Socio-economic factors on Individual Behaviour of Mutual fund in Chennai City, India: Evidence from Juvenile age group

Juvenile age group face new and daunting economic challenges that stem from a number of sources including the financial market breakdown, outburst of the housing bubble, and the rapidly changing demographics of the nation. Using survey data, this study reveals that gender, income, knowledge, and experience emerge as important personal and social influences on juvenile age group investing behaviors in mutual funds. This underscores the importance of financial socialization of juvenile age group at school and home. In an economic downturn that demands individual responsibility and self sufficiency, wealth management is an essential component of a successful adult life. Given the importance of financial well-being, understanding these influences and contributing factors in investing behaviors in mutual funds may pay off significantly for juvenile age group’ financial future. Keywords: Individual Behaviour, Socio-economic, Mutual fund and Chennai Cit

Performance of sustainable lightweight foam concrete with synthetic micro and macro fibers as reinforcement

In the current research, lightweight foam concrete blocks made from recycled concrete powder, reinforced with plastic macro fibers and polypropylene micro fibers have been proposed as sustainable concrete approach. By adding Recycled Concrete Powder (RCP) in the amount ranging from 15 to 30% by weight of cement, have only a mild impact on the strength properties of foam concrete. Addition of mono fibers and hybrid fibers improves the mechanical properties of foam concrete with RCP. The tensile strength, flexural strength and compressive strengths of concrete are enhanced by the addition of micro and macro fibres. As the percentage of macro fiber increases the strength of the light weight concrete also increases. when the proportion of micro fibers is more compared to macro fibers, the strength properties are slightly reducing as the micro fibers reduces the plasticity of foam mix. In hybrid fiber reinforcement 0.3% plastic and 0.2% polypropylene showed an improvement in mechanical properties compared to other specimens.

Synthesis of Triaryl Pyridinium Derivatives under Silica Supported Approach and Their Applications

Substituted triaryl pyridinium salts are synthesized by one pot multiple components reaction under conventional/solid phase routes. Triaryl pyridinium salts showed effective photo responsive properties in alkaline medium. We have examined the catalytic activities of synthesized pyridinium salt for preparation of quinoline and its derivative under conventional/solid supported approach

Catalytic, Theoretical, and Biological Investigations of Ternary Metal (II) Complexes Derived from L-Valine-Based Schiff Bases and Heterocyclic Bases

A new series of ternary metal complexes, including Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II), were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and diverse spectroscopic methods. The complexes were synthesized from respective metal salts with Schiff’s-base-containing amino acids, salicylaldehyde derivatives, and heterocyclic bases. The amino acids containing Schiff bases showed promising pharmacological properties upon complexation. Based on satisfactory elemental analyses and various spectroscopic techniques, these complexes revealed a distorted, square pyramidal geometry around metal ions. The molecular structures of the complexes were optimized by DFT calculations. Quantum calculations were performed with the density functional method for which the LACVP++ basis set was used to find the optimized molecular structure of the complexes. The metal complexes were subjected to an electrochemical investigation to determine the redox behavior and oxidation state of the metal ions. Furthermore, all complexes were utilized for catalytic assets of a multi-component Mannich reaction for the preparation of -amino carbonyl derivatives. The synthesized complexes were tested to determine their antibacterial activity against E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and S. aureus bacteria. To evaluate the cytotoxic effects of the Cu(II) complexes, lung cancer (A549), cervical cancer (HeLa), and breast cancer (MCF-7) cells compared to normal cells, cell lines such as human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) were used. Further, the docking study parameters were supported, for which it was observed that the metal complexes could be effective in anticancer applications