Different Kinds Of Losses Research Articles

Review of Andrew Leland’s The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Review of Andrew Leland’s The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Atmanirbhar Bharat with reference to Indian Railway

Atmanirbhar Bharat, which means, Independent Indian is the vision of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi making India a great and more significant aspect of the world wide economy. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan upholds Indian economy in batting against COVID-19. The clarion call given by Hon’ble Prime Minister to utilize these difficult occasions to become Atmanirbhar has been very generally welcomed to empower the resurgence of Indian Economy. Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the economic package to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic known as “Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan” on 12th May 2020. During this period India experienced different kinds of losses. The effect of lockdown Indian Economy also collapsed makes India independent against the tough global supply chain competition and helps the labourers, poor and migrants who had been severely affected by COVID-19 pandemic. In that time PM Modi announced a special economic package 20,97,053 crores, which is 10% of India’s GDP. After the announcement of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, India started producing many items in our own country which boosted the country’s economy and also benefits our employees, also creating job opportunities and reducing unemployment.

Effects of Loading Level on the Variation of Flow Losses in Subsonic Axial Compressors

The development of the aircraft industry seeks an increase in compressor loading, bringing unique flow phenomena and design problems; thus, insights into the ultrahigh loaded compressor are in great need. To reveal the loss characteristics of the ultrahigh loaded subsonic axial compressors, four well comparable compressor stages are carefully designed with the loading coefficient varying from 0.41 to 0.65. A novel flow-based loss decomposition method is performed to investigate the variation of different kinds of losses (including blade profile loss, tip leakage loss, casing endwall loss, and hub endwall loss) with the change in compressor loading level and operating condition. Results show that the blade profile loss always occupies the largest part of the total loss. In rotor passages, the percentage of the blade profile loss at the design point is increased from 69% to 76% with the increase in the compressor loading. Meanwhile, the proportion of the tip leakage loss decreases as the loading increases. For a specific compressor stage, the total loss of the rotor passage tends to increase with the increase in stage pressure rise coefficient along the operation line, whereas the proportion of the blade profile loss is squeezed by the tip leakage loss. As for stator passages, the proportion of blade profile loss to the total passage loss is nearly constant along the compressor operating line, but increases from 79% to 90% with the increase in the compressor loading level. By correlating the losses with blade solidity, it was found that the increase in flow losses in the highly loaded compressor, i.e., the decrease in efficiency, stems mainly from the high blade solidity.

A Review of resource management and self-reliance for sustainable Growth of India under pandemic scenario

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan is the new version of “Make in India” which was announced by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 12th May 2020 with new version. P.M India stated that when India speaks of becoming self-reliant, it does not uphold a self-centred system. In India’s self-reliance, there is an anxiety for the whole world’s happiness, co operation and peace. During Covid-19 India experienced different kinds of losses. The effect of lockdown on the Indian economy was very significant. In spite of that, it is fact that India have progressed very competently in tackling the world pandemic. The union budget 2021 concentrated on India’s development and is modified to reactivate the Indian economy in a post Covid world, while the unfurl of the vaccine will be the Government Pivotal nearterm preference the budget objectives to label the demand of Industries to stimulate development and consumption. therefore, Novel Coronavirus units a unique chance for India and the nations alike to utilize the available resources strategically and transform its dreams of “local” India into “Glocal” India for a better and brighter future of her human beings.

