32 research outputs found
THE PASSAGE: Enquiry into the Ephemeral Absence of Social Construct During Transitions
No full text“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.” ― William Blake. This thesis support paper presents my artistic research on the ephemeral nature of absence in social constructs while relocating myself to new places. I am interrogating a fluid positionality that is continuously shifting, leading me to contextualise the research stance in the between and betwixt of Passage. I am examining the experience of passing from one place, condition, or stage to another and highlight the in-between space made visible through artwork produced with various methods and processes. Throughout, absence is indicated via aesthetics, materiality, and immateriality pointing to subtle boundaries between play and seriousness, the real and imaginary, the ephemeral and permanent. Themes of travel, constraint, absence, liminality, and human consciousness are explored through performative installations, architectural spaces, and different degrees of audience participation. The research generates a dialogue between performance, space, and time which involves bodily experience, live actions with mixed media installations, and time-based works. The choice of media and symbols revolve around various conceptual ideas inspired by academic and non-academic sources — contemporary art, spiritual texts, psychology, lucid visions while meditating — which become the artistic expression's metaphorical core. Anchoring in an auto-ethnographic methodology of resisting mastery, the research was conducted by allowing space for unknowns to reveal their contours through silent being and doing by not doing
Futile Quest for Perfection: Understanding the Aesthetics of Wabi-sabi through Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana
No full textEvolution, whether zoological or spiritual, is the basic requisite for making our existence more and more meaningful. The yearning for attaining perfection with a Sense of Completeness has always provided the needed impetus for this process. However, there are immense delusions regarding the notion of becoming a ‘Complete Man.’ Girish Karnad\u27s play Hayavadana offers a distinct perspective regarding this. Search for identity, characteristics of true love, and the idea of a perfect man are only some of the issues addressed in the drama. The main plot of the play is based on the story "The Transposed Heads," which originated as a Folk Tale in ancient India and was later elaborated by Thomas Mann in his novella of the same name. Devadatta and Kapila, the two closest friends, both fall in love with Padmini. However, Padmini is torn between the two, as Devadatta possesses a brilliant mind but is physically unattractive, while Kapila is physically strong but not as intelligent as Devadatta. The complexity in the play heightens when accidentally the heads of the two friends get transposed and they are given back life by the divine intervention of Goddess Kali. The current study focuses on one of the central themes of the efforts of the protagonists to attain perfection or completeness. The play teaches us that true completeness can only be achieved by overcoming our feelings of imperfection, embracing our unique qualities, and attempting to attain a bigger purpose in life by rising above our mundane realities. Then only we can truly attain ‘Better Worldliness.
The development of latent fingerprints by zinc oxide and tin oxide nanoparticles prepared by precipitation technique
No full textContext Specific Lexicon for Hindi Reviews
No full textAbstractIn the era of social networking, immense amount of posts, comments and tweets generated every second are increasing the size of social database. The analysis of this voluminous data is necessary for exploring the orientation of people's opinion about a particular entity. Most of the online data are in English language, but due to increase in technology and improved awareness of people, the online data available in Indian languages are gradually increasing. Sentiment analysis of English language alone is not sufficient to know the inclination of people towards an entity, other Indian language sentiment analysis is a must, their contribution is also important for us. The available sentiment classification lexicon resources like Hindi SentiWordNet are generic in nature and hence results in average sentiment classification accuracy due to contextual dependency. To improve the sentiment classification accuracy, we present an improvised lexicon resource for Hindi language for Hotel and Movie domains. The improvised polarity lexicon has been built reflecting context sensitivity and to increase coverage it has been expanded used synonyms based approach. The built polarity lexicon resource showcases an improvement in accuracy of 42% and 78% in Movie and Hotel domain, respectively, compared to the existing Hindi SentiWordNet lexicon resource
TALENT MANAGEMENT – A STUDY ON INDIAN IT SECTOR
No full text<p>Talent – a long used term in many Human resource departments of most companies, is a<br>scarce resource, which needs to be managed effectively. McKinsey in their 1997 study coined the<br>expression “War for talent”. Since then throughout literature different interpretations have been<br>identified for talent management. There are various aspects and steps to follow talent management from<br>planning, acquiring, developing, managing and retaining talent. With the growth of Information<br>Technology (IT) industry in India in the past two decades, the number of employees joining this sector<br>has increased manifold. Thus, there is a need to understand as to how the talent in this sector is effectively<br>managed and what are the perceptions of the employees in the IT sector with the related dimensions of<br>talent management, which can be broadly classified as employee engagement, retaining talent, training<br>& development, rewards & recognition and succession planning.</p>
