Academic literature on the topic 'Authors, Bangali'

Iridoviruses infect food and ornamental fish species from a wide range of freshwater to marine habitats across the globe. The objective of the current study was to characterize an iridovirus causing systemic infection of wild-caught Pterapogon kauderni Koumans 1933 (Banggai cardinalfish). Freshly frozen and fixed specimens were processed for histopathologic evaluation, transmission electron microscopic examination, virus culture, molecular virologic testing, microbiology, and in situ hybridization (ISH) using riboprobes. Basophilic granular cytoplasmic inclusions were identified in cytomegalic cells often found beneath endothelium, and hexagonal virus particles typical of iridovirus were identified in the cytoplasm of enlarged cells by transmission electron microscopy. Attempts at virus isolation in cell culture were unsuccessful; however, polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based molecular testing resulted in amplification and sequencing of regions of the DNA polymerase and major capsid protein genes, along with the full-length ATPase gene of the putative iridovirus. Virus gene sequences were then used to infer phylogenetic relationships of the P. kauderni agent to other known systemic iridoviruses from fishes. Riboprobes, which were transcribed from a cloned PCR amplification product from the viral genome generated hybridization signals from inclusions within cytomegalic cells in histologic sections tested in ISH experiments. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of a systemic iridovirus from P. kauderni. The pathologic changes induced and the genomic sequence data confirm placement of the Banggai cardinalfish iridovirus in the genus Megalocytivirus family Iridoviridae. The ISH provides an additional molecular diagnostic technique for confirmation of presumptive infections detected in histologic sections from infected fish.

Abstract Purpose: Empowerment of the poor carried out by the government is a joint business group (KUBE), which is a family group that is formed, grows and develops on its initiative in carrying out productive economic efforts to increase family income. Meanwhile, after the formation of the Joint Business Group (KUBE) in Banglas Village, there were problems in the implementation of activities that were not optimal, because not all members were involved in every KUBE activity, thus hampering business development. The purpose of this study was to find out how the effectiveness of the implementation of the Joint Business Group (KUBE) in Banglas Village and to find out the obstacles or obstacles. Research Methodology: To be able to answer these problems, the author used a qualitative research method with a descriptive approach. Results: The results of this study find that the effectiveness of the Joint Business Group (KUBE) in Banglas Village, Tebing Tinggi District, Meranti Islands Regency is still less effective and not optimal in its implementation because there are still inhibiting factors, namely conflicts between members which cause KUBE management to not function properly. Some issues such as lack skills and Human Resources (HR), and unfair competition are also found. Limitations: In this study, the authors lack clear information regarding the division of tasks and completeness of data or information regarding the KUBE organization. Contribution: Theoretically, this research serves as a medium of continuous comparison for future research on the same topic or problem. It can bring up problem-solving models or new ideas in the implementation of the KUBE organization to develop managed products to be more attractive and ogled by the market and better known by the wider community.

Purpose The aims of this study are to study the problems and challenges of community enterprises; to analyze their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats; and to examine the guidelines of strategy management for community enterprises. Design/methodology/approach The authors utilized a qualitative method using in-depth interviews with 25 community enterprises and a focus group of 10 specialists to discuss strategy management of community enterprises, then analyzed the data using content analysis and descriptive analysis. Findings The study found that community enterprises face numerous problems, such as marketing challenges and the inability to transfer businesses to the next generation. However, the strong points of community enterprises include the involvement and support of a lot of government agencies and the opportunity presented by consumer requirements for the handicraft of goods and products. In this paper, the authors recommend eight strategic guidelines for the management of community enterprises; they also recommend that the government use the model of the Bangsai Royal Folk Arts and Crafts Centre of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand to set up policies that support community enterprises. Originality/value This study will be beneficial for the Department of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative, Royal Thai Government, as a guideline for support of community enterprises in Thailand, and this study will benefit other countries with similarities to Thailand.

