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THE BLACK WHITE IMAGERY: THE SATIRIC METAPHOR IN OKOT P' BITEK'S 'SONG OF LAWINO'
Year: 2017

The late iconic Ugandan poet and philosopher, Okot P" Bitek, is generally regarded by many modern African literary critics and scholars as the pioneer poet of the Metaphysical tradition in East African poetry. Okot P" Bitek (1974) expressed a strong affirmation of literary faith in literature as existing ,first and foremost to be enjoyed" This is the spring source of his voyage of definite influence into the Metaphysical tradition. He had, thus, arrived at an end and a destination in the business of poesy which every lover of poetry, in particular, and Art, in general, has, in one way or the other, in practice and in principle, come to accept unconditionally as his or her artistic destiny. This is the fundamental explanation one can give for the cesspool of hypnotic imagery that P" Bitek turned his ,Songs" particularly the ,Song of Lawino" into. This paper is, therefore, primarily aimed at providing the general reader with another evergreen opportunity to enjoy the variegated buffet of artistic honey distilled from the nectar of Okot P" Bitek"s uncommon search for intensity and association in the ,Song of Lawino" Any reader of this poem tries to appreciate the transfiguration and transplantation of words the writer uses for maximum artistic and utilitarian effect. The reader is equally being treated to a study in the creation of imagery for fundamentally satiric intent. These are what the present researcher tries to expose and therein lies the significance of this paper. "Song of Lawino" has become an immortal piece even when many literary critics have placed a very hypothetical verdict of thematic cliche on its content.
PELAKSANAAN TANGGUNGJAWAB PENJUAL TERHADAP PEMBELI TERKAIT WANPRESTASI DALAM JUAL BELI BERBASIS ONLINE (E COMMERCE) DI MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM (STUDI PADA MAHASISWA FAKULTAS HUKUM UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG)
Year: 2019

The presence of social media makes people in the world connected to one another without limits. At this time in Indonesia, there are many communication tools that provide internet services and the average user has social media, one of them is Instagram. With the development of technology nowadays, social media not only functions as an information and communication media, but also as a place for buying and selling. Trading activities by utilizing internet media are known as electronic commerce, or abbreviated as e commerce. At present there are no specific regulations governing online trading. Therefore the problem in this paper is the legal remedies carried out by the buyer when there is a default in buying and selling online on Instagram, and the implementation of the seller's responsibility when there is a default in buying and selling online on Instagram. This study uses a sociological juridical approach, which examines the applicable legal provisions and what happens in reality in the community. Primary data used in this study are the results of direct interviews with respondents and secondary data from Law Number 11 Year 2008 Regarding Information and Electronic Transactions, Law Number 7 Year 2014 Regarding Trade, and Book of Civil Law. The results of this research are legal remedies undertaken by respondents in the event of default in buying and selling online on social media Instagram, the majority giving a summons or reprimand to the buyer in order to meet the achievements as promised. And the responsibility of the seller when performing defaults include choosing to replace the goods in accordance with the agreement, others choose to return money from the buyer because they cannot provide the goods according to the request of the buyer, and the rest choose not to provide compensation.
Analysis of Traffic Related Factors and Vehicle Environment in Monitoring Driver's Driveability
Venue: Int. J. Intell. Transp. Syst. Res.
Year: 2020

In case of driver driven vehicles, the Adaptive Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) typically focus on providing different driving assistance to the drivers, thereby reducing the load of the drivers. An important aspect that needs to be considered in this design is the real time assessment of the state of the driver at the time of driving. This is extremely critical for safe driving environment. The common factors for driver's driveability include measuring driver's fatigue and distraction level, while driving in different vehicle and traffic environment. In this paper, the state of the art techniques on driver's driveability is explored through Face and Eye tracking; while also giving equal importance to the vehicular traffic and the road environment. This paper surveys the advantages and disadvantages of the existing eye and face tracking mechanisms and their integration with the driving performance measures (driveability) Further, a beyond state of the art proposal for head pose estimation and eye tracking patterns under controlled environment is presented. The paper throws pen many observations and also opens up several challenges to further explore in this domain.
What we talk about, when we talk about story
Venue: SIGGRAPH Courses
Year: 2020

