bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Theater and Classical India: Some Availability Issues
Authors: Dasgupta Probal
Published: January 2016

Quite apart from urgencies arising within the theater as an enterprise, it is independently necessary to bring the tools of speech-act theory to bear on the theater. This essay begins by redescribing the foundational moves of that theory in terms of drawing successive core-supplement boundaries. A third move, proposed here, extends this strategy of expanding the core in a performative direction. So extended, the central theoretical concern of speech-act theory converges with what one major tradition articulates as the way forward for theatrical performance. That tradition — which has traveled from Stanislavski’s Russia, via Grotowski’s Poland, to Badal Sircar’s India — is in the business of giving democracy theatrical teeth. While Sircar does not explicitly claim a classical Indian ancestry for his work, serious Indology will find it easy to place him in that context.
Erasing Tracks: Longchenpa and Bataille on Praxis—Its Negation and Liberation
Authors: Ifergan Gidi
Published: January 2016

One of the most intriguing themes in the works of Longchen Rabjampa (kLong chen rab ‘byams pa, 1308–1364), one of Tibet’s greatest thinkers is the “rhetoric of negation.” This is the focused and intense critique of philosophical views and spiritual practices, pointing to their incapability of directly causing liberation. Such negation aimed to dismantle compulsive conceptualizing mental processes, creating absence, a vacuity. But in order to overcome the problem of the futility of spiritual practices in relation to liberation, Longchenpa creatively transforms his rhetoric of negation into a transmission of knowledge, capable of facilitating the experience of natural awareness or liberation. In demonstrating Longchenpa’s process from Negation to Natural awareness, and the questions it invokes concerning nonduality, emptiness, abiding in natural awareness, et cetera, a contemporary form of negation, the twentieth-century French philosopher George Bataille’s discussions of “contestation,” will be used to illuminate the subjective experience of the praxis of negation in relation to what the latter termed “Inner Experience.”
Li Yu’s Theory of Drama: A Moderate Moralism
Authors: Feng Peng
Published: January 2016

This essay presents an interpretation of Li Yu’s theory of drama that takes it to be a moderate moralism that is different from Confucian radical moralism, Daoist radical autonomism, and the moderate autonomism of fiction. In addition to practical considerations, Li Yu’s moderate moralism of drama is based on his awareness of the ontological difference between drama and music, poetry, and fiction. Drama was seen by Li Yu as a synthetic art that includes music, poetry, and fiction. If radical autonomism is appropriate for the evaluation of music, radical moralism for poetry and prose, and moderate autonomism for fiction, then moderate moralism would be most appropriate in the evaluation of drama.
Sufism in Western Historiography: A Brief Overview
Authors: Khalil Atif , Sheikh Shiraz
Published: January 2016

The academic study of Sufism in Western scholarship began more than two centuries ago, and had its origins largely in the need of European colonialists to better understand the religions, cultures, and beliefs of the people they governed. With the exception of some familiarity with the ideas of some of Sufism’s most prominent figures in the precolonial period, very few in Europe or North America possessed any serious knowledge of the Sufi tradition. This article traces the development of the study of Sufism with a focus principally on the time period spanning John Malcolm (1769–1833) and James W. Graham (up until World War II), and slightly afterwards. In the process of exploring the views of such towering intellectuals as Tholuck (1799–1877), Dozy (1820–1833), Renan (1823–1892), Goldziher (1850–1921), Palacios (1871–1944), Nicholson (1868–1945), and Guénon (1886–1951), to name but a few, it will be demonstrated how various dynamics of power and notions of race and religion colored the way Sufism and its relation to Islam were conceived. The article ends with some brief remarks about the future of Sufi studies.
Money, Morality, and Masculinity: Staging the Politics of Poverty in Sanskrit Theater
Authors: Knutson Jesse Ross
Published: January 2016

Explored here is a series of rhetorico-narrative linkages in the Sanskrit play Mṛcchakaṭika (“The Little Clay Cart”), a set of associations between terms such as wealth, poverty, virtue, and crime. These connections add up to a governing sociopolitical concept, allowing us to extrapolate from the world of the Mṛcchakaṭika ’s concepts to its concepts of its world.
Reviews
Authors: Birchall Michael , Mancke Carol , Duncan Adrian
Published: January 2016

Exhibition as Social Intervention: ‘Culture in Action’ 1993 (Afterall Exhibition Histories), Joshua Decter and H. Draxler (2013) Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, 192 pp., ISBN: 978-3-86335-448-0, p/bk, €16.80

Interactive Contemporary Art Participation in Practice, Kathryn Brown (ed.) (2014) New York: I B Tauris, 297 pp., ISBN: 9781780765518, h/bk, £60.96

Dehydrated Landscape of a CONDITION, Reto Pulfer, The Technosphere SEMINARS and Cell texts: Books Written in Prison, Ines and Eyal Weizman, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (the House of World Cultures), Berlin (as part of ‘100 YEARS OF NOW’), 30 September–4 October 2015
Interview with Tania Bruguera
Authors: Wallis Jonathan
Published: January 2016