Thirteen species of Phyllium (Phyllium) Illiger, 1798 are studied and (re)described in detail with emphasis on those species which exhibit more or less well developed alae in the females and those occurring in the Philippine Islands and on Palawan. Amongst these five new species are described and illustrated from both sexes and the eggs: Ph. (Ph.) ericoriai Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel n. sp. from the Philippine Islands of Luzon, Marinduque and Batan, Phyllium philippinicum Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel n. sp. from the Philippine Island of Luzon, Phyllium mindorense Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel n. sp. from the Philippine Island of Mindoro, Phyllium mabantai Bresseel, Hennemann, Conle & Gottardo n. sp. from the Philippine Island of Mindanao and Ph. (Ph.) gantungense Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel n. sp. from Palawan. Ph. (Ph.) celebicum de Haan, 1842 is re-described with the male and egg described and illustrated for the first time. It is shown to be restricted to Sulawesi and Ambon with all records from continental Asia based on misidentifications mostly relating to Ph. (Ph.) westwoodii Wood-Mason, 1875. All Philippine records of Ph. (Ph.) celebicum de Haan relate to Ph. (Ph.) ericoriai Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel n. sp.. Both sexes and the eggs of Ph. (Ph.) westwoodii Wood-Mason, 1875 are re-described and illustrated and a survey is provided of its intraspecific variability. This species was misinterpreted by most former authors and is here shown to be widely distributed in southern continental Asia having so far been recorded from the Andamans, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Kamputchea, S-China, N-Vietnam, Sumatra and the Riouw Archipelago. The holotype of Phyllium (Ph.) siccifolium (Linné, 1758) is described in detail for the first time with illustrations provided. This, the type-species of the entire family Phylliidae, is shown to have been misinterpreted by almost all previous authors and the distribution to be in fact restricted to the Moluccas (Ambon, Ceram, Halmahera, Sula Islands and Banggai). Ambon is shown to be most likely the type-locality of Ph. siccifolium. Records from Peninsular Malaysia have proven to relate to Ph. (Ph.) hausleithneri Brock, 1999 and Philippine material erroneously referred to as “Ph. siccifolium” by various authors is Ph. (Ph.) philippinicum Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo & Bresseel n. sp.. Ph. (Ph.) tobeloense Größer, 2007 from Halmahera (Moluccas) is shown to represent a junior synonym of Ph. siccifolium (n. syn.). Comparison of the Malayan Ph. (Ph.) hausleithneri Brock, 1999 with Malayan specimens previously referred to as „Ph. siccifolium” has revealed these to be the same species which shows considerable variation concerning to the shape of the abdomen in females. Ph. (Ph.) hausleithneri is characteristic for the conspicuous blue interior marking on the mesoand metacoxae. Both sexes and the eggs as well as the remarkable variation of females are illustrated. Similarly strong variation is recorded and illustrated for females of the Javanese Ph. (Ph.) jacobsoni Rehn & Rehn, 1933. A brief discussion of its variability and distribution as well as a summary of the diagnostic features and illustrations of the females and eggs are presented. The Philippine Ph. (Ph.) bilobatum Gray, 1843 is only known from the unique female holotype and all subsequent records appear to have been based on misidentified material. Subsequent records from Peninsular Malaysia relate to Ph. (Ph.) hausleithneri Brock, 1999 and records from Java have all proven to represent Ph. (Ph.) jacobsoni Rehn & Rehn, 1933. The male allotype of Ph. (Ph.) woodi Rehn & Rehn, 1933 from the Philippine island of Mindanao is specifically distinct from the female holotype from Sibuyan Island and here designated as a paratype of Ph. (Ph.) mabantai Bresseel, Hennemann, Conle & Gottardo n. sp.. The diagnostic features of Ph. (Ph.) woodi, a species so far only known from the island of Sibuyan, are briefly summarized. With emphasis on the Philippine fauna, a checklist and keys are provided for the nine species of Phyllium Illiger, 1798 presently known to occur in the Philippine Islands and Palawan. Critical notes are presented on the current intra-generic systematization of Phyllium Illiger, 1798 along with an extended and more detailed distinction between the two subgenera contained, Phyllium Illiger, 1798 and Pulchriphyllium Griffini, 1898. Based on morphological features of the insects and eggs species-groups are suggested within both subgenus. Phyllium (Phyllium) is proposed to include the siccifolium species-group and celebicum species-group, whereas Phyllium (Pulchriphyllium) subdivides into the bioculatum species-group, schultzei species-group, frondosum species-group and brevipenne species-group. The latter two groups are shown to differ considerably from other members of the subgenus and do not belong in Pulchriphyllium (sensu stricto). Keys are provided for the distinction of the speciesgroups here proposed. The celebicum species-group of Phyllium (Phyllium) is discussed in more detail and provisionally contains all those species in which females have developed alae, a fact overlooked for several species by previous authors. Eight species are here attributed to the celebicum species-group and keys are provided to distinguish these.Five species are transferred from one subgenus to the other. Phyllium drunganum Yang, 1995 and Ph. tibetense Liu, 1993 from S-China are removed from the subgenus Pulchriphyllium and transferred to Phyllium (Phyllium) (n. comb.). Ph. chitoniscoides Größer, 1992 and Ph. frondosum Redtenbacher, 1906 from New Guinea as well as Ph. keyicum Karny, 1914 from they Key-Islands are removed from Phyllium (Phyllium) and transferred to the frondosum species-group of Phyllium (Pulchriphyllium) (n. comb.). Ph. insulanicum Werner, 1922 from the Key Islands is removed from synonymy with the New Guinean Ph. frondosum Redtenbacher, 1906 and synoynmised with Ph. keyicum Karny, 1914; differences between Ph. frondosum and Ph. keyicum are presented. The Philippine Phyllium (Phyllium) pusillulum Rehn & Rehn, 1933 is removed from the genus Phyllium Illiger, 1798 and transferred to Microphyllium Zompro, 2001, hence the valid name now is Microphyllium pusillulum (Rehn & Rehn, 1993 n. comb.). Some taxonomically important features traditionally used for distinguishing the genera and species in the family Phylliidae are critically discussed. The present distinction of Chitoniscus Stål, 1875 and Phyllium Illiger, 1798 is shown to be problematic since research on the length relation of the meso-praescutum (anterior portion of the mesonotum in front of the tegmina) has revealed several species in Phyllium Illiger, 1798 that violate the generic description by having this clearly transverse and actually keying out to Chitoniscus Stål, 1875. The prosternal projection characteristic for Chitoniscus Stål, 1875 is shown to be also present in several members of Phyllium Illiger, 1798. Although the entire family Phylliidae was traditionally diagnosed by females having the antennae with nine segment, six species of Phyllium (Phyllium) Illiger, 1798 are here shown to have in fact ten antennomeres. Another interesting fact are the distinctly pectinate ungues (= claws) seen in Ph. (Ph.) gantungense n. sp. which have so far only been known to occur in the Old World areolate family Aschiphasmatidae.

