363 research outputs found
Indian look at European classic : Vishal Bhardwaj as the adaptor of William Shakespeare's dramas
No full textArtykuł jest analizą adaptacji dramatów Williama Shakespeare'a autorstwa Vishala Bhardwaja. Autor opisuje inne adaptacje szekspirowskie pojawiające się w indyjskiej kinematografii, następnie opisuje adaptację Makbeta, Otella i Hamleta.The article is an analysis of the adaptation of dramas William Shakespeare's made by Vishal Bhardwaj. The author describes other Shakespearean adaptations appearing in the Indian cinematography. The next describes the adaptation of Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet
Stochastic stability of power systems
No full text"The utilization of synchronous machines in electric power systems as central generators and in electric drive applications as high-performance motors makes their modeling, simulation, state estimation, and analysis important in many scenarios; however, the multiple time-scale nature of the associated dynamic model, coupled with the presence of noise, complicates traditional methods.
We approach the problem in this work through dimensional reduction in nonlinear filtering. This can be understood as a combination of filtering and averaging. Recent advances in the development of particle filters are applied to the Single Machine Infinite Bus (SMIB) seven dimensional model of a synchronous generator and to the specific problem of a line contingency. Excellent system tracking coupled with significant computational savings are achieved.
In addition to system tracking, the traditional deterministic methods currently used in industry to quantify system stability are looked at from a Random Dynamical Systems (RDS) perspective. The maximal Lyapunov exponent (MLE) for a two dimensional model of a synchronous generator is calculated analytically to account for multiple white noise forcing elements. The ``real"" or colored noise case is also considered and an analytic expression derived.
Further, the presence of resonant zones and their stability for a two dimensional swing model is established. The stability of these zones is looked at from the Large Deviations perspective and is facilitated through an understanding of the Mean Exit Time. Numerical procedures are developed to calculate the Most Probable Exit Path along which; rare, long time transitions take place."Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01The student, Vishal Chikkerur, accepted the attached license on 2017-07-14 at 13:01.The student, Vishal Chikkerur, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-07-14 at 13:37.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-07-14 at 15:32.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11473 on 2018-03-02 at 13:02:17Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-02T19:59:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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The bard in Bharadwaj: Politics of transculturation in the cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare by Vishal Bharadwaj
No full textCinema adaptations play a vital role in recreating the imaginations. When the author scripts his ideas into a text, again the text in converted into visual by the director, where he is both an author and an adopter. This paper investigates the three adaptations of Shakespeare by Vishal Bharadwaj – Maqbool, Omkara and Haider. It argues that the adaptations are transculturating Shakespeare in the Indian context and like Shakespeare was a cultural commodity propagated by British imperialism, Bollywood is a cultural commodity of the hegemonic discourse of Indian Nationhood. Thus, the paper aims to study if by transculturating Shakespeare, Bharadwaj dismantles the narrative of Indian Nationhood or if he merely reinforces it despite situating it in the uncomfortable margins that threaten it. Finally, the paper locates the struggle between the narrative of nationhood and the counter narratives on the body of the female subject and studies the leads in 10 100 Identity and Marginalisation in South Asian Literature and Media Shakespeare’s plays transculturated onto Bharadwaj’s screen in this ligh
Connecting and Contrasting the Bayes Factor and a Modified ROPE Procedure for Testing Interval Null Hypotheses
No full textThere has been strong recent interest in testing interval null hypotheses for improved scientific inference. For example, Lakens et al. and Lakens and Harms use this approach to study if there is a prespecified meaningful treatment effect in gerontology and clinical trials, instead of a point null hypothesis of any effect. Two popular Bayesian approaches are available for interval null hypothesis testing. One is the standard Bayes factor and the other is the region of practical equivalence (ROPE) procedure championed by Kruschke and others over many years. This article connects key quantities in the two approaches, which in turn allow us to contrast two major differences between the approaches with substantial practical implications. The first is that the Bayes factor depends heavily on the prior specification while a modified ROPE procedure is very robust. The second difference is concerned with the statistical property when data are generated under a neutral parameter value on the common boundary of competing hypotheses. In this case, the Bayes factors can be severely biased whereas the modified ROPE approach gives a reasonable result. Finally, the connection leads to a simple and effective algorithm for computing Bayes factors using draws from posterior distributions generated by standard Bayesian programs such as BUGS, JAGS, and Stan.</p
Inflation divergence within the SADC
No full textThis study investigates the feasibility of a monetary union in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by testing for inflation convergence for 11 members. Quarterly data over the period 1992:3 – 2001:4 are employed. Various panel unit root tests are applied to test whether the purchasing power parity (PPP) holds. Overall, strong evidence of a unit root is found. This implies inflation divergence among the SADC members.PPP, Inflation Convergence, Panel Unit Root Tests, SADC.
