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"More Societal than Generational": Examining the Construction and Resistance of Generational Messages in the Workplace
No full textAuthor email: [email protected] Millennial generation, those born between 1980-2000, have drawn vast, sometimes fanatical, criticism in popular media. Slated as narcissistic praise hounds, they are cast as demanding graduate divas who are about to attack the workplace and everything ‘you hold sacred’ (Clark, 2008; Safer, 2007). The abundance of such messages about this generation in formats ‘tailored, targeted, and consumed’ by the public is problematic given that generational constructs are by many perceived as sacrosanct (Myers et al, 2010).
The proliferation of such criticism is by no means innocuous given the very likely impact that they will have on Millennial work opportunities. For many scholars the field of Millennial research suffers from a lack of empirical and cross sectional data to establish more calculated and careful generational constructs, – instead relying on or reacting to popular negative stereotypes. While some Millennial scholarship has begun to move beyond criticisms of popular media, Millennial research is by many considered contradictory at best and confusing at worst (Kowske et al, 2010). Additional difficulties arise when the scramble to publish more research-based work has led to methodologies which are inherently flawed because they reinforce the very same monolithic generational categories they are supposed to assess.
This study, undertaken in New Zealand, explores critical approaches as a means of examining the construction of generational messages and the establishment of generational difference. As a starting point, this small-scale examination analyses the very way in which generational messages are constructed and resisted within the workplace through an analysis of interviews undertaken with 26 employees of a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) in the information technology sector.
Unlike many generational studies, this project did not seek to draw conclusions by framing differences and measuring responses across generational lines, but rather took a bottom-up approach to understand how participants themselves constructed and resisted messages about generational difference. The project asked two research questions: First, how are generational messages constructed in the context of the workplace? And second, how are generational messages resisted in the workplace? Through axial coding this research categorized five themes under which participants constructed generational difference. These five themes are Technology, Voice, Fairness, Informality, and Stimulus. Broadly speaking, these themes were underpinned by a belief that Millennials have a great demand for respect, democratic process, and the reduction of power distances.
Given the critical approach, the study also observed resistance as a component of the discursive process. As such this research outlines the partiality of resistance and outlines strategies of resistance employed by employees. In line with the idea that construction and resistance are mutually implicated as negotiation, participants were frequently observed simultaneously constructing and resisting generational difference, both synchronically and diachronically. Through axial coding this study also categorized three strategies of resistance. These three strategies are established as Dismissal, the Third Person Effect, and the Decline Metaphor.
This research highlights the usefulness of adopting critical approaches by illustrating the way in which generational meaning is perpetually produced, reproduced, negotiated, and resisted by participants (Murphy, 1998). While there are several factors which are indicative of the Millennial generation, this thesis establishes the hegemonic character of most constructions of generational difference. Given the fragmented and complex state of society, this thesis posits that the usefulness of the monolithic birth-cohort generation has long since passed and we should instead look to understanding generations in terms of their consumption of similar cultural capital
Journal Of The Nepal Medical Association
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NEPAL MEDICAL COUNCIL
CONFERENCE AND SEMINARS
SYMPOSIUM
MEDICLA NEWS
BIRTHDAY AWARDS
CENTRAL BODY
KATHMANDU BRANCH
BIRATNAGAR BRANCH
