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Happiness, Meaning, and Satisfaction in Life as Perceived by Indian University Students and Their Association with Spirituality
The present study aims to examine the association between various dimensions of psychological well-being (subjective happiness, satisfaction, and meaning in life), spirituality, and demographic and socioeconomic background of university students. A total of 414 postgraduate students were selected from three different schools, viz. science, management, and social sciences/humanities of Pondicherry University (A Central University), Puducherry, India, following multistage cluster sampling method. One semi-structured questionnaire and four standardized psychological scales, viz. subjective happiness scale, satisfaction with life scale, meaning in life questionnaire, and spirituality attitude inventory, were used for data collection after checking psychometric properties of the scales. The results show that a positive significant correlation between spirituality and subjective happiness exists. Spirituality is also correlated with meaning in life and satisfaction with life scale. Statistically, no significant gender difference was observed with respect to subjective happiness, meaning, and satisfaction in life as well as spirituality although the mean score of female students was more in all the four psychological domains. Non-integrated students are found to be happier than integrated students, and statistically it was significant. Positive interpersonal relationship and congenial family environment were probed to be facilitating factors for positive mental health of university students. There is a severe need to address students mental health by every educational institution through multiple programs. 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. -
Level of green computing based management practices for digital revolution and New India /
International Journal of engineerig And Advanced Technology, Vol.8, Issue 3, pp.133-136, ISSN No: 2249-8958. -
Pandemic, theatre and performance: Democratizing the subalterns through the Theatre of the Oppressed
The presented work analyses Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) methods impacting the pandemic. It follows the WHO timeline, when the COVID-19 pandemic had cast a dark shadow, making sustenance difficult for the marginalized section of Indian society. TO methods, though reflected, adapted and accommodated exhaustively in Indian applied theatre over the last four decades, offered a fresh, collective, democratic space during the pandemic. Forum theatre (FT) and legislative theatre (LT) praxis rendered a platform for activism, awareness and emancipation of the subalterns during the pandemic. Thus, TO renewed psycho-social dialogue and critical, creative, experimental space during this time. The applicability of such methods facilitating social change is gauged using Boals spect-actorship and Freires conscientization. The article looks forward to the TO signposts to serve as nodal points for further scholarly discussion and study on democratizing the disenfranchised population through FT and LT during the pandemic. 2023 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. All Rights Reserved. -
Developing the assessment questions automatically to determine the cognitive level of the e-learner using NLP techniques
The key objective of the teaching-learning process (TLP) is to impart the knowledge to the learner. In the digital world, the computer-based system emphasis teaching through online mode known as e-learning. The expertise level of the learner in learned subjects can be measured through e-assessment in which multiple choice questions (MCQ) is considered to be an effective one. The assessment questions play the vital role which decides the ability level of a learner. In manual preparation, covering all the topics is difficult and time consumable. Hence, this article proposes a system which automatically generates two different types of question helps to identify the skill level of a learner. First, the MCQ questions with the distractor set are created using named entity recognizer (NER). Further, based on blooms taxonomy the Subjective questions are generated using natural language processing (NLP). The objective of the proposed system is to generate the questions dynamically which helps to reduce the occupation of memory concept. 2020, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. -
Group Movie Recommendations via Content Based Feature Preferences
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp.1-5 ISSN No. 2229-5518 -
Improved Collaborative Filtering using Evolutionary Algorithm based Feature Extraction
International Journal of Computer Applications Vol.64,No.20, pp.20-26 ISSN No. 0975-8887 -
Feature Extraction for Collaborative Filtering: A Genetic Programming Approach
International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 9, Issue, 5, No. 1, pp. 348-354, ISSN No. 1694-0814 -
Deep Belief Network-Based User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) for Web Applications
