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Intersecting queer rights and legislative theatre in India: advocacy narrative of power, justice and expression
Queer activism and Legislative Theatre (LT) converge in myriad ways at their intersection, influencing and shaping each other. The present work investigates how LT can help to identify queer marginalisation in the fissured legal paradigm of India. It explores how LT can address the hegemonic silencing of the queer from an advocacy perspective. Our conviction is that the LT challenges the entrenched power structures against a queer-inclusive democratic space, offers a blueprint to advance queer dialogue, and coalition-building for legislation and policy discussions. It is the time when such a potent artistic activism must shape the public discourse. 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. -
Intersection of AI and business intelligence in data-driven decision-making
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are inundated with vast amounts of data, making it increasingly challenging to extract meaningful insights and make informed decisions. The traditional business intelligence (BI) approach must often address the complexity and speed required for effective decision-making in this data-rich environment. As a result, many businesses need help to leverage their data to drive sustainable growth and remain competitive. Intersection of AI and Business Intelligence in Data-Driven Decision-Making presents a transformative solution to this pressing challenge. By exploring the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and BI, our book provides a comprehensive framework for leveraging AI-powered BI to revolutionize data analysis, predictive modeling, and decision-making processes. Readers will gain valuable insights into practical applications, emerging trends, and ethical considerations, inspiring and exciting them about the potential of AI in driving business success. Through in-depth discussions, case studies, and best practices, this book equips professionals, researchers, and students with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of AI-powered business intelligence. Whether you're looking to predict trends, analyze consumer behavior, or optimize supply chains, this book offers actionable strategies and techniques for implementing AI-powered BI solutions in your organization. 2024 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Interval-Valued Fuzzy Trees and Cycles
Interval-valued fuzzy tree (IVFT) and interval-valued fuzzy cycle (IVFC) are defined in this chapter. We characterize interval-valued fuzzy trees. We also prove that if G is an IVFG whose underlying crisp graph is not a tree then G is an IVFT if and only if G contains only ? strong arcs and weak arcs. It is shown that an IVFG G whose underlying crisp graph is a cycle is an IVFC if and only if G has at least two ? strong arcs. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Interventions for the improvement of social skills in autism spectrum disorder in India: A systematic review
Background: The increasing prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in India is in a gaping contrast with the existing interventions in India. Though several interventions have proved their efficiency in foreign countries, such studies within India are scarce. Aims: This review attempts to systematically examine the different intervention practices that include improvement of social skills in ASD that is practiced in India as revealed through published literature on the same. Methods: Studies published from 2000 to 2020 were selected for the study. Evidence is presented for nine treatment categories: Behavior-based interventions, Developmental Interventions, TEACHH approach, Parent-mediated Interventions, speech-based Interventions, electronics-based interventions, augmentative and alternative communication, play-based interventions and Yoga-based interventions. These studies were drawn from databases Ebsco, Proquest, PubMed, MEDLINE, science direct and Google Scholar. Though a definitive conclusion cannot be drawn without a meta-analysis, the available evidence is gathered and evaluated in the present review. Results: The review has proved to be a reliable summary of the interventions that include improvement of social skills in ASD that is practiced in India. Conclusions: Parent-mediated interventions may be more appropriate for the resource-poor settings of India, when developmental interventions may be more appropriate for the resourcerich settings of India. The scarcity of published literature on the topic in India is also a significant factor that highlighted itself through the research. 2021, Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. All rights reserved. -
Interventions to help students find a deeper purpose during their academic journey
This comprehensive exploration delves deeply into academic interventions aimed at guiding students toward a more profound sense of purpose throughout their educational journeys. It emphasizes that education offers a unique opportunity for students to discover their passions, interests, and aspirations beyond textbooks and exams. The interventions discussed, including mentorship, career counseling, experiential learning, and self-discovery exercises, are meticulously designed to empower students to recognize their distinct strengths and interests. These interventions not only aim to facilitate academic excellence but also enable students to pursue careers aligned with their core values and aspirations. The exploration scrutinizes effective strategies, programs, and support mechanisms, addressing challenges students face when making career choices, and culminates in recommendations for educators, career counselors, and policymakers interested in enriching students' educational experiences and fostering purpose-driven learners. 2024, IGI Global. -
