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Causality in Jain Narratives: Teaching Dharma Through Karma by Sītā’s Abandonment
No full textThis paper investigates the complex causal relationships within Jain narrative literature (prathamānuyoga/dharmakathānuyoga), specifically focusing on the examination of the Sītā abandonment narrative across Prakrit, Sanskrit, and Apabhramsha textual traditions. By employing textual analysis and philosophical interpretation, the study explores the intricate causative mechanisms in narratives by Vimalasūri, Raviṣeṇa, and Svayambhūdeva. The paper addresses critical research questions examining the multifaceted nature of causality: the root causes of Sītā’s abandonment, the identification of precursory causal signs like dreams, cravings during pregnancy and omens, an analysis of Sītā’s philosophical response to her circumstances, and the complex interplay between external and internal instrumental causes (bahiraṅga- and antaraṅga-nimitta-kāraṇa). Through rigorous textual comparison and philosophical analysis of the Paümacariyaṃ, Padmapuraṇa, and Paümacariü, the study reveals that Jain narrative literature predominantly employs instrumental causality as its primary explanatory framework. The paper demonstrates how external and internal instrumental causes interplay, and explores the role of Sītā’s bad or good karma in shaping her narrative trajectory. The paper contributes to the ongoing scholarship on Jain narratives by analyzing causality in religious narratives, offering philosophical insights into narrative causation, providing an interdisciplinary perspective that bridges literary analysis with philosophical interpretation, and illuminating the ways Jain narratives employ causality to explain complex human experiences and ethical dilemmas, ultimately revealing how narrative structures reflect deeper metaphysical and philosophical concepts within the Jain textual tradition
Jain food traditions and beliefs: fieldwork, film, and flavor in Jaipur, India
No full textA self-reflexive appraisal of the flavors of Jain food learned during fieldwork\ud
forms a springboard from which to consider the dynamic modes and motives of Jain\ud
interlocutors as they interact with scholars. Comparing textual and filmic narratives of\ud
Jain food traditions and beliefs reveals an instantiation of Sahlin???s theoretical model of\ud
practice called the ???structure of the conjuncture.??? In the retelling and reproduction of Jain\ud
cultural values on food, the structure of relational symbolic values like non-violence,\ud
non-possession, flavor, and austerity become temporally entangled with media and\ud
scholarship. Jain agents commonly narrate and reproduce the ???eternal??? values of Jain\ud
food traditions and beliefs to Jains and to Jain scholars. But narratives filmed during the\ud
making of a Jain Food documentary indicate a shift in representation. Jain food in this\ud
context reveals reformist and global representations.CSU, Chic
Innovations in Case-Based Reasoning Applications
No full textIn this book, we have colleted a selection of papers on very recent Case-based reasoning (CBR) applications. Most of these propose interesting and unique methodological choices. The heterogeneity of the involved application domains indicates the flexibility of CBR, and its applicability in all those fields where experiential knowledge is (readily) available. The present chapter provides a brief introduction to CBR, for readers unfamiliar with the topic. It then summarizes the main research hints that will be analyzed in depth in the following chapters of this book
Interview with S. Lochlann Jain
No full textProf. S. Lochlann Jain (he/him, they/them) is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Visiting Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. Jain is an award-winning scholar, artist, and author of three books: Injury (Princeton University Press, 2006), Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013), and Things that Art (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Jain’s work lies at the intersection of science and technology studies, history, political economy, gender and sexuality, biology, and medicine and aims to unsettle some of the deeply held assumptions about objectivity that underlie the politics and history of medical research. His book Malignant traces the contested concepts of cancer that lie at the core of debates over cause, treatment, responsibility, and national progress, aiming to show why cancer remains such an intractable medical, social, and economic problem that takes millions of lives, while it both costs and generates billions of dollars.
Jain has won numerous prizes in anthropology, medical journalism, and science and technology studies, including the Staley Prize, June Roth Memorial Award, Fleck Prize, Edelstein Prize, Victor Turner Prize, and the Diana Forsythe Prize. His work has been supported by Stanford Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the National Humanities Center
On Writing About Illness: A Dialogue with S. Lochlann Jain and Jackie Stacey on Cancer, STS, and Cultural Studies
No full textIn this dialogue, S. Lochlann Jain and Jackie Stacey put into conversation their respective monographs, Malignant and Teratologies. Drawing on perspectives in feminist science studies and cultural studies, the discussion dovetails their first-person accounts and the critical analyses in their books
32-Core Erbium/Ytterbium-Doped Multicore Fiber Amplifier for Next Generation Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission System
No full textDataset supports:
Jain, S. et al (2017). 32-core erbium/ytterbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier for next generation space-division multiplexed transmission system. Optics Express, 25(26), 32887-32896.</span
SteadyStateTool
No full textThis program computes the steady-state response (SSR) of multi-degree-of-freedom nonlinear mechanical systems under multi-frequency forcing using the integral equations approach propoposed in the following article:
S. Jain, T. Breunung, G. Haller, Fast Computation of Steady-State Response for Nonlinear Vibrations of High-Degree-of-Freedom Systems, Nonlinear Dyn (2019) 97: 313. DOI: 10.1007/s11071-019-04971-1
In this release, we have add new functionality for mode selection and model reduction using the selected modes with new examples, in following article:
G. Buza, S. Jain, G. Haller, Using Spectral Submanifolds for Optimal Mode Selection in Model Reduction, (2020) Preprint. arxiv:2009.0423
On Lupaș-Jain operators
No full textIn this paper, linear positive Lupa¸s-Jain operators are constructed and a recurrence formula for the moments is given. For the sequence of these operators; the weighted uniform approximation, also, monotonicity under convexity are obtained. Moreover, a preservation property of each Lupa¸s-Jain operator is presented.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 41A36, 41A25
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