Machine learning (ML) is currently a crucial tool in the field of cyber security. Through the identification of patterns, the mapping of cybercrime in real time, and the execution of in-depth penetration tests, ML is able to counter cyber threats and strengthen security infrastructure. Security in any organization depends on monitoring and analyzing user actions and behaviors. Due to the fact that it frequently avoids security precautions and does not trigger any alerts or flags, it is much more challenging to detect than traditional malicious network activity. ML is an important and rapidly developing anomaly detection field in order to protect user security and privacy, a wide range of applications, including various social media platforms, have incorporated cutting-edge techniques to detect anomalies. A social network is a platform where various social groups can interact, express themselves, and share pertinent content. By spreading propaganda, unwelcome messages, false information, fake news, and rumours, as well as by posting harmful links, this social network also encourages deviant behavior. In this research, we introduce Deep Belief Network (DBN) with Triple DES, a hybrid approach to anomaly detection in unbalanced classification. The results show that the DBN-TDES model can typically detect anomalous user behaviors that other models in anomaly detection cannot. 2024 World Scientific Publishing Company. -
Exploratory Architectures Analysis of Various Pre-trained Image Classification Models for Deep Learning
The image classification is one of the significant applications in the area of Deep Learning (DL) with respective to various sectors. Different types of neural network architectures are available to perform the image classification and each of which produces the different accuracy. The dataset and the features used are influence the outcome of the model. The research community is working towards the generalized model at least to the domain specific. On this gesture the contemporary survey of various Deep Learning models is identified using knowledge information management methods to move further to provide optimal architecture and also to generalized Deep Learning model to classify images narrow down to the sector specific. The study systematically presents the different types of architecture, its variants, layers and parameters used for each version of Deep Learning model. Domain specific applications and limitations of the type of architecture are detailed. It helps the researchers to select appropriate Deep Learning architecture for specific sector. 2024 by the authors. -
The influence of social environment on children of a commercial sex worker
The case study aims to understand the influence of social environment on the course of life of children of a commercial sex worker. The participants of the study were two sons of a commercial sex worker who grew up in different environments. The older sibling who is 19 years of age (case 1) lives with his mother, whereas the younger sibling who is 17 years of age (case 2) lives in a hostel distant from everyday influence of a brothel. The study adopts multiple case study design and in-depth interviews were conducted to gather data. The obtained data were subjected to thematic analysis. Each case was analyzed individually, and then cross comparison of the themes derived was carried out. The themes derived on analyzing case 1 were social categorization, mercenary activity, substance aficionado, complacency in life, and compliance with life while the themes derived on analyzing case 2 were disgust toward commercial sex work, feeling of precariousness, antipathy toward home environment, irrational thoughts and anticipation of a better future. The only overlapping issue that emerged in both cases was being protective about their mother. It was concluded that environmental variance contributes to the difference in experience and perception of the situation and society. Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry. All Rights Reserved. -
An intelligent inventive system for personalised webpage recommendation based on ontology semantics
Owing to the information diversity in the web and its dynamically changing contents, extraction of relevant information from the web is a huge challenge. With the World Wide Web transforming into a more organised semantic web, the incorporation of semantic techniques to retrieve relevant information is highly necessary. In this paper, a dynamic ontology alignment technique for recommending relevant webpages is proposed. The strategy focuses on knowledge tree construction by computing the semantic similarity between the query terms as well as the ontological entities. Furthermore, the semantic similarity is again computed between nodes of the constructed knowledge tree and URLs in the URL repository to recommend relevant webpages. The dynamic ontology alignment by computing their respective semantic similarity constitutes Ontology Semantics. Personalisation is achieved by prioritisation of webpages by content-based analysis of the users web usage data. An overall accuracy of 87.73% is achieved by the proposed approach. Copyright 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. -
A hybridized semantic trust-based framework for personalized web page recommendation
The World Wide Web is constantly evolving and is the most dynamic information repository in the world that has ever existed. Since the information on the web is changing continuously and owing to the presence of a large number of similar web pages, it is very challenging to retrieve the most relevant information. With a large number of malicious and fake web pages, it is required to retrieve Web Pages that are trustworthy. Personalization of the recommendation of web pages is certainly necessary to estimate the user interests for suggesting web pages as per their choices. Moreover, the Web is tending towards a more organized Semantic Web which primarily requires semantic techniques for recommending the Web Pages. In this paper, a framework for personalized web page recommendation based on a hybridized strategy is proposed. Web Pages are recommended based on the user query by analyzing the Web Usage Data of the users. An array of strategies is intelligently integrated together to achieve an efficient Web Page Recommendation system. Latent Semantic Analysis is applied to the User-Term Matrix and the Term-Frequency Matrix that are built from the Web Usage Information to form a Term Prioritization Vector. Further, techniques like Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Topic-based Segregation of the URLs and Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information strategies are used for recommending web pages based on users queries. The Personalization is achieved by prioritizing the Web pages based on the Prioritization Vector. Also, a unique methodology is incorporated into the system to retrieve trustworthy websites. An overall Accuracy of 0.84 is achieved which is better than the existing strategies. 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. -
