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Arora, Jagdish, and Pawan Agrawal. "Indian Digital Library in Engineering Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium: Consortia-Based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in India: A Government of India Initiative." Information and Library Network Centre, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105608.
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The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has set-up a â Consortia-based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in Indiaâ on the recommendations made by the Expert Group appointed by the ministry. The consortium is named as the Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium. The INDEST Consortium has commenced its operation since Dec., 2002 through its headquarters at the IIT Delhi. The Consortium subscribes to full-text electronic resources and bibliographic databases for 38 leading engineering and technological institutions in India including IITs (7), IISc (1), NITs / RECs (17), IIMs (6) and a few other institutions directly funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). While the expenditure on electronic resources proposed for subscription under the consortium for these 38 institutions are being met from the funds made available by the MHRD, the consortium being an open-ended proposition, welcomes all other institutions to join it on their own for sharing benefits it offers in terms of highly discounted subscription rates and better terms of agreement with the publishers. Moreover, beneficiary institutions may also subscribe to additional electronic resources through the consortium that are not being funded by the MHRD. This article introduces the INDEST Consortium, its activities and services.
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Savory, Fuller Rebecca. "Embodying 'new India' through remixed global performance : flash mobs redefined in contemporary urban India, 2003-15." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33146.
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This thesis conducts a history of flash mob performance in India, asking how the form has evolved over a 12-year period from its first emergence in 2003. Due to its rhizomatic appearance worldwide and its close association with internet technologies and digital culture, the flash mob has typically been treated as a ‘global’ phenomenon, and theories of flash mob performance derived from Euro-American contexts are frequently glossed as generic. However, this thesis asks what a close history of the genre in India can reveal, both in terms of the performance practice itself, and as a reflection of the specific cultural moment in which it emerged. It offers an examination of the processes of adaptation and remix underway as a ‘global’ performance practice has been re-interpreted and re-enacted from this specific, local and historical perspective, and it argues that these processes demonstrate one of the ways in which performance, particularly in a digital sphere, can operate to effect a ‘politics of forgetting’ in globalising India. To do so, the thesis employs an interdisciplinary approach combining ethnographic and archival research, and draws on literature and theory from both performance studies and social sciences. The flash mob form is shown to have emerged in two distinct waves, marked by aesthetic and formal shifts which I relate to the evolving mediascape of the internet during this period. In its second wave, the genre has become spectacularised for an online video context and ‘Bollywoodised’ within an Indian context, reflecting broader practices of hybridity as well as cultural tensions surrounding national identity in globalising India. The thesis positions flash mob performance in this context as a social media practice engaged in symbolic, representational discourses which perform place and identity within a global sphere.
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Kapur, Akash. "Bridging the digital divide : regulating universal access in India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410861.
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Monteiro, Luís Carlos Caçador. "Internationalization plan of Nmusic to India." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11617.
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Ghosh, Maitrayee. "Knowledge Management in the digital age: Challenges and opportunities in India." Chiang Mai University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105916.
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Digital revolution has transformed the intellectual function of traditional libraries and Information System managers have to play a significant role in managing internal and external knowledge resources and make it available to scientists, scholars,educators or the rural poor. In this article author discusses the concept of Knowledge Management in digital libraries and need for advanced personalisation and customization of information. The additional skills required in managing information in digital environment and especially the role of a chief knowledge officer are elaborated.
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Das, Anup Kumar, B. K. Sen, and Chaitali Dutta. "ETD Policies, Strategies and Initiatives in India: A Critical Appraisal." NDLTD, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106403.
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The fruits of research from the formal research programmes of conventional universities and academic research institutions in India were under-utilized as the access to theses, dissertations and research reports were very limited to the next generation researchers and scholars. Modern information and communication technology (ICT) acts as an effective intervener for paradigm shifting from closed access theses and dissertations to open access electronic theses and dissertations (ETD). Now, the researchers in national institutions and universities in India have greater access to research literature, due to subscription to many e-journals and scholarly databases in most subject areas. But, the access to thesis and dissertation literature is very limited due to lack of national databases of theses and dissertations, both in bibliographic and full-text formats. Recently, India's University Grants Commission enacted â UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005â to strengthen national capability of producing electronic theses and dissertations, and, to maintain university-level and national level databases of theses and dissertations. Some elite research institutions, such as Indian Institute of Science, have already started providing access to ETDs through open access archives. Some other institutions have taken initiatives to provide access to ETDs only through intranet (within the campus). The Vidyanidhi, INDEST Consortium, CSIR and INFLIBNET Centre are working towards implementation of open access ETD and/or bibliographic databases of theses and dissertations, but they also have some limitations. National policies on open access to ETD and other research literature, particularly the public funded ones, are yet to be ready. In India, some advocacy and pressure groups also exist that support open access to scholarly literature. Present paper explores the policy frameworks, strategic dimensions and analyses SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) of existing ETD initiatives in India.
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Dasgupta, Rohit K. "Digital queer spaces : interrogating identity, belonging and nationalism in contemporary India." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8960/.
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Contemporary Indian sexual identities are constructed out of the multiple effects of tradition, modernity, globalisation and colonialism. The nation as we understand it is constructed on the basis of a commonality which ‘binds’ its citizens, and also banishes and expels those who do not conform to this commonality. Within this logic of disenfranchisement I firmly place the Indian queer male. This thesis examines the online ‘queer’ male community in India that has been formed as a result of the intersection and ruptures caused by the shifting political, media and social landscapes of urban India. Through multi-sited ethnography looking at the role of language, class, intimacy and queer activism, this thesis explores the various ways through which queer men engage with digital culture that has become an integral part of queer lives in India. Through this approach, this thesis makes a significant contribution to knowledge. Widely available scholarship has explored the historical, literary and social debates on queer sexualities in India. To reach a more holistic understanding of contemporary Indian queer sexualities it is necessary to engage with the digital landscape, as India’s global power stems from its digital development. By looking at the multiple ways that the queer male community engages with the digital medium, I illustrate the multifaceted, complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which this community understands, accesses and performs their sexual identities within both the context of the nation and their local space. This thesis combines textual and visual analysis along with ethnographic data collected through field research in India using multiple research sites including online forums and digital spaces such as Planet Romeo, Facebook groups and Grindr as well as engaging with individuals in offline spaces (New Delhi, Kolkata, Barasat). Studying digital queer spaces across several research sites especially a cross-ethnic and cross-social comparison is unusual in this field of study and produces new insights into the subjects explored.
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Kataria, Sanjay. "Intellectual Repositories in Institutions of Higher Learning in India: An overview." ICOLIS 2007, Kuala Lumpur:, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105210.
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Paper presented in ICoLIS 2007 at MalaysiaThe paper discusses the concept of intellectual repository (IR) its need, importance,benefits, critical issues, major problems in establishment & maintenance of IR, role of librarians, intellectual society, academic institutions and the government. It also gives an overview of Intellectual Repository (IR) initiatives taken in the institutions of higher learning in Indian scenario.
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Nowak, Florence. "Regional music goes digital : challenges of the Garhwali music industry (North India)." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0668.
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Ma thèse porte sur l'industrie musicale du Garhwal, une région himalayenne de l'Inde du Nord. Une importante production en dialecte local étiquetée « garhwali music » ou « garhwali geet » s'y est développée depuis les années 1950, d'abord sous forme de cassettes, puis de disques compacts et de clips vidéo ; mais après un développement important de la diffusion numérique dans les années 2000, la production semble à présent être entrée en crise. Concomitamment, la création de l'état d'Uttarakhand en 2001 a suscité la mise en place d'une politique culturelle régionale, tandis que la généralisation de la musique en ligne a remis en cause le modèle économique de ce marché de niche. Par l'approche ethnographique de l'industrie locale, j'ai souhaité rendre compte des facteurs qui déterminent le dynamisme et les difficultés de la musique garhwalie au-delà de l'explication macro-économique du tournant numérique et du « piratage ». Cette analyse anthropologique a mis au jour des problématiques transversales émergées du terrain : la nature ambiguë de ce répertoire à la fois patrimoine collectif et produit culturel, les conflits interpersonnels et sociaux au sein du milieu, ou encore l'importance de la migration et notamment de la diaspora. En suivant ces dilemmes contemporains du point de vue des acteurs de l'ensemble de la chaîne de musicale, j'ai tenté de dégager les enjeux collectifs qu'ils posent pour la musique régionale populaireThis is a study of the musical industry of Garhwal, a Himalayan area in North India. An important production labeled as "Garhwali music" or "Garhwal geet" and sung in the Garhwali dialect has been developing locally since the 1950s, firstly in the form of cassettes, then of compact discs and video clips. However, after an important upswing of the digital diffusion in the early 2000s, the production now seems to have entered a state of crisis. Concomitantly, the creation of the state of Uttarakhand (including the division of Garhwal) in 2001 triggered the implementation of a regional cultural policy, while the generalization of online music circulation challenged the economic model of this niche market. Through an ethnographic approach of the local industry, I wished to account for the factors that determine the dynamism and the difficulties of Garhwali muusic since the digital turn beyond a mere macro-economic explanation centered on "piracy". This anthropological analysis shed light on transversal issues that emerged directly from the field: notably, the ambiguous nature of a repertoire that is both a collective heritage and a cultural product; the interpersonal and social tensions that shape this environment; and the crucial role of migration patterns. By following such contemporary dilemmas faced by the actors of th entire production chain, I sought to draw the collective issues that regional popular music is facing today
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Mahapatra, Gayatri. "LIS education in India: Emerging paradigms, challenges and propositions in the digital era." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106109.
