Author: B. J. Godley, A. C. Broderick, L. P. Colman, A. Formia, M. H. Godfrey, M. Hamann, A. Nuno, L. C. M. Omeyer, A. R. Patrício, A. D. Phillott, A. F. Rees and K. Shanker
Reflections on sea turtle conservation
Publisher: Oryx, 2020
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Why do sea turtles garner such intense interest? The answer is visceral: they are widely loved! A cryptic life cycle spent mostly out of view lends a sense of mystery that makes them special. Yet, these large animals are highly accessible at an extremely vulnerable time, when females emerge on sandy beaches at night to lay eggs, before disappearing again into the oceans. Being nocturnal, they provide us the adventure of going out in the dark on secluded beaches to find them. Plus, the hatchlings are cute, and releasing them into the sea must be one of the most engaging activities that people can do with a protected species.
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Author: Siddiqui, S.
Faith Healing: Haunted Discourses of Distress in India
Publisher: Nehring, D., Madsen, O.J., Cabanas, E., Mills, C., and Kerrigan, D. (Eds): In The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures, 2020
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Author: Kalra, N. and Nene, M.
Ethics and Feminist Archiving in the Digital Age: An Interview with CS Lakshmi
Publisher: "Dodd, M and Kalra, N. (Eds) In: Exploring Digital Humanities in India Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities, Routledge India", 2020
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Author: Saif-Alyousfi, A.Y.H., Saha, A., Md-Rus, R., and Mohd. K. N. T.
Do oil and gas price shock have impact on bank performance
Publisher: Journal of Commodity Markets, 2020
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The paper examines the impact of oil and gas price shocks on bank performance in the major oil and gas exporting GCC countries, using data for the period 2000–2017. Results indicate that oil and gas price rises have a direct bearing on bank performance through the channel of price-induced bank deposits and related lending to business activities. The negative impact on bank performance due to a drop in oil and gas prices is greater than the positive effect of a rise in prices. Findings suggest that oil and gas price volatility has an asymmetric effect on conventional and Islamic banks. Conventional banks reap more benefit from the increased cash flow created by oil and gas prices, compared to Islamic banks. While Islamic banks are generally vulnerable to adverse oil and gas price shocks, conventional banks tend to benefit more from positive oil and gas price shocks. The association between oil and gas price shocks and bank performance in GCC has been distorted by the global financial crisis, the Arab Spring, and the ongoing Yemen War, which have lowered performance. The findings of the study have significant policy implications for the central banks as well as the governments in the oil and gas-exporting countries.
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Author: Agarwal, T., Suravajhala, R., Bhushan, M., Goswami, P., Iddamalgoda, L., Malik, B., Valadi, J, and Suravajhala, P.
Recent Advances in Gene and Genome Assembly: Challenges & Implications
Publisher: In: Singh V. (eds) Advances in Synthetic Biology. Springer, Singapore, 2020
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Thelast decade has seen a surge in genome assembly and sequencing technologies. From the good old DNA sequencing and electrophoresis reads enunciated by Sanger, Maxam, and Gilbert, several tools were embodied through the use of these methods and yet, the challenges these methods imposed have had a paradigm shift. In this focused review, we provide a gist of the tools used by the genome assemblers and discuss the challenges and implications of the next generation sequencing chemistries shaped up by the development of tools.
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Author: Kalra, M., Panicker, D., Dixit, A., Jain, R., Thakur, B.
Transgressing International Boundaries: Ensuring Access to Sustainable and Affordable Energy for All
Publisher: In: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Affordable and Clean Energy, 2020
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Author: Heinrich, F., Shukla, K., et. al.
