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Modi-Trump meet incites the dragon
No full textAs Prime Minister Narendra Modi was being received with high honours by US President Donald Trump in Washington on June 26, China ratcheted up pressure on India along the sensitive Sikkim-Bhutan-Tibet trijunction of the 4,057-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC). Beijing harshly denounced New Delhi for violation of Chinese sovereignty through “illegal trespass” by the Indian Army into the Doklam Plateau to halt construction of a road by the People’s Liberation Army and “obstruct Chinese border troops’ normal activities”. It also blocked access to Indian pilgrims headed for the Kailash Mansarovar journey through the Nathu La pass until India unconditionally withdrew forces from Doklam
Changing Global Geopolitics : Modi-Xi Jinping-Putin meet
No full textThe meeting between President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Modi and President Putin on August 31-September 1, in Tianjin as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), will be a high profile event that will attract world attention. The three leaders together project the idea of Eurasian power, symbolising a ‘pivot to Asia’ from within the region. This meeting strengthens other forums of the Global majority, like the BRICS and the construction of a multipolar international system. The hosts- the Chinese- have worked relentlessly to make this meeting a success as it will be followed by a commemorative Chinese parade (September 3) to mark 80 years since World War II, the Japanese surrender and the end of the Anti-Fascist War in September 1945
FAKTOR KEMENANGAN BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY (NARENDRA MODI) PADA PEMILIHAN UMUM LOK SABHA KE-17 INDIA TAHUN 2019
No full textAbstrakSetelah kemenangannya pada Lok Sabha ke-16 tahun 2014, pada pemilihan umum Lok Sabha ke-17 tahun 2019 dengan memperoleh 303 kursi di Dewan Rakyat India, Bharatiya Janata Party (Narendra Modi) kembali menduduki posisi sebagai pemegang kekuasaan tertinggi di Parlemen India yang membawa Modi menjadi Perdana Menteri India. Penulis menggunakan Teori Rational Choice milik Angus Chambell untuk menjelaskan bagaimana perilaku pemilih yang menjadi faktor penyebab kemenangan BJP (Modi) pada Lok Sabha ke-17 India. Data – data yang digunakan untuk menganalisis topik ini bersumber dari buku, jurnal dan artikel internet. Dari pengolahan data yang dilakukan penulis menyimpulkan bahwa faktor kemenangan BJP (Modi) pada Pemilihan Umum Lok Sabha ke 17 India tahun 2019 dipengaruhi oleh : 1.) Program Keamanan Nasional dan Ekonomi India. 2.) Sosok Modi yang Berkarisma. 3.) Pendukung BJP yang Loyal; dimana hal tersebut berhasil menciptakan hubungan timbal balik yang positif antara pemerintahan BJP (Modi) dengan masyarakat India. Kata Kunci : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha, Hindu di India, Perilaku Pemiih. AbstractAfter winning the 2014 Lok Sabha, In the 17th Lok Sabha general election 2019 with 303 seats in the Indian People’s Council. The Bharatiya Janata Party (Narendra Modi)’s victory re-occupied the posotion as the hightest authority in the Indian Parliament which brought Modi return to his position as Prime Minister of India. The author uses Angush Chambell’s Rational Choice Theory to explain how the voter behavior was a factor in BJP (Modi)’s Victory in India’s 17th Lok Sabha. The data used to analyze this topic comes from a book, journals and Internet articles. From the data processing carried out, the author conclude that BJP (Modi)’s Victory factor in India’s 17th Lok Sabha General Election in 2019 influenced by: 1.) India’s National Security and Economi Program. 2.) Modi’s Charismatic Figure. 3.) BJP’s Loyal Supporters; where these points created a positive reciprocal relationship between the BJP (Modi) government and the people of India. Key word: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha, Hinduism in India, Voter Behavior
Maternal antecedents to adolescent girls’ neural regulation of emotion
No full textCurrent research on adolescent brain development has uncovered individual differences in patterns of functional connectivity during the regulation of emotions, reflecting differences in psychological and emotional functioning. The purpose of this study was to identify possible contributors to these individual differences by investigating the role of maternal emotional resources, in the form of adult attachment and emotional awareness. Participants included 35 adolescent girls (M age = 15.51, SD = 0.37) who completed an implicit emotion regulation task (Lieberman et al., 2007) during an fMRI scan following 9th grade. Mothers reported on the quality of their adult attachment when youth were in 3rd and 4th grades and reported on their emotional awareness when youth were in 4th and 5th grades. We found that higher levels of maternal anxious attachment and lower levels of maternal emotional awareness were significantly correlated with more positive (i.e., ineffective) amygdala-right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (rVLPFC) connectivity. Further, path analysis revealed that there was an indirect effect of maternal anxious attachment on adolescent functional connectivity through maternal emotional awareness. These results suggest that exposure to compromised maternal emotional resources in childhood may be linked to the development of ineffective neural processing of emotions, highlighting one pathway for the intergenerational transmission of disrupted emotion processing.