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This is a longer version of the paper published in the conference proceedings.Librarians of the 21st century have to prepare themselves for working in a networked environment and should acquire necessary skills such as leadership, exploiting information handling, communication, crisis management, team building and decision making, and so on. So, library professionals are in dire need to acquire relevant skills and expertise to track the world of information and become competent enough to serve in a digital culture. An attempt is made to project issues related to the LIS education in India and suggests some proposals in this respect based on routine features and experiences. The study proposes core elements of a curriculum and a vision of LIS education in India for the coming decade. The paper also stresses the need for revised course contents and allied challenges for readiness of Indian LIS education in the digital era.
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Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor. "Everyday stories: The people’s archive and the rural in ‘new’ India." Intellect, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625790.
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This article is a case study of the People’s Archive of Rural India, a multimedia digital archive founded by journalist P. Sainath, which debuted online in December 2014. PARI features photographs, videos, interviews, audio files and articles that seek to illuminate the lives of the over 833 million people who live in rural India. Focusing on the narrative form of the ‘story’ and the universalizing temporality of the ‘everyday’, the article asks, ‘What is the relationship between PARI’s rural India and the “New” India to which it ostensibly belongs? How do PARI’s textual and visual mediations work together to produce the rural as a region?’. The article explores the relevance of postcolonial theory for the study of cultural production in the time of ‘New’ India, while arguing that PARI offers a Janus-faced depiction of the rural as urban India’s historically entrenched Other, on the one hand, and as a critical outside to the neo-liberal imagination, on the other.
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India, National Mission for Manuscripts. "Legal and Policy Framework for Promoting Equitable Access to Documentary Heritage: Report Submitted to UNESCO by National Mission for Manuscripts, India." UNESCO, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105516.
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The National Mission for Manuscripts of India, in association with UNESCO, completed a research study to assist in the development of legal and policy framework and protocols for promoting equitable access to documentary heritage, relevant to India and other South Asian countries.
Entitled Legal and Policy Framework for Promoting Equitable Access to Documentary Heritage, the study seeks to accurately identify and critically examine the legal and policy framework for promoting equitable access to documentary heritage. The National Mission for Manuscripts is the most important institution in India dealing with bibliographic databases and the conservation and preservation of valuable manuscripts. The study covers the legal and policy framework which envelops the lifecycle of the Mission's work: access to manuscripts, their digitisation and creation of databases.
By critically examining the legal rules in the practical context of the Missionâ s work, the research team has put together the first review of an initiative aimed at the protection of Indian traditional knowledge. The study illustrates working patterns of the Mission within the legal and policy framework of the country. It is a helpful sourcebook for understanding South Asian legal and policy framework for accessing documentary heritage collections.
While the study does not set out to be the final word on these policy initiatives, it definitely makes significant progress in the policy debate and legal literature in this field. The conclusions presented in the form of draft legal agreements and policy recommendations will, with no doubt, be valuable tools for South Asian countries that share similar legal and policy framework within the sub-region.
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Arbesú-Cardona, Jorge. "Copy India, paste in Panama : a roadmap to effective financial inclusion via a digital & cashless evolution." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117955.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-71).
What benefits can technology bring to the finance industry? Can it disrupt the oldest medium of exchange in the world, physical currency? If it can, are there any benefits to it, and most importantly, how would you do it? Our research aims to answer those questions. It looks at various sources that have spent a significant amount of time explaining why transitioning from a cash-dependent market into a cash-lite market is beneficial. Furthermore, it builds on this concepts and looks at the largest ever attempt at this transition and examines the benefits, and challenges it has faced. We deep dive into the Indian demonetization experiment. Most importantly our research draws five-key insights for how India is making this transition, and later we use those insights as a framework to examine a different market, Panama and draw a clear set of recommendations for that country to make such a transition. The framework, however, is to be utilized as a lens for which any market can be analyzed, and such a transition can be made.
by Jorge Arbesú-Cardona.
S.M. in Management of Technology
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Nicholson, B. "An analysis of the process of information systems development across time and space : the case of outsourcing to India." Thesis, University of Salford, 1999. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14837/.
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The processes of globalisation have led to a world which is more closely connected and interdependent than ever before. The use of information technology has been instrumental in facilitating these interconnections and as the processes of globalisation have unfolded, whole industries have developed which are not dependent upon location to trade with their customers across the globe. There is no industry more seemingly suited to the notion of time and place independence than software development and the relative labour costs have meant that some developing countries have become popular locations for the outsourcing of information systems development. There is no country more involved in the outsourcing of software than India which has rapidly emerged as a world leader in the provision of outsourced software development. There have been few studies which have holistically and longitudinally examined this form of software development as a process. This thesis is the result of such a study. The aim of this research is to investigate the process of information systems development across time and space involving teams located in different countries. The research is undertaken with an interpretivist approach and methodology derived from Context Process analysis. The analysis of data is informed by the sociologist Anthony Giddens's later writings on globalisation as well as theory derived from the study of culture and power in organisations. The data collection was undertaken using a range of qualitative techniques. The outcomes of the research include an improved understanding of the implications for information systems development involving teams located in different countries collaborating with information technology across time and space, with relevance to the context of Indian outsourcing. Theoretical outcomes include an improved understanding of the methodological, social and political dimensions of information systems development using teams separated by time and space. The implications for management include an exposition of the issues involved in undertaking projects where teams are separated by time and space and guidance for moves to global software outsourcing.
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Nair, Roopa. "Caught in the digital divide : transforming meanings of space, gender and identity for high-tech professionals in Bangalore City, India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431518.
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Naware, Mihika. "Vastra Avatar a personal manifestation of fashion, culture, and identity : this is thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Art and Design /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/811.
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This research project asks; what is the potential for garments to express an Indian/European cultural hybridisation? The research explores the development of an alternative aesthetic by hybridising the ethos of traditional Indian garments and the aesthetics of 'Western' garments. The garments have been designed and constructed after key design features were indentified, and the new garments reflect hybridisation. The aspect of hybridisation was further enhanced with the use of digitally-printed fabric imagery which features a mythologised and idealised European/Indian history. The research seeks to discover if such a joining-together could develop an aesthetic sensibility, informed by both a ‘Western’ enculturation and a traditional Indian heritage. The new garments will speak to the viewer about what it is to experience being situated within two cultures simultaneously.
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Lihitkar, Shalini R. "Design and Develop IR of Electronic Theses of Social-Sciences of RTM,Nagpur University, Nagpur." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622564.
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Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).In the age of Information Technology it is very important to keep a pace with the rapid changes that has been taking place all over the world. Institutional repository play a vital role in dissemination of intellectual output of the organization hence it is essential to all the organization to develop and digitize their collection and scholarly communication. Keeping in view the technological changes and importance of creating digital repository of electronic theses, the proposal has been prepared for creation of institutional repository of electronic theses of social-sciences of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University , Nagpur . This proposal is submitted to Indian Council of Social-Science Research, (ICSSR) New Delhi and has been approved recently, now it is in execution stage. The proposal, constraints and measures for Institutional Repository have been also discussed in detail.
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Becker, Vera Antonia. "The root causes of the gender digital divide and its consequences on the adoption and use of app-based climate warning systems in rural India." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-424344.
