This study investigates the representations of Hindu-Muslim relationship inBollywood movies from 2008 to 2018. It is assumed that after 2008 Mumbaiterrorist attacks, which are known as 26/11, conflicts between Hindus andMuslims have escalated. Since Indian people are extreme fans of movies,especially Bollywood movies, in this regard, it is expected that media could play<...

In this paper, the impact of five recent terrorist attacks on equities listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange is examined. We analyse how these events affect the different sectors in Singapore, using the Global Industry Classification Standard. Employing a variety of parametric and non-parametric tests, the relationship between stock returns for equities listed in these sectors and terrorist at...

The transition between the proliferation and differentiation of progenitor cells is a key step in organogenesis, and alterations in this process can lead to developmental disorders. The extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK) signaling pathway is one of the most intensively studied signaling mechanisms that regulates both proliferation and differentiation. How a single molecule (e.g. ER...

Inappropriate antibiotic use is a major factor contributing to the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance. The long turnaround time (over 24 hours) required for clinical antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) often results in patients being prescribed empiric therapies, which may be inadequate, inappropriate, or overly broad-spectrum. A reduction in the AST time may enable more ap...

The balance of safety and wellbeing of the public is disturbed by an emergency situation. Emergency responders try to mitigate this danger and restore the balance of public welfare and security during an emergency. This act is termed as emergency response. These emergencies could occur at a national level and hence they can be large and complex which could necessitate in the cooperation of seve...

The book is an uneven collection of essays, opinion pieces, speeches and other writings published between 2002 when an estimated 2,000 Muslims were massacred in the western state of Gujarat and the aftermath of last November's terror attacks in Mumbai. Roy calls the collection “a detailed under-view” of the darker side of the world's largest democracy or what she describes as “the cunning, Brah...

Anupam Saxena Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai, India Email: [email protected] Om Pal Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai, India Email:[email protected] Zia Saquib Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai, India Email: [email protected] Dhiren Patel Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, India Email: [email protected] ---...

In response to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, the Mumbai police have started to schedule a limited number of inspection checkpoints on the road network throughout the city. Algorithms for similar security-related scheduling problems have been proposed in recent literature, but security scheduling in networked domains when targets have varying importance remains an open problem at large. In this pa...