IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature

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Authors: C. Ranganathan

The paper examines 1190 Indian publications on proteomics research during 1998-2018, as covered in the Web of Science database. The Indian publications were downloaded using a search strategy which uses the search term ‘proteomics *’ in the two tags, namely ‘keyword tag’ and ‘Article Title tag’ and restricting it to India in ‘country tag’ and period 1998-2018 in ‘date range tag’. More numbers of articles were published in the year 2016. The most productive 25 Indian organizations and authors together contributed 68.65per cent and 62.35 per cent share to the overall publications output of India in proteomics research during 1998-2018. The study reveals that most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journals; as such 72.8% of articles were published in journals. The top 25 journals contributed 42.9 per cent share to the Indian journal output during 1998-2018. Conclude that India is still not a leading country in the world on proteomics research both in terms of quantity and quality of research. In view of the strategic and global importance and to increase the research output and quality, the Indian Government needs to identify this area as one of the national priority areas, involving much larger R&D investments and trained manpower and also increase international collaboration with leading proteomics research hubs.

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Authors: R. B. Sharma

The Internet emerged in the 1990s and soon affected the mankind world-wide. It has drastically changed the daily routine of the people i.e. the way people communicate by making it easy to communicate instantaneously to anybody around the world, find information, and do business today. This scenario can also be seen in the business practices. Ecommerce carries business transactions through various electronic mediums like internet, mobiles, telephone, fax machines, ATMs, credit cards whereas Internet trading looks from the advertising and branding perspective, it tries to grab the attention of the customers by attractive designs and ads. At the present time, the internet has drastically changed the way that companies design their e-commerce strategies. It represents a tremendous opportunity. It gives a much wider choice to a customer of products, services and prices from different suppliers and the means to select and purchase items more readily. It gives the opportunity to the organization to expand into new markets, offers new services and to compete on a more equal footing with larger businesses. The researcher has examined e-commerce issues carefully and has reached at some conclusions. It was found that there is a positive or direct relationship between internet use time and shopping and there is a positive or direct relationship between notice of advertisements and their influence on buying decisions. It is suggested that companies have to have strategies according to both online trade and traditional trade and companies should provide authentic, accurate information of the products plus reviews. It will be beneficial and revenue fetching for them. It can be said that e-trade will never be a substitute for traditional business.

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Authors: Jayamala Sethi

The paper focuses on the Indian Ancient knowledge about Science and Technology through the use of herbal medicine. The researchers visited an herbal garden to identify some medicinal plants and use them at the time of need. She applied some leaves of some herbal plants to help the students in curing the wounds caused by accident. She observed the effects of the juice of the leaves of Tulsi, Mandar, Gangasiuli etc. on many occasions. Similarly, she used Gheekuanri helps in checking the severe headache of the children. Similarly, she used Alovera and other plants for different common diseases. She collected the opinion of the students regarding the effects of the herbal plants. The researcher experimented with a small sample of 15 no. of students of class VII of Nodal School. She used observation schedule, checklist, and questionnaire for the purpose. For practical work, she took the students on field trip to a herbal garden. The students worked with the teacher while filling in the worksheets. After coming back from the field trip, the worksheets had filled during observation were shared in the class. The students could know how the plants of the herbal garden can be used for medicine. As a starting work leaves, stems and roots were used as the First aid in the school. The students could know how common plants can be used as medicine which has been used from the period of their grandfathers. The teacher clarified in the class about the utility of the herbal plants in a class and then took them to an herbal garden for acquiring practical knowledge.

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Authors: Shaiju. K. S

It has been a year and ten months since the Goods and Services Tax (GST) introduced in India. Now it is right time to study Influence of GST on Five Star Hotels in Kerala. This paper attempts to assess the study the perception of employees towards the influence of GST on sales and tax administrating system. For the purpose of study the sample were collected from employees working in five star hotels in Cochin and collected data were analyzed using statistical techniques such as t test and ANOVA.