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In the wake of climate change to provide timely information is a must to ensure that the most vulnerable people are protected, and development gains secured. Particularly in agriculture and food security, providing information on time is vital to secure people’s livelihoods. Many actors in the development and humanitarian field have therefor adapted seemingly neutral technologies in their programs to ensure localised and timely information. However, passive technologies are actively implemented into intersecting local power dynamics. Gender among race, class, ethnicity and caste is an essential determinant of the access to power and resources. In India, women contribute up to 80 per cent of the work in rural settings if accounting for care work and unpaid labour on the family farm. However, women are also significantly less likely to own and operate a smartphone or generally benefit from the digitalisation process as they lack digital skills. This study explores the root causes of this disadvantage, detangling economic and social drivers through qualitative expert interviews. Primarily, it investigates the importance of social norms as the main driver. The interviews were analysed through thematic coding with the program Atlas.ti. The results strongly indicated that gender norms lead to the minimisation of women’s contributions in the rural economy while reverting their existences to their reproductive functions. Economic barriers, such as economic dependency, meanwhile can be primarily attributed to strict social norms rather than being own determents of inequality. The financial dependency then again leads to structural imbalances which consequentially solidifies already existing marginalisation’s. While India in recent decades has not needed mayor humanitarian interventions, the learnings from this study are equally applicable in the humanitarian setting as technology important. Technology is not neutral or passively adapted. Only when interventions combine their work with gender-sensitivity measures, it can reach the ones most in need. On the other hand, if programs lack to consider these implications, their programs the interventions are not gender-neutral but solidified inequalities and power imbalances. In the last sections, I, therefore, provided recommendations on how to make a technology-based intervention more gender-inclusive. These recommendations are easily adaptable and applicable to other fields of intervention.
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Chandra, Smita, and Vivek Patkar. "ICTS: A catalyst for enriching the learning process and library services in India." Elsevier, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106060.
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The advances in ICTs have decisively changed the library and learning environment. On the one hand, ICTs have enhanced the variety and accessibility to library collections and services to break the barriers of location and time. On the other, the e-Learning has emerged as an additional medium for imparting education in many disciplines to overcome the constraint of physical capacity associated with the traditional classroom methods. For a vast developing country like India, this provides an immense opportunity to provide even higher education to remote places besides extending the library services through networking. Thanks to the recent initiatives by the public and private institutions in this direction, a few web-based instruction courses are now running in the country. This paper reviews different aspects of e-Learning and emerging learning landscapes. It further presents the
library scene and new opportunities for its participation in the e-Learning process. How these ICTs driven advances can contribute to the comprehensive learning process in India is highlighted.
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Ozukum, Tinumeren [Verfasser], Johanna [Akademischer Betreuer] Haberer, Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Nehring, and Christian [Gutachter] Schicha. "The Impact of Social Media on Religious Tolerance in India A Case Study on the Digital Discourse in Religious Conflicts / Tinumeren Ozukum ; Gutachter: Christian Schicha ; Johanna Haberer, Andreas Nehring." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2021. http://d-nb.info/1240903464/34.
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Wrammert, Anna. "Selfies, dolls and film stars : a cross-cultural study on how young women in India and Sweden experience the use of digital images for self-presentation on social network sites." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225667.
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Garud-Patkar, Nisha. "India’s Mediated Public Diplomacy on Social Media: Building Agendas and National Reputation in South Asia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou151016626035757.
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ALVES, Cecilia da Fonte. "Cultura independente: conceitos e práticas dos jogos digitais indies." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17843.
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Nos últimos anos o setor independente de jogos digitais cresceu exponencialmente, recebendo reconhecimento do público, da imprensa e do mercado. Entretanto, a conceituação de games independentes é apresentada na literatura através de um complexo emaranhado de definições que divergem entre si. Esta pesquisa pretende então compreender qual o sentido de independência no contexto de atividades culturais e como ele se traduz no campo de jogos. Para tal, primeiramente será realizado um estudo da cultura independente mais ampla que buscará perceber como se dá sua conceituação, como ela se transforma com o passar dos anos e quais as ideias e práticas que perpetua. Nesse momento, serão observados importantes cenários alternativos (contracultura da déc. de 60 e Punk) assim como a produção de zines, publicações que alimentam as comunidades indies. Esse estudo inicial - que tem o intuito de encontrar as características comuns às manifestações independentes - servirá como base para a análise posterior da produção independente de jogos que tem o objetivo de verificar como os desenvolvedores praticam a independência. A pesquisa indica que o universo de jogos descrito como indie é bastante amplo e heterogêneo, mas que nele, é possível encontrar game designers que compartilham de muitos dos ideais e comportamentos propagados pela cultura independente ao longo do tempo.
In recent years the independent game sector has grown exponentially, gaining recognition from the audience, the press and the market. However, the concept of independent games is presented in the literature through a complex maze of definitions that differ from each other. This research aims to understand then what is the sense behind the independence in cultural activities and how it translates on the game industry. For that, at first, a study about the broad independente culture will be conducted, which will seek to comprehend how its conceptualization is given, how it changes over the years and what ideas and practices are perpetuated by it. At this context, important alternative scenarios will be observed (the counterculture of the sixties and the Punk movement), as well as the production of zines, publications that feed the indie communities. This initial study - which intends to find the common characteristics of the independent manifestations - will serve as a basis for the further analysis of the production of indie games, that will have the purpose of seeing how developers practice independence. This research indicates that the gaming universe described as indie is broad and heterogeneous, but that it carries game designers who share many of the ideals and behaviors spread by the independent culture over time
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Lone, Fozia Nazir. "Restoration of historical title and the Kashmir question : an international legal appraisal." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources. Online version available for University member only until Mar. 17, 2011, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25194.
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Shook, Jennifer E. "Unending trails: Oklahoma-as-Indian-territory in performance, print, and digital archives." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6501.
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Far from vanishing as romantically predicted, Native being remains present despite centuries’ efforts of erasure. Far from empty space or a blank page, the state of Oklahoma has always been and continues to be a site of transcultural negotiations. Native playwrights unghost—make visible—those shimmering glimmers when they re-present historical events. Centering the work of Native playwrights from Oklahoma-as-Indian-Territory, I in turn unghost—recover—the connections between historical crises dramatized by Native poets and playwrights and reenacted by historical interpreters in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with nineteenth century archives and circulations. I elucidate a new genealogy of Oklahoma-as-Indian-Territory, where borders bend in genre, time, and space. The Native plays here share a time-weaving relationship to earlier historical crises, a resistance to false closure, a recycling of time-worn stereotypes in the service of their undoing. Unghosting Native playwrights can mean reviving those who have fallen out of print, as with Red Renaissance prodigy Hanay Geiogamah, and reclaiming those whose Native identity has been erased, as with Lynn Riggs, whose Green Grow the Lilacs became the largely unsung foundation of the musical Oklahoma!, as well as expanding the dramatic archive to capture plays only found online.
My first chapter, “Staking Claims on Mixed-Blood Inheritance,” draws upon performance theorists Diana Taylor and Rebecca Schneider’s work in transcultural written and bodily archives to investigate two key repeated performances: the statehood mock wedding and the Land Run reenactments recently discontinued by the Oklahoma City Public Schools but still celebrated annually by schoolchildren across the state. Juxtaposing them with commemorative poetic performances by Diane Glancy, N. Scott Momaday, Joy Harjo, and LeAnne Howe, I situate these performances not as quirky local fun but as rituals of systemic colonial representational power. My second chapter, “Active States,” unghosts folk drama through Lynn Riggs’ pre-statehood play Green Grow the Lilacs and the collaboratively revised Trail of Tears outdoor spectacle produced for decades by the Cherokee Nation, including the extended material performances of these texts in playbills, a songbook, and a fine press illustrated edition. My third chapter, “Kitchen Table Worlds in Motion: Collaborations in Native New Play Development” examines four recent plays and the development institutions that support them, all breaking new ground in form yet recycling images and adapting texts and experiences from many archives: Hanay Geiogamah’s Foghorn, LeAnne Howe’s The Mascot Opera: A Minuet, Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear, and Joy Harjo’s Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light. My fourth and final chapter continues the exploration of recent work, yet on specific policy issues: the stolen bodies of residential schools and of looted funerary remains, and the ongoing repercussions of these instances of cultural genocide in courts and heritage sites today, as dramatized by Mary Kathryn Nagle and Suzan Shown Harjo in My Father’s Bones, Annette Arkeketa in Ghost Dance, and N. Scott Momaday’s in The Moon in Two Windows.
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Kembhavi, Ajit, and Tukaram S. Kumbar. "Professional Literature for Indian Universities - A new Initiative by the University Grants Commission." Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106132.
