Browsing by Author "Paudel, Prakash"

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    Abuse of Women’s Human Right in Iran: Questioning the Justification of Liberation Narrative in Azar Nafisi’s Memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran
    (Central Department of English, 2013) Paudel, Prakash
    In the aftermath of the 9/11, increased U.S. focus on Iran as a part of the military action dubbed as axis of evil has been justified by some humanitarian acts of defending women’s human rights and liberating them who are living oppressed under Islamic or authoritarian regime. In this context, Nafisi teaches Western literature to let her seven students know about the universality of human rights in general and women’s right in particular. Nafisi’s claim of advocating for women’s right by giving voice to her students is not valid since she has misrepresented them as the most victims in the Islamic regime in Iran who need teaching of Western literature to talk about democracy, freedom and women’s right. So, Nafisi like a typical feminist orientalist that purports to defend freedom, democracy and women’s right but she re-affirms that such values are originated from and accessed through western cultural sources thus is steeped in classic Orientalist stereotypes bolstering the rationale of Western intervention to rescue Muslim women from the repression of Islamic regime.
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    Capital Budgeting of Hydroelectric project (With reference to Chilime Hydropower Project)
    (Faculty of Management, 2008) Paudel, Prakash
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    George Orwell’s 1984: An Exploration into the Roles of Agency and Sensor
    (Faculty of English, 2017) Paudel, Prakash
    This research work explores into the complex relationships among the participants of the political system, and explicates the simultaneous existence of hope in the seemingly dystopian fictional world crafted in George Orwell’s 1984. The narrative parallelly renders the pessimism and optimism, one explicitly whereas the next implicitly. The gloomy picture of totalitarian regime is directly painted as the misuse of technological advancement and state institutions become escalating. Using the modern inventions and technologies, rulers monitor the mobile movements of the people, heavily discouraging them to breach the scheduled daily rituals. The looming and pervasive modern panopticon limits the performative power of people. As a result, the opportunity of exercising their potential decisive power shrinks. Therefore, they have to adhere to the normativity set by the political rulers, shutting down the degrees of hope. Yet, the people still hold the individual power to go against the regime with resistance and, for that, the narrative rewards with the voice of ruled ones, a profound source of hope. To penetrate into such a parallel functioning of hope, the agency and sensor of the characters are taken into account. The research blends political theories, having insights from Critical Discourse Analysis in general and Paul Simpson’s idea in particular. This research, therefore, examines the role of sensor and agency played by participants, and comes to a conclusion that narrative rewards the both roles on the ruler and the ruled ones. Hence it concludes that even in totalitarian regime, there remains a sense of hope even amidst looming hopelessness.
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    “SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION”
    (I.O.E. Pulchowk Campus, 2023-04) Kunwar, Jibalal; Paudel, Prakash; K.C., Ramesh; Bista, Sanil
    Selective Harmonic Elimination (SHE) is a widely used technique in power electronic converters to mitigate the detrimental effects of harmonics on system performance. Harmonics, which are undesired sinusoidal components occurring at frequencies that are multiples of the fundamental frequency, can lead to waveform distortion, increased losses, and interference with other electronic devices. The SHE technique selectively eliminates specific harmonics from the output waveform by precisely controlling the switching instants of the converter. This research project focuses on investigating the theory and implementation of Selective Harmonic Elimination for square wave inverters, which commonly produce harmonically rich waveforms due to the abrupt transitions in the output voltage. The primary objective of this study is to design a selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHE PWM) controller for square wave inverters to reduce the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) present in the output waveform. The research project aims to develop an effective SHE algorithm capable of selectively eliminating specific harmonics while preserving the desired characteristics of the output waveform.