bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
El sentir popular andaluz reflejado en la cartelera teatral astigitana de finales del siglo XIX. Respuestas a la problemática social
Authors: Bolaños Donoso Piedad
Published: December 2012

La cartelera teatral astigitana de finales del siglo XIX (1890-1899), inédita hasta hace unos días, nos ha proporcionado un rico material para el estudio del teatro andaluz de estos años. Los temas que nos ofrecen son muchos y muy ricos, habiendo elegido para este estudio la problemática social y su respuesta, a través de una selección de las obras, siempre que sus autores fueran también andaluces. De esta forma, hemos comprobado si aquello que nos advirtió Victor Hugo, en su prólogo de Cronwell: «...es necesario que la multitud no salga del teatro sin llevarse consigo alguna moralidad austera y profunda» se llevó a la práctica. Este trabajo ofrece una respuesta.
Helena o el mar del verano (1952) y la novela lírica
Authors: Casas Ana
Published: December 2012

Tras reseñar la recepción de Helena o el mar del verano (1952), de Julián Ayesta, y enmarcarla en su contexto, el presente trabajo analiza los diversos recursos formales que relacionan esta obra con el género de la novela lírica. Desde esta perspectiva, se interesa por el subjetivismo del relato, el cual se afana en plasmar la conciencia del niño que deviene progresivamente adulto, y no tanto en representar el mundo de manera objetiva. Así, la estructura circular, el fragmentarismo, la división del relato en escenas o el estatismo descriptivo participan de la interiorización del tiempo y el espacio por parte de un narrador cuya experiencia del pasado no ha concluido, pues para él sigue estando viva.
La obra de Aníbal Núñez en el contexto de la poética posmoderna española (Notas para una restitución generacional)
Authors: Vives Pérez Vicente
Published: December 2012

Tras décadas de reclusión en la zona umbrosa de su promoción, la poesía de Aníbal Núñez está iniciando un proceso de recuperación en los estudios críticos recientes. Superadas ya las restrictivas premisas con que la crítica redujo la nómina de autores y tendencias poéticas del 68, el aislamiento de los poetas cuya obra no encajaba en el canon hegemónico es objeto de revisión en la actual historiografía de la poesía española contemporánea. Esta restitución de los excluidos es esencial para entender la pluralidad de los discursos que componen la generación del 68: recuperar sus voces discordantes es necesario para trazar su escenario estético completo. A la luz del innovador paradigma teórico-crítico de la poética posmoderna española, los libros de Aníbal Núñez pueden insertarse plenamente en el panorama creador de su generación, sin menoscabo de las peculiaridades que singularizan su escritura poética.
Hipotexto bíblico y haggāḏāh judía en El Árbol de la Ciencia: el Génesis según Baroja
Authors: Hernández Lobato Jesús
Published: December 2012

Este artículo se propone ofrecer una relectura global de El árbol de la ciencia a partir de un análisis pormenorizado de su rico diálogo hipertextual con el libro del Génesis. A lo largo de dicha novela Baroja se las ingenia para diseminar una serie de pistas o índices intertextuales que permitan al lector atento reconstruir el significado alegórico de la obra, que va mucho más allá de sus aspectos autobiográficos, filosóficos o socio-históricos, tema principal de buen número de los artículos y estudios precedentes. Esta novedosa mirada a la interacción polifónica de discursos literarios superpuestos (concernientes a la tradición exegética occidental, el esoterismo judío o la tópica medieval) con el texto bíblico del Génesis nos ofrece una visión más amplia y matizada del significado (o significados) de la novela, siempre abierto a sorprendentes juegos de reformulación alusiva y revisión crítica del material heredado.
Cien años de Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas: Presente y pasado en Antonio Machado
Authors: Rodríguez García José María
Published: December 2012

Machado tuvo una fijación con las secuencias temporales alternativas al discurrir lineal, lo cual explica su énfasis en la repetición, las paradojas intelectuales resultantes de los saltos adelante y atrás en la conciencia, e incluso la concepción del pasado como creación memorística del presente, un poco a la manera de Henri Bergson. En el presente trabajo, conecto la crítica del tiempo biográfico en el poemario Soledades con la «serie dialéctica» (uso este concepto en su lato sentido orteguiano) construida a partir del binomio «historia»/ «leyenda» en el mismo libro, y con la preferencia del autor por el tiempo de la enunciación improvisa (performance) sobre el tiempo del enunciado anecdótico. En este menester comentaré en detalle un ramillete de poemas del vate sevillano entresacados de las ediciones de Soledades de 1902-1903 y 1907.
Estética de la Novela en España. Tres momentos: Ortega, Bergamín y Mariano Baquero Goyanes
Authors: Almería Luis Beltrán
Published: December 2012

La aportación española a la teoría de la novela es, a juicio del autor, la aportación más importante a la teoría literaria que se ha hecho desde España en el siglo XX. Esa aportación sigue una línea de continuidad cuyos eslabones fundamentales son Ortega, Bergamín y Mariano Baquero Goyanes. La contribución de Ortega es la más reconocida aunque ese reconocimiento sea superior en Norteamérica que en España. Las aportaciones de Bergamín y Baquero Goyanes no han salido hasta la fecha del ámbito de lo hispánico e incluso aquí son mal conocidas, sobre todo la de Bergamín.
Notas a la «Loa» del Divino Narciso, auto sacramental de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Authors: Marini Palmieri Enrique
Published: December 2012