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For some years now, Indian Universities and Colleges have been deprived of access to journals and other professional literature. About two decades ago, University libraries were able to subscribe to a decent number of journals in various subjects. The subscriptions have steadily eroded since funds available to universities have not been able to cover the rising cost of the literature, and today access to journals is all but impossible, except from a handful of major university libraries. It is clear that this trend cannot be reversed in the conventional fashion by providing increased funding.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently undertaken a major new initiative called the UGC-INFONET, which seeks to provide high speed internet connections, electronic access to professional literature, and the development of multimedia content to supplement conventional learning and teaching. In the present paper we describe the part of this project which deals with the provision of electronic access to journals and other literature for the University sector.
Major organizations like the CSIR, DAE, AICTE etc have set up consortia involving institutes under the aegis of the respective department to have electronic access. The arrangement here involves incremental payments to be made to publishers to supplement an already large print subscription base. This arrangement is not possible for the Universities, since the present subscription base is very poor, and therefore arrangements which involve electronic subscriptions only are being made with publishers.
In our paper we will discuss details about the initiative, the novel aspects of the programme, the great benefits that it will bring to the University sector, its present and future relationship with other consortia, and the role of INFLIBNET in the planning and long term implementation of the scheme.
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Luvaas, Brent Adam. "Generation DIY youth, class, and the culture of indie production in digital-age Indonesia /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1835632681&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Biswas, Bidhan, and Swapan Dasgupta. "Opportunities for Libraries in Managing and Resource Sharing Through Consortia: A New Challenge for Indian Librarians." Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106131.
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Discusses briefly the concept and significance of resource sharing in Indian context with a view to justify on the basis of tremendous growth as well as diversity of explicit knowledge, increased users' demands, diminished budgets, galloping prices for subscribing periodicals and purchasing books, etc. Papers suggest that resource sharing is inevitable among libraries and mentions the concepts, the areas and modalities for cooperation through library consortia in the networked information environment. This paper also covers growth as well as points out merits and demerits of library consortia and the future prospect of consortia in Indian scenario.
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Pettersson, Mona, and Fredrik Stöckel. "Everyone is invited : How access to development tools influences innovation democracy and bridges the digital divide." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-122513.
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Indie studios, which used to have a challenging time creating and releasing games, are on the rise. In the past, these studios have had a hard time getting their hands on useable tools. Indie developers at the time had to work with basic tools in order to create games less technologically advanced. This created a gap between triple-A and indie studios that, at the time, was widely disregarded. This stands as the lens for our study. We begin by conducting a prestudy that looks at the statistics behind games on steam. After this we form our interview questions and conducted both standardized open-ended interviews as well as surveys. The data collected suggest that there is a correlation between the availability of ease-of-use tools and content created. In our discussion we bring forth ideas about how this may help reduce the knowledge gap, and nurture the online innovation democracy.
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Sarmistha, Uma. "The interaction between the digital and material world: transnational practices among high tech Indian immigrant workers." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17008.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Richard Goe
Asian-Indians represent an important component of the professional and ‘high-tech’ workers in the U.S. Research on this population has found that majority of these workers are temporary workers working on a contractual jobs. Further, it is not unusual for Indian immigrant workers to get married and have children while in the U.S. As such, they must learn to negotiate the U.S. cultural terrain in both their place of work and home life. This provides the potential that they will become transnational by developing identities and engaging in cultural and social practices from two different nations, India and the U.S. This dissertation investigates the nature and extent of transnational practices adopted by high-tech Indian workers employed by U.S. firms on a temporary work visa. In summary, the purpose of this research is to explore and describe the prevalence and practice of transnationalism among Indian high-tech workers employed by U.S. firms on a temporary work visa and its impact on their lives. The study uses a mixed-methods research (Ivankova, Creswell and Stick, 2007), where quantitative survey and qualitative data collection are used in single study to understand the stated research problem. Also, as there is no formal list of Indian IT professionals working in the U.S. at contractual jobs, the data collection will be carried out through the non-random chain-referral sampling technique. A detailed survey and personal interview will be used to measure various micro aspects of these workers' lives including consumption patterns, recreational choices, socialization, cultural beliefs and family dynamics. The study reveals that the temporary stay of these professionals in the U.S. along with their families necessitates day-to-day negotiations between two cultures in terms of their food, clothing, recreation, and daily activities creating a transnational life style for these young professionals. The responses reflect the inner struggle of these professionals between their long-term goals of settling in India with their families and the current material life in a far-away land of opportunity. On one hand, the dualism of living in the U.S. as an Indian is demonstrated in this study by the convergence of the disparate elements of both aspects of their lives, work, incomes and remittances; on other hand, family, social life, religion, consumption patterns, and recreation activities provide the glimpse of a dual life. All of these cultural and social practices can be considered as the combination of transnationalism from ‘above’ and ‘below’ as noted by Smith and Guarnizo (1998). Transnational activities at the work place, which is forced by the work culture of the MNCs that employ them, can be considered as ‘transnationalism from above’. Simultaneously, being bi-lingual at home, cooking and eating Indian and Western food, socializing with Indian and American friends outside work, and all those cultural activities they perform on a day-to-day basis, indicates ‘transnationalism from below’. Overall, through this study, I have described important aspects of the transnational lives of Indian IT professionals, who try to maintain a fine balance between faster assimilation of American culture which might help them at the work place while simultaneously retaining much of their ‘Indian-ness’ so that going back to India never poses a problem when their visa expires. In a way, the lives of this particular group of professionals can be viewed as those of temporary-enclave residential workers.
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Gebauer, Jens. "Ökophysiologie und Verwendungsmöglichkeiten der Wildobstarten Adansonia digitata und Tamarindus indica im Sudan." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/14911.
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Der Baobab (Adansonia digitata) ist ein mächtiger und laubabwerfender Baum, der im Sudan heimisch ist. Neben den Früchten bietet er eine Vielzahl von Verwendungsmöglichkeiten u.a. als Nahrungs- und Heilmittel. Die Tamarinde (Tamarindus indica) ist ein graziöser und immergrüner Baum, der im Sudan verbreitet ist. Die Früchte sind bei der Bevölkerung sehr begehrt. Weiterhin ist er Grundlage für viele Forstprodukte. Im Zentralsudan konnten weitere Wildobstarten identifiziert werden, die zur Sicherung der Nahrungsgrundlage der ländlichen Bevölkerung in den Savannen beitragen. Vor allem im Nordsudan existieren große, potenzielle Agrarflächen, auf denen die Bodenversalzung als limitierender Faktor wirkt. Um Nahrungssicherheit für die zunehmende Bevölkerung zu gewährleisten, erlagen diese marginalen Flächen immer mehr an Bedeutung. Die Gewächshausversuche über einen Zeitraum von 20 Wochen zeigten, dass bei Adansonia digitata-Sämlingen das Wachstum und der Stoffwechsel bereits bei Salzbelastungen von 20 mM NaCl stark beeinflusst wurden. Daher kann diese Art im Sämlingsstadium als sehr salzempfindlich eingestuft werden. Tamarindus indica-Sämlinge tolerierten Salzbelastungen von 40 mM NaCl. Daraus folgt, dass die Tamarinde im Vergleich zu anderen Obstarten im Sämlingsstadium relativ salzverträglich ist. Unter den gegebenen Versuchsumständen ist zu vermuten, dass die Tamarinde eher geeignet scheint für die Kultivierung in salzbelasteten semiariden Gebieten.The Baobab (Adansonia digitata) is a massive, deciduous tree and native to Sudan. Beside its fruits, the Baobab has an exceedingly wide range of uses ranging from food and beverages to medicinal uses. The tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is an aesthetic, evergreen tree and grows wild throughout Sudan. Its fruits are highly appreciated by the people. In addition, the tree provides a diversity of further important forest products. A number of under-utilised species with edible fruits were identified in Central Sudan. Fruits of these indigenous species play an important role in the diet of rural people in the savanna belt, especially during famines and food shortages. Particularly in Northern Sudan there are vast areas of potentially arable land which are affected by salinity to variable degrees. In order to maintain food security for the increasing population, this land is becoming more and more important. The results of the greenhouse experiments over a period of 20 weeks indicate that a salinity level of 20 mM NaCl strongly influences growth and metabolism of Adansonia digitata seedlings. Therefore in the seedling stage the species can be characterised as salt-sensitive. Tamarindus indica seedlings tolerated a salinity level of 40 mM NaCl. This indicates that in the seedling stage tamarind is a fairly salt tolerant tree species compared to other fruit trees. The conclusion of the greenhouse experiments indicates that the tamarind seems to be the more suitable under-utilized fruit tree species for cultivation in semi-arid areas with salinity problems.
