Development, Value, and Education in India\u27s Digital Age

This ethnography is an attempt to show the particular relationships between globalization, development, digitality, and urban-rural change as they are re-articulated in the actions and interactions between several groups – NGO personnel, teachers, students – living, working, and studying within educational spaces in South Karnataka, in regions in and around Bangalore city. My intervention, to put it simply, is to show how the condition of development in India, and specifically education-as-development, has changed in the contemporary global digital moment, and I identify the new concerns of each of these groups – how they sought to develop themselves and Others – in the wake of technologically-enabled globality and social reform-oriented connection. My own set of ethnographic stories begins at the heart of these education-as-development concerns, but relies on the specificity of my interactions with a single NGO, Adhyaapaka, based in Bangalore, but that worked with school communities outside of it. I have placed these NGO narratives in relation to another set of narratives from one school site in which Adhyaapaka works, Adavisandra school. What I discovered, inadvertently, was an alternative shape that global development takes when seen through the stories of teachers and students, equally tied to the idea of a changing India, but inflected with aspirations and commitments that reflected the unique lived experiences of those who were participating in schooling in the village. This is also to say that, at least in India, any global-digital future is always a “global-urban-rural future” and throughout this study I mark instances of urban-rural linkage and boundary, always as a means to understand how individuals perceive development-based change. To this end, I further the concept of value migrations, a set of mediated imaginings and aspirations that reflect the circulation of values and the concomitant changes wrought in villages. In unpacking the concept of “value” I foreground the inextricable link between global economic structures, human development, and village change. Further, I connect value to affect, showing how structures of economic power work on a psychosocial register, manifesting as dreams, hopes, desires, nostalgias, anxieties, and sufferings and together are what I term the “affects of development”

Adaptation Of Watt’s Indicator Mechanism In Altitude Measurement

In today’s world, air travel has become the primary mode of fast and reliable transport. In fact, in the broad arena of international travel, air travel has established itself as the one and only mode of transportation. More and more aircraft operators are getting into business each and every year and the competition is fierce. In this situation, it is but natural to expect safe transportation and involvement of better technologies to dispel fears among the general public regarding air travel. We can confidently say that the number of incidents and accidents involving aircrafts have come down than it used to be in the 19th century and that the 20th century has seen aircrafts evolving using high end technologies to fight against any problems that nature or machine can throw up on the aircraft and in turn, the crew. In fact, we can be firm in saying that air travel is the safest mode of transportation

Solitary splenic metastasis in a case of treated cervical cancer: a case report

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide and metastasis to the spleen is a rare entity, with only few cases being reported.  The present case of a 55-year-old patient diagnosed with a splenic lesion 3 years following completion of chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy for advanced cervical cancer. The patient underwent diagnostic laparoscopy with splenectomy. The histopathological studies confirmed the presence of a metastatic squamous cell carcinoma (in a known case of treated cervical cancer). At one-year follow-up after splenectomy, the patient was free of any recurrent disease. Owing to its rarity and scant data available, detailed workup should be done whenever a solitary lesion in the spleen is detected on follow-up since splenectomy is the apt management which is instrumental in preventing further complications and improves the survival rates

Laparoscopic management of endometrial stromal sarcoma in young: a case report

Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is a case malignancy and accounts for 0.2% of all uterine malignancies and 10% of all uterine sarcomas. In the present case, an unmarried 27-year-old woman presented with complaints of on and off episodes of pain in the lower abdomen. On examination, a diffuse oval mass was felt occupying the hypogastrium, iliac and lumbar regions and extending up to the umbilicus. CT scan impression was given as? Complex retroperitoneal mass? solid cystic ovarian mass with grade I right hydro nephrosis. On laparoscopy, a huge mass measuring approximately 10×10 cm was noted arising from the uterus. Laparoscopic myomectomy was done and the specimen was retrieved in a bag and the tissue was sent for histopathological examination. The postoperative clinical course was uneventful. The patient was advised to undergo oocyte cryopreservation following which she was advised hysterectomy with bilateral salphingo-oophorectomy. Pelvic radiation was advised thereafter. ESS is a rare malignant tumor, which on histopathological examination reveals sheets of cells and endometrial stromal cell differentiation. Hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy is optimum initial therapy. Radiotherapy is chosen when the tumour is inadequately excised or the pelvic disease is locally recurrent. Low grade ESS is a rare form of uterine sarcoma usually seen between 40-60 years of age with limited available data regarding the clinical course and management. Early diagnosis and management is associated with a favourable prognosis and outcome

Distribute Playbook

This report offers an in-depth account of the planning and organizing for the SCA/SVA virtual binannual conference, held in May, 2020

Agreement Between Lea Symbols and Patti Pics Visual Acuity in Children and Adults

Patti Pics (PP) and Lea Symbols (LS) are commonly used by eye care practitioners worldwide. Although the relationship between the two tests is fairly well understood, the availability of different chart designs (single optotypes, multiple optotypes, multiple optotypes with crowding box) merits futher understanding. The purpose of this study is to explore the agreement between the acuity measures obtained with Patti Pics and Lea Symbols in children and adults and compare their performance with the Sloan Letter (SL) chart in adults. Methods: Monocular visual acuity was obtained from ninety-three 3 to 5-year-old children using Patti Pics and Lea Symbols. Acuities were also obtained from 113 adults using the same tests under identical conditions. Acuity results obtained with the pediatric tests were compared with the gold-standard Sloan Letter chart in adults. The Bland-Altman method was implemented to compare the level of agreement between tests. Results: Patti Pics yielded worse visual acuity than the Lea Symbols by approximately half a logMAR line in both children (mean difference: -0.07 § 0.07 logMAR,