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“None Mad as a Hindu Woman”: Contesting Communal Readings of <i>Padmavat</i>

Research Article| May 01 1996 “None Mad as a Hindu Woman”: Contesting Communal Readings of Padmavat Shantanu Phukan Shantanu Phukan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 41–54. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Shantanu Phukan; “None Mad as a Hindu Woman”: Contesting Communal Readings of Padmavat. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 May 1996; 16 (1): 41–54. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-41 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East1996 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Special Issue: Divergent Modernities: Critical Perspectives on Orientalism, Islamism and Nationalism You do not currently have access to this content.

Topic: Indian History and Philosophy
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Do Managers Have Capital Structure Targets? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs

The two main theories of capital structure—the tradeoff theory and the pecking order theory—have opposite predictions about the expected relationship between corporate leverage and profitability. According to the tradeoff theory, companies that earn higher profits will use more debt both to shield their income from corporate taxes and to discipline corporate investment policy. In contrast, the pecking order theory predicts that more profitable companies will borrow less mainly because they have less need to borrow. Corporate spinoffs provide a unique opportunity to investigate the influence of profitability and other asset characteristics on the design of capital structure. In their study of 98 spinoffs over the period 1979–1997, the authors began by investigating the popular argument that managers routinely assign more debt to subsidiaries than parents in order to leave the parents less encumbered—a possibility they reject after finding that the average leverage ratios of the parents and spunoff units were roughly equal. At the same time, the authors reported large differences in the leverage ratios among both parents and spun‐off units, and that the variation was explained primarily by differences in three factors: asset tangibility and the level and variability of cash operating profits. Consistent with the tradeoff theory (but not the pecking order), the study found a significantly positive correlation between a post‐spinoff company's cash profitability and its assigned debt load, as well as a negative correlation between debt and the variability of operating cash flow.

Topic: Corporate Finance and Governance
Subfield: Accounting
Field: Business, Management and Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
<i>Chlamydia</i> Protease-like Activity Factor (CPAF): Characterization of Proteolysis Activity in Vitro and Development of a Nanomolar Affinity CPAF Zymogen-Derived Inhibitor

During infection of epithelial cells, the obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis secretes the serine protease Chlamydia protease-like activity factor (CPAF) into the host cytosol to regulate a range of host cellular processes through targeted proteolysis. Here we report the development of an in vitro assay for the enzyme and the discovery of a cell-permeable CPAF zymogen-based peptide inhibitor with nanomolar inhibitory affinity. Treating C. trachomatis-infected HeLa cells with this inhibitor prevented CPAF cleavage of the intermediate filament vimentin and led to the loss of vimentin cage surrounding the intracellular vacuole. Because Chlamydia is a genetically intractable organism, this inhibitor may serve as a tool for understanding the role of CPAF in pathogenesis.

Topic: Reproductive tract infections research
Subfield: Microbiology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Advance in studies on gut microbiota in de-glycosylation of traditional Chinese medicine glycosides

Glycosides are important active components in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Their pharmacological activity, pharmacokinetic characteristics and in vivo existence become hotspots of current studies. The metabolic pathways of these glycosides are de-glycosylation mainly mediated by gut microbiota. After glycosides were metabolized into aglycones, they could be absorbed more easily and show better pharmacological effects. In this article, we reviewed the main glycosidase in gut microbiota which helps metabolize TCM glycosides, relevant bacterial strains which generate glycosidase, as well as the de-glycosylated metabolic pathways of the representative glycosides, on the basis of gut microbiota's important roles in in vivo metabolism and efficacy of TCM glycosides. We also preliminarily solved problems in studies on de-glycosylation of TCM glycosides.

