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Towards Linking Four Emerging Paradigms in Economic Theory—Regulationist, Institutionalist, Post-modernist, and Post-development
This paper is an epistemological attempt to synthesise four emerging paradigms in economic theory. These paradigms are the regulationist, the institutionalist, the post-modernist, and the post-development. Arguably, these are paradigms rather than models of behaviour because they each presents an analytical framework for examining different economic phenomena. We shall attempt to show that the four paradigms are useful, complementary, and can be symbiotically linked into a broader paradigm especially to examine the phenomenon of low growth in the region. If we use a modified Kuhnian (1970) model for paradigmatic shifts in a discipline, we can argue that there are three dominating, competing, normal paradigms in economic theory: neoclassical, Marxist, and development theory. In Kuhnian fashion, these three dominant paradigms are pressured by several crises of inability to explain phenomena. Many of these explanational crises are about Less Industrialised Countries (LICs), but increasingly these crises are also about the inability to explain change in the Industrialised Countries (ICs) and the Newly Industrialising Countries (NICs). One, these three paradigms have to explain the differential growth rates of economies. They have to explain the low growth of LICs relative to both the old NICs (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong) and the new NICs (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and China). The collapse of the Soviet model also has to be explained. Two, these paradigms have to explain the coexistence of significant levels of poverty with affluence in the LIs, and NICs, and now emergent poverty in the ICs. Three, these paradigms also increasingly have to explain why in a country growth and distribution is biased in favour of particular ethnic and social groups, excluding others, fuelling ethnic and social conflicts within countries and across countries globally. Four, these paradigms have to establish whether the IC market-determined patterns of consumption demand can be satisfied globally.
A Macro Analysis of Time Change in the Distribution of Land
This study is an attempt to extend the analysis of change in
the land distribution over time, to 1991. In an earlier study we have
shown a strong tendency towards increasing concentration of operated
area, between 1972 and 1980. This concentration was seen to be
engendered by a dynamic associated with the High Yielding Variety (HYV)
technology. This study attempts to examine whether the HYV dynamic has
continued to increase concentration of area over the decade of the 80s.
The recently concluded Agricultural Census of 1991, allows us to do
this. Our major result is that concentration of operated area has
increased further between 1980 and 1991. However, the long run nature of
concentration found here, points to another possible explanation. The
HYV dynamic may have been one initiating change in a series of price and
technology changes, leading to continual change in factor use in the
direction of concentration
A General Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Capital Accumulation in Agriculture
This paper presents a fremework for micro analysis of the
conditions of agrarian accumulation at the farm level. Individual or
group level accumulation is seen to result from the production
environment given to the producers. The producers' micro environment is
provided by the village, the region, the agrarian sector and the
economy
Nexus of KSE-30 Index
The Financial development in Pakistan is mostly represented by Karachi stock exchange 100-Index with ignorance of Karachi stock exchange 30-Index which was established to represent financial development Indicator and economic growth indicator as well in Pakistan. So, this study will be investigate the relationship of financial development and economic growth in Pakistan by taking KSE-30 Index, KSE-All Share Index and KSE-100 Index for financial development in Pakistan. In this study time series data varying from 1992 to 2013 is investigated by different econometric tools i.e. Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test, Johansen Cointegration method and Granger causality test. The results of these tools showed that a positive relationship exists between financial development and Economic growth of Pakistan both in long run and short run perspectives. The result also derived that there is bidirectional causality relationship between financial development and economic growth in Pakistan Keywords: Financial Development, Economic Growth, KSE 30-Inde
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Exploiting peer group concept for adaptive and highly available services
This paper presents a prototype for redundant, highly available and fault
tolerant peer to peer framework for data management. Peer to peer computing is
gaining importance due to its flexible organization, lack of central authority,
distribution of functionality to participating nodes and ability to utilize
unused computational resources. Emergence of GRID computing has provided much
needed infrastructure and administrative domain for peer to peer computing. The
components of this framework exploit peer group concept to scope service and
information search, arrange services and information in a coherent manner,
provide selective redundancy and ensure availability in face of failure and
high load conditions. A prototype system has been implemented using JXTA peer
to peer technology and XML is used for service description and interfaces,
allowing peers to communicate with services implemented in various platforms
including web services and JINI services. It utilizes code mobility to achieve
role interchange among services and ensure dynamic group membership. Security
is ensured by using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to implement group level
security policies for membership and service access.Comment: The Paper Consists of 5 pages, 6 figures submitted in Computing in
High Energy and Nuclear Physics, 24-28 March 2003 La Jolla California. CHEP0
Farm Size and Productivity Revisited
The negative relationship between farm size and output per
acre has been tested for Pakistan and it is concluded that the observed
negative or positive correlations between land productivity and the farm
size in the case of Pakistan are the result of over-aggregation. Land
productivity curve is U-Shaped; the productivity is high on desperately
small farms due to intensive labour and irrigation use and on largest
farms due to capital-intensive inputs. The middle-level efficient
entrepreneur farmer has so far failed to emerge
HistoSeg : Quick attention with multi-loss function for multi-structure segmentation in digital histology images
Medical image segmentation assists in computer-aided diagnosis, surgeries,
and treatment. Digitize tissue slide images are used to analyze and segment
glands, nuclei, and other biomarkers which are further used in computer-aided
medical applications. To this end, many researchers developed different neural
networks to perform segmentation on histological images, mostly these networks
are based on encoder-decoder architecture and also utilize complex attention
modules or transformers. However, these networks are less accurate to capture
relevant local and global features with accurate boundary detection at multiple
scales, therefore, we proposed an Encoder-Decoder Network, Quick Attention
Module and a Multi Loss Function (combination of Binary Cross Entropy (BCE)
Loss, Focal Loss & Dice Loss). We evaluate the generalization capability of our
proposed network on two publicly available datasets for medical image
segmentation MoNuSeg and GlaS and outperform the state-of-the-art networks with
1.99% improvement on the MoNuSeg dataset and 7.15% improvement on the GlaS
dataset. Implementation Code is available at this link: https://bit.ly/HistoSegComment: Accepted by 2022 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Systems (ICPRS), For Implementation Code see https://bit.ly/HistoSe
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