The Tree and the Tree tradition

Literature deals with natural ecological life.  People who lived in the Sangam era felt the importance and sweetness of nature. So they lived their life in harmony with nature. Natural resources like water, land, paddy, trees, forests and vines helped the ancient Tamil people to lead a noble life.  Ancestors depended on nature to get their sources of life. From the perspective of human life, nature can be seen as a theme, a philosophy that conveys the truth of life, commentary, and allegorical images.  In this way, songs in Akananuru are created in harmony with nature. It is especially meant to indicate the prosperity of trees and the livelihood of people associated with trees

Symmetries of Discrete Systems

In this series of lectures presented at the CIMPA Winter School on Discrete Integrable Systems in Pondicherry, India, in February, 2003 we give a review of the application of Lie point symmetries, and their generalizations to the study of difference equations. The overall theme of these lectures could be called "continuous symmetries of discrete equations".Comment: 58 pages, 5 figures, Lectures presented at the Winter School on Discrete Integrable Systems in Pondicherry, India, February 200

Business Psychology in Subrabharathimanian's Short Stories

Workers are the pillars of the country's development. They are the creative forces of mankind. While the New World exalts the workers as Brahmas, it is seen that they are not in a correspondingly exalted position. Creators express through their work the professional crushes they have seen or encountered. Creator Subrabharathimanian has such an impact that one can see self-awareness and social concern in his works Subrabharatimanian's short stories deal with the psychological problems, emotions and problems faced and encountered by male and female workers in industrial establishments every day

Neythal Land Worship and Beliefs found in Natrinai

Sangam literature is a mirror of the times which shows the lives of the people of the Sangam age. Among the land divisions such as Kurinji, Mullai, Marutham, Neithal, and Palai, Neithal Thinai is the sea and the land around the sea. They help us know the customs of the people of Neithal Land. We are able to understand the great labour and methods of worship of the people of the land through the Natrinai Neithal Thinai. Moreover, it is possible to know the customs of the Bharatas, the sun, the moon, nature, the wind, the rain, the trees, the fasting, and the rituals of worshipping the deity. The Etthutthokai and the Pathuppaattu songs greatly help to understand their unchanging way of life. Moreover, worship and beliefs prevail in the songs found in the Neithal Thinai. In this article, we are also amazed at the brave tide-sea journey of the people of Neithal, the devoted way of life of the woman-head of the family, and the ability to cope with the hardships caused by natural calamities. In today's time, the sea's condition is compassionate. It is not an exaggeration to say that if the songs of Natrinai Neithal Thinai are closely looked at, it is their faith and worship that give creativity and encouragement to everyone and teach them to face life with courage

A pre-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on knowledge and practice regarding safe handling of chemotherapeutic drugs among the staff nurses at selected hospitals, Thanjavur

A Pre-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on knowledge and practice regarding safe handling of chemotherapeutic drugs among the staff nurses at selected hospitals, Thanjavur. One-group pretest-post test design was used among 50 staff nurses by using purposive sampling technique. The Self administered knowledge questionnaire and observational check list were given to assess the knowledge and practice in pre and post test levels. Finally, the statistical analysis of data revealed that, in knowledge ('t'=14.18) and practice('t'=18.53) scores of 't' value had a significant difference in pre and post test levels of the staff nurses at 0.05 level. The correlation between the post test levels of knowledge and practice regarding chemotherapeutic drugs, the 'r' value is 0.77; it indicates that there is a positive and significant correlation. The study findings revealed that the Video assisted teaching programme was effective for the staff nurses

Banana Leaf Disease Identification Technique

There is no machine learning techniques have been used in an attempt to detect diseases in the banana plant such as banana bacterial wilt (BBW) and banana black sigatoka (BBS) that have caused a huge loss to many banana growers. The study investigated various computer vision techniques which led to the development of an approach that consists of four main phases. In phase one, images of Banana leaves were acquired using a standard digital camera. Phase two is the preprocessing phase where resizing and morphological operations occur. Next phase is the segmentation phase which translates RGB(Red Green Blue) image to YCbCr (Luminance Chrominance) color space which is then converted to a gray scale image and finally to a binarized image using Adaptive Contrast Map method. Next is the feature extraction phase where extraction of leaf features like color, texture and, shape occurs. Then comes the prominent phase were classification done Using Support Vector Machine classifier as classifier. Lastly, the performance of the classifier is evaluated to determine whether a leaf is diseased or not

Status of Growth Monitoring in Anganwadi Centres of a Primary Health Centre, Thirubhuvanai, Puducherry

Purpose: To assess the status of growth monitoring activities and difficulties faced by anganwadi workers (AWWs) at the anganwadi centres (AWCs). Methodology: A survey was conducted among AWWs under a rural Primary Health Centre. Structured observations on weight measurement were made using a check list. Secondary data on record keeping and maintenance was collected. Findings: Study participants (n=20) had a 24 (± 10.25) years of experience in Integrated Child Development Services and underwent training once in two years. For advising mothers of malnourished children, deworming and immunization was not mentioned by majority AWWs. In AWCs, children less than 6 month were weighed on bathroom scale and not by Salter’s scale. Unclothing the child before weighing was practiced by only 10% AWWs. Nonfunctional weighing machine was the major problem reported by AWWs. Conclusion: There were gaps in the growth monitoring activities in AWCs of a PHC, Thirubhuvanai which needs to be tackled

Checklist of Mosses (Bryophyta) of Bodamalai Hills in Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu

Bodamalai Hills, situated on the Southern Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, were explored for mosses (bryophyta) for the first time. As a result a checklist of mosses has been prepared comprising 52 species belonging to 38 genera and 21 families. The dominant families with the maximum number of species are Pottiaceae, Bryaceae, Stereophyllaceae, Sematophyllaceae and Brachytheciaceae. The dominant genera are Brachymenium and Bryum and the dominant species are Barbula javanica and Bryum capillare