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Sen-Lab-LMS/Senescence_nuclear_features: Publication_version_2.0
No full text<p>Author checklist.</p>
The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights
No full textThis paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work has promoted cross-fertilisation and integration on this subject across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen's development of a 'scholarly bridge' between human rights and economics is an important and innovative contribution that has methodological as well as substantive importance and that provides a prototype and stimuli for future research. It also establishes that the idea of fundamental freedoms and human rights is itself an important gateway into understanding the nature, scope and significance of Sen's research. The paper concludes with a brief assessment of the challenges to be addressed in taking Sen's contributions in the field of human rights forward.Amartya Sen, human rights, poverty, freedom, obligation, capability approach, meta-rights, entitlements, opportunity freedom, liberty-rights
Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development
No full textdevelopment, inequality, gender, well-being, agency, capability, distribution, Sen
OVERCOMING POSITIVISM IN ECONOMICS: AMARTYA SEN'S PROJECT OF INFUSING ETHICS INTO ECONOMICS
No full textLogical Positivism, which arose in philosophy early in the twentieth century, proclaimed the sharp distinction between facts and values. Despite objections at the time, positivism was imported into economics in the 1930s. Over time, objections lessened; economics was transformed and ethical considerations were driven out of its core. In the 1950s, debates about positivism arose within the discipline which had exported it. According to the American philosopher Hilary Putnam, the fact/value distinction is now discredited in philosophy. If that is so, the methodological foundations of contemporary economics are also discredited. In this article I examine Amartya Sen’s moral science of economics. First, I will present his historical account of the connections between economics and ethics. Sen claims that there was a close connection between the two until positivism was imported. Second, I will sketch some of Sen’s ethical objections to modern economics, which is still suffering from positivism. Finally, I will lay out some of his ideas on how economics can be returned to an ethical path. Once the ground has been cleared of positivism, ethics can re-emerge in economics in various ways. One path has been marked out by Sen.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
MODEL-BASED HARDWARE DESIGN FOR IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS
No full textModel-based design has been touted as the most viable design methodology of the future for the design of embedded hardware/software systems. Due to the large complex-ity of modern embedded systems, it is more and more error-prone to design systems with-out having a formal model to support and verify the application at design time. Also, formal models generally capture broad classes of applications, and thus any innovation on a modeling technique has the potential to enhance every individual application in the asso-ciated class. Often, a formal model captures the high-level abstraction of an application, which is lost in the final implementation, and thus modeling gives an effective platform to perform high-level design optimizations. Dataflow graphs have been widely used as for-mal models in the signal processing domain for a long time, and various commercial tools have adopted dataflow semantics for model-based design methodology. In this thesis, we develop a new dataflow meta-modeling technique, called homoge-neous parameterized dataflow (HPDF). HPDF is a meta-modeling technique in that it can be applied to a variety of underlying dataflow models of computation to enhance their expressive power, while maintaining much of the useful structure of the underlying mod
Research Article Dataflow-Based Mapping of Computer Vision Algorithms onto FPGAs
No full textWe develop a design methodology for mapping computer vision algorithms onto an FPGA through the use of coarse-grain reconfigurable dataflow graphs as a representation to guide the designer. We first describe a new dataflow modeling technique called homogeneous parameterized dataflow (HPDF), which effectively captures the structure of an important class of computer vision applications. This form of dynamic dataflow takes advantage of the property that in a large number of image processing applications, data production and consumption rates can vary, but are equal across dataflow graph edges for any particular application iteration. After motivating and defining the HPDF model of computation, we develop an HPDF-based design methodology that offers useful properties in terms of verifying correctness and exposing performance-enhancing transformations; we discuss and address various challenges in efficiently mapping an HPDF-based application representation into target-specific HDL code; and we present experimental results pertaining to the mapping of a gesture recognition application onto the Xilinx Virtex II FPGA. Copyright © 2007 Mainak Sen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1
Adventure Tourism and its Future Potential in Ha Tinh, Vietnam
No full textDue to the lack of information about adventure tourism, the client of the thesis, Thanh Sen Travel was not consider adventure tourism as the product of the company. With the belief that Ha Tinh was a potential city to develop adventure tourism, the purpose of the thesis was to investigate the possibility and potential of the city. Therefore, the thesis would provide the company with more information about adventure tourism, identified potential locations and customer segments. The author wanted to persuade the company to add adventure tourism as a new feature to attract new customers coming to the region.
In addition to secondary sources, primary sources were collected via individual qualitative interview of 9 travelers to find a potential target tourist group. Thanh Sen Travel helped the author in discussing the potential adventure tourism activities as well as giving local data to help with the completion of the thesis
Spectral characteristics for a spherically confined- a/r+ br2 potential
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Article and Author Level Measurements
No full textArticle and author level measurements have been discussed in this Unit. Author and researcher identifiers are absolutely essential for searching databases in the WWW because a name like D Singh can harbour a number of names such as Dan Singh, Dhan Singh, Dhyan Singh, Darbara Singh, Daulat Singh, Durlabh Singh and more. The ResearcherID.com, launched by Thomson Reuters, is a web-based global registry of authors and researchers that individualises each and every name. Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is also a registry that uniquely identifies an author or researcher. Both have been discussed in this Unit. Article Level Metrics (Altmetrics) has been treated in this Unit with the discussion as to how altmetrics can be measured with Altmetric.com and ImpactStory.org. Altmetrics for Online Journals has also been touched. There are a number of academic social networks of which ResearchGate.net, Academia.edu, GetCited.org, etc. have been discussed. Regional journal networks with bibliometric indicators are also in existence. Two networks of this type such as SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online, and Redalyc have been dealt with. This Unit discusses in details aspects such as Unique Identifiers for Authors and Researchers; Article Level Metrics (Altmetrics); Academic Social Networks; and Regional Journal Networks with Bibliometric Indicators
Review of: Economics rationality in the world of Amartya Sen
No full textThe paper “focuses on the critique of economic rationality” (p. 2). The author analyses the work by Amartya Sen with a somewhat interdisciplinary approach. The author concludes that Sen has greatly shifted our paradigm of economic rationality. The nexus of ethics and economics as well as the two types of rationality (consistency versus optimization) are major contributions of Sen, according to the author. In a nutshell, Sen’s work is reconfiguring economic rationality until today
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