383 research outputs found
Ek duniyā alag sī Narrative strategies and Adivasi representation in the short stories of Vinod Kumar
No full textThis paper investigates the narrative strategies of representation used by the Indian author Vinod Kumar in his literary writing about the life and spaces of the Adivasi. The focal point of this study consists in the fact that the author is a non-Adivasi, thus placing him and his writing in the center of a very much debated issue of Hindi literature i.e. the polarity between the writing through sympathy (Hindi sahānubhūti) and the writing through personal experience (anubhūti). This study-case looks at how the author, being a dikū, an outsider describes the ‘other’ (i.e. the Adivasi). The results show that the author’s representation of the Adivasi, based on a solid empirical knowledge of his ‘other’, contains some elements of romanticism revealing both his outsideness and a strong empathy for the ‘other’.Masteruppsats i indologi 2019</p
Discrete implementation of cancer from the NCD program and concurrent opportunities for research
No full textArticle Type: Editorial
Title: Discrete implementation of cancer from the NCD program and concurrent opportunities for research
Year: 2022; Volume: 2; Issue: 2; Page No: 1 – 3
Author: Vinod K Ramani1*, Radheshyam Naik2
https://doi.org/10.55349/ijmsnr.20222213
Affiliation: 1Senior Consultant, Medical Affairs, Technology Healthcare Big data Analytics, Gurugram, India. Email ID: [email protected]
2Group Medical Advisor, Medical Oncology, Healthcare Global Enterprise Ltd., Bangalore. Email ID: [email protected]
Article Summary: Submitted : 03-April-2022; Revised: 28-May-2022; Accepted: 15-June-2022; Published: 30-June-2022Editorial Articl
On the Distribution of Control in Asynchronous Processor Architectures
Get PDFInstitute for Computing Systems ArchitectureThe effective performance of computer systems is to a large measure
determined by the synergy between the processor architecture, the
instruction set and the compiler. In the past, the sequencing of
information within processor architectures has normally been
synchronous: controlled centrally by a clock. However, this global
signal could possibly limit the future gains in performance that can
potentially be achieved through improvements in implementation
technology.
This thesis investigates the effects of relaxing this strict synchrony
by distributing control within processor architectures through the use
of a novel asynchronous design model known as a micronet. The impact
of asynchronous control on the performance of a RISC-style processor
is explored at different levels. Firstly, improvements in the
performance of individual instructions by exploiting actual run-time
behaviours are demonstrated. Secondly, it is shown that micronets are
able to exploit further (both spatial and temporal) instructionlevel
parallelism (ILP) efficiently through the distribution of control to
datapath resources. Finally, exposing fine-grain concurrency within a
datapath can only be of benefit to a computer system if it can easily
be exploited by the compiler. Although compilers for micronet-based
asynchronous processors may be considered to be more complex than
their synchronous counterparts, it is shown that the variable
execution time of an instruction does not adversely affect the
compiler's ability to schedule code efficiently. In conclusion, the
modelling of a processor's datapath as a micronet permits the
exploitation of both finegrain ILP and actual run-time delays, thus
leading to the efficient utilisation of functional units and in turn
resulting in an improvement in overall system performance
Técnicas de processamento de imagem para melhoria de algoritmo de detecção de bolhas
No full textA indústria do petróleo e gás no Brasil foi o terceiro maior setor no PIB brasileiro em 2019,
atrás somente do comércio e construção. Naturalmente, setores de extração podem causar
danos ambientais e, levando em consideração o tamanho do setor de óleo e gás no Brasil,
torna-se necessário fiscalizar as regiões de extração para evitar desastres. Para automatizar
essa fiscalização a Petrobras, em conjunto com o laboratório HidroUFF, desenvolveu uma
aplicação para calcular automaticamente a vazão de bolhas em perfurações submarinas.
