18 research outputs found
She: A History of Adventure and its Misogynist Attack on Early Feminism
No full textThis essay analyzes the gender-based socio-political implications of H. Rider Haggard’s She: A History of Adventure, which engages with the historical context of Victorian Britain. This essay argues that the novel, which functions as a misogynist political tool, implicitly strives to assault the progressive emergence of early first-wave feminism in Victorian Britain. In doing so, Haggard’s novel attacks the values of two particular activists, as well as the following specific aspects of nineteenth-century feminism: a belief in the equal worth of women and men; opposition to social constructions of femininity that portray certain women as immoral or promiscuous; and opposition to a political structure that discriminates against women and renders them subservient to patriarchal interests. Near the end of the essay, a gender-based theme identified by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Guhar is explored in relation to Haggard’s novel. In the process of analyzing the novel and its relationship with systemic gender-based oppression, this essay addresses the broad issue of the extent to which literature reflects human culture
Effect of fibre orientation on mechanical and functional properties of needle-punched nonwoven
Get PDF321-328An attempt has been made to study the effect of fibre orientation, measured by the structural characteristics, on mechanical and functional properties of needle-punched nonwoven by varying the carding machine and punching parameters. It is observed that all measured physical, mechanical and functional properties of nonwovens have strong correlation with the proposed structural characteristics. Cylinder speed, punch density and needle depth penetration have significant effect on fabric thickness, air permeability, pore diameter, filtration efficiency and pressure drop
Application of newly developed fibre orientation measurement techniques for needle-punched nonwoven
Get PDF131-140New structural characteristics based on tracer fibre and Lindsley’s techniques to measure the fibre orientation in X, Y and Z directions of needle-punched nonwoven have been investigated. The results are verified with variable cylinder speed, punch density and needle depth penetration. It is evident that measured structural characteristics and fabric tensile strength show very good correlation in machine direction but poor correlation in cross-direction
Filtration performance of needle-punched nonwoven air filter media through dyeing process
No full text417-423Viscose fibre has been dyed with various dye concentrations and the needle-punched nonwoven fabrics are prepared
using the dyed fibre, keeping machine parameters the same. The physical properties, such as tenacity & bursting strength,
and functional performance properties, such as mean flow pore size, filtration efficiency & pressure drop, are measured. It is
found that the dyeing plays a big role in altering the overall performance of the needle-punched nonwoven. The tenacity of
the needle-punched nonwoven fabric is reduced as dye concentration is increased. Filtration efficiency is measured for three
different sizes of particles, namely 3μm, 5μm, and 10μm. For all three cases, the filtration efficiency is increased initially till
3% dye concentration and beyond that it is reduced
Knowledge-based Framework for Intelligent Emotion Recognition in Spontaneous Speech
No full textAbstractAutomatic speech emotion recognition plays an important role in intelligent human computer interaction. Identifying emotion in natural, day to day, spontaneous conversational speech is difficult because most often the emotion expressed by the speaker are not necessarily as prominent as in acted speech. In this paper, we propose a novel spontaneous speech emotion recognition framework that makes use of the available knowledge. The framework is motivated by the observation that there is significant disagreement amongst human annotators when they annotate spontaneous speech; the disagreement largely reduces when they are provided with additional knowledge related to the conversation. The proposed framework makes use of the contexts (derived from linguistic contents) and the knowledge regarding the time lapse of the spoken utterances in the context of an audio call to reliably recognize the current emotion of the speaker in spontaneous audio conversations. Our experimental results demonstrate that there is a significant improvement in the performance of spontaneous speech emotion recognition using the proposed framework
Effect of fibre orientation on mechanical and functional properties of needle-punched nonwoven
Get PDFAn attempt has been made to study the effect of fibre orientation, measured by the structural characteristics, onmechanical and functional properties of needle-punched nonwoven by varying the carding machine and punchingparameters. It is observed that all measured physical, mechanical and functional properties of nonwovens have strongcorrelation with the proposed structural characteristics. Cylinder speed, punch density and needle depth penetration havesignificant effect on fabric thickness, air permeability, pore diameter, filtration efficiency and pressure drop
Application of newly developed fibre orientation measurement techniques for needle-punched nonwoven
Get PDFNew structural characteristics based on tracer fibre and Lindsley’s techniques to measure the fibre orientation in X, Yand Z directions of needle-punched nonwoven have been investigated. The results are verified with variable cylinder speed,punch density and needle depth penetration. It is evident that measured structural characteristics and fabric tensile strengthshow very good correlation in machine direction but poor correlation in cross-direction
Quantification of binder fibres in needle-punched nonwoven and its influence on physical-mechanical-functional properties of an air filter media
No full text204-217A nonwoven filter (viscose fibres) with an optimal design has been developed by controlling the binder fibres (fibres in
the vertical direction) in the needle-punched nonwoven. Box and Behnken design in conjunction with 3D surface analysis
hasbeen used to study the effect of punch density, needle penetration depth and stroke frequency, considering the percentage
of binder fibres in the overall structure on thickness, tenacity, air permeability and filtration efficiency of the filter. In this
work, all the above properties are explained in the light of the considered structural index ‘percentage of binder fibres’. It is
observed that the percentage of binder fibres increases with the increase of all three considered punching parameters. The
thickness and tenacity are found to be decreased and increased respectively, with the increase of binder fibre percentage.
The air permeability initially decreases and then increases with the increase in the percentage of binder fibres, whereas the
filtration efficiency showsthe opposite trend
