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Neoliberal development hegemony : implications for human rights - the case of POSCO, Odisha, India

Using the methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA), I propose to analyze the reasons behind the reproduction of the global discourse of neoliberal development, which occurs in this story via the proposed establishment of the POSCO project. I argue that such an arrangement is the reason behind the threat to the right to life and violations of the right to development and livelihood of one‟s choice of the villagers to be affected by the establishment of POSCO. On the face of it, the final forest clearance given to the POSCO project by the State seems like a decision within the parameters of Indian law. However a deconstruction of development along the lines of the post development school reveals that the functioning of the Land Acquisition Act 1894 and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, give a legal veneer to the rights violating development policy of the state. This is aided by the public discourse created by the Odisha and the Central Government in India. The proposed generation of a vast number of jobs as a result of the POSCO plant, are the benefits that have been claimed to result from the project. However, the uncertainties of a new livelihood and a limited compensation package make it doubtful whether the project affected villagers will benefit from this projected common good. Interviews with villagers at the proposed plant site revealed that the anti POSCO villagers, wanted development of their choice to come about, in a manner that was participatory.
Predicate Diagrams for the Verification of Real-Time Systems

We propose a format of predicate diagrams for the verification of real-time systems. We consider systems that are defined as extended timed graphs, a format that combines timed automata and constructs for modeling data, possibly over infinite domains. Predicate diagrams are succinct and intuitive representations of Boolean abstractions. They also represent an interface between deductive tools used to establish the correctness of an abstraction, and model checking tools that can verify behavioral properties of finite-state models. The contribution of this paper is to extend the format of predicate diagrams to timed systems. We also establish a set of verification conditions that are sufficient to prove that a given predicate diagram is a correct abstraction of an extended timed graph. The formalism is supported by a toolkit, and we demonstrate its use at the hand of Fischer’s real-time mutualexclusion protocol.
LAW SCHOOL PERSONAL STATEMENTS: AN ANALYSIS OF RACE AND GENDER VARIATIONS IN “IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT” AMONG LAW SCHOOL APPLICANTS

This study examined 200 personal statements of male, female, White, and AfricanAmerican law school applicants to better understand how applicants use impression management to gain admission to law school. Data showed significant differences in how males compared to females and Whites compared to African-Americans use impression management in their law school personal statements. The research found African-Americans discussed personal motivation more often than did White applicants. White females and African-American males more frequently utilized conditions of motivation, gender or race, and personal story to demonstrate their capability to succeed in law school despite generally lower academic indicators. Females had more experience in the law than males. Males discussed red flags and used name dropping significantly more than females. In order to avoid missed opportunities for minority law school applicants to “sell themselves” to admission officers, law school admission offices, prelaw advisors, and the legal profession must clearly state what factors beyond the Law School Admission Test and undergraduate grade point average are necessary to be successful in law school.
Range‐wide population size of the lesser prairie‐chicken: 2012 and 2013

We flew aerial line-transect surveys to estimate the range-wide population size of lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in the Great Plains, United States in 2012 and 2013. We also estimated the number of lesser prairie-chicken leks, the number of mixed-species leks that contained both lesser and greater prairie-chickens (T. cupido) and the number of hybrid lesser–greater prairie-chickens where these species' ranges overlap. The study area included the 2011 estimated occupied lesser prairie-chicken range in 5 states and was divided into 4 ecoregions. We created a sampling frame over the study area, consisting of 536 15- × 15-km grid cells. We flew 512 transects within a probabilistic sample of 256 cells totaling 7,680 km in 2012 and 566 transects within a probabilistic sample of 283 cells totaling 8,490 km in 2013. We estimated a total of 34,440 individual lesser prairie-chickens in 2012 (17,615 in 2013) and 350 hybrid lesser–greater prairie-chickens in 2012 (342 in 2013) in the study area. We estimated a total of 2,930 lesser prairie-chicken leks in 2012 (2,037 in 2013) and 453 lesser and greater prairie-chicken mixed leks in 2012 (356 in 2013) in the study area. We discuss the implications of alternative sampling designs with regard to conservation questions to be addressed. © 2014 The Wildlife Society.
Genetic Variability Studies of Clinical Isolates of Lower Respiratory Pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae

Klebsiella is one of the important opportunistic pathogens involved in respiratory tract infections. They cause various types of human infections leading to morbidity and mortality. Of the Klebsiella species, Klebsiella pneumoniae is the most prevalent in clinical specimens causing pneumonia. Around hundred sputum samples were collected from patients visiting various hospitals of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu. From this clinical specimen, twenty five were identified preliminarily as Klebsiella pneumoniae by various morphological and biochemical tests. The identities of the bacterial isolates were confirmed by 16S rRNA sequence analyses. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by the agar disc diffusion method. Variations were observed in the resistance pattern of the bacterial isolates towards various commercial antibiotics. The genetic variability of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates were detected using RAPD assay. The RAPD assay using different primers showed distinct molecular variation among the twenty five isolates suggesting the emergence of new resistant strains among the clinical isolates.
Active Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region

Summary Examination of more than 100 fault plane solutions for earthquakes within the Alpide belt between the Mid-Atlantic ridge and Eastern Iran shows that the deformation at present occurring is the result of small continental plates moving away from Eastern Turkey and Western Iran. This pattern of movement avoids thickening the continental crust over much of Turkey by consuming the Eastern Mediterranean sea floor instead. The rates of relative motion of two of the small plates involved, the Aegean and the Turkish plates, are estimated, but are only within perhaps 50 per cent of the true values. These estimates are then used to reconstruct the geometry of the Mediterranean 10 million years ago. The principal difference from the present geometry is the smooth curved coast which then formed the southern coast of Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey. This coast has since been distorted by the motion of the two small plates. Similar complications have probably been common in older mountain belts, and therefore local geological features may not have been formed by the motion between major plates. A curious feature of several of the large shocks for which fault plane solutions could be obtained for the main shock and one major aftershock was that the two often had different mechanisms.
Cache-based Query Processing for Search Engines

In practice, a search engine may fail to serve a query due to various reasons such as hardware/network failures, excessive query load, lack of matching documents, or service contract limitations (e.g., the query rate limits for third party users of a search service). In this kind of scenarios, where the backend search system is unable to generate answers to queries, approximate answers can be generated by exploiting the previously computed query results available in the result cache of the search engine. In this work, we propose two alternative strategies to implement this cache-based query processing idea. The first strategy aggregates the results of similar queries that are previously cached in order to create synthetic results for new queries. The second strategy forms an inverted index over the textual information (i.e., query terms and result snippets) present in the result cache and uses this index to answer new queries. Both approaches achieve reasonable result qualities compared to processing queries with an inverted index built on the collection. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies show this notice on the first page or initial screen of a display along with the full citation. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, to redistribute to lists, or to use any component of this work in other works requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Permissions may be requested from Publications
Hepatoprotective Effect of Methanolic Extract of Monotheca buxifolia against Isoniazid and Rifampicin Induced Hepatotoxicity

The objective of the present study to check free-radical-scavenging and hepatoprotective properties of methanolic extract of Monotheca buxifolia (Falc.) A. DC. aerial parts against isoniazid and rifampicin induced hepatotoxicity in male rats. Results exhibited that methanolic extract and all three sub-fractions (hexane, chloroform and ethyl acetate) of M. buxifolia displayed greater free-radical activity, total phenolic and flavonoid content. However, ethyl-acetate followed by chloroform sub fractions showed the better total phenolic and total flavonoid content. To assess hepatoprotective activity of methanolic extract of M. buxifolia , four groups of the rate were made. Group 1 served as a control, group 2 served as hepatotoxic group (isoniazid and rifampicin orally each 50 mg/kg), group 3 served as standard group received silymarin (200 mg/kg), and 4 served as extract treatment groups, received 500 mg/kg methanolic extract. The results suggested that level of liver markers (total bilirubin, alkaline phosphatases, alanine aminotransferases and aspartate aminotransferases) significantly elevated in group 2. The methanolic extract significantly prevented isoniazid-rifampicin by decreasing raised level of liver markers of Group 4, and also improved histopathological profile of liver. The results indicated the protective effect of methanolic extract of M. buxifolia against liver injury, which might be ascribed to presence of high level of phenolics and flavonoid along with high free-radical activity in the plant extract.
Dynamics of Large Herbivore Populations in Changing Environments: Towards Appropriate Models

PREFACE. CHAPTER 1: DEFINITIVE CASE STUDIES (N Owen-Smith and J Marshal). CHAPTER 2: THE SUITE OF POPULATION MODELS (N Owen-Smith). CHAPTER 3: CLIMATIC INFLUENCES AND TEMPERATE - TROPICAL CONTRASTS (N Owen-Smith). CHAPTER 4: DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES: LESSONS FROM LONG-TERM INDIVIDUAL-BASED STUDIES (J-M Gaillard, M Festa-Bianchet, and T Coulson). CHAPTER 5: IRRUPTIVE DYNAMICS AND VEGETATION INTERACTIONS (J Gross, IJ Gordon and N Owen-Smith). CHAPTER 6: HOW DOES LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY SHAPE POPULATION DYNAMICS? (NT Hobbs and IJ Gordon). CHAPTER 7: TOWARDS AN ECOLOGY OF POPULATION DYNAMICS (N Owen-Smith).
Stories of the Twentieth Century for the Twenty-first *

