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ASSESSMENT OF WATER QUALITY IMPACTS ON CROP PRODUCTIVITY IN SALINE SOILS: INTEGRATING HYDRO CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND CROP PERFORMANCE
This study aims to address the effect of water quality on crop productivity on saline soils. Water quality parameters to be studied include salinity level, pH, oxygen concentration, nutrient, and heavy metal level. The study will particularly focus on irrigation water sources that are situated in regions characterised by saline soils. Moreover, there are intended growth experiments for the evaluation of various specific crops such as rice, wheat or maize with different levels of water quality. The study will incorporate sophisticated analytical tools including ion chromatography, atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), and electric field mapping (EMI) to shed light on the current water quality and soil conditions of the selected area. The experiments that we plan to conduct will involve studying the growth parameters, yield, water use efficiency and the percentage of uptake of nutrients under several water quality scenarios. The data collected in this work will ascertain the link between the values of water quality parameters, soil salinity extent and productivity of crops and will provide the basis for the creation of innovative saline soil agriculture irrigation management practices. 2024, Scibulcom Ltd.. All rights reserved. -
ASSESSMENTS IN TEACHING INTERNSHIP
Teaching internship assessment is a blurred area in teacher education, as it involves multiple items to assess and require multiple measurement tools. The present chapter attempts to mention various teaching internship assessment practices prevailing in teacher education programmes across the globe. It also discusses a few established training assessment frameworks, assessment standards of a few countries, new experiments assessing internships as per the review of literature, value added assessment models, overall internship effectiveness, assessment after teacher training programme, and current teaching internship assessment practices of a few countries. While exploring the assessment, the chapter also details various components considered by teacher education institutes of assessment in teaching internships. The chapter provides a birds eye view of teaching internship assessment and helps the stakeholders to note, reflect, and create an indigenous effective assessment method for teaching internships. 2023 selection and editorial matter G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth; individual chapters, the contributors. -
Asset liability management to control the volatility in net interest income and economic value through gap analysis of selected public and private sector banks /
International Journal Of Academic Research In Business And Social Science, Vol.6, Issue 1, pp.123-142, ISSN: 2222-6990. -
Asset productivity in organisations at the intersection of big data analytics and supply chain management
A close investigation is required on the fundamental instruments of an establishments big data analytics usage. This research paper mainly addresses how is an organizations value creation affected due to big data analytics usage, what is big data analytics, and what are its key antecedents in an organization to understand the aspects that influence the actual usage of big data analytics. Hence, the technology, organization, and environment framework are used. The review data collected from Indian founded corporations confirm that: organizational value creation is significantly affected by big data analytics usage in that organization; organizational BDA usage is indirectly influenced by environmental factors, technological factors, and organizational factors through top management support. Collectively, this research study will guide the business managers on the usage of big data analytics, and a theory-based comprehensive analysis of big data analytics usage and its key antecedents. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. -
Assimilating sense into disaster recovery databases and judgement framing proceedings for the fastest recovery
The replication between the primary and secondary (standby) databases can be configured in either synchronous or asynchronous mode. It is referred to as out-of-sync in either mode if there is any lag between the primary and standby databases. In the previous research, the advantages of the asynchronous method were demonstrated over the synchronous method on highly transactional databases. The asynchronous method requires human intervention and a great deal of manual effort to configure disaster recovery database setups. Moreover, in existing setups there was no accurate calculation process for estimating the lag between the primary and standby databases in terms of sequences and time factors with intelligence. To address these research gaps, the current work has implemented a self-image looping database link process and provided decision-making capabilities at standby databases. Those decisions from standby are always in favor of selecting the most efficient data retrieval method and being in sync with the primary database. The purpose of this paper is to add intelligence and automation to the standby database to begin taking decisions based on the rate of concurrency in transactions at primary and out-of-sync status at standby. 2023 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. -
Association Between Emotional Intelligence and Marital Quality of Married Couples
International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences, Vol-2 (12), pp. 222-235. ISSN-2249-5894 -
AstroSat's view of 4U 1735-44: spectral, temporal, and type I X-ray burst studies
