Volume 8 | Issue 8 |

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This paper analyses the concept of the Anthropocene in young-adult fiction. Specifically, it looks at the effects of the Anthropocene that are present within the novel and the way in which the environmental crisis in the book �guides� the narrative as well as the message presented. The young adult novel selected for analysis is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The intent is to find out what perspectives on environmental crisis and other representations on the environment are present and what young readers could take from these representations.

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Anthropocene, Young-Adult Fiction, Environmental Crisis, Post-Apocalyptic Literature.

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It is a recent trend of the human being to be self-centred, though the whole world seems to be reached its optimum level of development through the huge technological progress. Earlier, people used to think for others and each member of a society used to get the opportunity to project their best ability for the society. Naturally, the pertinent issue is: whether self-centeredness makes and/or keeps a man really happy or not. In fact, human being has endless desire that is why he has failed to demark that particular way through which he can achieve happiness in its true sense. In the West, it is observed that every material comforts are available, but still they have been searching for peace. Swami Vivekananda being a great revolutionary thinker anticipated it, and understood that one of the most fundamental ways for achieving happiness in true sense lies in the value system of a nation. That is why, in 19th century, when he paid a visit to the European countries, he prescribed that India should give their Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality to the West, so that the world could be lifted in a better position. It is the time, when the revelation of Swami Vivekananda should be revisited. By virtue of his thought and philosophy, we would be able to find out the pathway to get the peace. This article is a quest to find out the right path to get peace or to achieve happiness in its true sense following the way as stated by Swami Vivekananda with a special reference to the Mahabharata, Ramakrishna and Bh?gvadgit?.

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Swami Vivekananda, value, human being, service, love, dharma

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Make in India is one of the major initiatives taken up by the Indian government; this plan was set up in the year 2014 for the growth of the country, and with the objective of make India a world manufacturing hub. This initiative was made to increase the foreign direct investment in the Country and to increase the exports from India to other countries. In this paper it is seen the Make in India ease of doing business, the five countries which are directly investing in the Indian economy, the various sectors of Improvement i.e. Automobile Industry, Electronics and Manufacturing Industry, Highways and The transportation network system. The various confront which are been faced by MSMEs Industry, make in India impact on various Industries. This paper is primarily based on a secondary source of data collection, including the confronts which are been faced by the initiative of Make in India.

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Make in India, Foreign Direct Investment [FDI], Export-Import policies [EXIM] and Micro Small Medium Enterprise [MSME] Industry.

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With rapid industrialization all over the world, pollution is on the increase and India is no exception. One of the modes through which pollutants enter the biosphere is that of industrial effluents. A variety of synthetic dyestuffs released by the textile industry pose a threat to environmental safety. Novel dye-degrading bacterial strains were isolated from textile effluent and soil samples collected from Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu. Taxonomic identification including morphological and cultural characterization indicated that isolates was capable of decolorizing direct dyes efficiently. Four bacterial strains screened out of total 11 isolates and they were able to decolorize direct dye Direct Red 23 cultured in nutrient broth containing 100ppm direct dyes. The decolourization percentage was found to be ranging from 67% - 85% among the four isolates . The isolates were used to prepare a consortium and develop an efficient microorganism (EM) solution. Then this EM solution is used for the decolourization of textile effluents and the percentage color removal was 70%. Hence EM methodology can be effectively used for decolourising textile effluents.

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Synthetic dyes; Direct Red 23; Dye decolourising bacterial strains; Decolourisation; EM technology

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This includes the study of impact resistance of fiber resistance of reinforced concrete using IS drop weight test method on FRC and HFRC slab panels having different types of fiber with their different proportion. A present review paper discussion of results of IS drop weight test method conducting low velocity and high velocity impact properties and record spilling area also scabbing area. The deformability, toughness and energy absorption of FRC are of great interest characterized these parameter test are carried out on concrete slab panel are most commonly used. Concrete structures are often subjected to short duration (dynamic ) loads. Such loads originate from sources such as impact from missiles and projectiles, wind gusts, earthquakes and machine vibrations, vehicles. Due to a relatively low tensile strength and fractures energy impact resistance of concrete is poor. Hence much research has been directed towards developing concrete that exhibit improved impact resistance than conventional concrete. By using drop weight test method determining the initial and final cracking.

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Corrugated steel fiber, glass fiber, polypropylene fiber, impact machine.

