Volume 9 | Issue 3

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ESG reporting and disclosure practices are the buzzing terms in the Indian corporate sector occupying the place after corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). ESG is a broader concept than CG and CSR, wherein ESG practices include corporate's practices relating to Environmental (E), Social (S) & Governance (G) and disclosure of the same by the corporate world. Though sustainability and ESG reporting are used interchangeably, ESG is more specific to three pillars in terms of corporate efficiency which provide augmented risk-adjusted returns. Major stock exchanges worldwide have begun constructing ESG based indices constituting those companies that comply with specific ESG criteria. Mutual Funds in India have introduced ESG based schemes for investors for better long-term returns. SBI Mutual Fund has renamed its widely popular and most successful equity scheme, SBI Magnum Equity into SBI Magnum Equity ESG fund. Other fund houses such as Quantum, Axis, and ICICI Mutual Funds have also introduced ESG based equity schemes. In India, BSE and NSE as well, have ESG based indices. BSE has S&P BSE 100 ESG Index, whereas NSE has Nifty 100 ESG Index, Nifty 100 Enhanced ESG, and & Nifty 100 ESG Sector Leaders. ESG indices are constructed based on the criterion of disclosure related to E, S & G practices and the question here arises is, whether these ESG indices are efficient in terms of information absorption by the market. The present study has considered all three ESG indices of NSE for a period of six months each before and after the imposition of lockdown in India. To analyze the efficiency of these indices Hurst exponent has been calculated for two periods and compared with Nifty 50 & Nifty 100 indices. The results have shown that ESG indices are more efficient in the post-Covid than the pre-Covid period, which gives an impression that investors are leaned towards ESG indices post math of Covid. In other words, the ESG portfolio can be taken as Covid free portfolio.

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ESG, ESG Reporting, ESG Indices, Market Efficiency & Covid-19.

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Abrogation, revoked, repercussions, prospects, diplomatic, resolution.

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This paper investigates accessibility, use and challenges of library Electronic(e) Information Resources (EIRs). It highlights the types, purpose of use, frequency of use, source of awareness, places of accessibility by final year students, benefits, challenges and proffered solutions on the available library Electronic(e-) Information Resources (EIRs). A total of 66 respondents were surveyed at the University of Jos using a self-designed questionnaire as data collection instrument. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as tables, mean, standard deviation and percentages. Hypotheses were tested and results showed that there is a positive, moderate significant relationship between the purpose of utilization and satisfaction of final year students of Faculty of Natural Sciences of Electronic information resources in University of Jos library (r = 0.65, df = 65, p<0.05). Hence hypothesis 1 was rejected. Also, there was no significant difference in the use of Electronic Information Resources between male and female final year students of Faculty of Natural Sciences (t = 0.91, df = 64, p>0.05). Hence hypothesis 2 was not rejected. Furthermore, findings revealed that databases and internet resources were the main type of e-information resources identified by respondents and majority use the e-resources for research. The frequency of use is occasionally inside the university of Jos Library. poor awareness, the need for username and password to access some, amongst others were reported as challenges to the use of EIRs by final year students. The study offered recommendations as ways of enhancing maximum use of EIRs for prompt academic excellence and information services to final year students of Faculty of Natural Sciences in University of Jos Library.

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Accessibility, barriers to use, electronic information resources, Final year students, academic libraries, Nigeria.

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Democracy is regarded if not the best but a better option for humanity to create a socially and politically civilized society. The best option for the rule is not yet invented by political scientists. Hence democracy remains to be the only best option available before modern humans. Indeed, the same democracy produced great democrat like Abraham Lincoln as well as the worst kind of dictator like Hitler. Therefore, Ambedkar conceived a kind of democracy that could make India a vibrant, dynamic nation producing rule for the people with elements of social equality and equal opportunities under the largely state-controlled economy along with reasonable space for private players.

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Ambedkar, Democracy, Equality, Fraternity, Liberty.

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College Libraries, Library Staff, ICT skills, Library patrons, Nigeria

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ABSTRACT Breast cancer is the serious health concern in India causing the highest mortality rate in females, which occurs due to uncontrolled cell division and can be metastasize to other parts of the human body.Natural products are important leads in drug discovery. The search for effective plant-derived anticancer agents or their synthetic analogues has continued to be of interest to biologists and chemists for a long time. We investigated the, cytotoxicity and anticancer activity of new synthetic 4-Hydroxypropiophenone (4-HPPP) was tested against breast cancer cell line MCF-7. Cytotoxicity was examined using MTT assay. The ability to induce apoptosis and changes in mitochondrial membrane potential,levels of reactive oxygen species and comet Assay.Based on the results, we determined the effective dose of 4-HPPP as 100?M/ml for 24 hr. Cytotoxicity effects of 4-HPPP was confirmed by treatment of MCF-7cell with IC50 concentration of 4-HPPP resulted in sequences of events marked by the enhance the apoptosis accompanied by loss of cell viability, modulation of reactive oxygen species and cell cycle arrest through the induction of G0/G1 phase arrest on MCF-7cells. These findings show that the synthetic 4-HPPP, displays potential to be further explored in the development of new anticancer agents.

