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The Baci
No full textTwo articles concerning the ceremony of the baci in Lao culture. Includes a copy of a book chapter written by Thao Nhouy Abhay, the former Minister of Education.The baci is an expression of welcome. The scanned book pages are from "Kingdom of Laos: The Land of the Million Elephants and of the White Parasol" edited by Rene de Berval; Saigon: France-Asie, 195
On Developing Macro-Diagnostics For Evaluating The Fiscal Health Of the Indian States: The Case Of Madhya Pradesh
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From General Relativity to Quantum Gravity
No full textTo appear in \emph{General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Survey}, commissioned by the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation and to be published by Cambridge University Press. Abhay Ashtekar served as the `coordinating author' and combined the three contributionsInternational audienceIn general relativity (GR), spacetime geometry is no longer just a background arena but a physical and dynamical entity with its own degrees of freedom. We present an overview of approaches to quantum gravity in which this central feature of GR is at the forefront. However, the short distance dynamics in the quantum theory are quite different from those of GR and classical spacetimes and gravitons emerge only in a suitable limit. Our emphasis is on communicating the key strategies, the main results and open issues. In the spirit of this volume, we focus on a few avenues that have led to the most significant advances over the past 2-3 decades
Monitoring the Intracellular Distribution and ROS Scavenging Potential of Carbon Dot–Cerium Oxide Nanocomposites in Fibroblast Cells
No full textSolving lecture time tabling problem using GA
No full textThis paper present an implementation of a prototype to solve lecture time tabling problem. The author has employed the GA, a powerful global optimization algorithm, has capability to explore the search space adequately. Though, the presented prototype is in the initial stage, the author has presented a small piece of result and analysis demonstrates the working of the system.</p
Use IT again? Dynamic roles of habit, intention and their interaction on continued system use by individuals in utilitarian, volitional contexts
No full textThis paper employs a longitudinal perspective to examine continued system use (CSU) by individuals in utilitarian, volitional contexts when alternative systems are present . We focus on two key behavioural antecedents of CSU – habit and continuance intention – and theorise how the relationships between CSU and these antecedents evolve over time. In addition, we hypothesise how the interaction effect of habit and intention on CSU evolves temporally. Our theorising differs from extant literature in two important respects: 1) In contrast to the widespread acceptance of the diminishing effect of continuance intention on CSU in the information systems (IS) literature, we hypothesise that in our context, its impact increases with time; and 2) In contrast to the negative moderation effect of habit on the relationship between intention and CSU proposed in the literature, we posit a positive interaction effect. We collect longitudinal survey data on the use of a higher education IS from students in a European university. Our results suggest that the impact of continuance intention on CSU as well as the interaction effect between habit and intention are increasing over time. We further introduce a methodological innovation – the permutation approach to conduct the multi-group analysis with repeated measures – to the literature.This article is published Matthias Söllner, Abhay Nath Mishra, Jan-Michael Becker & Jan Marco Leimeister (2022): Use IT again? Dynamic roles of habit, intention and their interaction on continued system use by individuals in utilitarian, volitional contexts. European Journal of Information Systems, DOI: 10.1080/0960085X.2022.2115949 Posted with permission. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.<br/
Essays on Oil Price Shocks and Financial Markets
No full textThis thesis has been submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for a postgraduate degree (e.g. PhD, MPhil, DClinPsychol) at the University of Edinburgh. Please note the following terms and conditions of use: • This work is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, which are retained by the thesis author, unless otherwise stated. • A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. • This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author. • The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. • When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given
Jaya a novel optimization algorithm:What, how and why?
No full textThis paper presents a comprehensive discussion of the Jaya algorithm, a novel approach for the optimization. There exist two broad categories of heuristic algorithms are: evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence. These algorithms' performance vastly depends on the parameters used need extensive tuning during the computational experiments to achieve the superior performance. The Jaya algorithm is a new optimization algorithm has been proposed recently is parameter less and therefore parameters tuning is not needed for it. The primary aim of this paper is to discuss the Jaya algorithm based on the rational aspects outlined as: (a) what is Jaya algorithm; (b) How it works and (c) why one should use it. The author believes that this discussion might be useful to explore the potential of the Jaya to the general audience working for the optimization.</p
Polysaccharide Functionalized Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Nanocarriers for Delivery of Curcumin in Lung Cancer Cells
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