The Theme of Social Consciousness in Rajam Krishnan's Award-Winning Novels

Fiction is not created just to entertain. It serves as a historical treasure trove of social change, the context, and condition of a changing society by uncovering social problems and suggesting solutions. Fiction creators act as the lifeblood of this forum. Such a creator is Rajam Krishnan. With the aim of social development, he has created many new personalities in his fiction from various angles. He has given life and meaning to the nucleus of innovation with the aim of improving the individual's character and interests and has sown the seeds of social excellence in the form of the contribution of storytellers. If the standard of living of the people is to be raised, the level of education should be raised. Education should be communal. We need to get rid of the condition of being dependent on others economically. Educated young people need to listen to experienced elders. Capitalist norms should be broken and rights should be voiced. Students of higher education should be aware of these principles and be aware of social progress. Eliminating the distinctions between upper and lower caste people, Rajam Krishnan's Katha Manders has been created so that the idea of living with the idea of humanity should be removed and vandalism should be eliminated. Educated women and illiterate women should have clarity of thought. They should become powerful in the liberation struggles and in opposing the groups that work against women. When sexual harassment and violence occur in the workplace, workers should be courageous and have a strong mindset to get rid of them. In order to raise the economic status, the standard of education should be raised. Rajam Krishnan's award-winning novelizations capture the idea that women's thinking should be beneficial to the nation and the home

Women, career, barrier and performance (A study on MNCs in Malaysia)

In Malaysian organizations mostly, the circumstances of promoting professional women to top management positions remains a sensitive subject over time. Even though the percentages of women entering the labor force are rising, the percentages of those who are holding higher managerial positions are still low. Hence, this research is important to find out the barriers to women career progression and determine how the barriers impact toward the employees’ job performance as well. The study is focusing at the Multinational Companies in Malaysia. Questionnaires were distributed and analyzed through frequency distribution, the Mean, Correlation, Regression as well as Factor Analysis; used to identify the interrelations and significant relationship between perceived barriers to women career progression and its impact toward job performance. The result shows that there is a significant relationship between dependent variables and job performance. There are five dependent variable factors were found to be a reason for barriers to women career progression. They are Glass Ceiling, Gender Stereotype, Sexual Discrimination, Lack of Mentorship and Gender Wage Gap

A descriptive study to assess the problems faced by wives of alcoholic dependents attending in holy cross de-addiction centre at A.Vellodu, Dindigul

A Descriptive Study to assess the problems faced by wives of alcoholic dependents attending in Holy cross de-addiction center, at A.Vellodu, Dindigul. Objectives of the study: To assess the physiological, psychological, social , economical and educational problems faced by wives of alcoholic dependence, To find out the association between the level of problems faced by wives of alcoholic dependence with demographic variables like age, education occupation, income, and pattern of drinking alcohol, To find the Linear regression between demographic variables with problems faced by wives of alcoholic dependence such as physiological and psychological problems. Research approach: quantitative approach. Setting: Wives of alcoholic dependents both attending in out patient and in patient department. Sample: 80 samples were collected who fulfilled the criteria. Sampling Technique: on probability convenient sampling technique was used. Conceptual frame work: Modified Health Belief- Fish bone model was adopted. Method: self administered questionnaire. Data collection procedure: Demographic data was collected through self report. After that assessing problems faced by wives by using the questionnaire. Data was collected for 30 minutes for each participant. Data analysis was done with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Regarding age, 32 (40%) were between the age group of 21 -30 years, 32 (40%) were between the age group of 31-40 years. 46 (57.5%%) were educated up to secondary school. 46 (57.5%) were house wives. Regarding income, 68 (85%) were earning below Rs 5000/month. Regarding pattern of drinking alcohol, 50 (62.5%) were < 1years. In Physiological problems, 18 (22.5%) were facing moderate problems and 62 (77.5%) mild problems. In Psychological problems 5 (6.2%) were facing severe problems and 52 (65. 2%) were facing mild problems. In Social problems, 2 (2.5%) were facing severe problems, In Economical problems, 41 (51.2%) were facing severe problems and 34 (42.5%) were facing moderate problems. In Educational problems, 27 (33.8%) were facing severe problems. There was no association between problems based by wives of alcoholic and their selected demographic variables except economical problems. Conclusion: Due to alcoholics, the worst affected are their wives. Their mental health is socially shakened. Educating the public, individual, group and family therapies and divertional activities, discussion and investigation of public attitudes may result in measurable improvement

