Seismic qualification of directional valve

Seismic qualification tests on pneumatically operated directional valve were carried out in the shake table facility in Structural Integrity Division. Determination of the fundamental frequency for directional valve was carried out through exploratory vibration test as per ANSI B 16.41 Annexure E (Para E-3) to ascertain extent of flexibility as defined in the standard. Seismic (static) load test on same directional valve was also carried out to ascertain its capabilities to withstand the expected dynamic, seismic stresses and to ensure that the valves will not be subjected to performance degradation or malfunction under seismic conditions. This report describes the final seismic qualification documentation for directional valve manufactured by M/s Vijay Fire Protection Systems Ltd, Mumbai

The Effect of Inflation Targeting Policies on Dollarization-A Cross-Country Analysis

This paper attempts to review the experiences of various dollarized economies from the adoption of an explicit inflation-targeting framework for domestic monetary policy. Dollarization is the phenomenon where agents in a country choose to use a foreign currency instead of their domestic currency. This often occurs in response to episodes of high inflation rate in the domestic economy. Central Banks of these countries often respond by adopting an inflation-targeting regime. This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of such a policy by conducting a cross-country comparison. A panel dataset from 14 dollarized economies from 2001-2015, is used to compare between dollarized economies that have adopted inflation targeting regimes versus those that have not. Inflation targeting seems to have had a higher impact in de-dollarization in Latin American economies followed by East-Asian economies

Constraining the loop quantum gravity parameter space from phenomenology

Development of quantum gravity theories rarely takes inputs from experimental physics. In this letter, we take a small step towards correcting this by establishing a paradigm for incorporating putative quantum corrections, arising from canonical quantum gravity (QG) theories, in deriving \textit{falsifiable} modified dispersion relations (MDRs) for particles on a deformed Minkowski space-time. This allows us to differentiate and, hopefully, pick between several quantization choices via \textit{testable, state-of-the-art} phenomenological predictions. Although a few explicit examples from loop quantum gravity (LQG) (such as the regularization scheme used or the representation of the gauge group) are shown here to establish the claim, our framework is more general and is capable of addressing other quantization ambiguities within LQG and also those arising from other similar QG approaches.Comment: 7 page