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Keywords: 4-HPPP, Apoptosis, Mitochondria, MCF-7 cell, Reactive oxygen species and comet Assay

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Chemi luminescence Immune Assay, Serum ferritin, Febrile Convulsion, Iron Deficiency, South Karnataka.

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The rapid depletion of fossil fuel reserves, alternate and sustainable energy resources are being sought in order to maintain the growing global energy requirements of the well researched alternative sources include bio-fuels, solar, wind, hydro and geo-thermal energy. Hydrokinetic energy from flow of rivers, streams and artificial water channels are considered to be a viable resource. One promising new technology to overcome these problems is the hydroelectric power extraction system based on energy harvesting from flow induced vibration, the flow here can be both liquid flow as well as air flow. There are three main types of energy harvesting from vortex induced vibrations (VIV) of bluff bodies, flutter energy harvesting system and energy harvesting with Helmholtz resonators. The vortex induced vibration (VIV) Based power generating system is a new concept in power generation from fluid flow in occasions, rivers and streams.

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Keywords:- fossil fuel, hydrokinetic energy, vortex induced vibrations, power generation.

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Homoeopathy, Holistic, Adolescent, Mental diseases

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Consumer preference, cost benefit, demographic segmentation, in consumer buying behaviour, consumer satisfaction

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The review will attempt to provide an outline as well as a theoretical and practical grip of the use of microextraction study for drug analysis. Often only a small part of the initial analyte be extracted for analysis. The extraction regulation be set on by the partitioning of analyte between the sample matrix and the extraction phase. The higher the affinity the analyte possess for the extraction phase comparative to the sample matrix, greater the amount of analyte extracted. Microextraction techniques represent an important contribution to the improvement of sample preparation performance. Sample preparation be necessary for set apart desired components from complex matrices and greatly impact their reliable and accurate analysis. The role of sample preparation is to take out interferences and analyte assumption, change the analytes to suitable form for separation and detection. If an inappropriate sample preparation method has been working before the injection, the entire analytical process may be wasted. Because of low concentration levels of drug in plasma and the variety of the metabolites, the hand-pick extraction technique should be practically exhaustive. Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) is a current and essential sample preparation technique. Fibers and capillary tubes coated with an appropriate stationary phase are usually used for SPME, but alternative microextraction techniques are also used.

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Microextraction, Analyte, Efficiency, stationary phase, SPME, Affinity, Partitioning.

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WEDM, Hybrid-ALMMC, GRA, MRR, Ra.

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academic library, print information resources, undergraduate students, uses, challenges, Nigeria.

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Gas is detecting innovation has among the topical research, ponder for rather now and then. With the reason for local gas chamber cooking turned out to be simple and settling them is moreover abbreviated. Be that as it may, at that point are likewise sick impacts of utilizing these barrels. Spillage of residential gas isn't just lethal to human and creature life, yet in addition aims colossal property misfortune. In this way, location and essential advances are to be considered to forestall unfortunate mishaps. Many accidents tendencies due to short circuits, gas leakages, Etc. won't permit a normal person to enter the accident space, therefore on the scale back any harm. Such accidents are a unit, increasing every day, owing to lack of awareness, precaution measures and mental object. Multiple sensors were used for detection method. This paper presents an intelligent security system helpful for many of the house and business application. Home fires have been taking place frequently and the threat to human lives and properties is growing in recent years. Liquid petroleum gas (LPG) is highly inflammable and can burn even at some distance from the source of leakage. Most fire accidents are caused because of a poor-quality rubber tube or the regulator is not turned off when not in use. Therefore, developing the gas leakage alert system is very essential. Hence, this paper presents a gas leakage alert system to detect the gas leakage and to alarm the people onboard.

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MQ5 Gas Sensor, Smart Alerting Techniques, Raspberry-pi3, Buzzer, Light Emitting Diode.

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The Indian economy was closed to the external world before 1991. But after following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies; it is considered a newly industrialised country now. India opened up the economy in the early nineties following a major crisis of foreign exchange and was close to defaulting on loans. Later on the new policy regime radically pushed forward in favour of a more open and market-oriented economy. The research was conducted to find out the impact of FDI on Indian economy and Indian Railways. The data was collected from past 27 years. The data was secondary and was collected from different research articles, reports, websites, thesis etc. different tools were used like Granger causality effect, VAR model, ARIMA, etc. it was concluded that FDI has a positive effect on both Indian economy and Indian Railways.

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Indian Economy, Indian Railways, Economic Reforms, Foreign Exchange, Granger Causality Effect, VAR model, ARIMA.