Comic Memes and Sexist Humor in India: Tools for Reinforcement of Female Body-Image Stereotypes
Memes have been described as communicative and aesthetic practices that serve cultural, social, political purpose on a digital platform. Several studies, in the last decade, have attempted to study this digital aesthetic knowledge production as a powerful tool for political, racial, and gender-related discourses. Most often this knowledge is produced through comic multi-media texts. Many theorists believe that, digital media reinforces inequality, marginalization and such other social issues through the audio-visual-textual medium as much as it establishes the counter-discourses for equality, body activism, racial activism and the like. Speed and lack of censorship can be the cardinal reasons for the popularity of these memes. Among the mass-influencing gender-related memes are those encouraging fat-talk and body-image stereotypes. In the Indian context, 'Tag a Friend' memes is one such widely circulated meme which communicates body-shaming messages through sexist humor. It mainly targets the fat/colored/transgender women. The current study examines these memes using multimodal discourse analysis methodology. The paper attempts to investigate the revival/reproduction potential of color-shaming and body-shaming stereotypes via comic memes through Shiffman's memetic dimensions. The analysis establishes that memes can be a prominent site for the re-production of the problematic ideology of body/color shaming even in the 21st century. AesthetixMS 2021 -
Financial inclusion and poverty alleviation: The alternative state-led microfinance model of Kudumbashree in Kerala, India
The study examines the microfinance and microenterprise model of Kudumbashree, the state poverty eradication mission of Kerala, and its impact on poverty alleviation in the state of Kerala in India. Kudumbashree's method of identification of the poor is seen to be superior to the conventional head count ratio as it captures the multidimensional characteristics of poverty leading to lesser chances of exclusion of vulnerable families. The microenterprise-linked microfinance model of Kudumbashree has established itself as an effective model linking the state, community, and financial organizations, differentiating itself from other NABARD-led self-help group (SHG) programmes or the Grameena model of microfinance institutions in the country. The fundamental idea of local economic development on which the microenterprise business is built is, however, not free from limitations. Heavy reliance on local markets for procuring inputs and selling outputs makes the products less competitive, questioning the sustainability of a business-led model in the absence of state subsidy in the longer run. Copyright 2014 Practical Action Publishing. -
A computational approach for the generalised GenesioTesi systems using a novel fractional operator
This article presents the novel fractional-order GenesioTesi system, along with discussions of its boundedness, stability of the equilibrium points, Lyapunov stability, uniqueness of the solution and bifurcation. The efficient predictorcorrector approach is employed to quantitatively analyse the GenesioTesi system in fractional order. The findings enable conceptualisation and visualisation of the presented novel fractional-order GenesioTesi systems. The modified systems are proposed for future study on chaos control and applying the same for secure communication. Bifurcation analysis is carried out to see the variation in the systems behaviour from stability to chaos. The results of the bifurcation analysis support the results obtained for the stability of the equilibrium points. The system behaves chaotically since all the equilibrium points are unstable. The findings demonstrate a torus attractor for some of the suggested systems and a chaotic attractor for some of the novel fractional-order GenesioTesi systems. The systems torus attractor changes into a steady state when the order is reduced from integer to fractional. Changing the parameter values for one of the modified systems also shifts the systems behaviour, with the point attractor replacing the torus attractor. The point attractor of one of the systems changes into a steady character when the systems order is reduced from integer to fractional. The behaviour for one modified system is the same for fractional and integer orders. This discovery paves the way for the future study of the modified GenesioTesi system. This article gives a new direction to utilise these proposed GenesioTesi systems and study them extensively. The chaotic behaviour of the modified system can be used for secure communication. The synchronisation and chaos control of the modified system is recommended. 2024, Indian Academy of Sciences. -
Modified Genesio-Tesi systems with trigonometric functions and the Caputo fractional derivative
