Critical Survey Research Articles

Joy Bangla: The Transgression of West Bengal Towards Greater Bangladesh a Critical Survey of Psychological Warfare Done by Bangladesh against India

In the one person anarchy of trinamool congress supremo mamta banerjee, popularly known as didi, in the west bengal province of india, signs are revealing that this province of india would soon be part of bangladesh to make a greater bangladesh. What are those signs and how this transformation is taking place and by whom are the main object of my study in this paper. I find that the signs are of three types appearing in three different levels: social, political and intellectual and by moulding the mind of bengali hindus towards bangladesh and against india, the muslim community of west bengal supported by bangladesh and aided by TMC government of west bengal is doing the transformation. I find that this transformation is actually a psychological warfare done by bangladesh. My methodology is the grounded analysis of data to arrive at a theory. I hope this paper of mine would help the reader understand the critical nature of this transformation that can result into a further partition without a single riot and bloodshed unlike the 1947 partition.

Aksjologiczne uwarunkowania doboru kryteriów interpretacyjnych we współczesnych modelach wykładni umów zobowiązaniowych

Streszczenie Problematyka wykładni umów rozpatrywana zarówno w aspekcie definicyjnym, jak i z punktu widzenia metodologicznego, wykazuje istotne powiązanie z aksjologią prawa prywatnego, w tym prawa zobowiązań. Szczególną wagę należy przypisać w tym zakresie kryterium adekwatności, wymagającemu od interpretatora odpowiedniego ujęcia całokształtu ?racji tłumaczących? umowę. Ocena wpływu uwarunkowań aksjologicznych na sposób uporządkowania reguł interpretacyjnych znajdujących zastosowanie w dziedzinie umów zobowiązaniowych w poszczególnych systemach prawnych stanowi istotne zagadnienie badawcze, szczególnie w świetle tendencji rekodyfikacyjnych zaznaczających się w sferze prawa prywatnego. Wnioski płynące z tak ukierunkowanej analizy mogą służyć jako argument w trwającej debacie dotyczącej perspektyw i ewentualnych kierunków zmiany paradygmatu prawa umów wobec kryzysu określonych jego założeń ujawnianego w ramach diagnozy kondycji współczesnego prawa prywatnego podlegającego dekodyfikacji. Równocześnie w tym kontekście uzasadnione jest poddanie krytycznej refleksji postulatów formułowanych w związku z zaawansowaniem procesu algorytmizacji praktyki kontraktowej. Na potrzeby przeglądu obecnych tendencji w zakresie aksjologicznie uwarunkowanego ukształtowania modeli wykładni umów zobowiązaniowych niezbędne jest uwzględnienie ujęcia retrospektywnego oraz elementów studium prawnoporównawczego w celu skonfrontowania rozwiązań właściwych kontynentalnej tradycji prawnej i modelowi anglosaskiemu.

Reflective Critical Thinking Skills of Student Leaders in Higher Education Institutions for Development

The Higher Education plays an important role in the Financial Development, in Economic Growth and in the Environmental Science. The purpose of the study is to train student leaders to become reflective and critical thinkers in their environment. There is a need for an intervention by student leaders in higher education institutions on environmental education. Thus, a seminar-workshop that will improve student leadership and critical thinking capabilities is a smart approach. This research aimed to describe the strategies for the recognition and realistic implementation of reflective critical thinking skills to students in their studies, their families and the community or environment. It also aimed to bring out the general importance of environmental education in their life as students. This study uses a qualitative method using critical analysis and survey. Graphical, ranking, and tabular techniques were also used to present the results. This was attended by 40 student leaders who engaged in the intervention activity. The data obtained has been summarized and analyzed. As a result, the different methods were ranked accordingly when determining areas for development. In the end, the researchers have come up with a Reflective Critical Thinking Cycle in Environmental Education that can be used and extended to oneself, the family, and the society. The research findings based on the intervention should be consistently done to show students how to balance academic and extra-curricular activities and in dealing with their environment