Drawing on a spectrum of genres, such as autobiographies, diaries, didactic tracts, novels and travelogues, this book examines the sociocultural incentives that enabled the emergence of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors as an ever-growing distinct category in nineteenth-century Bengal and the factors facilitating production and circulation of their creations. By exploring the intersections of class, caste, gender, language, religion, and culture in women-authored texts and by reading these within a specific milieu, the study opens up the possibility of re-configuring mainstream history-writing that often ignores women. Questioning essentialist conceptions of women’s writings, it contends that there exists no monolithic body of ‘women’s writings’ with a firmly gendered language, form, style, and content. It shows that there was nothing in the women’s writings that was based on a fundamentally feminine perspective of experiences with an inherent feminine voice. While describing the specifically female life world of domestic experiences, women authors might have made conscious divergences from male-projected stereotypes, but it is equally true that there are a number of issues on which men and women authors spoke in unison. The book argues for distinctions within each genre and across genres in language, content, and style amongst women authors. Even after women authors emerged as a writing community, the bhadralok critics often censured them for fear of their autonomous selfhood in print and praised them for imparting ‘feminine’ ideals alone. Nevertheless, there were women authors who flouted the norms of literary aesthetics and tutored tastes, thus creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangla and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century.

The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam reveals the powerful role of vernacular translation in the Islamization of Bengal. Its focus is on the magnificent seventeenth-century Nabīvaṃśa of Saiyad Sultān, who lived in Arakanese-controlled Chittagong. Drawing upon the Arabo-Persian Tales of the Prophets genre, the Nabīvaṃśa (“Lineage of the Prophet”) retells the life of the Prophet Muhammad for the first time to Bengalis in their mother-tongue. This book delineates the challenges faced by the author in articulating the pre-eminence of Islam and its Arabian prophet in a land where multiple religious affiliations were common, and when Gauṛīya Vaiṣṇava missionary activity was at its zenith. Sultān played a pioneering role in setting into motion various lexical, literary, performative, theological, and, ultimately, ideological processes that led to the establishment of a distinctively Bengali Islam in east Bengal. At the heart of this transformation lay the persuasiveness of translation on a new Islamic frontier. The Nabīvaṃśa not only kindled a veritable translation movement of Arabo-Persian Islamic literature into Bangla, but established the grammar of creative translation that was to become canonical for this regional tradition. This text-critical study lays bare the sophisticated strategies of translation used by a prominent early modern Muslim Bengali intellectual to invite others to his faith.