This study utilizes the simultaneous broad-band observations of 4U 1735-44 from AstroSat, offering enhanced spectral and temporal resolution, to investigate its spectral properties, temporal behaviour, and burst characteristics. Spectral, type I X-ray burst, and temporal analyses on 4U 1735-44 were performed using AstroSat/Soft X-ray Telescope and Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) observations. The hardness-intensity diagram from LAXPC-20 showed a positive correlation between hardness and intensity, with a pattern resembling the banana branch typical of atoll sources. Spectral analysis carried out in the 0.7-20.0 keV energy range, using the model combination - (), suggested a cool accretion disc truncated at a large distance from the neutron star in the system. Time-resolved spectral studies of two type I X-ray bursts detected from the source revealed evidence of photospheric radius expansion, allowing for an estimation of the source distance. Temporal analysis showed the presence of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation at 69 Hz (3.3 significance with more than 99 per cent confidence) and prominent noise features below 30 Hz. 2024 The Author(s). -
Asymmetric dynamic conditional copula correlation and fundamental determinants of interest rate comovement
We study time-varying interest rate comovement and its determinants for the retail banking sector in the euro area over pre-crisis and during crisis, between 2003 and 2018. The analysis is conducted for 11 euro area countries, each classified as either core or periphery. Copula Asymmetric DCC-GARCH is estimated for each country-pair to measure the dynamic interest rate correlations for deposits and loans to households. We then examine the determinants by regressing quarterly correlations on macroeconomic and cross-border linkages, banking, and sociological variables. We also assess the impact of the two crises and of policy initiatives, including negative interest rate, Single Supervisory Mechanism, and Single Regulatory Mechanism. Different panel regressions reveal limited, although varied, influence of determinants on correlations across different products, maturities, and country groups. We conclude that the intrinsic features of the retail banking industry, such as customers' trust, information asymmetry, and political influence, hinder strong interest rate convergence in the euro area. 2019-Center for Economic Integration, Sejong Institution, Sejong University, All Rights Reserved. -
Asymmetric dynamic conditional copula correlation and fundamental determinants of interest rate comovement /
Journal of Economic Integration, Vol.34, Issue 4, pp.667-704, ISSN No: 1225-651X. -
Asynchronous Method of Oracle: A Cost-Effective and Reliable Model for Cloud Migration Using Incremental Backups
Cloud Computing has reached a new level in flexibility to provide infrastructure. The proper migration method should be chosen for better cost management and to avoid overpayments to unused resources. So, the migrations from On-Premises to cloud infrastructure is a challenge. The migration can be done in synchronous or asynchronous modes. The synchronous method is mostly used to minimize downtime while doing the cloud migrations. The asynchronous methods can do the migrations in offline mode and very consistently. This paper addresses various issues related to the synchronous mode of Oracle while doing highly transactional database migrations. The proposed methodology provides a solution with a combination of asynchronous and incremental backups for highly transactional databases. This proposed method will be a more cost-effective and reliable model without compromising consistency and integrity. 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
At the Interface of Colonial Knowing and Unknowing: A Critical Reading of the Golden Camellia in Amitav Ghoshs River of Smoke
This paper is a critical reading of Amitav Ghoshs fictional representation of modes of acquisition, assimilation and dissemination of colonial knowledge in River of Smoke (2012). The paper highlights the cultural exchange of botanical and horticultural knowledge between Europe and China in the nineteenth century narrativized by Ghosh. The novel illustrates the significance of non-Eurocentric modes of conserving knowledge that would otherwise suffer from the violence of utilitarian models of European epistemology. The paper explicates how Ghosh represents the Chinese as successful in ensuring that the Golden Camelliaa rare flowering variety in Chinais preserved from falling prey to the profiteering logic of botanical expeditions and epistemic hegemony by European naturalists. Using Pramod Nayars imperial cosmopolitanism and Robert Proctors agnotology as critical frames, the paper maps Ghoshs fictional representation of Chinese horticulturists using botanical illustration to disable Europeans from accessing the Golden Camellia. By circulating the nonexistence of the plant variety as the truth, the Chinese horticulturalists in the novel prevent the Golden Camellia from being usurped and profiteered by European botanists and plant traders. The paper also establishes how Ghoshs work functions as a significant addition to works foregrounding the South-South connection in the South Asian literary imagination. 2020 South Asian Literary Association. -
Atman's awakening: Bhagavad Gita's Path to Moksha through Karma Yoga and Atmabodha
Indian psychology is characterized by its diverse and rich traditions that have evolved over several centuries. This chapter tries to fulfill four objectives: 1) To provide a brief overview of the concept of self in Bhagavad Gita; 2) to give a brief overview of the two frameworks for moksha given in the Bhagavad Gita with the help of empirical evidence of current research; 3) to propose a conceptual model using Triguna Framework and Trimarg Framework; and 4) to provide the implications of the proposed model. The chapter begins with an explanation of the Indian philosophical understanding of self from the lens of Bhagavad Gita. In the second section, an effort has been made to compare and contrast the two frameworks given in Bhagavad Gita for Moksha. The last section introduces a conceptual model to enhance sattva guna and reduce the rajas and tamas gunas to attain atmabodha that can have positive psychological implications in modern times. 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
