Volume 8 | Issue 6

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Dissonance is an essential prerequisite towards a better consonance, disagreement leads to consensus and dispute ultimately resolves into a better and peaceful solution. This shows how inevitable are disputes and that it needs to be resolved, hence there has been a quest for determining numerous ways in this direction. In the present era, the means of litigation as solving disputes has attained a point of saturation, and the need is to find alternatives that would not only suffice the growing need and demand but also aim at a better and more efficient dispute resolution. The diverging lines of conflict often become too complicated and the ever blooming population growth further complicates the situation. In this scenario, a better way has evolved in using mediation as the mechanism- not simply as a substantive means itself but as a complimentary tool that would help the present system of litigation to survive as well. The study aims at not simply exploring mediation and its avenues but also provides solutions for integrating it into the prevailing system. Both doctrinal and empirical research has-been conducted for the purpose. The paper encapsulates a survey especially carried out in the rural area in the state of West Bengal to help assess the rural attitude towards mediation especially.

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DISSONANCE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CONFLICT MEDIATION RURAL SUSTAINABLE

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The 1950�s and 1960�s were eras of absolute faith in education as a major instrument of social or economic development. This saw the unprecedented curriculum development efforts geared towards a new interpretation of the role of education in development, this was so, as many developing countries at that time were getting independence from colonial administration. Thus, the changing economic, social and political situation in both developed and developing countries combined to create needs for constant innovations and reforms in education. Due to this new social configuration it is necessary that new ideas and needs have emerged in which the former system is no longer adequate. This is more so as by early 1970�s to date there is general agreement among politicians, educational and social plainness, and schools that education is a key change agent for moving societies towards development. Within this context expanded and improved educational provision became a focus of development efforts, especially in developing countries as a means of acquiring new teaching methods. The rationale behind this paper is the evident failing of the educational system in response to new methods and techniques in teaching and learning. The primary obstacle to the introduction of new teaching methods and techniques into the system was partly the inertia of the educational system itself and partly the inability of government to muster the sum of money required to provide teaching instructional aides.

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Techniques, Methods, Technology, and Sustainability.

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The covid-19 pandemic is a major health crisis affecting several nations, with over 2,46,628 cases and 6,929 confirmed deaths reported to date. Such widespread outbreaks are associated with adverse phrenic health consequences. Keeping this in mind, existing literature on the covid-19 outbreak pertinent to phrenic health was retrieved via a literature search of the pubmed database. Published articles were classified according to their overall themes and summarized. Preliminary evidence suggests that symptoms of anxiety and depression (16�28%) and self-reported stress (8%) are prevalent psychological reactions to the covid-19 pandemic, and may be associated with disturbed slumber. A number of individual and structural variables moderate this risk. In planning services for such populations, both the needs of the concerned people and the indispensable preventive guidelines must be taken into account. The available literature has emerged from only a few of the affected countries, and may not reflect the experience of persons living in other parts of the world. In conclusion, subsyndromal phrenic health quandaries are a prevalent replication to the covid-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19, Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Public health

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In recent times fertilizers are responsible for a 50% increase in crop yield. Due to the progressive intensification of agriculture and the production of great yielding varieties, fertilizer consumption has increased very much, accounting for 23.6 metric tonnes of nutrients every year through crop removal. Overuse in certain potential areas and sub-optimum use in larger areas is primary issues, and the uncontrolled use of inorganic fertilizer is leading a lot of problems, mainly soil fertility and pollution. So, the target should be to minimize the use of chemical fertilizers and to enhance and boost fertilizer usage. Therefore, a strategy for integrated nutrient supply is evolved by a judicious combination of chemical fertilizers, organic manures, and biofertilizers (Panwar et al. 2001). Therefore, attempts were made during the present study to observe the effect of integrated fertilizer dose (urea + biofertilizers ) on the productivity of famous forage crop hybrid Napier (cv.NB-21). The research includes an investigation on the percentage increase in yield of forage crops and minimizing the use of nitrogenous fertilizer using bio fertilizer.

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Hybrid Napier, NB-21, Nitrogen fertilizer, Bio-fertilizer, integrated dose, yield.

