13 research outputs found
FOLLOWING (F)INSTAGRAMS: DELINEATING SOCIAL BOUNDARIES ONLINE
Get PDFThe duality of "insta" vs. "finsta" is a binary that assumes that users can be more candid in the latter "fake" (often eulogized as "fun") Instagram = Finstagram account. While the "real" Instagram is more aesthetically pleasing, it indexes an added effort put into curating it. The paper argues that this is a false paradox in the perceived visual and sensory authenticity in the two account types of the same user. In this essay the author empirically describes users’ experience mediating these two accounts through primary research centered around Berger and Luckmann’s Social Construction of Reality, Robert Merton’s
Insiders and Outsiders, and Erving Goffman’s Presentation of
Self in Everyday Life through this dialectic of so-called fake instas
(finsta) and real instas (rinsta). In doing so, it empirically addresses
these questions: How does Instagram mediate the construction of self in everyday reality? How do users participate and perform in this construction?Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/177333/1/12-Acharya-Finstagrams-Social Media and Society in India Proceedings-41-49-10.73027930.pdfSEL
Infographics Wizard: Flexible Infographics Authoring and Design Exploration
No full textInfographics are an aesthetic visual representation of information following
specific design principles of human perception. Designing infographics can be a
tedious process for non-experts and time-consuming, even for professional
designers. With the help of designers, we propose a semi-automated infographic
framework for general structured and flow-based infographic design generation.
For novice designers, our framework automatically creates and ranks infographic
designs for a user-provided text with no requirement for design input. However,
expert designers can still provide custom design inputs to customize the
infographics. We will also contribute an individual visual group (VG) designs
dataset (in SVG), along with a 1k complete infographic image dataset with
segmented VGs in this work. Evaluation results confirm that by using our
framework, designers from all expertise levels can generate generic infographic
designs faster than existing methods while maintaining the same quality as
hand-designed infographics templates.Comment: Preprint of the EUROVIS 22 accepted paper. arXiv admin note:
substantial text overlap with arXiv:2108.1191
A Novel Approach for improving Post Classification Accuracy of Satellite Images by Using Majority Analysis
Get PDFIn past one year, due to climatic changes and some anthropogenic activities, the forests of Uttarakhand are burning. To identify the damage caused by the forest fires, an area of Nainital district has been taken for the study. Multi temporal Landsat 7 images were taken from April - 2020 and April – 2021. This paper shows a novel approach to increase the accuracy of the classified image. The Support Vector Machine classification is first done and then to improve the accuracy of the classified image, a post-classification technique called Majority Analysis is applied. This method helps to classify the unclassified pixel and it also smoothens out the boundary of the classified pixels, leading to higher accuracy rate. The classification accuracy has improved significantly for April 2020 and April 2021 images from 89.35% to 98.71% and from 88.52% to 99.76% respectively. The change detection study showed a drastic increase in the barren land due to the forest fires and on the contrary, the forest, scarce forest and the shrub land areas have decreased
STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN BISNIS NASWAV BOUQUET
Get PDFArtificial flower bouquet is a business engaged in the creative industry that produces flower bouquets made from artificial flowers (imitation flowers). This business is a creative result inspired by flower bouquets that use real flowers as their basic material. The main focus is given to the artificial flower bouquet business by explaining the manufacturing process, tools and materials used, consumer problems, and the market potential it has. Bouquets are everyone\u27s choice when they want to give gifts to loved ones for happy moments such as birthdays, graduations, weddings, and other important moments. Naswav Bouquet uses artificial flowers to last a long time because they will not wilt. Sales offers are made through social media such as whatsapp, instagram, tiktok, and facebook. To support the running of this business, the author takes the raw materials needed through offline and online stores. This study was conducted to analyze the Naswav Bouquet business using the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and BMC (business model canvas) methods to determine development strategies for the Naswav Bouquet business. The artificial flower bouquet business was identified as a promising opportunity with affordable initial capital and significant profit potential. The artificial flower bouquet business can be an effective strategy to increase creativity, financial independence, and positive contributions to society
Bibliometric Analysis: Management in Early Childhood Education