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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Influence of geometric parameters on 3D periodic lattice effective properties
No full textLattice materials are generated by tessellating a unit cell, composed of a specific truss configurations, in an infinite periodicity to combine the effect of bulk material properties and geometric periodicity. They offer enhanced mechanical and dynamic properties per unit mass, and the ability to engineer the material response by optimizing the unit cell. Characterizing lattice properties through experiments can be a time consuming and costly process, so analytical and numerical methods are crucial. Specifically, the Bloch-wave homogenization approach allows one to characterize the effective static properties of the lattice unit cell while simultaneously analyzing wave propagation properties. While this analysis has been used for some time, a thorough study of this approach on 3D lattice materials with different symmetries and geometries is presented here. Using Bloch-wave homogenization, multiple periodic lattices with cubic, transversely isotropic, and tetragonal symmetry, including an auxetic geometry, over a wide range of relative densities are analyzed within a finite element framework. The effect of geometric parameters on lattice properties is discussed and a comparison between lattices based on their anisotropy index is presented. Method studied in this thesis can be extended for designing multifunctional metamaterials with optimized static and dynamic properties simultaneously. This work can also serve as the basis for nondestructive evaluation of metamaterials properties using ultrasonic velocity measurements.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Ganesh Patil, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-24 at 19:00.The student, Ganesh Patil, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-04-24 at 19:11.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-04-25 at 12:03.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13897 on 2019-08-22 at 15:08:33Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:36:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A learning hierarchy for classification and regression
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-53).This thesis explores the problems of learning analysis of variance (ANOVA) decompositions over GF(2) and R, as well as a general regression setup. For the problem of learning ANOVA decompositions, we obtain fundamental limits in the case of GF(2) under both sparsity and degree structures. We show how the degree or sparsity level is a useful measure of the complexity of such models, and in particular how the statistical complexity ranges from linear to exponential in the dimension, thus forming a "learning hierarchy". Furthermore, we discuss the problem in both an "adaptive" as well as a "one-shot" setting, where in the adaptive case query choice can depend on the entire past history. Somewhat surprisingly, we show that the "adaptive" setting does not yield significant statistical gains. In the case of R, under query access, we demonstrate an approach that achieves a similar hierarchy of complexity with respect to the dimension. For the general regression setting, we outline a viewpoint that captures a variety of popular methods based on locality and partitioning of some kind. We demonstrate how "data independent" partitioning may still yield statistically consistent estimators, and illustrate this by a lattice based partitioning approach.by Ganesh Ajjanagadde.M. Eng
V.S. Naipaul’s ?The Mystic Masseur?: A Study of Post- Colonial Myth and Reality
No full text<h3 data-fontsize="17" data-lineheight="23">Abstract</h3>
<p>The Mystic Masseur is one of the V.S. Naipaul’s finest comic creations in which we see immense sensibility, humour, success, politics and endless inventive imagination that have become the hallmarks of the author’s genius. It is Naipaul’s first novel that depicts the story of the rise of Ganesh Ramsumair, from failed primary teacher and struggling masseur to author, revered mystic and M.B.E. It is a journey memorable for its hilarious and bewildering success through politics. V.S. Naipaul has made the claim that the story of Ganesh Ramsumair is the history of their time. In each step of the career of Ganesh Ramsumair the author has satirized the rise of power of a representative of the country, called Trinidad which was about to achieve it’s independence from the British colonial rule in 1962.Beneath the muchness and manyness the author