El auto sacramental, el mito de Narciso y su proyección en la tipología cristiana según criterios teóricos y retóricos son los aspectos que se ponen en relación en este artículo sobre el «Divino Narciso» de sor Juana. Con ellos, se ahonda en la organización del discurso en la «Loa» que precede al auto; en la construcción de los personajes, en el contenido y la intencionalidad. Se sugiere que en ella se le ofrece al espectador la unidad de Dios y de dioses, y la de los hombres entre sí. Así, la unidad humana nueva que en la «Loa» exalta al Corpus Christi revela la existencia de un criollismo primigenio original, una suerte de «protocriollismo» surgido del Encuentro entre América, Europa y España.
Las jácaras a lo divino: un inédito de Cáncer y Velasco
Authors: González Maya Juan C.
Published: December 2012

El presente trabajo saca a la luz una composición inédita de Jerónimo de Cáncer y Velasco, ilustre poeta del siglo XVII. Encontrada en un manuscrito de la Hispanic Society de Nueva York es una excelente muestra del estilo del autor, especialista en los juegos del lenguaje, sobre todo en la disemia. Pertenece al género de lo que se ha dado en denominar «jácaras a lo divino», del que Cáncer fue un auténtico especialista. Influido por las jácaras de Quevedo, el poeta aprovecha el lenguaje de la germanía como instrumento de diversión a costa de un desconocido Francisco de Asís, convertido en un auténtico truhán del siglo XVII.
Tradición, vanguardia y poética en Madrigal al billete de tranvía de Rafael Alberti
Authors: Macciuci Raquel
Published: December 2012

El diálogo que la vanguardia española entabló con la tradición —fenómeno común también a Latinoamérica— ha dado lugar a interpretaciones parceladas del arte y de la literatura del temprano siglo XX, y muy especialmente, de la poesía de la llamada Generación del 27. En las últimas dos décadas, las aproximaciones de la crítica han demostrado que la alianza entre el pasado y lo nuevo está lejos de constituir una rémora que condena a los ismos hispánicos a arrastrar un estigma de inautenticidad, acusados de carecer del impulso transformador de los programas artísticos de los países europeos tempranamente modernizados. A partir de las recientes tesis que han revisado estas premisas (Soria Olmedo, Geist, Bosi, García Montero, Wilson...), se analizará el muy citado poema «Madrigal al billete de tranvía» de Rafael Alberti con el fin de explorar, en un texto de creación específico, la puesta en práctica de una estética que reelaboró en clave vanguardista los patrones líricos heredados. Asimismo, se verá que, tras el hermetismo del discurso neogongorino del madrigal, subyace el manifiesto breve de una poética cuyo desciframiento enriquece la lectura de la obra albertiana de los años veinte.
El destierro infinito de Blanco White en la mirada de Juan Goytisolo
Authors: Durán López Fernando
Published: December 2012

En torno a los años 1970-1972 el novelista Juan Goytisolo publica varios estudios y traducciones sobre la obra de José María Blanco White, que suponen un momento clave en la recuperación de ese olvidado escritor para la moderna cultura española. La tesis formulada en el presente artículo es que la estrategia conscientemente identificadora que aplica Goytisolo sobre Blanco White, a fin de definir una tradición intelectual española a lo largo de los siglos marcada por el exilio y la disidencia, supone de hecho una deformación de la figura y el pensamiento del escritor sevillano. La recepción de Blanco White en España ha quedado, sin embargo, condicionada por esa lectura.
La traducción de las escritoras inglesas y la novela española del primer tercio del siglo XIX: lo histórico, lo sentimental y lo gótico
Authors: Establier Pérez Helena
Published: December 2012

Aunque la escritura de las mujeres presentaba en la Inglaterra del primer tercio del siglo XIX un desarrollo y una madurez considerables, lo cierto es que la lista de novelistas británicas cuyas obras llegan en esa misma época a nuestro país es bastante reducida. Todos estos textos —que en conjunto no superan la veintena y que se traducen al español en las mismas fechas, la segunda y la tercera décadas del siglo— se enmarcan dentro de géneros populares, con gran presencia del didactismo y de lo sentimental, elementos derivados de las aventuras de la narrativa heroica e ingredientes del relato gótico que destacan sobre el fondo social costumbrista de la novela inglesa dieciochesca. Este trabajo se centra fundamentalmente en las escasas traducciones de obras de novelistas inglesas que presentan elementos y técnicas narrativas provenientes de los llamados gothic romances o gothic tales —que se han venido traduciendo al español como «novelas de horror o de terror»— género muy poco o nada frecuentado en la España de principios del XIX, en especial las de Sophia Lee, Regina Maria Roche y Ann Radcliffe. Su presencia en el panorama literario español del primer tercio del siglo XIX revela las demandas editoriales de un público de signo burgués y cada vez más femenino, deseoso de consumir las lecturas que entretenían a la clase media europea de su tiempo y de tener acceso a la escritura de las mujeres, tanto en el camino más trillado de lo didáctico-sentimental como en el más novedoso de la narrativa gótica.
Un templo vacío. Lo sagrado en la escritura de José Ángel Valente
Authors: Gómez Toré José Luis
Published: December 2012

