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Abstract This paper is an endeavor to go beyond debates concerning South Asian diaspora writers-Bapsi Sidhwa�s An American Brat and Monica Ali�s Brick Lane as �The Novels of Diaspora� and to understand their plight how these South Asian diaspora women face alienation, dislocation, discrimination, and establish their identity in an alien land. These writers represent different diasporas, such as Pakistani-American (Bapsi Sidhwa) and Bangladeshi-English (Monica Ali). Generally, diaspora studies discuss the nature of exile, displacement, dislocation, nostalgia, alienation, identity crisis, discrimination, and cultural change. Bapsi Sidhwa is widely recognized as one of the most prominent Pakistani-Anglophone novelists writing today. Her fourth novel An American Brat tells the story of a young Pakistani girl, Feroza, and her adventure in America. Later Feroza realizes how far she has come- and wonders how much further she can go. This delightful coming-of-age novel is both remarkably funny and remarkably acute portrayal of America as seen through the eyes of a perceptive young immigrant. Monica Ali, a Bangladeshi-born British writer, and novelist is widely known for her debut novel Brick Lane. The novel follows the life of a Bangladeshi woman Nazneen who migrates to London with her old husband Chanu, faces many problems like alienation, displacement, nostalgia, discrimination, communication problem. It explores her life and adaptations in the community, as well as the character of Chanu, and their larger ethnic community.

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cultural change, diaspora, discrimination, migration, nostalgia, the plight

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Climate change is accelerating, it is necessary that our society make a transition toward a green and low-carbon economy. One way to do so is through finance instrument that are tailored to fund low-carbon and climate-friendly projects. Such climate finance instrument can prove to be a distinguishing factor in how fast and how energized our society is to make the transition. An important tool in measuring the recent impact of climate change on financial markets has been the green bond. A green bond allows various parties whether countries or organizations to mobilize traditional debt investments into projects or assets that can help society adapt or alleviate climate change impacts. This study aims to study the effect, development and the growth of green bonds in Asia. The authors have utilized secondary data for the purpose of this research paper. This paper has been authored in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The geographic limitation of this paper is Asia. Green finance is still at an early stage in ASIAN countries and it faces several critical challenges. These challenges exist both for issuers of green bonds and investors. Two distinct challenges that have been found in the paper for issuers include limited credit retention limit and costs of meeting green bond requirements. The green bond market is going to grow at a rapid rate due to the ambitious renewable energy goals that the asian countries have set for themselves.

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Green bonds, Climate change; Finance; Asia, Low-carbon development Investment, Green Finance, Climate Finance, Renewable energy, Sustainable Finance

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Pandemics are a mirror for humanity which reflects the moral relationships that people have towards one another. The pandemic studies examine the ways in which the outbreaks have shaped politics, socio-cultural relations and gender discriminations. It has altered the society and thereby affects the natural world in which we live. They also reflect our relationships with the environment�the environment that we create and the natural environment that responds. The pandemic makes the society vulnerable and to study the society is to study its structure, political priorities and standard of living. It shows not only the dystopian vision of life but also altruistic and humane values. Jose Saramago�s Blindness is considered to be one of the most outstanding literary achievements. A speculative parable reminiscent of Albert Camus� The Plague, Blindness examines the mysterious social and moral breakdown in a typical modern society. The novel narrates the literal blindness of all the inhabitants of the unnamed city as a political, psychological and spiritual metaphor. Saramago uses blindness as a metaphor for moral depravity, filth, and social collapse.

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Blindness, Internee, Morality, Pandemic, Quarantine

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A study of how parental affection is seen as a selfish need easily gratified by replacement.

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Adoptive Motherhood, Adoptive Love, Betrayal, Metamorphosis.

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The main objective of the study is to explore reading habit of public library users. For the study, questionnaire method is adopted to collect data from the library users of Jayanagar public library. The study finds that majority of the library users read every day. Their purpose of reading in the library is to update their knowledge and newspapers and magazines reading are major identified from the study by the investigator.

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Reading habits, Public libraries, Public Library Users.

