Volume 8 | Issue 5 |

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This paper aims to bring forward the atrocities by the police officials which result in a grave violation of human rights of the public. It further states the problems faced by the citizens in filing a complaint against the police and it also deals with the accountability of police during infringement of Human Rights. This paper states the major police reforms since independence to make the police system accountable for their misconduct and also states the changes to prevent the infringement of human rights by the misconduct of police during custody or during the course of their duties.

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Police; India; Human Rights; Political System; Reforms

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Hand gesture recognition provides an intelligence and natural way of interaction between human and computer i.e., HCI. The main goal of hand gesture recognition is to create a system which can identify the specific gestures of human and make use of them to convey information for control the device. Vision-based hand gesture recognition is considered to be more feasible for HCI in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition with the help of latest advances. The project deals with various techniques, methods and algorithms related to the gesture recognition. Hand gesture recognition has the advantage to communicate with the system through basic gesture language. Edge detection is the most commonly used technique in image analysis, and there are more algorithms to enhance and detect the edges. An edge is defined as the boundary between an object and the background, and it also indicates the boundary between overlapped objects. The threshold boundary is used for detecting hand and gestures of user very faster. Based on gestures the specific applications can be opened.

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edge detection; segmentation; classification; threshold boundary, sign language

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Abstract: COVID-19 lockdown has made really a challenging situations for everyone and in every sector of the economy. In the same way, education sector is also not untouched from the effect of covid-19 lockdown. Lockdown has made education of the students a great challenge in front of the teachers. Although, teachers are making efforts to educate the students from home during lockdown by using various online methods. The paper was conducted to know the perception of teachers and their experiences of teaching students online during the lockdown. A questionnaire is prepared to find out how the teachers are managing the students and what the challenges they are facing during online teaching? To conduct the investigation 200 questionnaires were sent online to teachers of different public and private universities and colleges of Uttrakhand and out of that 161 responses were analysed. The analysis represents the impact of online education on the perception of teachers on the basis of various factors (Diversifying Knowledge, Technical Knowledge, Comfortability, Communication Gap, Teacher�s Burden and Working Hour). The analysis was carried out with One Way ANOVA test in SPSS 20. The t-test was used to know the perception of teacher�s on online education through demographics. From the analysis it was revealed that teachers believe that online education is actually diversifying knowledge of the teachers and increasing their technical knowledge but it also has increases the working hours of the teachers as the online connection has reduced the communication gap between the students & teachers throughout the day. The study also concludes that young teachers are more actively participating in the online education to teach the students. This may be due to the reason of their familiarity with the technology. Overall study says that the teachers are taking online education positively and they are actively participating in shaping the future of students during COVID-19 lockdown.

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Online education, COVID-19 Lockdown and Teachers� perception.

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The world was shaken by the outbreak of the recent disease due to Coronavirus. Death counts of people dying due to the disease, starting with China and spreading to other nations, losing counts; making its management difficult and the people having unavoidable symptoms and a miserable time dealing with the same, COVID-19 has undoubtedly stirred the entire human race, making them scratch their brains hard on how to fight and eradicate the pandemic. This review attempts to give a complete update on the barbaric virus, and how it emerged on to become the global threat that it is after a thorough literature search regarding the concerned topic.

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Coronavirus, COVID-19, MERS, SARS, SARS-CoV-2.

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Background: The study was conducted in a melting and casting foundries located in South India. The studies were conducted in Plant-1 (old) and 2 (new). The various hazards like metallic dusts, fumes, oil mist, silica dust, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide were studied in selected work stations. Aim: This study was initiated to explore and assess the prevailing chemical work environmental factors / hazards in the plant as well as the distribution of these hazards in the plants with two different process and control technologies. It is to assess the quality of the work room air near the ambit of the workers, comparing the measured values with the recommended OELs and recommends engineering and administrative control measures. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 33 Operators working in various hot and peripheral operations in two Casting Plants old and new. Systematic random sampling method was adopted to collect 32 dust samples and 33 fumes, gases, vapours samples. The work exposures were compared for compliance with the occupational standards. Statistical Analysis: Plant wise and operation-wise distribution analysis was done on the compiled data. The data was analyzed by using the IBM-Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software statistical tools version-20 and the Mini-Tab Version-16, and the results were tabulated using p<0.05 as statistically significant. Paired t tests, Chi Square tests, Pearson�s correlation and one-way ANOVA were performed. Results: The measured data on various chemical work environmental factors were compared with the Threshold Limit Values. Only for dusts and Total fumes in two different plants, Correlation and association analysis is done and it is found to be at 5% level of significance and 95% confidence interval level. Conclusions and Implications: This study has demonstrated that the chemical work environmental factors were varying based on the operational conditions and variations such as plant load, Plant design, technology change, air movement and other environmental factors. It is concluded that there is a significant level of association (p<0.05) in these two plants with the improved process and control technologies adopted in the new plant than the old plant.