La vinculación entre la mística y la poesía se ha convertido en un tema casi obligado para cualquier análisis crítico de la obra de José Ángel Valente. Sin embargo, cabe preguntarse si una interpretación apresurada de este vínculo no puede llevarnos a lecturas erradas de la compleja escritura del poeta, cuando se parte de una identificación a priori entre la pregunta por lo sagrado que caracteriza a buena parte del arte contemporáneo (no sólo a la poesía) y la certeza de la presencia numinosa en la tradición mística. Trataremos de mostrar en este ensayo cómo la escritura valentiana se entiende mejor desde una experiencia de lo sagrado que nace tanto de la presencia como de la ausencia y que es inseparable de la propia escritura (una escritura que no puede evitar inscribirse en el horizonte filosófico y religioso de la muerte de Dios). La búsqueda de lo sagrado en Valente encuentra tres itinerarios privilegiados: la materia, el cuerpo (el amor y el erotismo) y la palabra poética (y el silencio).
La recepción de la huelga de Asturias en la prensa de izquierdas de Nueva York: nuevos datos sobre María Teresa León y Rafael Alberti en 1935
Authors: Pulido Mendoza Manuel
Published: December 2012

Aunque se conoce bien el periplo norteamericano de los Alberti-León durante el año 1935, aún quedan algunos interrogantes por contestar acerca de la labor desarrollada por ambos escritores durante el mes que visitaron los Estados Unidos, antes de continuar su viaje por América Central y el Caribe. En el presente artículo presento una relación ordenada de los hechos de este episodio a la luz de nuevos hallazgos documentales y dentro del contexto de la recepción de los sucesos de la huelga revolucionaria de Asturias en la prensa de izquierdas neoyorquina.
Referencias hispánicas a Zola y a la medicina experimental en 1868
Authors: Vall Xavier
Published: December 2012

Retrotrayendo la fecha del impacto hispánico de Zola, se aportan comentarios sobre Thérèse Raquin del corresponsal parisino del Diario de Reus (muy probablemente, Ángel Vallejo Miranda) y una mención como redactor de La Tribune por Josep Coroleu en el diario barcelonés El Principado. Mientras que el uno, coincidiendo con Louis Ulbach, censura el carácter depravado y médico de diversas novelas (entre ellas también La comtesse de Châlis, de Ernest-Aimé Feydeau), el otro defiende el realismo de esta obra y, citando Claude Bernard, el método experimental. Aunque el naturalismo zoliano todavía tenía que desarrollarse, estos textos manifiestan ya dos actitudes opuestas, que adquirirán una amplia gama de matices.
Un poema mal atribuido al poeta antequerano-granadino Agustín de Tejada Páez
Authors: De la Torre José María
Published: December 2012

Con el descubrimiento del panegírico De Sacrosanctae Virginis Montis Acuti translatione et miraculis panegyris de Juan de Aguilar, se prueba que se le ha atribuido incorrectamente al poeta Agustín de Tejada Páez el poema cuyo primer verso es «El ánimo me inflama ardiente celo», y que figura en el Cancionero antequerano de Ignacio de Toledo y Godoy como suyo, cuando se trata de una traducción al español llevada a cabo por el doctor Tejada. Asimismo, casi todo lo que han escrito sobre dicho poema Dámaso Alonso y el profesor José Lara Garrido es insostenible y refutable a la vista de la obra hallada.
En los límites del libro de viajes: seducción, canonicidad y transgresión de un género
Authors: Martín María Rubio
Published: December 2012

Este trabajo parte de la lectura de algunas de las obras literarias recientes que la crítica ha relacionado con el libro de viajes pero que presentan problemas a la hora de determinar su adscripción génerica. Tres son los objetivos de esta investigación: determinar los rasgos formales y estructurales comunes a todas ellas, establecer su grado de desvío respecto a la constitución canónica del libro de viajes como género literario, y proponer una nueva organización y clasificación de la clase de textos conocida tradicionalmente como libro de viajes.
Encuentro del viajero Pero Tafur con el humanismo florentino del primer cuatrocientos
Authors: Pérez Priego Miguel Ángel
Published: December 2012

En este artículo se estudia la presencia de los numerosos españoles que en el siglo XV tuvieron relación con el humanismo italiano en la ciudad de Florencia. Muy interesante nos parece la relación del viajero Pero Tafur con humanistas, interesados también en la idea y la práctica del viaje a lejanas tierras.
A propósito de La doncella Teodor, una comedia de viaje de Lope de Vega
Authors: Madroñal Abraham
Published: December 2012