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This case study describe the attainment of Inclusive Growth in the field of agriculture during the period of First and Second Green Revolution. The sudden jump in agricultural production as a result of the application of high yielding varieties of seeds, increased use of chemical fertilizers and irrigation are collectively known as the Green Revolution which makes India self-sufficient in the field of food grains. It is termed as First Green Revolution and was in pre-reform period of 1967 - 68. As a result of this revolution India became the world�s biggest agricultural producer, and produced record grain output of 131 million tons in 1978-79. But it was a failure as its fruits are not achieved by small and marginal farmers. It provides an unbalanced growth among agricultural workers and not provided an inclusive growth in agricultural field. So it could not considered to be a 100 percent success. As first green revolution was not a 100 percent success, India needed a Second Green Revolution to eradicate the inequality among farmers and also bring food security to its billion plus population, to remove distress of farming community and to make its agriculture globally competitive. It is on post reform period in April 2013 in a coordinated effort to double agricultural output over the next few years. It will provide new technologies and better farming practices. In this endeavor, the problems of marginal and small farmers and raising agricultural productivity in dry areas need a special attention without compromising on preserving soil and water resources. As a result of Second Green Revolution the food grains production which was about 51 million tons in 1950-51, achieved an all-time record harvest of more than 250 million tons in 2012-13.It also helped the evolution of a low cost technology which can be adopted small farmers and which can use and exploit the local resources. Thus agricultural production increased along with balanced growth and through Second Green Revolution we attained inclusive growth along with agricultural growth. The main objective of this paper is to compare and analyse the attainment of Inclusive Growth during the period of First and Second Green Revolution.

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Green Revolution, HYVS, Multiple Cropping, Inclusive Growth etc.

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Ever since we were young we were told that money is hard to come by and we should work hard to earn that money. This statement holds true for most of us but when you think about it you might wonder as to why money is being termed as measurement for our success and mostly ponder upon the question as to why we use money as a medium of exchange. Does the money that we currently use have a value of its own? Or is it just a piece of paper with an inventive value that we are told to believe as its intrinsic value. The study aims to understand about the different currency�s and monetary systems and on the emergence of cryptocurrency.

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The Gold Standard, Bretton woods system, Fiat money, Quantitative Easing, Cryptocurrency

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MRI of the female pelvis displays the best anatomical information on the sagittal section. The standard sequence used in the MRI examination of the female pelvis in the sagittal section is the T2 Weighted Turbo Spin Echo (T2W TSE) . However, the use of the Turbo Spin Echo (TSE) is sensitive to movement , so that motion artifacts often appear. To reduce artifacts researchers tried a T2 Weighted Multivane sequence on MRI of the female sagittal pelvis. This study aims to determine the differences in anatomical image information between the T2 Weighted Turbo Spin Echo sequences ( T2TSE) and T2 Weighted Multivane (T2WM) and to find out which sequence is more optimal in producing anatomical image information on MRI examination of the female pelvis in the Sagittal section . This type of research is quasi experimental. Data were obtained from 10 volunteers who were examined using the MRI 3 Tesla device at the Radiology Installation at dr. Saiful Anwar Malang. Each volunteer was examined using the T2WTSE dan T2WM sequents on the sagital section. The resulting image was then assessed by 2 radiologist. Data analysis was carried out using the Wilcoxon test , while the selection of the best sequence used the mean rank. Significance test using ? = 0 , 05 . The results of statistical tests showed that there was a significant difference in Female Pelvic MRI images between the T2 WTSE and T2 WM sequences ( p-value <0.05). The mean rank value indacates that T2WM is more optimal in producing image information. The highest mean rank in rectal anatomy is T2WM 5.00.

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T2 Turbo Spin Echo, T2 Multivane, MRI of the female pelvis

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The research article tries to explore and study the social and cultural themes in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri, one of the most alluring authors of �diaspora�. The subject of �culture� is always a stuff of interest particularly when it has to do with a foreign setting. Lahiri�s characters signify different social walks of life and for all time discover them wedged in two diverse worlds, one that they have left at the back and the previous in which they try to fiddle with and as a result faces a cultural conflict. This cross cultural conflict is for all time at hand currently seen in almost all of her stories. The expatriates�, mainly that of America easily turn out to be habituated or familiarized to the custom and civilization and come across suitable place to settle there but the longing for their homeland for no reason goes from their minds and head. They see the America from the Indian viewpoint and it is the viewpoint which brings the inconsistent judgment though they get an improved ambiance and chance.

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Social, Cultural, Diaspora, Custom, Expatriates

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Keywords: China, Indian Ocean, ASEAN, Asia-Pacific, Modernization of PLA, 9 dash lines.

