Video Talks in English Laboratory: An Effective Tool in Promoting Self-motivated Language Learning in the ESL Context of Indian Learners

Videos are an essential component in language labs and its usage has risen rapidly owing to the increasing stress on communicative practices. It is evident that the use of videos is a big advantage for language teachers in inspiring and facilitating the learners towards learning the target language. A large-scale survey by Canning-Wilson (2000) clearly indicates that the students like learning language through the use of videos. The learners are exposed to videos which are either streamed through programmed language software installed in computers or played separately. The videos situated in the learning software operate in a pattern that aims at certain skill development like following the native pronunciation pattern or teaching body language, etc. Such skills could also be achieved through the use of videos which focus on speeches by experts. Keywords: language lab, ESL, proficiency, video, video talks, language learning, speeches, self-motivatio

Fake News Identification for Web Scrapped Data

Majority of the people get affected with misleading stories spread through different posts on social media and forward them assuming that it is a fact. Nowadays, Social media is used as a weapon to create havoc in the society by spreading fake news. Such havoc can be controlled by using machine-learning algorithms. Various methods of machine learning and deep learning techniques are used to identify false stories. There is a need for identification and controlling of fake news posts that have increased in alarming rate. Here we use Passive-Aggressive Classifier for fake news identification. Two datasets, Kaggle fake news dataset and as well as dynamically web scrapped dataset from politifact.com website. We achieved 88.66% accuracy using Passive Aggressive Classifier

A close call: does the location of incision at cesarean delivery matter in patients with vasa previa? A case report.

We present here a case of vasa previa in a multipara, diagnosed at the time of her late second trimester ultrasonogram. The patient subsequently underwent an elective cesarean section after 37 weeks gestation, giving birth to a healthy child with an uneventful post-partum, neonatal and infant course. At the time of cesarean section, the incision was gradually deepened in layers through the myometrium by utmost care allowing the amniotic sac to protrude through the uterine incision hereby avoiding laceration of the vasa previa and its branches. Fetal exsanguination and a need for blood transfusion as well as a possible adverse neonatal course were therefore avoided

Strabismus in paediatric age (3-16 year): a clinical study

Background: Strabismus is a clinical condition in which the eyes are not aligned with each other properly. The main objective of the study was to study the prevalence, aetiology and the most common type of strabismus in children between 3- 16 years of age.Methods: This was a prospective study conducted from November 2012 to October 2014 at Government regional eye hospital Visakhapatnam. A total of 50 patients included in this study. Children between 3-16 years of age presenting with squint included in this study. All children below 3years and above 16 years excluded from this study. Detailed history regarding the complaint, birth history, developmental history was taken. Patients were thoroughly evaluated for Visual acuity, both distance and near vision with naked eye as well as best corrected visual acuity. Thorough anterior segment evaluation using slit lamp, cycloplegic refraction using atropine (7 years), fundus examination was don.Results: A total of 9678 children attended GREH during the period of the study. Among them total number of children with strabismus was 59.Thus the prevalence of strabismus is 0.6%. Children in the age group of 3-10 years of age are more involved 37 (62.7%).   Exotropia was seen in 34 cases and esotropia in 24 cases. Commitant esotropia was more common, seen in 16 (27.1%) of cases. In exotropia commitant exotropia was more common, seen in 32 cases and incommitant in 2 cases and divergence excess seen in 9 cases.  History of consanguinity present in 22% of cases.Conclusions: Prevalence of squint in children in 3 - 16 years age group was 0.6%. Commitant squint was more common than incommitant squint. Among commitant squint, exotropia was more common than esotropia. More research is needed to validate the role of consanguinity in strabismus.

Platform, participation, and power: how dominant and minority stakeholders shape agricultural innovation

Within agricultural innovation systems (AIS), various stakeholder groups inevitably interpret ‘innovation’ from their own vantage point of privilege and power. In rural developing areas where small-scale and subsistence farming systems support livelihoods, dominant policy actors often focus heavily on participatory modernization and commercialization initiatives to enhance productivity, access, and quality. However, existing social hierarchies may undermine the potential of such initiatives to promote inclusive and sustainable farmer-driven innovation. Focusing on the chronically food insecure smallholder agricultural systems operating in Yatta Sub-county, Eastern Kenya, this paper explores how power dynamics between stakeholders can influence, and can be influenced by, participatory agricultural innovation initiatives. Findings suggest that there are often significant disparities in access to, and control over, platform resources between smallholder farmers and other stakeholder groups, resulting in large asymmetries. We discuss how these power dynamics may increase the risk of agricultural intervention, further marginalizing already disempowered groups and reinforcing power hierarchies to the detriment of smallholders. This study highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the institutional contexts that facilitate and maintain relationships of power within agricultural innovation systems, as well as the complexities associated with promoting transformational agricultural innovation

Joyce’s Perceptive Analysis of the Paralysed City

Joyce once bragged that if Dublin were to be destroyed by some catastrophe, it could be rebuilt brick by brick, using his works. Without a doubt, the city's streets, landmarks and denizens inhabit Joyce's mammoth works, in such a scrupulous, honest approach that Dublin appears transformed into a living personality. He also remarked that his sole intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of his country and he chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to him the centre of paralysis. His other expressive quote goes: “When I die Dublin will be written in my heart”. Thus, he did not attempt to describe the beauty of his own city like any other writer but eyed on the spiritual liberation of his country citizens. This essay critically examines Joyce’s knack of creating and inspecting the panorama of city Dublin in all the aforementioned aspects. Keywords: Paralysis, Dublin, City, Streets, Nativity

ANALYTICAL METHOD DEVELOPMENT & VALIDATION OF ARTEMETHER IN BULK DRUG BY RP- HPLC METHOD AS PER ICH GUIDELINES

Objective: An accurate, precise, rapid & economical RP-HPLC method was developed for the estimation of Artemether as per International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guideline in pharmaceutical dosage form using ultraviolet (UV) detector. Methods: Elution was carried out using a mobile phase consisting of Acetonitrile & Methanol (50:50 v/v) and the flow rate was set to 1.6 ml/min at 216 nm, retention time for Artemether was found to be 1.330 min. Results: The method was found to be linear in the concentration range of 100-600 µg/ml, in the linearity study regression equation was found to be y = 0.199x – 1.133 & correlation coefficient was found to be 0.999. This method was Rugged and Robust in different testing criteria, LOD and LOQ were found to be 23.037µg/ml, 69.809µg/ml respectively. Accuracy study was done in 3 different concentration level i. e 50, 100, 150% & % recovery of the method was found to be 99.4%, 100.4%, 99.7% respectively in 3 different levels & mean recovery was 99.8%, so method was accurate. Conclusion: Results of all validation parameters were within the limits as per ICH guidelines. Â