Cross Culturalism in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

Multiculturalism is a burning issue today and the critical analysis of Bharati Mukherjee's selected novel Jasmine brings into focus the immigrant experience of the female's self of being a woman and being an immigrant woman. It also covers cross-cultural experiences such as the rootlessness, the identity issues and the assimilation of the protagonists in her novels. The present research paper analyses Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine from a cross-cultural perspective. She is one of the renowned and established female writers of Indian diaspora in the United States. Her key objective is to explore and examine an impenetrable cross cultural awareness of those who connect with more than one culture. Her keen interest is to explore the plights and pains of South Asian immigrants in America and Canada and to bring about how immigrants face the problem of acculturation and cultural conflicts in adapted lands. Cultural alienation, displacement, survival and adjustment are the most frequent themes in her novels. Her own journey of life stretches across India, Canada and the United States. Almost her all novels reflect the themes of migration, exile, cultural alienation, assimilation and identity issues

App Review: Trello

This article focuses on using Trello, a collaborative project management tool

Investigation of azo-bond cleavage in Methyl Orange and Direct Yellow 12 using soybean peroxidase

Removal of dyes released in water by textile industries presents a major challenge for the researchers. Soybean peroxidase (SBP) has been widely explored for removal of a variety of toxic aromatics consisting of phenolic or anilino functional groups. Also, it has been known to possess the ability of azo-bond cleavage. This thesis was aimed to investigate azo-bond cleavage by SBP in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, if possible, in the absence of these functional groups. Direct Yellow 12 and azobenzene were chosen as a model compounds for this study. Experiments were conducted at a range of pHs, SBP and hydrogen peroxide to investigate the hypothesis. Enzymatic removal of p-anisidine and Methyl Orange (MO) and azo-bond cleavage of MO were also studied. Optimization of pH, hydrogen peroxide-to-substrate ratio and SBP activity were performed to achieve ≥95% removal of these substrates in 3 hours, analyzed using high-performance liquid chromatography. A time course study was conducted to calculate pseudo-first-order rate constants and half-lives for degradation of these compounds. Mass spectrometry analysis showed oligomerization of p-anisidine and for MO, evidence of azo-bond cleavage was obtained after the enzymatic treatment

Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Andromeda Galaxy: Two Recent Discoveries and their Implications

Ultraluminous X-ray sources are believed to be associated with X-ray binaries, in which an accreting black hole generates X-ray luminosities in excess of 10 39 erg/s. The nature of the companion star and the underlying physics of the accretion process is not yet established with certainty. In particular, whether or not the accretion is super/sub Eddington is an open question, as is the mass of the companion star. We discuss the first two ULXs recently discovered in M31 and investigate the nature of their underlying sources. We present the X-ray observations for ULX-1 in detail and discuss its implications for its accretor. We also considered the positions of both ULX sources in the context of their hypothetical association with either High Mass X-ray Binaries and Low Mass X-ray Binaries. We construct a simple disk plus bulge model to test their association with starlight and use IR images from Spitzer to investigate their possible link to star formation. We find that the position of these two sources more strongly supports scenarios in which the companion is a high mass star. Using the data obtained with XMM-Newton, Swift and Chandra, we infer that the underlying source for ULX-1 is a 13 Msun black hole under the assumption that it is non-spinning. The combined study of X-ray properties and the spatial distribution presented in this thesis argue in favor of stellar mass black holes accreting at near Eddington rates from high mass companions

Multi Round Selective Encryption using AES over Storage Cloud

Cloud computing is the re-incarnation of the client-server architecture. It is highly promising technology because of its unlimited resource provisioning and data storage services which help us in managing the data as per requirements. Due to the use of internet and vital remote servers to maintain the data and applications, the cloud computing environment becomes open for the attackers to attack on the user data and communication services. This paper mainly focuses on the user authentication and data security over the Broker Cloud Computing Paradigm by purposing new cryptographic technique named as Multi Round Selective Encryption using AES. Along with this, we compared our approach with existing cryptographic techniques as AES, Blowfish and Selective encryption to find out its pros and cons. The Multi Round Selective Encryption with AES is the best suitable technique where the file size is large because it gives fast execution by maintaining the encryption complexity as compared to selective encryption technique in public and hybrid cloud

Effect of potash and sulphur on yield and quality parameters under different planting methods in onion

A field experiment was carried out to examine the effect of potash and sulphur on yield and quality parameters under different planting methods in onion (Allium cepa L.) during Rabi 2014 and 2015. The experiment consists of 8 treatment combinations viz. 2 planting methods (bed and flat), 4 treatments of fertilizer viz. S1-N100 P50 K0 S0 (control), S2 - N100 P50 K50 S0, S3 - N100 P50 K0S40, S4 - N100 P50 K50 S40. The experiment was laid in factorial randomized block design and replicated thrice. Uniform dose of farm Yard manure (50 t ha-1) was applied to all the treatments. Data on plant height (cm), leaves /plant (No.), neck thickness (mm), fresh bulb weight (g), fresh bulb yield (q ha-1), total soluble solids (T.S.S), sprouting (%),rotting (%) and physiological weight loss (%) at 30 and 90 days after of harvest were recorded . It has been observed that planting methods and fertilizer treatments showed significant difference at 5% level of significance for plant height (cm), neck thickness (mm), fresh bulb weight (g), fresh bulb yield (q ha-1),total soluble solids (T.S.S), sprouting(%), rotting(%) and physiological weight loss (%) at 30 days after harvest. However their interaction was significant for Neck thickness (mm), fresh bulb yield (q ha-1) and rotting (%).It was found that application of potash and sulphur with recommended dose of Nitrogen and phosphorus gave better results in relation to yield as well as quality characters. The results revealed that application of potash and sulphur with recommended dose of nitrogen and phosphorus (S4 - N100 P50 K50 S40 ) gave better results in relation to yield (339.6 q ha-1) as well as quality characters like sprouting (2.38 %) and rooting (12.18 %) and physiological weight loss at 30 and 90 days of harvest(10.22 and 20.50 % respectively)