Volume 11 | Issue 12 |

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Despite long-standing research evidence for the effectiveness of psychological treatments, there still exists a wide reluctance to seek psychological help. This study aims to unveil the challenges in seeking professional's help among South Indians. For this purpose, the schedule for the Semi-Structured Interview was developed through 4 focus group discussions and validated with Subject Matter Experts (n = 7). Out of this process, 12 interview questions were developed. Through the purposive sampling technique, the data was obtained from 136 samples (68 males and 68 females) between the age group of 12 to 40. The responses were analyzed based on the gender and age group, and it was categorized into: opinion towards approaching a professional's help, the barriers in seeking a professional's support, perspectives about psychology as a profession, and insights about psychological illness and interventions. The findings revealed that 70% of the respondents addressed the psychological profession as holistic and realized its importance, but still 48% of the sample had a negative opinion towards seeking professional's help, the factors that contributed to the negative impact were labeling, the revelation of personal information, expenses, and quack therapists. Though the respondents were aware of common mental illnesses like anxiety, stress, and depression, they were not aware of the intervention techniques available in the present time. The paper elucidated a detailed picture of the constraints, limitations, awareness, and opinion toward mental health support among South Indians.

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Mental health support, mental health professional, mental health stigma

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the agriculture industry, empowering farmers to address significant challenges. From livestock monitoring and conservation to plant & soil monitoring, IoT offers solutions that improve the quality, quantity, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness of agricultural production. Today's farms, regardless of size, can leverage IoT to remotely monitor sensors that detect soil moisture, crop growth, and pests. This information allows for smart control of connected harvesters and irrigation equipment. This project specifically focuses on monitoring soil parameters like moisture, temperature, and electrical conductivity. Automated irrigation based on these parameters is controlled by a microcontroller. The user receives text message notifications for any deviations from expected values, ensuring complete system health. Additionally, the project incorporates plant pest detection for comprehensive monitoring Greenhouses, controlled environments for plant cultivation, are another area where IoT can significantly impact. This project aims to design a simple, low-cost Arduino-based system for continuous monitoring and control of environmental parameters. This ensures optimal conditions for plant growth and yield.

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Internet of things (IOT), Arduino IDE, Microcontroller, moisture sensors, ESP32.

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There are different teaching methods practiced in all domains of education. Though we generally label any teaching method as pedagogy, its adult counterpart i.e. Andragogy is seen to have yielded quite good outcomes in higher education, particularly in professional courses. Here, the authors have employed two self-developed questionnaires, QASP and QASE based on Mallcom Knowles' six principles on 98 post-graduate students pursuing professional courses in various institutes in and around Kolkata. QASP tries to uncover their perspectives towards the principles while QASE tries to know about their experiences on the same dimensions. The results show that there is quite a difference between these two i.e. these students don't get to experience andragogy in their classrooms as much as they would like to. Dimension-wise deeper analysis reveals that five out of six principles are responsible for the difference while the sixth principle relating to internal motivation of the learners is not much potent in this case. Addressing this gap is essential to uplift the status of higher education in the country.

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Discrepancy between Students' Perspectives and their Experiences of Andragogy in Professional Higher Education

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Descriptive approach and descriptive design were used for the present study, Sample consisted of 50 mothers of under-five year children from Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab were selected using non-probability sampling technique. A structured knowledge questionnaires was given to assess the knowledge regarding importance of immunization and prevention of diseases. Before data collection the researcher introduces purpose of study, clarifies the queries and took verbal consent from subjects. Findings of the study revealed that majority of mothers of under five children has adequate knowledge (56%) and inadequate knowledge (44%) towards importance of immunization and prevention of diseases. Mean of 50 sample is 16.56 and standard deviation was 2.757 and mean percentage 55.20 The finding of the study shows that the mothers have adequate knowledge regarding importance of immunization and prevention of diseases. The overall knowledge towards importance of immunization and prevention of diseases was found to be favourable (55.20%).

