Volume 8 | Issue 5

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The paper aims at investigating how literature down the lanes of time became the beacon light in the times of pandemic alleviating overall impact of widespread viral pandemics. In addition to that paper also catalogues representative examples of literature from selected nations from Homer to incumbent poet laureate of England, all that tried to dress up the human wounds in a parade of disappointments and �naked dance of death�. Nonetheless, it also thrives upon how literature has shaping effect on society during the pestilence

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Pandemic Narratives, Dance of Death, Morality, Humanity, Love, Patience, Soothing.

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Health is the balanced state of life and harmonious performance of the vital force while disease is the only changed state of health and there must be a cause behind it which manifest itself through abnormal sign and symptoms. Homoeopathy can restore the health and remove all disagreeable sign and symptoms in a rapid, gentle and permanent way on easily comprehensible principles ie., "Similia Similibus Curentur" which means like cures like. The sufferings regarding nocturnal enuresis such as incontinence urine, stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, etc, homoeopathy can deal it better by a wide range of medicines with their proven symptoms. This study is to search the cause behind nocturnal enuresis and availability of homoeopathic medicines related to it. Homoeopathic treatment is the most efficient therapy provides a gentle approach in treating bed wetting. A detailed homoeopathic case taking and treating with an individualized homoeopathic remedy gives us an assured result in cases of nocturnal enuresis.

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Nocturnal enuresis, Homoeopathy, individualization, vital force, one-sided disease

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The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between emotional maturity and self-esteem among college students with the age group of 18-22. The sample of the study comprised of 100 students 50 male and 50 female. The Emotional Maturity of the students was measured by using Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) developed by Singh and Bhargava (1984) and self-esteem was measured by using Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI) developed by M.S.Prasad and G.P.Thakur.

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Emotional maturity, self-esteem, young adults.

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The bounce in viscous fluid cosmology with inhomogeneous viscous fluids in Bianchi Type-IX space-time has been investigated by considering different forms of scale factor. The general features of the fluids which realize them and the possibility to have an acceleration after the bounce have been discussed.

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Bianchi Type-IX Space Time, Scale Factor, Viscous Fluid, Bounce, Energy Conditions

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We make use of the VLSI technology to implement this switching network from mega to gigahertz. It is a universally useful for high-speed communication in wide, neighbourhood, and framework zone networking, supporting a mixture of services from constant source. For this we use should update our conventional switch which we use in our current applications as a part of our ATM switching network.

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VLSI technology, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Switching Network

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Traditional Mizo food is cooked in a simple manner, typically boiled, stewed, smoked, steamed, or fermented. However due to the influence and import of eatable good, many food habit have been modified. Mizos have adapted to and adopted practices in food preparation that were hitherto alien to them. In the study, the dietary pattern and diversity of food consumption in rural and urban women between 25 to 55 years of age was analyzed. The research was conducted within Aizawl District. The study observe a significance difference in the intake of non-vegetarian (F=77.57, P=0.000), nuts (F=165.18, P=0.000), oil (F=144.64, P=0.000), milk (F=43.10, P=0.000) and sugar (F=54.66, P=0.000) between rural and urban respondents at 1% level. The number of respondents who consume milk daily was more in urban areas (91%) than in rural areas (77%). Meat, egg and fish are consumed 2 to 4 times a week by the majority of urban respondents (62%) as well as half of the rural (50%) respondents.

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Rural, Urban, Food, Dietary, Non-vegetarian, Mizoram

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Humanity grows as technology grows. Growth is complete only when it is uniform and common. In places where growth is uneven, technology steps in and happens to be the game changer. Ours is one such project that is aimed at bringing uniformity in the navigation of visually challenged people just like the common people. The project aims to aid the safe navigation of the visually impaired people. This helps the individual in reaching the destination, guiding them throughout the way and warning them about the obstacles that are awaiting their way through vibration and synthetic speech output by means of a headset. Thus preventing them from colliding with the obstacles. This adds on value to the conventional cane that has been used since ages. It makes use of an ultrasonic sensor to calculate the distance from the obstacle, a NodeMCU upon which the operational program and all the other components are based, a vibration motor to alert the person and an IR sensor to detect the obstacles through IR rays. Along with the function of guiding, it also has a backup protection plan in case of emergency. Wherein an alert message containing his location is sent to the person�s predetermined friend through GPS and GSM which is enabled through Wi-Fi module, thereby preventing any further complications. A pulse sensor is also used to have a basic monitoring of the person�s pulse rate. Thus, the project assures the visually impaired people to travel alone safely and confidently without the fear of getting lost or meeting with accidents anymore.

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Ultrasonic sensor, infrared sensor heartbeat, vibration motor, blindo App, image processing.

