The Gyred Identity: Tracing Yeatsian Elements in Sylvia Plath

Rosy Chamling,Manisha Shrestha 한국예이츠학회 2023 한국예이츠 저널 Vol.70 No.-

Yeats’s concept of the gyre is a perfect metaphor for identity - fluid, ever-changing and moving. This paper seeks to study the inversely proportional relationship between the two primary identities of Sylvia Plath, through the metaphor of the Yeatsian gyre. Sylvia Plath’s journey as a poet cannot be kept away from her journey as a person. She was a confessional poet, who wrote to relieve herself of the agonising pain of the tryst between her head and her heart. It seeks to present how there are connections between every occurrence. There is always a pattern underlying events, and some events help to create these patterns. The Yeatsian gyre is the pattern that Plath exhibits. While the vortex that represents Plath the person shrinks, the second vortex, which represents Plath the poet and her work, simultaneously grows and widens.

Five clusters of flood management articles in Scopus from 2000 to 2019 using social network analysis

Rosy Riani Kusuma,Ida Widianingsih,Sinta Ningrum,Rita Myrna 한국과학학술지편집인협의회 2021 Science Editing Vol.8 No.1

Purpose This study aimed to analyze the bibliographic characteristics and content of articles on flood management published in journals indexed by Scopus written by researchers from throughout the world from 2000 to 2019. Methods We obtained data from the Scopus database on October 2, 2020. “Flood management” was used to search across several categories, including article title, abstract, and keywords, filtered by subject area (social science; environmental science; and business, management, and accounting). We only retrieved articles written in English. We conducted content analysis using the VOSviewer software and visualized the co-occurrence of keywords and bibliographic coupling of sources and countries. Results Following the study protocol, we found 984 articles on flood management over the past 20 years. Among the three subject areas, environmental science was the most productive field for publishing flood management articles. Flood control, flood management, and risk assessment were the top three most popular topics. Flood management publications were published in 266 journals. In total, 86 countries collaborated to produce research related to flood management. Natural Hazard Journal and Journal of Flood Risk Management were the most prominent journals. Institutions from Europe ominated the top 10 institutions with the most publications by affiliated researchers. Conclusion From a global perspective, flood management research in the past two decades has increased significantly. There were five major topic clusters, and European-published journals ominated publications. Thus, Asian institutions need to conduct more active research on this topic.

MARKETING TO CHINESE MILLENNIALS: WEIBO AS A MARKETING TOOL FOR LUXURY BRANDS

Rosy Boardman,Marta Blazquez Cano,Shaoqianqian Deng 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2018 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2018 No.07

This paper explores how luxury brands can utilize Weibo in order to create an effective marketing strategy that appeals to millenials. China accounts for 47% of global online retail sales (eMarketer, 2016) and it is predicted that millenials (born 1980-1995) and Generation Z will make up two-fifths of luxury spending by 2025 (eMarketer, 2017). However, due to political constraints, popular western social media sites cannot be used to target this vast market of online Chinese consumers. Weibo is one of the most popular social media sites in China, with 97.2% using the site (Yu et al., 2017). In order to target them effectively brands need to gain an indepth understanding of Chinese consumers and what would appeal to them on Weibo. The majority of social media research uses quantitative methodologies on popular social media, such as Facebook and Twitter. There are limited qualitative studies exploring consumers’ feelings and attitudes towards brands’ social media activities on Weibo. Due to different cultural backgrounds Chinese consumer behavior is likely to show a different trend to Western countries. Semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 12 participants were conducted. Findings showed that convenience, immediacy, social standing/status and entertainment were key drivers for using Weibo. Fashion information, latest product releases and videos were the most popular type of posts. Consumers read comments and tagged their friends, emphasising the importance of e-word-of-mouth (e-wom) and the influence that it can have on purchasing behaviour. This also facilitated the creation and feeling of a brand community. Consumers were very receptive to celebrity collaborations which influenced purchasing behavior. The main criticism of luxury brand’s Weibo was that it was not updated enough and Weibo did not have an influence on trust. This study provides a clear insight into what Chinese millenials want from luxury brands’ Weibo and how it can influence their purchasing behaviors and e-wom. The findings are novel, contributing to the academic literature through the conduction of a qualitative study exploring an under-researched area. This research has practical implications for luxury brands, as they should provide regular, up-to-date content consisting of videos and celebrity collaborations. A limitation could be the limited number of participants, yet, findings provide an interesting insight into consumers’ perceptions of Weibo and how it influences their attitudes and behaviors towards luxury brands.

Ful and One-Half Monopoles of the SU(2) YMH Theory

Rosy Teh,Khai-Ming Wong 한국물리학회 2008 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.53 No.2

If the SU(2) Yang-Mils-Higgs (YMH) equations are solved using the monopole ansatz, a large variety of monopoles configurations can be obtained from some given general solutions. These general solutions poses miror axial symmetries with a parameter m. If these solutions are restricted to poses only axial symmetry, a rich spectrum of monopoles configurations can be obtained by varying m. Vortex rings appear in the antimonopole-monopole-antimonopole (A-M-A) conguration when m is an integer greater than one. However, when -0.5 ≤ m < 0, a half-monopole configura- tionisobtained. Inthispaper, we will show that the same general axial solutionis a full monopole of magnetic charge -1 and a one-half monopole of magnetic charge +1/2 when 0 < m < 1. The one-half monopole is located at the origin whereas the one monopole is located on the positive z-axis. The ful monopole's distance, z0, from the one-half monopole approaches infinity as m approaches zero. When m is close to one, z0, approaches a minimum value of 1.2599.