Topic: Gut microbiota and health
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Semi analytical solution of a rigid pavement under a moving load on a Kerr foundation model

This paper analyzes the dynamic response of assumedly rigid road pavement under a constant velocity of traffic loads moving on its surface. The model of the rigid road pavement is a damped rectangular orthotropic plate which is supported by an elastic Kerr foundation. Semi-analytical solutions of the dynamic deflection of an orthotropic plate, with semi rigid boundary conditions are presented by using governing differential equations. The natural frequencies and mode shapes of the system are then, solved by using the modified Bolotin method considering two transcendental equations as the results of solving the solution of two auxiliaries Levy’s plate type problems. The moving traffic loads modeled by varying the amplitudes of dynamic transverse concentrated loads harmonically. Numerical studies on the soil types, foundation stiffness models, varying constant velocities and loading frequencies are conducted to show the effects of the dynamic response behaviors of the plates. The results show that the dynamic responses of the rigid road pavement influenced significantly by the type foundation stiffness models and velocity of the moving load.

Topic: Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Isotropic Clustering for Hierarchical Radiosity -- Implementation and Experiences

Although Hierarchical Radiosity was a big step forward for finite element computations in the context of global illumination, the algorithm can hardly cope with&#13;\nscenes of more than medium complexity. The reason is that Hierarchical Radiosity&#13;\nrequires an initial linking step, comparing all pairs of initial objects in the scene.&#13;\nThese initial objects are then hierarchically subdivided in order to accurately represent the light transport between them. Isotropic Clustering, as introduced by&#13;\nSillion, in addition creates a hierarchy above the input objects. Thus, it allows for&#13;\nthe interaction of complete clusters of objects and avoids the costly initial linking&#13;\nstep.&#13;\nIn this paper, we describe our implementation of the isotropic clustering algorithm and discuss some of the problems that we encountered. The complexity of&#13;\nthe algorithm is examined and clustering strategies are compared.

Topic: Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Evaluation of the effects of run off water on the Founkama plain in the Urban commune of Faranah, Republic of Guinea

This research aims to assess the effects of runoff water on flood basins and structures. To achieve this, we identified the decomposable and non-decomposable materials that ran off the flood basins and into the canals; the effects of runoff on the flood basins; Quantify the volumes of soil transported by runoff on the north and south sides of the said plain; The research work took place from January 2 to October 31, 2014 inclusive. The results obtained are as follows: The area occupied by non-decomposable materials in sample per m2 is: 106.74; the average weight of the samples is 4.6 kg; the height of earth transported in layers in the submersion basins in cm is: the North side 60, the South side 47.5 and in the central canal 58.6; the volume of earth transported in the canals in m3 is: in the North belt canal 224.4 in the South belt canal 89.25 and in the central canal 599.4; the influx of earth deposits by runoff water in the belt canals in cm is: South 58.188 and North 45.278.

Topic: Soil erosion and sediment transport
Subfield: Soil Science
Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Domain: Life Sciences
Review: <i>From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War</i>, by Edward Tang

Book Review| April 01 2020 Review: From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War, by Edward Tang From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War by Edward Tang, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2019, 239 pp. Jian Gao Jian Gao University of Texas, Austin and Shanghai University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ethnic Studies Review (2020) 43 (1): 148–150. https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2020.43.1.148 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jian Gao; Review: From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War, by Edward Tang. Ethnic Studies Review 1 April 2020; 43 (1): 148–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2020.43.1.148 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentEthnic Studies Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2020 by the Association for Ethnic Studies2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Topic: Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras

A Zombie is a body that performs involuntarily, which does not have a mind of its own. A Cyborg is a human-machine system that becomes increasingly automated. There has always been a fear of the involuntary and an anxiety of the automated. To be an intelligent agent, one has to be both adequately embodied and intimately embedded in the world. The Chimera is the body that performs with mixed realities. A biological body, augmented with technology and managing data streams in virtual systems. But the body itself is now becoming a mobile, monitoring and transmission system that can be logged into and accessed physiologically. In this age of body hacking, gene mapping, prosthetic augmentation, organ swapping, face transplants, synthetic skin and chimeras what it means to be a body, what it means to be human and what generates aliveness and agency becomes problematic.

Topic: Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Estimates of the rate of convergence of a dynamic reconstruction algorithm under incomplete information about the phase state

In this paper, we study a dynamic reconstruction algorithm which reconstructs the unknown unbounded input and all unobservable phase coordinates from the results of measurements of part of the coordinates. An upper and a lower bound for the accuracy of the reconstruction is obtained. We determine the class of inputs for which the upper bound is uniform. We give a condition for optimally matching the algorithm parameters, ensuring the highest order of the upper bound and equating the orders of the upper and lower bounds. Thus, we establish the sharpness of the upper bound.