In late December 2014, the artist Tania Bruguera was arrested after attempting to carry out an unsanctioned performance centred on freedom of speech in Revolution Square, Havana, Cuba. She was released after three days but held in the country indefinitely until a decision regarding legal action by the government was determined. In the weeks and months that followed, Bruguera dealt with legal issues and additional arrests, diplomatic contestations surrounding her confiscated passport, along with interrogations and intimidation by the Cuban government. It was not until July 2015 that her passport was returned. In mid-August, with a letter securing her diplomatic status as a Cuban citizen in hand, she returned to the United States. Due to her detention, Bruguera participated remotely as a speaker at the College Art Association session, The Ethics of Social Practice, reading a paper through a cellphone on Arte Útil and Aest-ethics (taken, along with other belongings by the Cuban authorities). I invited her to revisit her position on ethics and Arte Útil, and her work generally, in the form of an interview for this journal, to which she graciously agreed.
Care for care: Studio REV-’s strategies of engagement
Authors: Coombs Gretchen
Published: January 2016

The artists at Studio REV-, along with their allies in the broader non-profit sector, address domestic workers’ rights in the United States. As a social practice art project, NannyVan works to improve how information about domestic rights is disseminated to these workers, whether nannies, elder caregivers or others. As part of a larger project named CareForce, the NannyVan project shows an ethics of care by using design traces as tactics and transversal methods as strategies.
Everybody lies: The ethics of social practice
Authors: Hutchinson Mark
Published: January 2016

Whilst ideas of ‘morality’ and ‘ethics’ are used almost interchangeably in everyday conversation, this article seeks to make a clear distinction between them: morality is about social interaction whilst ethics is about fidelity to a truth. This distinction is used to inform questions around social practice. The temptation for social practice is to justify itself in terms of morality: the pragmatic difference it makes in the public sphere by way of its virtuous interventions. The downfall of this temptation is that it can lead, in fact, to a depoliticization of art. It is my contention that politics proper (in art, as elsewhere) is about radical change rather than manoeuvring within the bounds of what already exist. This is the register of the ethical.
Interview with Nato Thompson
Authors: Coombs Gretchen , Thompson Nato
Published: January 2016

Nato Thompson, Chief Curator at Creative Time, served as the moderator for the session, ‘The Ethics of Social Practice’, at the 2015 College Art Association annual conference in New York City. We invited him to respond to a series of questions focused on ethics, social practice and his role as a curator in the form of an interview for this issue.
Artists imagining the city: Activist art about housing issues in Chicago at the start of the twenty-first century
Authors: Tucker Daniel
Published: January 2016

This text provides an overview of artists working in Chicago between 2000–2015 who responded to a lack of affordable housing or democratic control of public space.
A contribution to the schizoanalysis of indifference
Authors: Bradley Joff P.N.
Published: January 2016

Utilizing Félix Guattari’s ecosophical ideas, the media critiques of Bernard Stiegler and Franco Berardi and the neuro-philosophy of Catherine Malabou, I shall examine and describe the case of hikikomori or social recluse in Japan as a striking excrescent effect of the media’s collusion in engineering sad affects. With reference to post-Fukushima Japan, and through the prism of contemporary literature, manga, anime and film, this article tests the propensity for loneliness among youth and how the media is complicit in crushing subjectivity through the veneer of ‘connection’.
User-generated videos of urban exploration and the production of affective space
Authors: Greenwalt Dustin A.
Published: January 2016

This article posits that user-generated videos have the potential to modulate affective maps of, or the aggregation of our intensive dispositions towards, urban areas. It argues that bodily topologies, which reside in our neurological substrates, are the primary source of our cognitive understandings of space and that user-generated videos have the capacity to affect these maps through their circulation of multisensory rhetorics. Taken together, these videos’ tendency to obscure their images’ photo-realistic qualities and to provide visual and sonic sensations disrupt the potential for identification and encourage haptic modes of viewing that work primarily at the level of the virtual. As a case study, this article engages videos produced by self-styled urban explorers that provide tours of abandoned buildings in Detroit, Michigan. These videos, it argues, work through lighting, unsteady cameras, sound, image durations, and movement through space, to imbue the buildings with kinetic energies that may modulate audiences’ dispositions towards the Motor City.
Beijing hot, Beijing cool
Authors: Zhang Peter
Published: January 2016

This article uses McLuhan’s notions of hot and cool as heuristics to advance a critique of the city of Beijing as a living and lived material-symbolic complex. It both extends the applicability of these notions and draws attention to their paradoxical coexistence when the analysis becomes specific. The article ends by calling for a cooler Beijing, a society to come.
Exhibition Review
Authors: Jones Peter
Published: January 2016

Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Joining The Dots From The Situationist International To Malcolm Mclaren, Paul Gorman, David Thorp and Fred Vermorel (2015) Southampton: John Hansard Gallery, 96 pp., ISBN: 9780854329915, p/bk, £12.00
‘Shariah don’t like it ...?’ Punk and religion in Indonesia
Authors: Donaghey Jim
Published: January 2016

Indonesia boasts one of the largest and most vibrant punk scenes on the planet today. It is also home to world’s largest Muslim population. Punk and religion are usually found in antagonism with one another, but the situation is far more complicated in Indonesia. Using interview and participant-observation material gathered in September/October 2012 and January 2015, this article examines the relationships between punk and religion in Indonesia, finding it markedly different to the oppositional relationship expected elsewhere in the world. Despite the fact that repression of punk in Indonesia is often religiously motivated, most of the interviewees still maintained a Muslim religious (or at least cultural-religious) identity. Those punks who did profess atheism were doing so against a very different social backdrop to their comrades in more secular parts of the world, and were making a much more significant stand in doing so.
Punk and religion in the Republic of Ireland, 1977–1981
Authors: Murphy Michael Mary
Published: January 2016

How did the early punk rock movement challenge the values of the dominant Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland? How did young people reconcile the apparently opposed beliefs of some punk groups and the Irish clergy? This article explores the complex and often surprising ways in which the Church and punk interacted with each other in the 1977–1981 period.
The anarchist, the punk rocker and the Buddha walk into a bar(n): Dharma Punx and Rebel Dharma
Authors: Stewart Francis
Published: January 2016

Punk rock is known for its frenetic energy. Its aggressive, anger-driven music is born from the seething cauldron of discontent. Anarchism is the ‘ideology’ that often underpins punk, but anarchism exists beyond punk in its drive to create a new social order fuelled by discontent at the current systems. There exists a large self-identifying anarchist group within the wider punk subculture, but it is only one group within a myriad of understandings of punk. Not all anarchists are punks; not all punks are anarchists. On first glance, Buddhism, as an ancient practice of mindfulness intended to lead the individual into an awareness of the nature of being through calming activities such as meditation, appears incongruous with anarchism and punk. However, a shift away from understanding Buddhism as a religion and an examination of the purposes behind Buddhism, punk and anarchy reveal a synchronicity. This has culminated in the creation of groups such as the Dharma Punx (US) and the Rebel Dharma (UK), which this article will explore and outline.
Pay no more than 45 copies: The collection legacy of the Crass Record, Reality Asylum (1979)
Authors: Gordon Alastair
Published: January 2016

This article sets out an auto-ethnographic and theoretical account of the journey of 45 collected author copies of the 1979 Crass Record Reality Asylum. The principle aim in this piece is to document and theoretically situate the production, reception and individual journeys various pressing variations of the record have encountered. The theoretical account is concerned with how and what ways various traditions in semiotics, fan/audience research, critical theory and Derrida’s concept of Hauntology can be deployed in explanatory terms to account for the enigmatic, haunted journey of the recorded musical artefact. The article also captures this collection prior to public display, prior to them being resold as the collectable sixth, ‘haunted’ pressing of the record.
Postsecular punk: Evangelical Christianity and the overlapping consensus of the underground
Authors: Abraham Ibrahim
Published: January 2016

Utilizing interviews and fieldwork with Evangelical Christians involved in the punk scenes of Australia, Britain, South Africa and the United States, this article brings the study of the punk subculture into dialogue with key political theorists of the regulation of religiously diverse societies. Focusing on the work of the late American political philosopher John Rawls, furnished with more recent work by Jürgen Habermas, this article examines the processes of negotiated inclusion undertaken by Evangelical Christians in local punk scenes. Closely analyzing the acceptance of the contestability of religious claims, ‘translation’ between religious and secular discourses and modalities, and an ‘overlapping consensus’ on the desirability of diversity within the punk scene, it is argued that the negotiated inclusion of religiously diverse social actors in punk scenes can inform ongoing debates about diversity and inclusion in punk scenes’ ‘postsecular’ parent societies.
Observar as crianças para integrar saúde e educação
Authors: Maranhão Damaris Gomes , Santos Tatiana Melo , Coimbra Fabiana Santos Rodrigues , Clemente Debora Renata , Barros Elaine Matos
Published: January 2016

Documentos e programas reiteram a necessária integração dos cuidados com saúde e educação da primeira infância. O objetivo deste estudo foi integrar as perspectivas de profissionais da saúde e da educação na análise de elementos facilitadores e/ou dificultadores do processo de construção do protagonismo da criança no cuidado de si e do outro. Trata-se de um estudo observacional e de análise de vídeos, com foco nas cenas de cuidados com as crianças de cinco creches. Observar o protagonismo da criança no processo de cuidado mediado pelo professor e as brincadeiras de cuidado entre as crianças evidenciou-se como uma eficaz estratégia formativa e de ampliação do olhar de profissionais de campos complementares para integrar saúde e educação.
Educação infantil e avaliação escolar: experiências das crianças com a linguagem
Authors: Almeida Renata Provetti Weffort
Published: January 2016

