Traversing ambiguities : rebuilding perspectives through designed visual education

We perceive the world largely through categorizations and associations. We distill people, objects and entities into extremes. ‘Normal’ becomes a measure of acceptable. Reductionist definitions, force anything ambiguous or uncertain to be rejected. Acknowledging our biases towards these misinterpreted, shunned or ignored entities, has long been overdue. In todays world we cannot possibly continue being blind to complexity. Can designed visual education reinterpret ambiguity and embrace multiplicity? How can a designer’s perspective help scaffold these educational systems? Can we do so by looking deep within our own practice as designers, artists, scholars and educators? The thesis explores these various questions through the perspective of a designer and scholar. By delving into historic and current examples of association, the ideas of interpretation and representation are discussed through the analogy of a unique creature, the pangolin. These learnings are then applied to examples of designed visual education. The thesis advocates the use of visual narratives to help preserve or rekindle a childlike worldview of acceptance and inclusion. Designed visual education helps us move beyond knowing and encourages emotional investment, building deep-rooted resilience. Design interventions, in any form are a systemic process of responsible creation, iteration and adaptation. If paired with appropriate mediums of dissemination, we could nurture the future generations to be strategic thinkers, hopefully bringing about longterm impact

NUMERALS' SCOPE FOR THE NON EFL LEARNERS

Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan untuk memberikan informasi kepada pembaca, bagaimana numeral diajarkan pada mahasiswa PKN semester II di Universitas Graha Nusantara yang berjumlah 15 mahasiswa.  Metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif. Jenis numeral yang diajarkan kepada mahasiswa ada dua yaitu bilangan cardinal dan ordinal. Setelah dua jenis bilangan ini diajarkan selama satu semester, mereka sangat bahagia setelah belajar numeral. Hasil nya dapat dilihat dari kondisi mereka melakukan praktek conversation dikelas dan terlihat juga dari hasil tulisan mereka. Sekarang mereka bisa menulis tanggal dengan benar, menulis jumlah uang dalam Bahasa Inggris dengan benar dan menghitung uang dengan tepat. Realita hasil yang didapat dilapangan, masih ada beberapa siswa masih kesusahan membedakan bilangan cardinal dan bilangan ordinal. Para siswa juga memiliki kesusahan didalam mengucapkan bilangan ordinal. Bilangan cardinal jauh lebih mudah diucapkan

Low Cost Airlines in a Developing Economy: The Case of India

This dissertation is a study on the low cost airlines in a developing country, particularly the case of India, since the writer of this dissertation is an Indian. It begins with introducing the emergence of low cost airlines all around the world, which began with the US and was followed by Europe, before coming to Asia. It talks about the factors that initiated the emergence of low cost airlines, particularly, the deregulation of the air transport industry and the technological changes along with internet. It moves on to describe the economy of India dating back to the British colonial rule, how the economy has transformed today, from a poor country to the fastest growing economy in the world. A brief overview of the other modes of transport dominant in the country is given, especially the Indian Railways, followed by a detailed study of the Airline Industry in India, its deregulation, various policy changes that took place from time to time, the emergence of low cost airlines with a brief description of the low cost airlines operating in India. Subsequently, it deals with a research done by the author to give her contribution in this field of study. The analysis is divided into two parts. The first part deals with a primary research undertaken by the author with the help of questionnaires to find out customer attitude towards low cost airlines. The second part is a secondary research with has been analyzed in further detail to support the primary research. Finally, the conclusion gives a general idea of the main findings of the research along with some policy recommendations to the industry as a whole

NOWCASTING EARTHQUAKES IN THE NORTHWEST HIMALAYA AND SURROUNDING REGIONS

With the rapid increase and availability of seismic data, an automatic, transparent and regular way of earthquake hazard estimation strategy is highly desirable in many seismically active large geographical regions. In this paper, we implement a novel method of nowcasting (Rundle et al., 2016) that can indirectly assess the current progression of a region through its earthquake cycle of large events. Nowcasting differs from the method of forecasting in which future earthquake probabilities are calculated. Using statistics of natural times, counts of small earthquakes between large earthquakes in a defined region, nowcasting provides an earthquake potential score (EPS) to enable scientists and city planners a snapshot of the current level of earthquake hazard in the region. Applied to a number of selected major cities in the northwest Himalaya and surrounding regions, we found that the EPS values corresponding to M ≥ 6 events in New Delhi, Chandigarh, Dehradun and Shimla reach about 0.56, 0.87, 0.85 and 0.88, respectively. These estimated scores thus indicate that New Delhi is about half-way through its cycle for magnitude 6.0 or higher earthquakes, while Dehradun is about 85 percent of the way through its cycle. Towards the end, we discuss some implications and applications of these nowcast values to improve the present earthquake hazard assessment practice in the study region

Emerging role of transesophageal echocardiography in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has a prevalence from 20 to 91% depending on the definition of PH (mPAP >20 versus >25 mmHg). Pulmonary vasoconstriction, pulmonary vascular remodeling, endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and destruction of the pulmonary vascular bed being the common mechanisms behind. Transthoracic echocardiograms (TTE) though the most important non-invasive tool to measure degree of PH, may give false negative results in severe COPD cases due to poor echo window. This could be overcome by doing transesophageal echocardiograms (TEE) in those cases, which is, though invasive but gives good results. The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of transesophageal echocardiography in COPD patients.Methods: Total 100 patients of COPD were evaluated for PH via TTE and TEE was performed in all those 33 patients whose TTE were non-confirmatory due to poor echo window.Results: There were 0% patient with poor echo window in COPD grade 1, 18.18% in grade 2, 42.2% and 39.39% in grade 3 and grade 4 respectively. P-value obtained was statistically significant P <0.001. Out of 33 COPD patients with poor echo window, In grade 3 and grade 4, 64.2% and 76.9% patients had TEE findings respectively while in grade1 and grade 2 0% and 33.33% patient had TEE finding.Conclusions: TTE though is an excellent tool for diagnosing  pulmonary artery hypertension in COPD patients, has its limitation especially in severe COPD cases due to poor echo window which may give false negative results. So TEE should be recommended in all those severe COPD cases that have poor echo window

GPS-BASED MONITORING OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION IN GARHWAL-KUMAUN HIMALAYA

The Himalayan region has experienced a number of large magnitude earthquakes in the past. Seismicity is mainly due to tectonic activity along the thrust faults that trend parallel to the Himalayan mountain belt. In order to study the ongoing tectonic process, we report Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of crustal deformation in the Garhwal-Kumaun Himalaya through two continuous and 21 campaign stations. We collect GPS data since 2013 and analyze with the GAMIT/GLOBK suite of postprocessing software. Our estimated surface velocities in ITRF2008, India-fixed, and Eurasia-fixed reference frame lie in the range of 42&ndash;52&thinsp;mm/yr, 1&ndash;6&thinsp;mm/yr, and 31&ndash;37&thinsp;mm/yr, respectively. We observe insignificant slip rate (&sim;&thinsp;1&thinsp;mm/yr) of HFT that indicates its locking behavior. The slip rates of MBT and MCT, however, are consistent with the seismic activity of the study region

Factorii de risc ai accidentului vascular cerebral la copii

Risk factors for stroke in childrenRezultatele studiului preliminar au constatat că &icirc;n declanșarea AVC perinatal și pediatric un rol important &icirc;l joacă factorii de risc. Aceasta sugerează necesitatea de a pune &icirc;n discuție oricare factor agravant &icirc;n cazul suspectării AVC la copii.&nbsp