Synergistic Biophysical Techniques Reveal Structural Mechanisms of Engineered Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides in Lipid Model Membranes
Publisher: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2020
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In the quest for new antibiotics, two novel engineered cationic antimicrobial peptides (eCAPs) have been rationally designed. WLBU2 and D8 (all 8 valines are the d ‐enantiomer) efficiently kill both Gram‐negative and ‐positive bacteria, but WLBU2 is toxic and D8 nontoxic to eukaryotic cells. We explore protein secondary structure, location of peptides in six lipid model membranes, changes in membrane structure and pore evidence. We suggest that protein secondary structure is not a critical determinant of bactericidal activity, but that membrane thinning and dual location of WLBU2 and D8 in the membrane headgroup and hydrocarbon region may be important. While neither peptide thins the Gram‐negative lipopolysaccharide outer membrane model, both locate deep into its hydrocarbon region where they are primed for self‐promoted uptake into the periplasm. The partially α‐helical secondary structure of WLBU2 in a red blood cell (RBC) membrane model containing 50 % cholesterol, could play a role in destabilizing this RBC membrane model causing pore formation that is not observed with the D8 random coil, which correlates with RBC hemolysis caused by WLBU2 but not by D8.
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Author: Ghura, A.S. and Kumar, I.
Shradhanjali.com: creating Blue Ocean
Publisher: Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2020
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Author: Saikia, S.
Saffronizing the periphery: Explaining the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party in contemporary Assam
Publisher: Studies in Indian Politics, 2020
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The remotely located and relatively marginalized states of northeast India have historically been a Congress bastion, despite posing continued challenges to the nation-building project through many insurgency movements. The success of the grand old party depended on creating ‘umbrella coalitions’ with diverse ethnic groups to sustain power. However, since General elections 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has successfully challenged the dominance of Congress, particularly in the state of Assam. In this context, this paper seeks to discuss recent shifts in electoral dynamics in Assam and its implication for a region hitherto considered peripheral. The paper situates the BJP’s emergence as the new locus of power in the long-term processes of party politics in Assam and discusses the resultant shifts in social alignments, cleavages and political issues in the multi-ethnic landscape of the state. It also explores the role of the RSS in negotiating its larger ideological interests with local political realities of the state and its ability to appropriate local cultural symbols. The paper concludes that the unprecedented rise of the BJP, which is a result of the changing political opportunity structures in Assam, will nevertheless be tested severely due to the state’s multi-ethnic character and complex, localized social fault lines.
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Author: Damani, B., and Ghura, A.S.
Innovative approaches to entrepreneurship education at FLAME University in India
Publisher: In: Neck, H.M. and Liu, Y. (Eds), Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education - Teaching Entrepreneurship in Practice , 2021
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Entrepreneurship and startups have recently increased significantly in India. The government has initiated several measures to boost the startup ecosystem. Most universities in India now offer entrepreneurship as an introductory course. Because most courses at the university level in India are theoretical and classroom-oriented, entrepreneurship is also taught more theoretically. Yet, entrepreneurship education is a practical discipline and cannot be taught in or restricted to the classroom and lecture. Hence, the pedagogical approach of teaching needs to shift from passive learning to more experiential approaches, which is the domain of andragogy and heutagogy, as opposed to pedagogy. FLAME University in Pune, India, has transitioned from the pedagogical approach to andragogical and heutagogical approaches in its series of entrepreneurship courses. This chapter describes the innovative approaches used at FLAME University in entrepreneurship education.
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Author: Samanta, T
This thing called love
Publisher: The Gerontologist, 2021
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Author: Devi, T., & Agarwal, P.
Decoding Total Factor Productivity - The Indian Story.
Publisher: Journal of Economics & Policy Analysis, 2020
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Author: Gaurav Tikhe, Tanvi Joshi, Ashwin Lahorkar, Aamod Sane, Jayaraman Valadi
Feature Selection Using Equilibrium Optimizer
Publisher: Springer, Singapore., 2021
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To tackle the problem of the feature selection, the newly introduced algorithm of equilibrium optimization is featured in this paper. The algorithm is inspired from dynamic mass balance inside a control volume. Each agent (particle) updates concentration with best solutions obtained so far leading to equilibrium state, i.e., optimum result. To find effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, it was tested on 13 benchmark datasets from UCI machine learning repository from different domains.
