Contract Farming, Ecological Change and the Transformations of Reciprocal Gendered Social Relations in Eastern India

Debates on gender and the commodification of land highlight the loss of land rights, intensification of demands on women’s labour, and decline in their decision-making control. Supported by ‘extra-economic forces’ of religious nationalism (Hindutva), such neoliberal interventions are producing new gender ideologies involving a subtle shift from relations of reciprocity to those of subordination. Using data from fine grained fieldwork in Koraput district, Odisha, we analyse the tensions and transformations created jointly by corporate interventions (contract farming of eucalyptus by the paper industry) and religious nationalism in the local landscape. We examine how these phenomena are reshaping relations of asymmetric mutuality between nature and society, and between men and women

An intimate and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard and the regulation of prostitution in colonial India

This paper seeks to construct an antinostalgic portrait of an imperial feminist. As the representative of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) in India between 1928 and 1947, Meliscent Shephard was an embodiment not only of the feminist urge to challenge patriarchal gender relations, but also of the imperialist urge to classify and fathom the world through a series of racist typologies. Despite an earlier belief that blame for the exploitation of prostitutes lay with the colonial state and economy, she later fell back on explanations based on notions of Indian society and religion. Operating in a period of heightened anticolonial nationalism, these latter views thwarted any hope of her forging successful connections with emergent Indian social reform groups. This failure to cultivate intimate relations with Indian colleagues marks a failure at the level of national and racial politics. Shephard did, however, cultivate an intimate relationship with correspondents at the AMSH in London, while her experiences of the sexual geographies of Indian cities provided a form of intimate interaction that would inspire her mission to close down tolerated brothels. As such, this paper marks an empirical engagement with the intimate frontiers at which the affective grid of colonial politics was marked out

OpenCodeNet

A crowdsourced, open database of labelled code commits for training and benchmarking classification models built to evaluate software code. This is a platform that researchers can use to crowdsource training data for building classification models to evaluate software code.The crowdsourced labels (over 3000 code snippets labelled on their novelty and usefulness) are available publicly and are currently being used by researchers from Tilburg University, HEC Paris, and SKEMA business school to study the antecedents of innovation in OSS project

OpenCodeNet

A crowdsourced, open database of labelled code commits for training and benchmarking classification models built to evaluate software code. This is a platform that researchers can use to crowdsource training data for building classification models to evaluate software code.The crowdsourced labels (over 3000 code snippets labelled on their novelty and usefulness) are available publicly and are currently being used by researchers from Tilburg University, HEC Paris, and SKEMA business school to study the antecedents of innovation in OSS project

Relative position of the mandibular foramen in different age groups of children: A radiographic study

<b>Objectives:</b> To assess the relative position of the mandibular foramen (MF) and to evaluate the measurement of gonial angle (GoA) and its relationship with distances between different mandibular borders in growing children between 3 and 13years of dental age. <b>Materials and methods:</b> The radiographs were traced to arrive at six linear and two angular measurements from which the relative position of the MF was assessed and compared in different age groups to determine the growth pattern of the mandible and changes in the location of the MF. <b>Results:</b> The distances between the MF and the anterior plane of the ramus were greater than that between MF and posterior plane of the ramus through all stages. There was a maximum increase in the vertical dimensions of the mandible compared with the horizontal dimensions, particularly in the late mixed dentition period. <b>Conclusion:</b> The mandible and its growth did not alter the position of the MF, both vertically and horizontally, in relation to different landmarks, and more obtuse GoA indicated an increased growth potential of the mandible. This has major implications in the inferior alveolar nerve block technique when used in children

Restrictions in Open Source: A Study of Team Composition and Ownership in Open Source Software Development Projects

Grounding our study in the theories of coordination and network governance, we examine the influence that restricting the access to the source code has on the likelihood of survival of open source software projects. Furthermore, given the increasing shif

Does the Task Structure of Open Source Projects Matter? Superposition and Value Creation

Collaboration through open superposition describes a process of building free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS), wherein motivationally independent layers of work is sequentially added one-on-top the other over time. This research-in-progress paper theorizes the mechanisms through which superposition influences the value of individual and organizational owned FLOSS projects. We argue for a non-linear relationship between degree of superposition and value of the FLOSS project. Moreover, we posit that the type of ownership will moderate this non-linear relationship. The moderation effect is such that – (1) organizational ownership mitigates the influence of degree of superposition on project value (2) under organizational ownership, the optimal value of degree of superposition (the point at which the project value is maximum) is lower as compared to individual owned projects. This research attempts to advance the theory of superposition and unearth the influence of task structure on the value of the FLOSS project

Can Human Judgement be Machine-Sourced? An Approach to Measure the Perceptual Dimensions Embedded in Software

Considering the challenges of measuring the perceptual dimensions of the IT artifact, we propose a computational method for developing latent concepts through the lines of code that make up a software artifact. The proposed “machine-sourcing human judgement” approach, combines a novel technique of extracting the semantic properties (meanings) of the code from the software engineering literature with the machine-learning techniques used in the IS literature. Using the illustration of open source software (OSS), we demonstrate that the ‘contextual’ and ‘economic’ limitations of evaluating the creativity of OSS code contributions can be overcome through our approach. The performance of the proposed approach is tested by using a labelled dataset of code contributions created by two experienced OSS developers. We find that our approach of using semantic properties from the “software code” matches in performance to evaluating “textual descriptions” of the code. Potential methodological improvements and future research opportunities are also discussed