Technology adoption to reduce the harvesting losses and wastes in agriculture

In general, the harvesting of paddy is carried out through manual or mechanical approach of cutting the crop, and then collecting and bundling them. During harvesting stage, different kinds of losses are incurred owing to a number of factors like shattering, shedding of grains, improper methods and time of harvesting, and so on. However, in the absence of appropriate grain harvesting machines, the small-scale farmers today are still with no other option than the use of hand-tools. This study aimed at: (1) Identifying the losses associated with traditional harvesting of paddy; (2) identifying the factors responsible for harvesting losses; (3) design and evaluation of modified reaper in terms of harvesting losses; (4) identifying the factors affecting technology adoption in Indian agriculture. Initially, an effort was made to design an affordable grain reaper in order to help the small-scale farmers to harvest their grain more efficiently. Then, two treatments of paddy harvesting were finalized such as manually harvesting by the use of sickles, and harvesting by the use of modified reaper, for the evaluation field-efficiency; cutting-efficiency; and harvesting losses, respectively. The factors responsible for harvesting losses encountered in rice cultivation along with the factors affecting technology adoption (TA) were identified. Then, with consultation with experts, the relationships among factors of TA were clarified by the use of “Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM)” approach. Subsequently, a “Matrix Impact Cross-Reference Multiplication Analysis (MICMAC)” was done for the identification and clustering of the TA factors. The losses that reduced by the use of modified reaper over manual harvesting with sickles were found to be 6.49% for cutting-efficiency, and 6.49% for harvesting losses. The major factor responsible for harvesting losses encountered in rice cultivation was reported to be “Inappropriate harvesting tools and equipment” by 42 farmers (29.17%) out of a total of 144 farmers, which was found to have a positive as well as significant correlation at p ≤ 0.05 level (2-tailed) with the factor of “Improper harvesting methods”. Thus, by considering the predominance of small-scale farmers with their limited farm sizes, adequate and appropriate “Research and Development” should be carried out with the aim of designing and developing of economical as well as efficient agricultural implements and machineries.

From the New General Editor

From the New General Editor Peter Kirwan Since March 2020, early modern performance studies has faced a number of existential challenges to its purpose and practices. During a period when the majority of theater buildings around the world have been closed; when the COVID-19 pandemic has made the experience of co-presence in a shared room with strangers a fraught, if not impossible, one; when the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the murder of George Floyd has led to large-scale rethinking of the canons and bodies of knowledge on which scholarly fields are built; and when the funding models for both academia and the arts have shown significant vulnerabilities resulting in mass unemployment within those fields, it has been necessary for many of us working within early modern performance studies to seriously rethink our roles in a changing climate. The outgoing and incoming editors of Shakespeare Bulletin, Kathryn Prince and I, began working through some of these questions while preparing our co-edited collection, The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, which came out a year after the pandemic had first hit. In that volume, we surveyed much of the work in early modern performance studies over the last two decades, interrogating the field’s methods, research questions, resources, and implications. The book called for more shared understanding between scholars and practitioners, and for more attention to the processes that underpin the work of both artists and researchers, in the hope that—as the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries returns to physical theaters—we can continue to collaborate on interpreting the affect, knowledge, joy, and pain that emerge when these plays are adapted, performed, and reinterpreted. As the editorial torch is passed on again, we reaffirm our commitment that Shakespeare Bulletin will continue to be at the forefront of this collaboration. [End Page 187] Part of looking forward is acknowledging pain and loss. The unthinkable loss of life during the COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by different kinds of loss, including the shuttering of theater companies unable to weather the financial impact of long closures, such as Washington, DC’s Brave Spirits, whose work has featured regularly in these pages. But the pandemic has also seen outpourings of creativity and new attempts to make early modern performance more accessible, from the emergence of online theater pioneers such as Creation and The Show Must Go Online, to the Royal Shakespeare Company developing programs of open rehearsals and the Red Bull Theater programming staged readings. In the last six months alone, I have been privileged to see online productions of Volpone, The Devil is an Ass, Edward II, Volpone, and A King and No King, plays for which a live paying audience is by no means assured, but which have enjoyed engaged international audiences when shown for free (or near free) online, and which have often featured much more diverse casts and creative teams than are regularly seen on mainstream stages. And while theaters will be keen to welcome audiences back into physical spaces, the expectation that more shows will have continuing and extended lives online has in turn enabled the international community of scholars to come together to attend the same productions, opening up shows to audiences beyond those privileged to be able to access physical theaters, and allowing for more complex, open conversations about the productions being viewed. Under Kathryn Prince’s leadership, Shakespeare Bulletin has continued to support scholarship spanning the full range of early modern performance studies, from historical studies to new media, from deep dives into specific films and shows to new theoretical approaches, from fresh writing inspired by Shakespeare to special issues advancing the discipline. As the journal moves into a new phase of life, everyone at Shakespeare Bulletin thanks Kathryn for her stewardship, diligence, and care over recent years, and the new editorial team will strive to uphold her legacy and that of her predecessors. ________ As Shakespeare Bulletin seeks to be a constructive and supportive home for the changing landscape of early modern performance studies, we have made a number of significant changes to the journal’s processes and policies. Much...

