72 research outputs found
Challenging Racist "British Columbia": 150 Years and Counting
No full textThis booklet dives into the long history of racist policies that have impacted Indigenous, Black and racialized communities in the province over the last 150 years since BC joined Canada. The illustrated booklet, co-published by the CCPA-BC Office, ties the histories of racism and resistance to present day anti-racist movements.
Co-authored by Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton, Denise Fong, Fran Morrison, Christine O'Bonsawin, Maryka Omatsu, John Price and Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, the 80-page, illustrated booklet is being released in advance of the 150th anniversary, which is on July 20, 2021. This engaging resource has been designed to assist anti-racist educators, teachers, scholars, policymakers and individuals doing anti-racism work to help pierce the silences that too often have let racism grow in our communities, corporations and governments.FacultyReviewe
A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Information Booklet on Knowledge Regarding Breastfeeding Techniques among Primipara Mothers in Selected Hospitals at Bhopal (M.P.)
Full text linkBackground: Breast feeding is the best essential feeding and breast milk is the best milk. The basic food of infant is mother's milk is the most effective way to provide a baby with a carrying environment and complete food. It meets the nutritional as well as emotional and psychological needs of the infant. Objectives: The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of information booklet regarding breast-feeding techniques among primipara mothers. Methods: The research approach adopted for this study was quantitative approach. The research design selected for the study was pre- experimental one group pre & post-test design. Data was obtained from 100 primipara mothers. And sample was selected using Purposive sampling technique. Data was collected with the help of demographic Performa and structured questionnaire. Descriptive and Inferential statistics will be used to find out for analysis of data and the significant difference between the pre and post-test knowledge scores. Results: The mean post- test score 24.28 more than mean pre- test score 11.8. And SD pre- test is 2.348 more than post- test SD 3.71. and mean percentage post- test score 80.93% more than mean pre- test score 39.33%.Conclusion:The study concluded that informational booklet was effective in increasing the knowledge scores of the primipara mothers regarding breast feeding technique
Portal requirement for senior citizens based on conceptual knowledge sharing framework
No full textThis paper aims to investigate common problems faced by senior citizens while using computer
technologies. It also aims to identify the most popular computer technologies used among this community in order to develop a web based knowledge sharing portal. The literature is reviewed and the Knowledge Sharing Framework is discussed as a guide. The paper finds that specific computer technology requirement and suitable content of a web portal that suits senior citizens is essential so that the older generation who see computers and new technology as what they have the potential to be-a tool for expanding their horizons, learning new skills and finding new interests. The paper has real and immediate practical benefits for senior citizens and the Social Welfare Department in that it provides a guide for knowledge sharing among this community. This will result in bridging the communication gap among this community. For future research, it is suggested that the study about the content of a web portal and the design guidelines analysis of the portal
Supreme Court of India. The beginnings | Georges H. Gadbois
No full textGeorges H. Gadbois, Supreme Court of India. The beginnings, Oxford University Press : New Delhi, 2017, 245 p. Compte rendu par Amanjit Kaur Sharanjit (Université Paris Nanterre) Alors que l’Union indienne est sur le point de fêter ses soixante-dix ans d’indépendance, l’édition de l’œuvre du politiste Georges H. Gadbois en 2017 est un symbole. L’ouvrage dont il est ici question porte sur l’étude d’une institution clef du système constitutionnel de l’Union, en l’occurrence la Cour suprême. L’au..
Provocative advertising strategies in the fashion industry : opportunities and risks of provocative advertising strategies based on American Apparel
Full text linkThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of provocative marketing strategies of different companies in the fashion industry in the first part. The thesis emphasizes on various strategies used by several firms. Furthermore it demonstrates the
different modes of provocation and also the process of a marketing strategy. The second part highlights the opportunities and risks of provocative marketing strategies based on American Apparel
Energy Analysis of WSN using RSA and ECC Encryption Method
Full text linkME Thesis June 2012Wireless Sensor Networks consist of sensor nodes and few powerful control mobile laptops performing activities like routing, data aggregation etc. over wireless media. These types of networks are becoming very popular.