Get PDFManagement issues in early childhood education institutions can be a complex challenge for administrators and teaching staff. Therefore, understanding topics of interest and expanding shared networks are necessary to advance development research toward a unified effort. In this bibliometric study, our aim was to disseminate global research trends in the field of Early Childhood Education Management based on publication results, co-authorship between authors and country affiliations, and co-occurrence of author keywords. Using the Scopus database, a total of 181 journal articles were taken which were published between 2013 – 2023. The research results show that since 2016, the number of publications has continued to increase so that the accumulated number of articles published to date continues to increase. About 20% of total global publications are contributed by researchers from the United States, leading 30 other countries/regions. The dominant keywords are PAUD and teacher training. Research trends in early childhood education management over the last 10 years show a focus on initial teacher development and training, as well as improving the quality of education through classroom management, professional development, and human resource management. Â
Long-Term Electricity Load Forecasting Considering Volatility Using Multiplicative Error Model
No full textLong-term electricity load forecasting plays a vital role for utilities and planners in terms of grid development and expansion planning. An overestimate of long-term electricity load will result in substantial wasted investment on the construction of excess power facilities, while an underestimate of the future load will result in insufficient generation and inadequate demand. As a first of its kind, this research proposes the use of a multiplicative error model (MEM) in forecasting electricity load for the long-term horizon. MEM originates from the structure of autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) model where conditional variance is dynamically parameterized and it multiplicatively interacts with an innovation term of time-series. Historical load data, as accessed from a United States (U.S.) regional transmission operator, and recession data, accessed from the National Bureau of Economic Research, are used in this study. The superiority of considering volatility is proven by out-of-sample forecast results as well as directional accuracy during the great economic recession of 2008. Historical volatility is used to account for implied volatility. To incorporate future volatility, backtesting of MEM is performed. Two performance indicators used to assess the proposed model are: (i) loss functions in terms of mean absolute percentage error and mean squared error (for both in-sample model fit and out-of-sample forecasts) and (ii) directional accuracy.Intelligent Electrical Power Grid
Semiotics，Symbols，and Cultural Perspectives
Get PDFWhat do we think of when we think of 'New Years', or 'summer,' 'home', or
'tea cup'? Whenever we happen to think of such seemingly commonplace
events, places or things, we are inundated, internally, with a wide landscape
of images and feelings at a very personal level. These reactions are, to a great
extent, comprised of symbols of the particular time/event or thing to which our
thoughts are pointing.
This system of interpreting signs and symbols within our culture is called
semiotics, and it is a way for us to understand how we communicate within
our own linguistic domain, and how interpretation of signs and symbols is
practiced in other cultures. As such, semiotics may be regarded through a
variety of disciplines: linguistics, anthropology, art history, philosophy, and
language education.
We may see the word 'north,' for example, and one may call to mind an
image of 'snow,' as in Hokkaido in winter or the North Pole. We can say that
these images are being pointed to, as symbols of 'north.' In this case, the
word 'north' is the sign or signifier, and the symbols we have for it-a field of
white snow, polar bears, etc.-are the signified.
Indeed, we are only able to know things and speak about them with the
aid of signs, replacing them with signs that we hope are understood by others.
In fact, according to Charles Peirce, considered the father of semiotics, "we
think only in signs" (Peirce, 1931). The Swiss pioneer linguist Ferdinand de
Saussure considered that the sign is the whole that results from the
association of the signifier with the signified (Saussure, 1974). Both Peirce
and Saussure endeavored to understand how we think and, then,
communicate our thoughts to others, and along with the work of Roland
Barthes, the field of semiotics was established as a linguistic as well as
philosophical discipline.
Barthes sought to explain the concepts of semiotics in textuality, or how
words are arranged in sentences, in paragraphs, and ultimately as a
presentation of a story through the medium of text. He believed that all
signs and symbols in our culture already exist with their own inherent
meaning before an author chooses to use them in a text. Barthes wrote,
therefore, that since meaning cannot come from the author of a text-a story,
poem, etc.-then it must be actively created by the reader through a process of
textual analysis. ''We should not be bound by what the author said, or thought
he was saying, but cede authority to the reader (Merquoir pp. 134-40)." This
was the recognition that the reader is the ultimate 'authority' for his own
interpretation of a text, as the meaning of imagery constructed from reading is
done exclusively by the reader and for the reader, as an individual. It follows,
then, that each of us has our own way to interpret signs and symbols, based
on the way we acquired our understanding of them through education within
our own culture.