La doncella Teodor es una comedia que pertenece al «ciclo toledano» de Lope de Vega, porque se escribe y representa hacia 1610-1612 y porque se sitúa en origen en la ciudad de Toledo. Sin embargo, será solo un pretexto para que el espectador viaje a las cortes de Orán, Persia y Constantinopla, lugares exóticos donde una doncella de nombre Teodor causará la admiración de los sabios. Se aportan algunas notas al texto de la comedia, que intentan ofrecer una explicación a aspectos desatendidos.
Fiesta y poder en el Viaje del virrey marqués de Villena (México, 1640)
Authors: Farré Vidal Judith
Published: December 2012

En este estudio se presenta un análisis del diario que escribió Cristóbal Gutiérrez de Medina en torno al viaje que realizó el marqués de Villena desde Escalona hasta la ciudad de México, con motivo de su nombramiento como virrey de Nueva España (1640). El impreso es el único conservado de estas características, aspecto que unido al hecho de que se trata del primer grande de España en ostentar el cargo, permite abordar su estudio desde el marco de los festejos itinerantes que van celebrándose tras su desembarco en Veracruz.
Imágenes poéticas en textos de viajes románticos al Sur de España
Authors: Romero Tobar Leonardo
Published: December 2012

Una marca artística que otorga a los relatos de viajes la condición de «género literario» es el empleo de imágenes poéticas que el viajero asocia con aspectos de los lugares visitados. Estas páginas dan una selección de imágenes empleadas por viajeros a Andalucía durante el siglo XIX. La imagen más frecuente es la que remite al tópico cultural troquelado sobre la bipolaridad Norte/Sur; también se recuerdan otras metáforas con las que fue descrito Cádiz en sus connotaciones de paisaje rodeado de mar y belleza luminosa que fue trasladada a la belleza de sus mujeres.
La edición príncipe de La pícara Justina. Análisis de estados textuales
Authors: Mañero Lozano David
Published: December 2012

El presente artículo se propone examinar las correcciones en prensa de la editio princeps de La pícara Justina. A este propósito, se han analizado once de los ejemplares conservados de la primera edición de la obra. Este análisis no sólo ha permitido aclarar el sentido de algunos pasajes, sino también extraer conclusiones sobre la ortografía de la época, la caligrafía del manuscrito empleado, la tipología de los errores cometidos por los operarios de la imprenta e, incluso, sobre la posible intervención del autor en el proceso de corrección, así como sobre las imprentas que participaron en la impresión de la obra.
Resurrección y recreación de Dafnis y Cloe en la Edad de Plata (1868-1936): moral, filología y espacio literario
Authors: Hualde Pascual Pilar
Published: December 2012

El trabajo pretende rastrear los ecos que la novela griega Dafnis y Cloe ha dejado en diversos autores de la Edad de Plata de la cultura española, partiendo de una recopilación cronológica y de una interpretación crítica de los datos. De esta manera se intentará demostrar que, a partir de la traducción de Juan Valera, algunos escritores de finales del XIX recurren a la mención de los personajes de la novela de Longo como mero recurso estético impuesto por la moda, mientras que otros buscan en su trama la inventio del asunto de sus novelas. Intentaremos demostrar, asimismo, que ciertos autores, pertenecientes ya a las generaciones del 98 y del 14, con una formación mayor o menor en la lengua griega, redescubren Las Pastorales y las utilizan para polarizar en torno a ellas sus ideas respecto a la sexualidad, en el marco de la llamada novela lírica. Finalmente se observará la recurrencia a Dafnis y Cloe en determinados escritores de la generación del 27 ya con una función simbólica, ya para deconstruir un clásico introduciéndolo en la estética de la modernidad.
Sobre el Grup de Sabadell y los Nova Novorum
Authors: Pego Puigbó Armando
Published: December 2012

En el presente artículo se pretende describir, de manera comparada, las raíces literarias de dos de las propuestas más renovadoras de las narrativas española y catalana de los años veinte y treinta del siglo XX. Cabe buscar los posibles paralelismos entre la obra de Antonio Espina y Francesc Trabal en el diálogo con la experiencia estética de las vanguardias europeas en las que se insertaban y en la exasperación narrativa de sus propias contradicciones. Teniendo en cuenta las posiblilidades que ofrecía el poema en prosa o el microrrelato, será posible rastrear una similitud de respuestas que entrelaza la reflexión del «Grup de Sabadell» con la de los «Nova Novorum». A tal fin, se analizarán conjuntamente Pájaro Pinto (1927) y Luna de copas (1929), de Espina, y L’ home que es va perdre (1929) y Judita (1939) de Trabal.
Management of Serving Activity
Authors: Dima I. C. , Nowicka-Skowron D. M.
Published: December 2012

Besides the basic and auxiliary production of any industrial company, there is also a servicing production achieved after the activity to store and respectively to transport. The storage must provide the material resources needed by the basic production. The necessary material resources are stored in various constructive types of warehouses taking into account the structure and nature of the stored materials. The storage activity management uses an indicator system, the calculation method of which takes into account the warehouse size and the volume of materials that are stored and how long they will stay in the warehouse. Regardless of whether they are within companies, between the production departments or between the working stations, transports very much condition the basic production efficiency. Internal transports are based on a series of principles and are performed in various ways. Every transportation system has a certain structure, a certain cost, and a certain duration of the transportation process. When making an industrial company’s internal transportation efficient, the rationalisation of transportation has a very significant influence.
Considerations on Multi-Service on Workstations
Authors: Dima I. C.
Published: December 2012