Finite Element Model Based Determination of Local Membrane Conductivity of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs) are an essential technology for future fast refill, long range and clean mobility. However, for better market penetration, their efficiency still needs to be improved. An important aspect, leading to different kinds of losses is the water management. Indeed, there exists a humidity gradient between the gas inlet and gas outlet in PEFCs with active areas of some hundred cm². This can lead to uneven membrane conductivity over the cell area which results in current density inhomogeneities, resulting in lower cell efficiency and shorter lifetime. Therefore, the measurement of localized membrane conductivity in technical cells is of great importance. Different to the typical invasive membrane conductivity measurement techniques, such as segmented flow field plates or shunt resistor boards, we propose a non-invasive method [1] which is able to provide localized information about the ionic conductivity in the membrane using electrical impedance tomography (EIT). EIT is based on the relationship that exists between one object’s conductivity distribution and the surface potential that one could measure when an alternating current is applied to the object. The objects surface potential is measured during the injection of an alternating current between two electrodes at the remaining electrodes (see Figure 1). Once enough injection-measurement pairs have been acquired, the objects inner conductivity can be reconstructed.This presentation will discuss the results of a numerical feasibility study of the application of EIT for the determination of the membrane conductivity in PEFCs. A finite element model (FEM) based representation of a simplified fuel cell geometry is used to solve the surface potential distribution as function of the membrane conductivity distribution and current injection. Using a minimization approach the membrane conductivity distribution is adjusted such that the mismatch between the surface potential of the FEM solution and synthetic measurement data is reduced. In order to simplify the problem and reduce the degree of freedoms in the minimization formulation, so far, the conductivity distribution in the membrane is estimated by 1D interpolations from cell inlet to cell outlet (see Figure 2). Finally, the working principle of the method is experimentally demonstrated using fuel cell relevant materials.[1] 2019P04382EP patent application Figure 1

Design and simulation of standalone solar PV system using PVsyst Software: A case study

Solar energy is quick creating source of energy in all over the world. The total installed solar power in India till 30th April 2020 is 34811.78 MW. This paper presents the study of load requirement in mechanical department office in engineering college Bikaner and accordingly, designing and installation of stand-alone solar PV System. Analysis of performance ratio and losses has also been done using PVsyst simulation software. The average annual energy requirement in the department of mechanical engineering office is 1086.24 kWh and the energy available through solar panel is 1143.6 KWh, whereas energy supplied to the user is 1068.12 kWh a little less than the required load. The reduced power capacity of the system is because of different kinds of losses. The performance ratio analysis reveals that the highest PR was recordedin themonth of December is 86% and lowest PR,64% was obtained in the month of April, whereas the average PR for year is 72.8%. The reduced power capacity of the system is because of different kinds of losses.

Quality estimation of non-demolition measurement with lossy atom-light hybrid interferometers.

The atom-light hybrid interferometer recently attracted much attention in the research of precision metrology for its combination of light and atomic spin wave. With the AC Stark effect and proper design, it can be applied in the scheme of quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement of photon numbers. In this work, we apply the QND criteria to the scheme and theoretically derive its explicit formulas with various losses of the atomic-light hybrid interferometer. With the formulas and actual experiment parameters, we estimate and compare the performance of the vapor-atom-based and cold-atom-based hybrid interferometer in the QND measurement, analyze the influences of different kinds of losses, and provide optimized working parameter ranges of the interferometer.

Comparative Experimental Study of Single Slope Single Basin Solar Still

Pure water scarcity has become vulnerable due to discharge of industrial effluents in water bodies. Rapid population growth has worsened the situation. It has been estimated that 50% of hospital beds are occupied because of water borne diseases. Solar still is a technique which can solve the problem. It uses green energy, has no electrical energy requirement. Installation cost is very low as compared to other water purification techniques. Different kinds of losses occur while using low grade form of energy as same thing occur in the case of I.C. Engines, which also have maximum efficiency 30-40%. Since there are no frictional losses in solar still so its efficiency can be improved. An experimental study was conducted at the Central Indian location of MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Bhopal, M.P., India (Latitude 23.2599° N, Longitude 77.4126° E). Single Slope Single Basin Solar Still with blackened basin surface has efficiency of 35.05% which has increased to 43.64% when activated charcoal in powdered form was used. A sound increment in solar still efficiency had been observed.

Family-based whole-exome sequencing identifies novel loss-of-function mutations of FBN1 for Marfan syndrome.