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Introduction: A frozen shoulder (FS); Hui Bin Yvonne.et al defined it as "a condition of uncertain aetiology, characterised by significant restriction of both active and passive shoulder motion mostly the shoulder abduction and external rotation that occurs in absence of a known intrinsic shoulder disorder"[2]. Methodology: The study consists of total 20 patients diagnosed with frozen shoulder. Between 40 to 60 years of age including male and female. All the patients included in the study were ones falling into inclusion criteria of the study. Informed and written consent was taken from all the patients and further all the patients were divided in to two groups by concealed envelop method consisting of 10 patients in each groups. Both the groups received treatment for 5 days/week for 4 weeks. Group-A received the Vibration therapy along with Conventional Physiotherapy and Group-B received Conventional Physiotherapy treatment. Result: For group-A and group-B pre and post intervention outcome measures were taken in form of Goniometry and SPADI. Significance was assessed at 5% level of significance p<0.05 (2-tailed hypothesis test was considered). Both the groups showed improvement post intervention but Group A along with Conventional Physiotherapy showed more improvement where pain was reduced, improved function, improved shoulder abduction and external rotation ROM. Conclusion: The study showed significant effectiveness in both the groups significant effect of the treatment on post intervention but when compared the effect was more significant in Group-A that is Vibration therapy in patients with frozen shoulder.

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Frozen shoulder, vibration therapy, shoulder abduction, shoulder external rotation, SPADI

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Water existed on earth as early as 3000 million years ago. It is the commonest fluid in nature which is consumed by us in all means. We know that with the progress of science and use of certain chemicals for several activities especially agricultural activities the dangers of these chemicals entering our body through drinking water are also increasing at an alarming level. Testing water samples from diferent areas on regular intervals is necessary. This will ensure that the water source is being properly protected from potential contamination, and appropriate treatment is selected and operated properly. This report presents water quality data collected from various sources and analysed by following chemical parameters.The result is focused on the determination of presence of salts in water of rural areas of Sonipat district of Haryana, such as, Chloride, Nitrates, Sulphates, Fluoride and Iron according to BIS standards.

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Water quality analysis, BIS standards, physio-chemical parameters, potability, Ultraviolet Spectrophotometric method,

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Diaspora, Hybridity, Patriarchy , Political Activist, Homecoming, Feminism, Emotional, Masterful, Rebellious

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Nano-materials can be characterized as solids having measurements in the nanometer system. So, nanomaterials structure a unique class of materials that lie in the area that is in the middle of two limits i.e. mass solids and atoms. Solids and atoms have been contemplated and seen very well, anyway nanomaterials show properties that are totally not the same as both of the two. The properties of these materials are described by a particular length scale, normally underneath ~ 100 nm. In the event that the actual size of the material is decreased underneath this length scale, it's all properties like mechanical, strength, warm, optical, attractive, directing and so forth changes and become touchy to its size and shape. The purpose behind the variety in properties with size of the materials originates from very enormous surface-to-volume proportion. As such, nanomaterials have enormous number of particles on their surface when contrasted with those in the inside. Nanoscale metals/metal oxides/metal sulfides show electro-optical and mechanical properties that are not quite the same as their mass partners are promising materials for a few innovative applications, for example, photograph warm transformation, catalysis, sensors and so forth. In this present paper , an effort is there to explain the utilization of polymer inorganic strong state response course towards the union of copper (Cu), copper oxide (CuO), and copper sulfide (Cu2S) nano-particles. We endeavored the responses utilizing 1:1, 1:5, 1:10, 1:15 & 1:20 molar proportions of the copper salts, copper acetic acid derivation [Cu(CH3COO)2:H2O], copper chloride (CuCl2), copper carbonate (CuCO3), and copper nitrate [Cu(NO2)2] and polymer, Polyphenelene sulfide [1/n[C6H4S]n, (PPS)]. The PPS was picked intentionally in light of the fact that it is designing thermoplastic polymer having astounding mechanical and substance opposition properties notwithstanding the polymer being inalienably self-quenching. For these responses, the two reactants were admixed in the molar proportions in an agate pastel-mortar by utilizing CH3)2CO. The resultant admixture was warmed at 2850C (dissolving temperature of PPS) in an alumina pot for 6 hours under a surrounding climate condition. The combined items were portrayed by different physicochemical methods like XRD and TEM analysis. The example relating to warmed admixtures of various [Cu (CH3COO)2 H2O]:PPS proportions obviously shows transcendence of the development of copper sulfide (Cu2S) stage in equi-molar proportion samples. The samples arranged at other molar proportions show presence of metallic copper with some copper oxide stage present in it. The item integrated from copper nitrate [Cu(NO2)2] can frame copper sulfide (Cu2S), when responded with Polyphenelene sulfide (PPS). The copper carbonate (CuCO3) surrender copper inadequate construction Cu1.96S though copper chloride (CuCl2) remains un-reacted for certain hints of Cu1.96S. The future extent of the current work can be expected by examining the viewpoints of novel polymer-inorganic strong state responses for the amalgamation of other inorganic salts and its extension for the expected applications.

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Nanomaterials, Solids, strength, enormous, contrasted, transformation, PPS, self-quenching, XRD , TEM analysis.

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Based on the data which is being collected from the different respondents we have come to know that the social media plays a very important role for branding. We have come to know that how social media have an impact on the brands particularly on different smart phone brands. We have find out how social media can be useful for the brands. The different attributes of the social media which will turn out to be the advantage for the smart phones brands.

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social media, branding, brands, smart phones

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