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China's exponential rise and America's relative decline have led to
a transition of power in contemporary Asia. The US pivot towards
Asia is the most evident manifestation of such a transition, and
Indian foreign policy shows signs of a hedging strategy, with
attempts to strengthen ties with both China and the US.
Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege
disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America The United
States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the
world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as
normal features of American life, actually keep the Constitutional
ideal of "religious freedom for all" from becoming a reality.
Christian beliefs, norms, and practices infuse our society; they
are embedded in our institutions, creating the structures and
expectations that define the idea of "Americanness." Religious
minorities still struggle for recognition and for the opportunity
to be treated as fully and equally legitimate members of American
society. From the courtroom to the classroom, their scriptures and
practices are viewed with suspicion, and bias embedded in centuries
of Supreme Court rulings create structural disadvantages that
endure today. In White Christian Privilege, Khyati Y. Joshi traces
Christianity's influence on the American experiment from before the
founding of the Republic to the social movements of today. Mapping
the way through centuries of slavery, westward expansion,
immigration, and citizenship laws, she also reveals the ways
Christian privilege in the United States has always been entangled
with notions of White supremacy. Through the voices of Christians
and religious minorities, Joshi explores how Christian privilege
and White racial norms affect the lives of all Americans, often in
subtle ways that society overlooks. By shining a light on the
inequalities these privileges create, Joshi points the way forward,
urging readers to help remake America as a diverse democracy with a
commitment to true religious freedom.
Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege
disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America The United
States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the
world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as
normal features of American life, actually keep the Constitutional
ideal of "religious freedom for all" from becoming a reality.
Christian beliefs, norms, and practices infuse our society; they
are embedded in our institutions, creating the structures and
expectations that define the idea of "Americanness." Religious
minorities still struggle for recognition and for the opportunity
to be treated as fully and equally legitimate members of American
society. From the courtroom to the classroom, their scriptures and
practices are viewed with suspicion, and bias embedded in centuries
of Supreme Court rulings create structural disadvantages that
endure today. In White Christian Privilege, Khyati Y. Joshi traces
Christianity's influence on the American experiment from before the
founding of the Republic to the social movements of today. Mapping
the way through centuries of slavery, westward expansion,
immigration, and citizenship laws, she also reveals the ways
Christian privilege in the United States has always been entangled
with notions of White supremacy. Through the voices of Christians
and religious minorities, Joshi explores how Christian privilege
and White racial norms affect the lives of all Americans, often in
subtle ways that society overlooks. By shining a light on the
inequalities these privileges create, Joshi points the way forward,
urging readers to help remake America as a diverse democracy with a
commitment to true religious freedom.
In Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans, David K. Yoo
and Khyati Y. Joshi assemble a wide-ranging and important
collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and
religion and Asian American communities - a combination so often
missing both in the scholarly literature and in public discourse.
Issues of religion and race/ethnicity undergird current national
debates around immigration, racial profiling, and democratic
freedoms, but these issues, as the contributors document, are
longstanding ones in the United States. The essays feature
dimensions of traditions such as Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism, as
well as how religion engages with topics that include religious
affiliation (or lack thereof), the legacy of the Vietnam War, and
popular culture. The contributors also address the role of survey
data, pedagogy, methodology, and literature that is richly
complementary and necessary for understanding the scope and range
of the subject of Asian American religions. These essays attest to
the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American religions, while at
the same time situating these conversations in a scholarly lineage
and discourse. This collection will certainly serve as an
invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers
with interests in Asian American religions, ethnic and Asian
American studies, religious studies, American studies, and related
fields that focus on immigration and race.
Road traffic injuries account for 2.1% of global mortality. The
developing countries bear a large share of burden and account for
about 85% of the deaths as a result of road traffic crashes. 2]
India accounts for about 10% of road accident fatalities worldwide.
3] Road accident contributed 30.2% to all kind of natural and
unnatural accidental deaths during 2005 4]. According to the
Institute of Road Traffic Education (2006) New Delhi, out of the
estimated 1.4 million serious road accidents/ collisions occurring
annually in India, hardly 0.4 million are recorded. 5] This
indicates that the surveillance system for vehicular accidents is
not well established in India. Epidemiological data on road traffic
accidents in India have been reported but there is no proper
correlation with head injury. The study correlating head injury
with road traffic accidents in Delhi was done in 1979 since then
there have been significant social and demographic changes
including changes in life style, population and number of vehicles.
Continuous growth in number of motor vehicles, increase in
population and poor access to health care are some of the important
factors in fatalities.
Given the well-defined loss of a specific type of neurons
(dopaminergic neurons) in a well defined region of the brain (S.
nigra), the concept of cell replacement therapy in PD has emerged
already in the early 1980s.Replacing diseased cells with healthy
cells, called cell therapy, is similar to the process of organ
transplantation only the treatment consists of transplanting cells
instead of organs. Some conditions or injuries can be treated
through transplantation of entire healthy organs, but there is an
acute shortage of donors. Stem cells can serve as an alternate and
renewable source for specialized cells.These unique characteristics
make stem cells very promising for supplying cells to treat
debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's disease, cancer, Parkinson's
disease, type-1 diabetes, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart
disease, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Today, donated
organs and tissues are often used to replace those that are
diseased or destroyed. Unfortunately, the number of people needing
transplants far exceeds the number of organs available.
