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Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages /
No full textThe book provides an overview of the alignment patterns found in modern Indo-Aryan languages. The analysis of the patterns of case marking and agreement leads to a balanced view on the concept of ergativity and evaluates its value for typological linguistics. The book offers an extensive discussion of previous approaches to ergativity. It analyzes four Indo-Aryan languages– Asamiya, Nepali, Rajasthani and Kashmiri– on the basis of text corpora. Examples from other Indo-Aryan languages are also adduced. The book is a thorough synchronic study of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan languages.The book provides an overview of the alignment patterns found in modern Indo-Aryan languages. The analysis of the patterns of case marking and agreement leads to a balanced view on the concept of ergativity and evaluates its value for typological linguistics. The book offers an extensive discussion of previous approaches to ergativity. It analyzes four Indo-Aryan languages– Asamiya, Nepali, Rajasthani and Kashmiri– on the basis of text corpora. Examples from other Indo-Aryan languages are also adduced. The book is a thorough synchronic study of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan languages.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Saartje Verbeke, Ghent University, Belgium.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed March 24, 2015
A high-level design framework for the automatic generation of high-throughput systolic binomial-tree solvers
No full textThe binomial-tree model is a numerical method widely used in finance with a computational complexity which is quadratic with respect to the solution accuracy. The existing research has employed reconfigurable computing to provide faster solutions compared with general-purpose processors, but they require low-level manual design by a hardware engineer, and can only solve American options. This paper presents a formal mathematical framework that captures a large class of binomial-tree problems, and provides a systolic data-movement template that maps the framework into digital hardware. This paper also presents a fully automated design flow, which takes C-level user descriptions of binomial trees, with custom data types and tree operations, and automatically generates fully pipelined reconfigurable hardware solutions in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) bit-stream files. On a Xilinx Virtex-7 xc7vx980t FPGA at a 100-MHz clock frequency, we require 54-μs latency to solve three 876-step 32-bit fixed-point American option binomial trees, with a pricing rate of 114k trees/s. From the same device and in comparison to the existing solutions with equivalent FPGA technology, we always achieve better throughput. This ranges from 1.4× throughput compared with a hand-tuned register-transfer level systolic design, to 9.1× and 5.6× improvement with respect to scalar and vector architectures, respectively
Evidence of Indo-Aryan dialect in 10 Minoan Linear A inscriptions and Minoan Indo-Aryan etymologies of 16 Greek words
No full textThis paper presents the analysis of 10 Minoan Linear A inscriptions as grammatical Indo-Aryan statements. The paper demonstrates the historical plausibility of the presence of Indo-Aryan speakers on Crete circa the 17th c. BCE. The paper argues for the soundness of comparing Linear A words with very similar Indo-Aryan forms attested in later stages of Sanskrit: One cannot expect to find the same expressions attested both in Minoan inscriptions and in the Rigveda, even if they reflect dialects of the same language. This analysis of Linear A uses the same basic principles and phonetic values as Ventris & Chadwick’s analysis of Linear B. The basic principles of the syllabic sign system of Linear B are summarized, and the phonemic reading rules specific to Linear A are presented. The main body of the paper comprises the analysis of 10 Minoan Linear A inscriptions as grammatical Indo-Aryan statements. Also, Minoan Indo-Aryan etymologies of 16 Greek words are proposed, including θαλασσα ‘sea’, λαβυρινθος (labyrinth), κυπάρισσος ‘cypress’, etc. As a “control group” test, an attempt to interpret a Linear B inscription, known to be Greek, as an Indo-Aryan statement fails. The paper concludes that the resemblances between the words in the Linear A inscriptions and the corresponding Sanskrit forms presented in this paper cannot be due to random chance coincidence, and thus that the 10 Linear A inscriptions presented in this paper must represent an Indo-Aryan dialec
A baseline-free and non-contact method for detection and imaging of structural damage using 3D laser vibrometry
No full textAbstract not availableP. Aryan, A. Kotousov, C. T. Ng and B. S. Cazzolat
B. Ch. Chhabra : Expansion of Indo-Aryan culture during Pallava Rule, as evidenced by inscriptions
No full textCœdès Georges. B. Ch. Chhabra : Expansion of Indo-Aryan culture during Pallava Rule, as evidenced by inscriptions. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 35, 1935. pp. 380-384
Violence, terrorism and the role of theology : repentant and rebellious Christian identity
No full textWhat has come to be known within the Academy as, Identity theology, is presented in the
literature as a monolithic belief system which supports and encourages terrorism and other forms
of political violence. This dissertation argues that inattention to theological and social issues
within the many Identity theology based groups in the US has led to a deeply flawed
understanding of the relation between Identity adherents, terrorism and other political violence.
