Volume 13 | Issue 10 |

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As global populations continue to age, the prevalence of dementia is escalating, placing immense pressure on already strained healthcare systems. One of the most pressing challenges in dementia care is the high rate of hospitalizations, many of which are avoidable and can lead to worsened health outcomes, emotional distress, and increased healthcare costs. This article examines the pivotal role community health workers (CHWs) play in mitigating these challenges by acting as a vital link between formal medical services and the patient's home environment. CHWs contribute significantly through early detection of health deterioration, personalized support, routine monitoring, and emotional assistance to both patients and caregivers. By fostering trust and continuity of care within communities, CHWs help reduce the reliance on emergency services. Utilizing a qualitative and comparative approach, this study assesses CHW-led dementia care initiatives across various healthcare models and geographical regions. The findings underscore that when CHWs are comprehensively trained, integrated into multidisciplinary healthcare teams, and supported through robust health policies, hospitalization rates among dementia patients notably decline. Moreover, CHWs help families navigate complex care processes, offer culturally sensitive education, and strengthen caregiver resilience. These outcomes point to the need for increased investment in CHW programs as an effective, scalable, and human-centered strategy to address the growing dementia crisis. In conclusion, empowering CHWs is not only a cost-effective approach but also a compassionate response to the demands of dementia care in aging populations, offering a path toward improved patient well-being and healthcare sustainability.

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Dementia Care, Community Health Workers, Aging Populations, Hospitalization Reduction, Caregiver Support, Cognitive Impairment, Home-Based Interventions, Patient-Centered Care, Early Detection, Healthcare Accessibility, Preventive Health, Public Health Strategy, Multidisciplinary Care, Policy Integration, Geriatric Health, Community Engagement, Aging in Place, Chronic Disease Management, Health Equity, Mental Health Support.

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well- being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". This definition of health highlights the importance of understanding health and disease burden within the personal, social and cultural context specific to the patient those who all are affected by CVD.2 Every year approximately 1.5 million American have heart attack. Myocardial Infarction is the leading cause, an estimated 5,00,000 deaths occur each year. About 2,40,000 women die of Myocardial Infarction. Approximately 2,50,000 people die of before they reach the hospital. Studies indicate that half of all heart attack victims wait more than 2 hours before getting help.

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Effectiveness, Knowledge, cardiac patients.

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This paper examines the representation of trauma, memory, and recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) and Nicholas Spark's Safe Haven (2010) through the combined frameworks of trauma theory and psychoanalysis. Drawing on Cathy Caruth's concept of trauma's belated temporality, the analysis highlights how Morrison's nonlinear narrative structure and fragmented voices replicate the disorienting experience of traumatic memory, while Sparks employs suspense-driven flashbacks to dramatize the persistent threat of abuse within a linear, romance-thriller framework. The study borrows from Freud's psychoanalytic concepts, particularly the "return of the repressed," and Dominick LaCapra's distinction between "acting out" and "working through" to illuminate how Sethe and Katie navigate the intrusion of past trauma into their present lives. As Judith Herman emphasizes, recovery is a relational process that depends on safety, remembrance, and reconnection, a framework that resonates with both Sethe's communal healing and Katie's reliance on supportive relationships to confront abuse. Furthermore, Caruth's insistence that trauma resists full narrative integration underscores why both Morrison and Sparks stage memory as fractured, intrusive, and yet ethically necessary to articulate. In this way, both texts demonstrate the centrality of memory, repression, and relational support in negotiating trauma, highlighting literature's capacity to mediate between the ethical imperatives of witnessing suffering and the human desire for emotional closure.

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Trauma, memory, repression, recovery psychoanalysis and belated temporality

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Bharati Mukherjee, a pioneering voice in the Asian American literary canon, is predominantly read through postcolonial and feminist frameworks that emphasize themes of cultural displacement, identity crisis, and gendered agency. While these readings are invaluable, this article argues for a re-interpretation of her major novels--Jasmine (1989), The Holder of the World (1993), and Desirable Daughters (2002)--through the emerging theoretical paradigm of critical posthumanism and new materialism. This lens shifts the focus from the psychological and cultural interiority of the immigrant subject to the dynamic, agential role of non-human forces (the body, technology, geography, objects) in co-constituting identity. It is contended that Mukherjee's protagonists do not merely adapt to a new culture; they undergo a radical, material metamorphosis facilitated by their entanglement with the American landscape, its technologies, and the visceral capacities of their own bodies. This reading moves beyond the dialectic of loss and assimilation to reveal a more complex, posthuman vision of becoming, where identity is a fluid assemblage rather than a stable essence, anticipating key concerns in 21st-century thought about mobility, materiality, and subjectivity.

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Bharati Mukherjee, New Materialism, Critical Posthumanism, Immigrant Literature, Diaspora, Identity, Metamorphosis, Non-Human Actants, Assemblage Theory.

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Access to reliable and affordable energy remains a major challenge in rural and remote regions of India, where grid extension is often economically unfeasible. Many households and small enterprises still rely on diesel generators for agriculture, businesses, lighting, water supply, education, and healthcare. While diesel provides short-term relief, it is costly, inefficient, and environmentally unsustainable. Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES), combining solar, wind, biomass, small hydro, and battery storage with conventional backup, present scalable and cost-effective alternatives. These systems reduce fossil fuel dependency, strengthen energy security, and support socio-economic development. However, challenges such as intermittency of renewable resources, limited reliability, inadequate maintenance frameworks, and financial barriers hinder their widespread adoption. This paper reviews HRES design, technologies, and applications in off-grid and grid-connected contexts, with India as a case study. It identifies lessons from successful and failed projects and recommends solutions to enhance reliability, optimize configurations, and develop supportive policies.

