Creating Intelligent Linking for Information Threading in Knowledge Networks

Informledge System (ILS) is a knowledge network with autonomous nodes and intelligent links that integrate and structure the pieces of knowledge. In this paper, we aim to put forward the link dynamics involved in intelligent processing of information in ILS. There has been advancement in knowledge management field which involve managing information in databases from a single domain. ILS works with information from multiple domains stored in distributed way in the autonomous nodes termed as Knowledge Network Node (KNN). Along with the concept under consideration, KNNs store the processed information linking concepts and processors leading to the appropriate processing of information.Comment: 5 Pages, 6 Figures, 2 Tables, India Conference (INDICON), 201

Does financial liberalisation reduce credit constraints: A study of firms in the Indian private corporate sector

The study analyses the determinants of investment of the private corporate manufacturing sector in India in the context of financial liberalization. Though financial liberalization is still on the way, based on the theoretical argument of financial liberalization and its limitations in the context of asymmetric information and market imperfections, such an analysis assumes significance. Because, in imperfect financial markets with asymmetric information, external funds are more expensive than internal funds and firms have to follow a hierarchy in which cheaper funds are preferable to more expensive ones and internal funds are the most preferred ones. We tested the hypothesis that whether financial liberalization had an impact on firms’ investment decisions with respect to cash flow and debt. The study found that small firms are facing financial market imperfections in the form of liquidity constraints since it is seen that credit constraints were not eliminated or relaxed for these firms. Against this, one surprising result is the positive and significant coefficient of debt-to-capital ratio for large firms irrespective of the financial liberalisation effect. From further enquiry we found that the positive and significant impact of debt on investment for large firms has changed once we estimate the model for large firms according other categories based on group and export orientation. It is seen that the positive and significant impact of debt does not hold for large non-group and non-exporting firms. On the other hand, the positive effect of debt remains the same for large group and exporting firms. To conclude, market imperfections exist in the financial markets that prevent an economy wide efficiency in the post liberalisation period.Information Asmmetry; Market Imperfection; Investment; Financing Pattern, Corporate Sector

Exploring Authentic Leadership through Leadership Journey of Gandhi

Leadership research will benefit from bringing in the subjective realities of becoming a leader by considering the leadership journey. Generating an understanding of how leaders turn episodes in time into meaningful subjective narratives helps shed light on the meaning-making process. We seek in this inquiry to understand self-awareness with a narrative meaning-making process. In this study, we adopt a narrative research approach for analyzing the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, who is widely acknowledged as an authentic leader. The study explores individual experiences of becoming a leader and factors leading to the manifestation of authentic leadership behaviour as well as followers’ outcomes. The study will also contribute towards the understanding of triggering events experienced by the leader at different points in life which have led to self-awareness

Cognition and Metacognition: Understanding the Second Language Learner from Various Perspectives

This paper has been situated within the framework of the interface shared by cognition and metacognition. While conventional classroom instruction aims at maximizing the learner’s cognitive skills, this paper argues that if the metacognitive skills go neglected, still higher order potentials remain unnoticed and untapped. Instead of addressing language skills in isolation, the paper proposes to integrate higher order cognitive skills and skills of still higher order such as metacognitive skills, which are rarely taken into serious consideration while planning second language curricula

Internalization of the Structural Properties of WH-Questions: A Remedial Programme through Curricular Intervention

Teaching of a second or foreign language has always had grammar at its controversial core and the numerable issues arising out of it usually dominate theory, research and practice. Still, teaching of second language grammar evades the triangular network of theory-researchpractice. This paper singles out one hard spot for beginners (may be of primary level, but found in advanced learners, as well), namely the presence/absence of the auxiliary verb do in its past and present tense forms in WH-questions. The paper identifies the source and nature of the hard spot, presents it in terms of metalinguistic (grammatical) competence for teachers and communicative competence for learners. The paper has its theoretical basis on the fusion of three pedagogic constructs namely, curricular intervention, instructed learning and learner autonomy. It has also tried to establish the author’s conviction, though indirectly, that instead of waiting for a new method to come or trying any single method of the past, a judicious selection and fusion of elements from the practised methods of the past may work better in terms of learning outcomes

Atopic Dermatitis - An Ayurvedic view

Atopic dermatitis is one among chronic diseases characterized by erythema, pruritus, scaling, lichenification, and papulo-vesicles. It is a common condition affecting approximately 17% of the population, with a slight female preponderance. Almost 60% of patients develop Atopic dermatitis within the first year of life, where as 85% by the age of five. Charmadala is caused due to predominance of Vata in which, Charmavadharanaatha is seen. Samanya Nidanas such as due to vitiated breast milk, rubbing with cloths, excessive holding on the lap, due to hot air, heat of sunrays, perspiration, poultices, contact with his own waste products like urine and faces, non cleanliness, compression by hands, over rubbing and due to family tendency, Charmadala can manifest. Usually the Mandala gets distributed over the face, neck, hands, feet, groin region, sacral region and joints. By looking in to the age of manifestation, symptoms like Kandu, Raktavarnata, Twak Parushata and Sputana, and Pidaka; its specific area of manifestation, the Utpata nature of Charmadala, it is quite similar to that of Atopic Dermatitis. The aim of Chikitsa lies in disintegration of the process of Samprapti. The general line of treatment explained for Kushta is applicable to Charmadala. Charaka and Vagbhata mentioned Shodhana Karma to be carried out according to predominance of vitiated Dosha. In the Kushtha of Vata dominance Ghritapana, in Kapha dominance Vamana and in Pitta dominance Virechana and Raktamokshana are to be carried out

In Search of a Holistic Approach: Vygotsky Situated in the Rural Indian ESL Contexts

This paper argues that it is high time that the teaching of ‘a language of opportunities’ got liberated from the rigid and restricted frame of institutionalized instruction with its fossilized curriculum, syllabus, materials, testing and evaluation and so on. Teaching-learning English must be made a democratic process, a social agenda, which leaves apace for societal intervention. It has been suggested here that those who had been marginalized so far as passive stakeholders, namely parents and public, too should be made active participants in the process of second language education, contributing to the process in their own way. The fifteen-year old search for such a holistic approach to ESL education has now reached a point at which a framework of some degree of definitude has been arrived at. This paper outlines (only) the theoretical framework currently being in use on a massive project in Kerala (south India) which aims at ‘empowering rural India through English language education’. The interim report of the progress of the project will be appearing as a sequel paper

Concept of Oushadha Samyoga in Ayurveda

Ayurvedic medicines have an exceptional way of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. The pharmacological actions of Ayurvedic drugs were explained through Rasa, Guna, Virya, Vipaka, Prabhava etc. Ayurveda is well known for both single and polyherbal formulation, among them poly herbal formulations have prime role because of its multiple pharmacological actions. Various basic concepts of Ayurveda such as Samyoga, Samskara, Rasapanchaka, Anupana etc were playing behind the formation of polyherbal formulation. The concept of Samyoga, is the essential norm behind the formation of Polyherbal preparations. Thus, literary review mainly intended to know the role of Samyoga in the preparation of various Ayurvedic poly herbal preparations and to highlight their importance of Oushadha Samyoga (multidrug/ polyherbal formulation) in the present era