Awareness of ethical problems in the global context

This paper seeks to help deans and faculties of colleges and schools of education in India to develop a global perspective for teacher education. The article explains the urgent need for a global approach to both the general and professional components of teacher education --- teaching and learning methods as well as clinical and practical training Indian education, despite its failure to cope with current realities, possesses an enviable record for responding to new social, economic, and cultural demands.  The provision for local needs the willingness to experiment and reform and the continual search for equal educational opportunity, provide optimism that education for a global age lies within reach. The same processes and technology that have allowed unprecedented human interaction on a global scale could help correct Indian education’s current isolation from the rest of the world Global education offers a response to the challenges posed by modern, global realities.  Its ultimate goal is not the evolution of a world community governed by a super state, but the development of a comprehension of the differences and similarities within humankind, of how peoples’ actions reflect their perceptions of reality, of the stock and distribution of Earth’s resources, and of the concepts of interdependence, global conflict, equity, and human rights

Evaluating Traits Influencing Hybrid Paddy Seed Production using a Double Haploid Production Derived from Kalanamak Parental Combination

Steps in double haploid breeding for genetic improvement of rice genetically diverse parents could reach the heterotic level of hybrid which pinpointed the prospect of anther culture technique in rice. DH lines with earliness, enhanced biomass production, high panicle density and increased yield potential with resistance top stand grain quality could be produced from anther culture of different crosses. DH lines from cv. 'Calrose 76' showed variation with improved agronomic characters e.g. seed number size, panicle size, plant height and tiller number and improved protein content and higher yields. Scientists reported high genetic variability for filled grains panicle -1 , grains yield plant -1 and number of panicles plant -1 among androgenic plantlets derived from scented Indica rice cv. 'Karnal local 95', suggesting the scope of haploid breeding for higher seed yield. Scientists developed 22 outstanding DHLs for high grain quality through anther culture. Scientists confirmed 98 lines to be DHs out of 232 lines recovered from 'Mahyco Hybrid MRP5401' which had dwarf height, early to late flowering and high yield characters. Development of improved DHs for kalanamak tolerance , submergence tolerance , and bacterial blight resistance , have been reported. Scientists recovered genetically uniform dwarf DHs from anther culture of an advance breeding line 'BR802-78-2-1-1'. A few of these DHs showed high fertility status of spikelet with long-bold and long-slender grain

THE ROLES AND MECHANISMS OF SEMAPHORINS ACTIVITY IN CANCER

Throughout embryonic and fetal development, semaphorins communicate via Plexin receptors to serve as directional cues. Their modulation of tumor angiogenesis, tumor development, cancer cell invasiveness, and metastasis is a relatively new discovery in the context of cancer. It is intriguing that activated plexins may Trans activate receptor tyrosine kinases including MET, ERBB2, FGFR2, and VEGFR2, resulting in different consequences depending on the cellular environment. In addition, several semaphorins simultaneously target endothelial and cancer cells, resulting in impressive suppression of angiogenesis and tumor development and anti-metastatic action. Taken together, these results support the idea that semaphorin signals are a viable therapeutic target for cancer treatment

Crowd Behavior Analysis and Classification using Graph Theoretic Approach

Surveillance systems are commonly used for security and monitoring. The need to automate these systems is well understood. To address this issue we introduce the Graph theoretic approach based Crowd Behavior Analysis and Classification System (GCBACS). The crowd behavior is observed based on the motion trajectories of the personnel in the crowd. Optical flow methods are used to obtain the streak lines and path lines of the crowd personnel trajectories. The streak flow is constructed based on the path and streak lines. The personnel and their respective potential vectors obtained from the streak flows are used to represent each frame as a graph. The frames of the surveillance videos are analyzed using graph theoretic approaches. The cumulative variation in all the frames is computed and a threshold based mechanism is used for classification and activity recognition. The experimental results discussed in the paper prove the efficiency and robustness of the proposed GCBACS for crowd behavior analysis and classification