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The Eastern Himalayan foothill region of Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh is spotted with dairy farming units. The dairy units in the region are culturally dominated by the immigrants� Nepali community. Most of these Nepalese dairy units are located in the Tezu and the Sunpura circle of the district and there are also little and more dairy units are also entertained in the rest of the circles like, the Wakro, the Chongkham, the Lathao, Namsai, etc. The present study was conducted to assess the nature and functioning of this traditional form of dairy farming and to understand the socio-economic condition of the dairy owners of the study area. And cost-benefit analysis has been assessing according to the size of the dairy cow of different breeds (Jersey, Cross-breed, and Indigenous) to identify the total cost and profit of the farmers per year. Income from cattle herds, especially dairy cows was much higher than the dairy buffaloes. Moreover, buffalo� farming is not that much preferred by Nepali farmers in this region due to the unsuitability of climate. The Nepalese people mostly Practice agricultural activities in a complementary relationship with bovine economics where draught animals one used for ploughing the field.

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Large Dairy Farmstead (Khuti), Cultural Ecology, Cost-benefit analysis

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One can develop specialized dairy type goats or specialized meat type goat or dual purpose ones; the dual purpose ones being most desired in India. Goats are also raised for hair fibres in the Himalayan region; e.g., the Kashmere or Pashmina goat. Hair of goats of other regions is rather coarse and is used for carpet making. Goat skins are also a very important commodity in this country. Hence, breeding techniques for goats have to be used for improving the above characteristics in them. There are several well developed breeds of goats in India as described in the previous section. Constant endeavours have to be made via production recording, selection and mating (selective breeding), to improve the potential of such breeds. These breeds, in turn, can used for upgrading non-descript stock in other regions. Jamnapari and beetal are most promising ones for this purpose. In fact, Jamnapari is extensively used for grading local stock not only in India but also in several other Asian countries; such a breeding programme giving progeny with better growth performance as well as milk production. Some synthetic breeds can also be developed using different breeds in crossbreeding. This is being attempted at several institutions in India with variable success. One of the outstanding examples of the evolution of a synthetic breed is the Anglo-Nubian breed, which has been evolved from Nubian ( of Sudan) and Jamnapari. It is a very goat tropical milch goat. Some of the recognized European dairy goat breeds like Saanen, Toggenburg and Alpine have also been tried for crossbreeding with indigenous breeds of goats in india and other tropical countries. Even purebred exotic goats have also been reared in warm regions.

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Goat, India, Breeds

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ABSTRACT Introduction: Non-communicable Diseases are rightly called �Silent� diseases as they may not cause any symptoms for many years. The dilemma is that public perception for diseases is related with appearance of symptoms and well-being with absence of symptoms. Unfortunately, even in the absence of symptoms, disease progression continues unabated leading to complications. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare launched National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, CVD and Stroke (NPCDCS) in October 2010 to give opportunity to people to get themselves screened for common NCDs like Diabetes and Hypertension periodically to detect them early and manage them with lifestyle modifications and treatment. Research question: What are the gaps in Data Reporting with respect to Health and wellness center Portal and Non-Communicable diseases software of Ayushman Bharat Program? Methodology: Certain NCD indicators were reviewed from NCD portal, HWC portal and NCD report and the study design used is descriptive study, chosen study includes 7 zones of Rajasthan from April 2019 to March 2020. Result: The launch of a national program to tackle the burden of NCDs is just the beginning, and the final success of the program will depend on how effectively we input the data in all three portals to conduct flawless monitoring and evaluation. The results from this study will assist in identifying the gaps and simultaneously appropriate suggestions can be stated as per the case concern.

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Non communicable disease , Health and wellness center, Ayushman bharat.

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Abstract: Android device and various applications are useful today in every sector. Different attack scenarios are generating towards security and threats. Different study on creating an efficient framework for designing and analyzing the android structure and multiple threats detection is performed. While dealing with multiple applications in mobile, there are background operations, which may use user�s information. These applications save users information secretly and damage the information in smart phone. The previous algorithms and work performed by authors for anomaly app detection and prevention is based on limited criteria. This research has presented a Behavior based IDS (Intrusion detection system) which is enhanced with a powerful NLP (Natural language processing) neural network for detecting malicious behaviors of the Android mobile devices. The experimental results indicate that proposed IDS (Intrusion detection system) can detect an anomaly in the Android operating system effectively and enhance MADAM (Multi-Level Anomaly Detector for Android Malware) algorithm which deals with the Pattern analysis and behavior structure analysis of mobile application in android devices. An anomaly detection and prevention approach over mobile devices is performed. An experiment is performed with a number of regular applications used for different purpose. The observed results shows the efficiency of proposed algorithm over existing rule based and behavior based anomaly detection approach over mobile android OS.

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Keywords: Mobile Computing, Malware, malware detection, Mobile architecture, Android antivirus.

