Notes Toward a Theory of Secondary Integration: Aporias of a Lost Paradigm

Asian Americans\u27 contributions and experiences add a unique dimension to the nation\u27s ethnic mosaic. While they share many a commonality with other ethnic groups, excursus on the duality of their triumph and failure unfold a host of emerging issues in the study of post-industrial alienation. The premise of this article posits the Asian American experience in the context of secondary integration: a possible reality that, despite delimited access, allows space and humanity in the promised land

Reverse Quantum Speed Limit: How Slow Quantum Battery can Discharge?

We introduce the notion of reverse quantum speed limit for arbitrary quantum evolution, which answers a fundamental question: "how slow a quantum system can evolve in time?" Using the geometrical approach to quantum mechanics the fundamental reverse speed limit follows from the fact that the gauge invariant length of the reference section is always greater than the Fubini-Study distance on the projective Hilbert space of the quantum system. We illustrate the reverse speed limit for two-level quantum systems with an external driving Hamiltonian and show that our results hold well. We find one practical application of the reverse speed limit in discharging process of quantum batteries which answers the question: "how slow quantum batteries can discharge?" Also, this provides the lower bound on the discharging power of quantum batteries.Comment: Latex, 8 pages, Comments Welcom

Morphology Controlled Synthesis of the Nanostructured Gold by Electrodeposition Techniques

The gold nanostructures find several technological applications in MEMS, optoelectronics, and electronics industries. To enhance the applicability and suitability of the gold nanostructures in these fields, modification of the morphology of the deposited nanostructure is required. In recent years, the electrodeposition method has emerged as a widely known method for the deposition of the nanostructures of different dimensions and morphologies due to its time efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and absence of vacuum technology. In this method, the morphology of the deposited gold nanostructure can also be easily controlled by tuning the electrodeposition process parameters such as electrolyte concentration, electrolyte temperature, current density, deposition time, etc. This chapter gives a detailed overview of the crucial electrodeposition parameters affecting the morphology of the gold nanostructures deposits

Editorial

“The past defines the present because mankind has not yet mastered its destiny.”Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (1955: 58

Editorially Speaking

Environment and Social Psychology is launched as a policy, practice and research platform to encourage environmental consciousness that promotes rights of, and justice for, all including environment itself. The challenges ahead are clear. The stated mission and objectives define a paradigmatic sphere where we wish to explore, disseminate, and innovate

Opening views against the closure of the world

The book in review is a brilliant critique. A touching dedication in memoriam to Charlie Hebdo (p.ix) reminds me of the infamous 9/11 when I was conducting a doctoral seminar in 326, HPL building. An ominous feeling overwhelmed my consciousness and I told the kids, “It’s the end of free society”. Professor Hermann has delivered a penetrating critique of modernity and the mainstream theories and facts of life that perpetuate euphemisms of progress

Environment and social psychology: A good nexus

On the cusp of growth and development, humanity confronts a crisis of confidence. Dualities of success and catastrophes abound. A deadly drought in Texas, followed by devastating floods in Austin and Dallas, Texas is not a freaky natural calamity. Human complicity is both hidden and underrated. Paradox of boom and gloom characterize the crisis of biodiversity compounded by environmental injustice

‘White trash’ in the ‘basket of deplorables’: Continued crisis of men in America

The ‘post-truth’ society has produced a compound of two sets of new revolutionaries: We have known about the ‘white trash’ for about 400 years. The ‘deplorables’ represent the new Hillbillies left out by the ravages of globalized economy; ‘basement dwellers’ are reluctant liberals unable to confront the new realities of a hopelessly divided nation

Deep Multi-Model Fusion for Human Activity Recognition Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Machine recognition of the human activities is an active research area in computer vision. In previous study, either one or two types of modalities have been used to handle this task. However, the grouping of maximum information improves the recognition accuracy of human activities. Therefore, this paper proposes an automatic human activity recognition system through deep fusion of multi-streams along with decision-level score optimization using evolutionary algorithms on RGB, depth maps and 3d skeleton joint information. Our proposed approach works in three phases, 1) space-time activity learning using two 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3DCNN) and a Long Sort Term Memory (LSTM) network from RGB, Depth and skeleton joint positions 2) Training of SVM using the activities learned from previous phase for each model and score generation using trained SVM 3) Score fusion and optimization using two Evolutionary algorithm such as Genetic algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. The proposed approach is validated on two 3D challenging datasets, MSRDailyActivity3D and UTKinectAction3D. Experiments on these two datasets achieved 85.94% and 96.5% accuracies, respectively. The experimental results show the usefulness of the proposed representation. Furthermore, the fusion of different modalities improves recognition accuracies rather than using one or two types of information and obtains the state-of-art results