129 research outputs found
PESAN DAKWAH DALAM PAGELARAN WAYANG WONG LAKON “DURGA RUWAT”
No full textBudaya Jawa dewasa ini dipandang sebelah mata di beberapa kalangan, entah hal tersebut disebut kuno atau sudah ketinggalan zaman. Namun yang perlu diketahui, ajaran Jawa memiliki nilai dakwah yang luar biasa. Penelitian ini berfokus pada isi pesan dakwah pementasan wayang wong yang mengambil tema ruwatan sudamala, dikemas dalam bentuk pegelaran, dengan lakon “Durga Ruwat”, yang dipentaskan di Lotus Garden, Desa Ketanon, Kecamatan Kedungwaru Kabupaten Tulungagung. Metode deskriptif kualitatif merupakan metode yang digunakan dalam peneltian tersebut, yang terfokus pada pesan dakwah yang tersirat didalam pegelaran tersebut. Berdasarkan hasil yang didapat, ajaran Islam dan Jawa memiliki kesinambungan atau kesamaan yang tidak jauh berbeda. Jauh sebelum agama masuk, masyarakat Jawa sudah mengenal ajaran Ketuhanan, yang dikenal dengan ajaran Sangkan Paraning Dumadi. Agama Islam masuk bertujuan untuk menyempurnakan ajaran Jawa, kemudian pendakwah pada saat itu melakukan akulturasi budaya, yaitu memadukan dakwah Islam, menggunakan media pewayangan. Cerita wayang pada saat itu sudah mengalami banyak perubahan, serta sudah disisipkan pesan dakwah Islam, ajaran pokok yang disisipkan yaitu, Akidah, Syariah, dan Akhlak
Risk-adjusted information content in option prices
No full textThere are many measures to price an option. This dissertation investigates a risk-adjusted measure to price the option with an alternative numeraire that retains the expected return of the underlying in the pricing equation. This model is consistent with the Black-Scholes model when their assumptions are imposed and is consistent with the standard capital asset pricing model. Unlike many asset pricing models that rely on historical data, we provide a forward-looking approach for extracting the ex ante return distribution parameters of the underlying from option prices. Using this framework and observing the market prices of options, we jointly extract implied return and implied volatility of the underlying assets for different days-to-maturity using a grid search method of global optima. Our approach does not use a preference structure or information about the market such as the market risk premium to estimate the expected return of the underlying asset. We find that when there are not many near-the-money traded options available our approach provides a better solution to forecast future volatility than the Black-Scholes implied volatility. Further, our results show that option prices reflect a higher expectation of stock return in the short-term, but a lower expectation of stock return in the long-term that is robust to many alternative tests. We further find that ex ante expected returns have a positive and significant cross-sectional relation with ex ante betas even in the presence of firm size, book-to-market, and momentum. The cross-sectional regression estimate of ex ante market risk premium has a statistical significance as well as an economic significance in that it contains significant forward-looking information on future macroeconomic conditions. Furthermore, in an ex ante world, firm size is still negatively significant, but book-to-market is also negatively significant, which is the opposite of the ex post results. Our risk-adjusted approach provides a framework for extraction of ex ante information from option prices with alternative assumptions of stochastic processes. In this vein, we provide a risk-adjusted stochastic volatility pricing model and discuss its estimation process.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Durga Prasad Pand
Live-streaming the goddess in the times of COVID-19: A digital ethnography of diasporic Durga Puja festivals in pandemic Britain
No full textCopyright © 2022 The Author. Diasporic Durga Puja festivals in contemporary Britain have emerged as focal points in the religious lives of Hindu Bengalis. However, the public health measures introduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to host in-person indoor Durga Puja festivals in Britain in the autumn of 2020. In response, many UK-based Durga Puja organisers staged small-scale ritual worship of the goddess in private, and then livestreamed it to their members through social media. Based on participant observation of these festival livestreams and remote interviews with Durga Puja organisers from across Britain, in this article I demonstrate that far from being a rupture, these blended Durga Puja festivals mark a development in existing templates of mediatisation of religious practices and are part of the wider continuum of adaptations that characterise diasporic lived religion. I also reflect on how internal hierarchies within the diaspora played out vis-à-vis blended Pujas amidst the pandemic.Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Postdoctoral Fellowship (ESRC Grant Ref: ES/V011952/1)
Characterization Of Periplasmic High-Affinity Zinc Uptake Proteins, and Their Mechanisms of Zinc Transfer and Regulation in Paracoccus Denitrificans