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Tumor identification and evacuation is one clinical issue that despite everything stays testing in the field of biomedicine. Early imaging procedures, for example, pneumoencephalography and cerebral angiography had the downside of being obtrusive and thus the CT and MRI imaging methods help the specialists in giving a superior vision. In this paper, tumor picture preparation includes three phases in particular pre-handling, division, and morphological activity. After the securing of the source picture, it is pre-prepared by changing over the first picture to dim scale also high pass channel for commotion evacuation and middle channel for quality upgrade is given which is trailed by improvement stage coming about with histograms identical picture. At last, the division is finished by methods for watershed calculation. The above-proposed philosophy is useful in creating the reports naturally in less range of time and progression has brought about extricating numerous mediocre parameters of the tumor.

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MRI, CT, MATLAB

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This paper deals with the design of supply chain models with complexities in the present industry. In this paper a mathematical model has been designed for a production � distribution supply chain network considering volume flexibility and the various risks associated with disruptions. The model is framed using mixed integer nonlinear programming and multiple periods, multiple products, suppliers, manufacturing plants, distribution centers and customer market and distinct disruption scenarios have been considered. The aim is to minimize the total operational cost, minimizing the shortage cost due to disruptions and maximizing the flexibility level of the back orders.

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Supply Chain Management Mixed integer programming, Mixed integer nonlinear programming, Supply Chain disruptions, Multi-objective optimization

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It is a well known fact that all companies depend on various tools of marketing to sell their product and to communicate prospective brand values to their existing and expected consumers. As new trends emerge marketing communication has become an important element in all the business organisations which can not be ignored and henceforth traditional marketing practices have swept away and have madee way for a system of integrated marketing communication which includes a mix of marketing practices such as Advertisement, Personal selling, Sales Promotion, Experiences and Sales Events. As we know that with a huge surge in the available information the customers have widened their reach and hence the value of marketing communication has gone up considerably. Therefore we tend to use the Marketing Communication tools to influence the behaviour of our targeted customer. Also the companies need to keep in mind that the marketing communication tools are used intelligently so as to correctly influence the audience. This Research Paper aims to study the impact of marketing communication on customer purchase intention after taking into consideration success stories of several organisations who are able to grab customer attention successfully with the help of an integrated system of marketing communication. The purpose of this research paper is to determine if the planned use of various tools of integrated marketing communication is actually a medium to influence the purchase intentions of various types of customers be it expected or existing ones.

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Marketing communication, Consumer Decision Making Process, Purchase Intention, Advertisement, Promotion, Social media Marketing

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In India, the farmers still lack real time information about consumers, market demand and prices and are prone to more exploitation by existing intermediaries in the conventional supply chain. With the growth of organized retailing and free global trade, farming is becoming highly knowledge intensive, commercialized, competitive and globalised, making it necessary to digitize, rebuild competitive. In agriculture sector, an efficient supply chains to benefit both the farmer as well as the consumer. Also the urban areas are congested with deteriorating quality of life and highly saturated markets. While nearly 60 per cent of India�s population live in rural areas, and forecasts indicate that these numbers will remain the same, even in 2050. There would be approx. 800 million people living in Indian rural areas in the 2040-50s, providing the scale and the markets for commodity supply chains to thrive. Thus, there is a need for transforming rural India into a group of sophisticated vibrant activity centres. Innovations and transformations will be required in every layer of products, processes, business models, and service models. This study aims to find the different aspects of supply chain of agricultural outputs mainly in Assam and India by and large. The state of Assam is capable of producing many sorts of agricultural commodities but yet to reach the ideal position in terms of supplying and distribution.

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Supply Chain, Organized Retailing, Global Trade, Agricultural Outputs

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To compare outcome of treatment between steroid�antibiotic and 10% Ichthammol glycerine packs (IG packs) in acute otitis externa. A prospective study between steroid�antibiotic and 10% IG pack which was performed in department of ENT, civil hospital jawalamukhi and civil hospital nagrota bhagwan from July 2019 to may 2020 on 32 patients was conducted. Age group among studied patients ranged from 14 to 56 years, with mean of 36.7 years. Out of which 20 (62.5%) were females and 12 (38.5%) were males. Pain assessed by Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) and edema was assessed by dividing the external auditory canal in two quadrant giving score of 50% for each on the day of presentation and subsequent visits till tragal sign and edema subsided. Average number of visits in 10% IG pack group (n = 16) was 4.6 days (2�5 visits) while in steroid�antibiotic group (n = 16) it was 3.5 days (2�5 visits). There was statisti- cally significant decrease in the number of visits in steroid group (P 0.05). Similarly, decrease in pain score in second visit was significant in steroid antibiotic group as compared to 10% IG pack whereas it was statistically highly significant on third visit (P = 0.001). Since the reduction of pain and edema is more in the steroid antibiotic group hence the total number of packing is significantly less in steroid�antibiotic group, so it could be recommended to use steroid�antibiotic pack for effective treatment of acute otitis externa.

