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Editorial Board Vol. 75 No. 2 (2023), Kelsey M. Cromie Editor-In-Chief

Maine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Symposium Keynote: "Isolation And Restraint: Maine's Unique Status Outside Federal Indian Law", Michael-Corey Francis Hinton

Maine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Considerations For Developing Effective Mobile Mental Health Applications, Brennan Remington, Daniel F. Upchurch

Multidisciplinary Psychology: A Journal of Collaboration

Mobile mental health applications (MMHAs) are mobile applications developed with the intention of bettering the mental health of their users. There is a wide array of MMHAs currently available on digital markets, but the effectiveness of these applications remains in question. Research on the persuasive strategies employed by these applications would lead to an increase in the effectiveness of intervention methods utilized. Developing guidelines to assist in the creation of these applications would benefit developers and end-users. There is a critical need for MMHAs as they are accessible and often affordable treatment options for hard-to-reach, stigmatized or undertreated populations. This …

The Changing Contours Of The Indian Public Sphere: Courtesans, Culture, And The British Invasion Of Oudh In Kenizé Mourad’S In The City Of Gold And Silver, Anurag Kumar, Isha Malhotra, Rishav Bali

Journal of International Women's Studies

The article explores the role of women in the Indian freedom struggle, particularly Begam Hazarat Mahal of Lucknow through Kenizé Mourad’s In the City of Gold and Silver (2010). The text explicitly and implicitly foregrounds the role of tawaifs (courtesans) in the culture and the literature of the public sphere prior to 1857 or the first Indian freedom struggle. Their participation in the freedom struggle was a response to the British attempt to reduce their role to strictly economic and sexual purposes. The article imbricates the issues of nationalism, gender, and sexuality by mining the invisible contributions of various groups …

Excavation Of Silenced Voices: (Re)Visiting Menka Shivdasani’S Frazil Through The Modern Feminist Discourse Of Indian Writing In English, Rangnath Thakur, Binod Mishra

Journal of International Women's Studies

The postmodernist phase of Indian English writing is characterized by the voices of many strong women expressing a feminist exploration of alternative discourses in women’s writing which are distinguished from the patriarchal framework of literary discourse. Along with Kamala Das, Meena Alexander, Imtiaz Dharkar, and Eunice de Souza, Menka Shivdasani is an active voice in contemporary Indian English poetry. Shivdasani is a prolific poet who has written poetry on various social, cultural, religious, and personal issues. Her four poetry collections include Nirvana at Ten Rupees (1990), Stet (2001), Safe House (2015), and Frazil (2018). Through her poetry, she has endeavored …

Why Ismat Chughtai Faced Trial: An Intersectional Reading Of The Reception Of “Lihaaf” In Colonial India, Mrinalini Raj

Journal of International Women's Studies

In this paper, I study Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Lihaaf” (“The Quilt,” 1942) side by side with her essay “The Lihaaf Trial” (English translation, 2000). I also analyze their reception of these texts in regards to their treatment of sexuality, women, and morality in the colonial period. I engage the texts through the lens of intersectionality. Multiple aspects affected the reception of Chughtai’s “Lihaaf” because it explores the intersection of multiple axes of oppression like gender, colonialism, class, and sexuality. During the colonial period in India, the British colonizers directly influenced Indian morality through laws and emphasized British cultural superiority. …

Assertion Or Transgression: A Critical Study Of Surpankha As An Unwelcomed Girl Child In Kavita Kané’S Lanka’S Princess, Nancy Sharma, Smita Jha

Journal of International Women's Studies

Kavita Kané’s Lanka’s Princess is the retelling of Ramayana3 from the perspective of the often misrepresented and misunderstood character of Surpankha,4 the daughter of rishi (sage) Vishravas and rakshasi (monster) Kaiskesi. Kavita Kané uses myths as a pretext to defy the idea of an ideal femininity in her book. Kané’s representation humanizes the character of Surpankha (translation: woman with sharp fingernails) who was born as the beautiful princess Meenakshi, but her defiant demeanor caused her brother Ravan to give her the name of Surpankha. Kané’s work exhibits the inner thought process of an unwelcome girl child in the family who …