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Arun Joshi is one of the very few Indian novelists in English who has successfully revealed subtleties and complexities of contemporary Indian life. He has produced very compelling work of fiction. This paper aims at delineating the predicament of modern man in Arun Joshi's novels The Foreigner (1968), The Strange Case of Billy Biswas (1971), The Apprentice (1974), and The Last Labyrinth (1981) Through his works, Joshi has attempted to extend the emergency of the urbanized and exceptionally industrialized present day human advancement with its dehumanizing sway on the person. Arun Joshi had been extraordinarily affected by existentialist journalists like Albert Camus, Sartre, and Kierkegaard. Being an incredible craftsman of mental understanding, Joshi digs profound into the internal openings of human mind. Arun Joshi provided another guidance and measurement to the Indian English epic. His books depict the otherworldly distress of his desolate questers. Life's significance, as indicated by Joshi, lies not in the reflexive surfaces of assumptions but rather in obscurity overgrown mazes of the spirit.

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Arun Joshi, Indian Life, Modern Civilization, Spiritual Agony, etc.

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Food evokes myriad sensations and emotions and straddles diverse fields, from literature and culture to science and technology. From the simplest, most primitive ways of consuming nutrients essential for survival to the advanced, technology-driven food availability, the saga of food intersects politics, economics, and culture. The article is a general exploration of how food is produced, naturally and artificially, and how it is consumed, with a focus on nutrition and taste. It also sees its inroads into gender and caste issues to build, sometimes, a national or regional narrative of food.

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Food, culture, evolution, gender, fusion

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Abstract: Free space optics (FSO) is a field of interest and significance for the researchers due to its various applications furthermore; favorable circumstances like ease FSO frameworks, simple arrangement, and high information rate, secure FSO connections and permit free groups. High transfer speed FSO connection can be viably settled between the high rises of the Punjab India for the reason high limit applications in these high rises. FSO joins are gravely influenced by the climate conditions particularly downpour and mist on the grounds that of high constriction factors. OPTI-System is utilized to consider the impact of downpour and mist on the exhibition of FSO joins.

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Free-space optics (FSO), BER (Bit error-rate) WDM(Wavelength division multiplexing)

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Social media platforms have played a significant role in the Egyptian revolution since 2011. After the Arab spring it was obvious that social media can be used as an important instrument to change not only societies but also countries. (Hamanaka, 2018) The change that occurred because of social media platforms, especially Facebook, was not only on the political side but also it was on the economic and social side. There is a massive rise in the number of social media users since the time of the revolution. In 2011 the number of social media users in Egypt was 4.7 million and there were only half a million active users on twitter (Halawa, 2015). In 2020 Egypt has 42 million active users on social media platforms (Project, 2000).

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS IMPACT ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN CAIRO, EGYPT

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This study aimed to investigate the impact of game-based learning on students� performance. For this reason, an empirical study was conducted which comprises the comparison of traditional learning and game-based learning. The participants were lower primary school students of age group 6-8 years. GSR NUL-217 logger sensor was used to record the physiological signals of each participant in real-time. An android-based game intervention named �KidsZoneApp� was developed which included Mathematics and English lesson plans according to the student�s curriculum. The collected log data was used to calculate the changes in different dimensions of completing the task. ANOVA yielded a very significant difference between game-based learning and traditional learning groups. Overall, the results showed that game-based learning contributed to increased students� performance levels. Significantly, students under game-based learning completed the task in lesser time as compared to traditional learning. Along with that, it has been found out that arousal is highly associated with intelligence which means that students who scored more showed higher arousal as compared to students who scored less points.

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Mobile learning, Games, Early years education, Media in education, Applications in subject areas

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Chlorophytum borivialianum (Safed Musli) is an endangered Indian medicinal herb, belonging family Liliaceae. This species has gained significance due to their valuable medicinal properties of male restorative and rejuvenation. Now-a-days this plant is indiscrimately exploited by people for food medicine and commerce reindering it endangered. To protect the germplasm of this valuable medicinal herb cultural studies was initiated. In the present investigation protocol for induction of callus was standeredize. Cultural studies in Safed Musli was initiated by using floral axis, leaf and stem disc as explant. Explants were surface sterilized by using Hgcl2 (0.01%) and 70% ethylalcohol after Razadan. Explants were cultured on MS media supplemented with various growth hormones. Friable callus was formed after 15 days of inoculation, which after 4-5 days changed in to somatic embroids.

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Somatic embryoids, Safed Musli, Callus, Chlorophytum borivilianum.

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