Polyservicing the workplaces takes into account the cycle of processing the benchmarks by machine tools and their features and implies a thorough analysis of the technical, organisational, and economic aspects. It is thus intended to efficiently use the machines and machine tools including the worker’s working time. Grouping the processing operations by machine tools will be done depending on the technological structure of each operation, given the use index of the machines, the effective use index of labour, the structure and duration of the operations necessary to make the product, the type of the machine tools used. Polyservicing the machine-tools is featured by a series of parameters: the duration of the working cycle of a machine, the duration of the polyservicing cycle, optimal number of machines that can be services, the coefficient to use the performer’s working time, etc. Combining the operations to be done on various machine tools is based on the types of technological processes and is done separately for manufacturing unique products, serial production, and mass production. Establishing the optimal production conditions for polyservicing can be done by using the theory of “waiting queues” and “Markov chain,” which is based on three elements, namely: input into the process, the servicing mechanism, and the type and way of servicing. Optimising the polyservice of machines can be done using the “Takacs and Runnenburg model,” which basically solves the issue of the general distribution of servicing times and the “method of the mechanisation coefficient,” which takes into account the influence of cost on the number of polyserviced machines.
Using the Graphical-Analytical Principle to Use Multi-Serving in Operational Management
Authors: Dima I. C.
Published: December 2012

When organising the system of polyservicing the machines and equipment, the graphical-analytical procedure is successfully used, which basically emphasises those factors that condition the simultaneous service of several jobs, factors that can be production substitutable and production limitative factors. When the technological operations are identical, they have the same duration and structure, the organisation of polyservice is based on establishing the cyclogram for servicing all machine tools that have been taken into account. If the operations are different, but have the same manufacturing cycle duration, the use of polyservice implies the determination of the optimal number of machines that are to be simultaneously serviced and the preparation of the servicing cyclogram for all simultaneously serviced machines. Should the operations be multiple, but some of them have the same duration and the same cycle, each machine has a different cycle, but in between these cycles, there is a ratio established between the maximum and the minimum duration influencing the polyservice cycle and the number of machines to be possibly serviced. When the machine tools perform different operations, the way to achieve polyservicing is based on determining the polyservice working cycle, taking into account the longest working cycle of the machines and the amount of servicing times of every machine tool. When the machine tools are grouped, by duration of processing operations for various machines, polyservicing several machine-tools at the same, polyservicing cycle is achieved. Regardless of how polyservicing is done, a system of aggregate indicators whose level is calculated based on mathematical formulae is used in order to assess polyservicing.
Knowledge Economy and Corporate Education
Authors: Vemuri Ram M. , Narasimharao B. PanduRanga
Published: December 2012

From the time a technological need is recognized to the time that it takes academia to produce graduates coming out of colleges with those skills already developed takes a long time, and if academia reacts to the needs of the technology then academia will always be playing a catch-up game since technology does not stand still while academia is working on churning out graduates with the requisite skills. This is a key reason why industry and academia should work together to have a vision of where technology is headed and design academic programs that will train the graduates for the future needs of technology. While this chapter has provided some examples where collaboration between universities and industry has lead to development of technology, there are a myriad of others covering various fields and disciplines. In a small chapter like this, it is not possible to cover all of this. With the advent of affordable telecommunication and transportation, the world is a lot smaller today than it was a few decades back. Retaining homegrown talent and nurturing the homegrown talent to contribute towards growing even more talent while attracting talent from across the globe will contribute significantly towards a knowledge economy that will be self-sustaining.
Sustainability in Higher Education through Basic Science Research
Authors: Yogeeswari P. , Sriram D.
Published: December 2012

Basic research in Universities is essential for a sustainable development. Recent developments in higher education have seen the inclusion of curiculum redesigned to serve the concept of developming young minds in the intrepretation, execution, and use of basic science research. The challenge for educators is to “demystify” research and teach in ways that are professionally meaningful as well as intellectually acceptable. The objective of this chapter is to bring in various case studies to prove the essentiality of basic research in higher education with specific concern over pharmaceutical industrial growth plans. Data on R&D in higher education can be broken down by field of science (natural sciences, engineering, medical sciences, agricultural sciences, social sciences, and humanities), by type of costs (current expenditures, capital expenditures), and by source of funds (business enterprise, government, higher education, private non-profit, and funds from abroad). Measures of R&D performance in the higher education sector are often estimated by national authorities, and evaluation methods are periodically revised. It is necessary to review the design and conduct of higher education R&D surveys to improve the comparability of these indicators.
Multi-Faceted Industry-Academia Collaboration
Authors: Guruprasad K
Published: December 2012