BackgroundMarfan syndrome (MFS) is an inherited connective tissue disorder affecting the ocular, skeletal and cardiovascular systems. Previous studies of MFS have demonstrated the association between genetic defects and clinical manifestations. Our purpose was to investigate the role of novel genetic variants in determining MFS clinical phenotypes.MethodsWe sequenced the whole exome of 19 individuals derived from three Han Chinese families. The sequencing data were analyzed by a standard pipeline. Variants were further filtered against the public database and an in-house database. Then, we performed pedigree analysis under different inheritance patterns according to American College of Medical Genetics guidelines. Results were confirmed by Sanger sequencing.ResultsTwo novel loss-of-function indels (c.5027_5028insTGTCCTCC, p.D1677Vfs*8; c.5856delG, p.S1953Lfs*27) and one nonsense variant (c.8034C>A, p.Y2678*) of FBN1 were identified in Family 1, Family 2 and Family 3, respectively. All affected members carried pathogenic mutations, whereas other unaffected family members or control individuals did not. These different kinds of loss of function (LOF) variants of FBN1 were located in the cbEGF region and a conserved domain across species and were not reported previously.ConclusionsOur study extended and strengthened the vital role of FBN1 LOF mutations in the pathogenesis of MFS with an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern. We confirm that genetic testing by next-generation sequencing of blood DNA can be fundamental in helping clinicians conduct mutation-based pre- and postnatal screening, genetic diagnosis and clinical management for MFS.

Ageing, loss, and learning: Hong Kong and Australian seniors

ABSTRACTIn this article, the discussion of loss and its relationship to learning is based on the analysis of interview data from 39 older adults in Hong Kong and 40 in Australia. The focus of the research was on ageing and learning. The phenomenon of life changes, specifically losses, and their relationship to learning was frequently mentioned, and this theme is described here. Three different kinds of loss were identified in the data as motivators for organized or nonorganized learning or for negatively affecting learning. These included loss of aspects of health, of job, or of partner. The results are potentially useful to policy makers and learning providers in encouraging older adults to engage in learning as one way of coping with loss.

Mining User Development Signals for Online Community Churner Detection

Churners are users who stop using a given service after previously signing up. In the domain of telecommunications and video games, churners represent a loss of revenue as a user leaving indicates that they will no longer pay for the service. In the context of online community platforms (e.g., community message boards, social networking sites, question--answering systems, etc.), the churning of a user can represent different kinds of loss: of social capital, of expertise, or of a vibrant individual who is a mediator for interaction and communication. Detecting which users are likely to churn from online communities, therefore, enables community managers to offer incentives to entice those users back; as retention is less expensive than re-signing users up. In this article, we tackle the task of detecting churners on four online community platforms by mining user development signals. These signals explain how users have evolved along different dimensions (i.e., social and lexical) relative to their prior behaviour and the community in which they have interacted. We present a linear model, based upon elastic-net regularisation, that uses extracted features from the signals to detect churners. Our evaluation of this model against several state of the art baselines, including our own prior work, empirically demonstrates the superior performance that this approach achieves for several experimental settings. This article presents a novel approach to churn prediction that takes a different route from existing approaches that are based on measuring static social network properties of users (e.g., centrality, in-degree, etc.).

What’s Fat Got to Do with It? On Different Kinds of Losses and Gains in the Analytic Relationship

This article uses the blunt term fat to shake up readers’ attitudes and to challenge them to think about how their own prejudices about fatness affect their treatment of fat patients. The clinical work presented is a reconsideration of Bion’s work, with a relational emphasis on projective identification and container/contained. It follows what happens in a treatment where both analyst and patient are unable to examine dysregulating feelings related to the size of their bodies and what their bodies conveyed regarding feeding, overeating, and being fat. This article traces the analyst’s own growth and learning, starting from a position of sharing the patient’s fat hatred, through her own integration of previously dissociated fat hatred, the consequent emergence of an impasse and what she learned in its working through. It highlights how the impact of the patient helped her to change, reciprocally enabling the patient’s growth.

The Self and Significant Others

Losses are part of the human condition. And these losses are multifaceted—as diverse as human bonds can be. In this article, I review and analyze the diversity of loss experiences and the notion of loss of self. A sociology of loss illuminates the universes of meaning that refer to person/person, person/animal, or person/object relations and involve different kinds of losses that can be grieved. It also broaches the issue of the social regulation of losses and specific loss norms. Finally, I will present a general model that integrates the various perspectives on loss.