A PORTRAYAL OF THE SOCIODEMOGRAPHICS AND OPTIMAL UPTAKE OF ANTENATALCARE SERVICES AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN OF URBAN SLUMS IN INDIA: AN INITIAL DATASET DEPICTION

Escalating deployment of maternal healthcare services has considerably impacted maternal mortality rates. However, urban slums have remained an understudied area in this context. Aim: To assess maternal healthcare service utilization patterns and influencing factors during antenatal period in urban slums. The analysis encompasses Fertility, Family Planning Practices, Dietary Habits, Health Quality, and implications of COVID-19 on Pregnancy. Method: Cross-sectional research conducted between April and June 2022, among urban slums in South Delhi, targeting pregnant women aged 18-44 years. Data from 250 ongoing pregnancies, accessed through Aganwadi centers, were collected electronically following study porotocol. Result: Results indicated that 98% of participants were under 40 years of age, with 67% falling below 28 years. About 93% of sample population was educated, with 93% as homemakers. Among women with parity, 82% had one child. Awareness of ANC was widespread, with 78% demonstrating medium level of knowledge. Media exposure and family planning adoption were minimal (47% and 51%, respectively). ANC utilization rates were high, with 98%, 97%, and 94% receiving iron and folic acid, tetanus toxoid, and ultrasound examinations, respectively. Only 2% were exposed to COVID-19 during pregnancy. Conclusion: This initial investigation indicates low media exposure and family planning adoption. However, ANC awareness and utilization were significant. Strategies should prioritize women's education to enhance awareness of ANC and postnatal care. Strengthening public health infrastructure is vital for optimizing maternal service utilization

Surveying and Calculation of a Given Area using a Quad-copter

The field of geometry has various applications and calculating the area is one of them and doing it manually is challenging and equally a daunting task. In this paper we propose a method to make use of a flying object with a camera to calculate the area. This can be achieved by augmenting the flying object with a camera that takes pictures and these pictures can be used and we can perform some operations to calculate the area of a given plane in an image. This not only saves time that an entity invests but also saves the amount of money he/she invests in the calculation of the area. We can enhance the calculation by incorporating much faster techniques and methods

Light curves and spectra from a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf merger

This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Double-degenerate (DD) mergers of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs have recently emerged as a leading candidate for normal Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). However, many outstanding questions surround DD mergers, including the characteristics of their light curves and spectra. We have recently identified a spiral instability in the post-merger phase of DD mergers and demonstrated that this instability self-consistently leads to detonation in some cases. We call this the spiral merger SN Ia model. Here, we utilize the SuperNu radiative transfer software to calculate three-dimensional synthetic light curves and spectra of the spiral merger simulation with a system mass of 2.1 from Kashyap et al. Because of their large system masses, both violent and spiral merger light curves are slowly declining. The spiral merger resembles very slowly declining SNe Ia, including SN 2001ay, and provides a more natural explanation for its observed properties than other SN Ia explosion models. Previous synthetic light curves and spectra of violent DD mergers demonstrate a strong dependence on viewing angle, which is in conflict with observations. Here, we demonstrate that the light curves and spectra of the spiral merger are less sensitive to the viewing angle than violent mergers, in closer agreement with observation. We find that the spatial distribution of 56Ni and IMEs follows a characteristic hourglass shape. We discuss the implications of the asymmetric distribution of 56Ni for the early-time gamma-ray observations of 56Ni from SN 2014J. We suggest that DD mergers that agree with the light curves and spectra of normal SNe Ia will likely require a lower system mass.This work is supported in part at the University of Chicago by the National Science Foundation under grants AST-0909132, PHY-0822648 (JINA, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics), and PHY–1430152 (JINA-CEE, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics). This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI-1053575. Simulations at UMass Dartmouth were performed on a computer cluster supported by NSF grant CNS-0959382 and AFOSR DURIP grant FA9550-10-1-0354. The work of E.G.-B., G.A.-S., and P. L.-A. was partially funded by the MINECO AYA2014-59084- P grant and by the AGAUR. This research has made use of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System and the yt astrophysics analysis software suit