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La déesse et l'esclave (le Féminin vital et ses périls modernes chez les Fakir du Bengale)
No full textLe Féminin, Mère fertile-érotique de l'indianité traditionnelle, contraint les femmes-Déesse, et les hommes, qu'il sert. Dans l'ésotérique tantrique matricentrée des Fakir bengalis, le pouvoir de la Déesse sert un complexe savoir masculin. Son active spiritualité concrète articule implicitement "nature" et "culture" de terroir. L'interaction cognitive-érotique "filiarcale" des savoirs-pouvoirs sexués allie ce Féminin au masculin humain aspirant à son Humanité plénière, divinisée. La même Déesse habite l'hétéropraxie Fakir et le monde orthodoxe environnant. Les modernisations sous-continentales asservissent les femmes pauvres, Déesse-esclave. Les clés ésotériques Fakir décodent ici une dialectique des valeurs spirituelles-économiques matricentrées et d'une modernité patriarcale, pour reproblématiser le F/féminin : la tradition néglige la Déesse humaine, la modernité détruit le spirituel-économique. La "pauvreté" du "développement" appelle une prospérité-autre, avec l'humanité-autre féminine.The Feminine - erotic-fertile Mother of traditional indianity - indwells in women-the-Goddess, and constrains and serves men. In the matricentric tantric esoterics of the Bengali fakir, the power of the Goddess informs complex male knowledge, and is active concrete-spiritual power, implicitly interweaving "nature" and "culture". Cognitive-erotic gendering of knowledge and power is here "filiarchal" interaction of the Feminine with the human masculine seeking divinisation into full Humanity. Fakir heterodoxy and the orthodox mainstream share the same Goddess. Sub-continental modernisation impoverishes poor women, hence the slave-Goddess. Grassroots esoterics offer keys into the dialectics of matricentric economic-spiritual values versus patriarchal modernity. Hence a two-way problematising of the F/feminine - tradition neglects the Goddess as human, modernity destroys her spiritual economy. The "poverty" of "development" calls for reinvented prosperity, with women's Other-humanity.PARIS-Médiathèque MQB (751132304) / SudocPARIS-Fondation MSH (751062301) / SudocSudocFranceF
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Superhydrophobicity: Localized Parameters And Gradient Surfaces
No full textThe use of Cassie and Baxter's equation and that of Wenzel has been subject to some criticism of late. It has been suggested that researchers use these equations without always considering the assumptions that have been made and sometimes apply them to cases that are not suitable. This debate has prompted a reconsideration of the derivation of these equations using the concept of parameters for the Wenzel roughness and Cassie-Baxter solid surface fractions that are local to the three-phase contact lines. In such circumstances, we show the roughness and Cassie-Baxter solid fractions depend not only on the substrate material, but also on which part of the substrate is being sampled by the three-phase contact lines of a given droplet. We show that this is not simply a theoretical debate, but is one which has direct consequences for experiments on surfaces where the roughness or spatial pattern varies across the surface. We use the approach to derive formulae for the contact angle observed on a double length scale surface under the assumption that the small-scale features on the peaks of larger scale features are either wetted or non-wetted. We also discuss the case of curved and re-entrant surface features and how these bring the Young's law contact angle into the formula for roughness and the condition for suspending droplets without penetration into the surface. To illustrate the use of local parameters, we consider the case of a variation in Cassie-Baxter fraction across a surface possessing a homogeneous hydrophobic surface chemistry and discuss the conditions (droplet volume, surface hydrophobicity, gradient in superhydrophobicity and contact angle hysteresis) under which a droplet may be set into motion. We show that different contact angles on each side of a droplet of water placed on such a surface can generate sufficient lateral force for the droplet to move towards the region of the surface with the lowest contact angle. Using an electrodeposited copper surface with a radial gradient in superhydrophobicity we exemplify these ideas by showing experimentally that droplets enter into self-actuated motion and accumulate in the centre of the surface where the wettability is higher. In principle, paths can be defined and water droplets can be collected by creating such gradients in superhydrophobicity through changes in the lateral topography of the surface