Topic: Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
A Novel Tri-Band Ultra-Wideband Antenna with Deformed Split Ring Resonator for WLAN/WIMAX Applications

With the increasing demand for different applications of antennas, especially multi-band and ultra-wideband antenna, we propose a novel tri-band, ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with deformed split ring resonator (DSRR). The antenna consists of a partly covered ground plane and a deformed split ring resonator. By integrating the partly covered ground plane and the deformed split ring resonator and optimizing with CST Microwave Studio numerically, the proposed antenna produces three working bands ranging from 2.87GHz to 3.92GHz, 5.08 to 6.30GHz and 7.55 to 9.32GHz, which also satisfy the requirement of UWB. The three working bands cover the WIMAX band in 3.5GHz, the WLAN bands in 5.2/5.8GHz, and X-band, respectively. The radiation pattern is omnidirectional and the direction gain at every frequency is above 3.2 dBi. So the proposed antenna is suitable for multi-band communication applications.

Topic: Antenna Design and Analysis
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Treatment of alveolar macrophages with cytochalasin D inhibits uptake and subsequent growth of Legionella pneumophila

Legionella pneumophila multiplied rapidly in guinea pig and rat alveolar macrophages but failed to grow when phagocytic activity was inhibited by pretreatment with 0.5 or 1.0 microgram of cytochalasin D per ml. Attachment was not inhibited by cytochalasin D. No extracellular multiplication occurred when L. pneumophila were in close proximity to viable functional macrophages or even when the bacteria were attached to plasma membranes of the macrophages. Nonopsonized L. pneumophila were avidly phagocytized by alveolar macrophages. When bacteria were centrifuged onto a cell pellet, more than 85% of the phagocytes contained one or more bacteria within 15 min. In contrast, under the same conditions only approximately 15% of the macrophages contained nonopsonized Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus. Phagocytosis of L. pneumophila by untreated guinea pig macrophages occurred by extension of pseudopodia around the bacteria in a classical manner. The failure of the bacteria to actively penetrate the phagocyte suggests that their intracellular survival must not depend on avoidance of a phagosome but rather on an inhibition of or resistance to subsequent microbicidal functions of the macrophage.

Topic: Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
Subfield: Endocrinology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Corpus-Based Training to Build Translation Competences and Translators’ Self-Reliance

Abstract Among well-established standard operating strategies and methodologies aimed at improving students’ multi-layered translation competence, corpus linguistics has given impulse to new interdisciplinary standpoints. Plugging in cutting edge toolkits, corpus use envisages real-life translation training in compliance with current market demands. The paper underpins specialised corpus design, using MAXQDA as an interactive tool meant to build translators’ functional autonomy.

Topic: Translation Studies and Practices
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Aggregation readiness platelet at the students training in section of hand-to-hand fight

At the young fight by hands section in the 18-22 years old revealed the stability of the functional activity of platelets. In this age the platelet's aggregation was low and associated with sensitivity of platelets to external factors. Low activity of platelets provides a low number of various sizes of aggregates in the bloodstream. All this factors has a positive effect on the circulation of blood in the body of young fight by hands section.

Topic: Probabilistic Statistics in Medicine
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Near field writing on a phase change optical disc

Ukita et al. (Appl. Opt. vol. 28, pp. 4360-4365, 1989) proposed a near field optical recording system, which is comprised of a laser diode whose emitting aperture is brought very close to the optical disc's data surface (an airgap between the laser and the disc is smaller than the laser's wavelength) and therefore no optical components are needed. We have studied phase change (PC) optical disc structures suitable for near field recording arrangements that we call direct semiconductor laser read/write systems. The airgap and the recording structure of the optical disc forms an extremely short external cavity (ESEC) at the front facet of the semiconductor laser. In the external cavity, a part of the light emitted by the laser is reflected from the disc and coupled back into the laser cavity. The coupled light affects the laser's operating wavelength, optical output power and forward bias voltage. These changes in the laser's operational characteristics, in turn, affect the magnitude and the spatial distribution of light absorbed into the PC layer. Our main goal is to determine how the optical design of the disc structure (as well as the thickness of the airgap) influences the absorption of light in the PC layer in a direct semiconductor read/write system.

