91 research outputs found
Clinton F and Beatrice Ward
No full textClinton F. and Beatrice Ward Parvin of Old Manatee (East Bradenton). She is the author of "I Remember, a family memoir." Copy on file at the Manatee County Central Library
A Newly Found Feminist Poem of Parvin ’Etesâm
No full textThe beginning of the feminist movement in Iran coincided with the Constitutional Revolution and the reign of the first Pahlavi monarch. Liberal minded women took the initiative into their own hands and founded the first schools for girls, they organized societies and published journals dealing specifically with women's issues. Some pioneer women demanded legal rights for women. Parvin E`tesami was foremost among these women. She supported women's rights through her poetry, she consistently demanded that women should be respected and criticised and objected to the condition of women. She disparaged the patriarchal attitude of the government and her poems are full of her insistence that women and girls should be protected by society. The present article attempts to prove that a poem published in 1300/1921 in the journal Alam-e Nesvan, was by written by her. This short Qasideh, elegy has not attracted the attention of those who specialize in her work. The author of the present article attempts to establish the authenticity of this work as written by Parvin E`tesami by examining her style, and feminist stance of this famous poet
Quest for Identity in Parvin Shere’s Pearls from the Ocean
No full textThis paper analyzes the means of self-representation, the conflicts between self/other, and the conscious and unconscious quest for identity by the writer. This paper attempts to understand travel narratives as the narratives about the journey undertaken for the quest for identity by traveler/writer wherein apart from the physical journey of the author the emphasis is laid on the emotional and psychological journey within the author. Parvin Shere is a poet, writer, painter, and musician. She has travelled to as many as five continents (Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and North America) and twenty six countries. Her travelogue, Pearls from the Ocean is an interdisciplinary text with the use of literature prose, poetry and paintings. This paper attempts to answer the questions like, what is identity; does quest for identity play an important part in travel narrating; what factors exhibit the significance of identity in travel narratives; does travel facilitates the quest for identity of the writer/traveler through the analysis of Parvin’s travelogue
Simulation of Traffic Flow Model with Traffic Controller Boundary
No full textThis paper considers a fluid dynamic traffic flow model appended with a closure linear velocity-density relationship which provides a first order hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) and is treated as an initial boundary value problem (IBVP). We consider the boundary value in such a way that one side of highway treat like there is a traffic controller at that point. We present the analytic solution of the traffic flow model as a Cauchy problem. A numerical simulation of the traffic flow model (IBVP) is performed based on a finite difference scheme for the model with two sided boundary conditions and a suitable numerical scheme for this is the Lax-Friedrichs scheme. Solution figure from our scheme indicates a desired result that amplitude and frequency of cars density and velocity reduces as time grows. Also at traffic controller point, velocity and density values change as desired manner. In further, we also want to introduce anisotropic behavior of cars(to get more realistic picture) which has not been considered here.
Doi: 10.12777/ijse.5.1.25-30
[How to cite this article: Sultana, N., Parvin, M. , Sarker, R., Andallah, L.S. (2013). Simulation of Traffic Flow Model with Traffic Controller Boundary. International Journal of Science and Engineering, 5(1),25-30. Doi: 10.12777/ijse.5.1.25-30
Feminist Philosophical Toys : Playful Companions and Live Theorization
No full textWhat are the matters of philosophy? How do they shape how philosophy is practiced, what kinds of knowledge it produces, and who counts as a philosopher? The dominant matters of Western philosophy, or its epistemic companions, are books and journal articles even when dialogic and oral traditions are acknowledged or referenced. In this paper, we argue that alternatives would be necessary if philosophy were to be a more capacious and welcoming discipline. We introduce Feminist Philosophical Toys as one such alternative that challenges what counts as serious philosophy by being seriously playful. The toys foreground the oral and the dialogic while reflecting on and committing to engaging materiality, record-keeping, and record-making. In doing so, the toys challenge the dominant form of philosophy and its mechanics of knowledge-making as they offer an alternative way of doing philosophy that can be transformative for the next generation of feminist scholarship. The dialogic, embodied, and communal interaction with paper, with theory, and with others is meant as a practice of live theorization, opening philosophy to a new groundedness and accessibility, centered in the ethos of feminist epistemology, while at the same time pushing against fetishization of matter.CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEEDPublished online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2024Corresponding author: Nassim Parvin; Email: [email protected]</p
