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This paper explores the mythical basis, nationalist affiliations and religious, historical past in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. These two selected novels carry different mythical narratives and sensibilities. This paper discusses a journey where time and space are transcended, which is called a “mythic journey”. Issues related to culture, religion and their association with ideological grounds are very prominent. Elements of religious past and feelings attached to these grounds are very vibrant. The author shares his keen observation and deep experience with nationalist affiliations and their impact. This research is qualitative in nature. For better conceptual understanding, documentaries and works of Joseph Campbell and theories presented by Allan Watts: especially his book Myth and Rituals in Christianity, support this research as a major theoretical framework. This research is helpful to know about the historical past and the mythical grounds of that time.

Accurate prediction of software effort is important for planning, scheduling, and allocating resources. However, software effort estimation has been a challenging task. Although numerous e...

Software Effort is defined as the person months required to make a software application. Software effort estimation is usually the most important phase in the software development life cycle. Software effort estimation requires high accuracy at early phases, but accurate estimations are difficult to achieve. Machine Learning techniques are widely exploited that assist in getting improved evaluated values. In this paper we review, analyze and evaluate the work done in this area. This paper highlights general overview of effort estimation using different machine learning techniques containing latest trends in this field. Introducing the new approach is supportive for the reduction of cost and effort. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated to compute the project effort and comparison based on the parameters such as Correct_Percent, Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Absolute Error (RMAE) and Relative Absolute Error (RAE).

Aspectual Business Process Modelling is not a new concept in business process based development to support the separation of the cross cutting concerns. Most of the researchers use the concept of the heavyweight extensions of the business processes to incorporate the aspects. This requires changes in the meta-models of the languages and the tool infrastructures, which is not a feasible option. Some of the researchers also provide lightweight extensions in the form of profiles, but these are mostly incomplete and do not provide solutions for modelling some important aspectual concepts like Pointcuts effectively. To overcome this issue, in this paper, we provide a lightweight extension of the business processes expressed in BPMN to incorporate the aspect specific concepts in it. We propose a profile ABPMN which uses the existing notations of the BPMN models for expressing aspectual concepts. Further, we developed a language PCDL to express the pointcuts in an effective way. The language is implemented using XText in Eclipse. To evaluate the applicability of our approach, we applied it on a case study of the E-Bidding system.