This chapter examines ways in which industry and academia collaboration can happen, keeping in mind the current generation of graduating students, current business needs, and global market competition. Mainly IT, ITES and BPO industries are in the scope, although BPO is given more focus owing to huge growth that is happening in Indian BPO industry. BPO work demystification and its impact on the Gen-Y workforce are addressed, which plays an important role in building paradigms that enhance academic collaboration. Some best practices happening currently are mentioned and recommendations suggested. In addition, the benefits of collaboration to both industry and academia, challenges involved in implementation, and exceptions to some of these approaches are discussed. Some case studies are explained in detail.
Preparing Engineering Graduates for Corporate Enterprises
Authors: Singh B.N. Balaji , Kutumbarao V. V. , Koganti Ram B.
Published: December 2012

The status of engineering education in the country is briefly reviewed. A problem faced by the industry in regard to the quality of the engineering graduates of whom 70 to 80% are considered “unemployable,” is examined. The mismatch between the skillset required by the industry and that provided by the academic institutions is identified as the major reason for the low employability of engineering graduates. Various ongoing efforts at the level of the government and academia to rectify this situation are described. Measures that could be usefully adopted by the corporate sector are identified. Intensive combined action by all the stakeholders involved in the academic process will only enable the country to reverse the trend of declining academic standards in higher technical education. The case of the Power Sector has been discussed at length to illustrate the points made. During the 11th and 12th plan periods, five lakh technical personnel and 1.5 lakh front end support personnel need to be recruited by the Power Sector as per published reports. There is also a huge requirement of back end staff to take up various managerial functions. Use of alternate sources of energy and efficient management of energy being inevitable, a huge pool of human resources would be required in harnessing small hydro, biomass & bio-fuel, solar, and wind resources, provided they have the appropriate specialized knowledge. Moreover, demand side management, power trading, carbon credits, smart grids, etc. will also require manpower with specialized training. Salient features of the human capital challenges in the Indian power sector are discussed, and certain action plans to overcome the challenges are suggested.
Education and Training in Modern Biotechnology in India
Authors: Rao C Kameswara , Annadana Seetharam
Published: December 2012

Modern biotechnology made an explosive entry about three decades ago, taking advantage of elegant and ingenious new protocols that promised very precise and highly refined products in every sector of the industry. However, the claims and hype generated were highly disproportionate to ground realities. Two fundamental errors contributed to this situation: a) treating biotechnology as single subject, to be taught from the first degree level itself, when modern biotechnology is a collaborative effort between and among experts of a dozen cognate disciplines, and b) the explosion of teaching shops pretending to impart education, without properly trained faculty and appropriate and adequate laboratory and library facilities, with the acquiescence of university administration and the governments, which created a chasm between the poor manpower generated and sophisticated needs of the industry, with an enormous campus intake compounding the damage. This resulted in an anomalous situation peculiar to India. This chapter examines the problems and possible remedial measures, in order to deliver to the society in times to come, the full benefits of the myriad developments in modern biotechnology.
Corporate Education in Universities in India
Authors: Anand N.
Published: December 2012

Universities in India were started primarily as examination conducting bodies. It took a few years when academic programmes were initiated. The objective of university education especially in colleges was to train administrative personnel for government departments while there were academic departments in universities that concentrated on pure academic research. Gradually the universities became knowledge centres imparting quality education for all those who desired to enhance their knowledge in desired fields or take up employment in industries. In recent years, the requirement of university education was not just knowledge acquisition but employment oriented. Separation of the professional courses like engineering, medicine, law pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and management studies was a step towards job oriented education. The need to introduce job oriented courses in humanities and sciences became imminent as the number of job seekers increased several folds as years passed by.
Corporate-University Partnerships
Authors: Kliewer Brandon W. , Sandmann Lorilee R. , Narasimharao B. PanduRanga
Published: December 2012

Corporate-university partnerships have the potential to create a myriad of mutually beneficial and reciprocal outcomes that support a larger public good. Within the various expressions of engagement, this chapter situates the outreach and engagement model historically and politically in the United States (US). A case study of a successful corporate-university partnership in the US is provided and is analyzed using the tenets of community engagement. The discussion of the case features three lessons that have the potential to inform corporate-university partnerships in contexts outside the US. Finally, approaches for implementing university outreach and engagement in the Indian context are proposed.
Professionalising Natural Science Education and Multipronged Open Distance Learning
Authors: Narasimharao B. PanduRanga
Published: December 2012

Tobias et al. (1995) postulated in their book on “Rethinking Science as a Career” that Master’s programs could produce graduates who provide the same level of expertise and leadership as professionals do in other fields. They say that they would do so by having the ability to use the products of scholarship in their work and by being familiar with the practical aspects of emerging problem areas. If we consider natural science consisting of physical sciences, biological sciences, mathematics, geosciences, and computer science, degrees in computer science and geosciences served as credentials for practice, whereas physics, chemistry, and biological sciences served as classical graduate education. Robbins-Roth (2006) collected 22 career descriptions for science graduates ranging from public policy to investment banking, and from patent examining to broadcast science journalism. There are several sectors of the society where the principles and knowledge of these science disciplines are used. On the other hand, there are many of the graduates in these disciplines who either are working in areas completely unrelated to their education and training or are unemployable. The need for preparing the science graduates professionally is well recognized (Schuster, 2011; Vanderford, 2010; Narasimharao, Shashidhara Prasad and Nair, 2011; Chuck, 2011).
Integrating Corporate Education in Malaysian Higher Education
Authors: Ali Anuwar
Published: December 2012