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Ferreira, Lucimar Luisa 1967. "Vozes indígenas na rede digital : discurso e autoria em blogs." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/271061.
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Resumo: Este trabalho aborda o tema da autoria na rede, a partir da escrita indígena produzida no espaço eletrônico dos blogs pessoais, compreendendo que o avanço da tecnologia, em especial a internet, possibilita aos índios a ocupação de um espaço singular para dizer e se constituir sujeitos de linguagem, fazendo circular sentidos silenciados e/ou interditados ao longo da história na/pela mídia tradicional. Nessa direção, o estudo coloca em discussão o que é ser autor a partir das novas condições de produção da escrita na rede digital, partindo da noção discursiva de autoria formulada por Orlandi (2007), através de um deslocamento do conceito de função-autor de Foucault. Nessa abordagem, a autoria indígena é tratada enquanto gesto de interpretação do sujeito na produção de textos na web, considerando a rede como espaço de dizer no qual o sujeito e os sentidos são constituídos numa relação indissociável entre língua e sua exterioridade constitutiva. A partir do processo de textualização, o trabalho discute a autoria como parte de um processo de resistência indígena na rede. O objetivo da pesquisa é compreender a constituição do sujeito indígena na rede digital e a emergência de uma posição autoral de resistência nas circunstâncias determinadas de um blog pessoal, sabendo que a prática da escrita de textos no computador transforma efetivamente a relação do autor com sua escrita. A pesquisa tem como enfoque teórico a Análise de Discurso e o corpus é formado por diferentes materiais coletados em quatro blogs pessoais de autores indígenas
Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of authorship in the network, from the indigenous writing produced in the electronic space of personal blogs, including the advancement of technology, particularly the internet, enables Indians occupying a unique space to say and be subject language, circulating senses muted and / or banned throughout history in / by traditional media. In this sense, the study calls into question what is being an author from the new conditions of production of writing in the digital network, starting from the discursive notion of authorship formulated by Orlandi (2007), through a shift from the concept of role-authored Foucault. From this approach, the indigenous authorship is treated as a gesture of interpretation of the subject in the production of texts on the web, considering the network as a space in which to say the subject and the senses are made an inseparable relationship between language and its external constitutive. As of the writing process, the work argues the authorship as part of a process of aboriginal resistance in the net. The aim of the research is to understand the constitution of the aboriginal citizen in the digital net and the emergency of an authorial position of resistance in the certain circumstances of one blog personal, knowing that the practice of the writing of texts in the computer effectively changes the relation of the author with its writing. The research focuses on theoretical discourse analysis and the corpus is made up of different materials collected in four personal blogs of indigenous authors
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Masiero, Silvia. "Imagining the state through digital technologies : a case of state-level computerization in the Indian public distribution system." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/950/.
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The study of e-governance in developing nations is informed by the idea that new technologies, reshaping the very nature of public services, can generate better outcomes in their provision. Beyond objective changes in governance infrastructures, the subjective perception of the state, as it is constructed by service recipients, is exposed to a parallel process of change, whose study has generated a novel research domain in the field of egovernance for development. With a view of contributing to this domain, this thesis studies the role of ICTs in processes of image formation on the state, as experienced by citizens in a developing country context. The theory on which the thesis is developed views technology as embedded in its sociopolitical context, and conceives e-governance as implicated in the reconstruction of images of the state. This vision is applied to the computerization of the main food security programme in India, the Public Distribution System (PDS), as it has been devised and implemented in the state of Kerala. Through an interpretive case study of the object at the core of computerization, known as the Electronic Public Distribution System or e-PDS, the thesis investigates the ICT-led processes of image construction by the state, and the ways in which citizens, confronted with new images, structure their perception of these. Through inclusion of front-end PDS services in existing infrastructure, and through the inscription of a clear problem-solution nexus in e-PDS, the state is found, as expected, to be using e-governance as a means to reconstruct its own image. At the same time, though, the loci of image formation that are found in citizens (direct experience, social networks, and political circuits) systematically escape control by governmental action, and seem to be, in fact, only marginally touched by the ICT-induced reinvention of governance. The thesis results, therefore, in an extension of existing theory in this respect: the capability of the state to reconstruct its image, through the usage of new technologies, is limited by the spaces of image formation which citizens experience in their daily lives.
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Law, Kit-fong Stephanie. "The molecular consequences of Indian hedgehog mutations in distal digit patterning." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31353253.
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Law, Kit-fong Stephanie, and 羅潔芳. "The molecular consequences of Indian hedgehog mutations in distal digit patterning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31353253.
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Gosney, Renee M. "The Evolving Role of the Editor in the Age of Digital Publishing." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494583608662509.
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GREG?RIO, Gabriela Macedo. "O caso da primeira indica??o geogr?fica de servi?o: um estudo sobre o Porto Digital de Recife/PE." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/2276.
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In 2012 the Porto Digital (Digital Port or Digital Harbour), defined as Arranjo Produtivo Local de Tecnologia da Informa??o e Comunica??o (a Local Production Arrangement for Information Technology and Communication) located in Bairro do Recife/PE, received the first geographic indication in the service sector, a tag often conceded to food products. However, it is important to know if this process shall extend its positive effects beyond producers and providers, adding value to the material and immaterial cultural patrimony of the region. Considering that the Porto Digital is a relevant object to advance the discussions on the potentials, limitations and challenges to geographical indications as a tool to territorial development, this work will combine description and analysis of the particularities of the only geographical indication tag in the service sector in Brazil and the attempt to turn it into an instrument to understand geographic indications in a broader and more generalized manner, drawing criteria and hypotheses which could be helpful for future studies in the area. Therefore, this research will (a) analyze the regulatory framework protecting the GIs, the intervening institutions and their roles; (b) reconstruct the process of transformation of Bairro do Recife, from an old business harbor to a modern digital port; (c) understand the association between the process of urban transformation and the process of valuing the cultural patrimony of the territory, crowned by the acknowledgement of the geographic name ? the so-called Porto Digital; (d) characterize the constitutive and organizational aspects of the pre-acknowledgement of the Porto Digital?s GI: the actors involved and their justifications, the composition of the members of the GI, the delimitation of the area, the regulation of the use and the structure of control; (e) point out the similarities and singularities of the case with studies on Brazilian geographical indications.
Em 2012 o Porto Digital, definido como Arranjo Produtivo Local de Tecnologia da Informa??o e Comunica??o localizado no Bairro do Recife/PE, recebeu a concess?o in?dita de indica??o geogr?fica para o setor de servi?o, tradicionalmente concedida aos produtos agroalimentares. Contudo, importa saber se esse processo conduzir? ao transbordamento das positividades para al?m dos produtores e prestadores de servi?os e ? valoriza??o do patrim?nio cultural ? material e imaterial - da regi?o. Considerando que o caso do Porto Digital seja um objeto relevante para fazer avan?ar as discuss?es sobre as potencialidades, limita??es e desafios das indica??es geogr?ficas como instrumento de desenvolvimento territorial, esse trabalho buscar? combinar o esfor?o de descri??o e an?lise das particularidades do ?nico caso de indica??o geogr?fica de servi?os no Brasil e a tentativa de instrumentaliz?-lo para a compreens?o das indica??es geogr?ficas de modo mais amplo e generalizado a partir da elabora??o de crit?rios de an?lise e hip?teses para estudos futuros. Sendo assim, esta pesquisa dever? (a) analisar o quadro regulat?rio de prote??o ?s IGs, das institui??es intervenientes e seus pap?is; (b) reconstruir o processo de transforma??o do bairro do Recife, de antigo porto comercial ao moderno porto digital; (c) compreender a associa??o entre o processo de transforma??o urbana e o processo de valoriza??o do patrim?nio cultural do territ?rio, coroado pelo reconhecimento do nome geogr?fico ? o chamado Porto Digital (d) caracterizar os aspectos constitutivos e organizacionais da fase de pr?-reconhecimento da IG do Porto Digital: os atores envolvidos e suas justificativas, a composi??o dos membros da IG, a delimita??o da ?rea, o regulamento de uso e a estrutura de controle; (e) apontar as semelhan?as e singularidades do caso com estudos sobre as indica??es geogr?ficas brasileiras.
