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This book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood insecurities
of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh for having entered each other's territorial waters.
While reflecting on national anxieties and the deleterious politics
of boundaries, it reveals how these fisherfolk create alternative
maps and a new world of
This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine
short translations that expand the assumptions that have typically
framed literary histories, and creatively re-draws their
boundaries, both temporally and spatially. The essays, rooted in
the humanities and informed by interdisciplinary area studies,
explore multiple linkages between forms of print culture,
linguistic identities, and diverse vernacular literary spaces in
colonial and post-colonial South Asia. The accompanying
translations-from Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu-not only
round out these scholarly explorations and comparisons, but invite
readers to recognise the assiduous, intimate, and critical labour
of expanding access to the vernacular archive, while also engaging
with the challenges-linguistic, cultural, and political-of
rendering vernacular articulations of gendered experience and
embodiment in English. Collectively, the essays and translations
foreground complex and politicised expressions of gender and genre
in fictional and non-fictional print materials and thus draw
meaningful connections between the vernacular and literature, the
everyday and the marginals, and gender and sentiment. They expand
vernacular literary archives, canons and genealogies, and push us
to theorise the nature of writing in South Asia. Literary
Sentiments in the Vernacular is a significant new contribution to
South Asian literary history and gender studies, and will be a
great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of
History, Literature, Cultural Studies, Politics, and Sociology. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
This book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood
insecurities of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka and Bangladesh for having entered each other 's territorial
waters. While reflecting on national anxieties and the deleterious
politics of boundaries, it reveals how these fisherfolk create
alternative maps and a new world of debordering .
These fishworkers and coastal conflicts have been subjects of
everyday news, but never a subject of serious study. A first of its
kind, the present book breaks new ground by examining the journeys
of these fisherfolk and coastal conflicts in South Asia from
several overlapping but distinct perspectives: declining sea
resources, security and border anxieties, suffering of the
fisherfolk, their ambiguous identities and transnational movements.
The book is also innovative in terms of methodology: it is
fisherfolk-centric as it marginalizes the concerns of the state
from the perspective of security; it questions the very basis of
security and argues for a shift in its perspective.
MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE Written and edited by a team of
experts in the field, this collection of papers reflects the most
up-to-date and comprehensive current state of machine learning and
data science for industry, government, and academia. Machine
learning (ML) and data science (DS) are very active topics with an
extensive scope, both in terms of theory and applications. They
have been established as an important emergent scientific field and
paradigm driving research evolution in such disciplines as
statistics, computing science and intelligence science, and
practical transformation in such domains as science, engineering,
the public sector, business, social science, and lifestyle.
Simultaneously, their applications provide important challenges
that can often be addressed only with innovative machine learning
and data science algorithms. These algorithms encompass the larger
areas of artificial intelligence, data analytics, machine learning,
pattern recognition, natural language understanding, and big data
manipulation. They also tackle related new scientific challenges,
ranging from data capture, creation, storage, retrieval, sharing,
analysis, optimization, and visualization, to integrative analysis
across heterogeneous and interdependent complex resources for
better decision-making, collaboration, and, ultimately, value
creation.
Knowledge Engineering (KE) is a fi eld within artifi cial
intelligence that develops knowledgebased systems. KE is the
process of imitating how a human expert in a specifi c domain would
act and take decisions. It contains large amounts of knowledge,
like metadata and information about a data object that describes
characteristics such as content, quality, and format, structure and
processes. Such systems are computer programs that are the basis of
how a decision is made or a conclusion is reached. It is having all
the rules and reasoning mechanisms to provide solutions to
real-world problems. This book presents an extensive collection of
the recent fi ndings and innovative research in the information
system and KE domain. Highlighting the challenges and diffi culties
in implementing these approaches, this book is a critical reference
source for academicians, professionals, engineers, technology
designers, analysts, undergraduate and postgraduate students in
computing science and related disciplines such as Information
systems, Knowledge Engineering, Intelligent Systems, Artifi cial
Intelligence, Cognitive Neuro - science, and Robotics. In addition,
anyone who is interested or involved in sophisticated information
systems and knowledge engineering developments will fi nd this book
a valuable source of ideas and guidance.
Reactive oxygen species are highly reactive to damage nucleic
acids, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates that consequently affect
the immune functions causing degenerative diseases, cancer,
premature aging, inflammation, cardiovascular and metabolic
dysfunction. Antioxidants are known to defuse free radicals leading
to limited risk of oxidative stress and associated disorders.
Carotenoids, tocopherols, ascorbates and polyphenols found in
abundance in various fruits are strong natural antioxidants with
free radical scavenging activity (FRSA). Polyphenols are excellent
antioxidant with significant importance to reduce oxidative stress
and play a key role in human health in protection against
degenerative diseases. Some fruits and their underutilized parts
were studied for total phenolic contents, antioxidant activity and
FRSA in terms of IC50 (inhibitory concentration), EC50 (effective
concentration), ARP (antiradical power) and concentration dependent
reducing power, expressed as ascorbic acid equivalent (ASE/ml).
The increase of food borne infections has initiated considerable
research interest towards the discovery of potent antimicrobial
agents. However, the recent negative consumer perception against
artificial preservatives, has shifted the research effort towards
the development of alternatives that consumers perceive as
naturals. In this era of increased concern on food safety, natural
methods of preservation are receiving increased attention.
Biopreservatives- a wide range of natural products from both plants
and microorganisms- can be useful in extending shelf life of foods,
reducing or eliminating pathogenic bacteria and increasing overall
quality of food products. The present study confirms that essential
oils (clove, cinnamon and peppermint) and herbal extracts (amchur,
tamarind, clove, cinnamon and amla) possess in vitro antibacterial
and antifungal activity and they can be used as biopreservatives in
various food stuffs. Replacement or combination of chemical
additives with spices could attenuate the levels of consumption of
these chemicals.
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