Volume 9 | Issue 1

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An attempt is made to study the Awareness, Use and Usefulness of Electronic Information Resources among the Scientifc staff of ICAR Institutions in South India. Survey method and a questionnaire tool was used and results indicated that all the respondents of scientific staff used EIRs in the department followed by used EIRs in library. Among all the EIRs, internet , websites and ETDs are used by all the scientific respondents as the rate 9of 100percent. All scientific respondents of the opinion that internet and ETDs are 100 percent useful to their writing research papers and on going research work/project.

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Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), Electronic Information Resources (EIRs), Awareness, Use, Usefulness, Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs).

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Authoritarian blindness is a perennial problem, especially in large countries like China with centralized, top-down administration. Indeed, Xi would not even be the first Chinese ruler to fall victim to the totality of his own power. On August 4, 1958, buoyed by reports pouring in from around the country of record grain, rice, and peanut production, an exuberant Chairman Mao Zedong wondered how to get rid of the excess, and advised people to eat �five meals a day.� Many did, gorging themselves in the new regime canteens and even dumping massive amounts of �leftovers� down gutters and toilets. Export agreements were made to send tons of food abroad in return for machinery or currency. Mao didn�t know famine was at hand, because he had set up a system that ensured he would hear lies. Smart rulers have tried to create workarounds to avoid this authoritarian dilemma. Dynastic China, for example, had institutionalized mechanisms to petition the emperor: a right that was theoretically granted to everyone, including the lowest farmers and the poorest city dwellers. This system was intended to check corruption in provinces and uncover problems, but in practice, it was limited in many ways, filtered through courtiers to a single emperor, who could listen to only so many in a day. Many rulers also cultivated their own independent sources of information in far-flung provinces. Thanks to technology, there is a much more robust option for authoritarians in the 21st century: big-data analytics in a digital public sphere. The public sphere in China during those years wasn�t a free-for-all, to be sure. One couldn�t call for collective action or for deposing the central government. But social media gave citizens a voice and a way to make an impact, and it served as an early-warning system for party leaders Authorities sometimes went as far as to pledge, in advance, to abide by the decisions of these bodies. For many years, such experiments flourished all over China and, combined with the digital public sphere, led scholars to wonder whether the �deliberative turn� in the country�s otherwise authoritarian state was not a means of weakening authoritarianism, but of making it more sustainable. An earlier hint that Xi�s China was falling into authoritarian blindness came during the on-going Hong Kong protests. The demonstrations had started over a minor demand�the withdrawal of an extradition bill of little strategic importance to Beijing. Protest is the traditional way that Hong Kongers, who do not have full voting rights, express discontent. But this time the Beijing insiders miscalculated. They genuinely believed that the real cause for the Hong Kong unrest was the high rents on the densely populated island, and also thought that the people did not support the protesters. Authoritarian blindness had turned an easily solvable problem into a bigger, durable crisis that exacted a much heavier political toll, a pattern that would repeat itself after a mysterious strain of pneumonia emerged in a Wuhan seafood market. In early December 2019, a strange cluster of patients from a local seafood market, which also sold wildlife for consumption, started showing up in Wuhan hospitals. These initial patients developed a fever and pneumonia that did not seem to be caused by any known viruses. Given the SARS experience of 2003, local doctors were quickly alarmed. With any such novel virus, medical providers are keen to know how it spreads: If the virus is unable to spread from human to human, it�s a tragedy, but a local one, and for only a few people. If it can sustainably spread from human to human, as was the case with SARS, it could turn into a global pandemic, with potentially massive numbers of victims. Given exponential growth dynamics of infectious diseases, containing an epidemic is straightforward early on, but nearly impossible once a disease spreads among a population. So it�s maximally important to identify and quarantine candidate cases as early as possible, and that means leadership must have access to accurate information. Before the month of December was out, the hospitals in Wuhan knew that the corona virus was spreading among humans. Medical workers who had treated the sick but never visited the seafood market were falling ill. On December 30, a group of doctors attempted to alert the public, saying that seven patients were in isolation due to a SARS-like disease. On the same day, an official document admitting both a link to the seafood market and a new disease was leaked online. On December 31, 2019, facing swirling rumours, the Wuhan government made its first official announcement, confirming 27 cases but, crucially, denying human-to-human transmission. Teams in hazmat suits were finally sent to close down the seafood market, though without explaining much to the befuddled, scared vendors. Things went on in this suspended state for another 10 days, while the virus kept spreading. Incredibly, on January 19, just one day after the death of yet another doctor who had become infected, officials from across the populous Hubei province held a 40,000-family outdoor banquet in Wuhan, its capital, as part of the official celebrations for China�s Lunar New Year. The dam broke on January 20�just three days before Wuhan would initiate a draconian lockdown that blocked millions of people from leaving. On that day, the respected SARS scientist Zhong Nanshan went on national television, confirming the new virus and human-to-human transmission. That same day, Xi Jinping gave his first public speech about the corona-virus, after he returned from an overseas trip to Myanmar. (1)

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Corona-Virus reveals authoritarianisms fatal flaw

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Globalization at present is a highly discuss issue today all over the world. Globalization in simple word means a greater intensification of interconnectedness and interdependence amongst the countries of the world. In the modern time, the impact of Globalization is a great threat to the very existence of languages, cultural practices, educational areas, and food habits etc. of indigenous communities because of the voluntary surrender to the modern ways of life leading to absolute obliteration of some traditional/indigenous cultures, traditions food habits, education in every sphere of life. This paper wants to study the impact of Globalization on the modern 21st century.