Therefore, this thesis investigates cryptography algorithms to showcase energy analysis. The work is implemented over a network created with the help of java sunspot kit
Outlier Detection
No full textKnowledge discovery in databases (KDD) is a nontrivial process of detecting valid, novel, potentially useful and ultimately understandable patterns in data (Fayyad, Piatetsky-Shapiro, Smyth & Uthurusamy, 1996). In general KDD tasks can be classified into four categories i) Dependency detection, ii) Class identification, iii) Class description and iv) Outlier detection. The first three categories of tasks correspond to patterns that apply to many objects while the task (iv) focuses on a small fraction of data objects often called outliers (Han & Kamber, 2006). Typically, outliers are data points which deviate more than user expectation from the majority of points in a dataset. There are two types of outliers: i) data points/objects with abnormally large errors and ii) data points/objects with normal errors but at far distance from its neighboring points (Maimon & Rokach, 2005). The former type may be the outcome of malfunctioning of data generator or due to errors while recording data, whereas latter is due to genuine data variation reflecting an unexpected trend in data. Outliers may be present in real life datasets because of several reasons including errors in capturing, storage and communication of data. Since outliers often interfere and obstruct the data mining process, they are considered to be nuisance. In several commercial and scientific applications, a small set of objects representing some rare or unexpected events is often more interesting than the larger ones. Example applications in commercial domain include credit-card fraud detection, criminal activities in e-commerce, pharmaceutical research etc.. In scientific domain, unknown astronomical objects, unexpected values of vital parameters in patient analysis etc. manifest as exceptions in observed data. Outliers are required to be reported immediately to take appropriate action in applications like network intrusion, weather prediction etc., whereas in other applications like astronomy, further investigation of outliers may lead to discovery of new celestial objects. Thus exception/ outlier handling is an important task in KDD and often leads to a more meaningful discovery (Breunig, Kriegel, Raymond & Sander, 2000). In this article different approaches for outlier detection in static datasets are presented. </jats:p
Customary law of colonial Punjab, 1849-1947 : some aspects and issues of a colonial law
No full textLe 29 mars 1849, le Punjab est annexé par la Compagnie des Indes orientales britanniques (la C.I.O.). Ce faisant, la région des cinq fleuves (« punj » signifiant cinq et « ab » signifiant eau en persan) devient l’une des dernières grandes conquêtes du pouvoir colonial. Elle restera sous domination britannique jusqu’en 1947. Cette conquête territoriale s’inscrit dans un contexte où l’impérialisme britannique commence à s’affirmer au sein du sous-continent indien. Lorsqu’elle s’est établie pour la première fois en Inde, au XVIIe siècle, la C.I.O. n’était qu’une compagnie marchande parmi d’autres compagnies européennes, souhaitant bénéficier de monopoles commerciaux. Deux siècles plus tard, au XIXe siècle, la C.I.O. est devenue un véritable pouvoir politique, militaire et judiciaire. Sa nationalisation en 1858 et son remplacement par le règne de la Couronne britannique s’inscrivent dans la continuité de ce processus de politisation institutionnel alors bien avancé. Arrivés dans le Punjab, le Gouverneur Général des Indes Dalhousie et les premiers administrateurs du Punjab s’interrogent sur le droit à appliquer aux litiges d’ordre privés. Jusqu’à présent, les officiers de la C.I.O. s’étaient penchés sur les traditions religieuses, hindoues et musulmanes, pour y identifier le droit applicable. Mais depuis quelques années déjà, une telle méthode souffre de critiques car elle est vue par certains administrateurs comme dénaturant les usages locaux et par d’autres comme laissant une place importante à une certaine élite religieuse, laquelle n’est pas proche de la population indienne. Conscients de cela, les administrateurs du Punjab britannique imaginent alors chercher l’origine du droit privé non pas dans les traditions religieuses mais dans les coutumes tribales et villageoises. Mais alors que ces mêmes administrateurs ont pour volonté de protéger la population punjabie, selon une rhétorique bien établie, des technicités procédurales d’un droit qui s’applique ailleurs dans l’Inde britannique, la région n’échappe pas au processus de l’institutionnalisation du droit : des juridictions hiérarchisées sont mises en place, une procédure civile devient applicable dans tout le territoire indien, des universités sont instituées offrant des cursus en droit et des barristers se forment dans les inns londoniens. À cela s’ajoutent les méthodes de compilation des coutumes, qui font à la fois valoir une forme de collaboration avec les chefs des tribus locales mais qui ne peuvent se faire sans procéder à une sélection de telles coutumes. Ce sont autant de modalités qui permettent le passage de coutumes vers un droit coutumier – lequel est par ailleurs théorisé à l’aune des théories du droit se développant en Inde, en Europe et aux États-Unis : celle de la communauté de village et celle de la succession agnatique. La juridicisation des coutumes s’accompagne par ailleurs par une cristallisation de certaines identités et inégalités sociales : l’identité tribale, ainsi, reçoit une reconnaissance sur le plan juridique et les femmes, par ailleurs, sont exclues de façon structurelle de la succession aux propriétés ancestrales. Par ailleurs, au moment où les mouvements réformateurs socioreligieux et nationalismes ethniques s’affirment, à partir de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, la légitimité d’un droit qui ne se fonde pas sur les identités religieuses est remise en cause. Cette recherche a ainsi vocation à développer les différents point que nous venons d’évoquer : premièrement, elle s’intéresse aux controverses historiques et théoriques étant à l’origine du droit coutumier du Punjab colonial ; deuxièmement, elle vise à démontrer le processus de passage des