traces the romance and realism, imagination and fact of the ?rise? and ?decline? of Ganesh Ramsumair. The story of the novel is not only the life history of Ganesh Ramsumair; rather it is a story of social and economic life of the Indian islanders. The author shows his alienation and rootlessness of the people migrated from India to Trinidad. Here he puts stress on the importance of imagination for survivalThe question is whether the novel The Mystic Masseur depicts the real Trinidad, the question is answered in King’s observations in his book. ?Those familiar with Trinidadian history should recognize how Naipaul has used local events, characters and such politicians characters and such politicians as Uriah Butler, Albert Gomes, Arthur Cipriani and Naipaul’s two uncles, Rudranath and SimbhoonathCapildeo in his novel. Naipaul’s early fiction is based on memories of Trinidadian cultural and political life before he left for England in 1950.? (King 29) My paper proposes to examine how V.S. Naipaul usesthe post-colonial myth and reality in his novel The Mystic Masseu</p>
CD16a with oligomannose-type N-glycans is the only “low-affinity” Fc γ receptor that binds the IgG crystallizable fragment with high affinity in vitro
No full textFc γ receptors (FcγRs) bind circulating IgG (IgG1) at the surface of leukocytes. Antibodies clustered at the surface of a targeted particle trigger a protective immune response through activating FcγRs. Three recent reports indicate that the composition of the asparagine-linked carbohydrate chains (N-glycans) of FcγRIIIa/CD16a impacted IgG1-binding affinity. Here we determined how N-glycan composition affected the affinity of the “low-affinity” FcγRs for six homogeneous IgG1 Fc N-glycoforms (G0, G0F, G2, G2F, A2G2, and A2G2F). Surprisingly, CD16a with oligomannose N-glycans bound to IgG1 Fc (A2G2) with a KD = 1.0 ± 0.1 nM. This affinity represents a 51-fold increase over the affinity measured for CD16a with complex-type N-glycans (51 ± 8 nM) and is comparable with the affinity of FcγRI/CD64, the sole “high-affinity” FcγR. CD16a N-glycan composition accounted for increases in binding affinity for the other IgG1 Fc glycoforms tested (10–50-fold). This remarkable sensitivity could only be eliminated by preventing glycosylation at Asn162 with an Asn-to-Gln mutation; mutations at the four other N-glycosylation sites preserved tighter binding in the Man5 glycoform. None of the other low-affinity FcγRs showed more than a 3.1-fold increase upon modifying the receptor N-glycan composition, including CD16b, which differs from CD16a by only four amino acid residues. This result indicates that CD16a is unique among the low-affinity FcγRs, and modifying only the glycan composition of both the IgG1 Fc ligand and receptor provides a 400-fold range in affinities.This research was originally published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Subedi, Ganesh P., and Adam W. Barb. "CD16a with oligomannose-type N-glycans is the only “low-affinity” Fc γ receptor that binds the IgG crystallizable fragment with high affinity in vitro." Journal of Biological Chemistry 293, no. 43 (2018): 16842-16850. © the Author(s). doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.004998.</p
Revealing antiferromagnetic transition of van der Waals MnPS3 via vertical tunneling electrical resistance measurement
No full textUnderstanding the correlation between the electronic and magnetic properties of materials is a crucial step to functionalize or modulate their properties. However, it is not straightforward to electrically characterize magnetic insulators, especially large-bandgap materials, due to their high resistivity. Here, we successfully performed electrical measurements of a two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic insulator, van der Waals-layered MnPS3, by accounting for the vertical graphene/MnPS3/graphene heterostructure. Antiferromagnetic transition is observed by the variance in electrical resistance from the paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic transition near similar to 78 K in the vertically stacked heterostructure devices, which is consistent with the magnetic moment measurement. This opens an opportunity for modulating the magnetic transition of 2D van der Waals materials via an electrical gate or surface functionalization. (c) 2019 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)11sciescopu
Social media for improving metro rail project operations
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.Integral Design & Managemen