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This paper is about a technology that provides quick ordering system inside the canteen unlike the traditional canteen ordering system where customers face many problems like lost account details, less security, problems with manual working etc. The purpose of the Canteen Automation website is to overcome the disadvantages of traditional ordering system. It enables the end users to register online, read and choose the food from e-menu card and order food online by just choosing the food that the user want to have using android application. The results after selecting the food from the E-menu card will directly get displayed on the screen near the Chef who is going to cook the food for you. The application is the combination of Android as well as Web Application Basically the project describes how to manage for good performance and better services for the clients.

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Management system, Android, Connectivity, Dynamic Database, Computer application, WiFi .

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Due to environmental changes and poor quality of construction materials, cracks may develop in the walls of the building which is critical for maintenance as well as the continuous exposure will cause the severe damage to the environment. One of the initial signs of the degradation of a concrete surface or a material is cracks. Manual inspection has many drawbacks like invisibility of the crack, time consuming and it completely depends upon specialist�s knowledge and experience. So automatic image-based crack detection is used as replacement for manual inspection which reduces the cost when compared to the manual approach. The proposed algorithm has been tested against various concrete crack images to study how effectively the algorithm is working, and how effectively it is overcoming the drawbacks of the present manual approach. The algorithm is projected to serve the purpose of various people by estimating the parameters of the crack so the bricklayer can take the necessary actions from the degradation of concrete structures.

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Image Based Detection, Concrete Structures

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The growth and its yield of the crops depend on the factors like Soil Moisture, Humidity, Temperature, etc. In the agriculture field, soil moisture is a vital parameter for the growth of the plant. Continuous monitoring and maintaining the required level of the soil moisture in the field leads to an increase in agricultural productivity. Internet of Things (IoT) is a modern technology, which is used widely in various fields like Military, Industries, domestic, education, medical care, and agricultural fields. In this proposed system, IoT technology is used for continuous monitoring of soil moisture levels in the agricultural field. The user can easily get real-time data through their Mobile phones. Based on the data collection, the irrigation schedule can be planned. The proposed system is compact, easy to handle, portable, Robustness, access anywhere to get data and economically benefited. The design and construction of the proposed system are done by using components like Microcontroller, Moisture sensors, LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), GPS (Global Positioning System), and mobile app.

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Soil Moisture, GPS, IoT, Continuous monitoring.

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The online education market currently in India stands at USD 247 Million and is expected to grow by 5x. While we can see the development of the industry, we can likewise observe that a large portion of the students/learners is currently enhancing their primary and secondary education, test/entrance exams, reskilling, and accreditations through online methods. This shows there is a fair number of people who presently acknowledge the framework. While tuitions and learning at a school were the systematic framework, the change has been driven by online educational platforms. As indicated by the examination that I have led over the market, the pattern recommends that the number of individuals opting for the web instruction are just expanding at an extremely high rate. With the introduction of online educational platforms like Byjus, Jaro, Vedantu, Simplilearn, and so forth, there are many supplements to oblige both students and parents to the needs of students. It very well may be summarized that online instruction has endured and has been acknowledged; this is setting down deep roots and development. To pick up the trust and unwavering factor among the customers, different methodologies, such as freemium model and free trials, are being advanced by the players in the market to empower online learning among students and working experts. And so forth, a considerable number of students and guardians are moving toward them, and they can oblige their requirements. The situation of lockdown due to pandemic (Covid19) had posed a challenge to the online education system if they are capable of managing such a high need. One needs to really applaud the way online platforms tackled such a problem and made this convenient for the students. This shows the real capability that this online platform on the whole has. With the introduction of virtual classrooms and webinars, individuals have accepted it as a partial alternative to the traditional approach.

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Online Education, Virtual Learning

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Reading is essential in daily life for everyone. Visually impaired persons can read-only by use of the special application by them like Braille language. Visually challenged people are very strong in their other sensing organs like smelling and touching to lead their life. They are unable to perform visual tasks. In this project, the technology of optical character recognition (OCR) enables the recognition of texts from image data. People cannot witness the price written on the product so this project can help them to find the price which is written on the product.

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OCR, Braille language, Impaired

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Soil moisture information plays an important role in environmental monitoring, agricultural production and hydrological studies. Particularly, agricultural yield depends on several growing parameters like temperature, humidity, soil moisture and pH of the soil, etc. In this paper, we have designed and developed a system for measuring and monitoring soil moisture, humidity and temperature by interfacing low-cost soil moisture sensor FC-28, temperature and humidity sensor: DHT11, and using Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud computing and Mobile computing technologies. We have also implemented an online cloud computing system to keep check over soil parameters. Various methods, both laboratory and field including remote sensing are available to measure soil moisture content, but the quickest and better one is with the use of soil moisture sensor electronic devices. For successful irrigation, it is necessary to monitor soil moisture, its temperature and humidity content continuously in the irrigation fields. The soil moisture sensors are used intensively at present because it gives real time readings. Their usage helps growers with irrigation scheduling by providing information about when to water the crops. Efficient irrigation watering helps in saving water, getting better plant yields, reducing dependency on fertilizers and improving crop quality. This research has a real potential to deliver a more productive and sustainable form of agricultural production, based on a more precise and resource-efficient approach. It also promises to reduce the ecological footprint of farming, make farming profitable and boost customer acceptance.