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Globalization, education, language, culture etc.

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(Eldridge) stated dance to be an ancient and most celebrated culture of India. Folk dances are a part of the entire country. Most of the weddings, festivals and Indian cinema boast of a wide range of dance and music. The real origination of this culture lies in the classical dances of India. Classical dances of India or Shashtriya Nritya is an integral part of India�s culture and heritage. Most of these dance forms have their origination in temples where it was viewed to be as pious as a prayer. Although all these have originated from different regions yet most of these dances can be traced back to Bharata Muni�s �Natya Shastra.� With passage of time these dances have been improvised by various artists and dancers. The ultimate goal of any dance form is Rasanubhuti, which talks about the nine moods or rasas. Unlike folk dances, classical dances are about strict rules and technicalities. (Masodkar) Amongst the different classical dances of India, Bharatnatyam has been quite successful internationally. It has its origins of being a temple dance performed by the Devadasis. The songs which were used were devotional songs where the dancer was the devotee. Also the Nattuvanaras acted as a main leader of the troupe whose work would involve preserving and passing this dance style from one generation to the another generation while the Devadasis would perform it. But it also had to face a lot of struggles during the British colonial times. In spite of the various repercussions, there have been the pillars of Bharatnatyam whose relentless efforts were designed towards winning the battles against the odds for the revival of the art style and transform it into a Dance of Glory. India is a land of diversity. It has different cultures, religions, dances, music, languages and traditions. The people of India are the representatives of this rich diversity. But a lot of people lack the knowledge of the culture and heritage of India. Majority of the people failed to understand the plight undergone by the Devadasis and the challenges which the pioneers of Bharatnatyam had to undertake for revival and preservation of this dance style. Hence, the purpose of this research is to understand the relevance of this art form amongst the people of India. Also this study throws light on the plight of the Devadasis during the colonial times and describes their present conditions. This study also highlights the challenges faced by the various pioneers of Bharatnatyam and elaborates their contributions for maintaining the sanity of this beautiful dance style of India.

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Bharatnatyam, dance, devadasis, people, India

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1. Analysis of properties of concrete using banana peel as admixture is studied and verified the strength of concrete and temperature emitted due to chemical reaction to the normal Portland cement. The percentage of transmission temperature and reduction time of temperature has decreased; hence it is clear that the exothermal reaction in concrete has been reduced by using dried banana peel powder as admixture. 2. The percentage of transmission temperature and reduction time of temperature has decreased; hence it is clear that the exothermal reaction in concrete has been reduced by using dried banana peel powder as admixture. 3. Ingredients other than cement, water & aggregates that import a specific quality to either plastic(fresh)mix or the hardened concrete (ASTMC 496) is called concrete admixture. The flexural strength of concrete by using banana peel powder as admixture has increased, but considerable lesser compressive strength has increased

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green; Compressed Block (CB); Green- Compressed ... Portland Cement (OPC), and banana fibers.

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The present research study was aimed to develop a floating tablets containing atenolol as a model drug by using natural polymer guar gum (GG) and hydroxyl propyl methyl cellulose (HPMC). The atenolol floating tablets were prepared by direct compression technique based on effervescent approach using sodium bicarbonate as a gas generating agent. The prepared tablets were evaluated for weight variation, hardness, friability, drug content, tablet density, floating lag time, total floating time and in vitro release studies. The effect of combination (1:1) of polymers GG and HPMC proportion on in vitro drug release profile was evaluated. The floating lag time and total floating time of all the formulations were increased by increasing polymers concentration. The formulations containing sodium bicarbonate 40 mg per tablet showed desired buoyancy. The in vitro studies revealed that, the atenolol release could be sustained upto 24 by increasing the proportion of GG and HPMC mixture. Further, the floating tablet containing 35% of mixture of HPMC (17.50%) and GG (17.50%) in the ratio 1:1 with an average tablet weight of 400mg released 98.23% at the end of 24 hours was found to be suitable for successfully sustaining the atenolol release upto 24h in physiological environment of stomach and to improve the patient compliance. The FTIR spectra confirms that there is no interaction between drug and tablet excipients.

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Floating drug delivery system, sustained release, guar gum, antihypertensive and atenolol.

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