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Assessing Individual Intention in Adoption of Green Loans for Solar Rooftop Projects
Amidst a global surge in environmental consciousness, this study investigates the adoption dynamics of green loans for solar rooftop projects, capitalizing on the increasing awareness of individuals seeking to embrace environmentally friendly technological innovations. Against the backdrop of escalating environmental concerns, this research explores the intricate relationships between financial considerations, heightened environmental awareness, regulatory support, and access to information in shaping individual intentions to adopt green loans for solar rooftop initiatives. Leveraging a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach and a sample size of 225 respondents, this study provides nuanced insights into the factors influencing sustainable financial choices, contributing to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of green financing, renewable energy, and individual decision-making. The findings hold implications for policymakers, financial institutions, and individuals striving to align their financial practices with eco-conscious initiatives to pursue a sustainable future. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
The Employees Demographic Profile of Startups in India with Special Reference to Bangalore City: A Case Study
In the current scenario, startups play a pivotal role and exert a significant influence on the promotion of economic growth. Authorities perceive their substantial impact, considering factors such as job creation, economic development, and contributions to technological upgrading (Thornton and Assocham in Startups Indiaan overview, 2016; Jain in Int J Appl Res 2:152154, 2016; Sarangi in Why do most Indian startups fail? Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2015). There has been a noteworthy effort to promote entrepreneurship through the establishment and support of various incubation centers. Despite the positive reception and development initiatives, the alarming startup failure rates in India persist due to various reasons. Available data indicates that 12 states in India have 1000 recognized startups each, with Karnataka being particularly well-recognized for progress and brand creation, especially in the city of Bangalore. In light of this, the study aims to identify the demographic profile of employees in startups in India, with a special focus on Bangalore city. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
High-performance reconfigurable FET for a simple variable gain buffer amplifier design
Design and simulation of variable gain analog buffer amplifier using single gate reconfigurable field-effect transistor (SG-RFET) with strained silicon channel are proposed. The design simplicity makes SG-RFET device a potential candidate compared to the multi-gate RFET devices. The gain of the proposed configuration is varied by tuning the feedback voltage. The voltage gain of the proposed configuration can be tuned from 0.97V/V to 5V/V with an output load of 1 k?. The operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) using the SG-RFET device is used in the proposed buffer amplifier design. 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. -
Predictive Machine Learning Approaches for Estimating Residential Rental Rates in India
As urban areas like Chennai and Bangalore witness a continuous surge in land and housing prices, accurately estimating the market value of houses has become increasingly crucial. This presents a formidable challenge, prompting a growing demand for an accessible and efficient method to predict house rental prices, ensuring dependable forecasts for future generations. In response to this need, this study delves into the core factors influencing rental prices, with a keen focus on location and area. Leveraging a dataset comprising ten essential features tailored for detecting Rental Price in Metropolitan cities, the research meticulously preprocesses the data using a Python library to ensure data cleanliness, laying a robust foundation for constructing the predictive model. Employing a diverse range of Machine Learning algorithms, including Random Forest, Linear Regression, Decision Tree Regression, and Gradient Boosting, the study evaluates their efficacy in forecasting rental prices. Notably, feature extraction underscores the significance of area and property type in shaping rental prices. In comparison with existing methodologies, this research adopts gradient boosting as its preferred approach, achieving the most satisfactory predictive outcomes. Evaluation metrics are meticulously analyzed to validate the model's performance. Through this comprehensive analysis, the study not only offers valuable insights into rental price prediction but also ensures a rigorous comparison with existing approaches, maintaining originality and relevance in addressing the pressing challenges of housing market dynamics. 2024 IEEE. -
Enhancing Retailer Auctions and Analyzing the Impact of Coupon Offers on Customer Engagement and Sales Through Machine Learning
Systems that use coupons have been used extensively to boost customer interaction on platforms having a digital component. We use causal machine learning techniques to determine the effect of an advertising intervention, especially a discount offer, on the bids of a shop. Discount shopping coupons are a popular tactic for increasing sales. The largest challenge for dealers is accurately anticipating the wants of their customers, and here is where they always struggle. Machine learning algorithms have been utilized by researchers to address a variety of problems. Selecting the right coupon is a challenging undertaking because every customer's behavior differs depending on the deal. Due to categorical data adjustments being necessary due to the majority of characteristics having missing values, the situation is made more difficult. The dataset is used to classify the dataset, and machine learning algorithms like logistic regression, random forest and SVM model, decision tree and naive bayes models are used to determine the correctness of the classification. 2023 IEEE. -
Affective geographies and the anthropocene: Reading shubhangi swarups latitudes of longing
This paper is a critical reading of the affective and emotional geographies imagined in the Islands plot-line of Shubhangi Swarups novel Latitudes of Longing (2018). The paper argues that Swarup presents the case of a rethinking environmental aesthetics that conveys a deeper sense of space, time, and place. By creating an ambient poetics to negotiate human and non-human interconnectedness, the paper demonstrates the strength of novelistic traditions and their potential to generate an idea of affect that is transcorporeal as one not located only in the site of the human body, instead, emanating from a more nuanced interconnectedness between the human and the non-human world. Informed by affective ecocriticism and Zayin Cabots multiple ontologies approach that generates ecologies of participation, the paper closely reads the Islands section to establish how literary illustrations provide an instance to widen the horizons of environmental engagement and generate a narrative imagination that encompasses a larger ecosystem cutting across geological spacetimes in the Anthropocene. Swarups use of fiction is critically used to generate an ecoaesthetics that leads to a more informed ethical action towards recognizing the interconnectedness of living and non-living forms that create sustainable ecologies. 2021 Journal of Dharma: Dharmaram Journal of Religions and Philosophies (DVK, Bangalore), ISSN: 0253-7222. -