Liposomes as well as formulations based on drug-lipid complexes
have been extensively investigated for the delivery of a wide range
of pharmaceutical compounds. Commercial licensing of liposomal
dispersions for parenteral and topical use in humans has been
fairly recent and has occurred as a result of interdisciplinary
scientific advances in surface chemistry, membrane biophysics, and
molecular pharmacology. These developments were supported by
pioneering contributions from scientists in the fields of molecular
pharmaceutics, drug delivery, and chemical engineering. Thus, since
their original simplistic use as vesicular models for studying
membrane properties and transport, liposomal systems have evolved
into complex yet elegant assemblies for drug delivery. Liposomes
are now being developed with specific therapeutic roles for tissue
and cellular targeting and have been skillfully manipulated to
achieve desired clinical outcomes by altering in vivo drug
biodistribution and disposition. Liposomes are microscopic vesicles
composed of one or more lipid bilayers arranged in concentric
fashion enclosing an equal number of aqueous compartments.
We know that nature is a wonderful and beautiful creation of God,
which has bestowed upon us with many treasures including medicines.
The history of diseases is as old as that of his existence on this
planet and the search for remedies to combat them is also equally
old.Liver diseases pose complications in treating them throughout
the world since, conventional or synthetic drugs used in the
treatment of liver diseases are few and with the risk of serious
side effects. This is one of the reasons for many people all over
the world including those in developed countries for turning
towards complementary and alternative medicine. About 600
commercial preparations with claimed liver protecting activity are
available all over the world. About 100 Indian medicinal plants
belonging to 40 families are used for herbal formulation. In the
present study Solanum melongena was selected for hepatoprotective
activity study.
Typically in the pharmaceutical industry, drug products exist in
two dosage forms, solid and liquid dosage forms. Included in solid
dosage forms are tablets, pellets, pills, beads, spherules, etc.
These solid dosage forms are often coated for various reasons, such
as odor or taste masking, prevention from moisture, light and/or
air, protection from destruction by gastric acid or gastric
enzymes, enhanced mechanical strength, aesthetics or controlled
release including controlling release sites and/or release rate.
It was first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1906. At a scientific
meeting in November 1906, German physician Alois Alzheimer
presented the case of "Frau Auguste D.," a 51-year-old woman
brought to see him in 1901 by her family. Auguste had developed
problems with memory, unfounded suspicions that her husband was
unfaithful, and difficulty speaking and understanding what was said
to her. Her symptoms rapidly grew worse, and within a few years she
was bedridden. She died in spring 1906.Dr. Alzheimer had never
before seen anyone like Auguste D., and he gained the family's
permission to perform an autopsy. In Auguste's brain, he saw
dramatic shrinkage, especially of the cortex, the outer layer
involved in memory, thinking, judgment and speech. Under the
microscope, he also saw widespread fatty deposits in small blood
vessels, dead and dying brain cells, and abnormal deposits in and
around cells. The condition entered the medical literature in 1907,
when Alzheimer published his observations about Auguste D. In 1910,
Emil Kraepelin, a psychiatrist noted for his work in naming and
classifying brain disorders, proposed that the disease be named
after Alzheimer.
Advancements of genomics, nanotechnology and biochemistry bring
about new opportunities and challenges for drug discovery and
development. Recent developments in nanotechnology have made it
possible to obtain a new class of highly fluorescent homogeneous
semiconductor nanocrystals termed "quantum dots''(QDs). Since 1998,
quantum dots have been first demonstrated capable of labeling
specific components of cells and tracing proteins within cells in
biomedicine. Recently, the investigations of quantum dots in the
biomedicine have developed rapidly. Quantum dots are very stable
light emitters, and their emission can be broadly tuned through
size variation. So they can offer significant advantages over
organic fluorophores. In the past few years, it was reported that,
as an alternative to organic fluorophores, bioconjugating quantum
dots are used widely in diverse areas: cell labeling, cell
tracking, in vivo imaging, DNA detection, biomacromolecules
labeled, signal transduction and multiplexed beads encoded."
What does race have to do with religion? According to Khyati Y.
Joshi, quite a bit. In this compelling look at the ways that second
generation Indian Americans develop and change their sense of
ethnic identity, she reveals how race and religion interact,
intersect, and affect each other in a myriad of complex ways. In a
society where Christianity and whiteness are the norm, most Indian
Americans are both racial and religious minorities. At the same
time - perceived as neither black nor white - they are a racially
ambiguous population. One result of these factors is the
racialization of religion, on which Joshi offers important insights
in the wake of 9/11 and the intensified backlash against Americans
who look Middle Eastern and South Asian. Drawing on case studies
and in-depth interviews with forty-one second-generation Indian
Americans, Joshi analyzes their experiences involving religion,
race, and ethnicity from elementary school to adulthood. She shows
how their identity has developed differently from their parents'
and their non-Indian peers', and how religion often exerted a
dramatic effect. She maps the many crossroads that they encounter
as they navigate between home and religious community, family
obligations and school, and a hope to retain their ethnic identity,
while also feeling disconnected from their parents' generation.
Through her candid insights into the internal conflicts that
contemporary Indian Americans face as they negotiate this pastiche
of experiences, and the religious and racial discrimination they
encounter, Joshi provides a timely window into the ways that race,
religion, and ethnicity coincide in day-to-day life.
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