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R. K. Narayanswami B.A.B.L. Engine Driver : Story-Telling and Memory in The Grandmother’s Tale, and Selected Stories
Much like the Nambi of this tale, R. K. Narayan has merited his reputation as a marvelous storyteller. Noted for his laser-beam focus on the closely-imagined Malgudi, he has come to be recognized as the Indian novelist, from whose pen many readers expected all the accumulated wisdom of the subcontinent\u27s abiding concern for transcendence. While such guru-ization amused Narayan, it also elicited his quietly sustained argument against procrustean templates by which the west insisted on reading him as typically Indian.
On tachyons, gauged linear sigma models, and flip transitions
We study systems of multiple localized closed string tachyons and the
phenomena associated with their condensation, in C3/ZN nonsupersymmetric
noncompact orbifold singularities using gauged linear sigma model
constructions, following hep-th/0406039. Our study reveals close connections
between the combinatorics of nonsupersymmetric flip transitions (between
topologically distinct resolutions of the original singularity), the physics of
tachyons of different degrees of relevance and the singularity structure of the
corresponding residual endpoint geometries. This in turn can be used to study
the stability of the phases of gauged linear sigma models and gain qualitative
insight into the closed string tachyon potential.Comment: Latex, 38 pages, 7 eps figs. v2. minor modification
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Reduction in Medical Education: Humor as an Intervention
Background: In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the issues of quality of life and stresses involved in medical training as this may affect their learning and academic performance. Objective of the study was to explore the effectiveness of humor when used as intervention in large group teaching over negative emotions amongst students. Method: The present Interventional, Randomized control trial study was carried out on medical students of 4th Semester of RMCH, Bareilly, which has total 90 students. Using simple random sampling lottery method the whole class was divided in two groups-A and B consisting of 45 students each. Group A as control group and Group B experimental group. In first and last lecture of both groups Dass-21 was used as measuring scale, for depression, anxiety and stress and results were compared to see the effect of humor on these three negative emotions. Result: Comparison of Severe and Extremely severe Stress: In Group A 40.54% in class -1 increased to 47.54% in class- 4, while in group B initial 13.15 % was reduced to 0 % (highly significant). Anxiety: In group A, after Class 1 -57.45% increased to 61.11% after class 4, while in group B, after class 1- 23.68% reduced to 2.27% only (highly significant). Depression: In group A, after Class 1 - 40.53% & 41.66 % after class 4 (not significant), while in group B, after class 1- 18.41% reduced to 0% (highly significant). Conclusion: In present study humor was found to be very effective intervention in relieving students on their negative emotions of depression, anxiety and stress to a larger extent. Further research would justify the use of humor as an effective teaching aid in medical education
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