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Authors: Kanta Galani

Transgender people are those who have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex. Transgender is also an umbrella term: in addition to including people whose gender identity is opposite of their assigned sex (Tran’s men and Trans women). Being transgender is independent of sexual orientation. The degree to which individual feel genuine, authentic and comfortable with their external appearance and accept their genuine identity has been called transgender congruence. Most transgender people face discrimination in the workplace and in accessing public accommodation and healthcare. In many places, they are not legally protected from discrimination. This paper proposes to study the process and effect of heteronormative gender colonization that the Hijra community of India witness, by taking into account the autobiography of A. Revathi’s The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story. The autobiography “is the first of its kind in English from a member of the Hijra community” and it clearly shows how the Hijra community of India suffers lingual, sartorial and economic colonization at the hands of this heteronormative society. It is a travelogue of travails but the intention of the author is not to “seek sympathy from society or government”, but rather to make this heteronormative society aware of the fact that the Hijras are also human— Hijras also have feelings, they too want to be loved and accepted, they too want to live.

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Authors: Oladosu Jubril. O, Kolawole Olusola. J & Mensah Frank. A

Loss of farm’s productivity in the rural areas of Nigeria is becoming more alarming due to poor rural road infrastructure. This study examined the effect of rural transport infrastructure of agricultural produce on farmers’ income. The study adopted multi-stage sampling technique; at stage one, 10 (ten) rural settlements were purposively selected within three (3) local governments of Oyo state, farmers in those settlements were stratified into two (2) strata; commercial and subsistence. A simple random technique was employed to drawn respondents from the selected settlements. 200 questionnaires were distributed and 190 were retrieved from individual respondents. Information was solicited in respect of rural road infrastructure and farmers’ productivity. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data. The result shows that the major crop grown in the area is yam and head loads were the major means of transportation. The further result showed the contribution of all the identified factors to the agricultural productivity was R2=60.2% with adjusted R= 57.9% at P<0.05. Therefore, about 39.8% cannot be accounted for as an area of contributions. It was recommended that much attention is needed in the rural areas of Nigeria to improve farmers’ output and generate income. Communities and farmers’ participation in rural development decisions-making should be embraced. Adequate rural allocation through annual budgets and implementing is required.

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Authors: Alia Maaloul & Sameh Ben Hamida

The leitmotif of this work is based on a pioneering initiative to explore and encourage to experiment the positive pedagogy based on the active approach in the context of higher education in Tunisia and this, on following an exploratory study of this approach which has put the point on the different facets of this novice pedagogy with the major objective of guiding the teachers on its introduction in their teachings through the proposal of a set of educational positive practices. Indeed, the positive pedagogy is structured around three dimensions: the cognitive dimension, emotional dimension, and physical dimension to dispatch learning with pleasure, discovery and success and especially to allow the learner to be happy during its conquest of knowledge and to have a positive image of itself same source of motivation, confidence, and self-esteem. This paper presents our innovative pedagogical initiative to experiment and to achieve the said approach in our lessons from the implementation of a set of educational positive practices by following a methodology based on an exploratory study followed by a qualitative study based on structured interviews.