ATRSI: Automatic Tag Recommendation for Videos Encompassing Semantic Intelligence
There is a requirement for an automatic semantic-oriented framework for Web video tagging in the epoch of Web 3.0, as Web 3.0 is much denser, intelligent, but more cohesive compared to Web 2.0. This paper proposes the ATRSI framework which is the Automatic Tag Recommender framework which encompasses the semantic-oriented Artificial Intelligence that outgrows the dataset by making the use of informative terms using TF-IDF and bag of words model to build the intermediate semantic network which is further organized using an Lin similarity measure and is optimized using red deer optimization by encompassing the entities from the World Wide Web to focused crawling. RNN is a classifier that is used for the classification of the dataset, it is a strong deep-learning classifier. Semantic-oriented Intelligence is achieved using the CoSim rank and Morisita's overlap index. The bag of lightweight graphs is obtained from the semantic network which is an intermediate knowledge representation mechanism that is further embedded in the intrinsic model. A semantically consistent system for video recommendation, ATRSI outperforms the other baseline models in terms of average accuracy, average precision and F-measure for a variety of recommendations. 2024 IEEE. -
Attachment to God: Narratives of Roman Catholic Priests
This narrative analysis was aimed at exploring the attachment to God narratives of 28 middle-aged Roman Catholic Religious priests rendering their service in various settings in South India. The study found that majority of the Roman Catholic priests had developed representations of a secure attachment to God. Twenty-six priests had developed representations of a secure attachment to God, and two priests of an insecure attachment to God. The Majority of the Roman Catholic priests had developed representations of a secure attachment to more than one spiritual attachment figures. Along with God, most priests had also developed representations of a secure attachment to the Virgin Mary. All the major themes related to attachment to God were found in the narratives of the Roman Catholic Priests. Author(s) 2020. -
Attention Based Meta-Module to Integrate Cervigrams with Clinical Data for Cervical Cancer Identification
Cervical cancer remains a significant burden on public health, particularly in developing countries, where its malignancy and mortality rates are alarmingly high. Early diagnosis stands as a pivotal factor in effectively treating and potentially curing the cervical cancer. This study introduces a novel approach of meta module based on recurrent gate architecture designed to enhance the classification of cervix images efficiently. This innovative framework incorporates a meta module capable of dynamically selecting image modalities most pertinent attributes. Furthermore, it integrates clinical data with extracted image features and employs a range of EfficientNet architectures (B0-B5) for image classification. Our results indicate that the EfficientNet B5 architecture outperforms its counterparts, achieving an AUC (Area Under the Curve) score of 55.1 and an F1-Score of 75.1. Overall, this work represents a crucial step towards improving the early detection of cervical cancer, which in turn can lead to more effective treatment strategies and, ultimately, better outcomes for patients worldwide. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
Attention to Economic Factors and Its Response to Foreign Portfolio Investment: An Evidence from Indian Capital Market
Stock market consists of a variety of investors. Among these, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) is a key investment influx. These investments can change or fluctuate due to several macroeconomic factors which can cause a shift in the dynamics of the markets in India. This paper examines the factors influencing for foreign portfolio investment in long run as well as short run. The sample comprises of 120 monthly observations on Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPIs) and Macro economic variables such as Oil prices (OP), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Interest Rate (IR), Exchange rate of Indian Rupee with USD (ER), Inflation (CPI), Nifty Index (NSEI), 10year Bond Prices (BP) and Index of Industrial production (IIP) over a period of 10years, spanning from January 2013 to November 2022. The study employed Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) to establish the long run association with error correction models. The result indicates that there is long run association between the Foreign Portfolio Investment and macro-economic variables. Among this, NSEI, IIP and ER played a significant role to determine FPI investments in the long run, whereas in the short run, FPI was impacted by ER and NSEI significantly. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
Attenuation parameters of polyvinyl alcohol-tungsten oxide composites at the photon energies 5.895, 6.490, 59.54 and 662 keV