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Acute otitis externa � Numeric rating scale � Steroid�antibiotic pack � 10% Ichthammol glycerine pack

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Several studies have been conducted to identify the relationship between customers, customer satisfaction and business performance in the airline industry. Whereas there has been less focus on the Passenger retention perspective. Snowball sampling method was used to determine how the airline can deliver quality service to the passengers as this field requires passenger satisfaction for the airlines to survive and strengthen their competitiveness with the other airlines. The sample was collected from frequent Indigo airline commuting customers. The sample size is 100. Statistical Analysis was done using SPSS Software. The Research design used here is Descriptive research. The major objective of this study is to determine the best possible customer satisfaction methodologies for better and longer passenger retention in the Indigo airlines.

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Passenger, Passenger retention, Satisfaction, Business performance, Indigo airlines, frequent flyers.

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Before 2004 there was a paper based voting system called the Ballot Paper System. With the growth of technology, we have moved in to the electronic voting machine system, called the EVM. But now a days EVM are not safe, because of the hardware malpractice which includes virus, hacking as well as physical tampering. To overcome such situations we are proposing a new system called the Advanced Voting Machine (AVM). Initially the voters are enrolled using the biometric fingerprint. After the verification of fingerprint the voters can cast their vote. There by we can avoid the fake votes. The candidate details are already stored so the voters can easily choose the candidate. At the time of voting, camera will be activated and it will capture the image of the corresponding voter symbol and it will be stored in the database. These images will be processed to identify the symbols using the image comparison techniques, and based on that counting take place. After casting the vote a token will be generated to the voters in the encrypted form to their mobile phones. After voting token generated in mobile phones to the voters, through this token voters get the details of the voting like candidate name, party name and symbol of the party etc in which we can assure that vote will be given for the right person. Otherwise we can claim on it.

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ADVANCED VOTING MACHINE (AVM)

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Expect to build up a customized travel arranging framework that all the while thinks about all classes of client prerequisites and gives clients an itinerary arranging administration. This will empower the client in finding what they are searching for, effectively without investing energy and exertion.

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Framwork ,empower, itinerary

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This project aims at cleaning up the wall tiles in, hospitals, halls, malls, houses, and hotels. This project research aims to design and improve processes for cleaning the vertical wall surfaces. The brushing of wall tiles is usually annoying, repetitive, and boring daily routine work. It takes a very long time to maintain the health and hygiene of bathrooms. In today�s world maintain hygiene is an essential part of life, wall tiles clean-up is very essential to good health. This floor cleanup machine lessens the washing work needed. This concept is very helpful in our day-to-day lifestyles. Intelligent machines for floor cleaning are becoming more popular for working and growing populations. But the scrubbing of wall tiles isn�t common. This project gives a wall tile washing machine system idea.

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System to wash the wall, device to wash, machinery

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Urbanisation and urban growth has increased urban population and affected socio-economic conditions in urban areas. The study aim is to assess the impact of socio-economic conditions on quality of life (QOL) of residents of Yenagoa City, Nigeria. Objectives are to determine social and economic indicators to assess QOL of residents in the study area; assess the impact of social and economic indicators on QOL of residents in the study area; and suggest urban planning policy and socio-economic framework to improve QOL of residents of Yenagoa City. The study employed Mixed Methods Research (MMR) approach using concurrent triangulation research design. The study identified 29 communities in the study area and 6 communities (20%) namely; Famgbe, Yenagoa, Ovom, Yenizue-Gene, Yenegwe and Igbogene communities were randomly selected for the study. A total of 399 respondents were selected for interview using stratified sampling technique and key informant approach was also used to obtain quantitative and qualitative data. The study revealed that there are inadequate quantity of healthcare and educational facilities and services in the study area which has increase mortality rate and access to education. Employment rate and monthly income is low as most residents are in the informal sector. This has increase crime and violent activity in the study area. These conditions have impacted negatively on QOL of residents of the study area. The study suggested that Yenagoa Master Plan 2004 should be reviewed to provide urban social and economic facilities and services to improve QOL; control, guide and manage urban growth and development, prepare urban renewal schemes for the communities; develop a Local Economic Development (LED) plan and apply Participatory Planning Approach (PPA) to planning and development of communities to achieve sustainable urban development.