The new fractional-order Genesio-Tesi system is introduced, and its boundedness, stability of the equilibrium points, Lyapunov stability, uniqueness of the solution, and bifurcation are all discussed in this paper. Using the efficient predictor-corrector approach, we statistically analyze the Genesio-Tesi system in fractional order. The results effectively conceptualize and visualize the novel fractional order Genesio-Tesi systems that are suggested. When the systems order shifts from integer to fractional, the revolution around the fixed point increases. The chaotic character of the modified Genesio-Tesi system is comparable to that of the original Genesio system. The major changes were made to the Geensio-Tesi system by including the trigonometric functions, keeping the initial conditions and parameter values intact. The system is fractionalised with the help of Caputo fractional operator. In particular, the modified systems nature is more complex, which may aid in signal processing and secure communication. Future research on the modified Genesio-Tesi system can now proceed in light of this finding. This article offers a fresh approach to utilizing and thoroughly researching the Genesio-Tesi systems that have been provided. CSP - Cambridge, UK; I&S - Florida, USA, 2024 -
Dynamics of chaotic waterwheel model with the asymmetric flow within the frame of Caputo fractional operator
The chaotic waterwheel model is a mechanical model that exhibits chaos and is also a practical system that justifies the Lorenz system. The chaotic waterwheel model (or Malkus waterwheel model) is modified with the addition of asymmetric water inflow to the system. The hereditary property of the modified chaotic waterwheel model is analyzed to determine the system's stability and identify the parameter that contributes to the stability We also examine the factor that leads to the bifurcation. We determine the well-posed nature of the modified system. The modified chaotic waterwheel model is defined with the Caputo fractional operator. The existence and uniqueness, boundedness, stability, Lyapunov stability, and numerical simulation are studied for the modified fractional waterwheel model. The bifurcation parameter and Lyapunov exponent are examined to study the chaotic nature of the system with respect to the fractional order. The nature of the system is captured with the help of the efficient numerical approach AdamsBashforthMoulton Method. The numerical approach demonstrates that the chaotic nature of the modified chaotic waterwheel is changed into unstable nature, which could further reduce to the stable case with suitable values of the parameter. This analysis is justified with the help of Lyapunov exponent. We consider irrational order (?,e) in the present work to illustrate the reliability of fractional order. 2023 Elsevier Ltd -
Deposition and characterization of ZnO/CdSe/SnSe ternary thin film based photocatalyst for an enhanced visible light-driven photodegradation of model pollutants
A heterogeneous photocatalytic pathway is a possible approach to global energy and environmental issues. Sol-gel spin coating and physical vapour deposition were used to create a new ternary ZnO/CdSe/SnSe nanocomposite thin film photocatalyst. X-ray diffractometry, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), field emission-scanning electron microscopy, UV-Vis, and photoluminescence (PL) spectrophotometers were used to characterize the deposited films. When exposed to solar light, the ternary photocatalyst exhibits high photocatalytic activity in photocatalytic dye degradation processes. it demonstrates excellent visible light absorption, enhanced charge carrier separation, and solar light simulation. It was proposed that the charge in the ternary ZnO/CdSe/SnSe photocatalyst moves in a double type-II and cascade manner between the various components. In this study, ternary thin film heterostructures are synthesized, exhibiting outstanding stability and solar light-induced photocatalytic activity.The thin film composed of ZnO/CdSe/SnSe exhibits a degradation efficiency of 96% when exposed to visible light, and a degradation efficiency of 90% for methylene blue under sunlight within a time period of 150 min. Graphical Abstract: (Figure presented.) The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023. -
INDUCED nK2 DECOMPOSITION OF INFINITE SQUARE GRIDS AND INFINITE HEXAGONAL GRIDS
The induced nK2 decomposition of infinite square grids and hexagonal grids are described here. We use the multi-level distance edge labeling as an effective technique in the decomposition of square grids. If the edges are adjacent, then their color difference is at least 2 and if they are separated by exactly a single edge, then their colors must be distinct. Only non-negative integers are used for labeling. The proposed partitioning technique per the edge labels to get the induced nK2 decomposition of the ladder graph is the square grid and the hexagonal grid. 2022, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics. All rights reserved. -
On L? (2, 1)-Edge Coloring Number of Regular Grids
In this paper, we study multi-level distance edge labeling for infinite rectangular, hexagonal and triangular grids. We label the edges with non-negative integers. If the edges are adjacent, then their color difference is at least 2 and if they are separated by exactly a single edge, then their colors must be distinct. We find the edge coloring number of these grids to be 9, 7 and 16, respectively so that we could color the edges of a rectangular, hexagonal and triangular grid with at most 10, 8 and 17 colors, respectively using this coloring technique. Repeating the sequence pattern for different grids, we can color the edges of a grid of larger size. 2019 D. Deepthy et al.