THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE GOOD AND EVIL IN MAN IN LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING.

Agriculture i in i India i is i entirely i dependent i on i the i vagaries i of i nature i and i the i Indian i farmers i suffer i when i the i nature i deceives i them. i Indians i are i mystical i by i temperament, i and i believe i in i magic i and i miracles. i „Nectar i in i a i sieve‟ i is i a i study i of i Indian i rural i life, i and i the i quality i of i the i author i following i Indian i tradition i and i culture i is i seen i in i various i ways. i First, i there i is i a i grim i picture i of i hunger, i poverty i and i starvation i both i in i the i city i and i the i village. i Various i sections i of i rural i society i and i various i village i occupations i are i presented i through i the i characters.

ALIENATION AND RECONCILIATION IN ANITA DESAI’S WHERE SHALL WE GO THIS SUMMER.

Anitha Desai is one of the novelists who became popular with her feminist perspective. She also brought fame to Indian writings in English, as the modern Indian English Novelist who took Indo-English novel a step ahead. Desai`s characters have complex emotional problems stemmed from the chaotic environment encircling them. Where Shall We Go This Summer, is her fourth novel, the plot is narrated from the female protagonist’s point of view. Sitha the female lead of the novel has emotional and adjustment problems with her husband Raman. She could not get herself acquainted with the practical and urbanized life of Bombay. She has a problem with her husband’s relatives and friends. Unable to adapt herself to the metropolitan life, she goes back to her father`s island Manori, finally she reconciles with life. The alien feeling is evinced with emotional strength

A Study on Customers Attitude Towards Advertising Media with Special Reference to Coimbatore City

Advertising is a measure of the growth of civilization and an indication of the striving of the human race for betterment and perfection. An assessment of the role of advertising in the economic system includes its role as a guide to prospective buyers for innovative products and services, for creating autonomous and derived demand among consumers, for facilitating them to make product differentiation and in the creation of higher propensity to consume such items besides providing financial support to the media. Media effects of advertising are visible from its influence on the efficiency of production and distribution, lowering of prices, economic well-being, improvements in the product quality and finally in its contribution to the national income. It also helps people and organizations to find each other and create or sustain thousands of jobs, both in advertising agencies and in various promotion 1 and exhibition industries

Is women’s economic empowerment really worthwhile to the men counterpart?

Compared to the earlier decade’s women are increasingly entering the workforce particularly in the professional works and organized sectors still there remains a large number of invisible women workers in unorganized sectors. Today, many women have established their own economy i.e., entrepreneurial empire and are now ruling their world as they wished to. According to the World Bank 2011 report women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property. Women usually invest a higher proportion of their earnings in their families and communities than men. Women are becoming empowered in various fields, though still inequality between men and women runs across the board, including in education, economic opportunities, representation in governance, family life and other fields also. Hence the present study aims to identify men’s perception towards women economic empowerment

Role of fundus fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography in diabetic maculopathy: A clinical study.

INTRODUCTION: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular complication of both type I and type II diabetes mellitus (DM) has become one of the leading causes of blindness world wide (Wilkinson 1988)1. It is a preventable blindness. DR is due to microangiopathy affecting the pre capillary arterioles, capillaries and venules. Macular edema is an important and complex component of Non proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) and Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and is the major cause of impaired vision. This study focusses on the role of Fundus Fluorescein Angiography (FFA) and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in diabetic macular edema and its management. AIM OF THE STUDY: To study the prevalence of diabetic maculopathy in relation to age, gender, duration of diabetes mellitus. To classify diabetic maculopathy using FFA & OCT To treat diabetic maculopathy according to FFA & OCT classification. To monitor the response to treatment with OCT. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was conducted in Regional Institute of Ophthalmology And Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Egmore, Chennai from November 2009 to November 2011 for a period of 24 months. INCLUSION CRITERIA: All patients with clinically significant macular edema and with central subfield macular thickness more than 200 microns. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: i. History of severe systemic disease/steroids ii. Uncontrolled Diabetes mellitus/Hypertension iii. Any condition affecting follow up. iv. History of associated glaucoma/ocular hypertension v. History or evidence of ongoing uveitis vi. Advanced diabetic eye disease All the patients were taken a brief history and subjected to detailed systemic and ophthalmic examination. Anterior segment examination with slit lamp biomicroscope and posterior segment examination using 90 D, binocular indirect ophthalmoscope. Fundus photograph was also taken for documentation. Fundus fluorescein angiography, Optical coherence tomography were done for all patients. DISCUSSION: Diabetic macular edema is the major cause of visual morbidity in diabetic patients. The laser treatment given by ETDRS remains the standard therapy of DME. Focal and diffuse types of leaks diagnosed on FFA were treated with focal and grid laser. Cystoid type and recalcitrant type of macular edema not responding to laser treatment were given injection IVTA. CONCLUSION: In our hospital 100 eyes of 50 patients were studied during NOVEMBER 2009 to NOVEMBER 2011. The incidence of diabetic maculopathy is found to be commoner in the middle age group of 40-60 years the majority were males and the incidence of diabetic maculopathy increased with the increase in duration of diabetes. Among the FFA patterns focal leaks were commoner and in OCT spongy edema were the common types. Patients who had ischemic type of maculopathy were kept under observation and had the worst prognosis over time. The majority of focal leaks improved with focal laser, and diffuse leaks with grid laser. And majority of recalcitrant types of macular edema and cystoid type showed improvement with IVTA injection. Patients with ischemic maculopathy in FFA and VMT & TPH in OCT had the worst visual prognosis The overall improvement in visual acuity and the reduction in the macular thickness was detected and documented by OCT. FFA helped in detecting the specific leakage patterns and to decide the type of laser treatment. OCT aids in detecting subtle macular edema that may be difficult to detect on slit lamp biomicroscopy and in documenting the treatment response. and monitoring the response to treatment more accurately and less invasively than FFA. OCT & FFA play a major and complementary role in the diabetic maculopathy management and follow up