O presente texto tem como objetivo descrever e analisar as experiências das crianças com a linguagem, por meio das avalições escolares. Os dados apresentados são parte de tese de doutorado defendida no ano de 2014. A investigação foi realizada por meio da análise das avaliações das crianças de duas escolas, uma pública e uma privada. Em cada uma das escolas pesquisadas foram selecionadas duas salas de aula, perfazendo um total de quatro salas. Nas duas escolas foram coletados e analisados os instrumentos que envolvem o processo de avaliação das crianças. A perspectiva teórica tem como referência os estudos dos pensadores da teoria crítica da sociedade, sobretudo os que tratam da formação e experiência. Tais conceitos contribuem para a compreensão dos processos pelos quais ocorre a formação do indivíduo – neste caso a formação das crianças – e as possibilidades

de experiência oferecidas pela escola. Em linhas gerais, a conclusão da presente pesquisa é a de que, tendencialmente, as avaliações expressam uma perspectiva padronizada e predeterminada do desenvolvimento das crianças, em detrimento da possibilidade de experiências formativas que visem à reflexão e à formação. Desse modo, as atividades realizadas pelas crianças, mediadas pelos professores, pontam para o empobrecimento da experiência com a linguagem, pela redução do repertório linguístico, devido à priorização da realização de sondagens de escrita.
Livro-imagem: o trabalho realizado em uma sala de aula de Educação Infantil
Authors: Bozola Renata
Published: January 2016

O presente trabalho constitui-se em um relato de experiência das vivências em uma sala de aula de Educação Infantil com três livros-imagem da autora Suzy Lee: Onda, Espelho e Sombra. Apesar de a leitura de histórias de diversos gêneros estar presente na rotina dos alunos dessa faixa de ensino, a turma em questão não havia travado contato com livrosimagem. O planejamento das atividades foi desafiador, em função da falta de bibliografia sobre o tema específico, o que motivou a realização deste trabalho. As atividades realizadas acabaram por envolver os alunos não só na leitura, mas também em questões envolvendo oralidade, escrita, artes, movimentos e brincadeiras. O resultado mostrou o quanto esses livros podem dar voz à imaginação e criatividade dos alunos da Educação Infantil, colocando o docente no lugar de protagonista da ação didática.
Queremos o nosso playground! Participação e cidadania na infância: entraves e possibilidades
Authors: Da Silva Tássio José
Published: January 2016

Este artigo tem como objetivo problematizar a cidadania na infância e a possibilidade de participação das crianças na estrutura político-social das sociedades. A partir de uma reflexão teórica inicialmente inspirada pelas configurações do protesto das crianças do Quênia, aliada à análise de documentos recentemente publicados por organismos internacionais, apresentaremos os entraves e possibilidades que se colocam na efetivação da participação das crianças como sujeitos de direitos. O processo de construção e fortalecimento de uma Pedagogia da Educação Infantil, somado à consolidação de mecanismos teóricos e práticos que efetivem o protagonismo político e social das crianças, apresenta-se como questão fundante na atualidade, focada nesta reflexão.
O mérito dos dados estatísticos digitais em revelar buscas e interesses de professores da Educação Infantil: qualificação das práticas no diálogo em plataformas digitais
Authors: Webster Maria Helena , Rosset Joyce Manasce , Rizzi Maria Angela
Published: January 2016

A análise de informações da relação do público de educadores com um blog gera novos conhecimentos, tendências de interesses e indica caminhos formativos. A pesquisa analisou os dados estatísticos declarados (intencionais) e não declarados do blog Tempo de Creche, voltado para Educação Infantil. Resultados apontaram grande adesão do público às postagens publicadas nas temáticas Registro Pedagógico e Desenvolvimento da Criança. E indicaram um número expressivo de buscas por modelos de Planejamento Pedagógico. Meios virtuais podem transformar radicalmente propostas metodológicas de investigação e pesquisa. Desse modo, os dados digitais devem ser incluídos como informações pertinentes nos planejamentos das instituições.
Projetos Integrados na Educação Infantil: interlaçando saberes
Authors: Terahata Adriana Miritello , Monteiro Leila Ramos
Published: January 2016

O presente texto tem por objetivo compartilhar uma experiência realizada no segundo semestre de 2014, com crianças da Educação Infantil, para a Mostra Cultural em uma escola de ensino particular do município de São Paulo. O projeto integrou as áreas de artes, contação de histórias e música, possibilitando a vivência simultânea de diferentes linguagens e, desse modo, ampliando as experiências de aprendizagem das crianças envolvidas. Ao refletir sobre a ampliação das experiências de aprendizagem por meio da integração de diferentes linguagens, nos propomos também a uma reflexão sobre a ressignificação do tempo, do espaço e das interações dentro do ambiente escolar.
Entrevista: Marli Eliza Dalmazo Afonso de André
Authors: Prado Ricardo
Published: January 2016

