the largest base of digital consumers. Leaders struggle to lead in such challenging situations; which are becoming more volatile. It is imperative to examine what capacities, abilities and competencies leaders already have and what they need to further improve upon, in order to lead effectively in the digital world. To examine the overall context of Indian traditional leadership, leader–member exchange is seen to be a relevant theory. At last, challenges and gaps are discussed and the notion of “creative personality” is recommended for Indian leaders to cater to the digital changes.
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Author: Enduri, M.K., Reddy, I.V., Jolad, S.
Evolution of physics sub-fields
Publisher: COMPLEXIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk2020, Pages 88-95, 2020
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We study the evolution and relationships between sub-fields of Physics using the large data set of articles published in the various physical review journals from 1985-2010. Each article is assigned to some PACS codes by their authors which represent specific sub-fields of Physics. We construct a weighted network with nodes as PACS codes and there is a link between two PACS codes if there is an article assigned to both these codes. The weight of a link represents the number of articles in which both PACS codes appears. We study the time evolution of PACS network at various hierarchy levels of PACS codes. We observe that sub-fields Physics of elementary particles and fields, Nuclear Physics and Condensed matter physics have stronger connections inside the field compared to connections to other sub-fields. We also observe that both condensed matter physics sub-fields are strongly related compared to any other pair of sub-fields.
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Author: Supriya Chouthoy, Sajith Narayanan, Roshan Kazi.
Can Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation Create Emotional Attachments - Examining Consumers? Emotional Responses to Organizations? Corporate Social Responsibility
Publisher: Journal of Critical Reviews, 2020
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Author: Radda, I.A., Kumar, B.M., and Pathak, P.
Land degradation in Bihar: An assessment using rain-use efficiency and residual trend analysis
Publisher: Agricultural Research, 2021
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Land degradation, a major environmental problem, poses threats to agricultural, social and economic stability of many regions of the world. In India, ~ 37% of the total land area is estimated to be degraded. Although assessment of land degradation in arid and semiarid regions of India has advanced through remote sensing time-series analysis such as rain-use efficiency (RUE) and residual trend analysis (RESTREND), the sub-humid and other regions mostly remain unexplored in this respect. In this study, land degradation in Bihar, a sub-humid state, was quantitatively assessed through RUE and RESTREND from 1995 to 2011. RUE is the ratio of aboveground net primary productivity to precipitation and has been widely used as a measure of land degradation. RESTREND, on the other hand, examines the trend of NDVI residuals, which is the difference between observed NDVI and predicted NDVI from rainfall data. Results indicate that RESTREND effectively estimated the extent of human-induced land degradation in Bihar as 4.73 M ha. Agro-climatic zone IIIB, the driest zone, has the highest percentage of degraded lands (33%), while Zone IIIA has the lowest percent of degraded lands (17%). Zones I and II each account for 25% of the degraded lands, most of which are affected by waterlogging and salinity. Although other land degradation databases have also indicated a rapid increase in land degradation across Bihar, it needs more ground-based data collection to substantiate it. The problem, however, may further aggravate with global warming, which calls for policy interventions such as adopting agroforestry, practicing sustainable agriculture and making shifts in cropping patterns.
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Author: Chavan, G; Chaudhuri, R; Johnston, W; Garner, B.
Purchasing performance of engineering procurement and construction companies using a fuzzy quality-function-deployment approach
Publisher: Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 2020
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Author: Jadhav, D, and Shenoy, D.
Measuring the smartness of a library
Publisher: Library and Information Science Research, 2020
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Traditional libraries around the world are integrating cutting-edge technologies, such as data mining, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and voice-based search, to transform themselves into smart libraries. However, what elements make a library smart? How does one estimate the smartness of a library? To address these fundamental questions five elements and fifteen subelements that make a library smart were identified from a comprehensive review of the literature. A fuzzy-based model for use computing a library's smartness index was developed around these elements/subelements. Ease of use of this model was demonstrated by applying it to measure the smartness of a large academic library in South Asia.
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