Compulsive Hoarding: a New Personality Disorder?

'Hoarding disorder' or Messie-Syndrom is the new defined category in the edition of DSM-V from 2013. It is characterized by excessive and permanent collecting things, which are usually expired and damaged, storing them in any available living places and inability to get rid of them. In view of my experience of being co-therapist in the self-help group for relatives of such patients and as a regular visitor to the hoarder's house as a part of treatment process the clinical picture is more complex. Most of the patients have outset in childhood; the patterns of behaviour are known for the family for years; the deterioration of the symptoms is usually connected with the experience of different kinds of losses e.g. death of the family member, job, partner, friend and etc; various kinds of compulsions, addictions, depression prevail in behaviour. The symptoms influence all areas of the patient's life. For most of them the clinical picture is ego-syntonic, which transforms treatment into a complicated, very slow and exhausting process. As there is no exact understanding what symptoms represent, the working alliance patient-psychotherapist becomes even harder. The aim of this paper is to attract more attention to this disorder and to review the given category. By analyzing different scientific articles, psychiatric reports and psychoanalytic theory the author will try to formulate a new category of personality disorder. In conclusion the wider picture of hoarder's inner psychic life will be presented, what can influence the methods and styles of treatment.

Excluding parental grief: A critical discourse analysis of bereavement accommodation in Canadian labour standards.

Grief following child loss is profoundly destabilizing with serious long-term repercussions for bereaved parents. Employed parents may need time away from work to deal with this loss. The purpose of this study was to reflect upon the ways labour policies and practices respond to parental bereavement. Critical discourse analysis was used to examine labour policies and practices related to employment leave for bereaved parents in Canada. Results were compared to international labour standards. Universally, employment policies provide only for the practical issues of bereavement. Commonly, leave is three days, unpaid, and meant to enable ceremonial obligations. Policies do not acknowledge the long-term suffering caused by grief or the variable intensity of different kinds of loss. Managerial, moral, normative and neoliberal values embedded in these policies efface the intensely personal experience of grief, thereby leaving employees at risk for serious health and workplace safety issues. Bereavement leave currently understands grief as a generic, time-limited state with instrumental tasks and ceremonial obligations. In contrast, research characterizes responses to child loss as intense, highly personal experiences for which healing and recovery can take years. This disconnect is especially problematic when viewed through the lens of employee wellbeing, reintegration and workplace productivity.

Anosmic Aesthetics

Anosmia is a sensory disability that consists of the inability to perceive odours. The sense of smell can be lost at any time during life, but people suffering from congenital anosmia, as I do, have never had any experience of smelling. My question is whether such an impairment of olfaction impoverishes aesthetic appreciation or makes it different in any way. I hypothesize that congenital anosmia entails two different kinds of loss in aesthetic appreciation. In order to test my hypothesis, I address modern and contemporary aesthetic theory. Finally, I claim that congenital anosmia constitutes an impoverishment, but also ask whether it can be compensated for by dialogue and imagination. I further inquire as to whether it can foster a more self-critical aesthetic appreciation, more conscious of the powers and limits of our senses.

Electromagnetic characteristics of metamaterial cloak covered dielectric cylinder illuminated by electric line source

Electromagnetic characteristics of the dielectric cylinder covered by the cylindrical cloak are investigated in detail. Analytical expressions of electric field are derived and validated. Furthermore, effects of different kinds of loss on the performance of the cloak are studied. It is shown that if loss does not follow the same property as the constitutive tensor of the anisotropic and inhomogeneous cloak, electric fields could transmit into the inner dielectric cylinder. The authors believe that the results are helpful for practical applications.

Effects of Different Kinds of Losses on the Performance of Regular Polygonal Cloak

Based on the constitutive tensor of the perfect regular polygonal cloak, the effects of different kinds of losses on the performance of regular polygonal cloak are investigated. The cloak is modeled and simulated using full wave package COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS. It is found that if the loss tangents are imposed on one or more components of constitutive tensors, especially on the off-diagonal components, the performance of the cloak in the backward region is significantly different from the results of the traditional case, in which losses are the same in all components of magnetic and electric loss tangents. We believe that the results are helpful for the practical situations.