“O Pibid deveria ser transformado em política de formação de professores”
Impact of Background Radiation on the Long Wave Infrared Radiation Characteristics of Aircraft at High Altitude
Authors: Huang Wei , Ji Hong-hu
Published: January 2016

Reflected background infrared radiation is an important contributor to the aircraft total infrared radiation. A reverse Monte Carlo ray tracing method to compute the infrared radiation signature of aircraft was introduced. The impact of atmospheric and ground radiation on the long wave infrared radiation signature of aircraft at the altitude of 11 km is analysed. The flight speed is Mach 0.8. The horizontal detection directions, downward detection directions and upward detection directions are considered. The results show that in the horizontal plane, the ratio of reflected background infrared radiation to self infrared radiation is about 10 per cent in summer, and 7 per cent in winter; the ratio values distributed in the front and side of the aircraft are bigger than that in the rear; and the existence of atmospheric and ground infrared radiation makes the apparent radiance temperature of the lower part of the aircraft higher than that of the upper part of the aircraft.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 51-56, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8090
Damages Identification in the Cantilever-based on the Parameters of the Natural Oscillations
Authors: Cherpakov A. V. , Soloviev A. N. , Gritsenko V. V. , Goncharov O. U.
Published: January 2016

An approach to parametric identification of damages such as cracks in the rod cantilever construction is described. The identification method is based on analysis of shapes of the natural oscillations. The analytic modelling is performed in the Maple software on the base of the Euler-Bernoulli hypothesis. Crack is modelled by an elastic bending element. Transverse oscillations of the rod are considered. We take into account first four eigen modes of the oscillations. Parameters of amplitude, curvature and angle of bends of the waveforms are analysed. It was established that damage location is revealed by ‘kink’ on corresponding curves of the waveforms. The parameters of oscillation shapes are sensitive to the crack parameters in different degree. The novelty of the approach consists in that the identification procedure is divided into two stages: (a) it is determined the crack location, and (b) it is determined the crack size. Based on analytical modelling, an example of determination of dependence of the crack parameters on its size in the cantilever rod is presented. Study of features of the waveforms during identification of the fracture parameters shows that the features found in the form of ‘kinks’ and local extreme a of the angle between the tangent and curvature of waveforms for different modes of bending oscillations, define the crack location in cantilever. They can serve as one of diagnostic signs of crack identification and allow us to determine its location.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 44-50, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8182

 
Ultra-tight GPS/IMU Integration based Long-Range Rocket Projectile Navigation
Authors: Zhao Handong , Li Zhipeng
Published: January 2016

Accurate navigation is important for long-range rocket projectile’s precise striking. For getting a stable and high-performance navigation result, a ultra-tight global position system (GPS), inertial measuring unit integration (IMU)-based navigation approach is proposed. In this study, high-accuracy position information output from IMU in a short time to assist the carrier phase tracking in the GPS receiver, and then fused the output information of IMU and GPS based on federated filter. Meanwhile, introduced the cubature kalman filter as the local filter to replace the unscented kalman filter, and improved it with strong tracking principle, then, improved the federated filter with vector sharing theory. Lastly simulation was carried out based on the real ballistic data, from the estimation error statistic figure. The navigation accuracy of the proposed method is higher than traditional method.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 64-70, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8326
Asynchronous Message Transmission Technique for Latency Requirements in Time Critical Ship-borne System
Authors: Shrivastava N. P. , Shrotriya S.
Published: January 2016

A solution to data ageing requirements in time critical ship system like fire control system is presented. In an operational sea borne platform, navigation requirements for the onboard systems are fulfilled by ring laser gyro-based inertial navigation system. For critical systems like fire control system, navigational data must be delivered in real time without any delay. However due to delay occurring in processing of raw information and transmission of data on interface bus some latency is introduced. Algorithm for an asynchronous message transmission technique from inertial navigation system to user system to meet its latency requirements is discussed. Latency requirement is achieved by sending a separate message with the time stamp for the instance the first byte of 100 Hz attitude data is received at the processing computer of navigation system.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 26-29, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8502
Role of Threaded Tool Pin Profile and Rotational Speed on Generation of Defect Free Friction Stir AA 2014 Aluminium Alloy Welds
Authors: Meshram Suresh D. , Reddy G. Madhusudhan , Rao A. Venugopal
Published: January 2016

Influence of threads on tool pin and rotational speeds on defect occurrence in friction stir welding (FSW) of aluminum alloy AA 2014 T6 plates has been studied. The effect of FSW forces on the evolution of mechanistic defects, caused in turn through a variation in heat generation during the process has also been examined. In case of conical tool pin, relatively lower rotational speeds resulted in unbounded zones and micro defects while high speeds caused excessive flash, thereby resulting in surface defects and voids inside the weld. The FSW joints were defect-free at moderate speeds, hinting an optimum heat generation and flow. Reaction forces on the tool pin, in the welding direction, were correlated with the defect formation. Tools equipped with a threaded conical pin profile resulted in sound welds, irrespective of the tool rotational speeds in the entire range of 400 rpm - 2400 rpm. The threaded conical pin, with a relatively larger frictional area, may be contributing to higher levels of heat generation compared to a plain conical pin. Further, positive displacement of the hot plasticised material by the threads will carry away excess heat from the advancing-to-the-retracting side and simultaneously downwards, thus confining all heat within the weld zone.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 57-63, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8566
High Density Impulse Noise Detection using Fuzzy C-means Algorithm
Authors: Singh Isha , Verma Om Prakash
Published: January 2016