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Urbanisation, Urban Growth, Social and Economic Conditions, Quality of Life & Urban Planning

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Abstract: This paper gives and brief idea about the time and cost optimization by using network crashing technique. In this paper, the construction of a girl�s hostel building is taken as a case study. The brief procedure of network crashing is explained with proper example. The application of network compression technique is shown with all the necessary calculations in proper table format. We can get adequate result and conclusion by adopting this procedure and also obtain the optimum duration of the project with respect to its optimum cost.

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Time Optimization, Cost Optimization, Network Compression Techniques.

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This paper presents the Dark light project designed for visually impaired people using GPS and Arduino. Approximately, 285 million people are visually impaired and 39 million are blind according to World Health Organization. People who are visually impaired should depend on technological devices. Thus this project aims to develop �Dark Light� for visually impaired to connect them to real time environment. This contains Ultrasonic sensor connected with Arduino and it send the audio information to the people using headphones to convey the distance measured for an obstacle present in front of the people. It can be tracked and Google Assistant will Guide the visually impaired people to move exact location. The device can measure up to a distance of about 2m.

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Dark light, Blind vision, Third eye, Arduino for blind

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Construction industry is one of the most important sectors in the development of the country and it�s GDP. Bricks are widely used in the construction industry. Porotherm bricks are mainly made off clay mixed with coal ash, rice husk ash, saw dust and fly ash. In this experimental study bricks are made off natural waste material like rice husk ash and granite powder. The main objective of the study is to reduce the quantity of clay with natural waste material. On the other hand proper and efficient management of natural solid waste disposal can be done. Here we are replacing granite powder and rice husk ash in appropriate proportions to make light weight brick with same compressive strength. This study helps to identify the average water absorption ratio and compressive strength.

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porotherm brick, rice husk, granite powder,compressive strength, light weight

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The impartial of a firm is to allocate the resources in a way that meets the objective of maximizing wealth of all stakeholders by increasing the efficiency of the resources of the business. The dividend policy is focused on determining the returns to the shareholder from the earnings of the business. The objective of this study is to (i) investigate the annual dividend return by the sample of S&P BSE 500, BSE listed firms in India and (ii) investigate the dividend payout policy of the sample firms. Considering the usable sample of 164 companies, grouped into thirty-nine industry for the period from FY2015-16 to FY2018-19 i.e. span of 4 years shows results that the sample firms has been steady on an aggregate level in dividend payout policy and shows resistance with respect to change in policy. The overall performance of sample companies shows that the 4-year average of dividend yield was 1.53% with a variability range from 0.08% to 6.92%. Similarly, the dividend payout policy as measured in proportion of EPS and Cash EPS shows 4-year average as 39% and 29% respectively. The results also showed that on an average the architecture and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis (NIC code 71) has given the maximum dividend yield (6%). The dividend payout in proportion of EPS was highest (77%) for the manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment (NIC code 25) and dividend payout in proportion of cash EPS, the financial service activities, except insurance and Pension funding (NIC code 64) was highest (69%). In both the proportions, information service activities (NIC code 61) has recorded the minimum (1%).

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firms, dividend, dividend yield, dividend payout policy, profitability, efficiency

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Machine condition checking innovation has around for a long time, designed for advancing machine execution and limiting unplanned personal time. Since the appearance of the IoT, nonetheless, there has been development around machine condition observing. An IoT-based model for machine apparatuses condition examination with AI, IoT computerizes and adds knowledge to machine condition checking. In this paper different techniques are studied about machine tools condition analysis and classification. This examination surveys different techniques which are used to classify machine sound data. The center goal is to order the obtained machine sound sign into the comparing machine conditions effectively for example faulty and normal, which is generally a multi-class order issue.

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Machine tools condition analysis, Machine learning, IoT, Sound data.

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Automatic Emotion Recognition from audio signals is a challenging task for machines however it is quite easy for human. The audio signals vary according to different features such as pitch, loudness, timbre, speech rate and pauses. In this work, speech emotions were classified seven different emotions namely happy, sad, surprised, neural, angry, disgust, fear. A convolution neural network of nine layers has been applied to classify above emotions. Feature extraction is done through Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC).

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MFCC, CNN, SER, SAVEE

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