This article aims to clarify Japanese South-commissioned writers’ perception of Eurasians in 1940s Indonesia on the basis Abe Tomoji’s retelling a tale treachery his essay “Chi Tsuchi Kokoro— Eruberuferuto no koto nado” (1944.7). The question is that Pieter Elberfeld, Eurasian man accused plotting rebellion against Dutch East Indies Company authorities with Javanese assistance, who was then bru...

Partition of India in 1947 has been one the major events history South Asia that played a crucial role shaping three nations India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A number narratives on background partition have given rise to sub-genre which authors reflect reconstruct pain, suffering, loss alternative histories partition. The authors, their effort, give voice victims critique political players. Beng...

The order in which user stories are implemented can have a significant influence on the overall development cost. The total cost of developing a system is non commutative because of dependencies between user stories. This paper presents a systematic and lightweight method to identify dependencies between user stories, aiding in the reduction of their impact on the overall project cost. Initial ...

In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are stated for the Craig-Sakamoto equation det(I − sA − tB) = det(I − sA)det(I − tB) to hold for all scalars s, t ∈ C. Moreover, spectral properties for matrices A and B that satisfy this equation are investigated.

The concept of development as freedom can be seen as an expansion process of real freedoms people enjoy, associated with their freedom of choices in social, political and economical spheres. Certain international agencies propose that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allow this development to be reached more efficiently and quickly. While there are success stories galore, there is...

When was the last time you read a newspaper and was bombarded with articles you would rather not see? Current news media shows massive number of news every day. But from tragedies to happy stories, people might want to choose to read only those articles that fit their current mood. The purpose of this project is to present the Magnet News, a Web tool in which users can choose if they want to se...

In this paper we sketch a multi-step scenario of a teacher and her classroom, who uses a few computer-based learning tools and their attached teaching analytics views. The tools that are described are extensions of the toolset of the authors (ComIn-M and SMALA) and others; the scenarios should thus serve as user-story in the design of future analytical softwares that support the teacher’s manag...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet starts out as a classic love story: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl get married. Of course, it turns into a tragedy when they realize that their relationship is destined to fail. Surprisingly, many offices in corporate America follow a similar-though less morbid--trend. A 2005 survey revealed that 58% of employees had dated someone at wor...