Este trabalho tem o intuito de propôr um método para melhorar a identificação das bolhas
desta aplicaçãoThe oil and gas industry in Brazil was the third largest sector in the Brazilian GDP in
2019, behind only commerce and construction. Extraction activities, such as oil and gas,
can cause environmental damage and, taking into account its size in Brazil’s GDP, it is
necessary to inspect extraction regions to avoid environmental disasters. To automate this
inspection, Petrobras, together with the HidroUFF laboratory, developed an application
to automatically estimate the flowrate of bubbles in underwater drilling wells. This work
aims to propose a method to improve the identification of bubbles in this application50 p
Issues in adjustment lending
Get PDFReaping the full benefit of adjustment packages depends on a government's commitment to reform as well as a variety of complementary factors, many of which have not been duly considered because of the lack of time, resources, and skills. It is becoming increasingly clear that if these packages are to be more effective and credible, the menu of policy options might be expanded in three areas. One is translating adjustment policies into improved economic performance -- the objective of domestic strategy. The second is reconciling policy reforms with changing external strategy. The third is improving the process of adjustment itself. The report concludes that attention needs to be placed on the commitment to price reforms and nonprice areas. Support might increase for the outward orientation of countries -- if discussions are extended to consider external factors and if nondistortionary ways of promoting domestic production are explored. There must also be greater government commitment to building support for the reforms as well as flexiblity in the external financing community.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Country Strategy&Performance,Achieving Shared Growth,ICT Policy and Strategies
Eliciting Requirements of a Knowledge Management System for Gaming in an Organization: The Role of Tacit Knowledge
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Policy AnalysisOrganisation & Governanc
Facilitated Tabletop Games in a Mediated Environment
No full textTabletop games that require the aid of a human facilitator are typically designed for a physical environment. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures prevented people from gathering. Therefore, tabletop games were sometimes played and facilitated in a mediated environment using online communication tools instead. But this setting possibly deteriorates the players’ game experience. To understand the effect of playing facilitated tabletop games in a mediated environment we measured the player experience of the game Cue Kitchen in a mixed-method study comparing physical and mediated game sessions. Forty-four players played eleven game sessions, three in a physical environment and eight in a mediated environment. Of all seven dimensions of game experience measured, only one differed significantly between the two experimental conditions: players in a mediated environment became significantly more tired than players in a physical environment. The qualitative results explained why: players in a physical setting can wander off, while players in an online setting have to stay focused on their screen and, therefore, grow more tired. The research results suggest that facilitated tabletop games may be played in a mediated environment instead of a physical environment, without significant loss of player experience.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Policy AnalysisOrganisation & Governanc
“Risk Management Can Actually Be Fun”: Using the Serious Cards for Biosafety Game to Stimulate Proper Discussions About Biosafety
No full textAs part of a Dutch Science Foundation project called T-TRIPP, the authors developed the serious game Cards for Biosafety. The aim of Cards for Biosafety is to let young biotechnology researchers learn more about biosafety. Analyses of workshops with researchers from the biotechnology domain as well as results of interviews with several biosafety officers clearly indicated the need for such a serious game with a focus on educational learning. Cards for Biosafety is a physical (also playable online on Tabletopia) round-based card game and playable with up to eight players. The game itself consists of scenario, risk and measure cards, and the task of the players is to choose risk and measure cards that fit the scenario explained by the facilitator at the beginning of each round. To test the efficiency of Cards for Biosafety as a learning tool, the authors conducted two online-workshops with twelve participants. The results of these sessions have not only shown that Cards for Biosafety is a well-designed game, but also a successful game to achieve the intended learning goal. In addition, the authors recognized that ‘fun’ is an important element in the game which leads to ‘learning’ in a very effective way. Future research should focus on the role of such positive states in serious games and their influence on learning outcomes.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Policy AnalysisGame La
Frame Game as Teaching Methodology in Higher Education: The Case of RElastiCity
No full textThe objective of the study is to illustrate the use of the frame game, RElastiCity as a framework to learn about the resilience of urban areas and the shocks and stresses in those areas. The question is if use of the frame game as a basis for game co-design is a useful approach to explore complex systems and its dynamics. This study covers the exploratory application of the approach in two university courses in the Netherlands. The results show divergent student experiences between the two courses. The main difference between the courses was the scope of the co-design assignment and the amount of time students had to complete the design process. It was found that using frame games as a framework for understanding complex systems is useful if students have sufficient time to investigate the topic, develop the game and playtest the game.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Organisation & GovernanceDesign Conceptualization and Communicatio
Hadamard product of certain meromorphic univalent functions
No full textAbstractThe author establishes certain results concerning the Hadamard product of meromorphic univalent functions analogous to the results due to Vinod Kumar (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 126 (1987), 70–77)
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