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knowledge, importance, immunization, prevention mothers of under five children

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Advanced oxidation processes (likes H2O2/UV, Fe2+/ H2O2/ UV, Fe3+/ H2O2/UV, TiO2/ H2O2/UV) for the degradation of 2-nitrophenol (2-NP) in aqueous solution have been studied and compared, a comparison of these techniques have been done on the basis of pH influence, kinetic constant, stoichiometric coefficient and optimum oxidant/pollutant ratio. The study of effect of temperature (20-40 0C) was investigated at the previously obtained optimum conditions of above stated processes and the activations energy were determined and compared for each process at their optimum condition. Out of these tested processes Fe3+/H2O2/UV system proved to be the most efficient and occurs at a much high oxidation rate that help to reduced 100% COD by the dosing of 1.7 mmoll-1 of H2O2 and 9.3 X 10-3 mmoll-1of Fe3+ and within 75 minutes of the reaction time whole process get completed.

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2-Nitrophenol; UV radiation; Photo-Fenton; Photocatalysis; Chemical oxygen demand.

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The treatment of urban sewage is done by using activated biomass in the biological stage of the treatment at most of the sewage treatment plant. This method is developed log back and being used worldwide. During the last two decades granular biomass technology has immerged out to be far better process on cost, performance, low energy consumption and low foot print. This article reviews both the process and present a comparative data highlighting improvement demonstrated by granular sludge process over the activated sludge process. The review study refers to the full-scale operational plants that apply granular biomass in sewage treatment and highlight benefits of granular sludge technology over activated sludge technology.

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Activated biomass, Granular Biomass, Sewage

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Software called the Student Management System is beneficial to both college administrators and students. All tasks in the existing system are completed by hand. It takes a lot of money and time. The different student-related activities are handled via our student management system. It's an online program where users can register and are classified as staff, students, or administrators. The administrator has the ability to modify, remove, and add new users. A student can create a user account, add, update, and remove information from it, including placements, results, and personal information. Employees are able to examine each student's data and a comprehensive summary on the student's feedback. There will be a feedback feature for students. Staff and administration will be informed of any respectful input.

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Contemplate, Fostering, Modernize, Streamlined, Paradigm, Digitalization, User-Friendly

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Abstract: This research paper explores the significance of Vipassana meditation, a mindfulness technique derived from Buddhist traditions, and its growing importance in contemporary life. The study begins by outlining the historical development of Vipassana, tracing its roots back over two millennia in India, leading up to its current recognition as a widely adopted practice. It explains the core principles and practices of Vipassana, focusing on self-awareness, insight, and equilibrium. The paper connects these ancient techniques with current scientific findings, examining how neuroscience and psychology corroborate the beneficial impact of Vipassana on individual cognitive and emotional processes. The paper also considers the potential of Vipassana as an adjunct therapy for mental health disorders, addiction, and chronic pain. Furthermore, the study looks at the social implications of Vipassana, particularly its influence on fostering community bonds, empathy, and social unity. It includes case studies from diverse Vipassana centers and retreats, demonstrating their effectiveness in overcoming societal barriers. The paper concludes by highlighting Vipassana's dual impact on both individual and communal levels, underlining its role in promoting mental and physical wellbeing, social harmony, and contributing to the overall advancement of humankind.

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Vipassana Meditation, Mindfulness, Self-awareness, Emotional Balance, Cognitive Health, Physical Wellbeing, Social Unity, Contemporary Relevance.

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The project aims to develop a personal virtual voice assistant for windows based system. Jarvis draws its inspiration from virtual voice assistants like cortana for windows, and siri for ios. It has been designed ton provide a user-friendly interface for carrying out a variety of tasks by employing certain well-defined commands. Users can interact with the assistant ,jarvis assists the end-user with day-to-day activities like general human conversation, searching queries in google or yahoo, searching for videos, playing songs, live weather conditions, word meanings, searching for medicine details and reminding the user about the scheduled events and tasks. The virtual voice assistant takes the voice input through our microphone and it coverts our voice into computer understandable language and gives the required solutions and answers which are asked by the user. The assistant connects with the world wide web to provide results that the user has questioned. This project works on voice input and gives output through voice and displays the text on the screen. The main agenda of our virtual assistant is that it makes people smart and gives instant and computed results

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SIRI , Google Voice Search, Internet, Mobile device

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o This paper focus on the various aspect and digital technology has made it more easy, speedy and comfortable to apply the stored in intellect e-resource information source are very important for all academic community and easily accessible in remote areas. E-resource solve storage and space problems. This paper also discusses of e-resources of types, advantage, services, need and importance etc.

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E-resource, Library, Information, Digital Technology

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