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, Haina Modi, accepted the attached license on 2018-11-19 at 09:33.The student, Haina Modi, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-11-19 at 09:42.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-11-26 at 11:59.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13098 on 2019-02-07 at 14:17:36Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-07T20:35:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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En Modi-fierad demokrati : En kvantitativ innehållsanalys gällande amerikansk nyhetsrapportering om Indien
No full textThe Swedish independent research institute V-Dem, which measures democracy around the world, declared in their most recent report on the issue that India was no longer classified as a democracy, but an electoral autocracy. Amongst other things, V-Dem draws the conclusion that the election of the Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi in 2014 has been a strong contributor to the decline in democracy in India. At the same time, The U.S. Department of State declares that the U.S.-India partnership is founded on a shared commitment to freedom and democratic principles. With India as a close ally, friction could arise. This thesis aims to explore how India is portrayed in American media, to get a broader understanding of how Americans view India and Narendra Modi. Many scholars believe policy is based on people’s opinions, and people’s opinions are largely based on how the media portrays certain issues. The author also draws a comparison between American right-leaning media outlets and left-leaning media outlets to examine if there are any differences regarding the depiction of India between them. By performing a quantitative content analysis, the author aims to examine how American media portrays India, its leaders, and democracy. The layout of the study is based on exanimating 175 published articles about India and coding them via a codebook designed to measure democratic values and the depiction of Narendra Modi, his government, and party BJP. The findings suggest that when democratic values are depicted in articles about India, it is mostly in negative terms. On the other hand, the portrayal of Narendra Modi, his government, and his party are more balanced. The findings also suggest that right-leaning and left-leaning media have a very similar way of portraying India, its democracy, and Narendra Modi
Psychological treatments in schizophrenia: II. Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of social skills training and cognitive remediation
No full textBackground. Social skills training and cognitive remediation are psychological techniques with considerable face validity for the treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia and their consequences. This paper provides a meta-analytical review of these treatments. It includes an appreciable number of randomized controlled trials, using comparisons against both standard care and other active interventions. However, the assessment of particular outcomes sometimes had to be based on single studies.Method. A detailed search strategy was used to identify randomized controlled trials of social skills training and cognitive remediation, primarily employing electronic databases. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that met predefined criteria were then subjected to meta-analysis on a variety of outcome measures.Results. There was no clear evidence for any benefits of social skills training on relapse rate, global adjustment, social functioning, quality of life or treatment compliance. Cognitive remediation had no benefit on attention, verbal memory, visual memory, planning, cognitive flexibility or mental state.Conclusions. Social skills training and cognitive remediation do not appear to confer reliable benefits for patients with schizophrenia and cannot be recommended for clinical practice
Performance analysis of machine learning applications on rapid: a highly parallel computer architecture
No full textOver the past few years, the interest and application of machine learning algorithms has risen exponentially. Machine learning has found extensive use in diverse fields like self-driving cars, speech recognition, image processing, computer vision, molecular biology, security etc. A lot of recent research involves evaluation of machine learning applications on different architectures. In this thesis, we evaluate the performance of six common machine learning algorithms: K-Means, K-Nearest Neighbors, Linear Regression, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Deep Neural Network, and Radix Sort on RAPID. RAPID is a highly parallel computer architecture developed at Oracle Labs for accelerating and improving the performance of database analytic workloads. We find that the RAPID platform performs well on the performance-per-watt metric i.e. it is a power-efficient architecture. Moreover, the machine learning applications can be easily scaled to hundreds of nodes of the RAPID architecture, thereby making it suitable for distributed machine learning applications. However, we find certain bottlenecks in the micro-architecture, memory system and network of the RAPID architecture and propose optimizations to make it a more performance efficient architecture for machine learning applications.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01The student, Aakash Modi, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-26 at 12:22.The student, Aakash Modi, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-04-26 at 12:30.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-04-26 at 16:22.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11087 on 2017-08-10 at 14:32:41Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:52:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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USM-KLE STUDENTS JOIN MALAYSIAN COMMUNITY IN INDIA TO MEET PRIME MINISTER
No full textPENANG, 1 April 2017 – Some 28 USM-KLE students took part in the Malaysian Students and
Community get-together session in Chennai, India to meet the Malaysian Prime Minister, Dato' Seri
Najib Tun Abdul Razak.
The programme was held in conjunction with the Prime Minister's visit to India, from 30th March to
4th April to meet the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi
Charismatic Leadership Amidst Protracted Conflicts: Narendra Modi & Benjamin Netanyahu
No full textAcross the globe, democratic nations have seen the recent rise of right-wing populist leaders who have transformed the liberal foundations of their governments, steering them towards authoritarian regimes. This research utilizes the case studies of Narendra Modi in India and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel to exemplify this global phenomenon. Specifically, it employs the lens of “charismatic legitimacy,” a term coined by sociologist Max Weber, to understand Modi and Netanyahu’s enduring political dominance spanning over three decades. In particular, the study views the evolution of their governments through the lens of a specific subtype of charismatic legitimacy termed as "plebiscitary leadership democracy." This classification denotes a form of governance led by an autocratic leader, blending democratic procedures with authoritarian tendencies.
India and Israel, two democratic nations born in the aftermath of the British colonial departure and the subsequent partition of their respective regions in 1947, have grappled with the challenge of reconciling democratic principles within their ethnically divided societies. Furthermore, both countries continue to contend with prolonged border disputes in Kashmir and the West Bank, stemming from the failures of their respective partitions. These prevailing circumstances in both nations give them a predisposition towards heightened ethnic strife, offering an ideal opportunity for illiberal leaders such as Modi and Netanyahu to exploit these divides for their own political gain.
By constructing an empirical definition of charismatic legitimacy from Max Weber’s seminal work, alongside insight from other scholars in the field, this study employs a four-pronged definition to analyze Modi and Netanyahu’s claim to charismatic legitimacy. The findings reveal that both leaders meet the criteria of charismatic leadership within democratic contexts and, through their extended tenures, have effectively molded their governments into plebiscitary leader democracies
MODi: A powerful and convenient web server for identifying multiple post-translational peptide modifications from tandem mass spectra
No full textMODi (http://modi.uos.ac.kr/modi/) is a powerful and convenient web service that facilitates the interpretation of tandem mass spectra for identifying post-translational modifications (PTMs) in a peptide. It is powerful in that it can interpret a tandem mass spectrum even when hundreds of modification types are considered and the number of potential PTMs in a peptide is large, in contrast to most of the methods currently available for spectra interpretation that limit the number of PTM sites and types being used for PTM analysis. For example, using MODi, one can consider for analysis both the entire PTM list published on the unimod webpage (http://www.unimod.org) and user-defined PTMs simultaneously, and one can also identify multiple PTM sites in a spectrum. MODi is convenient in that it can take various input file formats such as .mzXML, .dta, .pkl and .mgf files, and it is equipped with a graphical tool called MassPective developed to display MODi's output in a user-friendly manner and helps users understand MODi's output quickly. In addition, one can perform manual de novo sequencing using MassPective. © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
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