Story (content) is not just the domain of directors and producers. anymore. Today, it is as important for technical directors, animators, VFX creators and interactive designers whose work is essential in making "the story" come to life. This information is particularly useful when communicating with screenwriters, directors, and producers. This course answers the question, "What is Story?" (and you don't even have to take a course in screenwriting) Knowing the basics of story enables the crew to become collaborators with the producer and director. A director may talk about their story goals; and the crew will know what specific story benchmarks they are trying to meet. This information builds from a story being more than "a sequence of events (acts) but can become a dramatic story that that builds from setup through resolution. Having an understanding of story structure allows one to understand a story's elements in context (i.e. theme, character, setting, conflict etc. and their relationship to classic story structure (i.e. setup, inciting incident, rising action, climax, resolution, etc. This information is for all whose work makes the story better, but their job is not creating the story. The following course notes are adapted from Story Structure and Development: A Guide for Animators, VFX Artists, Game Designers, and Virtual Reality Creators. CRC Publishers, a division of Taylor and Francis. Available on Amazon.
Look Before You Leap: Bridging Model Free and Model Based Reinforcement Learning for Planned Ahead Vision and Language Navigation
Venue: ECCV
Year: 2018

Existing research studies on vision and language grounding for robot navigation focus on improving model free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) models in synthetic environments. However, model free DRL models do not consider the dynamics in the real world environments, and they often fail to generalize to new scenes. In this paper, we take a radical approach to bridge the gap between synthetic studies and real world practices We propose a novel, planned ahead hybrid reinforcement learning model that combines model free and model based reinforcement learning to solve a real world vision language navigation task. Our look ahead module tightly integrates a look ahead policy model with an environment model that predicts the next state and the reward. Experimental results suggest that our proposed method significantly outperforms the baselines and achieves the best on the real world Room to Room dataset. Moreover, our scalable method is more generalizable when transferring to unseen environments, and the relative success rate is increased by 15.5% on the unseen test set.
Thermoelastic Properties of K0.7Na0.3AlSi3O8 Hollandite and NaAlSi2O6 Jadeite: Implication for the Fate of the Subducted Continental Crust in the Deep Mantle
Year: 2020

The thermoelastic properties of K0.7Na0.3AlSi3O8 hollandite and NaAlSi2O6 jadeite, synthesized from a (K, Na) felspar (microcline) were investigated by a combination of in situ energy dispersive synchrotron X ray radiation and multi anvil techniques at high pressure (P) and temperature (T) up to 21 GPa and 1700 K. The second order phase transformation was found to occur in hollandite at ~16 GPa from tetragonal I/4m (hollandite I) to monoclinic I2/m (hollandite II) which confirms the previous report that the incorporation of Na in the hollandite structure decreases the transformation pressure. Fitting the pressure volume temperature data to the Birch Murnaghan equation of state yielded estimates of the thermoelastic parameters for jadeite as well as the K0.7Na0.3AlSi3O8 hollandite I and II phases, which indicate that the incorporation of Na is likely to decrease the bulk moduli of both hollandite phases. The obtained thermoelastic parameters were combined with those of other mantle minerals reported previously to estimate the density of continental materials along an average mantle geotherm. Based on our results, continental crust and sediment become, respectively, 11% and 15% denser than the pyrolitic mantle at pressure >10 GPa, suggesting that once pulled down to the critical depth of ~300 km, the continental portions of the slab can subduct further into the deep mantle, down to the lowermost part of the mantle transition region.
Does high teacher autonomy support reduce smartphone use disorder in Chinese adolescents? A moderated mediation model.
Venue: Addictive behaviors
Year: 2020

The Interaction of Person Affect Cognition Execution model (I PACE; Brand, Young, Laier, Wolfling, Potenza, 2016) proposes that addictive behavior is the result of the interaction of multiple factors. According to I PACE model, perceived social support (teacher autonomy support) self esteem, and gratification (life satisfaction) contribute to adolescent smartphone use disorder (SUD) (Brand et al. 2016) However, previous studies have rarely examined the interactive effects of teacher autonomy support, self esteem and life satisfaction on adolescent SUD. The present study examined these relationships using a moderated mediation model in which self esteem played a mediating role and life satisfaction played a moderating role in the relation between teacher autonomy support and adolescent SUD. A sample of 1912 Chinese adolescents completed measures of teacher autonomy support, self esteem, life satisfaction, and adolescent SUD. Self esteem mediated the association between teacher autonomy support and adolescent SUD. In addition, the relation between teacher autonomy support and SUD was moderated by life satisfaction: when the effect of life satisfaction was high, teacher autonomy support negatively predicted adolescent SUD, whereas when the effect of life satisfaction was low, teacher autonomy support was positively related to adolescent SUD. These findings advance our understanding of the effect of teacher autonomy support, self esteem and life satisfaction on adolescent SUD. Limitations and implications of this study are discussed, such as teacher autonomy support may not reduce adolescent SUD, especially when their life satisfaction is low.
Positive Scalar Curvature and Minimal Hypersurface Singularities
Year: 2017