Family satisfaction in Egyptian adult intensive care units: A mixed-method study

ObjectivesTo examine family members’ satisfaction in adult intensive care units. MethodologyThis is mixed-method research. Family members of critically ill patients responded to a structured questionnaire and then were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed separately and integrated during the discussion. SettingsSix adult intensive care units in university hospitals in Egypt. Main outcome measuresFamily satisfaction was assessed using the Critical Care Family Satisfaction Survey and field notes of the interviews. ResultsThe mean total satisfaction score was 12.8 ± 3.5, and comfort has the lowest subscale mean score: 2.07 ± 0.96. Multivariate regression analysis showed that family members’ satisfaction was positively associated with their ability to communicate with patients (B [95% confidence interval]: 2.1 [1.19 to 3.02]) and negatively with daily purchasing of medications and supplies (−2.41 [−3.23 to −1.59]), low economic status (−1.57 [−2.47 to −0.67]), and perceiving patient condition to be deteriorating (−0.99 [−1.93 to −0.04]). Content analysis of qualitative data revealed four themes: aspects of family care, aspects of patient care, organizational and administrative issues and environment. ConclusionsIn Egyptian adult intensive care units, regular family meetings, flexible visiting hours, shared decision-making, increasing staff-to-patient ratio and ensuring comfortable waiting rooms are promising strategies to enhance family satisfaction.

A critical review based on Fault Tolerance in Software Defined Networks

SDN (Software-Defined Networks) is an incipient architecture of decoupling control plane and data plane involved in dynamic management of network. SDN is being installed in production based networks which ultimately lead to the need of secure and fault tolerant SDN. In the present investigation, we are discussing about the kind of failures with label happen in SDN. A critical survey based on the recently proposed mechanisms for handling failures in SDN. Initially, we discussed with the help of tabular data involving mechanism of data plane failure. We also discussed the various mechanisms for handling misconfiguration of drift able of switches and control plane failure handling mechanisms. We also epitomize issues with both data and control plane mechanism that are discussed earlier. In the end, we are stating that there is need of build much efficient and secure mechanism for SDN networks.

One-shot learning for acoustic diagnosis of industrial machines

Automatic acoustic monitoring of machine health comprises a relevant field as, unfortunately, such equipment often suffers from faults, malfunctions, aging effects, etc. However, it is still an unexplored domain of research where the majority of existing works relies on traditional machine learning based approaches. After providing a critical survey of the available methods, this work highlights the most relevant limitations and designs a solution specifically addressing them. We introduce the one-shot learning paradigm into the specific domain and suitably extent it to (a) classify machine states, (b) detect novel ones, and (c) incorporate them in the class dictionary online. The backbone of the present system is a Siamese Neural Network (SNN) composed of convolutional layers. Conveniently, every processing stage depends on a standardized feature set free of domain knowledge, i.e. spectrograms. Interestingly, we enhance SNN’s classification ability by an appropriately designed data selection scheme. The proposed solution is applied on a publicly available dataset of vibration signals representing four states of a drill bit, i.e. healthy state, chisel wear, flank wear, and outer corner wear. After extensive experiments thoroughly examining every aspect of the proposed solution, it is shown to achieve state of the art results while using limited amount of training data. Importantly, at the same time it is able to operate under evolving environments. Last but not least, we show that the obtained predictions are interpretable, a property which is rapidly becoming a requirement in modern machine learning based technologies.

Incentives, Status and Thereafter: A Critical Survey

This article provides a critical discussion on the working of status as an instrument to elicit desirable effort within an organization. It postulates a comprehensive survey of the studies on incentive, especially non-monetary incentives like status. Different studies are summarized concisely and elaborate comments on the divergent views on valuation for status, the relationship between monetary and status incentives, the technique of modelling status and the cost of introducing status have been illustrated. The article underlines some probable adverse consequences associated with the use of the status incentive. Status works by creating inequality and has strong unwarranted influence even beyond organizational purview. It emphasizes the need for profound research to account for the optimal and prudent use of status as incentives.JEL Classification: L2, D21, D86

Bumblebee gravity and particle motion in Snyder noncommutative spacetime structures

A metric with a Lorentz violating parameter is associated with thebumblebee gravity model. We study the motion of a particle in thisbumblebee background where the dynamical variables satisfynon-canonical Snyder algebra along with some critical survey onthe classical observations in the bumblebee background to see howthese would likely differ from Schwarzschild background. It hasbeen found that the perihelion shift acquires a generalizedexpression with two independent parameters. One of these two isconnected with the Lorentz violating factor and the other isinvolved in the Snyder algebraic formulation. We also observe thatthe time period of revolution, in general, acquires a Lorentzviolating factor in the bumblebee background, however, for thecircular orbit, it remains unchanged even in the presence of theLorentz violating factor in the bumblebee background. Theparameters used here can be constrained with the same type ofconjecture used earlier.