Yet of course, the most important aspect of Barthes' idea is that each of us
possesses a deeper power of interpretation through our own individual,
personal life experiences. Herein lies, too, the potential for personal
adaptation according to the "needs" of the culture. An example is the
'swastika ': 卐. The author Salman Rushdie tells us, in his book ''Midnight's
Children," that the word 'swasti' is the Sanskrit word for 'good', and is the
Hindu symbol for power (Rushdie, p. 75). It can also be found in Tibetan
culture, used to symbolize the never-ending, cyclical movement of the
universe. Yet the very same symbol was adapted by the Nazi Party and its
military of Germany as its own symbol, and became for many Jews in Europe
a symbol of terror and genocide. What does this sign signify to a religious
Hindu? And to a Jewish refugee from Poland? Certainly we would see
radically different interpretations of the same sign, due mainly to the
'reader's' own life experience within their culture.departmental bulletin pape
The MNC and the political economy of low wage female labour in Southeast Asian industrialisation : the case of Malaysia
Get PDFIn International Political Economy (IPE), feminist perspectives that highlight the centrality of gender relations to the functioning of the global economy have remained largely at the margins of the discipline. This is particularly the case in studies of the multinational firm, where the focus on the relative power of states vis a vis the rising power ofMNCs dominates debates. Although some scholars have sought to evaluate the impact ofMNCs on host societies, this analysis has largely been undertaken in gender neutral terms. The supposed gender-neutrality of multinational investment is reflected more widely in liberal accounts of economic development and globalisation that assume that the incorporation of local societies into the global market economy is a positive force for developmental and "progressive" change. Hence the MNC is regarded as an agent ofglobalisation, and the employment of women in MNCs leads the way for the progressive undermining of "backward" patriarchal attitudes. This thesis rejects this Western-centric discourse of the "progressive firm", suggesting that neither firms nor the global market economy can be perceived in such gender neutral terms. Using case study research, it is suggested that the firm can be seen as drawing upon and benefiting from gender and ethnic divisions deeply embedded in the local political economy of host states.
This thesis, therefore, highlights the important role of gender in Wlderstanding the operations of a firm's overseas investment strategy. The case study firm selected for this thesis is a garment sector firm that has invested in Malaysia. The garment sector has traditionally been reliant on low wage female labour, and the thesis observes how this reliance led to the firm moving offshore in order to seek out new sources of cheap labour for the most labour intensive parts of its production process. But the thesis also draws attention to the role of the Malaysian state in adopting a model of economic development based largely upon the attraction ofFDI into labour-intensive sectors where female labour dominates. So ifFDI is a gendered process (both in terms of the firm's decision to move offshore and in terms of the policies implemented to attract FDI into a developing country), then what are the mechanisms through which this process takes place? This thesis suggests that an analysis of recruitment strategies and practices at the case study firm provides the sort of detail that enables us to examine exactly how the firm engages with the local society that it invests into - in particular how company recruitment strategies enable the firm to mobilise the sort of low paid workers required for labour intensive garment sector production. Thus despite the many advantages that factory employment may bring to women workers, by focusing on the operations of the firm itself (rather than the actual experiences of women workers as many gender and development scholars have done), it can be observed that the firm derives considerable benefit from the operation of gendered divisions oflabour and thus women remain stratified into low paid assembly line work
The cell motility modulator Slit2 is a potent inhibitor of platelet function
No full textBackground\u2014Vascular injury and atherothrombosis involve vessel infiltration by inflammatory leukocytes, migration of medial vascular smooth muscle cells to the intimal layer, and ultimately acute thrombosis. A strategy to simultaneously target these pathological processes has yet to be identified. The secreted protein, Slit2, and its transmembrane receptor, Robo-1, repel neuronal migration in the developing central nervous system. More recently, it has been appreciated that Slit2 impairs chemotaxis of leukocytes and vascular smooth muscle cells toward diverse inflammatory attractants. The effects of Slit2 on platelet function and thrombus formation have never been explored.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
Get PDFThe last decade has seen a sharp increase in the number of scientific publications describing physiological and pathological functions of extracellular vesicles (EVs), a collective term covering various subtypes of cell-released, membranous structures, called exosomes, microvesicles, microparticles, ectosomes, oncosomes, apoptotic bodies, and many other names. However, specific issues arise when working with these entities, whose size and amount often make them difficult to obtain as relatively pure preparations, and to characterize properly. The International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) proposed Minimal Information for Studies of Extracellular Vesicles (“MISEV”) guidelines for the field in 2014. We now update these “MISEV2014” guidelines based on evolution of the collective knowledge in the last four years. An important point to consider is that ascribing a specific function to EVs in general, or to subtypes of EVs, requires reporting of specific information beyond mere description of function in a crude, potentially contaminated, and heterogeneous preparation. For example, claims that exosomes are endowed with exquisite and specific activities remain difficult to support experimentally, given our still limited knowledge of their specific molecular machineries of biogenesis and release, as compared with other biophysically similar EVs. The MISEV2018 guidelines include tables and outlines of suggested protocols and steps to follow to document specific EV-associated functional activities. Finally, a checklist is provided with summaries of key points. © 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of The International Society for Extracellular Vesicles