The growing demand for lightweight, non-toxic and effective X-A nd ?-ray shielding materials in various fields has led to the exploration of various polymer composites for shielding applications. In this study, tungsten filled polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) composites of varying WO3 concentrations (0-50 wt%) were prepared by solution cast technique. The structural, morphological, and thermal properties of the prepared composite films were studied using X-ray diffraction technique (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The AC conductivity studies showed the low conductivity property of the composites. The X-ray (5.895 and 6.490 keV) and ?-ray (59.54 and 662 keV) attenuation studies performed using CdTe and NaI(Tl) detector spectrometers revealed a noticeable increase in shielding efficiency with increase in filler wt%. The effective atomic number (Zeff) calculated by the direct method agreed with the values obtained using Auto-Zeff software. The % heaviness showed that tungsten filled polyvinyl alcohol composites are lighter than traditional shielding materials. 2020 M V Muthamma et al., published by Sciendo 2020. -
Attenuation properties of epoxy-Ta2O5 and epoxy-Ta2O5-Bi2O3 composites at ?-ray energies 59.54 and 662 keV
Epoxy resin filled with suitable high Z elements can be a potential shield for X-rays and ?-rays. In this work, we present the ?-ray attenuation properties of epoxy composites filled with (030 wt%) Tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5) and Ta2O5-Bi2O3, which were prepared by open mold cast technique. X-ray diffraction patterns showed crystalline peaks of Ta2O5 and bismuth oxide (Bi2O3) in the prepared epoxy-Ta2O5 and epoxy-Ta2O5-Bi2O3 composites. Homogeneity of the samples at higher filler wt% was revealed by SEM images. Mechanical characterization showed the enhanced mechanical strength of epoxy-Ta2O5-Bi2O3 composites compared to epoxy-Ta2O5. Higher storage modulus and glass transition temperature of the epoxy-Ta2O5-Bi2O3 composites showed enhanced stiffness and thermal stability when compared to neat and epoxy-Ta2O5. Decrease in the value of tan(?) at higher content of filler loadings indicated the good adhesion between filler and matrix. Mass attenuation coefficients of epoxy-Ta2O5 (30 wt%) composites at ?-ray energies 59.54 and 662 keV were found to be 0.876 cm2 g1 and 0.084 cm2 g1, while that of epoxy-Ta2O5-Bi2O3 (30 wt% Bi2O3) composite were 1.271 cm2 g1 and 0.088 cm2 g1, respectively. The epoxy-5% Ta2O5-30% Bi2O3 composites with higher ?/? value and tensile strength may be a potential ?-ray shield in various radiation environments. 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. -
AttGRU-HMSI: enhancing heart disease diagnosis using hybrid deep learning approach
Heart disease is a major global cause of mortality and a major public health problem for a large number of individuals. A major issue raised by regular clinical data analysis is the recognition of cardiovascular illnesses, including heart attacks and coronary artery disease, even though early identification of heart disease can save many lives. Accurate forecasting and decision assistance may be achieved in an effective manner with machine learning (ML). Big Data, or the vast amounts of data generated by the health sector, may assist models used to make diagnostic choices by revealing hidden information or intricate patterns. This paper uses a hybrid deep learning algorithm to describe a large data analysis and visualization approach for heart disease detection. The proposed approach is intended for use with big data systems, such as Apache Hadoop. An extensive medical data collection is first subjected to an improved k-means clustering (IKC) method to remove outliers, and the remaining class distribution is then balanced using the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE). The next step is to forecast the disease using a bio-inspired hybrid mutation-based swarm intelligence (HMSI) with an attention-based gated recurrent unit network (AttGRU) model after recursive feature elimination (RFE) has determined which features are most important. In our implementation, we compare four machine learning algorithms: SAE + ANN (sparse autoencoder + artificial neural network), LR (logistic regression), KNN (K-nearest neighbour), and nae Bayes. The experiment results indicate that a 95.42% accuracy rate for the hybrid model's suggested heart disease prediction is attained, which effectively outperforms and overcomes the prescribed research gap in mentioned related work. The Author(s) 2024. -
Attitude of generations: Does it matter online?
Generational examinations are turning out to be necessary with the characteristics they exhibit. This research work aimed at establishing the interceding relationship of disposition of three distinctive generations-Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z. In complete, 1200 responses were acquired from both male and female respondents of each generational class dependent on online purchase data collected by employing Google Forms. For the investigation, the model utilized the SOR framework. The results indicated that attitude does not play a vital role in the purchase intention of Generation X followed by the partial mediation of attitude for Generation Y and full mediation effect for Generation Z. This steady increment of attitudinal change underpins the examination by setting up proof that every age shifts in their mentality and purchasing conduct. Online retailers must concentrate on showcasing systems and create online visual merchandising cues which outwardly advance and make a feeling of stimulating attitude for generations. The current study also added value to the existing literature by classifying the customer base not merely on age, but also on their technological perspective of distinguishing web atmospheric cues and catering to their needs from a generational outlook. The study also took into account the importance of the organism's role played by attitude in the S-O-R framework. In this manner, the study helps marketers to design methodologies and plan online visual marketing space for better generational reaction and benefit. 2021, Associated Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd.. All rights reserved.