Boiga nuchalis
No full textBoiga nuchalis (Günther, 1875) (Tables 3–4; Fig. 6, Fig. 9D) Dipsas nuchalis Günther, 1875 Dipsas ceylonensis (non Dipsadomorphus ceylonensis Günther, 1858)— Boulenger (1890) part Boiga ceylonensis (non Dipsadomorphus ceylonensis Günther, 1858)— Smith (1943) part; Hutton (1949) part; Hutton & David (2009) part Boiga nuchalis (non Dipsadomorphus nuchalis –Wall, 1911)— Günther (1875); Inger et al. 1984 Boiga ceylonensis dakhunensis Deraniyagala, 1955 Specimens examined. Males (n=10). Syntypes. Males: India. BMNH 74.4.29.935, BMNH 74.4.29.933, 36; Females: BMNH 74.4.29.934, 37 and BMNH 74.4.29.967, all collected by R.H. Beddome from the “ West Coast Forests ”[of India]. Additional Specimens: India. Tamil Nadu. MNHN 1946.69 and MNHN 1948.301 both Yercaud, Salem; BNHS 1891 Benhope, Nilgiris. Kerala. FMNH 217700 Trivandrum; BNHS 1842 Palagapandy, Palghat; BNHS 1890 Travancore; BNHS 1887 Kartikolam, Mananthavadi, Waynad District. Females (n=8). India. Tamil Nadu. CAS 17248 Anama Kays [Anaimalais] Madras [Presidency]. BNHS 1893 Anamallai hills, 3000 ft. Kerala. BMNH 1924.10.13.19 Kattayam [Kottayam], Travancore; BNHS 1843 Nilambur; BNHS 1845 Nelliampathy, Palghat. Taxonomic history. Boiga nuchalis was described by Günther (1875), as Dipsas nuchalis, from the “the forests of the West Coast [of India]”. It was later synonymised with Boiga ceylonensis by Boulenger (1890). Wall (1909) recognized it again as a valid species after having revised the Boiga ceylonensis -group and described two more species, B. beddomei and B. andamanensis. Smith (1943) once again synonymised B. nuchalis with B. ceylonensis. Inger et al. (1984) considered B. nuchalis as a valid species and this view was followed by most of the recent authors (Das 2002; Ganesh & Arumugam 2016; Ganesh et al. 2018). Nomenclatural notes. Deraniyagala (1955) misunderstood the fact that Wall (1909; 1911) had wrongly attributed the authorship of the taxon Dipsas nuchalis Günther to Beddome. It should be noted that this authorship credited to Beddome is purely a lapsus as we could not trace any mention of Dipsas nuchalis by this latter author. Nevertheless, believing B. nuchalis Beddome sensu Wall was a distinct, valid taxon on its own, Deraniyagala created an unnecessary new taxon, with the status of a nomen novum, Boiga ceylonensis dakhunensis Deraniyagala, 1955. But Wall’s cursorial mistake in attributing B. nuchalis to Beddome cannot be considered to be the description of an available taxon on its own and therefore it does not enter into homonymy. There cannot be any doubt that the authorship and date of the nomen Dipsas nuchalis is Günther, 1875 (also see Vogel & Ganesh 2013; Wallach et al. 2014; Aengals et al. 2018). Günther (1875) only mentioned Beddome as the collector of the types (see Günther 1875: 233). Deraniyagala stated, erroneously, that “Günther’s name nuchalis cannot be utilized for the latter [south Indian population], since it was employed by Beddome for another species (see Wall 1909: 153). The name dakhunensis is proposed for the Indian subspecies of B. ceylonensis.” He was expressly intending to create this as a nomen novum (or replacement name) for Indian populations (see Art. 13.1.3 ICZN 1999). Deraniyagala was obviously erroneous in this interpretation as, whatever may have been written by Wall (1909), Dipsas nuchalis Günther, 1875 would have had priority over any “ Boiga nuchalis Beddome ”. So Deraniyagala should have had considered this “ Dipsas nuchalis Beddome ” to be a primary homonym of Günther’s taxon, and thus permanently invalid. Deraniyagala (1955) embraced an obsolete concept of B. ceylonensis in Indian Peninsula that included supposedly synonymous taxa like B. beddomei, B. nuchalis and B. andamanensis. As he wrote, his replacement name at the subspecific level was correctly based on the types of Dipsias nuchalis (sic, for Dipsas nuchalis). This is in accordance with Art. 72.7 of ICZN (1999). Because Deraniyagala mentioned characters diagnosing (Recommendation 13A, ICZN, 1999) the taxa of the Boiga ceylonensis group between Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, and because he included Dipsas nuchalis in the synonymy of his Boiga ceylonensis account, this is an available name. Deraniyagala was in error in mentioning a single type, as Günther’s original description was based on five syntypes (Günther 1875; Wallach et al. 2014). Therefore, by virtue of Deraniyagala’s typification and of the definition of a nomen