Jayadevan, V R; Dr.Chandrasekharan, N S(Cochin University of Science and Technology, August 17, 1999)
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The focus of study in this thesis is on the necessity and extent of judicial creativity in interpreting provisions in certain crucial areas in the Constitution of India. Judicial innovation was essential to adapt the constitutional provisions to modern changed context. Creativity of the Court has been mainly in the creation and introduction of certain new concepts not found in any specific provision of the Constitution which, but were essential for its meaningful interpretation.Independence of the judiciary, basic structure and certain elements of social justice cherished as ideal by the makers of the Constitution are some such concepts infused into the Constitution by the judiciary. The second aspect of creativity lies in the attempt of the Court to construe provisions in the Constitution with a view to upholding and maintaining the concepts so infused into the Constitution. Introduction of those concepts into the Constitution was necessary and is justified. all important features of the Constitution like democratic form of government, federal structure, judicial review, independence of judiciary and rule of law were thus included in the doctrine to prevent their alteration by amendments.As a result of such a construction, the nature of those directive principles itself has changed. They ceased to be mere directives for state action but became mandate for it. If left to legislative or executive will for their implementation, the directives would have remained enforceable as ordinary right.To conclude, notwithstanding the errors committed by the Supreme Court in construing the provisions in the above areas, they stand testimony to its creative and innovative response in interpreting the Constitution. If this trend is continued, it will be possible to achieve through the judicial process, maintenance of independence of the judiciary, avoidance of destruction of the Constitution through the process of amendment and realisation of social justice envisaged in the directive principles. It can be hoped that the Court would maintain its energetic and vibrant mind and rise up to the occasions and extend the same to other areas in future.
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School of Legal
Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Gopakumaran Nair, S; Dr.Chandrasekharan Pillai, K N(Cochin University of Science and Technology, December 21, 2009)
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This thesis entitled “Judicial review of academic decisions.Education in India is being increasingly controlled and guided by the courts.This study makes an attempt to assess the involvement of the court in regulating education and its role or interference in the conventional concepts of ‘academic freedom’ and ‘university autonomy.The study mostly concentrates on the jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution and its invocation in academic matters with particular reference to the decisions of the Kerala High Court.The concept of judicial review in the Constituent Assembly, initial approach of the Supreme Court of India towards the doctrine, gradual empowerment of Indian judiciary in this area and the resultant judicial activism.The study proceeds through the analysis of ‘academic freedom’ and ‘university autonomy’ in the 4"‘ chapter. This chapter attempts to probe academic freedom and university autonomy in India,England and United States and autonomy of Indian universities before and after independence.Basic principles and the jurisdictional parameters of
judicial review in the area of academic decisions, as pronounced by the Apex Court, can be convincingly and consistently followed by the High Courts, which is possible only if special Academic Benches are constituted.
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School of Legal
Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Poulose Jacob,K; Preetha Theresa, Joy(IEEE, February 22, 2013)
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Cooperative caching in mobile ad hoc networks
aims at improving the efficiency of information access by
reducing access latency and bandwidth usage. Cache replacement
policy plays a vital role in improving the performance of a cache
in a mobile node since it has limited memory. In this paper we
propose a new key based cache replacement policy called E-LRU
for cooperative caching in ad hoc networks. The proposed
scheme for replacement considers the time interval between the
recent references, size and consistency as key factors for
replacement. Simulation study shows that the proposed
replacement policy can significantly improve the cache
performance in terms of cache hit ratio and query delay
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Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2013 IEEE 3rd International
Tessy,Maliekal T; Sudha, B; Paulose,C S(Department of Biotechnology, February 14, 1997)
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The role of thyroid hormones in DNA synthesis and in the activity of Thymidille
kinase (TK), a key regulatory enzyme of DNA synthesis was studied in proliferating
hepatocytes in vivo. Liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy was used as a
model for controlled cell division in rats having different thyroid status - euthyroid,
hypothyroid and 3,3',5'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T))-heated hypothyroid. Partial
hepatectomy caused a significant elevation of DNA synthesis (p<0.01) in all the three
groups compared to their sham-operated counterparts. Hypothyroid liepatectomised
animals showed significantly lower (p<0.01) level of DNA synthesis than euthyroid
hepatectomised animals. A single subcutaneous close of 1'3 to hypothyroid shamoperated
animals resulted in a significant increase (p<0.01) of DNA synthesis in the
intact liver. 17tis was comparable to the level of DNA synthesis occurring in
regenerating liver of euthyroid animals. In hypothyroid hepatectomised animals, "1'3
showed an additive effect on l)NA synthesis and this group exhibited maximum level
of DNA synthesis (p<0.0I ). Studies of the kinetic parameters of TK show that the
Michelis-Menten constant, (K111) of TK for thymidine was altered by the thyroid
status. K11 increased significantly (p<0.01) in untreated hypothyroid animals when
compared to the euthyroid rats. '13 treatment of hypothyroid animals reversed this
effect and this group showed the lowest value for K111 (p<0.01). Thus our results
indicate that thyroid hormones can influence DNA synthesis during liver regeneration
and they may regulate the activity of enzymes such as 17rymidine kinase which are
important for DNA synthesis and hence cell division.