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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: Divya Balan
Strengthening the India-EU Migration Corridor: The Way Forward.
Publisher: In Neeta Inamdar, Priya Vijaykumar Poojary and Praveen Shetty (eds.), Contours of India-EU Engagements: Multiplicity of Experiences, Manipal University Press, 2021
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Author: Blaney, A
The flesh of imagination: locating materiality in biology inspired visual art
Publisher: Leonardo - MIT Press, 2021
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Author: Ahmad, N. H., Saha, A., & Eam, L. H.
Drivers Of Future Savings Of Malaysian Households
Publisher: Journal Of Economics And Sustainability, 2021
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The households’ savings in Malaysia have shown a deteriorating trend that negatively impacts their financial security. The Financial Inclusion and Capability Study of BNM (2016) indicates that merely 6 percent of Malaysians could survive for more than six months and 18 percent up to three months if they lose their main source of income. Thus, it is imperative to examine the drivers of future savings of Malaysian households. A sample of 1,106 bank customers in three cities of peninsular Malaysia was recruited, and the descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) were employed. The results reveal that about 25 percent of households are not likely to make any changes in their savings profile in various financial and physical assets. The drivers of future saving are found to be socio-demographic parameters, such as age, education level, the number of working members in the household, and income, and other parameters, such as the percentage of income saved, and the period of the saving plan, which have a significant relationship with the change in future savings of the households. The policy implications of the findings are also presented.
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Author: Riad Shams, S.M., Vrontis, D., Chaudhuri, R., Chavan, G., Czinkota, M.R.
Stakeholder engagement for innovation management and entrepreneurial development: A meta-analysis
Publisher: Journal of Business Research, 2020
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The focus of this paper is to reviews contemporary studies in entrepreneurship literature related to innovation management (IM), stakeholder engagement (SE), and entrepreneurial development (ED), using bibliometric techniques and longitudinal statistical analysis of 1059 articles published in the Journal of Business Research (JBR) and other relevant business and management journals indexed in Scopus from 1974 untill July 2020. We have employed a structured literature review and meta-analysis to explore the emerging research patterns in prospective observational studies encompassing the field of ED, SE, and IM. Our findings suggest that it may be worthwhile to mention that dynamics of the interaction of SE, IM, and ED are shaping the scholarship of academic research in entrepreneurship. Our meta-analysi-s reaffirms that contemporary research conducted at the intersection of SE, IM, and ED is indicatesive of the consolidation of these tenets in future research in entrepreneurship leading to an integrative view. Following our meta-analysisinally, we have presented future research directions at the intersection of SE, IM, and ED for entrepreneurship research.
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Author: Poddar, G
In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast
Publisher: Journal of contemporory asia, 2021
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Author: Kudtarkar, S.
Noise-induced Extinction in a Bistable System
Publisher: Brazilian Journal of Physics, 2021
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A considerable amount of analytical work has been done in recent years to understand extinction in finite discrete population systems in the presence of demographic noise. This has been made possible by advances in employing the WKB method for solving a wide variety of stochastic single population systems. Previous works have focussed on extinction in logistic/Verhulst-type models with a single stable fixed point, Allee-type models which has an additional unstable nonzero fixed point and switching behaviour of bistable finite population systems. However, the mean extinction time in bistable systems with an absorbing state hasn’t received much focus in these studies. In this work, we study the mean extinction time (MTE) in a phenomenological single population model exhibiting bistability using the WKB method. The quasi-stationary distribution (QSD) is derived in the limit of a large parameter, N, of the model, and by matching the QSD in different regimes of stability, an analytical expression for the mean extinction time has been derived. The MTE is exponentially large in N but shows a significant reduction in the extinction time due to the presence of bistable fixed points as compared to models that have only single stable states such as the Verhulst model. It is demonstrated that the analytical results compare well with that derived from direct numerical calculations.
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