In this paper we develop methods to extend the minimal hypersurface approach to positive scalar curvature problems to all dimensions. This includes a proof of the positive mass theorem in all dimensions without a spin assumption. It also includes statements about the structure of compact manifolds of positive scalar curvature extending the work of \cite{sy1} to all dimensions. The technical work in this paper is to construct minimal slicings and associated weight functions in the presence of small singular sets and to show that the singular sets do not become too large in the lower dimensional slices. It is shown that the singular set in any slice is a closed set with Hausdorff codimension at least three. In particular for arguments which involve slicing down to dimension $1$ or $2$ the method is successful. The arguments can be viewed as an extension of the minimal hypersurface regularity theory to this setting of minimal slicings.
Comparison of static pushover and dynamic analyses using RC building shaking table experiment
Year: 2017

The main objective of this study is to assess the accuracy and applicability of static pushover analysis (POA) The POA is widely used to estimate the structural seismic response due to its simplicity. However, the accuracy of this method still needs to be evaluated due to the inherent limitations in its theory, especially for the evaluation of structural collapse capacity problems. Meanwhile, the collapse tests are also lacking to verify the accuracy of POA when it is used to assess the structural collapse capacity. In this paper, the accuracy and applicability of the POA are evaluated through comparison with the dynamic time history analysis (THA) which validated by a ductile RC frame complete collapse shaking table test. The study compared the top displacement, the inter story drift ratio and the curvature of column ends. It is found that the POA tends to greatly underestimate the structural responses when the structure is severely damaged and close to the collapse state. The errors increase with the development of structural damage, where the maximum error could reach more than 60% The POA may provide incorrect judgement on the occurrence of collapse. Prudent use of POA is needed while assessing the structural seismic collapse capacity.
Genome wide identification and expression analysis of the NAC transcription factor family in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) during aluminum stress
Venue: BMC Genomics
Year: 2020

The family of NAC proteins (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) represent a class of large plant specific transcription factors. However, identification and functional surveys of NAC genes of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) remain unstudied, despite the tomato genome being decoded for several years. This study aims to identify the NAC gene family and investigate their potential roles in responding to Al stress. Ninety three NAC genes were identified and named in accordance with their chromosome location. Phylogenetic analysis found SlNACs are broadly distributed in 5 groups. Gene expression analysis showed that SlNACs had different expression levels in various tissues and at different fruit development stages. Cycloheximide treatment and qRT PCR analysis indicated that SlNACs may aid regulation of tomato in response to Al stress, 19 of which were significantly up or down regulated in roots of tomato following Al stress. This work establishes a knowledge base for further studies on biological functions of SlNACs in tomato and will aid in improving agricultural traits of tomato in the future.
Organic inorganic hybrid perovskites based on methylamine lead halide solar cell
Venue: Solar Energy
Year: 2019

Photovoltaic research has recently attracted great attention. Photovoltaic energy with the solution of methylimine incorporating with lead halide perovskite absorbent has reached the efficiency of almost 21% in configurations of solid state devices, which has replaced traditional dye sensitized solar cells and evaporated organic solar cells as well as several thin film photovoltaic films. Due to development in photovoltaic devices and its promising results, interest in this research has been increased. Consequently, it is essential to explain the operational mechanism of solar cells based on perovskite for further development. In this article, we present the structure and the method preparation of methylamine lead halide of organic inorganic hybrid perovskite and review its current research on the application of solar cells. Meanwhile, the comparative analysis has been made between different points of view and key issues such as the choice of materials, the architecture of the device etc.
The cachexia score (CASCO) a new tool for staging cachectic cancer patients
Venue: Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle
Year: 2011

BackgroundAccording to a recent consensus, the cachectic syndrome is defined as: " a complex metabolic syndrome associated with underlying illness and characterized by loss of muscle with or without loss of fat mass. The prominent clinical feature of cachexia is weight loss in adults (corrected for fluid retention) or growth failure in children (excluding endocrine disorders) Anorexia, inflammation, insulin resistance, and increased muscle protein breakdown are frequently associated with cachexia." Although this definition is accompanied by diagnostic criteria, it does not consider the problem of staging. Stratification of patients is important when considering therapy. The very first stage of the wasting syndrome does not necessarily involve body weight loss a state known as pre cachexia.Methods and ResultsThe aim of the present score was to overcome the problem of patient staging in cancer. This score considers five main different factors: body weight and lean body mass loss; anorexia; inflammatory, immunological, and metabolic disturbances; physical performance; and quality of life. The scoring scale goes from 0 to 100: mild cachexia (less than 25) moderate (more than 26 and less than 50) severe (more than 51 and less than 75) and terminal phase (more than 76 and up to 100) The score also takes into consideration the condition known as pre cachexia.ConclusionThe present score will facilitate cachexia staging and will therefore allow for a more adequate therapy.
Benefits of e procurement systems implementation: Experience of an australian municipal council
Year: 2017