A new technique for detecting the high density impulse noise from corrupted images using Fuzzy C-means algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is iterative in nature and preserves more image details in high noise environment. Fuzzy C-means is initially used to cluster the image data. The application of Fuzzy C-means algorithm in the detection phase provides an optimum classification of noisy data and uncorrupted image data so that the pictorial information remains well preserved. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms existing well-known techniques. Results show that with the increase in percentage of noise density, the performance of the algorithm is not degraded. Furthermore, the varying window size in the two detection stages provides more efficient results in terms of low false alarm rate and miss detection rate. The simple structure of the algorithm to detect impulse noise makes it useful for various applications like satellite imaging, remote sensing, medical imaging diagnosis and military survillance. After the efficient detection of noise, the existing filtering techniques can be used for the removal of noise.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 30-36, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8722
Localisation and Pre-calculation for Anti-missile Defence Shield System
Authors: Saeedvand Saeed , Razavi Seyed Naser , S. Aghdasi Hadi
Published: January 2016

One of the most important problems in anti-missile systems is localisation ambulatory missiles’ defence sites along with fixed missiles’ defence sites in best positions to destroy enemy’s missiles. For localisation, there are lots of constraints and consumptions, which should be considered to making predictions in missiles behaviours. An optimum algorithm for localisation of the missiles’ defence sites is provided. Predictions of attackers’ missiles behaviors for assisting real-time defending operations in the defender sites is also provided. One simulator for finding the best places to locate ambulatory missiles’ defence sites presented. This simulator considers fixed and ambulatory missiles’ defence sites along with their parameters to provide best solutions by relying on modified genetic algorithm.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 37-43, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8831
A Modular and Integrated Optimisation Model for Underwater Vehicles
Authors: Vasudev K. L. , Sharma R. , Bhattacharyya S. K.
Published: January 2016

A modular and integrated optimisation model for the design of underwater vehicles is presented. In the proposed optimisation model two modules (i.e. low fidelity and high fidelity) are incorporated and the basic geometric definition of computer aided design (CAD) is integrated with computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis. The hydrodynamic drag is considered as single objective with constraints on the geometric parameters of dimension, space and volume. The CAD model is implemented in MATLAB*TM and CFD model is implemented in Shipflow**TM. A real-world design example of an existing underwater vehicles is presented. The applicability of proposed optimisation model is shown. The presented results show that within given set or sets of constraints the application of optimisation model in design results into an efficient hull form.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 71-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.8889
Generative Model for Conceptual Design of Defence Equipment
Authors: Kumar K. Ajith , Saravanakumar M. , Joseph J. , Ramanathan Hareesh
Published: January 2016

Requirement study and analysis forms a key component in conceptual design of new products and systems. For complex systems like defence equipment, concept design is very important and should primarily satisfy all user requirements. Brings out a new generative model for concept design of defence systems using principles of systems engineering. A structured model and methodology is presented starting from capturing the user requirements, developing multiple solutions, short listing the candidate solutions and finally selecting one or two feasible designs. The model and process is illustrated with the help of a case study on the development of a torpedo defence system for naval ships.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 81-87, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.9105
Effect of L-carnitine and Hoodia gordonii Supplementation on Metabolic Markers and Physical Performance under Short Term Calorie Restriction in Rats
Authors: Jain Swati , Singh Som Nath
Published: January 2016

Calorie restriction can occur as a consequence of food shortage due to natural calamities, war like situations or voluntarily for health benefits. This state of negative energy balance leads to decrease in performance and increase in feeling of hunger. A normal individual can sustain himself on stored energy in form of body fat for a period of time. It was hypothesised that use of an appetite suppressant like Hoodia gordonii along with L-carnintine, which helps in fat oxidation can be used as strategy for coping adverse situation without compromising physical performance. The aim of the study was to evaluate the combined effect of H. gordonii and L-carnitine supplementation on metabolic changes and appetite regulatory peptides during calorie restriction. Male albino rats were divided into two groups (n=12 in each) i.e. control (without treatment) and treated (H. gordonii organic solvent extract and L-carnitine, orally for 5 days at a dose of 100 mg/kg under 25 per cent calorie restriction). Biochemical variables including regulatory peptides were estimated along with physical efficiency tests. Significant changes in ghrelin, leptin, corticosterone and thyroid hormones were observed in comparison to control. While blood glucose, AMP kinase decreased significantly in the treated group, an increase in CPT-1 activity was observed compared with controls. It is concluded that approach could be practically suitable and effective in emergency situations of combat or food shortage.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 11-18, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.9178
Application of Quantitative Measures for Analysing Aircraft Handling Qualities
Authors: Hebbar Archana , Pashilkar Abhay A.
Published: January 2016

