Not just sheer pleasure: Critiquing animations and their scope in children’s socialisation

As the title suggests, the dissertation focusses on critiquing animations to understand their scope in children’s socialisation, as to what extent animations could offer a type of content that possesses an ‘edutainment’ value. As a result, animations (1) attempt to reinforce some ‘intrinsic’ values related to a variety of subjects/themes, including personal growth, meaningful relationships, and social responsibility, (2) providing children with an opportunity to rehearse those values that are deemed key elements for their socialisation. To understand this more closely, we have analysed animations from five different perspectives, leading the dissertation to be designed as a ‘patchwork quilt’ (Wibben, 2011). This metaphor implies that the five chapters are autonomously distinct and deal with exclusive frameworks that are later contextually assimilated in the conclusion to provide the reader with a complete picture that vindicates animations’ scope in children’s socialisation. Chapter I looks at the framework of the ‘odyssey’ employed in animations as a metaphor for personal growth and identity-formation. Chapter II focusses on how Doraemon reconceptualises the features of the classical Greek/Aristotelian form of ‘tragedy’ to develop its own postmodern critique of the Seven Deadly Sins through the image of its transgressive protagonist. Chapter III studies the role of ‘utopianism’ in children’s superhero narratives that inspires a more critical mode of hoping and envisions social progress and welfare. Chapter IV is founded upon the concept of the ‘feminine aesthetic’ to (1) analyse the transition and development of animated women’s representation from passivity to subjectivity and individuality, and (2) briefly explore the evolving representations of new, subversive masculinities. Chapter V emphasises the significance of ‘anthropomorphism’ in children’s media, and is informed by the literary genre of animal autobiography to critique animal-centric narratives as tales of animal liberation that reposition and rehabilitate the ‘human-animal kinship, bestowing ‘the animal’ with a voice

Exploring Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction and Its Bearing on Performance among Dentists in Central India

Purpose: Presence of motivating factors facilitates higher job performance, whereas their absence leads to job dissatisfaction. The study was conducted with the objective of assessing the level of job satisfaction and the associated factors among dentists in Central India. Methods: Data was collected from 155 graduate and postgraduate faculties from the six dental schools of Bhopal city, Central India. Demographic and professional information was collected along with 10 point ‘Warr-Cook-Wall’ (WCW) job satisfaction scale. Chi Square test was used to compare between categorical variables. Logistic and linear regression analysis was performed to determine the factors associated with job satisfaction. Results: Seventy four male (47.7%) and eighty one female (52.3%) dentists participated in the study, with mean age of the study sample being 33.20 ± 6.7 years. Dentists were highly satisfied with colleagues and fellow workers and dissatisfied with income. Dentists with longer academic experience were more satisfied with income than younger dentists with less experience (p < 0.05).  Female dentists were more dissatisfied than male counterparts (p < 0.05). Age, gender and qualification together explained for 49% variance associated with job satisfaction. Postgraduate faculty were 3.55 times more satisfied with income than graduate faculty (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Study confirms higher qualification and presence of motivating factors mainly good income and cordial relations with colleagues and fellow workers have greatest impact on overall job satisfaction. It highlights the issues in the dental profession needing attention and would be helpful for further improvement of the working conditions for dentists. Keywords: Dentists, Income, Job satisfaction, Motivation, Workplac

A novel AMFMEA approach to identify most critical component and decision making approach for combining NDTS for screw compressor

To ensure higher reliability, it is necessary to identify the most prominent cause of failure. It was observed in multiple works that most of the researchers used failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and failure mode and effect criticality analysis (FMECA) but these approaches contain lots of hindrances. Alternatively, the MATRIX FMEA approach applied to identify the most prominent cause of failure and critical sub-component prone to that particular failure. The matrix FMEA developed for design engineers so that they can identify the potential cause of failures and design-out them in new product design. The central idea of this research is to apply this approach to maintenance, since the potential failure mode and the affected components were known. In most research, a single component such as a cylinder or turbocharger is used for analysis, but this research targets an entire machine. Multiple researchers also highlighted that the combination of non-destructive testing (NDT) provides better results instead of single NDT. Multiple researchers also highlighted the suitability of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) for decision making (DM). Therefore, this work covered firstly, a novel AMFMEA (AHP-Matrix FMEA) to identify the most critical component of particular machinery located in a heavy industrial setup and secondly, DM approach for combining NDTs. It was observed that the incorporation of AHP in Matrix-FMEA improved its analytical ability and reduced overall computation time. This work also provided the guideline with a detailed procedure for combining NDTs

Counting Basic-Irreducible Factors Mod p^k in Deterministic Poly-Time and p-Adic Applications

Finding an irreducible factor, of a polynomial f(x) modulo a prime p, is not known to be in deterministic polynomial time. Though there is such a classical algorithm that counts the number of irreducible factors of f mod p. We can ask the same question modulo prime-powers p^k. The irreducible factors of f mod p^k blow up exponentially in number; making it hard to describe them. Can we count those irreducible factors mod p^k that remain irreducible mod p? These are called basic-irreducible. A simple example is in f=x^2+px mod p^2; it has p many basic-irreducible factors. Also note that, x^2+p mod p^2 is irreducible but not basic-irreducible! We give an algorithm to count the number of basic-irreducible factors of f mod p^k in deterministic poly(deg(f),k log p)-time. This solves the open questions posed in (Cheng et al, ANTS\u2718 & Kopp et al, Math.Comp.\u2719). In particular, we are counting roots mod p^k; which gives the first deterministic poly-time algorithm to compute Igusa zeta function of f. Also, our algorithm efficiently partitions the set of all basic-irreducible factors (possibly exponential) into merely deg(f)-many disjoint sets, using a compact tree data structure and split ideals

Exploring Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction and Its Bearing on Performance among Dentists in Central India

Purpose: Presence of motivating factors facilitates higher job performance, whereas their absence leads to job dissatisfaction. The study was conducted with the objective of assessing the level of job satisfaction and the associated factors among dentists in Central India. Methods: Data was collected from 155 graduate and postgraduate faculties from the six dental schools of Bhopal city, Central India. Demographic and professional information was collected along with 10 point ‘Warr-Cook-Wall’ (WCW) job satisfaction scale. Chi Square test was used to compare between categorical variables. Logistic and linear regression analysis was performed to determine the factors associated with job satisfaction. Results: Seventy four male (47.7%) and eighty one female (52.3%) dentists participated in the study, with mean age of the study sample being 33.20 ± 6.7 years. Dentists were highly satisfied with colleagues and fellow workers and dissatisfied with income. Dentists with longer academic experience were more satisfied with income than younger dentists with less experience (p < 0.05).  Female dentists were more dissatisfied than male counterparts (p < 0.05). Age, gender and qualification together explained for 49% variance associated with job satisfaction. Postgraduate faculty were 3.55 times more satisfied with income than graduate faculty (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Study confirms higher qualification and presence of motivating factors mainly good income and cordial relations with colleagues and fellow workers have greatest impact on overall job satisfaction. It highlights the issues in the dental profession needing attention and would be helpful for further improvement of the working conditions for dentists. Keywords: Dentists, Income, Job satisfaction, Motivation, Workplac

Comparative bacterial degradation and detoxification of model and kraft lignin from pulp paper wastewater and its metabolites

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