Raveendran Nair, B; Dr.Joseph,Francis D(Cochin University of Science and Technology, December , 1981)
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Urea-formaldehyde resins find numerous
applications in adhesive, textile finishing and moulded
plastic industries. Kinetic investigations of the reactions of
urea and its related compounds with formaldehyde in
aqueous acid, alkaline and neutral media have been carried
out. A thin—layer chromatographic method was developed
for the separation and estimation of the products of these
reactions. Using this technique the various initial steps
in the reactions were analysed and the rate constants have been determined.
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Department of Applied Chemistry, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Nithyaja, B; Jisha, V K; Tintu, R; Saramma, A V; Nampoori, V P N(Laser Physics, 2009)
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The growth kinetics of an aerial bacterial colony on solid agar media was studied using laser
induced fluorescence technique. Fluorescence quenching of Rhodamin B by the bacterial colony was utilized
for the study. The lag phase, log phase, and stationary phase of growth curve of bacterial colony was identified
by measuring peak fluorescence intensity of dye doped bacterial colony.
Seema,P V; Sudha, B; Pius S,Padayatti; Asha,Abraham; Raghu,K G; Paulose,C S(Department of Biotecnology, June , 1996)
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The functional basis of diabetes-mellitus to a certain extent,
can be elucidated by studying diabetes-induced changes
in metabolic enzymes. Malate dehydrogenase (MDH),
is an enzyme directly involved in glucose metabolism. The
kinetic parameters of MDH and its purified cytosolic isozyme,
S-MDH, have been studied in the liver of streptozotocin-
diabetic rats; also the potential of the leaf extract of A.
marmelose as an was investigated. The
Km of the liver enzyme increased significantly, in both
crude and purified preparations in the diabetic state when
compared to Lhe respective controls. Insulin as well as leaf-
•extract treatment of the diabetic rats brought about a reversal
of K. values to near normal. Vmax of purified S-MDH
was significantly higher in the diabetic state when compared
to the control. Insulin and leaf extract treatment did not
reverse this change. Since MDH is an important enzyme in
glucose metabolism, the variation in its quantitative and
qualitative nature may contribute to the pathological status
of diabetes. The fact that leaf extract of A. marmelose
was found to be as effective as insulin in restoration of blood
glucose and body weight to normal levels, the use of A.
marmelose as potential hypoglycemic agent is suggested.
On-line handwriting recognition has been a frontier
area of research for the last few decades under the purview of
pattern recognition. Word processing turns to be a vexing
experience even if it is with the assistance of an alphanumeric
keyboard in Indian languages. A natural solution for this
problem is offered through online character recognition. There is
abundant literature on the handwriting recognition of western,
Chinese and Japanese scripts, but there are very few related to
the recognition of Indic script such as Malayalam. This paper
presents an efficient Online Handwritten character Recognition
System for Malayalam Characters (OHR-M) using K-NN
algorithm. It would help in recognizing Malayalam text entered
using pen-like devices. A novel feature extraction method, a
combination of time domain features and dynamic representation
of writing direction along with its curvature is used for
recognizing Malayalam characters. This writer independent
system gives an excellent accuracy of 98.125% with recognition
time of 15-30 milliseconds
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2010 First International Conference on Integrated Intelligent Computing
Sheeja, N K(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, August 15, 2012)
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This paper aims to describe recent developments in the services provided by Indian
electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) repositories. It seeks to explore the prospect of knowledge
formation and diffusion in India and to discuss the potential of open access e-theses repositories for
knowledge management.This study is based on literature review and content analysis of
IndianETDrepository websites. Institutional repositories and electronic thesis and dissertation projects
in India were identified through a literature survey as well as internet searching and browsing.
The study examines the tools, type of contents, coverage and aims of Indian ETD repositories.The paper acknowledges the need for knowledge management for national development.
It highlights the significance of an integrated platform for preserving, searching and retrieving Indian
theses. It describes the features and functions of Indian ETD repositories.The paper provides insights into the characteristics of the national repository of
ETDs of India, which encourage and support open access to publicly-funded research
Archana, S N; Padmakumar, P K; Beena, C(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, March , 2013)
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In this knowledge era, the value of corporations, academic organizations and individuals is directly
related to their knowledge and intellectual capital(IC). A newand potentially paradigm shift focus
in the intersection between knowledge and intelligence is the recognition of the importance of
understanding the intellectual capital of organizations. This paper explains how Cochin University
of Science and Technology (CUSAT) is identifying and managing its intellectual capital for creating
competitive advantage for the future. This paper also explores the different cost effective knowledge
management strategies applied at CUSAT for managing its intellectual capital
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9th International CALIBER - 2013, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, March 21-23, 2013