novum, Boiga ceylonensis dakhuensis Deraniyagala, 1955 is deemed to be an objective junior synonym of Dipsas nuchalis Günther, 1875 as per Art. 72.7 of ICZN (1999). Contrary to Deraniyagala’s misconception (also see Sharma 2004; Wallach et al. 2014) Deraniyagala’s nomen is not a subspecies of Dipsadomorphus ceylonensis Günther, 1858. Etymology. Named after its typical collar band on the nuchal region. Diagnosis (redefined herein). A species of Boiga endemic to southwestern India, characterised by the following combination of characters: 21–23 midbody scale rows (vs. 19 in B. ceylonensis, B. thackerayi, B. beddomei, B. flaviviridis); vertebral scales strongly enlarged (vs. mildly enlarged in B. barnesii); venter brownish-grey and not yellowish in life (vs. yellowish-brown in B. thackerayi, B. flaviviridis; variable in B. andamanensis; dorsum predominantly brown (vs. green in B. flaviviridis; variable in B. andamanensis); bars brown or reddish-brown (vs. bars black in B. thackerayi, B. beddomei); ventrolateral pattern with a series of spots on both tips of each ventral scale (vs. with alternate white and black blotches in B. barnesii, B. thackerayi; without any pattern in B. andamanensis, B. flaviviridis); temporal larger than coastal body scale (vs. subequal to coastal body scale in B. dightoni). Redescription of an adult male syntype (BMNH 74.4.29.935). A medium-sized specimen reaching 900 mm total length, with slender habitus, thin neck, wide head; long tail (relative tail length 22 %); dorsal scale rows 21:21:15; rostral visible from above; preocular 1, subequal in size to loreal; postoculars 2; loreal 1; supralabials 8, with 3 rd– 5 th / 4 th– 6 th ones touching eye; infralabials 11, with 1–5 touching chin shields; temporals 13/14; preventral 1; ventrals 242, angulate laterally; cloacal 1; 105 subcaudals pairs. Dorsal colour brownish-grey, with 66 brownish crossbars on body; crossbars covering 2–4 scales in size, extending either sides up to 3–4 scale rows across; interspaces often with sparse dark dots; crown without any markings on top (rarely some dark shades present); a distinct postocular stripe up to the jaw angle; labials, chin and venter ashy brown, finely spotted with darker shade; venter bordered by a series of brown spots, covering both the terminal ends of every ventral scale. Variation shown by other syntypes and referred material. Other specimens agreeing with the above syn- type in most aspects; showing the following intraspecific variations: snout to vent length 408–904 mm (excluding juveniles); tail length 94–257 mm; relative tail length: 18.7–22.5 %; (18)21/23–21/23–15(14) scale rows; temporals 10–15; ventrals 228–255; subcaudals 94–109 pairs; number of cross bars 45–89 on body, 7–36 on tail. Distribution and natural history. This is perhaps the most common species of the genus Boiga in the wet forests of southwestern India. Often regarded as a rare and little-known species (Das 2002), it occurs at quite a widespread and sometimes disjunct range in southwestern India. This species has been recorded throughout the Western Ghats (Wall 1919; Inger et al. 1984; Hutton & David 2009 part; Chandramouli & Ganesh 2010; Ganesh et al. 2013) and even in Southern Eastern Ghats (Ganesh & Arumugam 2016; Ganesh et al. 2018). It has been precisely reported from Agasthyamalai (Inger et al. 1984; Chandramouli & Ganesh 2010), Meghamalai and Anaiamalai (Hutton & David 2009 part), Nilgiri-Wayanad (Wall 1919), Malnad and Canara hills (Ganesh et al. 2013) in the Western Ghats. In the Eastern Ghats, this species has been recorded from Shevaroys, Bilgiri, Melagiri, Kolli and Sirumalai hills (Ganesh & Arumugam 2016; Ganesh et al. 2018). We have observed it in Ponmudi, Karian Shola and Agumbe in Western Ghats and in Bilgiri, Melagiri, Shevaroys, Kolli and Sirumalai in the Eastern Ghats (Fig. 13). However, we refute its purported (historical) distribution in Himalayan foothills and parts of Northern Eastern Ghats (Wallach et al. 2014). We suggest that this species is absent from North India (also see Mohapatra et al. 2010; Das et al. 2010).Published as part of Ganesh, S. R., Achyuthan, N. S., Chandramouli, S. R. & Vogel, Gernot, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Boiga ceylonensis group (Serpentes: Colubridae): reexamination of type specimens, redefinition of nominate taxa and an updated key, pp. 301-332 in Zootaxa 4779 (3) on pages 311-314, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/383535
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