Mothers Born Or Produced?: An Analysis Of The Mother-Daughter Relationship In Well-Behaved Indian Women, Shivalika Agarwal, Nagendra Kumar

Journal of International Women's Studies

The word motherhood has been used for centuries without thorough examination of what it encompasses. Literature exhibits the changing reality and needs of mothering irrespective of the outcome: imposed motherhood, and institutionalized mothers. Motherhood has been bifurcated in meaning as “the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children; and the institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential-- and all women--shall remain under male control” (Rich 13). A woman’s biological capacity to bear and nurture a child has been a significant factor in the existence of human life. Another facet of this is the …

Redrawing The Contours Of Nationalist Discourse Through The Voices Of Courtesans-Turned-Warriors, Neha Arora

Journal of International Women's Studies

The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of a “cult of pluralism” (Chakrabarty) in the writing of Indian history, thus challenging the standardized narrative of the nation. The hegemonic accounts of India’s struggle for independence, which have failed to acknowledge the involvement of many significant warriors, make the inextricable links between power, history, and representation quite apparent. One such exclusion is that of the tawaifs2 of Awadh.3 This hypocrisy combined with the facade of respectability has eclipsed the contribution of tawaifs, demoting them to singing and dancing girls merely. By looking at the role of Begum …

Traversing The Inner Courtyard To The Public Sphere: Exploring Lalithambika Antharjanam’S Short Stories As Narratives Of Protest In Early Twentieth Century Kerala, Revathy Hemachandran, Maya Vinai

Journal of International Women's Studies

This essay analyzes women writing about their experience in the changing socio-cultural and political context of the early twentieth century and especially in the face of the global, national, and regional transformations that Kerala underwent. The essay argues that the short stories of Lalithambika Antharjanam subverted the popular representation of antharjanams in the early 20th century as impassive, oppressed, and vulnerable subjects and provided alternative ways to conceptualize an antharjanam as a feminist trailblazer with a strong voice of protest. Her writing exposes her first-hand experiences of gender discrimination practiced in families as related to her caste and family lineage. …

Draupadi’S Polyandry: A Study In Feminist Discourse Analysis, Saumya Sharma

Journal of International Women's Studies

Draupadi serves as a crucial link between warring characters in the Mahabharata (an ancient Indian Sanskrit epic), particularly through her polyandry. Born of fire, personifying purity, yet bound by a matrimonial covenant, she is caught in a complex marital relationship with five husbands that completely changes her life and also theirs. In consonance with the aims of gyno- criticism, literary depictions of women seek not only to reconstruct but also to critique patriarchal conventions. Drawing on the perspective of feminist critical discourse analysis (Lazar, 2005), with its tools of speech acts, presupposition, vocabulary, and modality, this paper seeks to examine …

Custodianship And Care: Women And Reading In Anita Desai’S Clear Light Of Day, Aruni Mahapatra

Journal of International Women's Studies

Several scholars have noted how the Indian state has been able to care for women only by placing them in custody of the family or the community, often overseen by male relatives. How do novels by Indian women writers intervene in this difficult social and legal problem? This paper answers this question by integrating feminist scholarship on the place of Indian women in postcolonial India with another scholarly tradition: the ethics of care. Conventionally, these two bodies of writing have not been in direct dialogue. This paper facilitates a conversation by close-reading Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day, a novel …

Reinventing Marginalized Voices: A Study Of Volga’S The Liberation Of Sita And Yashodhara, Kumari Ruchi, Smita Jha

Journal of International Women's Studies

The corpus of Indian women’s literature has the power to define the borders of community, class, and gender. Challenging the existing patriarchal set-up, writers from all corners of the nation speak not only to subvert the patriarchy but also to claim their authority and bring subdued voices to the fore. In Volga’s gynocentric retellings of the ancient epic “Ramayana,” Volga’s The Liberation of Sita and Yashodhara deconstruct the traditional epic by recentering female characters that were marginalized in the original. The Liberation of Sita and Yashodhara tell the story of Buddha’s wife after his unexpected departure, and they exemplify an …

Introduction To The Special Issue: Celebrating Unheard Voices Of Charismatic Women In Indian Writing In English, Smita Jha, Bhushan Sharma, Aruni Mahapatra