Goodman-Rønning-Type Harmonic Univalent Functions

Thomas Rosy ..et al. KYUNGPOOK UNIVERSITY 2001 Kyungpook mathematical journal Vol.41 No.1

We define and investigate a family of complex-valued harmonic functions that are orientation preserving and univalent in the open unit disk and are related to Goodman-Ronning-type uniformly convex functions. We obtain coefficient conditions, extreme points, distortion bounds, convolution conditions, and convex combination for the above family of harmonic functions.

Bayesian analysis of financial volatilities addressing long-memory, conditional heteroscedasticity and skewed error distribution

Oh, Rosy,Shin, Dong Wan,Oh, Man-Suk The Korean Statistical Society 2017 Communications for statistical applications and me Vol.24 No.5

Volatility plays a crucial role in theory and applications of asset pricing, optimal portfolio allocation, and risk management. This paper proposes a combined model of autoregressive moving average (ARFIMA), generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GRACH), and skewed-t error distribution to accommodate important features of volatility data; long memory, heteroscedasticity, and asymmetric error distribution. A fully Bayesian approach is proposed to estimate the parameters of the model simultaneously, which yields parameter estimates satisfying necessary constraints in the model. The approach can be easily implemented using a free and user-friendly software JAGS to generate Markov chain Monte Carlo samples from the joint posterior distribution of the parameters. The method is illustrated by using a daily volatility index from Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). JAGS codes for model specification is provided in the Appendix.

Predictive analysis in insurance: An application of generalized linear mixed models

Oh Rosy,Woo Nayoung,Yoo Jae Keun,Ahn Jae Youn 한국통계학회 2023 Communications for statistical applications and me Vol.30 No.5

Generalized linear models and generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) are fundamental tools for predictive analyses. In insurance, GLMMs are particularly important, because they provide not only a tool for prediction but also a theoretical justification for setting premiums. Although thousands of resources are available for introducing GLMMs as a classical and fundamental tool in statistical analysis, few resources seem to be available for the insurance industry. This study targets insurance professionals already familiar with basic actuarial mathematics and explains GLMMs and their linkage with classical actuarial pricing tools, such as the Buhlmann premium method. Focus of the study is mainly on the modeling aspect of GLMMs and their application to pricing, while avoiding technical issues related to statistical estimation, which can be automatically handled by most statistical software.

Reduced graphene oxide/strontium titanate heterostructured nanocomposite as sunlight driven photocatalyst for degradation of organic dye pollutants

A. Rosy,G. Kalpana 한국물리학회 2018 Current Applied Physics Vol.18 No.9

Reduced graphene oxide/Strontium titanate (RGO/SrTiO3) heterostructured nanocomposite was synthesized by coupling Hummer's synthesized graphene oxide (GO) with hydrothermally synthesized SrTiO3 nanoparticles (SrTiO3) through a facile and unique high energy ultrasonication technique using triple solvents. XRD result confirmed the successful formation of pure, single phase and primitive cubic crystal structure RGO/SrTiO3 heterostructured nanocomposite. SEM result confirmed the successful intercalation of SrTiO3 nanoparticles over the two dimensional networks of RGO nanosheets. The synergistic and beneficial interactions between SrTiO3 and RGO resulted in smaller crystallite size (53 nm), reduced band gap (2.87 eV) and larger specific surface area (31m2/g) than that of as prepared pure SrTiO3 nanoparticles. RGO strongly influenced the photocatalytic activity of SrTiO3 and hence RGO/SrTiO3 heterostructured nanocomposite exhibited greater efficiency in degrading Rhodamine B (RhB) and Rose Bengal (RB) organic dye pollutants under natural sunlight irradiation than that of pure SrTiO3 nanoparticles.

THE DARK SIDE OF CHATBOTS AND ITS EFFECT ON THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE IN LUXURY RETAILING

Ruofei Chen,Rosy Boardman,Claudia Henninger 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2023 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2023 No.07

We are living in a world that is increasingly digital and undergoing dramatic changes as a result. In particular for luxury fashion, growing numbers of online customers as well as fast changing business environment, luxury retailers face the challenge of differentiating themselves by offering a better online customer experience (Chen et al. 2021). By doing so, luxury fashion retailers are increasingly deploying chatbots in their service encounters to enhance customer experience (Roy & Naidoo, 2021). Chatbots are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Hoyer et al. 2020) and are an example of AI robot that can provide human-computer interactions on a retail website (Lee et al. 2017). Intended to enhance the online customer experience, chatbots have the potential to provide a better understanding of the product performance, enable efficient use of customer time, and help build crucial customer relationships (Rese et al. 2020; Wilson-Nash et al. 2020; Xu et al. 2022). Therefore, chatbots’ potential has been highly valued by fashion retail industry and academia (Jiang et al. 2022).

THE DARK SIDE OF CHATBOTS AND ITS EFFECT ON THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE IN LUXURY RETAILING

Ruofei Chen,Rosy Boardman,Claudia Henninger 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2023 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2023 No.07

We are living in a world that is increasingly digital and undergoing dramatic changes as a result. In particular for luxury fashion, growing numbers of online customers as well as fast changing business environment, luxury retailers face the challenge of differentiating themselves by offering a better online customer experience (Chen et al. 2021). By doing so, luxury fashion retailers are increasingly deploying chatbots in their service encounters to enhance customer experience (Roy & Naidoo, 2021). Chatbots are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Hoyer et al. 2020) and are an example of AI robot that can provide human-computer interactions on a retail website (Lee et al. 2017). Intended to enhance the online customer experience, chatbots have the potential to provide a better understanding of the product performance, enable efficient use of customer time, and help build crucial customer relationships (Rese et al. 2020; Wilson-Nash et al. 2020; Xu et al. 2022). Therefore, chatbots’ potential has been highly valued by fashion retail industry and academia (Jiang et al. 2022).