Discussions about these groups in the literature are flawed and there is an imprecise understanding
which has led to an inaccurate alignment of widely varied social groups with a pejorative
classification that is neither descriptive of the various theologies at work, nor the social
manifestations observed in these groups. Further, the research suggests that the academic
community known as “Terrorism Studies” continues to contribute to the inaccurate
understanding and that those inaccuracies are likely impediments to effective government policy
in relation to the phenomenon known as Identity theology.
The research presented here suggests that there are both theological and social
distinctions, which can and should be delineated and understood by all those researching Identity
groups. The research highlights four significant types or differences within what is now known
as Identity theology, by highlighting the nuances between social groups including the Church of
Israel, Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), Mission to Israel, KKK and Aryan
Nations and suggests that a more precise understanding of the differences could lead to declining
instances of violence and more openness to positive social change by those who currently follow
these very different types of theological belief systems
A middle Indo-Aryan inscription from China
No full textThe work comprises a presentation of a decipherment of an inscription on ancient lead objects found in China’s Wei River Valley, and the Han dynastic histories that preserve their memory. To reach his decipherment the author provides a substantial assembly of lexical material — much of it heretofore unpublished and absent from dictionaries — including Indo-European, Sanskrit, Indo-Aryan, and Chinese languages. Augmenting the philological material is a meaningful observation of Brāhmī forms and Chinese graphs also missing from standard works. The author observes the implications of his decipherment for the study of the interaction between Indian and Chinese cultures in antiquity, as well as for the history of the early proselytisation of the Buddhist faith and philosophy outside of India. All of it results in a contribution that should be of serious interest to Indologists and Sinologists alike
The Aryan Myth and Tajikistan: From a Myth of Empire to One National Identity
No full textThis article examines the intellectual genealogy of a central tenet of contemporary nationalist discourse in Tajikistan, namely, the Aryan myth as the idea of the Tajiks’ Aryan descent. The origins of this myth are discovered in Late Imperial Russia. Over the first decades of the twentieth century, through the early Soviet period, the Tajik Aryan myth would transform from a narrative legitimizing Russian imperial rule to a myth of Tajik national identity. The article shows how Tajikistan’s imagining and formation as a nation-state was inextricably linked to the Aryan myth and to the way it was articulated by imperial scholars-turned-Soviet orientalists, such as Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Semenov (1873–1958). Taking the microhistorical perspective of a single life allows the author to highlight the local Central Asian dynamics of the complex imperial situation that paved the way to and accompanied Bolshevik nationalities policy. As a scholar with a certain political weight, Semenov managed to exploit the leeway for action in accordance with his own research interests (rather than acting as a mere instrument of the imperial and Soviet regimes in Central Asia). Consequently, the article argues that the process of delimiting borders and identities in 1920s Central Asia was influenced not only by Moscow-based Bolsheviks and leading Central Asian Muslim political figures but also by Russian orientalists as distinctive historical actors
Inhibition of the Kinases by extracts of Macaranga genus
No full textHi my name is Aryan, My major is health science (pre-med) at UMC and I am preparing myself for medical schoolThere have been findings regarding the presence of the Kinase enzyme in cell transformation, tumor initiation, survival, and proliferation of cancer. Several scientists worldwide were able to discover the plants or medicine that inhibited the action of different enzymes in the body. The FDA has approved 37 kinase inhibitors since 1980 (Wu, Nielsen, and Clausen, 2015; Bhullar et al., 2018). The role of the Kinase enzyme has been essential in the metastasis of cancerous cells. A typical cell in the human body requires glucose consumption to gain enough energy to function, while the cancerous cells can function without the use of energy from glucose. The cancerous cell has a unique characteristic that makes them resistant to glucose starvation, and thus it gives them the ability to divide and spread without energy. Studies suggest that the resistance to glucose starvation is due to activation of the pathway involving PKA, and there is a critical need to identify inhibitors of this activation (Palorini et al., 2016). This research aims to explore the ability of M. occidentalis, M. monanadra, and M. schweinfurthii to inhibit protein kinases B and C.University of Minnesota's Undergraduate Research Opportunities ProgramAbazari, Aryan. (2021). Inhibition of the Kinases by extracts of Macaranga genus. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219341
Characterisation of Lamb waves with 3D laser vibrometry
No full textP. Aryan, A. Kotousov, C.T. Ng and B.S. Cazzolatohttp://www.rmit.edu.au/aeromecheng/sif201
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