Webis-Persuasive-Debaters-on-Reddit-CMV-2022
No full textAnalyzing Persuasion Strategies of Debaters on Social Media - Dataset
This dataset contains 3,801 debaters from Reddit, their comment, and their persuasion effectiveness. The debates originate from the subreddit Chage my View and are extracted from the Webis CMV dataset (Al Khatib et al., 2020). The dataset consists of three files in JSON Lines (.jsonl) format.
Content of the Dataset
+-- Reddit Debaters
| +-- README.md # This information + file format description
| +-- debaters.jsonl # Minimal dataset with only the (source) comment text and persuasiveness
| +-- debaters-full.jsonl # All debater-level datapoints, computed an retrieved from Reddit
| +-- comments.jsonl # All comments and comment-level datapoints for each debater
Cite
@inproceedings{wiegmann:2022,
title = "Analyzing Persuasion Strategies of Debaters on Social Media",
author = "Wiegmann, Matti and Al-Khatib, Khalid and Khanna, Vishal and Stein, Benno",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = oct,
year = "2022",
address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
Oxidative Properties of Ambient Particulate Matter - An assessment of the relative contributions from various aerosol components and their emission sources
No full textVishal Verma - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The current national ambient air quality standards for particulate matter (PM) are based on particulate mass. Although epidemiological research conducted in the last few decades have associated PM mass with both respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, the heterogeneous and inconsistent nature of these associations suggests that not all components of PM are equally toxic. The capability of ambient particles to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), conveniently called the oxidative potential is proposed as a better metric for relating the PM pollution with health effects.
In this talk, I will present our work on the measurement of oxidative potential of ambient PM from different geographical locations of the United States, i.e. western, southeastern and midwest US. The core objective of this work was to identify the components of ambient PM, which are most responsible for inducing the ROS generation. The role of organic compounds in the ROS activity of PM was assessed by their removal using thermodenuder and solid phase extraction technique, while the contribution of metals was quantified by chelation technique. A class of water-soluble organic compounds known as humic-like substances or HULIS, and transition metals particularly Fe, Cu and Mn were identified as the major species driving the ROS generation mechanism in ambient particles. However, our work shows that there are strong synergistic and antagonistic interactions among the HULIS components and transition metals. Further studies in this direction should help to develop the useful insights on the origin of PM toxicity leading to a better assessment of the human health effects of ambient particulate pollution.Open Restriction set for Item 114497 on 2020-04-21T19:00:26Z with date null by [email protected] by Elizabeth Meschewski ([email protected]) on 2020-04-21T19:04:43Z
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Author's personal copy Notch1 represses osteogenic pathways in aortic valve cells
No full textCalcific aortic stenosis is the third leading cause of adult heart disease and the most common form of acquired valvular disease in developed countries. However, the molecular pathways leading to calcification are poorly understood. We reported two families in which heterozygous mutations in NOTCH1 caused bicuspid aortic valve and severe aortic valve calcification. NOTCH1 is part of a highly conserved signaling pathway involved in cell fate decisions, cell differentiation, and cardiac valve formation. In this study, we examined the mechanism by which NOTCH1 represses aortic valve calcification. Heterozygous Notch1-null (Notch1 +/-) mice had greater than fivefold more aortic valve calcification than age-and sex-matched wildtype littermates. Inhibition of Notch signaling in cultured sheep aortic valve interstitial cells (AVICs) also increased calcification more than fivefold and resulted in gene expression typical of osteoblasts. We found that Notch1 normally represses the gene encoding bone morphogenic protein 2 (Bmp2) in murine aortic valves in vivo and in aortic valve cells in vitro. siRNA-mediated knockdown of Bmp2 blocked the calcification induced by Notch inhibition in AVICs. These findings suggest that Notch1 signaling in aortic valve cells represses osteoblast-like calcification pathways mediated by Bmp2
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