The ease and precision with which pilot is able to handle the designated task determines the aircraft’s handling qualities. Accordingly, the most common methodology for determining aircraft’s handling qualities is through pilot opinions or through questionnaires. These subjective means of analysis is not reliable as the sole source of judgments. Quantitative metrics to analyse the task difficulty based on pilot’s performance, supplemented with subjective decision, can provide better insight into pilot workload levels and in turn the aircraft’s handling qualities. The application of few objective performance measurement techniques to flight data of a high performance fighter aircraft is discussed. Pilot/aircraft’s performance under different configurations is analysed. Analysis results show that pilots usually tend to give more priority to pitch axis in case of dual axis tracking task. And pilots are therefore more aggressive in accomplishing pitch axis tracking task than in roll. Workload assessments were also performed by comparing the results of single axis tracking experiments conducted using a high fidelity flight simulator with the flight data. It is seen that pilot’s aggressiveness levels in controlling the roll control inceptor is significantly less, with improved tracking accuracy when exercised as the primary task.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 03-10, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.9196
Ride Dynamics of a Tracked Vehicle with a Finite Element Vehicle Model
Authors: Jothi S. , Balamurugan V. , Mohan K. Malar
Published: January 2016

Research on tracked vehicle dynamics is by and large limited to multi-rigid body simulation. For realistic prediction of vehicle dynamics, it is better to model the vehicle as multi-flexible body. In this paper, tracked vehicle is modelled as a mass-spring system with sprung and unsprung masses of the physical tracked vehicle by Finite element method. Using the equivalent vehicle model, dynamic studies are carried out by imparting vertical displacement inputs to the road wheels. Ride characteristics of the vehicle are captured by modelling the road wheel arms as flexible elements using Finite element method. In this work, a typical tracked vehicle test terrain viz., Trapezoidal blocks terrain (APG terrain) is considered. Through the simulations, the effect of the road wheel arm flexibility is monitored. Result of the analysis of equivalent vehicle model with flexible road wheel arms, is compared with the equivalent vehicle model with rigid road wheel arms and also with the experimental results of physical tracked vehicle. Though there is no major difference in the vertical bounce response between the flexible model and the rigid model, but there is a visible difference in the roll condition. Result of the flexible vehicle model is also reasonably matches with the experimental result.

Defence Science Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 19-25, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.9201
Desarrollo de las políticas de uso de un repositorio digital para una institución de nivel superior en situación de desventaja tecnológica
Authors: Fernández López José Alonso , Pintor Chávez María Manuela , Gómez Zermeño Marcela Georgina
Published: January 2016

Este estudio contempla un análisis cualitativo transversal sobre las condiciones de un centro escolar de nivel superior en situación de desventaja al encontrarse aislado geográficamente y carecer de la infraestructura tecnológica apropiada y acceso a Internet. Para reducir esta brecha de acceso a la información, se propone implementar un repositorio de objetos de aprendizaje, tomando en cuenta las necesidades de la institución. Mediante entrevistas, se recopiló la opinión de alumnos, docentes y directivos sobre sus experiencias y perspectivas para la creación de políticas de uso y adopción de un repositorio de objetos de aprendizaje. Los resultados muestran que los participantes se manifiestan positivamente en torno a la implementación de un repositorio virtual y se detallan las políticas derivadas de la investigación. Sin embargo, el proceso debe continuar en desarrollo en cuanto a la elección y creación de contenido para determinar si contribuye positivamente en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje.
Determinantes implicados en la construcción de la violencia de género. El caso de las escuelas primarias en una provincia de España.
Authors: Moreno Sánchez Emilia , Márquez Vázquez Carmen
Published: January 2016

En este trabajo se presenta un estudio descriptivo correlacional realizado en centros de Educación Primaria, financiados con fondos públicos, en la provincia de Huelva (Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía, España), en el que se analizan las diferencias de género en la comprensión de la violencia en la escuela. Con la información obtenida podemos concluir que la violencia percibida por alumnos y alumnas en el contexto educativo posee un claro componente de género y en ambos sexos se muestra la interiorización desde la infancia de comportamientos que reproducen modelos de socialización diferencial entre niños y niñas. Por ello, se hace necesario crear un profundo debate en el seno de la comunidad escolar y una implicación de la perspectiva de género en la actividad docente, tanto en la formación como en la investigación y especialmente en la política educativa para avanzar hacia la igualdad de derechos de las mujeres desde la infancia.
A varrattechnika fejlődése a kéz hajlítóín-sérüléseiben az elmúlt tizenöt esztendő során
Authors: Bíró Vilmos
Published: January 2016