Management control structures and performance implications in international construction joint ventures: critical survey and conceptual framework

PurposeManagement control is needed in international joint ventures (IJVs) for successful management and performance. While IJV management control and performance concept has been widely explored, in the construction sector, the core understanding of the design of the two concepts is still lacking. This has resulted in the neglect of important questions and directions for research and practice improvement. This study aims to conduct a critical survey of prior studies addressing the conceptualization of management control and performance in IJVs and to propose a framework for studying the performance implications of management control in international construction joint ventures (ICJVs).Design/methodology/approachUsing Scopus database and search terms, a systematic desktop search was conducted to retrieve empirically related peer-reviewed papers for this study.FindingsDrawing on the transaction cost, institutional and relational logic, the first inclusive hypothetical model for studying the relationship between different dimensions of management control mechanism and multiple performance criteria in ICJVs is presented. The model proposes a measurement method for both the management control and performance and explains how they can be established in ICJVs.Practical implicationsThe proposed framework provides a methodology to understand the dynamics of management control and performance implications in ICJV. Specifically, uncovering the critical paths will assist ICJV frontliners to approach management control in a more holistic and systematic way to promote achievement of ICJV goals.Originality/valueThe study gives a firm ground to the construction industry, which is accurate and educational for related fields concentrating on several other forms of cooperative relationships.

BUILDING CONDITION SURVEY AND SYSTEMATIC DEFECTS DIAGNOSIS ON LIBRARY BUILDING IN NIGERIA

The building under investigation is at Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic Geidam library situated in Yobe State North Eastern, Nigeria. The building is being occupied by large number of people many defects propelled were associated with cracks, discoloration, settlement, dampness, peeling, moisture and mold grow on the buildings besides environmental factors. These compelled the researcher to conduct the investigation to look into possible remedies in line with the bulk stage defects diagnostic that will be useful in identifying the aspect. The information gathered through survey of the affected building under investigation based on spatial severity degree of damages suffered on the buildings. Moreover; the analysis for the investigation is based on Assessment Rating system (BARIS) that provide very high-resolution to process the interferometric techniques. However, after a critical survey of the building facades from each side the researcher explores the major defects found on the building that is mostly attributed due to poor workmanship, general climatic conditions, and practical inadequacy during construction. Therefore, the diagnosis will predict the overall judgment for the type of repair required.

Perspectives of Convertors and Communication Aspects in Automated Vehicles, Part 1: Convertors and Condition Monitoring

A critical survey has been conducted on high energy-efficient bidirectional converters, various topologies that effectively meet the automated vehicle requirements, and 24 GHz/77 GHz low-profile antennas (for automotive radar applications). The present survey has been identified into two parts on the current topic of study as perspectives and challenges. Part 1 of this survey covers energy-efficient power electronic convertor topologies and condition monitoring aspects of convertors to enhance the lifespan and improve performance. Condition-monitoring issues concerning the abnormalities of electrical components, high switching frequencies, electromagnetic interference, leakage currents, and unwanted joint ruptures have also been emphasized. It is observed that composite converters are proficient for automated hybrid electric vehicles due to fast dynamic response and reduced component count. Importantly, electrical component failures in power electronic converters are most common and need attention for the effective operation of the bidirectional converters. Hence, condition monitoring implementation schemes have also been summarized. Part 2 of this survey focuses on 24 and 77 GHz low-profile (microstrip-based) antennas for automotive radar applications, types of antenna structures, feed mechanisms, dielectric material requirements, design techniques, and performance parameters. The discussion in Part 2 also covers feed methodologies, beam scanning concepts, and side-lobe levels on the autonomous vehicle communication activities.

