Crisis Culture in India's National Security

Two major aspects bedevil our approach to national security. In fact, they are not only relevant to national security but almost to all other spheres of our functioning as a nation. Of which, first, is the aspect of being reactive to emerging situations. A peep into history would show that from time to time, series of raiders and marauding hordes have descended on our land, plundered it, occupied it, and ruled over it. Starting from Alexander to Mohammad Ghazani, the Portuguese, the Mughals, the British, and even the Chinese have occupied different parts of India. However, during the same period, we do not find many instances of our indigenous rulers going outwards to capture or rule over distant lands. In fact, even while trying to defend our land against incoming adversaries, India's actions have been reactive in nature rather than proactive or offensive. NOTE: This article is the revised version of the paper published on the CLAWS Website titled “Crisis Culture in National Security” on 28 August 202

Future of Land Warfare: A Global Perspective

War is always a messy business. It brings in its wake, a tremendous amount of death, destruction, and devastation. In an idealistic world, one would banish war for good. However, we live in an imperfect world wherein human egos, greed, power, religion, revenge, etc. have a major role to play in shaping the environment. This usher in the inevitability of war as the final arbiter in deciding which way the world should move at a particular point of time in history. We are also aware, of course, that history has a way of repeating itself, thus, underlining the frailty of the human mind in repeatedly falling prey to the same mistakes and not learning much from the past. Warfare is perpetually evolving. From ancient times, when foot soldiers held sway with swords, spears, bows, and arrows, and used forts and obstacles for effective defence, it moved to the use of elephants and horses to provide enhanced mobility and raised platforms for dominating the foot soldier. The introduction of dynamite brought about a revolutionary change in the concept, methodology, conduct, and execution of warfare. A similar effect was created when the tank, followed by the aircraft, entered the battlefield. A study of the two World Wars fought in the 20th century clearly brings out how rapid changes in mobility, lethality, battlefield transparency, and precision affected the very methodology of the conduct of warfare from one to the other, thus, dictating the outcomes. Of course, the use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki added a dimension, the consequences of which have threatened the very existence of mankind

Implementation of a Radial Basis Function Using VHDL

This paper presents the work regarding the implementation of neural network using radial basis function algorithm on very high speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL). It is a digital implementation of neural network. Neural Network hardware has undergone rapid development during the last decade. Unlike the conventional von-Neumann architecture that is sequential in nature, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) Profit from massively parallel processing. A large variety of hardware has been designed to exploit the inherent parallelism of the neural network models. The radial basis function (RBF) network is a two-layer network whose output units form a linear combination of the basis function computed by the hidden uni

DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF LIPID BASED TOPICAL FORMULATIONS OF SILVER SULFADIAZINE FOR TREATMENT OF BURNS AND WOUNDS

Abstract: The aim of this research was to develop a novel lipid based film forming gel based on polymer and to investigate its potential as slow-release wound healing vehicle. The lipid based is composed of water soluble gel with model drug (Silver Sulfadiazine) and an egg oil, which acted as a remove scars. The morphology, rheology, mechanical properties, in-vitro drug release profiles were investigated. A smooth film layers was produced. The characterization results showed that film has superior mechanical and rheological properties than the ointment and cream. The lipid based gel treating low suppurating wounds and suitable for slow release application on wound surfaces. The lipid based gel also provided a significant higher healing rate in-vivo, with well-formed epidermis with faster granulation tissue formation when compared to the controls. In conclusions, a novel polymer-based lipid film gel was developed and results suggested that they can be exploited as slow-release wound dressings. Key Words: Wound healings, slow release, silver sulfadiazine and film ge

Sodium silicate mediated response of antioxidative defense system in Lycopersicon esculentum mill. under water stress

The present study was designed to study the effect of water stress on Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. and role of sodium silicate in the protection of tomato plants under water deficit condition.Different biochemical parameters such as photosynthetic pigments, protein, sugar, MDA content, proline, nitrate reductase activity and activities of antioxidant enzymes (SOD, CAT, APX and POX) were examined in tomato leaves at 40 and 60 DAS by the standard methods. The lycopene and β-carotene contentsin tomato fruits were also analyzed at 60, 65 and 70 DAS.Water stress significantly decreased relative water content (RWC), pigment content, sugar and protein contents in tomato leaves at 60 DAS but the accumulation of proline was stimulated in tomato leaves under water deficit condition. The activities of antioxidant enzymes such as SOD, CAT, APX and POX were significantly increased under (3d and 6d) water stress condition at 60 DAS.This study offers first hand information on the water stress-induced oxidative stress in Lycopersicon esculentumand development of antioxidative defense system against drought.The results obtained clearly indicated the positive impact of sodium silicate in protection of tomato plants under water deficit condition

Neonatal dengue with enterococcus sepsis

Dengue infection is possible in all the three trimesters of pregnancy and is associated with various maternal and neonatal complications. The occurrence of subclinical infections may lend further confusion to the situation. Here, we report a case of neonatal dengue diagnosed with dengue NS1 antigen positive and IgM positive followed by secondary sepsis with Enterococcus faecium. Case studies like these may contribute to increased awareness of the suspicion of the associated life-threatening infections that can occur with neonatal dengue, their manifestations, and the management, thus improving their outcome

Ariel - Volume 12 Number 2

Executive Editors David G. Polin Larry H. Pastor Business Manager Alex Macones Jean Lien Editorial Page Editor Deepak Kapoor Sports Editor Todd Hoover Photography Editors Lois Leach Ken Yonemur

Ariel - Volume 12 Number 1

Executive Editors David G. Polin Larry H. Pastor Business Manager Alex Macones Jean Lien Editorial Page Editor Sam Markind Photography Editors Ken Yonemura Lois Leach Sports Editor Todd Hoove

Online) An Open Access

ABSTRACT Evaluation of Ascorbic acid contents of stems, leaves and fruits from three selected medicinal tree growing in sirohi district of Rajasthan was carried out. Medicinal Tree species like Butea monosperma, Cassia fistula and Madhuka indica were collected from three different sites i.e. Mount Abu, Pindwara and Shivganj of Sirohi district for analysis. Among all the three selected tree species the maximum (58.58 mg/100 g.d.w.) amount of ascorbic acid was found in leaves of Butea monosperma collected from Mount Abu area, while the stems had minimum concentration (40.27 mg/100 g.d.w.) collected from same area