Food prospects and nutraceutical attributes of Momordica species: A potential tropical bioresources – A review

AbstractPlants with potential therapeutic values have been used from time immemorial to cure various ailments and infectious diseases. Of late, scientific evidences have been provided on the potential therapeutic agent exhibited by certain traditionally used vegetable extracts. The importance of wild edible plants may be traced to antiquity but systemic studies are recent. All the Momordica species have been consumed as vegetable and traditionally used for various disorders. The whole plant parts are ascribed to possess the anti-diabetic effect in traditional medicinal system. The active constituents of Momordica plant parts were cucurbitane type triterpenoids, phenolics, glycosides, and several kinds of peptides including Momordica anti-HIV protein (MAP 30). Recent reports revealed the presence of several kinds of cucurbitane type triterpenoids in leaf, stem and fruits of Momordica species having several pharmacological activities. There is lack of scientific information available on the wild species which also having several bioactive components with potential activities. So the present review compares and highlights the current knowledge of the nutritional value, phytochemistry and physiological effects of wild species with known variety

Dispersion of a solute in a Herschel–Bulkley fluid flowing in a conduit

The dispersion of a solute in a Herschel-Bulkley fluid is studied by using the generalized dispersion model in both pipe and channel. With this method the entire dispersion process is described as a simple diffusion process with the effective diffusion coefficient as a function of time. The results for Newtonian fluid, power law fluid and Bingham fluid are obtained as special cases by giving appropriate values to the power law index and yield stress. The effects of power law index, yield stress on the dispersion coefficient and mean concentration have been discussed computationally and graphically. The effect of power law index and yield stress is found to reduce the dispersion coefficient. It is observed that the critical time for dispersion coefficient to reach the steady state is varying with the yield stress and power law index. It is noticed that time to assume the critical value in Newtonian case is 0.5 and in the channel case the corresponding value of time is 0.55 which are in agreement with the existed results. It is also observed that in the non- Newtonian fluids this time is less than that of Newtonian fluid case and in Bingham fluid the critical value of time in pipe flow analysis (channel flow analysis) is attained at 0.45 (0.52) while in power law fluid it is at 0.43(0.48) and in the case of Herschel-Bulkley fluid it is 0.41 (0.45)

A PIONEERING SCAFFOLD FOR EMPLOY REINFORCE SLAB MIXTURE

Within this project, we view and studied completely some utilizes a site associated with publish tensioned slabs. The different sizes of tendons available, what are materials imparting prestress towards the structure were studied completely. We've also understood and performed building column line staking on-site. The tendons are specified by the forms in compliance with installation sketches that indicate the way they should be spaced, what their profile ought to be where they should be stressed. Following the concrete is positioned and it has arrived at its needed strength, usually about 75% of their final strength, then your prestressing process begins. The key is the fact that once the tendons are extended, want revisit their original length but they are avoided from doing this through the anchorages. The truth that the tendons are stored inside a permanently stressed condition leads to a compressive pressure to do something around the concrete. This considerably boosts the load-transporting capacity from the concrete. Since publish-tensioned concrete is cast in position in the job site, there's very little limit towards the shapes that may be created. Curved facades, arches and complex slab edge layouts are frequently a trademark of publish-tensioned concrete structures. Publish tensioning is just evolving increasingly more with growing innovation of creative and atmosphere friendly materials. An essential aspect to become stored in your mind may be the sustainability. Publish tensioned concrete has a lot of advantages in comparison with conventional RCC construction, probably the most important to be the decrease in self weight and overall decrease in the advantages of materials