A Hundred-Year Researching History on the Low Ionic Strength in Red Blood Cells: Literature Review

This review article provides a critical survey of work from 1904 to 2003 on the effects of low ionic strength in Red Blood Cells (RBCs) incubated in media with impermeable sugars such as sucrose. In 1904 Gürber A washed RBCs of different species with isotonic sucrose solution to eliminate the outside ions in order to better analyse their intracellular ionic composition; however, this approach was not feasible because of a substantial salt efflux from the cells. A prominent feature of the salt loss is the shrinking of the RBCs. A central role in the understanding of the ionic movements is thereby the new Donnan equilibrium of the anions. Experimental evidence has been given by Jacobs MH and Parpart AK in 1933. In the sucrose medium two phases could be predicted: 1) a very rapid anionic shift resulting in an unequal distribution of chloride and hydroxyl anions on both sides of the membrane and 2) a leakage of salts from the RBCs. In 1940 Wilbrandt W assumed that a positive membrane potential is in line with the salt loss at low ionic strength in RBCs. In 1977 Knauf PA, Fuhrmann GF, Rothstein S and Rothstein A observed in RBCs an inhibition of both, anion exchange and also of net anion efflux, by incubation with disulfonic stilbene derivates. At low ionic strength the Donnan equilibrium is immediately obtained by the Anion Exchanger Protein (AEP). The resulting positive membrane potential opens at least two new types of cation pores or channels. Thereby is the conductivity pathway for the anions, namely the AEP, in charge of the net anion loss at low ionic strength. The AEP pathway is extensively blocked by disulfonic stilbene compounds. The permeability ways for cations through these pores or channels are not yet explored.

On the Textual History of the Suśrutasaṃhitā (1): A Study of Three Nepalese Manuscripts


 This article presents a detailed introduction to the study of three Nepalese manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, one of which happens to be the oldest verifiably dated Sanskrit manuscript preserved in the region. The article consists of three larger sections. The first part provides a thorough critical survey of research that has been done on this material to date. The second section provides a detailed description of the manuscripts, translates and discusses their colophons and deals extensively with various problems involved in their dating. The final section of the article looks at characteristic features of the Nepalese version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā by focusing on its structure, selected structural elements and selected elements of content.

Critical survey and panel review of sustained acoustic medicine in the treatment of sports-related musculoskeletal injuries by professional sports athletic trainers.

The purpose of our study was two-fold. First, it was to discover American professional sports athletic trainers' (PSAT) use and opinions regarding the treatment with a small, portable ultrasound Sustained Acoustic Medicine (SAM) device on their athletes. Second, it was to discover the effectiveness of SAM treatment in their professional sports players (PSP). There were two ways of collecting data from the PSATs. The first was by written survey. Questions included qualitative and quantitative feedback on SAM device use, clinical applications, and acceptance among PSP. The second part involved a panel discussion of four PSATs, who shared their personal experiences with SAM. Questions focused on the use of the technology, confidence level, manner of application, and communication with PSPs regarding the application of the SAM and recommended treatment protocols. The survey found that SAM is wearable, easy to use, comfortable, and that it can be used as a "go-to" device outside of the athletic training facility. PSATs reported an 87% satisfaction and increased confidence in the ability of SAM to accelerate the healing process. Thus, SAM was considered a recommended treatment for professional athletes to use as an adjunct therapy. PSATs agreed that SAM is one of the recommended choices as an adjunct therapy in multiple musculoskeletal injuries. The survey and panel discussion concluded that SAM treatment is easy to use with no adverse effects and can be used at multiple stages of the healing process. Level IV.

A Critical Survey of Chilean Utopian Narrative (1829–1934)

Abstract This article aims to propose a critical and exploratory survey of utopian narratives published in Chile from 1829 to 1934 employing a qualitative and diachronic approach. The fundamental objective of this study is to make evident the thematic tendencies, formal recurrences, influences, and key differences in utopian works of fiction written over a century of Chilean history, connecting these with the overall development of Chilean society, in such a way as to express how the utopian narratives of this period reflect, critique, or rebel against the hegemonic social projects present in the country. Last, this article also seeks to approach these works from the distinctive point of view of the field of utopian studies, thus establishing the relevance of its theoretical framework in the analysis of Chilean fiction.