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Industrial hygiene, Chemical Work Environment factor, Threshold Limit Values, Occupational exposure levels

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The main objective of the paper has been to explore health care utilization during pregnancy among a group of Birhor women. A cross sectional study was conducted among 44 Birhor women, who were aged between 15 and 44 years, living in Purulia district of West Bengal. Information on socio-demographic characteristics and utilization of health care services during the period of pregnancy were collected using standard pretested questionnaire. It was observed that 68.2 % of the participants received antenatal care services and all of them received tetanus toxoid (TT) injection and iron tablets, in case of iron tablet, very few of them (22.7%) completed the course of this drug. During antenatal care, about 70.5 % of the participants received supplementary nutrition from Anganwadi Centre. Bivariate analysis (chi square test) did not found any significant association between utilization of antenatal care services and socio-demographic factors. The qualitative data of the present study shows that study participants have alleged that the health care providers are not providing adequate care to them. Finally, study concludes that though a good number of Birhor women had utilized the maternal health care services during their pregnancy, still few of them were unaware about the importance of such services.

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Health care utilization, particularly vulnerable tribal group, Birhor women, West Bengal

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Religion, in its true sense, aims to connect man to the divine or the source. However, this idea is missing when one looks or assesses the various religions in the world. Why is it so? Has it been like this right from the time religion was practised by man? It is in this context that I have attempted to look or assess the meaning of religion as understood by philosophers of the recent past with special emphasis on Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda has shown the way through his understanding of religion as spirituality and his call for a combined knowledge that is spiritual as well as secular. He also recognized the need for the most important ingredients of spirituality, namely, LOVE and SEVA (loosely translated as service). Thus, these recent philosopher have given a new dimension (or brought back the real meaning of the term religion in consonance with its latin origin). Man exhibits the nature of animality and humanity wherein these recent thinkers have emphasised on the other nature, that is, the DIVINITY. This is in accordance with the Vedantic appraisal of manifestation of the real (that is the brahman). The great impact of reassessing religion in terms of spirituality is not merely to take it a transcendent level but also drive home the existential need of being grounded in the society as suggested by Swami Vivekananda or Saint Ramalingam of Tamil Nadu. This is where the transformation of man into the Divine gains significance. Answer to the question how this can be done is given in the paper.

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Philosophy of Religion, Swami Vivekananda, religion, divinity, man, spirituality, love and seva

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, The Indian Railway has witnessed a rapid growth as a result of promotion in tourism, it is a culture, a force, and an integral expression of National solidarity. Indian Railway is India�s national railway system operated by Ministry of Railways. It manages the fourth largest railway network in the world by size with a route length of 67,368 Km. It�s headquarters is at Delhi. Kozhikode Railway Station is the largest railway station in the city of Calicut. It heralds as the only A1 graded station in Palakkad railway division with a daily turnout exceeding 25000 passengers. The Indian Railways is not just a transport system A number of facilities are made available to these passengers. The present study focuses on the awareness, facilities and the satisfaction provided by of Indian Railway.

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Indian Railway, satisfaction

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In this paper we used the data measurements of average hourly and monthly of UV solar radiation during the period time during from 2003 to 2017 at four different selected locations in Saudi Arabia to optimization and evaluation of UVB, UVBest., UVI solar radiation and clearness index KtUVB solar radiation and total ozone column TOC (DU). The average hourly values of UVB transmission are reduced due to the atmosphere as a function of daytime. The effect of the atmosphere on UVB radiation is reflected in the research of its behavior at the Earth�s surface. The high extremely attenuation of UVB solar radiation occur by stratospheric ozone and scattering phenomena. The predicted values of UVB solar radiation are a good agreement with the measured of the UVB solar radiation. The accuracy between measured and predicted values of UVB solar radiation in selected locations in the present research varies from 1.27-3.87%. The maximum values of KtUVB solar radiation occur between Summer and Autumn months, while the minimum values occurs between Winter and Spring months for all locations in the present study. The maximum values of the total ozone column TOC are occur between March and April months at all selected locations with exception Taif site which occur between April and May months, and in whole the highest values of TOC occurs about Spring time in all study locations. The maxiumum values of UVI occurs around the summer and spring months at the selected locations during the period time in the prsent study, while the minumum of UVI occurs around winter and autumn months. The relation between the levels of UVI and solar zenith angle (SZA) at all selected locations in the present research are discussed. The monthly average has a correlation coefficient equal to 72%, 82%, 85% and 83% at Al-Baha, Abha, Jeddah and Taif sites respectively, so the solar zenith angle (SZA) is responsible for variations of UVI by72%, 82%, 85% and 83% at Al-Baha, Abha, Jeddah and Taif locations on the monthly values respectively.

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UV solar radiation; solar zenith angle; correlation coefficient; clearness index.

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: In the recent years, the banking sector has witnessed a large number of mergers and acquisitions. These mergers are carried out with a motive of enhancing performance, sharing resources and eliminating competition. Banks also indulge in mergers and acquisitions to provide for non-performing assets in their organization. Non-performing assets are those that no longer earn income for the bank. Such assets hinder growth and development in the banking structure. In the light of this background, a study on the pre and post-merger performance of ING Vysya Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank has been carried out. The motive behind this study is to understand the impact of the merger on the non-performing assets of the bank. The basic aim of this paper is to understand the background of this merger and to analyze the net NPA to advances ratio of ING Vysya Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank. The scope of this paper is limited to the net NPA to advances ratio and net NPA to total assets ratio that would indicate a change in performance of the bank before and after merger in terms of its non-performing assets. The results of this study indicate a higher and improved performance of the bank after the merger. Thus, there is a significant difference between the pre-merger and post-merger performance of the bank in terms of the net NPA to Advances ratio and net NPA to total assets ratio.

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Merger, Non-performing Assets, Net NPA, Net Advances, Total Assets

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