The rise of corporate education can be attributed to changes in higher education worldwide in the 1990s, when many countries bore witness to restructuring and reforms. In Malaysia, this restructuring process saw the corporatisation of public universities, rise in private higher education, increasing interest in quality assurance as well as growing awareness of the importance of lifelong and workplace learning. One of the significant parameters of these new dynamics is information and communication technology (ICT), which allows for many corporations to address education and training through online platforms and Web-based tools. The success of some of the most prominent “corporate universities” – many in the United States of America like Motorola University and McDonald’s Hamburger University, can also be attributed to the inability of traditional higher education to meet current workplace needs, a phenomenon also common to many other countries.
Internalizing Quality Culture
Authors: Hegde Ganesh A.
Published: December 2012

The Indian higher education system is witnessing a myriad of changes and challenges through the years, i.e., from ancient Gurukul system to the modern technology based learning system. India is a land of diverse cultures, religions, and communities. It has a unique geography and the absorption of customs, traditions, and ideas. Every region of the country portrays different customs and traditions. ’Unity in Diversity’ has been the distinctive feature of Indian culture. Diversity in India can be seen in terms of religious practices, languages, society, family, customs, festivals, cuisine, clothing, literature, poetry, music and dance, paintings, sculptures, architecture, recreation and traditional sports, and plurality in terms of many religions, beliefs, and institutions. India has 122-languages and 234-mother tongues and numerous festivals come in every month for celebrations. From ancient period to modern times, higher education has always occupied a place of prominence in Indian history. Lord Macaulay, in 1835, advocated the need to train natives of the country thoroughly in good English language. Subsequently, the Universities of Calcutta, Bombay (now Mumbai), and Madras were set up in 1857, followed by the University of Allahabad in 1887 (Kuldeep Kaur, 2003). India has 634 University level institutions and 33,023 colleges (UGC, 2012). Higher Education Institutions demonstrate a high commitment to develop and embed quality through various programmes and activities.
Efficient Word Segmentation and Baseline Localization in Handwritten Documents Using Isothetic Covers
Authors: Dutt Mousumi , Sarkar Aisharjya , Biswas Arindam , Bhowmick Partha , Bhattacharya Bhargab B.
Published: December 2012

Analysis of handwritten documents is a challenging task in the modern era of document digitization. It requires efficient preprocessing which includes word segmentation and baseline detection. This paper proposes a novel approach toward word segmentation and baseline detection in a handwritten document. It is based on certain structural properties of isothetic covers tightly enclosing the words in a handwritten document. For an appropriate grid size, the isothetic covers successfully segregate the words so that each cover corresponds to a particular word. The grid size is selected by an adaptive technique that classifies the inter-cover distances into two classes in an unsupervised manner. Finally, by using a geometric heuristic with the horizontal chords of these covers, the corresponding baselines are extracted. Owing to its traversal strategy along the word boundaries in a combinatorial manner and usage of limited operations strictly in the integer domain, the method is found to be quite fast, efficient, and robust, as demonstrated by experimental results with datasets of both Bengali and English handwritings.
Mammogram Retrieval
Authors: Chen Chee-Chiang , Huang Pai-Jung , Gwo Chih-Ying , Li Yue , Wei Chia-Hung
Published: December 2012

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been proposed by the medical community for inclusion in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). In CBIR, relevance feedback is developed for bridging the semantic gap and improving the effectiveness of image retrieval systems. With relevance feedback, CBIR systems can return refined search results using a learning algorithm and selection strategy. In this study, as the retrieving process proceeds further, the proposed learning algorithm can reduce the influence of the original query point and increase the significance of the centroid of the clusters comprising the features of those relevant images identified in the most recent round of search. The proposed selection strategy is used to find a good starting point and select a set of images at each round to show that search result and ask for the user’s feedback. In addition, a benchmark is proposed to measure the learning ability to explain the retrieval performance as relevance feedback is incorporated in CBIR systems. The performance evaluation shows that the average precision rate of the proposed scheme was 0.98 and the learning ability reach to 7.17 through the five rounds of relevance feedback.
Traffic-Signs Recognition System Based on FCM and Content-Based Image Retrieval
Authors: Li Yue , Wang Wei
Published: December 2012

Artificial intelligent (AI) driving is an emerging technology, freeing the driver from driving. Some techniques for automatically driving have been developed; however, most can only recognize the traffic signs in particular groups, such as triangle signs for warning, circle signs for prohibition, and so forth, but cannot tell the exact meaning of every sign. In this paper, a framework for a traffic system recognition system is proposed. This system consists of two phases. The segmentation method, fuzzy c-means (FCM), is used to detect the traffic sign, whereas the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) method is used to match traffic signs to those in a database to find the exact meaning of every detected sign.
An Affinity Based Complex Artificial Immune System
Authors: Wang Wei , Chang Mei , Wang Xiaofei , Tang Zheng
Published: December 2012

