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V. Raghavan (éd.) : The Ramayana Tradition in Asia
No full textFilliozat Jean. V. Raghavan (éd.) : The Ramayana Tradition in Asia . In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 70, 1981. pp. 321-324
V. Raghavan. New Catalogus Catalogorum. An Alphabetical register of Sanskrit and allied works authors
No full textRenou Louis. V. Raghavan. New Catalogus Catalogorum. An Alphabetical register of Sanskrit and allied works authors. In: Journal des savants, Avril-juin 1950. pp. 93-95
Project Management Learnings from Ramayana
Full text linkRamayana is the first Indian Epic also known as Adhi Kavya comprising 24000 shlokas, grouped in 500 sargaswhich are divided over 7 kandas. The first author of Ramayana, written in Sanskrit, is Maharishi Valmiki. These authors have discovered multiple dimensions and implications of Ramayana in diverse fields like Management, Philosophy, Spirituality, Literature, Indian Mythology, etc. There are many teachings from this epic that can be applied in today's management-life in areas such as Project Management, Strategic Management, Leadership, Human Resource Management, and the like. In Ramayana, after the evil-spirited Ravana abducted Goddess Sita, Lord Rama who is in search of Goddess Sita, along with his brother, Lakshmana finds Lord Hanuman, a noble monkey, who played a predominant role in search of Goddess Sita and destruction of Ravana, the king of Lanka. After finding the whereabouts of Goddess Sita, they prepared for a war with Ravana to bring her back to Ayodhya. They also prepared for the Coronation of Lord Rama; so that" the Prince in exile becomes the King of Ayodhya". Objective: The application of Agile Project Management at the time of searching Goddess Sita in Ramayana. Methodology: Agile Project Management methodology is used in this research study, which has four main stages: Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution, and Project Closure The research study tries to understand in detail how Ramayana's knowledge-repository is integrated into the modern-day Agile Project Management Methodology. Results: Valmiki Ramayana is extremely wealthy in portraying multiple examples of Project Management methodologies, synthesizing of Agile Project Methodologies from Ramayana, and application of Project Management to modern-day Projects. Implications: The results from this article can be applied to today's management life like – Project Management, Strategic Management, Leadership, and Human Resource Management
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Open Source GIS GRASS for developing spatial data infrastructure - Present status and future potential
No full textThis article outlines the salient features and current state of development of the Open Source GIS GRASS. We discuss the concepts and issues related to the development of GRASS that represents the only full fledged, multi-platform GIS available as OSS. Further, we highlight the potential of GRASS GIS in developing spatial data infrastructure and put forth a proposal for establishing a GRASS Consortium to support, nurture and accelerate furher development
Integrating low-cost RTK positioning services with a web based track log management system
No full textLocation-based collaborative platforms are proving
to be an effective and widely adopted solution for geo-spatial
data collection, update, and sharing. Popular collaborative
projects like OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia, and other services
that collect and publish user-generated geographic contents
have been fostered by the increasing availability of locationaware
devices. These instruments include global positioning
system (GPS)-enabled phones and low-cost GPS receivers,
which are employed for quick field surveys at both professional
and nonprofessional levels. Nevertheless, the data collected
with such devices are often inaccurate. To alleviate this
drawback, an integration of modern web technologies and
online services with an advanced positioning technique is
implemented. A web-based prototype for quality-based data
selection of GPS tracks, managing track logs and point of
interests is integrated with the goGPS software. This combined
system applies the principle of real-time kinematic
(RTK) positioning to low-cost single-frequency receivers.
The workflow consists of acquiring the raw GPS measurements
from the user’s receiver and from a network of GPS
stations, processing data by RTK positioning through the goGPS Kalman filter algorithm, sending the accurate positioning
data to the web-based system, performing further
quality enhancements, and logging and displaying the data.
Tests were performed in open areas and various dense urban
environments, comparing the results obtained by standard
GPS devices and by goGPS RTK positioning. Results were
promising and suggest that the integration of web technologies
with advanced geodetic techniques applied to low-cost
instruments can be an effective solution to collect, update, and
share accurate location data on collaborative platforms
Enhanced satellite positioning as a web service with goGPS open source software
No full textProviding enhanced satellite positioning as a web service can be an effective way to enable low-level GPS receivers to perform surveys with a good accuracy and to reduce hardware cost, by removing computation capability and embedded proprietary software. goGPS is an open source application for achieving sub-meter accuracy with low-cost GPS receivers by exploiting real-time kinematic positioning, Kalman filtering, aid from a digital terrain model, and in general by integrating GPS data with other sources of information. Since goGPS directly processes raw GPS observations, it provides a means to substitute black-box processing components (e.g., GPS chipsets) with open source positioning software. goGPS can work either in real-time or post-processing, by acquiring raw GPS data in input and providing positioning (i.e., coordinates) in output. Though originally developed in MATLAB, goGPS was recently ported to Java in order to have the possibility to provide it as a web service, thus allowing a wider user base to develop and use it. Since real-time GPS positioning heavily relies on fast matrix computation, a careful selection of Java matrix libraries was carried out in order to obtain optimal performances. An Open Geospatial Consortium standard Web Processing Service (WPS) implementation of goGPS by means of ZOO WPS framework was developed and tested in order to let lightweight clients just acquire raw GPS data, send them to a server for processing, and receive back the accurate positioning
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