Decade Of 2010s Research Articles

A machine learning approach to assess implications of Climate Risk Factors on Agriculture: The Indian case

The paper examines the direct and indirect implications of the risk factors relating to climate change on various parameters of agricultural production/productivity in India. India, being an emerging economy with considerable dependence on agriculture both for food security and employment generation, offers an important case study for understanding the macro-economic issues and designing the right set of policy approach for mitigating implications of climate change. Furthermore, unlike other central banks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shares a close association with agriculture owing to the continued credit support to the sector as part of its priority sector lending policy, and because it is closely involved in addressing climate change. The paper focuses on the decade of 2010s, the recorded warmest decade till now and adopts a machine learning approach (sequential multivariate adaptive regression splines model) to assess the interaction between climate risk factors and agriculture. To the best of our knowledge, the modelling approach applied in this paper is unique, novel and of the first kind to assess the implications of climate change on agriculture. The results indicate that carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, precipitation, irrigation water used, and rainfall are the most prominent factors affecting different parameters of agricultural production. These factors are taken at the yearly aggregate level and their interactions among themselves, particularly CO2 emissions, affect productivity of foodgrains and oilseeds, providing a detailed insight about the recent decade of climate change in the context of Indian economy.

Smart and Sustainable Logistics Ecosystem of Panama: A Conceptual Model

Greta Thunberg highlighted in her speech during the COP 2019 the lack of integrity about the goals of the countries in emission reduction when vessel and aircraft transportation has a great impact over pollution and none of them were addressed, that is the case of multimodal logistics systems in the world wide world. The question is What are Latin-American multimodal Logistics systems doing about it? Latin America has a great model in Pollution reduction and optimization of operations because Panama is working for decades to reduce emissions in the Panama Logistic ecosystem. For example, Panama Canal expansion increased the efficiency of movements in global commerce while reducing the impact of emissions. During the decade of 2010s, the Panama Canal took the risk to expand the canal to a third set of Locks and a new type of vessel arrived, the Neo-Panamax, which increased the capacity per vessel from 8,000 TEUS to 15,000 TEUs. Panama is increasing the awareness about the logistics impact over the emissions, but there are still challenges because of the increment of 87.5% of the load movement into the Logistic hub of Panama, and there is a need to address real-time information about the performance of the Distribution Centers, the ports, and the interaction with the Logistic ecosystem to increase efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. Thus, the main objective of this research is to summarize the journey of the Panama Logistic Innovation path that results in a conceptual model of Smart and Sustainable Logistic Ecosystem (SSLE).

Constructing the Discourse of Marginalised Ethnic Community in Rai's Fire Cares not its Birthday Anniversary

The decade of 2010s is very crucial in literary creation, particularly poetry writing in Nepali literature because the trend of writing shifted to the representation of marginalised people and their “culture as whole way of life” (qtd in During 2). Mainly the indigenous poets are concerned to the issues of marginalised indigenous people. Bhupal Rai's collection of poem Fire Cares not Its Birthday Anniversary falls in the same trend that deconstructs the cultural discourses of the state power and reconstructs the discourse of the indigenous people. In this context, this study aims to find out the issues of cultural discourses in the poems that the poet resists against and reconstructs a new body of knowledge, i.e. a counter discourse of marginalized. In the same way, it attempts to unfold how he resists against the existing body of cultural discourses and reconstructs the discourses from the perspective of marginalised people. Similarly, this study aims to analyses the logical reasons of redefining and reconstructing the existed ruling groups' body of knowledge. The interpretive method has been used to analyses the texts. For this, Foucault's concept of power/discourse has been applied as a theoretical tool. This research article gives the insights to see the interwoven power relations in social practices and construction of knowledge.

IMAGINING JAPANESE AS A MUSLIM: THE NARRATIVE OF NON-OPPOSITIONAL RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPANESE CULTURE AND ISLAMIC VALUES WITHIN MULIYATUN N.’S “AKATSUKI”

Within the so many positive images of Japan produced and reproduced in Indonesia, there seems to be a convention to portray the relationship between Japanese culture and Islamic values as an oppositional one. This is evident in the depiction of the clash between the two in various stories of the Japanese Military Occupation Period in Indonesia, as well as in Indonesian Islamic literary works until the 2000s. However, through her Islamic-romantic novel “Akatsuki” (2009, 2012, 2017) Muliyatun N., by creating a story that entirely takes place in Japan and with all Japanese characters, depicts Japanese culture and Islamic values relations as non-oppositional and non-confrontational. This paper first describes the depiction of Japanese culture-Islamic values relations within “Akatsuki”. Furthermore, by considering contexts lingering the production of the novel, it analyzes how the “Akatsuki” marks the shift in Indonesian Muslim’s perception towards Japan in the decade of 2010s. My argument is that this shift is in line with the trends of creating a global and successful image of Muslims through literary works, and the recent development of the relationship between Japan and Islamic world.