Amrita University Research Articles

E-learning Research in India: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Production

The paper gives a statistical evaluation of Indian authors’ research output in the e-learning field (3243 publications). The information was obtained from the Scopus database between 2010 and 2021. According to the study, worldwide e-learning research grew at a rate of 20.9 percent every year on average. A total of 7052 authors contributed to e-learning research. Anna University (92 papers) is India’s most producing organisation, while Amrita University is the most cited. Bijlani K. (22 papers) is the most prolific author, and Nedungadi P. is the most cited author. On a worldwide basis, these Indian authors have a significant scientific relationship with the United States. The most popular source for publishing on this topic was ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.

Preface

International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications – 2018 (IConAMMA - 2018) emphasized on the most recent advances and developments in the field of design and manufacturing process using experiments with high precision equipment’s and computational techniques. In this regard, IConAMMA – 2018 was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita University, Bengaluru campus during 16th - 18th August, 2018.The conference focused on the recent developments in the field of Mechanical Sciences applied to Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. In addition to contributory papers, the conference has invited renowned experts for delivering keynote addresses/special lectures in the field of Mechanical Sciences. There is an increasing awareness of the benefits of the development and utilization of advanced materials and structures in applications ranging from hydrospace to aerospace. With the ability to respond autonomously to changes in their environment, smart systems can offer a simplified approach to the control of various material and system characteristics. Mechanistic understanding from any discipline is the route to the development of materials with capabilities beyond those currently available. The conference is aimed at creating a cross disciplinary summit that transcends departmental, institutional, industrial, public and private research organizational and global barriers and lends itself to the integration of research and education in the vital field of advanced materials. This conference is dedicated to bring up substantial discussions on major sectors of advanced processing, material characterization, modeling and simulation, properties, performance and device fabrication.List of Conference Photographs, Acknowledgements, Acknowledgements to Advisory Committee, Acknowledgement to Local Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.

International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications (IConAMMA-2017)

IConAMMA International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications – 2017 (IConAMMA - 2017) emphasized on the most recent advances and developments in the field of design and manufacturing process using experiments with high precision equipment’s and computational techniques. In this regard, IConAMMA – 2017 was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita University, Bengaluru campus during 17th - 19th August, 2017.The conference focused on the recent developments in the field of Mechanical Sciences applied to Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. In addition to contributory papers, the conference has invited renowned experts for delivering keynote addresses/special lectures in the field of Mechanical Sciences. There is an increasing awareness of the benefits of the development and utilization of advanced materials and structures in applications ranging from hydrospace to aerospace. With the ability to respond autonomously to changes in their environment, smart systems can offer a simplified approach to the control of various material and system characteristics. Mechanistic understanding from any discipline is the route to the development of materials with capabilities beyond those currently available. The conference is aimed at creating a cross disciplinary summit that transcends departmental, institutional, industrial, public and private research organizational and global barriers and lends itself to the integration of research and education in the vital field of advanced materials. This conference is dedicated to bring up substantial discussions on major sectors of advanced processing, material characterization, modeling and simulation, properties, performance and device fabrication.List of Scope of the Conference and Acknowledgements are available in this PDF.

Different functional networks observed in multiple sclerosis during rest and motor task fMRI

Event Abstract Back to Event Computational Neurosciences of Cerebellar Circuit Disorders Shyam Diwakar1 1 Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), India Spinocerebellar ataxias, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s dementia and other neurological disorders are associated with dysfunction attributed to various brain regions, including the cerebellum. Neuronal dynamics of the cerebellum correlate with learning and memory processes, via interactions at the synaptic levels forming neuronal microcircuits. Brain regions, including the cerebellum, have been known to include representations of internal models, transferring relevant information via their inputs and outputs [1]. The cerebellum, also known as the little brain, previously known for its role in motor coordination and timing [2], is now being implicated in autism [3], ataxias [4], dyskinesia [5], Alzheimer’s disease [6] and Parkinson’s disease [7]. As part of this study, we will discuss perspectives of cerebellum function as well as its interaction with basal ganglia and thalamo-cortical-thalamic circuitry. Computational models of individual circuits within the cerebellum allow validating and predicting behavioral functions and disease conditions observed during neurological disorders. The study will also look into multiple levels of analysis as this is important for determining physiological function and upstream and downstream roles during disease states and dysfunction. A modeling study of cerebellar function [8] during impaired motor control involved interlinking ion channel mutations to function at cellular and circuit level computations [9]. A study had looked into sodium channel excitability disruptions caused by fibroblast growth factor homologous factor mutations where an ataxia-like condition were observed in adult Wistar rats [10]. Sodium excitability has also been noted and mathematical modeling show spike suppression roles in juvenile prion protein knock-out mice with impaired motor control [9]. Epileptic seizure-like symptoms observed in mutant animals’ granule neurons suggest that sparse and asynchronous neuronal activity evolves into a single hyper-synchronous cluster with elevated spiking rates at seizure initiation [10]. In another study, blocking NMDA receptors in granule neurons showed reduced excitation. A selective blocking of NMDA receptors is seen during NR2A/NR2B mutations. Such simulations implicate a decreased number of spikes as seen via a change in N2A amplitude compared to controls in the generated local field response. A similar selective loss of neural activity in thalamo-cortical circuitry had resulted in glaucoma in human subjects [11]. Computational neuroscience of cerebellar [12] and cortical circuits [13] allowed reconstructing local field potentials[14] and fMRI Blood Oxygen-Level Dependent (BOLD) [15] signals via approximations of intercellular [16] and extracellular spiking activity [17]. We were also able to model local field potentials, cortical EEG and activity-dependent fMRI BOLD signals to correlate neural activity and dysfunction to population behavior. Acknowledgements This work derives direction and ideas from the Chancellor of Amrita University, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. This work was partially funded by Grants SR/CSI/49/2010, SR/CSI/60/2011, SR/CSRI/60/2013, SR/CSRI/61/2014 and Indo-Italy POC 2012-2013 from DST and BT/PR5142/MED/30/764/2012 from DBT, Government of India and by Embracing The World.