Synchrophasor Technology for Cyber Security in Smart Grid

Smart grid is controlled by an authority personnel who uses LAN or the internet to control it. By knowing this information any one from outside can control the smart grid using LAN or the internet. This process of hacking the smart grid control is known as aurora attack. The Aurora attack may pose a risk to rotating machinery operating under certain conditions on the electrical grid. The Aurora attack involves opening and closing one or more circuit breakers, resulting in an out-of-synchronism condition that may damage rotating equipment connected to the power grid.This paper focuses on the Aurora attack on a synchronous generator and the existing technology available to mitigate the attack. The root cause of the vulnerability is breakdown in security. The first level prevents the attack with sound security practices. The second level protects the equipment in the event that the security level is compromised. The equipment can be protected using wide-area synchronized phasor measurement and protection system and security considerations

Revelation of Significant Fake Rhetorical in Wrapping Bygone Utilizing Significant Learning Procedures

The developing computation control has made the profound learning calculations so powerful that making an unclear human synthesized video famously called a profound fake has got to be exceptionally straightforward. Scenarios where these practical confront swapped profound fakes are utilized to form political trouble, fake psychological warfare occasions, vindicate porn, and shakedown people groups are effortlessly imagined. In this work, we depict a modern profound learning-based strategy that can viably recognize AI-generated fake recordings from genuine videos. Our strategy can naturally be recognizing the substitution and reenactment of deep fakes. We are attempting to utilize Manufactured Intelligence (AI) to battle Fake Intelligence(AI). Our framework uses a res-next neural convolution system to extract frame-level highlights and promote the use of these highlights to prepare the long-term memory (LSTM)-based repetitive neural network (RNN) to classify whether the video is subject to art. control or not , i.e whether the video is profoundly fake or genuine. To imitate the genuine time scenarios and make the show perform way better on genuine time information, we assess our strategy on an expansive sum of adjusted and blended data-set arranged by blending the different accessible data-set like Face-Forensic, Deep Fake location challenge, and Celeb-DF. We moreover focus on  how our framework can accomplish competitive results utilizing exceptionally straightforward and strong approaches

The role of reactive oxygen intermediates in experimental coccidioidomycois in mice

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Coccidioidomycosis is usually a self-limited infection in immunocompentent people. In immunocompentent human beings second infections due to <it>Coccidioides </it>are very rare, indicating that recovery from infection results in protective immunity. In experimental animals, immunization with several different proteins or attenuated mutants protects against a virulent challenge. To explore what mechanisms are responsible for protective immunity, we investigated the course of <it>Coccidioides </it>infection in the gp91^phoxknock out mouse that has a defect in the oxidative burst that results in chronic granulomatous disease.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We found that the gp91^phoxknock out mice were somewhat more resistant to intraperitoneal infection and equally as resistant to low dose intranasal infection, but slightly more susceptible to high dose intranasal infection compared to control mice. The gp91^phoxknock out mice made a more robust inflammatory response to infection than controls, as measured by histology and production of inflammatory cytokines. The gp91^phoxknock out mice were as protected by immunization with the recombinant <it>Coccidioides </it>protein Ag2/PRA as the controls were against either intraperitoneal or intranasal infection. <it>Coccidioides immitis </it>arthroconidia and spherules were significantly more resistant to H₂O₂treatment in vitro than <it>Aspergillus fumigatus </it>spores.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>These data suggest that oxidative burst may not be required for protective immunity to coccidioidomycois.</p

Study on the reproductive behavior among women of rural areas of Pondicherry

Background: The fertility rate in India is declining and it is necessary to know the factors responsible for such decline in different states. It was decided to study reproductive behavior of women contributing to decline in fertility in Pondicherry. The aim and objective of this study is known the reproductive behavior of women in the rural areas on Pondicherry.Methods: Sample of 300 married women aged between 30 and 60 years were selected randomly from village belonging to Katerikuppam PHC and the data collected using the pre tested semi open ended questionnaires by interviewing the subjects at their doorsteps during September to November 2014.Results: The mean age of the subjects was 41.5 ± 9.5 years. There were 793 total pregnancies and live births were 701 and abortions accounted for ten percent and still births were 9 in number. The mean number of pregnancies and live births were 2.6 ± 1.1 and 2.3 ± 1.0 per women respectively. The mean age at menarche, marriage and first pregnancy were 14.3 ± 1.4, 19.6 ± 3.1 and 21.1 ± 3.1 years respectively. The mean number of pregnancies were declined from currently older age to the lower age of the subjects and found to be statistically significant.Conclusions: The mean age at marriage and first pregnancy is increasing and the differences in the mean number of pregnancies and live births are showing declining trend.

Automated skin lesion segmentation using multi-scale feature extraction scheme and dual-attention mechanism

Segmenting skin lesions from dermoscopic images is essential for diagnosing skin cancer. But the automatic segmentation of these lesions is complicated due to the poor contrast between the background and the lesion, image artifacts, and unclear lesion boundaries. In this work, we present a deep learning model for the segmentation of skin lesions from dermoscopic images. To deal with the challenges of skin lesion characteristics, we designed a multi-scale feature extraction module for extracting the discriminative features. Further in this work, two attention mechanisms are developed to refine the post-upsampled features and the features extracted by the encoder. This model is evaluated using the ISIC2018 and ISBI2017 datasets. The proposed model outperformed all the existing works and the top-ranked models in two competitions