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Authors: Nivedita Bose

With the introduction of economic reforms in the early 1990s and a greater integration of the Indian economy into the global markets, there has been an increasing strategic importance of cities from an economic, political, and demographic perspective. This has led to the promotion of decentralization governance policies as part of the reform triptych ‘decentralization-privatization-participation’. In India, this is apparent in the landmark 74th Constitutional Amendment Act on urban local self-governance. In this paper, we shall attempt to examine how this evolving shift towards cities as economic and decision-making actors has led to the rearticulation of claims and a renewed form of mobilization of urban dwellers. However, many scholars have emphasized that instead of a more egalitarian imagination of citizenship this has created gentrified channels of participation by the introduction of elite discourses and strategies by the Indian middle class. This has been increasingly located within the realm of ‘new politics’, which has come to define forms of governmentality of the post-liberalization state. This paper aims to investigate the impact of middle-class activism on local governance by understanding the contextual factors leading to the emergence of Resident Welfare Associations (henceforth referred to as RWAs) and umbrella RWA organizations in Delhi, and how they have influenced various public policy outcomes at the local and state level. Although these mobilizations are rooted in the local, certain generalizations can be culled from it as neighborhood associations are on the rise in all large cities in India. By examining the spatial politics and contestations located in ‘new politics’, it is argued that an analysis of the political practices of the new Indian middle class deepens our understanding of the political dynamics of economic reform in contemporary India. This also provides us with an analytical frame to understand citizen negotiations with the state, market and the civil society in the backdrop of newer cultural and political economies of liberalization. By undertaking an analysis of participatory urban governance schemes such as Bhagidari and Mohalla Sabhas, this paper would also attempt to investigate the transformations that have taken place in local democratic politics of Indian cities and questions of inclusion/exclusion located within it.

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Authors: Paramita Roy

Universal Health Insurance (UHC) has been the aim of many developing countries to provide for all its citizens. To mitigate the burden of hospitalization expenses in India, the government introduced the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). It is a flagship program of the government. It provides hospitalization coverage to the poor people in India. This study focuses on the working of the RSBY scheme in four selected districts of West Bengal namely Birbhum, Burdwan, North 24 Parganas, and South 24 Parganas. The viability of the scheme was discussed in terms of the functioning of the scheme. The different factors for determining viability are conversion ratio, a facility for referrals and settlement of claims. The selected districts had different experiences with the selected variables. It was a good learning to know about the viability issues as it gives an important hint about the functioning and the sustainability of the scheme.

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Authors: V. Priya & M. Shobana

Indian women novelist prefers woman character as the main protagonist in their novels. They give prospect for feminine. They portray the woman who is struggling to find out her identity in the male society. Woman characters are represented in Kamala Markandaya’s novels like Nectar in a Sieve, A Handful of Rice, Some Innerfury, The Golden Honey Comb and A Silence of Desire. She describes a sensible shade of contemporary women through her character i.e. Rukmani, Nalini, Ira, Mira, Roshan, Helen, Lalitha, Mohini, Usha, and Valli. Kamala Markandaya is one of the finest and notable novelists in Indian English literature. She has portrayed the vivid picture of Indian society in her novel when she has started her career at the time of independence, there were full of poverty, hunger, and starvation due to communal riots. Industrialization and urbanization were destroying rural life. She reflects social issues through her fiction. She dealt with the political, social and eastwest conflict of India. This paper discusses the stereotyped women who long for self-identity in their married life.

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Authors: C. Sathya & M. Shobana

The theme of alienation has been recurrent in the Indian English fiction. It has become a major concern for post-modern writers and Kiran Desai, daughter of Anita Desai is no exception. She has explored this contemporary issue in her second novel The Inheritance of Loss for which she took eight long years to complete. The various themes which are intertwined in the novel The Inheritance of Loss are globalisation, multiculturalism, insurgency, poverty, isolation and issues related to Loss of identity. The author Kiran Desai exposes powerfully the ill-effects of globalisation and liberalisation which profess to create wealth and improve the quality of life; but in reality widen the gulf between the rich and the poor. She powerfully delineates how the sense of ‘loss’ has started with Jemubhai Patel, the Judge who vainly attempts to become an Anglicised person and gets alienated in the process in the colonial period. This article explores the theme of alienation in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss.

