INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH -GRANTHAALAYAH

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Authors: Dr.N.Ramakrishnan

Whatsapp has attracted over 1.2.billion people worldwide. It uses the Internet to make voice calls, one to one video calls; send text messages, images, GIF, videos, documents, user location, audio files, phone contacts and voice notes to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers. Its use in the administrative side is also on the increase. Recently IAS officers and CEOs have created Whatsapp groups to pass on messages. It is in vogue now. It has many conveniences of sending JPEG, PDF files, photos, videos and audio. There are many apps which are competing with Whatsapp but Whatsapp has emerged as number one among them. The study here is to know the use of Whatsapp for language learning. Overall perception is that the use of English language in the Whatsapp and other social media is on the increase. Immediately it has struck all of us one question that is does it increase the language proficiency of students and others? If so, what would be the effect on the learning of foreign language? It is doing a yeoman service to the students to develop competency in foreign language. English is the most common and widely used language. It is a library and laboratory language too. Development of English language proficiency among B.Ed. trainees is very crucial as it leads to better transaction in the classroom. The marketing of their professional degree is also possible with sound knowledge in English. So, it is the natural quest of the researcher here is to study the use of Whatsapp for Development of English Language Proficiency among B.Ed. trainees. The study was conducted among 200 B.Ed. trainees in Madurai district. It is proved from the above table that the B.Ed. students are using whatsapp more for development of English Language proficiency than expected.

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Authors: J. Muthukumari , Dr. N. Ramakrishnan

“Educational Technology is the application of scientific knowledge about learning and the conditions of learning to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching and training”. The development of computer and network technology is changing the education scenario and transforming the teaching and learning process from the traditional physical environment to the digital environment. The IX Standard boys in experimental groups of both PPT design and PT design have excelled in e-content on History (the Beginning of Modern Age) than control groups which had gone through History (the Beginning of Modern Age) in traditional method in both PPT design and PT design.

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Authors: Dr. R. Rajan , G.Jayashri

This paper recommends that there is an important role of Information Technology in the field of women empowerment such empowerment could easily be seen higher in the Urban and rural Tamil Nadu. There is high time for providing training for the women with the support of the administration for strengthening the National Computer literacy Mission. There must be the provision of allocation of budget and funding for testing conceptual framework at the grass root level to assess the effectiveness of empowering women through Information Technology. In India, women face enormous challenges with respect to health, education, and economic empowerment. For example, maternal mortality and malnutrition remain major problems, about third of women are unable to read and write, and economic opportunities are limited by pervasive discrimination and lack of access to market information. Mobile innovation is transforming lives for the better for women in a variety of ways across India. We recognize that the scaling of women-centered mobile programs and applications can only be achieved with improved financial, commercial, and marketing incentives and of course, cooperation. Thorough mobile application training we hope make a start – by financially supporting and recognizing innovative mobile and Web based applications and their potential in a public forum.

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Authors: Dr J G Duresh

The Paper entitled “Effacing the Tag of Fundamentalism: A Reading of Moshin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist” attempts to study Moshin Hamid’s strenuous efforts to wipe out the image attached to his native land Pakistan as a Fundamentalist Country. The writer vociferously asserts that Pakistan is not as bad as the International community believes. Inorder to drive home his notion he recollects the experiences of Changez, a Pakistani youngster pursuing higher studies in America. The author tactfully depicts the changing attitude of America against the backdrop of September 11 attack on America. The author gloats over the glorious past of Pakistan, registers its present conflicts and envisages its glorious future.

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Authors: Swaroop Sarkar , V.V.S.Suryanarayana , S.R.Madhan Shankar

Foot-and –Mouth disease virus (FMDV) is a positive sense RNA virus and the genome codes for single polyprotein. The FMDV L protein is located at the N terminus of the polyprotein and is the first gene product released from the nascent polyprotein. The leader L protease which is involved in pathogenesis has two known functions: (i) auto-catalytic removal from the N terminus of the viral polyprotein and (ii) cleavage of the p220 subunit of the eukaryotic initiation factor 4F complex, which helps to shut off host protein synthesis. To explore the role of L protease in FMDV pathogenesis we generated synthetic FMDV genome lacking the L gene. The gene was amplified from an infectious cDNA clone of serotype Asia1. Primers corresponding to L protease were designed based on the sequence available in the data base. An amplified DNA of 546bp was purified and cloned into pET28 cloning vector. The sequence analysis revealed the presence of single Open Reading Frame (ORF) encoding a protein of 173 amino acid residues. The sequence alignment using BLAST search in NCBI gene Bank showed 91% homology with FMDV strain A isolate IND17/77 L protease gene. The recombinant plasmids pETLb was transferred into BL21 (DE3) pLysS cells and the IPTG induced expressed protein of 25 KDa was purified by nickel affinity column as per the manufacturer’s protocol (Sigma, USA). The specificity of the expressed protein in was confirmed by western blotting using convalescent cattle serum/ rabbit anti-bovine horse radish peroxidase conjugate and O-Dianisidine Dihydrochloride substrate.