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

Application Of 3d Printing In Medicine: Technologies And Challenges, Khan Rajib Hossain, Marzan Mursalin Jami, Abu Shyeed, Khadiza Khatun, Kamrul Hasan, Khadijatul Cobra, Firoz Ahmed

Al-Bahir

With the rapid development of 3D printing technology, its application scope has involved various fields such as aerospace, the automobile industry, medical treatment, food and others. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the release of "levetiracetam instant tablets," made with 3D printing technology. This means that 3D printing could be used to mass-produce drugs. This article reviews the principles, advantages, and challenges of 3D drug printing technologies: stereolithography, inkjet printing, powder-liquid bonding, and fused deposition, and looks forward to their future development in the preparation of solid preparations of medicine. With the continuous development of computer control, 3D …

Enhanced Acousto-Optic Properties Of Silicon Carbide Based Layered Structure, Namrata Dewan Soni

Al-Bahir

This study investigates the feasibility of using silicon carbide-based layered surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices in acousto-optic applications. The acousto-optic properties of the temperature-stable layered structure TeO3/SiC/128oY-X LiNbO3 are investigated through theoretical analysis. This analysis includes the evaluation of key parameters such as the overlap integral, figure of merit, and diffraction efficiency. The SAW propagation characteristics and field profiles required for these calculations are obtained using SAW software. Results show that the layered structure has high diffraction efficiency of nearly 96% and a promising value for the acousto-optic figure of merit, indicating potential use in low driving power acousto-optic devices. …

Audible Charging Sounds To Indicate Device Battery Level, Erol Bicioglu, Henry Daw, Nupur Jain, Josh Ellis, Hongyu Long

Defensive Publications Series

Users of battery-powered electronic devices rely on visual battery level indicators to discern the charge status of the battery and correspondingly, available device usable time before the device needs to be plugged in. However, users with vision impairments or those not looking at the device screen may not be able to distinguish the battery level from displayed indicators. Such users may plug in the charging cable more often than necessary, out of precaution. This disclosure describes the use of a variety of audible sounds when a device is attached to a charging cable that is plugged into a power source …

Providing An Automated Authentication Token Allocator For Proxy Servers, Lakshmi Shashanka, Kumud Nawani

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are presented herein that support an automated authentication token allocator service running on any virtual machine (VM) or server, in the same network as any requesting entities, that can allocate the tokens that are to be used by an entity (such as a proxy server, devices, other services, etc.) that wishes to send a registration request to a management application (such as a network management application) so that it can be authenticated and then managed.

Selective Delivery Of Private Information On Device Lock Screen In Trusted Contexts, Sneha Ashok

Defensive Publications Series

To avoid inadvertently revealing private information, delivery of query responses and notifications is restricted when a device is in a locked state, based on user configuration. In many contexts, e.g., when using the device in a hands-free mode while engaged in activities such as cooking or driving, the user can benefit from receiving such information without having to unlock the device. This disclosure describes techniques that permit users to receive results on the device lock screen for queries made to a virtual assistant and for notifications without needing to unlock the device first. The techniques provide flexible display of query …

Web Browser With Locked Tabs To Prevent Accidental Tab Closure, Xiaohan Wang

Defensive Publications Series

Some web browsers allow users to pin browser tabs such that they are positioned at an extreme end of a tab of strips. Some websites also include features that detect when a user attempts to close a tab of that website and require user confirmation to prevent accidental tab closure. However, pinned tabs can still be closed accidentally, or can be navigated away from. This disclosure describes a web browser that enables users to lock a tab. When the user attempts to close a locked tab, a prompt is shown requesting user confirmation to close the tab. Similarly, confirmation is …

Media Upload Prioritization Based On User Preferences, Yu-Sheng Chen, Connor Mckeon, Ella Mihov, Matt Wagner, Fish Lin

Defensive Publications Series

Poor wireless network conditions limit the ability of security cameras and other devices to upload media. Consequently, viewers may not be able to watch video streams in a timely manner. On the other hand, even successfully uploaded media available for viewing is sometimes found to not be of interest to the user. This disclosure describes techniques to determine media segments (e.g., live video captured by a camera) likely of greatest interest to viewers and prioritize the uploading of those segments. The criteria for uploading or storing media under poor network conditions are selected to optimize the user experience on a …