coutumes au droit coutumier par le biais des compilations et la mise en place des juridictions ; troisièmement, elle entend aussi mettre en avant les différents enjeux politiques et sociaux du droit coutumier, concernant l’identité religieuse d’une part et les droits des femmes d’autre part.On March 29, 1849, Punjab was annexed by the British East India Company (the B.E.I.C.). Thus, the region of the five rivers (“punj” meaning five and “ab” meaning water in Persian) became one of the last great conquests of colonial power. It remained under British domination until 1947, the year of the independence of India and Pakistan. This territorial conquest took place in a context where British imperialism was beginning to assert itself within the Indian subcontinent – as well as in the rest of the world. Indeed, when it first established itself in India in the 17th century, the B.E.I.C. was only one trading company among other European companies, wishing to benefit from commercial monopolies. Two centuries later, in the 19th century, the B.E.I.C. became a real political, military, and judicial power. Its nationalization in 1858 and its replacement by the reign of the British Crown can only be interpreted as the continuity of this process of institutional politicization. When they settled in Punjab, the Governor General of India Dalhousie and the first administrators of the Punjab pondered about the law to be applied to private situations and to private disputes. Until then, the officers of the B.E.I.C. had leaned towards the local religious traditions, Hindu, and Muslim, to identify the applicable law. But for some years already, such a method had suffered from criticism because it was seen by some administrators as distorting local customs and by others as giving a non-deserved place to a certain religious elite, which was not representative of the Indian population. Aware of this, the administrators of British Punjab then imagined looking for the origin of private law not in religious traditions but in tribal and village customs. But while these same administrators were determined to protect the Punjabi population, according to a well-established rhetoric, from the procedural technicalities of a law that applied elsewhere in British India, the region couldn’t stay immune to the process of institutionalization of law: hierarchical jurisdictions were put in place, civil procedure became applicable to all-India, universities offering law studies were being established and barristers and vakils were being trained in London inns. In addition of this came the methods of compiling customs, which rested on a form of collaboration with the chiefs of local tribes, but which could not be done without selecting such customs. These are all modalities that allowed the transition from customs to customary law – which was also theorized in the light of legal theories developing in India, Europe, and the United States: that of the village community and that of the agnatic succession. The legalization of customs is also accompanied by a crystallization of certain identities and social inequalities: tribal identity, thus, received recognition on the legal level and women, besides, were structurally excluded from succession to ancestral property. Moreover, when socio-religious reform movements and ethnic nationalisms asserted themselves, in the second half of the 19th century, the legitimacy of a law that was not based on religious identities was called into question. Based on that, in this research, I intend to develop the following points: firstly, I studied the historical and theoretical controversies being at the origin of the customary law of colonial Punjab; secondly, I tried to demonstrate the process of transition from customs to customary law through the methods of compilations and the establishment of courts in Punjab; and thirdly, I attempted to highlight the various political and social issues related to customary law in British Punjab, concerning religious/tribal identities one the one hand and women's rights on the other
Scholarly publication key performance indicator diagnostic model using viable system and social cognitive theory
Full text linkScholarly Publications (SP) are almost certainly the most significant resources by which researchers at universities are appraised. It is part of the requirements for obtaining a Research University (RU) status. In the aspiration of these, to strategically improve and maintain their status, a series of performance measurement interventions were initiated, such as the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) delivery. The aim of this study is to propose a diagnostic model for SP productivity involving various stakeholders in monitoring a complex KPI delivery ecosystem for Malaysian university. This study employs Viable System Model (VSM) and Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) factors to develop a research model based on a comprehensive literature review. Following an interpretive paradigm this research applies qualitative method triangulated with quantitative method. VSM was applied as a diagnostic tool to diagnose process of KPI delivery for monitoring four recursion levels involving Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation (DVCRI), Research Alliances (RAs), Research Groups (RGs) and lastly the academic staffs of the chosen institution which is, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Three strategies which are strategic, tactical and operational in achieving the SP KPI to maintain RU status for the institution were recommended to assist all pertinent stakeholders in monitoring the KPI delivery. Besides, to complement the results, a survey was designed and the data from the institutional repository involving UTM faculty members were analyzed to investigate the SCT factors involving human factor which is lacking in VSM tool. The findings show that the most influential factors for the SP of UTM are age, gender, experience, rank, teaching load, collaboration, funding, resource, discipline and skill. The model was evaluated for the SP KPI monitoring process, which further can be used by public and private universities to improve the performance of their institution's publication
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