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Authors: M. Jeyaseelan & M. Premapriya

Demographic ageing is a global phenomenon. India is no immunity to this demographic transition. The life saving drugs and advancement in medical arena increased the life span of an individual. But attitudinal change and dilutions of Indian joint family system escalates the issues of aged. The elderly care has its own typical problems and issues alike childcare. The current need is to conduct research and explore new directions in research on population ageing. The relationship between the government, care providers, insurers and patients are a prolusion to any important change connecting elderly care. A suitable policy to deal with health care challenges of an ageing population is crucial for India. In this context, the present study aims toanalysis the pattern of care given by the family members to the elderly persons in the fishermen community of Puducherry region.The male members venture into sea for fishing activity. It requires a good deal of vigour and stamina. But the exhaustion of energy forces them to keep away from sea. . It seems to be young age for retirement when compare with other unorganized works and the white collar jobs in government and private offices. So the responsibility rests in the hands of the male children who started working on fishing activities at their early age like 15 or 16 years of age. So the children have to work hard for a long time to take care of their parents. An interview schedule has been constructed for data collection from 50 retired fishermen who hailed from fishing villages namelyVaithikuppam, Veerampattinam and Solainagar in Puducherry region.

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Authors: Kazi Arshadul Hoque

Where there is right, there is duty. Rights and duties go hand in hand. As a complete code of life Islam describes not only the rights of the workers, but also emphasize upon the duties of the worker. Protection of workers’ rights and fulfilment of their duties can ensure success and profit. The smooth running of the organization depends not only upon enrolment of the rights but also the proper application of the duties of the workers. Good and healthy labour relation is needed in every country. Good labour relation is created by observing labour rights and duties from both the employer and workers. Every State has its own labour law and policy which are in that State. Bangladesh has its own labour law and policy by which labourers and employers are regulated. Bangladesh Labour Code 2006 is the main labour law of Bangladesh. Rights and duties of the workers are laid down in this Code. Bangladesh is a Muslim majority country. Like other Muslim countries, Islamic beliefs and laws have mentionable influence in her/his daily affairs and also laws like labour laws. This article examines the duties of the workers in Bangladeshi Labour Law and Islamic law. As a Muslim majority country how far does Bangladesh incorporate or comply with the Islamic duties provision of labourers. The main purpose of this article is to reveal the application and performance of workers’ duties in various labour sectors

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Authors: Vadivel Sadhasivam, Muthusamy Deepa & Kaleelurrahman Saherabanu

The main objective of the present article is to study the oscillatory behavior of conformable fractional generalized Lienard equations. We obtain some new sufficient conditions that guarantee all solutions are oscillatory by using Riccati transformation technique. Suitable examples are inserted in order to illustrate the effectiveness of our obtained results.

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Authors: Lawande Gangadhar Bhauro & Mhaske P. H

Literacy is an index of human resources development and the quality of human life. Literacy is one of the major factors on which economic and social development. According to the census, literacy means as the ability to read and write the person name and make simple sentences. The literacy is increasing almost four times, which is a remarkable achievement. The present papers intend to analysis the spatiotemporal patterns of literacy in Pathardi Tahsil. The database collection secondary source from district census handbook.

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Authors: P. Mohanraj & S. Dhivya

Social media is broadening opportunities to engage in discussions about biomedical advances such as stem cell research. However, little is known about how information pertaining to stem cells is disseminated on platforms such as Twitter, Face book, YouTube. To fill this gap, we conducted a content analysis and we found that the discussion about stem cells revolves around different aspects of the research process. We also found that the tone of most twitter, Face book posts and YouTube videos and comments about stem cells are either positive or neutral. Social media offers a tremendous opportunity to use social networks as a way to inform the public about stem cell research and the risks involved with unproven treatments. Recently, a public information campaign using Twitter was designed to explore the potential use of online networks as a way to share evidence-based information and encourage people to engage in discussion about stem cell-related topics. The findings contribute new knowledge about Twitter, face book and other social media as a connecting platform for many voices and as a key tool for the dissemination of information about stem cells.

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Authors: Farzana Yasmin

Now-a-days breaking news has already been broken by various types of social media such as facebook, linked in, twitter, you tube, reddit, tumblr, Instagram, snapchat, pinterest, vimeo and many others electronic media. So, it is very essential to find out the new ‘ issue’ for news reporting in newspaper and television that can helps audience to move from fake news to verifiable and reliable news. On the other side, the digital world, we live in, becoming the sources of open data. In this situation, the gap between reader and publisher is repletion by data journalism and day to day data journalism revolutionizes our news rooms and revolutionizes our news cycle.