Environmental monitoring using biomarkers in relevance to heavy metal pollution in coastal areas of the Gulf of Mannar

794-802Marine organisms are vulnerable to harsh environment where fluctuation in physicochemical conditions including salinity and tides are common. These organisms over the period have evolved different mechanisms to maintain the physiological conditions of the body through metabolic activities. In the present work, we studied accumulation of about 10 heavy metals in about 20 marine organisms from the Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India and also explored the passable relationship between distribution of these inorganic metals and biochemical response of these organisms. The effect on the accumulation of metals over the metabolism in the marine animals was evaluated by the level of antioxidant response. Concentration of metal in the body tissues was analyzed using ICP-AES. Interestingly, it was also observed that genotoxic potential pollutants were less or negligible in the selected sites. Tail DNA in the muscle cells was observed to be <5%. Our study concludes that fishes from the two areas are not heavily burdened with metals, but pollutants should be monitored periodically to avoid excessive intake of trace metals by humans due to bioaccumulation. The work concludes that a multiparameter analysis should be followed to study the ecological status of the aquatic environment

AN OVERVIEW OF INTEGRATED MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNDERGRADUATE PRE-CLINICAL CURRICULA AT B. P. KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES, NEPAL: A MULTIPROFESSIONAL APPROACH

Curricular innovations such as multiprofessional education (MPE) sensitise health professionals towards the role of other health professionals and inculcate team spirit. This is a preliminary report on MPE in practice in the preclinical phase of dental and medical undergraduate courses at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal. The preclinical curriculum of the undergraduate courseis integrated, organ system based and partially problem based. There is an emphasis on early exposure of students to patients and to community. The undergraduate course in medicine started in 1994 and in dental surgery in 1999 based on the core curriculum developed at various workshops. The course duration and structure is similar in bo

Computational Design and Optimisation of Pin Fin Heat Sinks with Rectangular Perforations

The benefits of using pin heat sinks (PHSs) with single, rectangular slotted or notched pin perforations, are explored computationally, using a conjugate heat transfer model. Results show that the heat transfer increases monotonically while the pressure drop decreases monotonically as the size of the rectangular perforation increases. Performance comparisons with PHSs with multiple circular perforations show favourable heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics. However, the reduced manufacturing complexity of rectangular notched pins in particular provide strong motivation for their use in practical applications. Detailed parameterisation and optimisation studies into the benefits of single rectangular notch perforations demonstrate the scope for improving heat transfer and reducing mechanical fan power consumption yet further by careful design of pin density and pin perforations in PHSs

Study of microvascular blood flow modulated by electroosmosis

An analytical study of microvascular non-Newtonian blood flow is conducted incorporating the electro-osmosis phenomenon. Blood is considered as a Bingham rheological aqueous ionic solution. An externally applied static axial electrical field is imposed on the system. The Poisson-Boltzmann equation for electrical potential distribution is implemented to accommodate the electrical double layer (EDL) in the microvascular regime. With long wavelength, lubrication and Debye-Hückel approximations, the boundary value problem is rendered non-dimensional. Analytical solutions are derived for the axial velocity, volumetric flow rate, pressure gradient, volumetric flow rate, averaged volumetric flow rate along one time-period, pressure rise along one wavelength and stream function. A plug width is featured in the solutions. Via symbolic software (MathematicaTM), graphical plots are generated for the influence of Bingham plug flow width parameter, electrical Debye length (thickness) and Helmholtz-Smoluchowski velocity (maximum electro-osmotic velocity) on the key hydrodynamic variables. An increase in plug flow width is observed to accelerate the axial flow, enhance volumetric flow rate and has a varied influence on the pressure rise depending on whether the flow is in the free pumping or pumping region. Increasing electrical Debye length consistently enhances axial flow, volumetric flow rate and also pressure rise (at any value of volumetric flow rate)