GUJARATI HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL OPTICAL CHARACTER THROUGH NEURAL NETWORK AND SKELETONIZATION
No full textThis paper deals with an optical character recognition (OCR) system for handwritten Gujarati numbers. One may find so much of work for Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bangala, Malayalam, Gurumukhi etc, but Gujarati is a language for which hardly any work is traceable especially for handwritten characters. The features of Gujarati digits are abstracted by four different profiles of digits. Skeletonization and binarization are also done for preprocessing of handwritten numerals before their classification. This work has achieved approximately 80,5% of success rate for Gujarati handwritten digit identification
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
ANALISIS EFEKTIFITAS KELOMPOK USAHA BERSAMA (KUBE) SEBAGAI INSTRUMEN PROGRAM PENANGANAN FAKIR MISKIN
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: 1) eksistensi dan efektifitas KUBE sebagai instrument penanganan fakir miskin dan 2) faktor penyebab keberhasilan atau kegagalan KUBE. Penelitian dilakukan dengan menggunakan data skunder yaitu karya tulis yang dipublikasikan dalam jurnal ilmiah, buku, dan tugas mahasiswa untuk memperoleh gelar S1, S2 atau S3.  Data dicari di internet dengan menggunakan mesin pencari goggle. Hasil pencarian ditemukan sebanyak 15 karya tulis ilmiah, yang terdiri dari KTI dalam jurnal sebanyak 7 buah, KTI dalam bentuk buku (7 buah) dan dalam bentuk skripsi, tesis dan disertasi (4 buah). Selain itu data berasal dari laporan hasil evaluasi KUBE yang dilakukan penulis di Kabupaten Katingan pada bulan Mei 2015. Berdasarkan data-data tersebut diketahui bahwa eksistensi KUBE di lapangan tidak bertahan lama, usaha yang dibangun tidak berkembang. KUBE kurang atau tidak cukup efektif sebagai instrument penanganan fakir miskin. Faktor yang membuat KUBE kurang efektif adalah: (a) pembentukan KUBE bersifat dadakan; (b) minim sosialisasi sebelum pelaksanaan kegiatan; (c) cenderung top down; (d) salah sasaran; (e) jenis usaha kurang sesuai dengan sumberdaya lokal; (f) jenis usaha kurang sesuai dengan kebiasaan (budaya) masyarakat; (g) manajemen usaha (dagang) kurang tepat; (h) pembagian kerja tidak dirasa tidak adil; (i) bibit (ternak) terlalu kecil; (j) pendamping kurang handal; (k) pengawasan belum optimal. Kesepuluh faktor tersebut saling terkait satu dengan yang lain. Secara keseluruhan intinya adalah manajemen pelaksanaan program mulai dari perencanaan, pengorganisasian, pengarahan dan pengendalian masih lemah. Kata Kunci: KUBE dan Fakir Miskin
Logarithmic variance profiles and the corresponding f-1 spectra of temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
No full textWe report experimental results for the temperature variance 2(z) and the corresponding frequency spectra P(f) in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratioT= D/L = 1:00 (D = 1:12 m is the diameter and L = 1:12 m the height). The measurements were conducted in the Rayleigh-number range 1011 < Ra < 1:35 1014 and Pr ' 0:8. For Ra = 1:35x1014, 2(z) could be described well by a logarithmic dependence on the vertical position z in a range of z 1 < z < z 2 with z 1 ' 70 and z 2 = 0:1L. Here L=(2Nu) is the thickness of a thin thermal sublayer adjacent to the horizontal plate where the heat flux (denoted by the Nusselt number Nu) is carried mostly by thermal diffusion. In the log layer, we found that the temperature spectra had a significant frequency range over which P(f) f with close to 1. As Ra decreased, increased so that the log layer became thinner. At Ra = 2:05 1011, z 2 < z 1 and therefore there was no range for a log layer. Correspondingly, the temperature spectrum near the horizontal plate did not have the f1 scaling form either
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