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Smart Irrigation System; Soil Moisture Sensors; Sustainable Agriculture; Temperature and Humidity Sensors

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We introduce an effective technique to enhance the images captured underwater and degraded due to the medium scattering and absorption. Our method is a single image approach that does not require specialized hardware or knowledge about the underwater conditions or scene structure. It builds on the blending of two images that are directly derived from a color-compensated and white balanced version of the original degraded image. The two images to fusion, as well as their associated weight maps, are defined to promote the transfer of edges and color contrast to the output image. To avoid that the sharp weight map transitions create artifacts in the low frequency components of the reconstructed image, we also adapt a multi scale fusion strategy. Our extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluation reveals that our enhanced images and videos are characterized by better exposedness of the dark regions, improved global contrast, and edges sharpness. Our validation also proves that our algorithm is reasonably independent of the camera settings, and improves the accuracy of several image processing applications, such as image segmentation and key-point matching.

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White Balancing, Gamma Correction, Sharpening, Multi scale Fusion, Laplacian weight, Saliency weight, Saturation weight.

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Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) is the main component for the concrete production in the construction industry. In the major project study has been undertaken to investigate the use of demolition demolition waste dust and cement for the manufacturing of the brick. Standard consistency and initial and final setting time are tested for binder mix.Mechanical properties such as compressive strength for 7 days is found out. Durability properties such as water absorption are evaluated at 7 days. The proportion of cement and demolition waste dust are 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%.

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Demolition waste dust, cement, Compressive Strength, Water Absorption, Efflorescence test.

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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) method offers English as Second Language (ESL) learner�s purposeful classroom activities to help them acquire communicative competence. In nutshell, communicative competence is knowing how to produce and understand different types of texts and also knowing how to maintain communication despite by having limitations in ones language knowledge. In a CLT classroom, the students as a community learn to communicate through collaboration and sharing. The role of the teacher is not only to create opportunities for language learning but also to train the students to reflect on their language use for effective learning. This paper discusses on how communicative language teaching (CLT) is adapted in present ESL classrooms through communicative activities like Role play, group discussions, just a minute (JAM) and Talk show interview to help ESL learners communicative.

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Communicative Language Teaching, communicative competence, classroom activity,

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On this contemporary age the composite materials are become the first material for any engineering production because composite materials have several specific properties like high strength to weight ratio, low cost, and ease of fabrication, tensile strength, compressive strength, Impact strength, high resistance to thermal which does not realize in pure material or non-composite material. Because of its vast application, A engineer should skills to fabricate and teste a material. In this project, you'll be using two waste materials i.e. bagasse and waste plastic to produce a composite. The composite can be used for the purpose of heat insulation which we can apply in our rooftops or any place where we can reduce the heat transfer. The main aspect of our project is to provide something useful out of waste materials.

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Fibres, Composites, Thermal properties, Thermal analysis, sugarcane bagasse, waste plastic.

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The digital world we live in demands a high application of digital signal processing, neural networking, computer automation. Multiplier is one of the essential operators for these applications. The demand for power efficiency and higher speed introduces errors into these applications. These demands give birth to a new field known as Approximate computing. In the paper approximate multiplier is designed with a huge range of dynamic selection. One of the main advantages of the design is the error introduced during a computation, which cancels with previous computation instead of summing up. An approximate DRUM multiplier is designed using Verilog. Register Transfer Level (RTL) is retrieved. The computation of error metrics is done in MATLAB. This design is scalable and so it can be used according to the required application. The propagation delay of the multiplier is reduced in this design which makes it faster. Error analysis is done based on various parameters and it is observed the error introduced is least among all the approximate multipliers. Since multiplier consumes more power in the processor, this multiplier is designed with power efficiency as one of the major constrain. As designed the multiplier when used in a processor saves power to 58 %. The design outperforms various other approximate multipliers which was analyzed during the literature survey. After analyzing the DRUM multiplier a modification is done in the design to improve the accuracy. This optimized design is termed as Optimized DRUM multiplier and it is analyzed and the comparative study between both the multipliers is made in terms of accuracy.

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Approximate computing, error metrics, Dynamic Range, RTL schematic.

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Inability to speak is considered to be true disability. People with this disability use different modes to communicate with others, there are many number of methods available for their communication one such common method of communication is sign language. Sign language allows people to communicate with human body language, each word has a set of human actions representing a particular expression. The motive of the paper is to convert the human sign language to Voice with human gesture understanding. This is achieved with the help of Raspberry pi web camera and speaker. There are a few systems available for sign language to speech conversion but none of them provide portable user interface. For consideration if a person who has a disability to speak can stand and perform in front of the system and the system converts the human gestures as speech and plays it loud so that the person could actually communicate to a mass crowd gathering. Also the system helps visually and speech impaired people to communicate with each other.

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Sign Language, GestureRecognition, Image Processing, Visually and speech impaired, Voice output.

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