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The authors in this paper investigated the occupational stress and the job satisfaction of the university teachers working in the T.N and A.P. State universities. The sample of 992 university teachers was selected using simple random sampling technique. A five point Rating Scales to assess the occupational stress and job satisfaction of university teachers developed by the investigators were used. The results revealed that majority (74%) of the university teachers are experiencing moderate and high levels of occupational stress and 85 percent of teachers are experiencing only moderate and low level of job satisfaction. Further, correlation studies revealed that occupational stress and job satisfaction of the university teachers are significantly and negatively correlated with each other. Stepwise multiple regression analysis shows that the occupational stress dimensions - organizational structure and climate and, personal and professional efficiency occupational stress has accounted 7.9 and 9.0 percent of variance to the dependent variable job satisfaction. The implications based on the results have been discussed.

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Key words: Occupational Stress, Job Satisfaction, University Teachers

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The present study aimed to review the psychological factors among cardiovascular disease. Psychological factors including perceived stress, maladaptive coping style, Lack of emotional and social support, negative effective regulation, personality/temperamental, negative cognitive style related to etiology, and prognosis of Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD). Cardiovascular diseases affect the cardia, tube of blood or consequences of insufficient blood provide due to an infected vascular system. People who die prematurely due to non-communicable disease die from diabetes, stroke, cancer, heart disease, and asthma that are preventable due to increased levels of exposure to tobacco consumption, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, harmful use of alcohol, stress, lack of emotional and social stress. 87% of deaths, the reason of NCD. Psychological factors play an important role in Cardio Vascular Disease, it seems that further researches are needed in this regard. Psychologists help patients in their recovery of Cardio Vascular Disease by removing these psychological factors from their life through counseling and psychotherapy.

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Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD), Perceived stress, Maladaptive coping style, Negative cognitive style.

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Mass media occupies a significant part of our time and can definitely be considered instrumental in changing the attitudes and habits of the masses. There has been a rapid shift in the number of viewers from traditional to digital platforms yet. This paper highlights the hours spent on watching web series and television shows by the viewers, the reasons what got them watching in the first place. To assess the kind and the degree of impact it has on their minds Likert scale was used. The sample size was restricted to the age group of 20 to 60 years. It can be concluded by saying that the kind of situation or environment around the viewers significantly impacts his viewership, the content preferred and the kind of shows which the person chooses to see also leaves behind a significant impact on their minds and also impacts their line of actions.

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violence, addiction, information, peer pressure, partner

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Agriculture is the primary business activity of the Indian Economy. It has not only contributed to the GDP but also helps in generating employment and export. The present rapidly developing situation with COVID-19 has posedvarious challenges in agriculture sector. It has not only disrupted many activities in agriculture and supply chains but also the problems of non-availability of labor, transportation facility and market because of lockdown that resulted in non-fear of spread of Virus.It was observed that the agriculture sector all over the world have also affected, particularly the livestock farming and shortage of inputs because of global trade disturbances. During this crisis, the priority of government is to protect the lives of people, who are suffering from the disease as well as those who are not suffering. This paper analyses the impact of COVID-19 on Indian Agriculture sector and discusses the various measures taken for the survival of Agriculture in the Country.

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Agriculture, Indian Economy, COVID-19, Lockdown, Challenges and measures

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The main motive of the experiment was to investigate the efficiency of antioxidants in DNA damage repair when subjected to UV radiation. Main approach of the experiment was to investigate the concentration of the antioxidants that efficiently help in DNA damage repair. Method: Wild type E. coli as the experimenting organism and Vitamin-C as an antioxidant were taken. Both the E. coli was serially diluted by a factor of (10-1-10-5) dilution and Vit-C was taken in the concentration of (0�g/ml,45�g/ml,50�g/ml). Then the E. coli cultures grown with different concentrations of Vit-C were spotted on to LB media by Drop Plate Technique. The culture plates were subjected to the UV sensitivity assay by exposing to UV radiation at 254nm. Result: After the UV sensitivity assay, the culture plates were kept for overnight incubation. Incubated plates with 50�g/ml Vit-C and UV exposure, showed the maximum growth till 10-5 dilution factor, when compared with the control plate with UV exposure. The plates with 45�g/ml Vit-C with UV exposure, showed the growth till 10-4 dilution when compared with the control plate with UV exposure. The further analysis of the change in protein expression in analysed by SDS-PAGE. Conclusion: from the experiment we can conclude that Vit-C had efficiently reduced the cytotoxic effect of UV exposure by repairing the damaged DNA. It has left some scope of investigating the anti-cancer and anti-aging effects of Vit-C in the human system.

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Escherichia coli, DNA damage, antioxidant, Vitamin C, UV sensitivity assay, drop plate technique.

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