210 research outputs found
My Body, My Voice: Defining Vocal Identity Rights to Combat AI-Generated Deception
No full textKamran Moos emphasizes the growing risk of nonconsensual AI-generated voice misappropriation and suggests a novel legal framework to address the issue. Moos explains how AI models have made voice replication quick and easy, in some cases requiring only a two-second voice clip to produce a convincing audio recording. These AI-generated recordings can be used to carry out identity theft, misinformation, and commercial exploitation. Moos argues that current legal frameworks, such as the right of publicity, misappropriation, and copyright law, are inadequate to protect individuals from AI-generated voice misappropriation. He advocates for a new legal framework rooted in copyright and property law, which would grant individuals exclusive control over AI replications of their voice. The proposed framework emphasizes consent, transparency, and data protection and would require lawmakers to explicitly define vocal identity rights. Moos then addresses the First Amendment and Supremacy Clause challenges lawmakers and individuals should consider when implementing and enforcing the proposed framework
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Iran’s New Protests Explained - Interview with Kamran Matin
No full textAfter years of economic decline, sanctions, and political repression, protests have once again spread across Iran. What began with demonstrations by bazaar merchants in Tehran over the collapse of the national currency has expanded into a broader wave of unrest across dozens of cities, with reports of deaths, arrests, and growing pressure on the state.In this in-depth interview, Mahtab Mahboub, contributor to The Amargi, speaks with Kamran Matin, Reader in International Relations at the University of Sussex, about the structural forces driving Iran’s latest protests.Drawing on Iran’s political economy, regional geopolitics, and the aftermath of recent military escalation, Matin argues that the current unrest is shaped not only by economic hardship, but by a deeper crisis of legitimacy following intensified sanctions, the suspension of nuclear diplomacy, and the fallout from the June 12-day war.In this video, we explore:Why the protests began in Tehran’s bazaar, and what that signals about the regime’s social baseHow sanctions, inflation, and diplomatic deadlock have closed off prospects for economic reliefThe long-term role of foreign policy in sustaining the Islamic Republic’s internal legitimacyHow the collapse of Iran’s regional power projection has weakened that strategyComparisons between the current protests and earlier waves in 2017, 2019, and the Jin Jiyan Azadi movementThe rise of monarchist narratives around Reza Pahlavi, and their limits inside IranWhether cracks within Iran’s security apparatus resemble early dynamics of the 1979 revolutionAbout the guest:Kamran Matin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change. He writes extensively on Iranian, Kurdish, and Middle Eastern politics, focusing on the intersection of domestic crises and international power structures.Watch the full conversation for a grounded analysis of why Iran’s current protest wave reflects a more profound crisis within the post-revolutionary order and why its outcome remains deeply uncertain.</p
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Kobani: What’s In A Name?
No full textA guest post from Kamran Matin. Kamran is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he teaches modern history of the Middle East and international theory. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013), and recently of ‘Redeeming the Universal: Postcolonialism and the Inner-Life of Eurocentrism’ in the European Journal of International Relations (2013). Kamran is also the incoming co-convenor of the BISA Historical Sociology Working Group, and a management committee member at Sussex’s Centre for Advanced International Theory. He is currently working on a paper on the origins of the current crisis in the Middle East, and a larger project on the international history of the Kurdish national liberation movement.</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Historiography Metafiction Analysis in the Novel "Mother of the Believers' by Kamran Pasha
No full textThis research discussed about the limitations between facts and fiction in the historical novel which aimed to describe the events of Islamic civilization in the era of the Prophet Muhammad saw brought Islam and the characters of Aisyah ra. in the novel "Mother of The Believers" by Kamran Pasha. This research used Hutcheon theory about historiography metafiction. The research applied descriptive qualitative method in revealing the data. The researcher used note taking and color-pen as the instruments to get the valid data. The finding showed that there were thirty historical event which separated into six categories and based on the point of view Aisyah ra. in every events portrayed her characters. The researcher concluded that the author did reconstructions in the historical events of the characters of Aisyah ra, and he also tended to show two characters of her become the antagonist and protagonist which aimed to create peaceful among the group who had argued about her characters, and those historical reconstructions in the novel "Mothers of The Believers" was based on Kamran Pasha's opinio
Erratum: Gestational hypertensive disorders and retinal microvasculature: The Generation R Study.
No full textThe original article contained an error whereby the senior author, M. Kamran Ikram's name was mistakenly interchanged.
This error has now been corrected
Scholarly communication and open access : research communities and their publishing patterns [New Trends in Scholarly Communication : how do Authors of different research communities consider OA?]