This paper proposes an affinity based complex artificial immune system considering the fact that the different eptitopes located on the surface of antigen can be recognized by a set of different paratopes expressed on the surface of immune cells. A neighborhood set consisting of immune cells with different affinities to a certain input antigen is built to simulate the nature immune behavior. Furthermore, the complex numbers are adopted as the data representation, besides the weight between different layers. In the simulations, the recognition on transformation patterns is performed to illustrate that the proposed system is capable of recognizing the transformation patterns and it has obviously higher noise tolerance ability than the previous system models.
Attitudes of Librarians in Selected Nigerian Universities towards Digital Libraries in E-Learning
Authors: Achugbue Edwin I. , Anie Sylvester O.
Published: December 2012

The attitude of librarians in Nigerian university libraries has the potential to encourage or discourage digital libraries in e-learning. This paper addresses and discusses the attitudes of librarians towards digital library in e-learning, the imperativeness of training and knowledge for effective functionality of digital libraries in Nigerian universities. The paper uses the descriptive survey method to explore the attitudes of librarians towards digital libraries, advantages of digital libraries, and the types of e-learning that can be supported by digital libraries. It was discovered that training and knowledge are sine qua non of a positive attitude towards digital libraries in e-learning. And there was a high interest in the use of online information by researchers and learners but lack of awareness and how best to integrate e-learning resources into digital libraries pose a great challenge to the librarians in Nigerian universities.
Bioinformatics-Inspired Algorithms for 2D-Image Analysis-Application to Synthetic and Medical Images Part I
Authors: Neelakanta Perambur S. , Pappusetty Deepti
Published: December 2012

To ascertain specific features in bio-/medical-images, a new avenue of using the so-called Needleman-Wunsch (NW) and Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithms (of bioinformatics) is indicated. In general, NW/SW algorithms are adopted in genomic science to obtain optimal (global and local) alignment of two linear sequences (like DNA nucleotide bases) to determine the similarity features between them and such 1D-sequence algorithms are presently extended to compare 2D-images via binary correlation. The efficacy of the proposed method is tested with synthetic images and a brain scan image. Thus, the way of finding the location of a distinct part in a synthetic image and that of a tumour in the brain scan image is demonstrated.
Classification of Sleep Apnea Types Using Clustering with SVM Classifier
Authors: Charfi Faiza , Kraiem Ali
Published: December 2012

A new automated approach for the polysomnography (PSG) characterization and classification with the combination of FastICA, clustering and support vector machines (SVM) is presented in this paper. The method is based on two key steps. In the first step, the authors adopt the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Fast Independent Component Analysis (FastICA) approaches to separate and transform the original inputs into uncorrelated and mutually independent new features. In the second step, they utilize the K_Means clustering combined with Support Vector Machine (SVM) to build the proposed classifier. Multiple SVM kernels such as the linear, quadratic, polynomial, and radial basic functions are used for the classification of central and obstructive sleep apnea. Their results suggest the high reliability and high classification accuracy of polynomial kernel.
Bioinformatics-Inspired Algorithms for 2D-Image Analysis­­—Application to Medical Images Part II
Authors: Neelakanta Perambur S. , Bertot Edward M. , Pappusetty Deepti
Published: December 2012

This paper describes a new method of comparing images of circular/near-circular symmetry so as to elucidate the similarity details between them. If one such image is a test-entity and the other is a reference template, the comparison in question will lead to find the unique features (and their locations) in the test-image vis-à-vis the template. The method of comparison and similarity assessment indicated thereof is to use the so-called Needleman-Wunsch (NW) and Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithms commonly adopted in bioinformatic contexts of comparing two linear sequences (like DNA chains). Relevant procedure is extended in this study to address 2D-patterns. It involves first transforming the test-image (of circular symmetry) from polar-plane to a rectangular format. Next, the transformed test-image is digitised and compared against a template (also in digital rectangular format) on row-to-row and column-to-column basis. The resulting alignment of pixel bits in the test-image versus the template leads to an optimal score-of-similarity on the comparisons made. Biomedical applications of the proposed strategy are explored with reference to typical and circular/quasi-circular MRI images, and the associated image recognition, interpretation, and locating of the artefacts are discussed.
EEG Based Detection of Alcoholics
Authors: Shri T. K. Padma , Sriraam N.
Published: December 2012

The short term and long term effects of alcohol on various organs of the body, especially on the human brain is well established by numerous studies. Invasive methods such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and non invasive imaging techniques such as Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and functional MRI activated electro-encephalogram (EEG) have been used to study the changes in EEG activity due to alcoholism. Even with the advent of neuro imaging techniques, EEG happens to be an important tool for brain study providing a non- invasive and cost effective method to detect the effects of alcohol on the human brain. This paper discusses the harmful effects of alcohol on different organs of the body. The advances in the development of EEG signal processing algorithms over the past decade for alcoholic detection are reviewed and their limitations are reported. Further the use of EEG for mass screening of alcoholics and biometric application is discussed in detail.