E procurement systems are widely discussed in the eBusiness literature in which it is claimed that businesses generally experience three types of benefits (e.g. operational, tactical, and strategic) from implementing these systems. However, limited studies have so far been reported in the e government literature on the benefits e procurement systems have provided for the Australian municipality context. This chapter thus reviews the existing literature and reports e procurement benefits experience of a large Australian municipal council. The findings indicate that the council's experience is limited to the attainment of operational and tactical benefits, and no evidence has been found about gaining any strategic benefits. In addition, several factors are identified that influenced those benefits. The lessons learned from the experience of the council are discussed and contributions made to the e procurement literature for the public government context are highlighted. Nergiz Ilhan Monash University, Australia Md Mahbubur Rahim Monash University, Australia Benefits of E Procurement Systems Implementation
PiLoc: A self calibrating participatory indoor localization system
Venue: IPSN 14 Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Year: 2014

While location is one of the most important context information in mobile and ubiquitous computing, large scale deployment of indoor localization system remains elusive. In this work, we propose PiLoc, an indoor localization system that utilizes opportunistically sensed data contributed by users. Our system does not require manual calibration, prior knowledge and infrastructure support. The key novelty of PiLoc is that it merges walking segments annotated with displacement and signal strength information from users to derive a map of walking paths annotated with radio signal strengths. We evaluate PiLoc over 4 different indoor areas. Evaluation shows that our system can achieve an average localization error of 1.5m.
ETF market in India: The need of the hour
Year: 2014

Exchange Traded Funds are like Index Funds but like shares they are listed and traded on stock exchange. ETFs combine the features of both mutual funds and shares. Like Mutual funds it provides the benefit of diversification and like shares, buying and selling happens in ETF at a price which is determined real time. Despite having such features ETF market is unexplored in India. The paper seeks to study the Concept, History of Evolution and Current Status of ETF market segment in India. The paper also seeks to recognize the challenges faced by ETF industry and the future prospects.
Factors Influencing Business Success in the Garments Industry: A Comparative Analysis between Demographic Factors and HRM Related Factors in Bangladesh
Year: 2016

The term 'Business Success' has been conceptualised in many ways. It is related with achieving superior market share, business equilibrium, and positive trend of earning profit. The main aim of this study is to examine and compare the factors influencing business success. It is comparative analysis between the demographic and HRM related factors. The present article is a survey based research. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed among employees of the garments industries. The data have been analysed using SPSS software. One way ANOVA test along with a model has been developed in order to show and test the relationship among demographic factors and HRM related factors and the business success in this study. The results revealed that individually there is a positive and strong significant influence of educational ability and experience of the employees (demographic factors) job definition, recruitment&selection, performance appraisal, career planning, participation, and compensation (HRM related factors) on businesses success.
Enhancement of Proliferation and VEGF Secretion in Osteoblast by Biphasic u current Stimulation
Year: 2006

It has been known that electrical stimulation and pulsed electromagnetic stimulation promote osteogenesis and healing of bone fracture. In this study, we showed that u level charge balanced biphasic current stimulation could promote the proliferation of osteoblasts and increase the secretion of the VEGF protein significantly. We designed a current stimulator IC and a specific culture system so that biphasic u current pulses might stimulate the osteoblast being on the conductive Au metal plate fabricated by thermal evaporation on silicon wafer with a thickness of 3,000A. Each culture system is composed of an upper (Channel Electrode) and lower(Reference Electrode) plate connected with a ucurrent stimulator and Teflon(r) well with a dimension of 30mm X 30mm. Rat calvarias osteoblasts inoculated at a density of 2,500 cells/cm2 were exposed to electrical stimulation of 1.5 uA/cm2 at 1,000 Hz during 6 hours and 24 hours respectively compared to control without stimulation. After 1 and 2 days with stimulation, the increased cells were counted for measuring proliferation. The number of osteoblasts increased from 33,800 11,292 (mean SEM) cells to 44,300 9,287, which represented a 31% increase in proliferation of osteoblasts. VEGF induction At day 4 after exposure to stimulation, mRNA expression was investigated for differentiation promoting cytokines such as BMP 2, BMP 4, TGF b1, IGF 1, 2 and angiogenesis promoting vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF) The amount of secreted VEGF was measured using an ELISA kit. The VEGF protein was significantly increased in both stimulated group compared to control. In conclusion, this study showed that BEC contributes to enhanced osteogenesis by increasing cell proliferation and by induction of angiogenesis, which are important for initiation of bone formation. Continuous stimulation by BEC was more effective than interrupted exposure. The results in this study indicate that BEC can act as a potential osteogenic inducer. To evaluate this potential effect in bone formation, further studies are needed in vivo.