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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Kolkata"”.
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A Study of Social Sustainability of High-Rise Living in Kolkata, India
… context of the developing world, especially in Kolkata, India. Based on the literature review, this study postulates a definition of the Social Sustainability of high-rise apartments. It identifies the various factors or aspects of social sustainability which are vital for social sustainability …
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Flying' Female Sex Workers in Kolkata, India: Using "Cultural Biography" to Understand HIV Risk Perceptions
… study examined how women in flying sex work in Kolkata, India perceive their risk of HIV relative to other risk factors. To do so, it used `cultural biography,' a method that combines ethnography and life history interviews, to answer the following research questions: a) What do women in flying …
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Heritage movements in the postcolonial city: Contestations between middle-class activisms and urbanisation processes in Kolkata
… produced through middle-class urban activism in Kolkata, India. It locates the increasingly important position acquired by heritage within urban developmental processes of the postcolonial Indian city by focusing on three aspects. First, it unpacks the modalities of an urban middle-class activism …
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Old new city : a study of spatial interactions in traditional neighborhoods of Kolkata to identify a new paradigm for urban design
… in the urban fabric of old neighborhoods of Kolkata made them more humane, inclusive and ecologically less harmful. It highlighted how these interactions of urban elements and activities of old neighborhoods have the potential to benefit new urban developments. And it calls for modem …
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Right to Sell: Politics of Informal Retail in the Neoliberal Era.
… on informal street vendors (or hawkers) of Kolkata I demonstrate this contradiction by analyzing the political economy of street vending. Specifically, I study the social movement of hawkers and show how the right to sell in the city of Kolkata is negotiated and configured in the neoliberal …
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University students' receptivity to peers with disabilities
… and two universities in India (The University of Kolkata (previously Calcutta) and the University of Jadavpur). Data were collected by three methods: (1) a 60 item questionnaire (N=996) based on six aspects supporting receptivity to peers with disabilities-Academic, Interactive, Social, Personal, …
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Enhancing Fidelity through Gate Decomposition: A Strategy to Mitigate Quantum Crosstalk on NISQ Computers
… the Partial Gate Decomposition Method on the IBM Kolkata NISQ device. The results offer a promising approach to address this challenge, paving the way for more reliable and scalable quantum computers.</p>
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“Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal
… rights NGOs Sanlaap, Jabala and New Light in Kolkata, India working primarily with sex workers and trafficking survivors. The study challenges simplistic conclusions about the role of NGOs to promote women’s empowerment by addressing the following questions: which conceptualizations of …
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Geographies of Selective Surveillance: Analyzing the Lived Experiences of Street-Level Trans Sex Workers and Muslims in India through the Matrix of Domination
… communities of street-level trans sex workers in Kolkata and Muslims in Mumbai. I then situate these experiences within the Matrix of Domination (Collins, 1990), a theoretical framework that explains how systems of power are configured. Defining empowerment as the power to gain control of and/or …
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CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA
… Indian biological supply specimens exported from Kolkata prior to 1985.
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CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA
… Indian biological supply specimens exported from Kolkata prior to 1985.
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Digital Queer Spaces: Interrogating Identity, Belonging and Nationalism in Contemporary India
… with individuals in offline spaces (New Delhi, Kolkata, Barasat). Studying digital queer spaces across several research sites especially a cross-ethnic and cross-social comparison is unusual in this field of study and produces new insights into the subjects explored.
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Making climate adaptation work : strategies for resource constrained South Asian mega-cities
… compares the responses of Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kolkata, India to the serious challenges posed by climate change, particularly in the water sector. Drawing on the theories of "adaptation as development" and cross-case analyses of ongoing planning initiatives in these two bellwether cities, this …
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… of Newark, New Jersey, as Roth describes it, and Kolkata, India, as Devi portrays it, I hope to probe some of the multiple experiential confluences and divergences within the core-periphery geoculture of 1968. To do so, I employ Immanuel Wallerstein’s model of world-system analysis. Through his …
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… of Newark, New Jersey, as Roth describes it, and Kolkata, India, as Devi portrays it, I hope to probe some of the multiple experiential confluences and divergences within the core-periphery geoculture of 1968. To do so, I employ Immanuel Wallerstein’s model of world-system analysis. Through his …
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An investigation into the professional development needs of Upper Primary and Secondary teachers in mainstream, private schools to meet the diverse learning needs in Indian classrooms
… of India: Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. The study used a mixed methods approach involving a webbased survey for teachers (n=280) in the first stage and focus group discussions with teachers (n=8 with 50 teachers involved in all) and semi structured interviews (n=16) with other …
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Language, communication, and cognition: A study of slum-dwelling women in a nutrition education programme in India
… mothers living in the Chetla slum in Kolkata, India, in collaboration with the NNEdPro Mobile Teaching Kitchen (MTK) project. This thesis presents a scoping review of the existing evidence, before outlining the development and adaptation of a task battery, comprising a demographic and …
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Distributed Wireless Resource Management in the Internet of Things
… The one-to-one association is formulated as Kolkata Paise Restaurant (KPR) game in which an IoT device tries to choose a resource block with highest gain, while avoiding duplicate selection. Moreover, a Nash equilibrium (NE) of IoT KPR game is shown to coincide with socially optimal solution. …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …