Speaking from Places: A Phenomenological Deconstructive Study of Children’s Places, Child-Centric Methods, and Politics.

This dissertation adopts an innovative phenomenological and deconstructive methodology to create a child-centric research process sensitive to facilitating, integrating, and representing children’s voices in designing their school playground. The study developed and employed two novel child-centric methods, an Embedded Walk and a Communal Child-Map Project in order to integrate parents’ and children’s experiences of the school spaces the authorities planned to renovate. Both methods reveal and complicate the socio-political dynamics that structure children’s, parents’, and researchers’ stances towards children’s places and worlds. During the Embedded Walk, children led their parents through their play spaces and they collaboratively documented the childrens’ experiences of the places through drawings and written descriptions (ensemble voices). After the walk, in the Communal Child Map Project they marked these places with colored pins on a map of the school grounds created by the older children that was displayed in the school hallway. Re-thinking and creating unique methods that prioritize children’s perspectives signified a political change, entitling children to designate their own territories. Displaying their perspectives in a public space to an audience of adults and other children empowered their voices by shifting it from a private exchange with parents or peers to a communal dialogue. The phenomenological part of this study presents children’s experiential descriptions of their places in the world of the schoolyard and the diverse affordances these places provide. The deconstructive part of this study reveals how children find a place in an adult-centric world and how their place-making is impacted by the presence of adult-centric structures. In its commitment to understanding political activism as a transformative process, the author presents the subtle and profound shifts that the two methods, “embedded walk” and “Communal Child Map,” introduced into the lives of parents and children by cultivating spaces for children to speak, and parents to listen differently. Interviews conducted with five mothers suggested that the insights realized during the study enabled distinct modes of seeing, engaging, and attuning parents to their children’s places, activities, and desires. This fresh outlook impacted their relationship even beyond the study. Moving away from traditional academic structures where the researcher provides technocratic theories and specific steps to achieve child empowerment, this study builds on Derrida’s notion of hospitality to propose an alternative model of empowerment. By analyzing an unexpected resistance movement organized by adolescents in the Child-Map study, the author argues that the ethos of child empowerment is surrendering to and receiving the gifts that children give to the researcher, by transforming, shifting directions, and according a new voice to the work: re-introducing them to their own research

CSPCR: Cloud Security, Privacy and Compliance Readiness - A Trustworthy Framework

The privacy, handling, management and security of information in a cloud environment are complex and tedious tasks to achieve. With minimum investment and reduced cost of operations an organization can avail and apply the benefits of cloud computing into its business. This computing paradigm is based upon a pay as per your usage model. Moreover, security, privacy, compliance, risk management and service level agreement are critical issues in cloud computing environment. In fact, there is dire need of a model which can tackle and handle all the security and privacy issues. Therefore, we suggest a CSPCR model for evaluating the preparation of an organization to handle or to counter the threats, hazards in cloud computing environment. CSPCR discusses rules and regulations which are considered as pre-requisites in migrating or shifting to cloud computing services

Quantitative studies on heterosis and inbreeding depression in maize (Zea mays l.)

The present investigation was carried out for studying heterosis and inbreeding depression of twenty eight hybrids (F1 ? s) and their F2 ? s made by crossing of eight maize inbreds in all possible cross combinations excluding reciprocal. Observations were recorded on ten quantitative traits viz., plant height (cm), ear length (cm), ear girth (cm), number of kernel rows per ear, number of kernels per row, 100 kernels weight (g) yield per plant (g), days to 50 % tassel emergence, days to 50% silk emergence and days to 50% maturity. Variable magnitude of heterosis was observed for different cross combinations for all the traits. Based on higher mean performance (94.33 to 118.67 g/plant) and higher heterotic response (11.95 to 30.48%) eleven crosses were selected. Response of inbreeding depression was significant in positive direction for most of the traits. Among these eleven crosses five crosses CM 300 x CML 142, CM 300 x CML 144, CM 300 x CML 150, CM 300 x CML 176 and CML 150 x CML 144 were selected having high heterotic value (12.31 to 30.48%) and lower inbreeding depression (less than 15%) for their utilization in maize improvement programme for the development of superior inbred lines