In the reconstruction of hand flexor tendon injuries it is fundamental to select the best suture technique, which makes possible early, active postoperative mobilization and achievement of the best results. The author reviews the development of suture techniques of the flexor tendon injuries during the last fifteen years, and discusses experimental tendon reconstruction results as well as clinical outcomes. The author describes the importance of different tendon suture materials, the significance of the pulley system of the fingers, the stretching between the sutured tendon ends by tendon sutures and, finally, the importance of the moving course in the reconstructed tendon. He states, that the wide-range adoption of the discussed modern tendon sutures would be necessary for better postoperative results. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(6), 212–218.
How can Writing Tasks be Characterized in a way serving Pedagogical Goals and Automatic Analysis Needs?
Authors: Quixal Martí , Meurers Detmar
Published: January 2016

The paper works out and addresses a central question in the field of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL): How can language learning tasks be conceptualized and made explicit in a way that supports the pedagogical goals in modern Foreign Language Teaching and Learning (FLTL) and at the same time provides an explicit characterization of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) requirements to provide feedback to learners completing those tasks? We argue that the successful implementation of language learning tasks to be automatically assessed by means of NLP-based feedback generation strategies demands a design process considering both pedagogical and computational requirements as equally important.

Extending well-established work in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and TBLT testing we propose a framework that helps us (i) elucidate the formal features of foreign language learning activities, (ii) characterize the gap between expected and actually elicited learner language, and (iii) assess how variability in learner responses impacts computational techniques for the automatic analysis of learner language.

To validate our approach we apply our framework to two specific writing tasks for learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Our analysis highlights the relevance of spelling out the pedagogical and linguistic goals of language learning tasks in order to successfully characterize the language variation in learner responses needed to design effective pedagogical and NLP strategies.Given the combination of design- and data-driven perspectives, the framework supports an iterative approach to the creation of language learning tasks and ICALL materials.
Connecting Criterion scores and Classroom Grading Contexts: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Model for Teaching and Assessing Causal Language
Authors: Ma Hong , Slater Tammy
Published: January 2016

This study utilized theory proposed by Mohan, Slater, Luo, and Jaipal (2002) regarding what they refer to as the Developmental Path of Cause to examine issues of AWE score use in classroom contexts. Utilization of this model enabled this study to investigate the accuracy of the AWE scores by comparing them to ratings based on teachers’ intuition as well as to scores generated based on existing rubrics. The qualitative data collected from focus group interviews of three experienced teachers’ justifications for their intuitive evaluations of essays suggested that the Developmental Path of Cause helped teachers articulate their intuitions, identifying the core features of the model. The quantitative results showed that the grades provided by raters trained to use the Developmental Path of Cause tended to support Criterion scores more strongly than did instructor grades. The findings from this study suggest that AWE scores from Criterion not only closely correlated with teachers’ intuitions and with raters trained to use the Developmental Path of Cause, but that the use of the Developmental Path of Cause for teaching may support the use of AWE systems in the classroom context, and would help students focus on the core of a cause-effect essay: appropriateness and sophistication of causal language.
Probabilistic Proximity-aware Resource Location in Peer-to-Peer Networks Using Resource Replication
Authors: Analoui Morteza , Sharifi Mohsen , Rezvani Mohammad Hossein
Published: January 2016

Nowadays, content distribution has received remarkable attention in distributed computing researches and its applications typically allow personal computers, called peers, to cooperate with each other in order to accomplish distributed operations such as query search and acquiring digital contents. In a very large network, it is impossible to perform a query request by visiting all peers. There are some works that try to find the location of resources probabilistically (i.e. non-deterministically). They all have used inefficient protocols for finding the probable location of peers who manage the resources. This paper presents a more efficient protocol that is proximity-aware in the sense that it is able to cache and replicate the popular queries proportional to distance latency. The protocol dictates that the farther the resources are located from the origin of a query, the more should be the probability of their replication in the caches of intermediate peers. We have validated the proposed distributed caching scheme by running it on a simulated peer-to-peer network using the well-known Gnutella system parameters. The simulation results show that the proximity-aware distributed caching can improve the efficiency of peer-to-peer resource location services in terms of the probability of finding objects, overall miss rate of the system, fraction of involved peers in the search process, and the amount of system load.
How to Write a Good Paper in Computer Science and HowWill It Be Measured by ISI Web of Knowledge
Authors: Andonie Răzvan , Dzitac Ioan
Published: January 2016

The academic world has come to place enormous weight on bibliometric measures to assess the value of scientific publications. Our paper has two major goals. First, we discuss the limits of numerical assessment tools as applied to computer science publications. Second, we give guidelines on how to write a good paper, where to submit the manuscript, and how to deal with the reviewing process. We report our experience as editors of International Journal of Computers Communications & Control (IJCCC). We analyze two important aspects of publishing: plagiarism and peer reviewing. As an example, we discuss the promotion assessment criteria used in the Romanian academic system. We express openly our concerns about how our work is evaluated, especially by the existent bibliometric products. Our conclusion is that we should combine bibliometric measures with human interpretation.