Into the Dark World of User Experience: A Cognitive Walkthrough Study
In this age of AI, the unison of man and machine is going to be more prominent than ever, thus creating a need to understand the underlying framework that is adopted by app designers and developers from a psychological point of view. Research on the various benefits and harmful effects of user experience design and furthermore developing interventions and regulations to moderate the use of dark strategies in digital tools is the need of the hour. This paper calls for an ethical consideration of designing the experience of users by looking at the unethical practices that exist currently. The purpose of the study was to understand the cognitive, behavioural and affective experience of dark patterns in end users. There is a scarcity in the scientific literature with regard to dark patterns. This paper adopts the methodology of user cognitive walkthrough with 6 participants whose transcripts were analysed using thematic network analyses. The results are presented in the form of a thematic network. A few examples of the themes found are the experience of manipulation in users, rebellious attitudes, and automatic or habitual responses. These findings provide a basis for an in-depth understanding of dark patterns in user experience and provide themes that will help future researchers and designers develop ethical and more enriching user experiences for users. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. -
Intricate Plane of Adversarial Attacks in Sustainable Territory and the Perils faced Machine Intelligent Models
The issue of model security and reliability in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a concern due to adversarial attacks. In order to tackle this issue, researchers have developed sustainable defense strategies, but certain challenges remain. These challenges involve transferability, higher computing costs, and adaptability. Striking a balance between accuracy and robustness is difficult, as defense mechanisms often come with trade-offs between the two. Real-world situations demonstrate the practical implications of sustainable adversarial AI. For example, it improves the security of self-driving vehicles, enhances the accuracy of medical imaging diagnoses, and incorporates AI-driven defenses into network intrusion detection and phishing detection systems. It is crucial to consider ethical aspects throughout this process. Future trends in adversarial AI research for cybersecurity will involve ensemble defense mechanisms, adversarial learning from limited data, and hybrid attacks. By embracing the evolving landscape, researchers and practitioners can develop sustainable AI systems that are more secure and resilient, effectively countering adversarial threats. 2023 IEEE. -
Intrinsic betterness and reason based extrinsic preference towards social shopping: A study among college students in Bangalore
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors and its impact on the social shopping of student community in the city of Bangalore. Bangalore is one of the most popular cities in the down south. This city attracts a mix of various cultures from various countries of the world. Thus, this city and population would be apt to study the social shopping pattern considering the Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors. The data was collected from the student community, perusing their college education in the city of Bangalore. Using convenient sampling method, a sample size of 225 was drawn from educational institutions in the city of Bangalore. The research work makes use of both first hand and second-hand data. The reliability of the data is acceptable as the Cronbach's alphas value is more than. 6. The drafted questionnaire was subjected to expert opinion before the data collection process. The study results make it clear that both intrinsic and extrinsic values motivate the consumers to get involved in the social shopping. But comparatively consumers are more influenced by those factors present in the external environment. It can be concluded by saying that, youngsters are quite smart before putting themselves into the purchase behavior, as they are in a group of friends, they get influenced by various experiences and comments shared by many. In a way social shopping is better, as too many minds generate ideas for a single purchase. 2018 Transilvanian Association for the Literarure and Culture of Romanian People (ASTRA). All rights reserved. -
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In the digital era, signal processing has found application in daily life from medical diagnosis to social networking. The digital domain has evolved as the preferred choice in communication system design due to its advantages over analog systems, such as high-speed transmission, improved quality, and effortless copying with high precision. The advancement of digital media brings new opportunities. The internet boom of this millennium has allowed digital data to move around the world in real time. Efficient segmentation, recognition, and analysis of multidimensional data such as hyperspectral images, medical imaging, data analysis in social media, and audio signals are still challenging issues. Digital data produced through data-processing algorithms has the fundamental advantages of transportability, proficiency, and accuracy of information content; but such data is also at significant risk because perfect illegal replicas can be made in unlimited numbers. 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. -