No full textAt the time of the Budapest Declaration, self-archiving supporters looked like a revolutionary, "anti-commercial publishers" movement. Today, after some years debate (and technological innovation in research and scientific e-publishing), antagonist positions are able to compromise and consider the tradeoffs.
What is really changing in the Authors' attitude towards institutional or disciplinary repositories, and peer reviewed open access journals?
Many recent papers have investigated these topics. From these sources we can note that Biomedical Authors behave differently from Physicists, Astronomers and Mathematicians, who have been using open archives for such a long time. Therefore we intend to analyze these different trends in the diverse communities.
Several aspects also deserve a careful attention: the role of new OA journals in evaluation processes (i.e. their impact and citations), implementation and maintenance costs of institutional repositories, the evolution of bibliometric indicators.
We intend also to discuss the role of libraries in service innovation and e-publishing promotion. The main areas where a key role may be played are: institutional repository management and users' training, the promotion of OA journals and information about evaluation methods (both qualitative and quantitative).
We think that the transition towards new communication models may be a great opportunity that libraries have to be ready to support
ChatGPT and Death of an Author
No full textThe proposed piece seeks to critically explore pedagogical implication of ChatGPT, especially on students’ capacities to author a text. The piece suggests that increased reliance on the ChatGPT, while provide short term solution to produce a text, in the long term it is likely to lead to ‘death of an author’. Here the usage of the phrase is a twist to earlier usage by Barthes- which refers to ‘death of an author’ where once the text is written, it gets re-created in readers’ reception and through interpretive act and imagination. The overarching argument of the paper emphasizes that technology is not neutral, especially in a context where its opacity has risen concerns about surveillance, control, and manipulation of human behavior, and therefore its infiltration in education begs critical questioning and sensitive e-value-ation. The discussion argues that rise of AI in education should be checked and not embraced uncritically, but rather it should be critically scrutinized, debated, and scaffolded through critical theoretical, pedagogical, and ethical references to counter its hegemonic and de-humanization of learning. For empirical part, the analysis draws upon reflections generated through a focus group discussion with four undergraduate students enrolled in a Bachelors degree in Computer Science who employed use of ChatGPT in preparing their speeches in context of a humanities course. The students found ChatGPT useful in terms of composing a text/speech and saving time and efforts. However, they realized that its use caused them loss of authentic learning, imagination and suppressed self’s voice. Based on the analysis, the piece shares further insights into pedagogic implications, and suggest a pedagogical scaffolding using critical pedagogical references of relationship between technology and human/learners’ values, distinction between information, knowledge, and wisdom, application and experiential learning references, and praxis in learning
In-Cylinder Pressure Sensors to combustion control and optimization : a systems and strategy perspective
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-124).In-Cylinder Pressure Sensors (ICPS) today are close to satisfying the robustness, performance and cost requirements for application to closed loop control and monitoring of production automotive engines. Using the Robust Design framework as a compass, this thesis first checks the evidence for emergence followed by tracking the evolution of the sensor component itself and its application to robust closed loop control of the combustion process in internal combustion engines. After identifying the potential system level impact of the emerging ICPS technology, System Dynamic and Technology Strategy frameworks are used to find spillover triggers and to recommend a number of strategic options to generate and capture value for integrated system solution providers so that they can beat the very stable status quo that persists in the slow and mature prime mover industries. In addition, Chapter 2 gives a data driven method for identifying the Skills needed for suppliers to realize the above recommendations. This method is based on collective intelligence of 690 experienced professionals with 20 years of work experience on average from 40 targeted companies, representing a large body of engineering and managerial experience in battling complex engineering system hurdles. This approach is more effective than blindly copying the prominent integrated system solution providers or OEM's, because a side effect of long term incremental innovation in the mature prime mover industry is that the underlying reasons for their success is ingrained in their "tacit knowledge" and "organizational furniture" and hence not explicitly understood.by Kamran Eftekhari Shahroudi.S.M
Usability brief for shopping mall Asset Enhancement Initiative (AEI) project in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Ahmad Hakim Abdul Rahman and Kamran Shavarebi
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to review the two attributes, usability and architectural, in order to develop a usability brief for shopping mall asset enhancement initiative (AEI) project. An exploratory sequential mixed method approach is undertaken, with the initial phase, a qualitative study using secondary data and focus group with the facility management team. The output from the qualitative phase is used to prepare a survey of 89 items. A pilot study of 15 participants is carried out to validate reliability of the items using SPSS. The questionnaire items are found to be reliable; hence, the survey can be used as a tool to gauge a larger sample. This paper presents an overview of a doctoral research by the main author and it provides the initial concepts for the undertaking of the research study
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