Classification of Roll Grinders for Lumpy and Bulk Materials (Survey of Patents)

A classification of roll crushers and mills for lumpy and bulk materials used in equipment at enterprises in the chemical and food industry as well as at factories involved in the production of construction materials is proposed. A critical survey of the most characteristic designs of roll grinders is carried out.

Invisible neutrino decay in precision cosmology

We revisit the topic of invisible neutrino decay in the precision cosmological context, via a first-principles approach to understanding the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure phenomenology of such a non-standard physics scenario. Assuming an effective Lagrangian in which a heavier standard-model neutrino νH couples to a lighter one νl and a massless scalar particle ϕ via a Yukawa interaction, we derive from first principles the complete set of Boltzmann equations, at both the spatially homogeneous and the first-order inhomogeneous levels, for the phase space densities of νH, νl, and ϕ in the presence of the relevant decay and inverse decay processes. With this set of equations in hand, we perform a critical survey of recent works on cosmological invisible neutrino decay in both limits of decay while νH is ultra-relativistic and non-relativistic. Our two main findings are: (i) in the non-relativistic limit, the effective equations of motion used to describe perturbations in the neutrino-scalar system in the existing literature formally violate momentum conservation and gauge invariance, and (ii) in the ultra-relativistic limit, exponential damping of the anisotropic stress does not occur at the commonly-used rate ΓT =(1/τ0) (mνH/EνH)3, but at a rate ∼ (1/0) (mνH/EνH)5. Both results are model-independent. The impact of the former finding on the cosmology of invisible neutrino decay is likely small.The latter, however, implies a significant revision of the cosmological limit on the neutrino lifetime τ0 from τ0 old ≳ 1.2 × 109 s (mνH/50 meV)3 to τ0 ≳ (4 × 105 → 4 × 106) s (mνH/50 meV)5.

Argument Mining on Twitter: A survey

Abstract In the last decade, the field of argument mining has grown notably. However, only relatively few studies have investigated argumentation in social media and specifically on Twitter. Here, we provide the, to our knowledge, first critical in-depth survey of the state of the art in tweet-based argument mining. We discuss approaches to modelling the structure of arguments in the context of tweet corpus annotation, and we review current progress in the task of detecting argument components and their relations in tweets. We also survey the intersection of argument mining and stance detection, before we conclude with an outlook.

An Art School Schizologue [George Floyd, Rest in Power

This critical cartography surveys seven moments in critical practice/art pedagogy, which oscillate around the protests of 1968 and diffract the contemporary possibilitiesof art education in association with Halberstam’s (2019) notions of evacuation and wildness. The article reads across Deleuzoguattarian (1994 and 2007) schizoanalysis and Baradian (2007) intra-action to articulate struggles for racial justice as instances of Harney and Moten’s (2013) undercommons, operating as alternate sites of knowledge production and collective self-experimentation outside the neoliberal university. These moments of practice—Black Lives Matter protests in Bristol, the UK, the writings of Aimé Césaire, Audre Lorde, Mohamed Melehi, Benjamin Patterson, and Howardena Pindell, as well as a student occupation of Central Saint Martins, also in the UK—are aligned in series allowing the reader to appropriate each one in resonance with each other as a proposal for an art-pedagogy-to-come.

Choosing Wisely For Critical Care: The Next Five.

To formulate new "Choosing Wisely" for Critical Care recommendations that identify best practices to avoid waste and promote value while providing critical care. Semistructured narrative literature review and quantitative survey assessments. English language publications that examined critical care practices in relation to reducing cost or waste. Practices assessed to add no value to critical care were grouped by category. Taskforce assessment, modified Delphi consensus building, and quantitative survey analysis identified eight novel recommendations to avoid wasteful critical care practices. These were submitted to the Society of Critical Care Medicine membership for evaluation and ranking. Results from the quantitative Society of Critical Care Medicine membership survey identified the top scoring five of eight recommendations. These five highest ranked recommendations established Society of Critical Care Medicine's Next Five "Choosing" Wisely for Critical Care practices. Five new recommendations to reduce waste and enhance value in the practice of critical care address invasive devices, proactive liberation from mechanical ventilation, antibiotic stewardship, early mobilization, and providing goal-concordant care. These recommendations supplement the initial critical care recommendations from the "Choosing Wisely" campaign.