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[Amistad NRA, Parida #2 1991-1]
No full textThis slide is of a cave entrance by the water found in the Amistad National Recreation Area. The slide casing has been labelled by Dr. Robert G. Campbell with the following information: Trip # 405, United States, XXIII, E8, Amistad NRA, Parida #2,, January 1991
[Amistad NRA, Parida Cave front 1991-3]
No full textThis slide is of a cave entrance by the water in the Amistad National Recreation Area on the U.S. portion of the International Amistad Reservoir. The slide casing has been labelled by Dr. Robert G. Campbell with the following information: Trip # 405, United States, XXIII, E8, Amistad NRA, Parida Cave Front, January 1991
[Amistad NRA, Parida Cave - East Wall 1991-1]
No full textThis slide is of a pictograph found in the Amistad National Recreation Area on the U.S. portion of the International Amistad Reservoir. The slide casing has been labelled by Dr. Robert G. Campbell with the following information: Trip # 405, United States, XXIII, E8, Amistad NRA, Parida Cave, East Wall Pictographs, January 1991
A sense of India through soft power
No full textIndia is a cultural melting pot. It has a rich and illustrious history with many different people from the Greeks to the Moghuls and latterly the English, Portuguese and French influencing its traditions that were initially set by the Indo Aryans. India’s classical dances and songs have a strong presence on the world stage. India’s cuisine can be found in all major cities of the world. Yoga has become the new-age mantra for healthy living with millions of people practicing it every day. Bollywood’s reach and effect on the pop culture is becoming more prominent, and some of the Indian film stars are even more popular than Hollywood stars. The country has various other soft attributes that it has contributed to the world, such as dance, music, and food. This work will explore the various soft attributes that contribute to communicating India as a soft power. A communication model is proposed that develops the idea of understanding how various people perceive India as a soft power and to overlay this with how these attributes are communicated to individuals.While there are many positive soft power attributes of India as seen above, the vicarious attributes of India outshine its positive counterpart; at least in the CBI Rankings (Futurebrand.com, 2014) and Monocle soft power rankings, (Monocle, 2012) where India has been constantly dropping in the ratings.While studying the soft power attributes it was found that there is little significant research undertaken to understand international perception about India as a soft power. This piece of work will attempt to find the missing piece of the jigsaw.India is a complex set of nation states unified by Bollywood, deep spirituality, food and dance culture, so a study in these areas would help to understand the impact that they have outside India’s borders. One could argue that none of the attributes discussed is mutually exclusive as Bollywood for instance can portray dance, food and spirituality in one go. At the same time yoga philosophy and practice also incorporates food principles via Ayurveda. Dance looks at spiritual aspects and history together with music that is often incorporated in Bollywood. The soft issues pervade Indian culture together with a passive acceptance of an oftenrigid caste system that rarely flares into riots such as those witnessed recently in Egypt. The study therefore needed to reconcile these opposites and the fluid interweaving of softness that comes across internationally and appears to exert such an influence on so many nations. Why does softness create such a popular nation and how does the hardness or vicariousness of the way people and women are treated create imbalances? The research throws light on how a nation can use its soft power attributes to define its status and to move forward in the world. The study looks at soft power from a new perspective. First of all, a qualitative approach was undertaken where a country’s influence on media (content analysis of newspaper articles), influence on a group (focus group on four different cultural groups) and influence on an individual (visual case study of 22 individuals belonging to four different cultural groups) was studied through triangulation method. This was done to understand how people from different parts of the world perceived India and to what extent Indian culture influenced them.Secondly, it was proved that the influence of soft power varies from one country to another. Some countries may like a certain cultural aspect while another country may not find that aspect interesting and influential. In this way new ideas about understanding soft power have been developed. The research indicated that people’s perception of India as a soft power varies depending on which country they originate from and at the same time media (newspapers) can influence people’s perceptions of a country as well. It is also interesting that the main finding indicates that a country like India needs to be country specific in terms of the key cultural attributes that it wishes to broadcast
Motif Patterns in 2D
No full textMotif patterns consisting of sequences of intermixed solid and don't-care characters have been introduced and studied in connection with pattern discovery problems of computational biology and other domains. In order to alleviate the exponential growth of such motifs, notions of maximal saturation and irredundancy have been formulated, whereby more or less compact subsets of the set of all motifs can be extracted, that are capable of expressing all others by suitable combinations. In this paper, we introduce the notion of maximal irredundant motifs in a two-dimensional array and develop initial properties and a combinatorial argument that poses a linear bound on the total number of such motifs. The remainder of the paper presents approaches to the discovery of irredundant motifs both by offline and incremental algorithms
[Amistad NRA, Parida Cave - Center Wall 1991-1]
No full textThis slide is of a pictograph found in the Amistad National Recreation Area on the U.S. portion of the International Amistad Reservoir. The slide casing has been labelled by Dr. Robert G. Campbell with the following information: Trip # 405, United States, XXIII, E8, Amistad NRA, Parida Cave, Center Wall Pictographs, January 1991
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Personal Augmented Reality Interior Design Assistant (PARIDA)
No full textPersonal Augmented Reality Interior Design Assistant (PARIDA) – a guided interior designing application with the help of Augmented Reality (AR).
The interaction between the person living in a space and the building is the basis of interior design. Colour selection, door handle choice, look and feel of areas where people touch/interact, general traffic in the house, light, and airflow, and even acoustic conditions are all factors to consider. An interior designer is trained to take all of these factors into account including the overall layout and size of the home when designing a suitable interior space for the people who will be living there. However, not everyone can afford an interior designer, and it is impractical to bring in and experiment with various types of home décor before finalising on a suitable one. This is where computer graphics can be useful. Recent advances in 3D computer graphics technology, such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), can be useful as a pre-visualisation tool for architecture and interior design. An AR app that runs on a mobile device is portable and does not require any additional hardware. Although there are a variety of AR applications aimed at interior design, a feature review revealed that those applications have little to no guidance system to assist the user in making decisions. PARIDA is an augmented reality application that aims to fill this gap by guiding a novice user through the process of designing high-quality interiors. Professional interior designers may find it useful to easily prototype their designs and make accurate judgments before installation. Home décor stores may find it useful to assist their customers in determining which product will best suit their needs
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