A Study on Spiritual Intelligence of High School Teachers in Puducherry Region, India

The researcher made an attempt to study the spiritual intelligence of high school teachers in Puducherry, India. For this purpose, it was selected a sample of 122 high school teachers from this region, by using the simple random sampling technique. For measuring their spiritual intelligence, the tools constructed by Roquiya Zainuddin and Ms Anjum Ahmed were used. Mean, SD, ‘t’ test, Anova, Post-hoc Tukey test and Pearson’s product moment correlation statistical techniques were used for the analysis of data. This analysis indicated significant differences in spiritual intelligence in terms of age, gender, marital status and educational qualification, and not in the case of other sub-variables. Further good relationships were observed between the spiritual intelligence as a whole and its dimensions, which were found to be positive and significant at 0.01 level

SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY MAXIMIZATION IN MISO-OFDM SYSTEMS USING RATE ADAPTIVE BIT LOADING AND TRANSMIT ANTENNA SELECTION TECHNIQUES

A high spectral efficient system is expected to meet the growing demands of multimedia applications through a wireless medium. In this paper, a low complex high spectral efficient Reduced Multiple Input Single Output (R-MISO)-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is proposed. The proposed system exploits the benefits of Rate Adaptive Bit Loading (RABL), Transmit Antenna Selection (TAS) and Space Frequency Block Codes (SFBC) to get high spectral efficiency through a constrained available spectrum. The performance of the proposed system with different configurations of R-MISO is analyzed with the average Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) gain, Bit Error Rate (BER), outage probability, spectral efficiency and data rate. The performance of the proposed system has greatly enhanced by utilizing TAS and RABL techniques. The obtained simulation results validate this statement

Brazing techniques for the fabrication of biocompatible carbon-based electronic devices

Prototype electronic devices have been critical to the discovery and demonstration of the unique properties of new materials, including composites based on carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene. However, these devices are not typically constructed with durability or biocompatibility in mind, relying on conductive polymeric adhesives, mechanical clamps or crimps, or solders for electrical connections. In this paper, two key metallization techniques are presented that employ commercially-available brazing alloys to fabricate electronic devices based on diamond and carbonaceous wires. Investigation of the carbon - alloy interfacial interactions was utilized to guide device fabrication. The interplay of both chemical ( adhesive ) and mechanical ( cohesive ) forces at the interface of different forms of carbon was exploited to fabricate either freestanding or substrate-fixed carbonaceous electronic devices. Elemental analysis in conjunction with scanning electron microscopy of the carbon - alloy interface revealed the chemical nature of the Ag alloy bond and the mechanical nature of the Au alloy bond. Electrical characterization revealed the non-rectifying nature of the carbon - Au alloy interconnects. Finally, electronic devices were fabricated, including a Au circuit structure embedded in a polycrystalline diamond substrate

GFI1 proteins regulate stem cell formation in the AGM

In vertebrates, the first haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with multi-lineage and long-term repopulating potential arise in the AGM (aorta-gonad-mesonephros) region. These HSCs are generated from a rare and transient subset of endothelial cells, called haemogenic endothelium (HE), through an endothelial-to-haematopoietic transition (EHT). Here, we establish the absolute requirement of the transcriptional repressors GFI1 and GFI1B (growth factor independence 1 and 1B) in this unique trans-differentiation process. We first demonstrate that Gfi1 expression specifically defines the rare population of HE that generates emerging HSCs. We further establish that in the absence of GFI1 proteins, HSCs and haematopoietic progenitor cells are not produced in the AGM, revealing the critical requirement for GFI1 proteins in intra-embryonic EHT. Finally, we demonstrate that GFI1 proteins recruit the chromatin-modifying protein LSD1, a member of the CoREST repressive complex, to epigenetically silence the endothelial program in HE and allow the emergence of blood cells.We thank the staff at the Advanced Imaging, animal facility, Molecular Biology Core facilities and Flow Cytometry of CRUK Manchester Institute for technical support and Michael Lie-A-Ling and Elli Marinopoulou for initiating the DamID-PIP bioinformatics project. We thank members of the Stem Cell Biology group, the Stem Cell Haematopoiesis groups and Martin Gering for valuable advice and critical reading of the manuscript. Work in our laboratory is supported by the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research Foundation (LLR), Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). SC is the recipient of an MRC senior fellowship (MR/J009202/1).This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from NPG via http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncb327

Surface texturing for silcon solar cells using reactive ion etching technique

Surface texturing is an effective and more lasting technique in reducing reflections and improving light trapping compared to antireflection coatings. A surface texturing technique using Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) method suitable for crystalline and multi crystalline solar cells, which resulted in surfaces with negligible reflection in the visible band is described. Different texturing structures (pillars, holes and black silicon) have been studied and compared in the wavelength range from 250nm-2500nm. It is found that the reflectance of the textured column structures were less than 0.4% at wavelengths from 500nm to 1000nm and showed a minimum of 0.29% at 1000 nm while the reflectivity from black silicon is around 1% and hole structures is around 6.8% in the same wavelength range

Eco-philosophy of Indian classical fables

Indian classical stories may be told simply, yet their ideas are profound. It helps to shape our society to validate cultural assumptions and beliefs. As the stories have a strong influence on the conceptual frameworks of the community, they can also alter the human understanding of the natural world. But in recent years, humans have distanced themselves from nature. The anthology of Panchatantra (Sanskrit language) and Jataka tales (Pali language) is offered in this study as a valuable discourse for developing ecological consciousness among the people which is suitable for both children and adult literature. Academic circles in India have adopted the environmental approach to literary works, which is an active field on the international stage. “Today, Eco Sophy is a large and multidisciplinary field of study that creates a broad spiritually-specific theory of the natural and social conditions of humans on Earth and in space”. Some writers have studied the representation of ecology in ancient and modern literature. Nevertheless, to the best of this applicant's knowledge, there has been no comparative research on the development of ecological consciousness in Panchatantra and Jataka stories