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Craig, Rushing Stephanie Nicole. "Use of Media Technologies by Native American Teens and Young Adults: Evaluating their Utility for Designing Culturally-Appropriate Sexual Health Interventions Targeting Native Youth in the Pacific Northwest." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/24.
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American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth are disproportionally burdened by high rates of sexually transmitted infections and teen pregnancy, heightening their need for sexual health interventions that are aligned to their unique culture and social context. Media technologies, including the Internet, cell phones, and video games, offer new avenues for reaching adolescents on a wide range of sensitive health topics. While several studies have informed the development of technology-based interventions targeting mainstream youth, no such data have been reported for AI/AN youth. To fill this gap, I: a) quantified media technology use in a select group of AI/AN teens and young adults living in Pacific Northwest tribes and urban communities; b) identified patterns in their health information-seeking and media preferences; and c) worked with local tribes and partners to develop recommendations for designing culturally-appropriate technology-based interventions targeting Native adolescents. This research included: a) an anonymous, paper-based survey of over 400 AI/AN youths age 13-21 years; b) a systematic review of technology-based sexual health interventions; and c) a variety of community-based participatory research strategies to analyze findings, prioritize options, and generate recommendations for designing interventions that align with the culture, needs, and organizational capacities of the tribes in the Pacific Northwest. Technology use was exceptionally common and diverse among survey respondents, mirroring patterns reported by teens in the general population. Seventy-five percent of AI/AN youth reported using the Internet, 78% reported using cell phones, and 36% reported playing video games on a daily or weekly basis. Thirty-five percent reported that they would feel most comfortable getting sexual health information from the Internet, and 44% reported having done so in the past. Youth expressed interest in a wide array of interactive media features, and culturally-specific content that holistically encompassed their wide-ranging health interests and concerns. Tribal health educators expressed particular interest in adapting Internet-based skill-building modules and informational websites, and teens expressed interest in websites and videos. These findings are now being used by the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board to inform the development and adaptation of culturally-appropriate interventions targeting AI/AN youth in the Pacific Northwest.
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Brewer, John Richard. "Optimizing Topramezone and Other Herbicide Programs for Weed Control in Bermudagrass and Creeping Bentgrass Turf." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102929.
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Goosegrass [Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.] and smooth crabgrass [Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Schreb. ex Muhl.] are problematic weeds in bermudagrass and creeping bentgrass turf. Increased incidences of herbicide resistant weed populations and severe use restrictions on formerly available herbicides have increased need for selective, postemergence control options for these weeds in creeping bentgrass and bermudagrass turf. This weed management exigency has led turf managers to utilize less effective, more expensive, and more injurious options to manage goosegrass and smooth crabgrass. Although potentially injurious, topramezone can control these weeds, especially goosegrass, at low doses. Low-dose topramezone may also improve bermudagrass and creeping bentgrass response.
An initial investigation of three 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) inhibiting herbicides in different turf types showed that Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, and tall fescue were highly tolerant to topramezone, while creeping bentgrass and bermudagrass could tolerate topramezone doses that may control grassy weeds. Further investigation suggested that frequent, low-dose topramezone applications or metribuzin admixtures could enhance weed control and may conserve turfgrass quality. A novel mixture of topramezone at 3.7 g ae ha-1 and metribuzin at 210 g ai ha-1 controlled goosegrass effectively and reduced bermudagrass foliar bleaching associated with topramezone 10-fold compared to higher doses of topramezone alone in 19 field and 2 greenhouse trials. In an attempt to further enhance bermudagrass tolerance to topramezone, post-treatment irrigation was applied at various timings. When bermudagrass turf was irrigated with 0.25-cm water at 15 or 30 minutes after herbicide treatment, bermudagrass injury was reduced to acceptable levels when following low-dose topramezone plus metribuzin but not when following high-dose topramezone alone. Goosegrass control was reduced significantly by post-treatment irrigation in all cases, while irrigation reduced goosegrass control by low-dose topramezone plus metribuzin to below-commercially-acceptable levels. Novel, low-dose, frequent application programs containing topramezone or siduron were developed for season-long crabgrass or goosegrass control on creeping bentgrass greens. Greens-height creeping bentgrass quality was preserved following five biweekly treatments of siduron at rates between 3,400 to 13,500 g ai ha-1 and topramezone at 3.1 g ha-1. Siduron programs controlled smooth crabgrass and suppressed goosegrass while topramezone programs controlled goosegrass and suppressed smooth crabgrass.
In laboratory and controlled-environment experiments, goosegrass absorbed three times more 14C than bermudagrass within 48 hours of 14C-topramezone treatment. Bermudagrass also metabolized topramezone twice as fast as goosegrass. Metribuzin admixture reduced absorption by 25% in both species. When herbicides were placed exclusively on soil, foliage, or soil plus foliage, topramezone controlled goosegrass only when applied to foliage and phytotoxicity of both bermudagrass and goosegrass was greater from topramezone than from metribuzin. Metribuzin was shown to reduce 21-d cumulative clipping weight and tiller production of both species while topramezone caused foliar discoloration to newly emerging leaves and shoots with only marginal clipping weight reduction. These data suggest that selectivity between bermudagrass and goosegrass is largely due to differential absorption and metabolism that reduces bermudagrass exposure to topramezone. Post-treatment irrigation likely reduces topramezone rate load with a concomitant effect on plant phytotoxicity of both species. Metribuzin admixture decreases white discoloration of bermudagrass by decreased topramezone absorption rate and eliminating new foliar growth that is more susceptible to discoloration by topramezone.Doctor of Philosophy
Goosegrass and smooth crabgrass are problematic weeds in bermudagrass and creeping bentgrass turf. Increased incidences of herbicide resistant weed populations and severe use restrictions on formerly available herbicides have increased need for selective, postemergence control options for these weeds in creeping bentgrass and bermudagrass turf. Although potentially injurious, topramezone (Pylex™) can control these weeds, especially goosegrass, at low doses. Low-dose Pylex™ may also improve bermudagrass and creeping bentgrass response. An initial investigation evaluating tembotrione (Laudis®), Pylex™, and mesotrione (Tenacity®) in different turfgrass species showed that Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, and tall fescue were highly tolerant to Pylex™ at rates ranging from 0.75 to 2.25 fl. oz./A, while creeping bentgrass and bermudagrass were low to moderately tolerant to Pylex™. Further investigation suggested that frequent, low-dose (less than 0.25 fl. oz./A) Pylex™ applications or metribuzin (Sencor®) admixtures could enhance weed control and may conserve turfgrass quality. A novel mixture of Pylex™ at 0.15 fl. oz./A and Sencor® at 4 oz. wt./A controlled goosegrass effectively and reduced bermudagrass injury to near acceptable levels and significantly less than Pylex™ applied alone at 0.25 fl. oz/A. In an attempt to further enhance bermudagrass tolerance to Pylex™, post-treatment irrigation was applied at different timings. When bermudagrass turf was irrigated at 15 or 30 minutes after herbicide treatment, bermudagrass injury was reduced to acceptable levels when following Pylex™ at 0.25 fl. oz./A plus Sencor® at 4 oz but not when following Pylex™ applied alone at 0.5 fl. oz./A. Goosegrass control was reduced significantly by post-treatment irrigation in all cases, while irrigation reduced goosegrass control by low-dose Pylex™ plus Sencor® to below-commercially-acceptable levels. Novel, low-dose, frequent application programs containing Pylex™ or siduron (Tupersan®) were developed for season-long crabgrass or goosegrass control in creeping bentgrass greens. Greens-height creeping bentgrass quality was preserved following five biweekly treatments of Tupersan® at rates between 6 and 24 lb./A and Pylex™ at 0.125 fl. oz./A. Tupersan® programs controlled smooth crabgrass and suppressed goosegrass while Pylex™ programs controlled goosegrass and suppressed smooth crabgrass. The data from these studies indicate that utilizing low-dose Pylex™ in combination with Sencor® can impart acceptable bermudagrass safety while also controlling goosegrass effectively. For creeping bentgrass greens, the low-dose, frequent application of Tupersan® is the safest legal option for golf course superintendents to control smooth crabgrass effectively, while having some ability to suppress goosegrass.
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Eskandar, Fadi. "Informatique et Imagerie Médicale. Rôle de l’INRIA des années 1970 à nos jours. Exemple de l’équipe-projet EPIDAURE/ASCLEPIOS." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL143.
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Aujourd’hui, l’imagerie médicale est une composante majeure du développement de la médecine : l’analyse d’image et son déploiement sont un axe de recherche central à l’INRIA (Institut national de la recherche en Informatique et automatique), pionnier du domaine en France et à l’international. Cependant, réalisée sur le long terme, l’importance de cette recherche fondamentale est difficile à évaluer. En outre, fondée sur le principe de la coopération, le rôle de l’INRIA peut être sous-estimé au profit de ses partenaires. L’objectif historique de cette thèse est de montrer l’importance du rôle de l’INRIA en analyse d’imagerie médicale via l’exemple de son équipe-projet EPIDAURE/ASCLEPIOS, première en ce domaine. Cette investigation est adossée à trois paradigmes méthodologiques : une recherche bibliographique, une synthèse à partir des archives de l’INRIA-Rocquencourt (Île-de-France) et de dix entretiens semi-dirigés, réalisés par nos soins, auprès de chercheurs de l’INRIA directement impliqués dans l’analyse d’imagerie médicale. Les résultats montrent que dès les années 90 du XXe siècle, l’équipe-projet EPIDAURE/ASCLEPIOS a été fondatrice de ce domaine dans le monde. En outre, elle est à l’origine d’une nouvelle révolution du numérique, via la conception du « Patient numérique personnalisé » (PNP), proposée par son directeur Nicholas AYACHE dont le rôle central sur cet axe se traduit par l’excellence des résultats publiés et par la richesse et le dynamisme des collaborations établies, dans les domaines : académique, médical et industriel. Le soutien de la direction de l’INRIA à l’équipe-projet EPIDAURE/ASCLEPIOS est un atout de son succès, sur la scène internationaleToday, medical imaging is a major component of the medicine development: image analysis and its deployment are a central research area at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), pioneer in this field, in France and abroad. However, it is difficult to evaluate this kind of fundamental research because of its long-term realization. Moreover, given that the research at INRIA is based on cooperation, its role may be underestimated for the benefit of its partners. The historical objective of this thesis is to show the importance of INRIA’s role in medical imaging analysis through the example of EPIDAURE / ASCLEPIOS, leading team in this field. This investigation is based on three methodological paradigms: a bibliographic search, a synthesis from the archives of INRIA-Rocquencourt (Ile-de-France) and ten semi-directed interviews, conducted by us, with INRIA researchers directly involved in Medical imaging the analysis. The results show that since the 90s of the 20th century, the EPIDAURE / ASCLEPIOS project-team has been the founder of this field in the world. Moreover, this team is the origin of a new digital revolution, through the design of the "Personalized Digital Patient", proposed by its director Nicholas AYACHE, whose central role in this line of research is reflected in the excellence of published results, the wealth and dynamism of established collaborations in the academic, medical and industrial fields. The support of INRIA’s management to the EPIDAURE / ASCLEPIOS project-team is an asset of its success on the international scene
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Chatterjee, S., A. K. Kar, Y. K. Dwivedi, and Hatice Kizgin. "Prevention of cybercrimes in smart cities of India: from a citizen's perspective." 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17295.
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YesPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing the citizens of India to prevent cybercrimes in the proposed Smart Cities of India. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual model has been developed for identifying factors preventing cybercrimes. The conceptual model was validated empirically with a sample size of 315 participants from India. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with SPSS and AMOS softwares. Findings: The study reveals that the “awareness of cybercrimes” significantly influences the actual usage of technology to prevent cybercrimes in Smart Cities of India. The study reveals that government initiative (GI) and legal awareness are less influential in spreading of the awareness of cybercrimes (AOC) to the citizens of the proposed smart cities. Research limitations/implications: The conceptual model utilizes two constructs from the technology adoption model, namely, perceived usefulness and ease of use. The study employs other factors such as social media, word of mouth, GIs, legal awareness and organizations constituting entities spreading awareness from different related literature works. Thereby, a comprehensive theoretical conceptual model has been proposed which helps to identify the factors that may help in preventing cybercrimes. Practical implications: This study provides an insight to the policy maker to understand several factors influencing the AOC of the citizens of the proposed Smart Cities of India for the prevention of cybercrimes. Originality/value: There are few existing studies analyzing the effect of AOC to mitigate cybercrimes. Thus, this study offers a novel contribution.
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Singh, Sukhdev, Surinder K. Gaba, and Naina Pandita. "Architecture and building of Medical Digital Library at NIC [of India]: What exists and what is required for MeDLib@NIC?" 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105125.
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Edited and abridged version of a paper presented at International Conference on Digital Library, New Delhi, 24-27 February, 2004, entitled â Architecture and building of Medical Digital Library at National Informatics Centre: What exists and what is required for MeDLib@NIC?âICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information has developed various products that are available over Internet. These includes: i. UNcat (http://uncat.nic.in) - union catalogue of journal holdings of medical libraries of India; ii. IndMED (http://indmed.nic.in) - A bibliographic database of Indian biomedical journals and iii. medIND (http://medind.nic.in) - full texts of Indian biomedical journals being indexed in IndMED. Now, having these services, tools, databases and content in operation, the focus of future activities would be to integrate these â ingredientsâ both internally and externally to provide â single window digital access persistentlyâ . Here we propose an architecture under which each service, tool, database and content collection is an independent layer. These layers are the building blocks of Digital Library (DL) and can interoperate with each other due to either build-in or plug-in(ed) interoperability. They are accessible by their own interfaces as well as through Digital Library interface. In context of the proposed architecture, this article also takes stoke of what is available and what is required to build the digital library.
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Singh, Sukhdev. "Digital Libraries: What and How? : Lecture delivered during "Training Course on Internet Technology Applications in Libraries, 13th - 17th October, 2003, NIC Hqs, New Delhi, India"." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105536.
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These are about 73 PPT Slides of a Lecture on Digital Libraries. The Lecture Defines Digital Library and explains some myths surrounding it. Gives an overview of Digital Library Standards, Information Resources Organisation, Metadata, Digital Archiving and Preservation and Digital Library Services. Further it highlights Challenges, General Principles, Design Principles and Digital Collection Development in Digital Library development process. It concludes with some examples of Indian initiatives in Digital Libraries.
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Rao, CR. "Metadata Architecture for Digital Libraries: Conceptual framework for Indian Digital Libraries." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106321.
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This is presentation slides entitled Metadata Architecture for Digital Libraries: Conceptual framework for Indian Digital Libraries. The original paper describes approach of development of Metadata solution for digital library architecture for resource description and retrieval. This deals with the concept of Metadata[2], the different Metadata standards (Dublin core in particular[3]), Digital library Environment, Computer Network capabilities etc. This paper also discusses two of the Digital Library architecture protocols, for resource description and retrieval: they are STARTS (Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Retrieval and Search)[4.2] and SODA (Smart Objects and Dump Archives)[4.1] architecture to arrive at a possible protocol which would help to build Indian Digital Libraries [5]. While proposing the new architecture the existing Indian Environment with respect to Information Sources and User's query of the Information Sources[5.1], which are feasible for launch of this protocol for information processing and retrieval has been taken care. This is a pilot study which the author has done while doing his Fulbright fellowship in the College of Library Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD during 1999-2000.
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Morolo, Mmankoko Ziphorah. "Children’s acquisition of computer literacy skills at the Mamelodi Digital Doorway project." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23919.
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Many South Africans have never interacted with a computer before and the majority of children are growing up in an environment characterized by low levels of computer literacy. Today, Information Communication Technology (ICT) and basic computer skills are pre-requisites in all professional and many semi-skilled jobs and are becoming increasingly important to basic survival in the world. The Digital Doorway initiative is aimed at better understanding and addressing the computer literacy needs of users within South Africa and Africa (Smith et al., n.d). A project called Minimally Invasive Education was recently established in India by professor Sugata Mitra of NIIT. In this project, experiments called “Hole-in-the-Wall” were conducted where Pentium computers connected to the Internet were provided on the roadside and turned on without any instructions or announcement. Mitra was interested in observing the behaviors of people in a technologically disadvantaged area when exposed to a computer. He observed that users generated their own terms for a number of commonplace computer terms. He also observed that despite never having interacted with a computer before, children were very quick to master basic computer skills. In these experiments, Mitra tested his hypothesis that: the acquisition of basic computer skills by any set of children can be achieved through incidental learning, provided the learners are given access to a suitable computer facility, with entertaining and motivating content and some minimal (human) guidance (Mitra 2001). Based on the success of the “Hole-in-the-Wall” experiments in India, a similar project was started in South Africa by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The project adopted the name “Digital Doorway” and the first site was launched in the rural community of Cwili, in the Eastern Cape in December 2002. A second site was established in Mamelodi an urban township north of Pretoria in the Gauteng province in June 2004. The Digital Doorway project set out to confirm that children and adults could teach themselves how to master basic computer sills, merely by having free access to a computer and being allowed to explore and try out things on their own, without formal training.Dissertation (MEd (Computer Integrated Education))--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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Lu, Meng-Chih, and 呂孟芝. "The Impacts of Internet and Digital Music on Taiwan Indie Bands." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24789966091789806872.