Automated Onboarding And Time-Sensitive Network (Tsn) Flow Creation Of Devices In A Tsn Network Environment, Robert Barton, Indermeet Gandhi, Maik Gunter Seewald

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques described herein provide for automating a time-sensitive network (TSN) configuration using an edge inventory system. In particular, according to techniques described herein, an asset inventory system discovers a TSN-capable device, identifies the requirements of the TSN-capable device, and adds a TSN tag to the asset inventory system that describes the function of the device. The asset inventory system provides instructions to on-board the device to a network as TSN-mandatory and sets the latency bounds for the network based on known or discovered characteristics of the device.

Deterministic Information Pull And Aggregation In A Destination-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (Dodag) Topology, Pascal Thubert, Jerome Henry, Patrick Wetterwald

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are presented herein that support a deterministic collection method in the form of a scheduled pull mechanism, whereby a collection point may compute a schedule and then distribute the same so that all of the collecting nodes and network nodes can optimally transmit, aggregate, and relay information to the collection point. Under aspects of the presented techniques, a distributed set may be organized as a Destination-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) topology to the collection point. The above-described schedule may then be generated whereby the DODAG parents emit only after all of their children (and, recursively, all of their descendants) …

A Linguistic Study Of Relative Clauses In George Bernard Shaw's "Arms And The Man", المدرّس المساعد يونس مهدي صالح

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The study tries to shed light on the relative clauses used in literary texts namely Shaw's 'Arms and the Man'. A relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies or describes an antecedent i.e. a preceding noun. Relative clauses are of great importance since they help in understanding sentences as well as providing a choice for writers to vary their texts. Relative clauses consist of three elements: head noun, modifying clause and relativizer. Literary authors shape the language of their texts to suit their purposes. The study postulates that relative clauses are common in the play and relative pronouns functioning …

Female Representation In Hard Times By Charles Dickens, د / نبراس احمد عبدالله

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The fight for women's emancipation has existed for centuries, dormant in the previous era. Still, the sprouting of radical activity in the women's movement gathered impetus and peaked in the late Victorian era. The feminist agitation of the era was a noticeable feature that shocked the Victorian conservative. The term was first used by French dramatist Alexander Dumas in 1872. From the Hebrew Bible and Greek philosophy to the present, the female tends to be defined by negative reference-weak, docile, virile, and sensual. The study of Victorian feminists is a source of interest to the extent of modern feminism. The …

دراسة فنیة لصورة «أنا» فی شعر اجود مجبل, الباحثة سلامه حاكم جاسم الصافي, الدكتور بهروز قربان زاده, الاستاذ مصطفى كمالجو

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

إنَّ صورة «أنا» من أهم الدراسات الصورلوجیة فی الأَدب الحدیث ونالت اهتمام النقاد کثیرا نظرا لما فیها من جمالیة فنیة إذ إن الشاعر کثیرا ما یحاول أن یبرز نفسه فی اسمی الصور ویجسدها فی أبهی الحلل الفنیة لذا اعتنی بها الشعراء من قدیم الزمان وکان الشاعر اجود مجبل العراقی من الشعراء الشباب فی العصر الحدیث ، الذي أجاد في رسم صورته الفنیة وبرزت صورة «أنا» فی شعره بدرجة عالیة من الجودة ورسم فیها سماته الشخصیة وسمات شعبه لذا نسعی فی هذه المقالة لدراسة صورة أنا فی شعره عبر المنهج الوصفی التحلیلی.