No full textIn bacteria, ATP binding cassette transporters (ABC) of cluster A-I exist for the acquisition of an essential trace element zinc from limiting environments. These transporters are crucial for bacterial survival, and the gene knockout strains often demonstrate a growth defect in minimal media and attenuated virulence in many pathogenic bacteria. Thus, such systems are attractive targets for the development of novel antibiotics. This study characterizes the zinc import machinery of Paracoccus denitrificans as a model for highly homologous systems in pathogenic bacteria including the carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae species (CRE) Klebsiella pneumoniae and Citrobacter koseri. The genomes of these bacteria encode two zinc-specific ABC transporters called ZnuABC and AztABCD. Specific and high affinity zinc binding is mediated by solute binding protein (SBP) components of ABC transporters, AztC and ZnuA respectively. Here, RNA-Seq and real time PCR methods demonstrated that expression of both transporter systems responded to low zinc level. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) suggested that these transporters were regulated by zinc-dependent zinc uptake regulator. A gene deletion knockout experiment demonstrated that either ZnuA or AztC transporter is sufficient and essential for the uptake of zinc from low zinc environment. The zinc specific SBP transporters are characterized by the presence of a flexible loop rich in His or acidic amino acid residues near zinc binding pocket of the protein. The flexible loop is an unusually long in ZnuA while it is relatively short in AztC. The function of this structure was not clear. Here, we employed different biophysical methods to evaluate the roles of this loop of both SBPs. The results showed that the flexible loop of AztC has no impact on zinc binding affinity, stoichiometry or protein structure, yet it is essential for zinc transfer from the metallochaperone AztD. The roles of specific residues in this process were also evaluated. In ZnuA, the flexible loop provides multiple additional zinc binding sites, possibly fulfilling a zinc storage function. AztD does not transfer zinc to ZnuA. The results demonstrate distinct roles for zinc SBP flexible loops depending on loop structure and context, potentially allowing for acquisition of zinc from different environments
Impact of Tourism in Traditional Life Style: A Case study of Tharu Village in Nawalparasi, Nepal
No full textMaster in social science - Nord university, 201
Machine learning predicted magnetic entropy change using chemical descriptors across a large compositional landscape
No full textMagnetocaloric refrigeration has drawn considerable attention in the last few decades as it can positively disrupt the current cooling technology. Most research efforts focus on developing new magnetic materials in the laboratory by trial and error. Here we report a materials dataset developed using past experimental work comprising several important magnetocaloric material classes such as La(Fe,Si/Al)13, heusler alloys, manganites, Gd5(Si,Ge)4 family, rare-earth and metallic glasses as well as Laves phase compounds with their reported magnetic entropy changes, -ΔSM(T,H). Notable linear and non-linear machine learning models are implemented to predict the -ΔSM(T,H) of materials. Our analyses indicate that the Random Forest model outperforms the others with R2 of 0.82. We then use this model to screen a large magnetic materials database with nearly 40,000 compounds to identify potential new magnetocaloric materials operating near room temperature. MnGa2Sb2, CrGa2Sb2, SbSCl0.1I0.9, Sm3Te4, LaRhSn, SbSI, Tl0.58Rb0.42Fe1.72Se2, Cs0.86Fe1.66Se2, La2.1MnGe2.2 are some of the newly predicted compounds that could yield large magnetocaloric cooling performance."This article is published as Ucar, Huseyin, Durga Paudyal, and Kamal Choudhary. "Machine learning predicted magnetic entropy change using chemical descriptors across a large compositional landscape." Computational Materials Science 209 (2022): 111414.
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111414.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Posted with permission.
DOE Contract Number(s): AC02-07CH11358
Branding Plan for New Restaurant – Ravintola Mount Nepal
No full textThe commissioner of the thesis is Restaurant Mount Nepal. The thesis was made for a newly open Company Visit Nepal Oy . The newly company Visit Nepal oy is a part of Restaurant Mount Nepal. Currently, they are operating their brand in Espoo and Kereva. They are planning to open a new brand in Helsinki Center .Hence, they will open in Kamppi from the 1st of January 2020.
The main reason to write my thesis is to create branding plan for Company Visit Nepal oy. The objective itself is to create Branding plan and also to provide insights into the brand development by analyzing the best branding practices used in other ethnic restaurants in Finland.
The thesis consists of four main parts :Introduction, theory, methodology & findings and conclusion. First part will consist-of general information about the company, its objectives problems. While in theoretical section branding , branding theories -are discussed. The third part details the methodology and the findings that are deducted from the research and followed by the conclusions and recommendations.
Research process and methods which includes benchmarking results and suggestions. Then followed by discussions and conclusion. In addition, the author has observed different restaurant premises and compared it with the case company
Effects of surface capping with Poly-vinyl butyral (PVB) on the ultraviolet photosensing properties of ZnO nanorods
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