Optimal Capacitor Placement based Improved Reliability Assessment of a Distribution System

This paper focuses to reduce the real power losses in a real-time radial distribution system by performing Optimal Capacitor Placement (OCP) using Genetic Algorithm (GA), thereby enhancing the reliability of the entire system. Reliability analysis on Amrita power house II, Amrita University, Ettimadai campus, Coimbatore operating at 22kV/415V system is carried out using ETAP software. System status subjected to different failures as case studies are considered. System performance is analyzed using Adaptive Newton Raphson method. Suggestions for suitable placement of capacitor banks with optimal size and cost is proposed by performing OCP using GA. Comparison of the results of reliability analysis is done with and without capacitor placement. Optimal capacitor placement helps in achieving optimal cost with suitable size and location of the capacitor bank, which is evident from the report obtained from the ETAP software. Out of load bus and breaker failure condition, the predominant remark was the considerable increase in real power loss of the overall system. Thus, the optimal capacitor placement found to be the most suitable solution for reduction of real power losses in a radial distribution system. Results of analysis illustrates that the increased value of sustained interruption system indices like System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI), System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) and preferably Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI) indicates that the system is highly unreliable without capacitors. The results obtained after capacitor placement indicates reduction in real power losses and thus decrease of reliability indices value. The expected energy that is not getting supplied to the consumer can be estimated and the cost incurred for loss can be reduced with the reliability assessment. Thus long and short term planning could be carried out. Improvements can be done by including more system reliability assessment indices. Total cost incurred due to unreliable condition of the system can be found out. This work would allow further extension by introducing FACTS devices for reliability enhancement.

A PAPER ON ALTERNATIVE PEDAGOGIES.

30Jun 2016 A PAPER ON ALTERNATIVE PEDAGOGIES. G.S. Jyotsna and Deepthi Janardhan. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita University, India.

Innovation Management? Orienting Sepsis R&D and Technology Transfer Towards Stratified Medicine

a TargeT Technology Transfer Office (TTO), Gaziantep University, Gaziantep 27300, Turkey b Faculty of Communications and the Office of the President, International Technology and Innovation Policy, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep 27300, Turkey c Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), Amritapuri, Clappana, P.O. Kollam, Kerala 690 525, India d Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul, Turkey

Personalized Medicine Across Disciplines and Without Borders

Vural Özdemir began his career as a medical doctor in Turkey in 1990, as a scientist at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto (ON, Canada), where he obtained his MSc and PhD in clinical pharmacology (1998), and subsequently completed a 4-year postdoctoral fellowship in personalized medicine with the late Werner Kalow, a founding pioneer in the field of pharmacogenetics. Özdemir contributed to the conception and development of the repeated drug administration (RDA) method as a novel way of measuring pharmacological heritability, pharmacogenetics of psychiatric drugs and studying the clinical role of CYP2D6 genetic variations for endogenous neurotransmitter metabolism in the human brain. Recognizing that scientific knowledge is a product of both technology and social systems that often remain unaccounted for (e.g., human values, distribution of power and human agency, immigration, racial disparities, socioeconomic class and equity), Özdemir discovered the literature in the field of science and technology studies, a rich scholarly enquiry that asks fundamental questions and challenges assumptions regarding the backstage of technoscience, situates technology within its political context and makes hitherto unseen connections that frame science in ways that enable robust, responsible and sustainable innovation. From 2008 to 2012, Özdemir was awarded a mid-career "science and society" fellowship in order to retool as independent faculty and senior scientist in science and technology studies (STS), conducting research on research and examining his own trade - pharmacogenetics science - as an insider on the outside. Recently, Özdemir was awarded senior career support from the Scientific and Tehnological Research Council of Turkey, is an Associate Professor of both Communications and Human Genetics at the Faculty of Communications and serves as an advisor to the Rector for International Technology and Innovation Policy, Gaziantep University in Turkey. He is also a Visiting Professor (Global Health & Technology Foresight) at Amrita University in Kerala, India, and cofounder of the Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance (DELSA Global), an open innovation and knowledge translation platform in Seattle (WA, USA). Özdemir was named as coinventor of 12 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) indexed patents in personalized medicine and has authored more than 130 peer reviewed articles and chapters on the translation of omics technologies into public health action, global technology governance, diagnostics innovation strategy, history of bioethics and the ethics-of-bioethics. 'Science Peace Corps' and 'Microgrants for Big Data' are two new knowledge translation and science communication concepts developed by Özdemir for the global governance of biotechnology. He is Editor-in-Chief of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (NY, USA).

Assessing Indian Academic Library Services with ACRL/ALA Standards for Libraries in Higher Education: a Model

A comparison of his library services of the Amritapuri campus library of the Amrita University with the ACRL/ALA standards is made as a case study and presented in this paper. It is found that majority of the rooms given in to standards are followed in the library under study.