180 research outputs found
Dilip Kumar: autor-aktor
No full textDilip Kumar has been praised for his sublime dialog delivery, for his restrained gestures, and for his measured and controlled underplay of emotions in tragic stories as well as in light-hearted comedies. His debut in 1944 with Jwar Bhata (Ebb and Tide) met with less-than-flattering reviews. So did the next three films until his 1948 film, Jugnu (Firefly), which brought him recognition and success. Unlike his contemporaries such as Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand, who propelled their careers by launching their own production companies, Dilip Kumar relied on his talent, his unique approach to characterization, and his immersion in the projects he undertook. In the course of his career that spanned six decades, Kumar made only 62 films. However, his work is a textbook for other actors that followed. Not only did he bring respectability to a profession that had been shunned by the upper classes in India as a profession for “pimps and prostitutes,” but he also elevated film-acting and filmmaking to an academic discipline, making him worthy of the title ‘Professor Emeritus of Acting’. Rooted in the theoretical framework of Howard S. Becker’s work on the “production of culture” and “doing things together,” this paper discusses Kumar’s approach to acting, character development, and the level of his involvement and commitment to each of his projects. The author of this article argues that more than the creative control as a producer or a director, it is the artistic involvement and commitment of the main actors that shape great works of art in cinema. Dilip Kumar demonstrated it repeatedly.Dilip Kumar był chwalony za wysublimowane prowadzenie dialogów, opanowaną gestykulację oraz za wyważone i kontrolowane wyrażanie emocji zarówno w opowieściach tragicznych, jak też w beztroskich komediach. Jego debiut w 1944 w Jwar Bhata (Odpływy i przypływy) spotkał się z niezbyt pochlebnymi recenzjami. Podobnie było z kolejnymi trzema filmami, aż do filmu Jugnu (Świetlik) z 1948 roku, który przyniósł mu uznanie i sukces. W przeciwieństwie do swoich rówieśników, jak Raj Kapoor iDev Anand, którzy napędzali kariery, uruchamiając własne firmy produkcyjne, Dilip Kumar polegał na swoim talencie, unikalnym podejściu do charakteryzacji i zaangażowaniu w projekty, których się podjął. W ciągu swojej sześćdziesięcioletniej kariery Kumar nakręcił tylko 62 filmy. Jednak jego praca jest podręcznikowa dla młodszych aktorów. Nie tylko przyniósł szacunek zawodowi aktora, traktowanemu przez indyjskie klasy wyższe jako zawód „alfonsów i prostytutek”, ale także podniósł aktorstwo filmowe i filmowanie do dyscypliny akademickiej, co uczyniło Kumara godnym tytułu emerytowanego profesora aktorstwa. Artykuł ten, zakorzeniony w ramach teoretycznych pracy Howarda S. Beckera nad „produkcją kultury” i „robieniem rzeczy razem”, omawia podejście Kumara do aktorstwa i rozwoju postaci oraz poziom jego zaangażowania w każdy ze swoich projektów. Autor tego artykułu przekonuje, że to artystyczne zaangażowanie i poświęcenie głównych aktorów kształtują wielkie dzieła sztuki w kinie bardziej niż kontrola twórcza producenta czy reżysera. Dilip Kumar wielokrotnie to zademonstrował
Special Treatment and Policy Space for the Developing Economies in the Multilateral Trade Regime
No full textThe contemporary multilateral trading system comprises members ranging from high- to very low-income countries; this range has a bearing on the operations of the multilateral trade regime. Presence of a large number of low-income members is the new systemic reality. Special and differential treatment (SDT) has operated for the developing economies, principally for the small, low-income ones, for many decades. The concept of SDT grew in three basic stages, on which this article elaborates. Theoretically this concept was meaningful and significant, but in reality it has not engendered substantial benefits to the intended beneficiary groups, the developing economies. The Uruguay and the Doha Rounds of multilateral trade negotiations (MTNs) reaffirmed faith in SDT. The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) was clear about reaffirming the importance of SDT to the multilateral trade regime and referred to it as an integral part of the WTO Agreement. During the Fifth Ministerial Conference in Cancún and the subsequent WTO meeting in Geneva in July 2004, small developing countries held together as the Group-of-Ninety (G-90). They made their presence felt in the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference as well. As SDT has not spawned large benefits for the target groups of countries, there is a pressing need to refine the concept. Academics and policy makers have debated over what future shape SDT should take so that it will be able to meet the expected goals. Taking these concerns into account, this article presents a comprehensive set of recommendations.International Relations/Trade,
Network virtualization on the wireless edge
No full textThis thesis presents a comprehensive investigation of wireless network virtualization, a technique for creating multiple independent software-definable networks on a single set of commercial hardware resources. Network virtualization has previously been applied to wired networking scenarios, but the general problems of wireless virtualization represents an important open problem that we address in this work. In particular, we identify key technical challenges, system concepts and architectures, as well as specific protocols and algorithms for implementing wireless network virtualization. In summary, this thesis will provide results for following aspects of wireless network virtualization: (1) Basic mechanisms for link (spectrum) sharing and their isolation performance with virtual WLAN networks, (2) Virtualization mechanisms and traffic isolation algorithms for virtualized WiFi networks, (3) Virtualization of cellular basestations including experimental evaluation for a prototype 4G/WiMAX network, and finally, (4) analytical evaluation of virtualization algorithms for more general multi-hop wireless topologies. The first part of the thesis presents an exploratory discussion on the co-existence of multiple 802.11 based virtual networks. A comparison is presented for understanding the tradeoffs between sharing the radio through spatial and temporal separation on the ORBIT wireless testbed. Experimental evaluations reveal that while virtual networks sharing channel resources by space separation achieve better efficiency than those relying on time, the isolation between experiments in both cases is comparable. Supporting virtualized WiFi access point based networks allows for a convenient sharing of a physical access point across multiple ISPs or network operators. The second part of the thesis discusses our SplitAP architecture, which builds on the virtual access point (VAP) mechanism by extending it to support fair-sharing of airtime across multiple wireless networks. This is done by implementing a dynamically controlled isolation framework across competing slices. The framework also allows the user to deploy custom algorithms for enforcing uplink airtime fairness across client groups within the SplitAP framework. The thesis shows up to 40% improvement in isolation measured through a modified Jain fairness index with LPFC and LPFC+, two sample algorithms implemented on the framework. The third part of the thesis addresses the challenge of virtualization of resources in a cellular basestation (BTS) while allowing operators to use distinct flow types, quota allocations, slice schedulers, and network layer protocols. The proposed virtual basestation architecture is based on an external substrate which uses a layer-2 switched datapath, and an arbitrated control path to the WiMAX base station. The virtual network traffic shaping (VNTS) slice isolation mechanism allows the virtual basestation users to obtain at least an allocated percentage of the BTS resources in the presence of saturation and link degradation, helping make the performance repeatable. Performance measures such as fairness index and coupling coefficient are defined and evaluated experimentally, showing significant improvements with preliminary indoor mobility experiments. Outdoor vehicular measurements show similar improvements in the fairness index and coupling coefficient, demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed VNTS algorithms. Finally, a theoretical formulation describes how a mapping mechanism can be used for provisioning and allocating resources on wireless networks that are supported by wireless virtualization schemes such as the virtual basestation and the SplitAP framework. Results show that the wireless mapping problem can be reduced to solving a combinatorial optimization problem at nodes selected greedily based on their capabilities to generate revenue. Detailed simulations are discussed for highlighting the performance of the proposed greedy static allocation (GSA) and greedy dynamic re-allocation (GDR) algorithms.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Gautam Dilip Bhanag
Gary Cordner, AnnMarie Cordner and Dilip K. Das, Urbanization, Policing, and Security. Global Perspectives, Wyd. CRC Press – Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton – London – New York 2010, 461 s.
No full textAuthor positively assessed substantive value of Gary Cordner, AnnMarie Cordner and Dilip K. Das, URBANIZATION, POLICING, AND SECURITY. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES book. The book contains an article delivered at the 14th Annual Conference of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), which was held in 2007 in Dubai under the general theme "Urbanisation and Security". Issues covered in the book is particularly relevant in the plane of national and international security. According to the reviewer book should be very interesting not only to academics but also to politicians.Uniwersytet w Białymstok
Gender dynamics in data collection on reproductive health: field experiences in Kerala, India
No full textReproductive health researchers tend to choose interviewers of the same sex as those interviewed. In many societies, it is considered unacceptable for men to interview women on topics of an intensely personal nature like sexuality or contraceptive use. In this paper, the author analyzes 21 interviews and 16 focus group discussions (FGDs) undertaken during a field study on the Quality of Services in the Indian Family Welfare Programs conducted in Kerala. The analysis was based on the model which identifies the principal participants in the interview as the respondent and the interviewer. In all these cases the contradiction between the gendered roles of the interviewer and interviewee are visible. However, if viewed in the context of the model provided by Briggs, it is clear that these contradictions are due to the differences in the social roles that the interviewers assumed and that the respondents ascribed to them and in the interactional goals of the interviewers and the respondents. Contradictions were also experienced during the FGDs. Educational sessions on contraception are a good tool for gathering sensitive information instead of the conventional interview, where the gendered roles are so crucial to the information gathering exercise itself
Imagination, content, and the self
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-113).I begin with a discussion of two ways of imagining something: 'from the inside' and 'from the outside'. My interest in this topic is two-fold: First, I want to see what studying this topic can teach us about the nature of mental content -- in particular, about the content of de se and de re thoughts. Second, I want to formulate an account of this distinction which will help us understand the role these two types of imagining play in philosophical thought experiments about personal identity over time. The first three chapters of this dissertation focus on the first set of issues, issues of imagination and content. Chapter 4 extends and applies some of these insights to a puzzle about personal identity over time.by Dilip Ninan.Ph.D
Taco Tensor Algebra kernels on distributed systems using Legion
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-91).Tensor algebra is a powerful language for expressing computation on multidimensional data. While many tensor datasets are sparse, most tensor algebra libraries have limited support for handling sparsity. The Tensor Algebra Compiler (Taco) has introduced a taxonomy for sparse tensor formats that has allowed them to compile sparse tensor algebra expressions to performant C code, but they have not taken advantage of distributed systems. This work provides a code generation technique for creating Legion programs that distribute the computation of Taco tensor algebra kernels across distributed systems, and a scheduling language for controlling how this distributed computation is structured. This technique is implemented in the form of a command-line tool called SuperTaco. We perform a strong scaling analysis for the SpMV and TTM kernels under a row blocking distribution schedule, and find speedups of 9-10x when using 20 cores on a single node. For multi-node systems using 20 cores per node, SpMV achieves a 33.3x speedup at 160 cores and TTM achieves a 42.0x speedup at 140 cores.by Sachin Dilip Shinde.M. Eng.M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
Globalization: a guide for the concerned policymaker
No full textAlthough rolling back of globalization is feasible, the author contends that techno-economic forces will ensure its further expansion. The world economy will be more integrated tomorrow than today. Increasing number of countries and policy mandarins have begun to see the welfare effects of globalization and the constituency for it much larger than that against it. However, capitalizing from it is a challenge because globalization does entail some downside risks. This paper focuses on macroeconomic challenges emanating from the on-ward march of globalization. In the recent past, it has been observed that several globalizing economies suffered from volatility. Therefore, the author devotes a large part of this research to the vexing issue of volatility and how to manage it
Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past, by Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Munshiram Manoharial Publishers, New Dehli, India, 1997
No full textColonial Indology is the first extended critique of the
premises underlying the Western study of ancient Indian history and archaeology and, as
such, fills a major gap in the history of archaeology. It complements Ronald Inden's
Imagining India (1390), a general critique of Western Indological scholarship, which
asserts that it has portrayed India in terms of static essences in a way that minimizes
the creativity of the Indian people. Colonial Indology 's author, the
renowned Indian archaeologist Dilip Chakrabarti, who has long been interested in the
history of archaeology in his homeland, argues that views of Indian history that were
created to serve the interests of Western colonialism are still accepted not only by
Western scholars but also by many prominent Indian archaeologists who wish to associate
themselves with the international archaeological community, as well as by India's
modernizing establishment who prefer to emphasize their country's mystical, rather than
its historical, past. More recently world attention has been drawn to Indian
archaeologists who have been using their discipline to promote the cause of Hindu
nationalism
Decentralizing the provision of health services : an incomplete contracts approach
No full textThe author studies the allocation-between a central government and a local authority--of responsibility for planning, financing, and operations for the delivery of health services, in the context of an incomplete contracts model. In this model, inputs are required of both the central government and local authorities but they are unable to write down, and commit to, a complete and binding contract describing the actions both should take. The model is meant to capture the tradeoff between central and local authority in decisions about both financing and the provision of services. Each party provides a specific input--for example, the central government establishes a drug procurement system while the local authority designs and implements an incentive scheme to get doctors to carry out their responsibilities appropriately. The responsibility for delivery of services is identified with the ownership of essential infrastructure, such as the clinic or hospital. The author finds that to maximize the joint surplus of the two public bodies: Ownership of the facility should be given to the party that most values the well-being of local residents. (This way, if ex post bargaining breaks down, each still enjoys some benefits from the other's actions.) Financing authority and responsibility for delivering services should be negatively correlated. Generally it is optimal to allocate tax authority to the party that values the residents'well-being less--in other words, separate spending responsibility (ownership) from financing authority. A heavier financing burden (access to a small and inefficient tax base) has the same incentive effect as asset ownership: It increases the return to effort. If transferring ownership of the physical asset is costly (because the party that builds the asset has an inherent advantage in operating it-that is, there is some human capital embodiment), it may be optimal for the party with the higher construction costs to have planning authority. Somewhat paradoxically, the greater the costs of transferring assets from one party to the other, the more likely that ownership of the facilities and their provision should be separated.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Decentralization,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,National Governance,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies
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