222 research outputs found
Innate attraction and aversion to odors in locusts
No full textProcessed data for the article "Innate attraction and aversion to odors in locusts" by Subhasis Ray, Kui Sun, and Mark Stopfer.Funded by NICHD/NIH Intramural Gran
Path analytic approach towards demystifying the key triggers behind liking different cricket formats: a Kolkata based study / Subhasis Ray and Soma Roychowdhury
No full textCricket has multiple international formats. This study aims to find out if gender and age have any influences on liking any formats. It delves deep into the outcome quality of a cricket match to build a construct for understanding fans’ psyche behind fondness for any formats. The same construct is used to model overall liking for each format. The study uses Chi-square test for independence to investigate the influence of gender and age group on overall liking of a format. It uses Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to establish the dimensional construct and applies Structural Equation Model (SEM) to model overall liking based on the construct. The study finds no link between gender and liking of a format even though age group appears to influence. It establishes the construct REST comprising of Result, Excitement, Skill, Time and Money to measure overall liking for a format. Result and Skill are found to be insignificant for predicting the liking of Tests and T20 respectively whereas ODI appears to be more balanced. The findings give a clear indication to the regulators that test matches need to be made more unpredictable and result-oriented and T20 matches less restricted and more skilful. The regulators need to strategize making the younger generation interested in test and the older generation in T20. REST can be treated as a pioneering construct that can explain fan’s expectation from a game of cricket leading to liking a format
AMERICAN GOTHIC MAINSTREAM FICTION
No full textThis is my (Subhasis Chattopadhyay's) draft of PhD pre-submission. Dr. Scriver has (had) put it up online in her blog and I found it today, that is 1:06 pm, 28th May, 2017. I am grateful to her since intellectual ideas can otherwise be hijacked. She has done a wonderful editorial job. I want to make it clear that the author of the blog post is Dr. Scriver and not I. But in the Add Contributor here I cannot insert her name as the author so I have out her as an editor which is incorrect. Her blog-post though is in the public domain. Please see http://prairiemary.blogspot.in/2013/03/it-was-all-very-unexpected-and.htm
State of the Raritan Report, Volume 1, December 2016
No full textThis report updates key indicators of water quality and watershed health for the Raritan Basin that were originally assessed in the 2002 Raritan Basin: Portrait of a Watershed as developed by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority. The objective of that original report, as well as this update, is to inform watershed management and water supply protection needs in the Raritan Basin. This new assessment uses the same eleven key indicators and updates the original data – most from 1986 and 1995 – with data from 2002, 2007 and 2012 in order to determine trends over the past 26 years and to identify data gaps for development of future more comprehensive assessments.Eleven key indicators were assessed for this report including: population; housing units; urban land use; impervious surface cover; forested, coastal and emergent wetlands; upland forest cover; prime agricultural land; groundwater recharge; fish and macroinvertebrate bioassessments; riparian area integrity; and known contaminant sites and groundwater contamination. Overall comparison of this updated analysis with the prior 2002 report (Table 1) shows that trends evident between 1986 and 1995 are continuing in the same general direction though the rate has varied over the longer time period. Trends increased for population, housing units, urban land use and impervious surface cover. An increasing trend for these indicators adds stress on water quality and supplies with potential negative impacts for the watershed. Trends declined for all of the wetland land covers assessed as well as for upland forest, prime agricultural land and groundwater recharge. Downward trends for these indicators suggests that the watershed is losing its natural filtering capacity with attendant negative impacts to water quality. The bioassessment and riparian areas trends were mixed and there was not sufficient data to determine trends for the known contaminated sites and groundwater contamination indicators.more information about report and effort at: http://raritan.rutgers.edu/2016-state-of-the-raritan-report/Authored by the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative. More information about the report and Initiative may be found at: http://raritan.rutgers.edu/2016-state-of-the-raritan-report
Smart service value: Conceptualization, scale development, and validation in the retailing context
No full textIn-store smart technology is rapidly transforming service delivery and value creation in the retail sector. However, despite these advances, academic acumen of customers' perceived value of their smart service interactions remains tenuous, exposing an important omission in extant literature. Addressing this gap, we conceptualize, operationalize, and validate smart service value (SSV) in the retailing context. We first define SSV as the costs and benefits as perceived by customers of using in-store smart service applications. We then operationalize SSV and validate a third-order, reflective-formative construct by means of a scale development survey through Amazon MTurk (study 1; n = 326). To further validate the proposed SSV scale, we subsequently tested our conceptual model using a survey querying a hypothetical retail setting through an Australian panel provider (study 2; n = 298), which was analyzed by using PLS path modeling. Specifically, we explore SSV's effect on customer engagement and trust, which are in turn envisaged to impact customers' quality of life. The results reveal a significant mediating effect of affective customer engagement/trust in the association of SSV and customer-perceived quality of life, highlighting the pertinence of customers' emotional (vs. cognitive) SSV assessments. Our findings are aimed at helping retailers to strategically position smart service technologies in their stores based on customer-perceived SSV.</p
The Specious Present: background for my students (special author Virginia Woolf)
No full textThis 4 slides' presentation is supplementary material for my students who have opted for Virginia Woolf as their Masters' 'special author'. The presentation shows how James' the specious moment and Husserl's the rough now constitute the matrix of modernist literature, especially the fiction of Virginia Woolf. From St. Augustine to Husserl there is a continuum which has to be understood for engaging with the novels of Virginia Woolf
The Specious Present: background for my students (special author V Woolf)
No full textThis 4 slides' presentation is supplementary material for my students who have opted for Virginia Woolf as their Masters' 'special author'.
The presentation shows how James' the specious moment and Husserl's the rough now constitute the matrix of modernist literature, especially the fiction of Virginia Woolf. From St. Augustine to Husserl there is a continuum which has to be understood for engaging with the novels of Virginia Woolf
Multi-objective optimization of an interior permanent magnet motor
No full textIn recent years, due to growing environmental awareness regarding global warming, green cars, such as hybrid electric vehicles, have gained a lot of importance. With the decreasing cost of rare earth magnets, brushless permanent magnet motors, such as the Interior Permanent Magnet Motor, have found usage as part of the traction drive system in these types of vehicles. As a design issue, building a motor with a performance curve that suits both city and highway driving has been treated in this thesis as a multi-objective problem; matching specific points of the torque-speed curve to the desired performance output. Conventionally, this has been treated as separate problems or as a combination of several individual problems, but doing so gives little information about the trade-offs involved. As a means of identifying the compromising solutions, we have developed a stochastic optimizer for tackling electromagnetic device optimization and have also demonstrated a new innovative way of studying how different design parameters affect performance
Giving Voice to Values (GVV) Project
No full textLusíada. Direito. ISSN 2182-4118. S. 2, suplemento (2024).O projeto que tem desenvolvido, baseando-se em numerosos testemunhos e locais sobretudo nos EUA, que chama de “Dar Voz aos Valores” (DVV) pode ser resumido numa ideia simples: se você tem que defender seus valores, como fazer isso sem perder o emprego? O foco do DVV não é, portanto, Aristóteles. Não é uma teo ria, não é um modelo, mas começa com uma suposição básica: E se eu quiser falar? Como devo falar? Como devo agir?
Há sete pilares no projecto DVV: Valor, Escolha, Normalização, Propósito, Autoconhecimento-Autoimagem-Alinhamento, Razão e Racionalização. Em cada um reflecte-se sobre comportamentos em sintonia com estes valores éticos
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