Analysis of Monopile Foundation for Offshore Wind Turbine

Load deformation characteristics of monopile are being analyzed in the project. As monopile is a supporting structure for offshore wind turbines. Due to varying environmental conditions exact prediction of load value is not possible but it is important to analyze the load vs deformation relationships to see the behavior of monopile. Monopile structure is subjected to wave, wind load and vertical load for the analysis wave are taken to sinusoidal in nature. The p-y method indicates that the design code recommended p-y curves overestimate for the case of large diameter monopiles the initial stiffness and underestimate the ultimate bearing capacity. When applying the recommended p-y curves as linear springs in a 2D Winkler beam model, the global response of monopole can be calculated regarding load and applied displacement. It is about response based analysis, in which the failure load is being derived from the model developed in MATLAB. In FEM using Abaqus and PLAXIS 3D lateral deflection of the monopile is being seen to visualize the effect of the static lateral load as well as dynamic lateral load with and without vertical loadings. To compare the analysis methods reliability is being calculated using response surface and first order method and the probability of failure is being calculated

Women and Brains Go Together: Mapping Sophia Kovalevsky’s Animus in Alice Munro’s ‘Too Much Happiness’.

Women and brains have always been an epicentre of intrigue and controversy delineating that women must use brains in dimensions that have been predestined for them by misogynists. An intelligent woman is often marginalized as unfeminine and hoydenish capable of threatening the heteropatriarchy thereby rendering it impotent. Several pioneering works on gender identity and equality began to be written in the eighteen and nineteenth century drawing attention of the intelligentsia as well as the common folk equally, towards this burning issue. Feminist reforms were initiated as a result of the untiring endeavour of writers and critics throughout the world. The first wave of feminism was a signal for the society to revoke the existing patriarchal norms and it was strengthened further by the second and third wave of feminism with formidable writers, activists and revolutionists who fought a long drawn battle to equip women with their share of rights. Women’s continued and persistent struggle against patriarchy the world over has led to society’s much needed changed perspectives towards women and their intellect. Women have proved the concocted saying “women and brains do not go together” false with their sheer grit and persistent determination. Reverberating similar deliverance, this paper investigates Alice Munro’s biography of the renowned first ever female mathematics professor Sophia Kovalevsky in her short story ‘Too Much Happiness’ with the archetypal lens of Carl Jung. Sophia, the protagonist in the story is a woman with an extraordinary intellect, a mathematician and a novelist with a rare fascinating power to conquer the world. In times when most women are compulsorily confined to the kitchen, she dares it all to make it to the University of Stockholm in Sweden and challenge the myth that a woman has less of an intellect than man. She is aware of the animus in her which is the so called male domain of a women’s psyche and represents the logical thinking faculty in a woman. This paper aims at tracing the renowned Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s archetype of the animus in Alice Munro’s portrayal of Sophia, to discern her psyche and to analyse and interpret how her animus affects her life and career as an intellectual in the old school patriarchal world

Microbes Producing L-Asparaginase free of Glutaminase and Urease isolated from Extreme Locations of Antarctic Soil and Moss

L-Asparaginase (L-asparagine aminohydrolase, E.C. 3.5.1.1) has been proven to be competent in treating Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), which is widely observed in paediatric and adult groups. Currently, clinical L-Asparaginase formulations are derived from bacterial sources such as Escherichia coli and Erwinia chrysanthemi. These formulations when administered to ALL patients lead to several immunological and hypersensitive reactions. Hence, additional purification steps are required to remove toxicity induced by the amalgamation of other enzymes like glutaminase and urease. Production of L-Asparaginase that is free of glutaminase and urease is a major area of research. In this paper, we report the screening and isolation of fungal species collected from the soil and mosses in the Schirmacher Hills, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, that produce L-Asparaginase free of glutaminase and urease. A total of 55 isolates were obtained from 33 environmental samples that were tested by conventional plate techniques using Phenol red and Bromothymol blue as indicators. Among the isolated fungi, 30 isolates showed L-Asparaginase free of glutaminase and urease. The L-Asparaginase producing strain Trichosporon asahii IBBLA1, which showed the highest zone index, was then optimized with a Taguchi design. Optimum enzyme activity of 20.57 U mL−1 was obtained at a temperature of 30 °C and pH of 7.0 after 60 hours. Our work suggests that isolation of fungi from extreme environments such as Antarctica may lead to an important advancement in therapeutic applications with fewer side effects

Semantic Analysis of Suicidal Elements in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

This paper analyses how Virginia Woolf unconsciously deploys the suicidal terms in her novel, The Waves (1931). The study follows the theory of semantic analysis. With the help of the terms and expressions made by different characters in the novel, it examines how Virginia Woolf sets up the suicidal backdrop by placing several personal, temporal, spatial and social lexical expressions in the novel at various intervals subconsciously. The deployment creates a lexical field in which the expressions used by the characters are placed at the overt centre and the subtle terms indicating Virginia Woolf’s suicidal tendency are placed in a guise. This paper traces robust suicidal tendency through a textual and semantic analysis of lexical expressions and finds that not only on the fictional podium but also on the personal level, Virginia Woolf bears the same

ROLE AND COGNITIVE SCOPE OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ORGANIZATIONAL MOTIVATION CONTROL AND DIRECTION

ABSTRACT The study which is mainly based on the facts relating to the communication skills of the different levels of officers and teachers of State Institute of Education Allahabad U.P, State Institute of Science Allahabad U.P and English Language Teaching Institute Allahabad U.P. in India and their level of awareness regarding the importance of communication skills in organizational motivation . The study reveals that majority of the officers and teachers have positive opinions regarding the importance of communication course designed for officers and teachers. Most of the respondents were officers and teachers of institutes and ABSA' S .They have completed communication course given by ELTI Allahabad, but majority of them are dissatisfied with it. The study also discloses that many of them had never received any training on communication skill. The majority of the officers and teachers opine that there should be compulsory training program on communication skills for government officers and employees. Academicians should design and conduct communication courses keeping their application perspectives in view. Moreover government employers should arrange compulsory training program on communication skill for their employees. In developing countries like India government holds governing and service sectors and results into thousands of big organizations and interact within organization and out of organization .government organization run programs directly involved with human and for human for the same training in communication skills is the need of the hour. Still compulsory training programs on communication skill do not exist in any of the respondent's government organizations