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Corrigendum to ‘Toll-like receptors in immunity and inflammatory diseases: Past, present, and future’ [International Immunopharmacology 59 (2018) 391–412](S156757691830095X)(10.1016/j.intimp.2018.03.002)
No full textThe authors regret that the name of the author was mentioned incorrectly in the earlier version of the manuscript. It should be mentioned as Vijay Kumar. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused
AGU hydrology days 2013
No full text2013 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 25 - March 27, 2013.The 2013 Hydrology Days Award was presented to Vijay P. Singh
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
Full text linkThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity by Vijay Joshi
No full textVijay Joshi‟s India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity is an important addition to the list of books on the Indian economy–Jean Dréze and Amartya Sen‟s An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions and Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya‟s Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries–written for the interested general reader as well as the specialist. In addition, those readers familiar with the literature assessing and evaluating India‟s economic reforms will remember Joshi as the co-author of India: Macroeconomics and Political Economy, 1964-1991(1994) and India's Economic Reforms, 1991-2001(1996) along with the late I. M. D. Little
Vijay Tendulkar's Feminist Perspectives: A Study of Women's Representation in Indian Drama
No full text<p><em><span>Vijay Tendulkar has emerged as a prominent personality in the Indian theatrical realm, making essential contributions to Indian drama through his excellent plays. In addition to his accomplishments as a Marathi playwright, he has also achieved recognition and appreciation in the field of Indian drama. The author has created numerous theatrical pieces that delve into various elements and themes, with a particular emphasis on depicting women and the obstacles they encounter within social frameworks. The representation of women is a focal point in his plays. The author explores both the susceptible and durable components of their existence. This article analyzes the academic accomplishments of Tendulkar in the realm of feminism. Several prominent female characters operate as mirrors of the societal standards and ideals that came before our time.</span></em></p>
Author, text and cultural meaning: Vijay Mishra's Salman Rushdie and the genesis of secrecy
Full text linkVijay Mishra's meticulous analysis of the Rushdie Emory Archive - Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy - is one of the most significant paperbacks to have been released in humanities publishing in 2021 (originally published in hardback in 2019). In one sense this book might be understood as a literary project, one that enriches understanding of the Rushdie's published works through the perspectives gained from close reading and detailed cross-referencing of Emory's extensive collection of the author's personal papers, unpublished manuscripts, digital materials and ephemera. However, to categorise The Genesis of Secrecy simply in terms of its literary credentials would be to overlook its conceptual and methodological value to wider areas of culture and media research. With this broader frame in mind, this review essay considers the book from an interdisciplinary perspective
Vijay Govindarajan: innovation coach to the developed and developing world
No full textPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an interview by Strategy & Leadership with Professor Vijay Govindarajan, one of the world's foremost experts on innovation execution and the co‐author of The Other Side of Innovation (2010), which discusses innovating for emerging markets, building the right innovation team, innovation planning as learning, and his newest concept, emotional infrastructure.Design/methodology/approachGovindarajan explains how companies use the “forget‐borrow‐learn” framework to drive innovation execution. They “forget” the core business success formula, “borrow” key assets from core business, and “learn” to resolve unknowns.FindingsThe paper finds that to manage innovation a special plan should be created to guide disciplined experiments for quicker learning. Quicker learning leads to better decisions, and better decisions lead to better results. A special innovation initiative team should also be created: a partnership between a dedicated team (using a mix of insiders and outsiders, with new job descriptions) and shared staff, who support the project while sustaining its performance engine responsibilities.Practical implicationsDo not “isolate” new businesses or “spin them off.” This forfeits the advantage of using existing assets, such as brands, manufacturing facilities, relationships with customers, areas of technical expertise and much more.Originality/valueToday reverse innovation, taking unique business models from poor countries to rich ones, is a winning formula. But new organizational systems are required so that full business capabilities for reverse innovation in emerging markets – including product development, manufacturing, and marketing – are possible.</jats:sec
Planning Natural Locomotion for Articulated Soft Quadrupeds
No full textEmbedding elastic elements into legged robots through mechanical design enables highly efficient oscillating patterns that resemble natural gaits. However, current trajectory planning techniques miss the opportunity of taking advantage of these natural motions. This work proposes a locomotion planning method that aims to unify traditional trajectory generation with modal oscillations. Our method utilizes task-space linearized modes for generating center of mass trajectories on the sagittal plane. We then use nonlinear optimization to find the gait timings that match these trajectories within the Divergent Component of Motion planning framework. This way, we can robustly translate the modes-aware centroidal motions into joint coordinates. We validate our approach with promising results and insights through experiments on a compliant quadrupedal robot.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Learning & Autonomous Contro
Regulations Aware Motion Planning for Autonomous Surface Vessels in Urban Canals
No full textIn unstructured urban canals, regulation-aware interactions with other vessels are essential for collision avoidance and social compliance. In this paper, we propose a regulations aware motion planning framework for Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) that accounts for dynamic and static obstacles. Our method builds upon local model predictive contouring control (LMPCC) to generate motion plans satisfying kino-dynamic and collision constraints in real-time while including regulation awareness. To incorporate regulations in the planning stage, we propose a cost function encouraging compliance with rules describing interactions with other vessels similar to COLlision avoidance REGulations at sea (COLREGs). These regulations are essential to make an ASV behave in a predictable and socially compliant manner with regard to other vessels. We compare the framework against baseline methods and show more effective regulation-compliant avoidance of moving obstacles with our motion planner. Additionally, we present experimental results in an outdoor environment.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Learning & Autonomous Contro
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