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Authors: Bibimoni Gogoi

There is a great role of teachers in promoting education, but the efficiency and effectiveness of teachers depends upon the teacher’s knowledge and skills. If the teachers are well educated and if they are intellectually alive and take keen interest in their job, then only, success is ensured. But, if on the other hand, they have lack of training in education and if they cannot give their heart to their profession, the system is destined to fail. The main objectives of the study were to find out the differences in the methods of teaching adopted between trained and untrained teachers and to find out the differences in the techniques of evaluation adopted between trained and untrained teachers of Secondary School teachers of Namsai District, Arunachal Pradesh. In the present study the survey method was adopted and 100 teachers (50 trained and 50 untrained) were selected as samples of the study through incidental sampling technique. The investigator used a Questionnaire as a tool for data collection. The result of the study found that maximum Trained Teachers used frequently the teaching aids, classroom management skill, the skill of attention to individual student etc. than the untrained teachers. All trained teachers frequently conducted classroom tests than untrained teachers. More trained teachers used scientific methods of teaching and modern techniques of evaluation than untrained teachers. The performances of trained teachers are better than the performance of untrained teachers who are working in the secondary schools of Namsai District of Arunachal Pradesh. Therefore, trained teachers are more efficient than the untrained teachers.

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Authors: Chiotelis Ioannis & Theodoropoulou Maria

In this work, we will compare the usability and functionality of electronic classrooms in secondary and tertiary education. We will compare the traffic, the instructiveness, number of downloads and how friendly both electronic classes are. We compared the electronic classes composed for “Geology and Management of Natural Resources” an elective course in High School and the course "Didactics of Natural Sciences" a second-year elective course at the Department of Primary Education, University of Patras. While in the field of higher education, distance education and electronic classes are an imperative tools for everyday use, on the other hand in secondary education, it has not yet gained the corresponding impact. The elective course about Geology was a unique opportunity to apply the model of blended teaching and flipped classroom based on an electronic classroom in Secondary Education and compare the statistics and usability to a similar teaching procedure in tertiary education.

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Authors: Manash Choudhury

Technology has influenced the ways of education at all levels. For the educational practices to benefit from technology in an optimum way, a number of factors need to be taken into consideration. Two important factors of these are attitudes of teachers and students towards the use of the computer in teaching-learning. But it is very important to know the attitude of student teachers towards the use of the computer in teaching learning because they are the prospective teachers of society. In order to become an efficient and effective teacher, the training periods of the prospective teachers should be taken into consideration. The present paper examined the student teacher’s attitude towards the use of the computer in teaching and learning. Respondents were 100 student teachers of teacher education colleges of Jalpaiguri District. Attitude scale towards information technology (Dr. Nasrin and Dr. Fatima Islahi 2012) was used to collect data from the respondents. Findings revealed that majority of the student teachers have a positive attitude towards the use of IT in teaching-learning process and no significant difference was found in attitude towards the use of IT in the teaching learning process in relation to gender variable. But significance difference was found in teachers’ interest and acceptance dimension of ASTITT scale in relation to gender variable.

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Authors: Raj Kumar Samanta

India is a developing country. About 70% of people live in rural India, depending on the primary sector of the economy. Rural infrastructures play a vital role in the improvement of the rural livelihood pattern through basic amenities like – road, drinking water, education, medical facilities, bank, power supply etc. Countries progress is assessed through the quality of infrastructure. Socio-economic infrastructures have a vital role in rural development phenomena. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study some basic socio-economic infrastructures in Kota panchayet area of Ausgram – II block through calculating weighted scores. Ranking of different mouzasbest on basic services has been done from census data. Besides a comparative analysis between the panchayet picture and block scenario has been done. Decadal changes in infrastructural development have been also shown. The mouzas having rail and frequent road networks are more developed but forest-based mouzas are less developed. Simple statistical and cartographic techniques have been employed to complete this paper. Some recommendations have been suggested for further development of the study area.