Phenomenal Concepts
No full textThis article is about the special, subjective concepts we apply to experience, called “phenomenal concepts”. They are of special interest in a number of ways. First, they refer to phenomenal experiences, and the qualitative character of those experiences whose metaphysical status is hotly debated. Conscious experience strike many philosophers as philosophically problematic and difficult to accommodate within a physicalistic metaphysics. Second, PCs are widely thought to be special and unique among concepts. The sense that there is something special about PCs is very closely tied up with features of the epistemic access they afford to qualia. When we deploy phenomenal concepts introspectively to some phenomenally conscious experience as it occurs, we are said to be acquainted with our own conscious experiences. Accounts of PCs either have to explain the acquaintance relation, or acquaintance with our phenomenal experiences has to be denied. PCs have received much attention in recent philosophy of mind mainly because they figure in arguments for dualism and in physicalist responses to these arguments. The main topic of this article is to explore different accounts of phenomenal concepts and their role in recent debates over the metaphysical status of phenomenal consciousness
Automated detection of prostate cancer using wavelet transform features of ultrasound RF time series
No full textThe aim of this research was to investigate the performance of wavelet transform based features of ultrasound radiofrequency (RF) time series for automated detection of prostate cancer tumors in transrectal ultrasound images. Sequential frames of RF echo signals from 35 extracted prostate specimens were recorded in parallel planes, while the ultrasound probe and the tissue were fixed in position in each imaging plane. The sequence of RF echo signal samples corresponding to a particular spot in tissue imaging plane constitutes one RF time series. Each region of interest (ROI) of ultrasound image was represented by three groups of features of its time series, namely, wavelet, spectral and fractal features. Wavelet transform approximation and detail sequences of each ROI were averaged and used as wavelet features. The average value of the normalized spectrum in four quarters of the frequency range along with the intercept and slope of a regression line fitted to the values of the spectrum versus normalized frequency plot formed six spectral features. Fractal dimension (FD) of the RF time series were computed based on the Higuchi's approach. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier was used to classify the ROIs. The results indicate that combining wavelet coefficient based features with previously proposed spectral and fractal features of RF time series data would increase the area under ROC curve from 93.1% to 95.0%, respectively. Furthermore, the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity increases to 91.7%, 86.6%, and 94.7%, from 85.7%, 85.2%, and 86.1%, respectively, using only spectral and fractal features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedFinal article publishe
Memo on German POWs
No full textSeabrook Farms acquired 150 German prisoners of war who were being held at a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Parvin State Park. Seabrook issued strict guidelines to its employees on how to interact with the POWs, including directives to avoid fraternizing with them and to not block them from the line of sight of their guards. According to a company memo, POWs were supposed to be under constant surveillance and kept in isolation from the main labor force at Seabrook Farms
Tissue characterization using multiscale products of wavelet transform of ultrasound radio frequency echoes
No full textThis paper presents a novel method for tissue characterization using wavelet transform of ultrasound radio frequency (RF) echo signals. We propose the use of multiscale products of wavelet transform sequences of RF echoes to estimate the scatterer distribution in the tissue. The proposed method is based on the fact that when emitted ultrasound beams interact with scatterers in the tissue, backscattered beams contain singularities corresponding to the location of the scatterers. The singularities will exist in multiple scales of wavelet sequences of the echo signals. Therefore, peaks of wavelet transform multiscale products correspond to the location of scatterers. Estimation of scatterer spacing can be used for tissue characterization. The efficacy of the proposed method was validated in RF echo signals of in-vitro human prostate to characterize normal and cancerous tissue. The results confirm that wavelet transform multiscale products of RF echo signals contain tissue typing information that can be used as an effective tool to differentiate normal and cancerous prostate tissue.Peer reviewedFinal article publishedIn vitroWavelet transformsUltrasonic imagingRadio frequencyRF signalsScatteringCancerContinuous wavelet transformsBiopsyCepstral analysi
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