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Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Off-grid, Grid-connected, Energy Storage, Smart Grids, Reliability, Rural Electrification, Decarbonization

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This paper focuses on integrating Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) and blockchain technology to improve the security and reliability of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Traditional security models are unsuited to the decentralized and trustless nature of the DeFi model where MPC can take place providing privacy-preserving financial operations whilst still absorbing sensitive data which is exposed. By pairing together ZTA's "never trust, always verify" philosophy and blockchain's immutable, transparent ledger, we propose a many layered architectural schema that would provide for continuity in verification, decentralized policy enforcement and tamper proof auditing. The integration addresses important security issues like the misbehavior of nodes, input corruption, and collusion, and encouraged scalability, compliance, and resilience. Practical feasibility of the approach is demonstrated by case studies of projects such as Chainlink DECO and Threshold Network. Besides its application in finance, the proposed model provides potential implications for DeFi and other privacy-sensitive fields that require clinicians' trust when storing and accessing data.

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Zero-Trust Architecture, Blockchain, Secure Multi-Party Computation, Decentralized Finance, DeFi Security, Privacy-Preserving Computation

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This Research examines the evolving legal recognition of transgender persons in India with a specific focus on their rights to marriage and adoption. Drawing on doctrinal analysis of statutory frameworks such as the Hindu Marriage Act, Special Marriage Act, and the Juvenile Justice Act, alongside adoption guidelines of the Central Adoption Resource Authority, the study identifies critical gaps in the current legal system. Landmark judicial pronouncements such as NALSA v. Union of India and Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India are analyzed to highlight the constitutional underpinnings of equality, dignity, and privacy under Articles 14 and 21. However, conflicting judicial trends and administrative practices continue to obstruct transgender persons' access to marriage registration and adoption procedures. Complementing doctrinal research, the study incorporates qualitative empirical insights from semi-structured interviews with transgender individuals, NGOs, adoption agencies, and legal practitioners. These findings reveal lived experiences marked by bureaucratic hurdles, stigma, and inconsistent application of rights despite progressive constitutional jurisprudence. Comparative perspectives from jurisdictions such as Argentina, Canada, and Nepal demonstrate viable pathways where legislative reform, administrative guidelines, and robust anti-discrimination frameworks have enabled inclusive recognition of marriage and adoption rights for transgender persons. The discussion employs constitutional tests of reasonable classification, proportionality, and dignity to argue for remedial action in India through a combination of judicial recognition, legislative reform, and administrative directives. The policy roadmap recommends short-term interventions such as registrar and adoption agency guidelines, medium-term statutory amendments, and long-term public sensitization and anti-discrimination measures. The study concludes by reaffirming the constitutional mandate of equality and dignity, calling for urgent harmonization of Indian family law with trans-inclusive constitutional principles.

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Transgender rights, marriage law, adoption law, constitutional equality, Article 14, Article 21, NALSA judgment, Special Marriage Act, Juvenile Justice Act, CARA, comparative perspectives, legal reform in India.

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Military stations, especially those deployed in remote or conflict-prone areas, face critical challenges in maintaining reliable, secure, and sustainable energy supplies. Traditionally, diesel generators have been the primary source of energy, but they impose high operational costs, fuel logistics issues, and carbon emissions. This paper presents the design and analysis of a hybrid off-grid energy system for military stations, integrating photovoltaic (PV) solar panels, wind turbines, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and a diesel generator as backup. This study evaluates the performance of the proposed system under varying climatic and operational conditions. Results indicate that the hybrid configuration can reduce diesel fuel consumption by up to 60%, enhance energy resilience, and provide secure, deployable, and sustainable power for military operations.

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Hybrid Energy System, Military Stations, Off-Grid Power, Renewable Energy, Microgrid

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This paper investigates whether government adoption of a domestic Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider -- using Zoho as a focal case -- affects governance outcomes, transparency, and citizen trust in India. We combine policy analysis, literature review, and a mixed-methods empirical framework (surveys, interviews, and administrative data analysis) to evaluate perceived transparency, reported service quality, and trust metrics before and after migration. The study situates the Zoho transition within India's recent procurement and data-governance shifts, analyzes technical capabilities (storage-as-a-service, security & compliance, global accessibility), and offers challenges + mitigation strategies for policymakers and implementers.

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Methods, Iterative deployment, Feedback mechanisms, Reward model for reinforcement learning

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Zeolites are microporous, crystalline aluminosilicates known for their exceptional ion-exchange, adsorption, and molecular sieving capabilities. These properties make them highly effective materials for environmental remediation. This paper provides a scientific overview of zeolite-based technologies used to remove contaminants from water, air, and soil. The mechanisms by which zeolites interact with heavy metals, radionuclides, ammonium, and organic pollutants are examined in detail. Both natural and synthetic zeolites are considered, along with surface modification techniques that enhance their selectivity and efficiency. Applications such as wastewater treatment, air purification, and soil decontamination are critically reviewed, supported by recent case studies and experimental findings. The environmental sustainability, regeneration potential, and cost-effectiveness of zeolite-based approaches are also assessed. By highlighting current challenges and future prospects, this paper emphasizes the role of zeolites as versatile, scalable, and eco-friendly materials for addressing global environmental pollution.

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Surface modification, Eco-friendly materials ,Regeneration Potential,Cost-effectiveness ,Sustainable technologies

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