Topic: Near-Field Optical Microscopy
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
[Status of the osteoclast-activating system in cosmonauts after long-duration missions to the International Space Station].

The results of studying the system of osteoprotegerin/ receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (OPG/RANKL) in 22 cosmonauts after long-duration (124 to 199 days) ISS missions are presented. Immediately on return to 1 g, changes were observed in OPG and RANKL serum levels and the ability to produce unstimulated and stimulated PGA of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in vitro. Individual variability of these changes was noticed. Our findings suggest that the cytokine OPG/RANKL-system is involved in bone remodeling in members of long-duration space missions.

Topic: Bone health and osteoporosis research
Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Surveillance networks and spaces of governance: technological openness and international cooperation during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic

The ongoing 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic has highlighted the importance of global health surveillance. It has, in the words of WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, offered the opportunity to ‘watch a pandemic unfold […] in real time’. Moreover, it has allowed the international community to more fully prepare for major infectious disease outbreaks. Whilst there is an expanding literature on biosecurity and preparedness, we argue that little consideration has been given to the impact of increased reliance on event-based surveillance on global public health governance. Using Margaret Chan’s 2007 call for a ‘new’ international health diplomacy, we assess the importance of global surveillance networks (such as the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) and HealthMap) in informing national and transnational practices in relation to the risks posed by emerging infectious diseases. Our analysis is supported by empirical data supplied by GPHIN and by reference to national pandemic influenza preparedness plans. In conclusion, we argue that, by increasing availability of local reporting of disease outbreaks, these networks act as a powerful prompt in initiating global pandemic preparedness and, by extension, international cooperation. Yet, the ongoing H1N1 pandemic demonstrates their fragility as practices of preparedness vary between states across the global north and south.

Topic: Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Armed Conflict and Relations of its Economic Analysis

The topic of this essay is an insight into the interrelations of the economic analysis of armed conflict. The author tries to explain its substance and importance and at the same time he warns against the difficulties with its implementation. Backed by several studies, we must conclude that there is a lot of confusion in terminology we use. It is therefore proposed to apply cost-benefit analysis, so that we could create a unified terminology and simultaneously to use this analysis to present armed conflict economy in terms of overall expenses vs. likely benefits aroused by respective armed warfare.

Topic: Defense, Military, and Policy Studies
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Regulation of C-Reactive Protein, Haptoglobin, and Hemopexin Gene Expression

C-Reactive Protein is present in the blood of normal individuals in trace amounts, but its concentration rises to more than 300 mg/l soon after the onset of inflammation, and then returns to a low basal level after the inflammatory stimulus is removed. The study of acute phase response has attracted substantial interest not only for its medical implications, but also because it provides an excellent system with which to elucidate the molecular mechanisms involved in the modulation of gene expression. Hemopexin is a heme-binding plasma glycoprotein composed of a single 439-amino acid-long polypeptide chain. The proteins were then transferred onto nitrocellulose and probed with a 1:100 dilution of anti-tag antibody. Antigenantibody complexes were then detected by use of alkaline phosphatase-coupled goat antimice antibodies. Immunofluorescence staining was performed on cells grown on coverslips and transfected with 2.5 μg of recombinant plasmid.

Topic: Hemoglobin structure and function
Subfield: Cell Biology
Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Introduction

This book shamelessly borrows its title from David Mamet's 1977 comedy, A Life in the Theatre. A parody and celebration of the theatre, the play spotlights the egos, jealousies, and camaraderie of two actors, one old, one young, as they perform. It's theatre history and theatre practice tightly presented in twenty-six short scenes revealing careers under strain and underway. It is Mamet's acknowledgement of what the theatre can give and take, its rewards and punishments. And it summarizes his own forty-year love affair with drama.

Topic: Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences