Information Measures and Synchronization in Regular Ring Lattices with Discontinuous Local Dynamics

This article explores the relations between a foreign aid donor and local actors in the context of the dissemination of development discourses and practices in an authoritarian context. It addresses the question “To what extent may the local dynamics alter the original goals of a donor and lead to unintended consequences?” Based on archival research, interviews, and secondary literature, this case study examines the Yunnan Uplands Management Project (YUM) in 1990–95, the Ford Foundation's first grant program on rural poverty alleviation in China. While the Foundation did not attain its main goal of making YUM a national model for poverty alleviation, the local actors were able to use YUM to develop individual capacities and to build roles for themselves as development actors in the form of associations and nongovernmental organizations, resulting in further support from the Foundation. The study contributes to our understanding of donor-local actor dynamics by highlighting the gaps between the original goals of a donor and the perspectives and motivations of local actors. The study suggests that local dynamics may influence the goals of donors and the ways they seek to disseminate development discourses and practices to local actors, despite the common conception of donors as hegemonic or culturally imperialistic.

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Similarity Detection Using Latent Semantic Analysis Algorithm

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i8.124 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (8) ◽

pp. 102

Author(s):

Priyanka R. Patil ◽

Shital A. Patil

Keyword(s):

Latent Semantic Analysis ◽

Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽

Semantic Analysis ◽

Mining Method ◽

Research Papers ◽

Information Measures ◽

Automated Software ◽

Day By Day ◽

Ways Of Life ◽

Dirichlet Allocation

Similarity View is an application for visually comparing and exploring multiple models of text and collection of document. Friendbook finds ways of life of clients from client driven sensor information, measures the closeness of ways of life amongst clients, and prescribes companions to clients if their ways of life have high likeness. Roused by demonstrate a clients day by day life as life records, from their ways of life are separated by utilizing the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Algorithm. Manual techniques can't be utilized for checking research papers, as the doled out commentator may have lacking learning in the exploration disciplines. For different subjective views, causing possible misinterpretations. An urgent need for an effective and feasible approach to check the submitted research papers with support of automated software. A method like text mining method come to solve the problem of automatically checking the research papers semantically. The proposed method to finding the proper similarity of text from the collection of documents by using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) with synonym algorithm which is used to find synonyms of text index wise by using the English wordnet dictionary, another algorithm is LSA without synonym used to find the similarity of text based on index. LSA with synonym rate of accuracy is greater when the synonym are consider for matching.

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SHORT-TERM DYNAMICS OF THE ANAPA BAY-BAR SHORELINE

Proceedings of International Conference "Managinag risks to coastal regions and communities in a changinag world" (EMECS'11 - SeaCoasts XXVI) ◽

10.31519/conferencearticle_5b1b9484d73d71.24844503 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Marina Krylenko ◽

Alexandr Aleynikov ◽

Viacheslav Krylenko ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Satellite Images ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Northwestern Part ◽

Short Term ◽

Shoreline Position ◽

Local Dynamics ◽

Average Displacement ◽

Local Erosion

The Anapa bay-bar is located in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. With the goal in mind to determine the short-term dynamics of the Anapa bay-bar we analyzed satellite images from 2003 to the present. Depending on the hydro-lithodynamical situation the shoreline configuration during storm can vary from a rectilinear to sinusoidal forms. There are regions of local erosion or accumulation whose formation is related to the alongshore motion of sediments and dynamics of underwater bars. Comparison of the data on 1965 and 1966 showed that in this period the amplitude of the shoreline position was more than 20 m but average displacement of the shoreline for 13 months was only 0.8 m. This study showed that for the analysis of changes in the shoreline position is necessary to consider the configuration of the coastline at the time of each observation and the local dynamics.

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Transdisciplinarity

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190630577.013.29 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 126-138

Author(s):

James Mittelman ◽

Daniel Esser

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Transdisciplinary Research ◽

Global Studies ◽

Local Dynamics ◽

Research And Teaching ◽

Methodological Rigor ◽

Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽

Science Disciplines

This chapter assesses transdisciplinarity as an epistemological and methodological approach to research and teaching in the emerging field of global studies. It posits that the world’s most pressing problems in the areas of migration, health, and intersectional identities, to name a few, are unlikely to be addressed convincingly by inquiries rooted exclusively in singular social science disciplines. At the same time, transdisciplinarity is understood as a means to complement disciplinary research, not to dispense with it. By foregrounding global–local dynamics and their effects across scales, global studies can draw from a wealth of approaches and experiences in interdisciplinary scholarship without becoming entangled in protracted epistemological battles over scholarly turf. This chapter then provides examples of transdisciplinary research in global studies and closes by stressing the importance of disciplinary methodological innovations as building blocks for multimodal designs and arguing for methodological rigor in global studies, whether transdisciplinary or not.

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Světlana: Partisans and Power in Post-War Czechoslovakia

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777320000508 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 16-31

Author(s):

Mira Markham

Keyword(s):

Early Years ◽

Communist Regime ◽

Rural Region ◽

Local Dynamics ◽

Resistance Network ◽

Official Ideology ◽

Post War

After the renewal of national independence in 1945 former anti-fascist partisans were among the Czechoslovak Communist Party's most reliable and radical allies. Nevertheless, following the communist coup of 1948, a group of partisans in the rural region of Moravian Wallachia began to mobilise wartime networks and tactics against the consolidating party dictatorship, establishing the Světlana resistance network. Simultaneously, state authorities also drew on partisan practices to reconstitute opposition and resistance in this region as evidence of an international conspiracy that could be understood and prosecuted within the framework of official ideology and propaganda. This article analyses the case of Světlana to examine the politics of people's democracy in Czechoslovakia and explore local dynamics of resistance and repression during the early years of the communist regime.

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Information Measures for Generalized Order Statistics and Their Concomitants under General Framework from Huang-Kotz FGM Bivariate Distribution

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23030335 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 335

Author(s):

Mohamed A. Abd Elgawad ◽

Haroon M. Barakat ◽

Shengwu Xiong ◽

Salem A. Alyami

Keyword(s):

Order Statistics ◽

General Framework ◽

Bivariate Distribution ◽

Generalized Order Statistics ◽

Information Measures ◽

Progressive Type ◽

Information Number ◽

Fisher Information Number ◽

Dual Generalized Order Statistics ◽

Generalized Order

In this paper, we study the concomitants of dual generalized order statistics (and consequently generalized order statistics) when the parameters γ1,⋯,γn are assumed to be pairwise different from Huang–Kotz Farlie–Gumble–Morgenstern bivariate distribution. Some useful recurrence relations between single and product moments of concomitants are obtained. Moreover, Shannon’s entropy and the Fisher information number measures are derived. Finally, these measures are extensively studied for some well-known distributions such as exponential, Pareto and power distributions. The main motivation of the study of the concomitants of generalized order statistics (as an important practical kind to order the bivariate data) under this general framework is to enable researchers in different fields of statistics to use some of the important models contained in these generalized order statistics only under this general framework. These extended models are frequently used in the reliability theory, such as the progressive type-II censored order statistics.

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