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The sprawling 852-acre IIT Jodhpur campus is a majestic tribute to the deep-rooted diverse cultural heritage of the region. The campus is an architectural masterpiece, which is slated to become an international exemplar of sustainability with net-zero energy, and advanced water and waste management strategies.&rdquo;

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In focusing on the ethnic American fictions of Amy Tan and Bharati Mukherjee, this paper seeks to contest the generalisation that the Asian American identity is male. Being women of colour, Tan and Mukherjee have formulated creative ways of countering the racism of the mainstream white culture by reclaiming the right to tell their own stories. Exemplifying radically different ways in which racial and ethnic minorities often seek assimilation into the mainstream society, this paper exhibits how these writers reconstruct Asian American women’s subjectivity by articulating their longing for freedom from the oppression of both American and Chinese/Indian patriarchy. Premised on the reality of the Chinese woman sharing with her Indian counterpart the erasure of her individuality, her subordination to patriarchy and its institutions, this paper foregrounds the multiple modes of resistance embraced by immigrant women to counter patriarchal oppression. The matrilineal continuum resisting historico-cultural erasure in Tan’s fiction speaks to Mukherjee’s use of betrayal as a tool to undermine patriarchy and her protagonist’s struggle to rewrite normative narratives of American identity through personal and cultural transformation. Further, this paper probes how these writers adopt the testimonial narrative style as a means of ‘writing back’. In inaugurating new modes of women empowerment, these writers dismantle the notion of vulnerability associated with immigrant women. In conclusion, the paper investigates how authentically Tan and Mukherjee, who enjoy the privileges of the First world, are able to represent economically marginalised Third World immigrant women. © 2019, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.

Neohelicon

Negotiating the gendered ethnic self in selected fictions of Amy Tan and Bharati Mukherjee

Purpose: A few studies in India have related daughters’ education to their fathers, but there is little to no evidence when it comes to the intergenerational relation between daughters and mothers’ education. Using India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2011–2012, the purpose of this paper is to investigate intergenerational educational mobility among women (15–49 years) (vis-à-vis their mothers) for all India. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses transition/mobility matrices and multiple mobility measures for the examination of intergenerational educational mobility among women (15–49 years) in India. The data have been taken from the “India Human Development Survey 2011-12.” Findings: Findings indicate that intergenerational educational mobility at the all-India level is about 0.69, that is, 69 percent of the women acquire a level of education different from their mothers. Of the overall mobility, about 80 percent is contributed by upward mobility whereas the rest is downward. Mobility is greater in urban areas and is highest among the socially advantaged “Others” (or upper) caste group. Also, the upward component is substantially lower for socially disadvantaged groups compared to others. Further, there are large inter-regional variations, with the situation being worst in the central and eastern states such as Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, etc. Moreover, mobility (overall and upward) increases consistently as one moves up the income distribution. Originality/value: This study is perhaps the first study which comprehensively studies intergenerational educational mobility for women (15–49 years) at an all-India level. Findings not only capture the mobility at the aggregate level but also for different caste groups as well as regional variations and income effect. © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited.

World University root node

International Journal of Social Economics

Do Indian daughters shadow their mothers?: A case of intergenerational educational mobility among women

Inequality of opportunity (IOp) in any society is defined as that part of overall inequality which arises from factors beyond the control of an individual (circumstances) such as parental education, caste, gender, religion etc. and is thus considered unfair and is against the meritocratic values of a society. Hence, it needs to be controlled and compensated. We estimate the IOp in economic outcomes among Indian women by using the nationally representative India Human Development Survey 2011–2012. We include parental education, caste, religion and region of birth as circumstances. The overall IOp in income ranges from 18–25% and 16–21% (of total income inequality) in urban and rural areas, respectively. The corresponding figures for consumption expenditure are 16–22% and 20–23% in urban and rural areas, respectively. We also estimate the partial contributions of the circumstances to the overall IOp. We find that the parental education is the most significant contributor to IOp in urban areas, whereas, region of birth is the most significant contributor to IOp in rural areas. Fortunately, findings imply that socially and culturally imbedded factors like caste and religion which are more persistent do contribute to the IOp, but, the largest contribution is due to factors like parental education and region which can be relatively easily tackled and addressed with policy interventions. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.