A key precursor of twentieth-century financial crises in emerging and advanced economies alike was the rapid buildup of leverage. Those emerging economies that avoided leverage booms during the 2000s also were most likely to avoid the worst effects of the twenty-first centurys first global crisis. A discrete-choice panel analysis using 1973-2010 data suggests that domestic credit expansion and real currency appreciation have been the most robust and significant predictors of financial crises, regardless of whether a country is emerging or advanced. For emerging economies, however, higher foreign exchange reserves predict a sharply reduced probability of a subsequent crisis. and seminar participants at the European Central Bank for comments and data. We benefited also from the comments of the editors and three anonymous referees. All errors are our sole responsibility.
A Dynamic Data Structure for Flexible Molecular Maintenance and Informatics a Dynamic Data Structure for Flexible Molecular Maintenance and Informatics

We present the " Dynamic Packing Grid " (DPG) data structure along with details of our implementation and performance results, for maintaining and manipulating flexible molecular models and assemblies, and for solvation energy computaions. DPG can efficiently maintain the molecular surface (e.g., van der Waals surface and the solvent contact surface) under inser-tion/deletion/movement (i.e., updates) of atoms or groups of atoms. DPG also permits the fast estimation of important molecular properties (e.g., surface area, volume, polarization energy, etc.) that are needed for computing binding affinities in drug design or in molecular dynamics calculations. DPG can additionally be utilized in efficiently maintaining multiple " rigid " domains of dynamic flexible molecules.
Carbon dioxide transfer over a Central Amazonian rain forest

Tropical rain forests are among the most important and least monitored of terrestrial ecosystems. In recent years, their influence on atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and water vapor has become the subject of much speculation. Here we present results from a yearlong study of CO2 fluxes at a tropical forest in central Amazonia, using the micrometeorological technique of eddy covariance. The diurnal cycle of CO2 flux was consistent with previous short-term studies in tropical rain forests, implying that the Amazonian rain forest shows a fair degree of spatial uniformity in bulk ecophysiological characteristics. Typical peak daytime photosynthesis rates were 24–28 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1, and respiration rates were 6–8 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1. There was significant seasonality in peak photosynthesis over the year, which appeared strongly correlated with soil moisture content. On the other hand, there was no evidence of strong seasonality in soil respiration. Central Amazonia has only a short, 3-month dry season, not atypical of tropical rain forest, and it is therefore likely that large areas of Amazonia exhibit significant seasonality in photosynthetic capacity. The gross primary production was calculated to be 30 t C ha−1 yr−1. An analysis of data quality is included in the appendix.
Face authentication system based on FDA and ANN.

Face authentication systems (FAS) are still in their infancy and many types of algorithms and techniques have been proposed to improve the ability of these systems. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been commonly used as the classifiers for FAS whereas Fisher's Discrimination Analysis (FDA) has been used widely as the feature extractor. However, many current FAS still experiencing low accuracy rates using these techniques due to factors such as illumination, orientation and other disturbance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the application of photometric normalization, linear subspace feature extraction, and ANN classification in enhancing FAS, and to build and evaluate the performance of the proposed FAS based on this approaches. We similarly used the popular ANN classification, namely Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) as the classifier for our FAS as it has proven to be simple for implementation. meanwhile, we proposed linear subspace feature extraction techniques based on FDA to reduce the dimentionality of the face image. In addition, the photometric normalization techniques based on Histogram Equalization and Homomorphic Filtering are used to improve the appearance of the face. The effect of different combinations of the photometric normalization techniques on the performance of the proposed FAS was studied and the effectiveness of these techniques was highlighted. The results of the proposed FAS were compared among Eigenface and Fisherface FAS. It was discovered that using AT&T datasets, the proposed FAS solution outperformed the FAS based on Eigenface and Fisherface in term of False Acceptance and False Rejection rate. Furthermore, the experimental results demonstrated that MLP was able to produce better classification model that can satisfy the model authentication tests with significant advantages over Euclidean Distance, and Normalized Correlation classifier.
A Quantitative Separation of Non-Carbonate Minerals from Carbonate Minerals

ABSTRACT Carbonate minerals can be separated from non-carbonate minerals by the use of 10 percent hydrochloric acid at room temperature for 24 hours. Clay minerals and pyrite are almost completely insoluble under these conditions. Gypsum, however, is soluble under the conditions used to dissolve carbonate minerals. Siderite was found to be the most difficult carbonate mineral to dissolve of the nine carbonate minerals investigated. An easily reproducible method for determining insoluble residues is proposed.
The Linguistics of British Sign Language: An Introduction

Conventions used in the text 1. Linguistics and sign linguistics 2. BSL in its social context 3. Constructing sign sentences 4. Questions and negation 5. Mouth patterns and non-manual features in BSL 6. Morphology and morphemes in BSL 7. Aspect, manner and mood 8. Space types and verb types in BSL 9. The structure of gestures and signs 10. Visual motivation and metaphor 11. The established and productive lexicons 12. Borrowing and naming signs 13. Socially unacceptable signs 14. Extended use of language in BSL Table of illustrations Index Index of signs Bibliography.
Protein Synthesis in Regenerating Wound Tissue and the Effect of Thyroid Hormone

Abstract of the dissertation entitled PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INof the dissertation entitled PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN REGENERATING WOUND TISSUE AND THE EFFECT OF THYROID HORMONE submitted by Cary Bruce Linsky in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, June, 1971. The purpose of this investigation was to obtain information Qn the rate of protein synthesis in reeenerating wound tissue and to explore the feasibility of using the rate of protein synthesis to assess the rate of healing. The most _commonly used method for measuring wound healing, tensile strength, has been subject to various interpretations as to its significance. Some investigators presumed tensile strength to correlate with the amount of collagen present in the tissue, but numerous reports have ~. ndicated it to be a reflection of many faotors. With th:i.Ls in mind, protefn synthesis was investigated in regenerating wound tissue as affected by various levels of thyroid hormone, an agent which had p~eviously_ been shm'm to affect wound tissue formation. The action of thyroid hormone on the rate of protein synthesis was studied by following the rate of incorporatior. of labeled amino acids •. 3H-proline was used to study the rate of synthesis of regenerating wound tissue in rats 5, 8, and 1.2 days after wounding, . while they were in three different thyroid states (hypo-, eu-, and hyperthyroid). By using this e.mino acid, it was possible to differentiate the effect of thyroid hormone on collagen and non-collagenous (cellular) proteins. The rat"e of incorporation of 35s-cystine, both by peptide bonds and disulfide bonds, was also studied at the 8th day of regeneration in rats in the three thyroid states. Results showed that the rate of protein synthesis, based on incorporation of 3H-proline, was highest on the 8th day and lower on the 5th and l2th day. This was true for both collagen and • non-collagenous proteins. It was suggested that this may be due to a parallel pattern in nuclear RNA (in particular, m-RNA) and/or a changing cell population of the tissue. The synthesis of the cellular proteins was stimulated but the synthesis of collagen was depressed in the hyperthyroid rats when compa:r-ed to the euthyroid state. Evidence was cited pointing to an increased catabolism of collagen to account for the depression of its synthesis. This is consistent with the stimulatory effect of the thyroid on cellular protein synthesis and the recent finding of collagenase in granulation tissue. Incorporation of cystine was highest in the hyperthyroid group, both for that bound by peptide bonds and that bound by disulfide bondso These results pointed to the possibility that the hyperthyroid animal is stimulated so as to synthesize many enzymes, and also to increase the activity of sulfhydryl-activated
Lottery-Related Anomalies: The Roles of Reference-Dependent Preferences

This paper studies the role of reference-dependent preferences in explaining several anomalies related to lottery-like assets. Recent studies find that lottery-like assets significantly underperform non-lottery-like assets, probably due to investors' unconditional preference for lottery-like assets. The preference for lottery-like assets is usually attributed to investors’ overweighting of small probability events, a feature of prospect theory. We document that lottery-related anomalies are significant only among stocks in which investors have lost money. Among stocks in which investors have profited, evidence for lottery-related anomalies is either very weak or even reversed. We consider several potential explanations for these empirical findings and we provide support for the reference-dependent preference under which investors are averse to losses and prefer lottery-like assets following prior losses as such assets offer a better chance to recover losses. Our findings are robust to five different measures of the lottery feature of stocks and provide a unified framework to understand lottery-related anomalies that are associated with these measures in the literature. Our findings are particularly interesting and important from a practitioner's perspective. Compared to the vanilla long-short trading strategy based on lottery-like assets, a refined strategy that focuses only on the subset of stocks with prior capital losses yields a significantly larger alpha both economically and statistically. Figure 1 compares the monthly Fama-French three-factor alphas of these two strategies for the five lottery-related measures considered in the paper – maximum daily returns (Maxret), predicted jackpot probability (Jackpotp), expected skewness (Skewexp), failure probability (Deathp), and bankruptcy probability (Oscorep). Taking Maxret as an example, a refined strategy that long low-Maxret stocks and short high-Maxret stocks among the stocks with prior losses generates a monthly alpha of 1.76%. This is an increase of over 200% in investment performance relative to an alpha of 0.52% in a plain long-short strategy. Finally, our results are robust to different subsamples, such as the exclusion of highly illiquid stocks, low price stocks, or NASDAQ stocks. This alleviates the concern about the high transaction costs related to trading such stocks and it suggests that our findings can be implemented in practice.