The critical and commercial success of the 2012 film Life of Pi came as a surprise to many. Prior to its release, several critics had expressed their doubts towards the profitability of the film. John Horn and Ben Fritz from the Los Angeles Times for instance, described the film as a “huge gamble” for the production company, 20th Century Fox. The team behind the project had also acknowledged the film’s weak mainstream appeal amidst other holiday blockbusters such as Silver Linings Playbook and The
Life of Pi is a novel telling the story of a teenage boy named ‘Pi’ and his survival through 227 days living in a lifeboat with a male, adult Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker in the Pacific Ocean. Pi’s original home is in India where his family owns a zoo and so Pi has always grown up around animals and feels extremely comfortable when he is accompanied by an animal of any breed or size. During his teenage years his family makes the decision to move to Canada and sell all of the animals that the
2.2.6.2. Glutathione estimation Principle The sulfhydryl group of GSH is reduced by 5-5'-dithiobis (2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) to form the yellow color product 5-thio-2-nitrobenzoic acid (TNB). The absorbance of TNB is measured at 412 nm (Figure 2.18). Figure 2.18. Schematic of the principle of GSH estimation Procedure Free sulphydryl content was measured as described by Ellman (1959) . Briefly, cells were exposed to different concentrations of ENPs for 6 h. Thereafter, the cells were sonicated
Metal detectors are devices specially designed to detect metals that lie deep in the water or ground. When it was invented, it is specifically designed for screening or security purposes and to locate mines. There is a lot of industry which uses metal detectors such as food processing, textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, packaging and plastic industries. It is important to check the foods for metal debris to avoid food poisoning. Those metals debris can be broken down to pieces on the machinery
comparative study Wendy Manuel* ABSTRACT This study sampled 70 women officers (WNOs) and 60 men officers (MNOs) of the Indian Navy to measure their personality traits and analyze gender differences in personality. The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) by Costa and McCrae (1992) was administered to assess differences between WNOs and MNOs on 5 domains of personality i.e. Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness as well as 6 facet scales that define each domain. Results
Let us now turn to the chess metaphor. Wittgenstein invokes it in PI 136. His point? That the earlier suggestions about the relation between "proposition" and "truth" are too strong. The key-passage is this: Check might be said to belong to the notion of king, but not to 'fit' it. In reference to the "belonging", one can notice that it is part of how we play chess that we check the king. So, in important aspects the concept of "check" is a "constituent part" of the concept of "king". Despite that
Abstract— Technology progression, habitat concerns associated with centralised power generation is often messy and deregulation of electric utility industry are contributing the convenience for small distributed energy source system, in order to satisfy the on- site consumer in expansion of power demand. Microgrid is one of the key points for research in the field of distributed renewable energy source system. Microgrid that integrates with renewable energy sources is the answer for the crisis in
present study aims at understanding the mindfulness of working women and her everyday experiences irrespective of the work spot or at home. It is believed that women as “shakthi” and that she have more mental resilience and the power to manage the life happenings. In this study, the
CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SERUM ALBUMIN Among all the proteins present in blood plasma, Albumin is the most abundant extracellular protein. This is also the most extensively studied of all proteins accounting for about 57 - 60% of the total proteins, which corresponds to a concentration of about 42 g/L [1, 2]. It also provides about 80% of the osmotic pressure of the blood [1] and is used as a model protein for most of the biophysical, biochemical and physicochemical studies [2]. These proteins
It was proved experimentally that the PI controller needs the least memory and run time whereas the fuzzy logic controller requires the most memory and run time (Yueh-Ru 2011). A fuzzy logic controller was developed for an automated car braking system. Braking performance observed in term of distance and velocity to prevent collision or accident for fuzzy, PI and PD type controllers (Mamat and Ghani 2009). A fuzzy controller was developed to control