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Comparative study between transcervical extra-amniotic Foley’s bulb and prostaglandin E2 gel for pre-induction cervical ripening
No full textBackground: Induction of labor is an artificial initiation of uterine activity before the spontaneous onset of labor with the aim of achieving vaginal delivery. Various pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods have been studied for the purpose.Methods: This randomized prospective study conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Seth V. C. Gandhi & M. A. Vora Municipal General Hospital (Rajawadi Hospital), Mumbai from June 2019 to April 2020. It included pregnant patients admitted to the labor ward for induction of labor. A total 200 women were recruited and randomly allocated to the two study groups fulfilling the following selection criteria. Of these, 100 women were included in Foley's catheter group (group A) and 100 in (group B) prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) group. Results: The subjects included mainly were of 24-28 years age group. The period of gestation was 37-42 weeks in majority of the women in both the groups. Maximum numbers of women in both groups were primigravidae, being 66% in group A and 70% in group B. Foley catheter proved to be a highly effective pre-induction ripening agent for unfavorable cervix, compared to PGE2 gel, as evident by the mean Bishop score at 12 hours (p<0.05) and by the difference in change of Bishop score over 12 hours (p<0.05) in both groups A and B. Women in both the groups had a high rate of normal vaginal delivery, rate being significantly more in Foley’s group.Conclusions: This study concludes that extra-amniotic Foley’s catheter balloon is an effective, safe, simple, low cost, reversible, non-pharmacological mechanical method of pre-induction cervical ripening
VIBRONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF 4-ISOCYANOBENZONITRILE
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,47907This talk will discuss the jet-cooled vibronic spectroscopy of 4-isocyanobenzonitrile (4IBN, CN-CH-CN) via resonant two-photon ionization, laser induced fluorescence, dispersed fluorescence, and UV-UV hole burning methods. Much of the vibronic spectroscopy of the molecule shows strong similarities with the symmetric structural isomers dicyano and di-isocyanobenzene. However, in 4IBN, we have identified a series of weak transitions extending well red of the * origin. UV holeburning spectroscopy has been used to confirm that these transitions arise from the same ground state as the others, pointing to the presence of another electronic state. Based on comparison with other nitrilebenzenes, we postulate that the large dipole moment of 4IBN opens the possibility of a charge transfer (CT) state, much as occurs in para-amino substituted benzonitriles. The rich vibronic spectroscopy of this molecule will be explored using dispersed fluorescence
A Case Study on Modeling and Validating Financial Regulations Using (Semi-) Automated Compliance Framework
No full textPart 6: Experience ReportsInternational audienceModern enterprises operate in an unprecedented regulatory environment where increasing regulation and heavy penalties on non-compliance have placed regulatory compliance among the topmost concerns of enterprises worldwide. Previous research in the field of compliance has established that the manual specification/tagging of the regulations not only fails to ensure their proper coverage but also negatively affects the turnaround time both in proving and maintaining the compliance. Our contribution in this paper is a case study using a subset of European Union Regulation in the financial markets, namely, Money Market Statistical Reporting (MMSR) and that we validated it in the context of our model-driven semi-automated compliance framework. The novelty of the framework is the key participation of domain experts to author regulatory rules in a controlled natural language to enable compliance checking. We demonstrate transformation of regulations present in legal natural language text (English) to a model form via authoring of Structured English rules in the context of MMSR regulations for a large European bank. This generated regulatory model is eventually translated to formal logic that enables formal compliance checking contrary to current industry practice, that provides content management-based, document-driven and expert-dependent ways of managing regulatory compliance
Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the prostate: A report of two cases with diagnostic considerations
No full textVIBRONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF JET-COOLED 1,4-PHENYLENE DIISOCYANIDE
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907This talk will present results of a gas phase, jet-cooled vibronic spectroscopy study of 1,4-PDI. A fluorescence excitation spectrum spanning the range 35,500-44,100 cm (226.5-281.5 nm) has been recorded, as well as a resonant two photon ionization excitation and UV hole-burning spectrum, in the region of 35,500-36,500 cm. The S-S origin is a weak band located at 35,566 cm. The spectrum in the S region is dominated by vibronic coupling to the S state. Dispersed fluorescence spectra will be presented that uncover and characterize the vibronic coupling. We have also located the S-S origin 5687 cm above the S-S origin. Evidence will be presented for the coupling of the S levels with nearby S levels and for internal conversion from S to S on the timescale of the fluorescence