وخلص البحث إلی أن الشاعر اجود مجبل اعتنی فی …

نظراتٌ على البنيويَّةِ وعلاقتها بنقدِ المورُوثِ اللُّغويِّ, م. م. صلاح فرحان شتيوي العنزي, أ.م.د. عماد علوان حسين

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يَقُوم البحْث على تَقدِيم قِراءة لِلْفكْر اللُّغَويِّ اَلحدِيث عِنْد رُوَّاد المدْرسة اللَّنْديَّة اَلتِي أَسسَها العالم اللُّغَويُّ الإنْجليزيُّ فِيرْث، وَممَّن تتلْمذوا مُبَاشرَة على يد فِيرْث وَهُم: إِبْراهيم أنيس، وَتَمام حَسَّان، وعبْد الرَّحْمن أيُّوب، وَكَمال بشر، ومحْمود السِّعْران، فقد تَميَّز جِيل الرُّوَّاد بِأَنه كان مِن أَبنَاء مَدْرَسة لُغَويَّة وَاحِدة، هِي مَدْرَسة لَندَن، إِذ تُخصِّص مُعْظمهم فِي عِلْم اَللغَة أو أحد فُروعه فِي جَامِعة لَندَن، وبعْد عَودتِهم مِن بَعثتِهم تصدَّوْا لِلتَّدْريس والْبَحْث اللُّغَويِّ فِي الجامعات المصْريَّة. واخْتلفتْ اِتِّجاهاتهم فِي تَقدِيم عِلْم اَللغَة الباحث العرَبيُّ اِخْتلافًا واضحًا، وَيمكِن أن نُجْمِل هَذِه الاتِّجاهات فِي تيَّارَات ثَلاثَة وَاضِحة صاحبتْ تَقدِيم النَّظريَّة اللُّغويَّة الحديثة وَهِي: البنْيويَّة ونقْد …

إعادة هيكلة المصارف بالاندماج المصرفي, أ.د. خالص نافع أمين, الباحث: أسماء عبد الستار أحمد

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

إنَّ القطاع المصرفي يعتبر من أكثر الأنشطة الاقتصادية التي تأثرت بمظاهر العولمة، والتي تشهدها الساحة المصرفية، لذلك كان لا بد من معالجة المعوقات التي تواجه المصاف، وبالأخص التعثر المالي وضعف الإدارة المصرفية، فقد يتضح للوصي في المصارف الخاصة في تقديره أنَّ الاندماج المصرفي حلاً لمعالجة التعثر الذي يعاني منه المصرف، فقد يجد الوصي أنَّهُ عن طريق الاندماج المصرفي سوف يتمكن من متابعة نشاطه، إضافةً إلى تقليل الجهد والمال، وهذا يبين لنا أهمية الاندماج المصرفي باعتباره وسيلة فعالة في إعادة هيكلة المصارف.

الكيمياء العاطفية وعلاقتها بالشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين, أ.م.د. أحمد عودة خلف داود

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

الكيمياء العاطفية وعلاقتها بالشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين

يستهدف البحث الحالي ما يأتي :

1- قياس الكيمياء العاطفية لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

2 - قياس دلالة الفروق في الكيمياء العاطفية على وفق متغير الجنس لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

3 – قياس الشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

4 - قياس دلالة الفروق في الشعور بالارتياح على وفق متغير الجنس لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

5 – قياس العلاقة بين الكيمياء العاطفية والشعور بالارتياح لدى المشرفين الاختصاصيين .

ولغرض تحقيق أهداف البحث الحالي قام الباحث : بناء مقياس الكيمياء العاطفية ومقياس الشعور بالارتياح وتألفا بصيغتهما النهائية بعد استكمال شروط الصدق والثبات وتمييز …

التميز الاداري وعلاقته بالدعم الوظيفي لدى مديري المدارس الثانوية, المدرس سيف علي حكيم

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يهدف البحث الى التعرف على مستوى التميز الاداري لدى مديري المدارس الثانوية الحكومية في مديريات تربية بغداد الرصافة الثلاث من وجهة نظر اعضاء الهيئة التدريسية ، وكذلك التعرف على مستوى الدعم الوظيفي لدى مديري المدارس الثانوية ثم ايجاد العلاقة الارتباطية بين التميز الاداري والدعم الوظيفي من وجهة نظر اعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في المدارس الثانوية ، واستخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي الارتباطي كوسيلة للوصول الى نتائج البحث اما مجتمع البحث فقد كان اعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في المدارس الثانوية الحكومية لمديريات تربية محافظة بغداد الرصافة الاولى والثانية والثالثة وكان عددهم ( 1627) مدرساً اما عينة البحث فقد اختيرت بالأسلوب العشوائي وبنسبة ( 10%) …