First trimester uterine rupture-a rare but catastrophic event: a case report

Uterine rupture is a rare but life threatening obstetrical emergency. It often occurs at term during trail of labour but rarely may occur during early pregnancy in first trimester. Here, we report a case of 28 years, G2P1+0L0 at 3 months of pregnancy with fundal rupture in shock with history of previous caesarean section. Ultrasound report revealed massive hemoperitoneum (2 litres) with dead fetus lying outside the uterine cavity. Emergency laparotomy was performed and uterine repair was done. The differential diagnosis for hemoperitoneum is early pregnancy includes bleeding corpus luteum, heterotropic pregnancy or ectopic pregnancy and molar pregnancy with secondary invasion. The possibility of uterine rupture should also be kept in mind. Prompt diagnosis and early management is important to reduce the morbidity and mortality

EXPERIENCING ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCY AMONG YOUTH IN JAMMU, INDIA

In this thesis, I advocate for an ethnographic study of addiction experiences based on 8 weeks of preliminary fieldwork during the summer of 2017 among youth residing in Jammu City, Jammu and Kashmir, India. I expand the scholarship on the anthropology of addiction to South Asia by demonstrating how addiction experience is constituted in the everyday: through kinship relations, regional and national histories, and medical and juridical regimes of state-sponsored institutions. I do so by exploring the cultural and moral practice of ‘dependency’ as a productive lens onto addiction experience, and which has long-served as an important idiom to theorize classic understandings of ‘Indian personhood’ and the ‘Indian Self’ in the South Asia literature. By locating addiction in the intimate relations of reliance and care that unfold between people, substances and institutions, my effort is to rethink ‘dependency’ at the conjuncture of regional and national histories in Jammu, India.Master of Art

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Evolution of State-of-the-Art Blockchain Technology (BCT) in the Agrifood Sector from 2014 to 2022

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Isozyme analysis based genetic fidelity assessment of micropropagated banana plants

Isozyme studies of micropropagated and mother plants of banana cvs. Matti, Ney Poovan, Kechulepa, Dwarf Cavendish, Malbhog, Champa, B.B. Battisa and FHIA-1 were done to test their genetic fidelity. The banding patterns as revealed by electrophoretic variations were evaluated with respect to isozymes of acid phosphatase, catalase, esterase and peroxidase as markers. The genetic fidelity of micropropagated plants and the relationship of the different cultivars were determined by dendrogram using numerical taxonomy and multivariate analysis system(NTSYS). A clustered dendrogram was prepared by unweighted pair group method using averages (UPGAMA) method. At 87% similarity, the micropropagated and mother plants were clustered in four groups reflecting their genomic constitution. Cvs. Matti (AA) and Dwarf Cavendish (AAA) with similar ‘A’ genome were categorized in Cluster I. Cluster II comprised of cvs. Ney Poovan (AB), B.B. Battisa (ABB) and FHIA-1(AAAB) with genomic constitution of both ‘A’ and ‘B’ type. Cvs. Champa (AAB) and Malbhog (AAB) with similar genome were grouped inCluster III. Cluster IV contained the cv. Kechulepa (BB) having only ‘B’ genome. However, there was no somaclonal variation among the micropropagated plants and they showed 100% genetic similarity. Thus, the isozyme studies could be a reliable marker for testing the genetic fidelity of micropropagated plants and for evaluating the diversity among the banana germplasm

Method And System For Automatically Generating Artificial Intelligence Powered Prototypes

The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for automatically generating Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered prototypes. Here, a plurality of AI models is provided in a user interface of the system. Further, a selection of a set of the AI models is received via the user interface. For each of the set of the AI models, identification of input features and data sources is received via the user interface for training each of the plurality of AI models. Further, a selection of one or more rules for aggregating model inputs and model outputs is received via the user interface to form one or more searchable tables of sample data for at least one of the artificial intelligence models. The one or more rules include one or more categories of filtering criteria for populating the one or more searchable tables. In response to the user input, the model inputs in the data sources as defined by the input features are identified and a link between the model inputs and the artificial intelligence model is defined. Further, the one or more searchable tables having one or more columns corresponding to the one or more categories are created. Further, an order of operation of the set of artificial intelligence models is received via the user interface. In the order of operation, an output of one or more first AI models is used as an input for one or more second AI models. Thereafter, an AI ensemble that comprises the set of AI models is generated