Machine Translation (MT) from Bangla to English has recently become a priority task for the Bangla Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems require a significant amount of bilingual data between language pairs to achieve significant translation accuracy. However, being a low-density language, such resources are not available in Bangla. In this chapter, the authors discuss how machine learning approaches can help to improve translation quality within as SMT system without requiring a huge increase in resources. They provide a novel semi-supervised learning and active learning framework for SMT, which utilizes both labeled and unlabeled data. The authors discuss sentence selection strategies in detail and perform detailed experimental evaluations on the sentence selection methods. In semi-supervised settings, reversed model approach outperformed all other approaches for Bangla-English SMT, and in active learning setting, geometric 4-gram and geometric phrase sentence selection strategies proved most useful based on BLEU score results over baseline approaches. Overall, in this chapter, the authors demonstrate that for low-density language like Bangla, these machine-learning approaches can improve translation quality.

The usage of native language through Internet is highly demanding due to the rapid increase of Internet-based applications in daily life. As information is available in the Internet in different languages, it is impossible to retrieve the information in other languages. Universal Networking Language (UNL) addresses this issue by converting the requested information from other languages to UNL expressions followed by UNL expressions to respective native languages. Even though Bangla is the sixth most popular language in the world, there is no system developed so far to convert Bangla text into UNL expressions and vice versa. For this purpose, the authors develop a framework. The framework has two constituent parts: 1) EnConverter: converts Bangla native sentences into UNL expressions considering UNL compatible Bangla word dictionary and analysis rules, and 2) DeConverter: converts UNL expressions into respective Bangla sentences considering Bangla word dictionary and generations rules. In both cases, case structure analysis, Bangla parts of speech, and different forms of verbs along with their prefixes, suffixes, and inflections are taken into consideration. This chapter describes the complete theoretical analyses of the EnConversion and DeConversion frameworks. The experimental results confirm that the proposed framework can successfully convert Bangla sentences into UNL expressions, and also can convert UNL expressions into corresponding Bangla sentences.

Sentiment analysis is a very important area of the natural language processing. In general, sentiment classification means the analysis to determine the expression of a speaker whether he or she holds positive or negative opinion to a specific subject. With the rapid growth of e-commerce, sentiment analysis can greatly influence everyone in their real life. For example, product reviews on the Web have become an important source of information for customers’ decision making when they want to buy any product. As the reviews are often too many for customers to go through, how to automatically classify and detect the sentiment from them has become an important research problem. In this chapter, the authors present a Sentiment Analyzer that recognizes the Bangla sentiment or opinion about a subject from Bangla text. They construct some phrase patterns and calculate their sentiment orientation. They add tags to words in the Bangla text to construct the phrase pattern for positive and negative sentiment. Then the authors match the phrase pattern in Bangla text with their predefined phrase pattern and cumulate the sentiment orientation of each sentence.

The ‘Introduction’ helps the readers situate Hindu and Brahmo women’s literary outpourings within the wider sociopolitical context of nineteenth-century Bengal. It locates the eager penmanship of Bengali women within the larger and growing milieu of print literature; the tension between formal and informal forms of Bengali language; and the statistical analysis of ‘books in print’. The startling fact of the price of woman-authored books being on par with male-authored ones is a revelation about the market for women-authored texts. Extant literature on women authors in the nineteenth century considers the major scholarly epitomes that have appeared in the last 50 years in Bangla and English on women’s writings in Bengal. The ‘Chapters’ Overview’ deals with autobiographies, diaries, didactic tracts, novels, and travelogues written by women writers to examine how their literary production varied in style, content, and language form within and across genres. It demonstates both divergences and convergences in literary creations amongst male and female writers.

Feature extraction is an essential step of Optical Character Recognition. Accurate and distinguishable feature plays a significant role to leverage the performance of a classifier. The complexity level of feature identification algorithm differs for alphabet sets of different languages. Apart from generic algorithms to find features of different alphabet sets, these algorithms take care of individual characteristic common for a particular alphabet set. Dominant features of one alphabet set might completely differ from that of another set. Since there always remains the chance that inaccurate features may cause inefficient recognition, special attention should be given to identify the set of optimal features of a character set. Bengali characters also have some specific issues apart from the existing issues of other character sets. For example, there are about 300 basic, modified, and compound character shapes in the script, the characters in a word are topologically connected, and Bengali is an inflectional language. Literature survey shows that several authors have used different features and classification algorithms. The authors have extensively reviewed all these feature sets. In order to identify an optimal feature set, variability analysis has been proposed here. They focus on the specific peculiarities of Bengali alphabet sets, its different usage as vowel and consonant signs, compound, complex, and touching characters. The authors also took care to generate easily computable features that take less time for generation. However, more attention needs to be given in order to choose an efficient classifier.

This chapter presents Bangla (widely known as Bengali) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) techniques by evaluating the different speech features, such as Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), Local Features (LFs), phoneme probabilities extracted by time delay artificial neural networks of different architectures. Moreover, canonicalization of speech features is also performed for Gender-Independent (GI) ASR. In the canonicalization process, the authors have designed three classifiers by male, female, and GI speakers, and extracted the output probabilities from these classifiers for measuring the maximum. The maximization of output probabilities for each speech file provides higher correctness and accuracies for GI speech recognition. Besides, dynamic parameters (velocity and acceleration coefficients) are also used in the experiments for obtaining higher accuracy in phoneme recognition. From the experiments, it is also shown that dynamic parameters with hybrid features also increase the phoneme recognition performance in a certain extent. These parameters not only increase the accuracy of the ASR system, but also reduce the computation complexity of Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based classifiers with fewer mixture components.

Rabindranath Tagore is one of the most prolific authors of Bengali literature. He has added a vast amount of richness in style and language to the Bengali text. The present study aims at a quantitative study of vocabulary size and lexical richness as well as effective search engine for his works. Several statistical measures of term distribution have been used to measure lexical richness. An initial attempt has been made to build a search engine, Anwesan, for Rabindra Rachanabali collection. The first complete digital Rabindra Rachanabali released by Society for Natural Language Technology Research, Kolkata, in 2010, has been used in the study. It was observed that a high lexical richness value was characteristics of most of Rabindranath Tagore’s work.

Arguably, the most important difference between machines and humans is that humans have feelings. For several decades researchers have been trying to create methods to simulate sentimentality for machines, and currently Sentiment Analysis is the hottest, most demanding, and rapidly growing task in the language processing field. Sentiment analysis or opinion mining refers to the application of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and text analytics to identify and extract sentimental (opinionated, emotional) information in a text. The basic task in sentiment analysis is to classify the polarity of a given text at the document, sentence, or feature/aspect level, that is, to decide whether the expressed sentiment in a document, a sentence, or a feature/aspect is positive (happy), negative (sad), neutral (memorable), and so forth. In this chapter, the authors discuss various challenges and solution strategies for Sentiment Analysis with a particular view to texts in Bangla (Bengali).

Rapidly growing Web users from multilingual communities focus the attention to improve the multilingual search engines on the basis of sentiment or emotion and provide the opportunities to build resources for languages other than English. At present, there is no such corpus or lexicon available for emotion analysis in Indian languages, especially for Bengali, the sixth most popular language in the world, second in India, and the national language of Bangladesh. Thus, in the chapter, the authors describe the preparation of an emotion corpus and lexicon in Bengali. The emotion lexicon, termed Bengali WordNet Affect has been developed from its equivalent version in English by traversing the steps of expansion, translation, and sense disambiguation. In addition to emotion lexicon, a Bengali blog corpus for emotion analysis has also been developed by manual annotators with detailed linguistic expressions such as emotional phrases, intensities, emotion holder, emotion topic and target span, and sentential emotion tags.

Chapter 5 examines two landmark Hindi short stories that contested aspects of Dwivedi’s literary agenda. In ‘Dulāīvālī’ (quilt-woman), Banga Mahila used regional and domestic women’s speech in addition to Dwivedi’s preferred standard, Khari Boli prose. Her fictional exploration of the impact of nationalist ideals on middle-class Bengali women in the Hindi-belt further challenged the patriarchal authority with which Dwivedi and other nationalists sought to shape an emergent nation. Chandradhar Sharma ‘Guleri’, in ‘Usne kahā thā’ (she had said), employed regional/ethnic speech that was also gendered, as masculine and vulgar, once again flouting Dwivedi’s preferences for an upright, Khari Boli standard. His story, featuring a Sikh soldier fighting in Europe during World War I, upheld some nationalist ideals, but also defied conventional mores. Both stories underwent extensive editorial revisions, yet there remains a record in their final published versions of their authors’ defiance, and of Dwivedi’s strategic responses to such challenges.