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World politics in the twenty-first century represents a complex arena characterised by a diversity of paradigms. These paradigms entail a dynamic interplay of conventional and newer ways of engagement. Today, the globalising world witnesses newer imaginations of space and interactions where state actors continue to enjoy a preeminent status, adopting policies based on imaginations of space in terms of connectivity and gateways while maintaining their territorial integrity. They devise a whole array of mechanisms to define, redefine and secure their interests as well as elevate their aspirations of assuming newer responsibilities and bigger roles. What we witness today is dynamic endeavours by the states to hold on to and amplify their traditional roles and carving out newer contours of forging and consolidating relationships in the global framework of international relations. This also leads to the construction of new geo-strategic and economic hotspots. This complex interplay of the traditional and the newer interactions creates both synergies and discord. The Indo-Pacific represents such a hotspot in contemporary world politics, and Indias engagement with Southeast Asia is a significant area of interest therein. 2024 Taylor & Francis. -
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The twenty-first century has been witnessing a global federal resurgence, distinguished by conversations focusing on interdependencies, multiculturalism, overlapping jurisdictions, multilateralism, multiple centres of policy-making and multiple notions of citizenship. Any assessment of cooperative federalism needs to go beyond institutional structures by incorporating images of diversity, pluralism, identity, issues of empowerment and democratization. Cooperative federalism facilitates cooperation among the national, state and local governments. It perceives the federation and the states as complementary parts of an arrangement where sovereignty is shared. 2024 selection and editorial matter, M.J. Vinod, Stefy V Joseph, Joseph Chacko Chennatuserry and Dimitris N. Chryssochoou; individual chapters, the contributors. -
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Beginning The Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) in 2013, a significant development in higher education, in addition to several other initiatives such as the introduction of the New Methodology by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), the New Education Policy (NEP2020) and technological challenges of the COVID pandemic in the current times, Indian higher education has been undergoing a profound transformation, especially intending to revamp, through policy changes, upgrading and enhancing quality, ranking, research, bridging the skill gap, technological innovations and global perspectives. There is an urgent need to understand the evolving dynamics and emerging perspectives that appear to challenge the higher education system in India. The conference intends to draw attention to those key stakeholders in the present context to realise the anticipated drive towards overhauling the higher education system in India. 2025 selection and editorial matter, Kennedy Andrew Thomas, Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry and Joseph Varghese Kureethara; individual chapters, the contributors. -
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This book Education and Pedagogical Experiences: Coping with Human Emergencies and Exploring Resilience Strategies is an array of chapters contributed by a panel of experts that explains different human emergencies and the role of education and pedagogy in addressing these crises. The contributions illustrate how educational practices during emergencies have evolved, persisted, and impacted communities globally. 2025 selection and editorial matter, Kennedy Andrew Thomas and Joseph Varghese Kureethara; individuals, the contributors. -
Introduction to blockchain for internet of things
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Introduction to brand management in the digital age
The rapid development of digital technology has introduced a new order of large-scale change within brand management in the fast-changing landscape of the digital marketplace. This chapter provides the fundamental principles of brand management within the digital era and demonstrates the transformation of building brands via online platforms, data analytics, and digital technologies. Others might state that social media, e-commerce, and AI integration offer brands a new horizon for managing brand equity, improving customer engagement, and creating experiences to adapt to changing tastes. Adjustment towards this change can prove challenging for the brands, but on the other hand, they are opening new possibilities that drive innovation in performance and strategy about their brands. 2025, IGI Global Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved. -
Introduction to connecting coalitions
A connecting coalition in a graph G(V;E) consists of two disjoint vertex subsets V1 and V2 of V (G), where neither G[V1] nor G[V2] is a connected graph but G[V1 [V2] is a con- nected graph. A connecting coalition partition is a vertex partition ? = fV1; V2; : : : ; Vkg, and the maximum cardinality of all possible ? is called the connecting coalition number, ?(G). Some bounds on the coalition number ?(G) are found, and graphs having ?(G) = 2 are characterized. Further, the existence of connecting coalition partitions in graphs is explored. 2025 World Scientific Publishing Company. -
Introduction to connecting coalitions
A connecting coalition in a graph G(V;E) consists of two disjoint vertex subsets V1 and V2 of V (G), where neither G[V1] nor G[V2] is a connected graph but G[V1 [V2] is a con- nected graph. A connecting coalition partition is a vertex partition ? = fV1; V2; : : : ; Vkg, and the maximum cardinality of all possible ? is called the connecting coalition number, ?(G). Some bounds on the coalition number ?(G) are found, and graphs having ?(G) = 2 are characterized. Further, the existence of connecting coalition partitions in graphs is explored. 2025 World Scientific Publishing Company.