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An unsigned band could hardly have dreamed of getting exposure in the past. However, with the development of digital music in recent years, bands could put their music online and promote themselves on the Internet by means of their official websites or music websites. They have more opportunities to demonstrate their works now a day. Through the Internet, the listeners could download music for free. The websites indeed enable the bands to attract more fans from their online exposure. To identify the impacts of Internet and digital music on Taiwan indie bands and realize how they use Internet music at present, a questionnaire was designed to collect the data. 51 valid questionnaires were collected. Besides, the interviews and subordination data were employed to analyze how indie bands influenced by Internet and online music. The description statistic method was applied to analyze the questionnaires. After that, interviews, questionnaires and subordination data were discussed in network, market, and promotion respects. The results indicated that 68.6% respondents had put the their music online and 72.5% use music websites to promote themselves. However, disregard of other online tools such as official websites and newsletters, would decrease the effects of online promotion. In network aspect, Internet has become a channel of communication between bands and fans, though about 65% respondents still regarded the live shows as the best interacting places. In market aspect, Internet opens up new options for unsigned bands while whole world were their potential fans. However, how to get exposure among thousands of online artists in Taiwan was the most important thing for the unsigned bands. In promotion aspect, with the positive responses of online promotion effects, off-line promotion channels were also viewed valuable. The listeners are willing to pay the online music if an appropriate pricing method is enforced. In such way, the musicians in Taiwan could be encouraged and supported more. It is suggested that the indie bands in Taiwan could integrate all Internet tool based on their websites. They should also keep off-line promotions and have live show performances. It is also suggested that visioning strategy could be applied to establish the concepts of digital music paying.
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Yang, Yun-Ju, and 楊昀儒. "Taipei Indie Music Scene and Cultural Intermediaries in the Digital Music Era." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71718489976494049824.
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This research aims to explore Taipei indie music scene in the digital music era. In the global network and post-industrial era, to highlight local characteristics of cities and construct Taipei city to keep its prominent position and role, indie music has much more strong innovation than popular music industry. ‘Indie’ becomes an important cultural and economic strategy. Recent literature has viewed the music institutional heritage, cultural intermediaries, and music scene as maintaining the importance of the spatial factor. Based on the empirical study of music scene and cultural intermediaries in Taipei, three research question are addressed. Firstly, with the decentralizing potential of digital technologies, the spatial concentration remains clustered in Taipei, or not? What is the Taipei indie music’s spatial significance? Secondly, what cultural intermediaries catalyse and facilitate new organizational forms and strategic partnerships between creative workers’ network and indie music scenes. Finally, attention is paid to how digital technologies and shifting market dynamics influence and alter the relationships of cultural intermediaries, indie artists, and government，and jointly shaping contemporary Taipei independent music scene.
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Rana, Nripendra P., S. Luthra, and H. R. Rao. "Key challenges to digital financial services in emerging economies: the Indian context." 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17475.
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YesPurpose: Digital Financial Services (DFS) have substantial prospect to offer a number of reasonable, appropriate and secure banking services to the underprivileged in developing countries through pioneering technologies such as mobile phone based solutions, digital platforms and electronic money models. DFS allow unbanked people to obtain access to financial services through digital technologies. However, DFS face tough challenges of adoption. Realising this, the aim of this paper is to identify such challenges and develop a framework. Design/Methodology/Approach: We develop a framework of challenges by utilising Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and Fuzzy MICMAC approach. We explored eighteen such unique set of challenges culled from the literature and further gathered data from two sets of expert professionals. In the first phase, we gathered data from twenty-nine professionals followed by eighteen professionals in the second phase. All were pursuing Executive MBA programme from a metropolitan city in South India. The implementation of ISM and fuzzy MICMAC provided a precise set of driving, linkage and dependent variables that were used to derive a framework. Findings: ISM model is split in eight different levels. The bottom level consists of a key driving challenge V11 (i.e. high cost and low return related problem) whereas the topmost level consists of two highly dependent challenges namely V1 (i.e. risk of using digital services) and V14 (i.e. lack of trust). The prescribed ISM model shows the involvement of ‘high cost and low return related problem (V11)’, which triggers further challenges of DFS. Originality/value: None of the existing research has explored key challenges to DFS in detail nor formulated a framework for such challenges. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper on DFS that attempts to collate its challenges and incorporate them in a hierarchical model using ISM and further divide them into four categories of factors using fuzzy MICMAC analysis.
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Novaes, Bruna Almeida de. "Plano de Negócios Plataforma Online: INDI - Interactive Design de Interiores." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/28058.
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Este trabalho apresenta o plano de negócios da INDI | Interactive Design de Interiores, um plataforma online que pretende democratizar um serviço tradicionalmente elitista, como é considerado os serviços prestados por profissionais de design de interiores, arquitetos e decoradores. Neste projeto destacamos os desafios de definir os modelos de negócios digitais, criar um plano de marketing para comunicar e relacionar com o público-alvo, ao aplicar os princípios do Marketing Digital nas mais diversas configurações.
Numa primeira fase, conceituamos os modelos de negócios digitais e os recursos do Marketing Digital existentes nos mercados online para ajudar a criar um plano de negócio ajustados as melhores práticas do mercado.
Segue-se a contextualização dos conceitos para plataforma online tem como objetivo inserir no mercado online um serviço único de design de interiores a preços acessíveis para um público crescente e ávido por consumir produto de qualidade e personalizado com comodidade que o comércio online oferece.
Na parte final apresentamos as projeções financeiras e a conclusão.This works presents the business plan of INDI | Interactive Interior Design, an online platform that aims to democratize a traditionally elitist service, as it is considered the services provided by interior design professionals, architects and decorators. In this project we highlight the challenges of defining digital business models, creating a marketing plan to communicate and relate to the target audience, applying the principles of Digital Marketing in the most diverse configurations. First, we conceptualized the digital business models and the Digital Marketing resources existing in the online markets to help create a business plan adjusted to the market best practice. Following is the contextualization of the concepts for online platform aims to insert in the online market a unique service of interior design at affordable prices for a growing public and eager to consume quality and personalized product with convenience that online commerce offers. In the end we present the financial projections and the conclusion.
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Leween, Jackson Twobears. "Mythologies of an (un)dead Indian." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3855.
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This dissertation explores the aesthetics of contemporary Indigenous identity— its various manifestations, simulations, hybridizations, (dis)appearances, and liminalities. It is a project about the lived experience of ancestry conceived of through narratives of shapeshifting, virtuality, sacrifice, hauntings and possession.
This project is representative of a period of time in an on-going journey that began long before these first words were written…and one that I intend will continue long after this book’s completion.
The methodological approach to this work is multifaceted, encompassing the fields of Indigenous philosophy, digital media art and cultural studies. It is a project comprised of several interrelated strands of theoretical speculation, philosophical inquiry and creative engagement.
This dissertation is in many ways an autobiographical text—a meditation on my own Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) heritage and the spaces I occupy in the world as Onkwehonwe (an Indigenous person). At its core it is about exploring different modes of engagement with my own ancestral ‘territories’, while at the same time it endeavors to ask larger questions about collective memory, community, and cultural inheritance.
In being representative of a journey, the interrelated strands of writings in this text are meant to be traversal, and are about surveying and mapping different intellectual and creative territories. This text is about crossing interdisciplinary zones of theoretical inquiry that occur at the intersection and hybridization of Indigenous and Western philosophies, contemporary First Nations performance art and post-structuralist theory.
It is a work comprised of ebbs and flows, movements, refrains, and cascades of articulation that interpenetrate and cross over into one another. This text is therefore best thought of as a series of theoretical passageways—a multiplicity of thoughts and critical engagements in motion, translation and conversion.
It must be said that the traversals and crossings in this text are not necessarily about establishing a synthesis between differing ideologies, philosophies or cosmologies. It is not intended to be dichotomous, but rather should be read as a remix-theory that passes in-between different fields of critical inquiry. For while on the one hand this text seeks to explore different zones of intellectual and creative proximity, it is also a work that emerges from within a multitude of contradictions and myriad incommensurabilities.Graduate