Social Indicators Research

Inequality of Opportunity in Indian Women

Word sense ambiguity comes about the use of lexemes associated with more than one sense. In this research work, an improvement has been proposed and evaluated for our previously developed Assamese Word-Sense Disambiguation (WSD) system where potential outcomes of using semantic features were evaluated up to a limited extent. As semantic relationship information has a good effect in most of the natural language processing (NLP) tasks, in this work, the system is developed based on supervised learning approach using Naïve Bayes classifier with syntactic as well as semantic features. The performance measure of the overall system has been improved up to 91.11% in terms of F1-measure as compared to 86% of the previously developed system by incorporating the Semantically Related Words (SRW) feature in our feature set. © 2019, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

WSD for Assamese Language

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) are the essential link to healthy communities for Indian households. We present insights and findings of two focus group studies conducted with 16 ASHAs and 8 ASHA trainers across two health centers in Assam, India. We conducted two focus group studies to investigate challenges and opportunity areas in current health worker training ecosystem. Our objective was to identify insights that formulate design directions in order to develop technology solutions to train ASHAs effectively. We found challenges of poor training schedules, outdated information, inadequate contextual knowledge and field-based challenges, poor accessibility, and portability of the training material and low-confidence in communicating sensitive health information. We propose the need for technology intervention that supports practice-based learning, methods of role-playing and use of cultural songs and dance to increase engagement. We also propose the use of peer learning and sharing among ASHAs to increase adoption and acceptance. © 2019 ACM.

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Findings of the user study conducted to understand the training of rural ASHAs in India

Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies

Postcolonial Intersections: Introduction to the themed special section

JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH

<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=17729325036800776530&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=scholarr">Does sleep benefit prospective intention realization: comparing valence and neutral cues</a>

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is crucial when it comes to taking care of information extraction, question-answering, document summarization and machine translation which are undoubtly the important Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. This work is a detailed analysis of our previously developed NER system with more emphasis on how individual features will contribute towards the recognition of person, location and organization named entities and how these features in different combinations affect the performance measure of the system. In addition to these, we have also evaluated the behaviour of the features with the increase in training and test corpus. Since this system is based on supervised learning, we need to have a large parts of speech tagged and named entity tagged Training Corpus as well as a parts of speech tagged Test Corpus. The maximum value of performance measure of the overall system is obtained when the training corpus is of size with 5000 words and the amount of named entities present in the test corpus is 50 and the values obtained are 95% in terms of precision, 84% in terms of recall and 89% in terms of F1-measure. This work will add a new dimension in the usage of features for recognition of ENAMEX tags in Assamese corpus. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Assamese named entity recognition system using naive bayes classifier

Background: In the past decade, India has seen the introduction of many 'publicly funded health insurance' schemes (PFHIs) that claim to cover approximately 300 million people and are essentially forms of purchasing care from both public and private providers to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) for hospitalization. Methods: Data from a recent government-organized nationwide household survey, The National Sample Survey 71st Round, were used to analyse the effectiveness and equity of tax-funded public health services and PFHIs as distinct but overlapping approaches to financial protection for hospitalization across different socio-economic categories. Cross-tabulation analysis, multivariate logistic regression and propensity score matching were the main analytical methods used. Results: Government hospitals provide access to 45.6% of all hospitalization needs. Although poorer quintiles use public hospitals more often, even in the poorest quintile, as many as 37.2% are utilizing private hospitals. The average OOPE that a household experiences for hospitalization in public hospitals is approximately only one-fifth of the OOPE for hospitalization in the private sector. PFHI schemes cover 12.8% of the population, and coverage is higher in upper quintiles and in urban areas. Hospitalization rates increase with PFHI coverage, and this occurs with both public and private providers. Propensity score matching shows that PFHI contributes to a marginal reduction (1%) in 'catastrophic health expenditure incidence at the 25% threshold' (CHE-25) for the bottom three quintiles. The reported coverage of PFHIs was greater in the upper income quintiles. Utilization of public services was greater in the poorer income quintiles and more marginalized social groups. Conclusions: Periodic surveys are essential to guide policy choices regarding the appropriate mix of strategies for financial protection in pluralistic systems. There is a need for caution regarding any shift in the role of governments from providing services to purchasing care, given the contexts and limitations of currently available PFHIs. Even with tax-funded public services, although the average OOPE is lower than the care purchased through PFHIs, there is still a modest level of CHE and impoverishment due to health care costs that persist. Both strategies need to be synergized for more effective financial protection. © 2018 The Author(s).

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BMC Public Health

Effectiveness of government strategies for financial protection against costs of hospitalization Care in India

The post-World War II period occasioned an atmosphere of paranoia which not only challenged the middle-class certitudes, but also destabilized their faith in God. John Updike’s Couples documents the American suburban middle-class, immersed in the sexual mirage of a post-pill paradise. This paper asserts that, despite the erosion of family structures, social stability and traditional middle-class culture that the excessive adultery of Updike’s characters ensue, their world can still hope for redemption. Contrary to the usual assumptions regarding debauched sexuality, this erosion of human values and morality can be viewed as a necessary design of divinity, heralding a new beginning. © 2018 Diacritic. All rights reserved.