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. -
'Amphibious historiography': Reading samanth subramanian's following fish: Travels around the indian coast (2010) through the actor-network theory
This paper explores Samanth Subramanian's travel writing collection Following Fish: Travels around the Indian Coast (2010) for its strength in establishing the significance of the human-non-human connection in the Indian coastline. Although a decade old, the work stands out even today for its strength in framing 'travel' from a non-terracentric point of view, as most travel writings have been often positioned. Subramanian's travel writing is an important departure from territorial historiographies via travel. His work traces the author's movement across India's coastal regions - the frontiers, as it were, of territoriality, literally following fish. Foregrounding a non-human subject as the travel writing's object of investigation, the paper deploys actor-network theory to analyze Subramanian's reconfiguration of the cultural imaginaries of India's coastlines via mobility thus reassembling the social of India's coastlines. His work, therefore, is argued to be an assemblage of the human and non-human actants creating a new water-based examination of socialities. Fish is the central node of his navigation of India's coastline assemblage, where he examines fish as food, as medicine, as commerce and as culture. By positing India's coastal regions as waterscapes to track movement of people, objects, and every day practices vis-vis fish, and moving in-land with the fish in some instances, Subramanian's work does not merely function as a commentary on the coastlines, but also emphasizes the need to interrogate mobility and travel across waterscapes. AesthetixMS 2020. This Open Access article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For citation use the DOI. For commercial re-use, please contact editor@rupkatha.com. -
EC(H) onarrating stories: Ecological thought and metanarrativity in folktales
This paper studies the ecological discourse constructed in folktales, looking at the relationship between folktales and the human-nature-culture paradigm. By closely examining select folktales collected by folklorist A. K. Ramanujan, this paper looks at the metanarrativity of tales and argues from a narratological perspective that folktales deploy nature metaphors to establish a close relationship between nature, women and culture. This, it is argued, is made possible only in the conservation of stories for, in conserving a story, the message of conserving cultures and their artefacts (an ecological metaphor) is spread. The story is conserved; however, not in hoarding it but quite contrarily in transmitting and letting it go. The paper also critically examines how female subjects, through the use of nature metaphors and symbols of fertility and femininity speak of their consciousness in these 'woman-centred tales' in a space characterized by the absence of the Phallic Other but inevitably speak the patriarchal language of feminine inscriptions. Using folkloric research of A. K. Ramanujan as well as ecocritical frameworks, this paper looks at the narratological dimensions of folklore to understand metanarration as a crucial aspect of folklore and ecological conservation. Therefore the lessons of conservation lie not only in the content of the folktales but also in their very telling. The ecological aspects in and of the tale must necessarily be echoed multiple times to enable the tale's transmission, and in effect, their conservation. 2014 Journal of Dharma: Dharmaram Journal of Religions and Philosophies (Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore). -
Teaching through urban sensorium: urban spatiality as a smart learning environment
This paper qualitatively analyses the implication of urban sensorium as a pedagogic mode in the teaching of Urban Studies. Underpinned by the frames of smart learning environments, the paper reiterates experiencing urban ontologies as spatial learning environments. By drawing from a range of transdisciplinary and experiential modes of learning, this paper maps how an undergraduate course on Bangalore city in India served learners to critically engage with and experience spatial urban ontologies both digitally, and in real-world experiences of learning, furthering learner autonomy and reflection. The methodological prisms of this paper are autoethnography and critical reflection. It is organised around enabling learners recognize the experiential, embodied urban spaces through the urban sensorium via real-life engagements with urban spaces, and creation of digital portfolios that map this learning. Findings from the learners knowledge of sensory learning, the citys intersectional aspects, and the students embodied and emplaced self in built environments and digital spaces are analysed via cognitive and affective-reflection levels; the course instructor's reflection is analysed via a process-reflection level. These reflections hold implications for the pedagogy of urban studies in undergraduate classrooms by foregrounding spatiality and urban sensorium as significant critical and affective pedagogic tools. The paper has also accommodated critical engagement with an external faculty member as a co-author, in order to manage any bias or researcher subjectivity in the design. 2022, The Author(s). -
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Understanding the business model of private equity & comparative analysis of emerging economics & developed economics
Research Revolution Vol.1, Issue 6,pp.18-20 ISSN No. 2319-300X -
Strategy for low cost airlines in India
Research Revolution Vol. 1, Issue 6, pp.1-3 ISSN No. 2319-300X -
INDUCED REGULAR PERFECT GRAPHS
A graph G is said to be R-perfect if, for all induced subgraphs H of G, the induced regular independence number of each induced subgraph H is equal to its corresponding induced regular cover. Here, the induced regular independence number is the maximum number of vertices in H such that no two belong to the same induced regular subgraph in H, and the induced regular cover of H is the minimum number of induced regular subgraphs in H required to cover the vertex set of H. This article introduces the notion of induced regular perfect graphs or R-perfect graphs through which we study the structural properties of R-perfect graphs and identify a forbidden class of graphs for the same. This further leads to the characterization of R-perfect biconnected graphs. With these results, we derive and prove a general characterization for R-perfect graphs. 2023, RAMANUJAN SOCIETY OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES. All rights reserved. -
On C-Perfection of Tensor Product of Graphs
A graph G is C-perfect if, for each induced subgraph H in G, the induced cycle independence number of H is equal to its induced cycle covering number. Here, the induced cycle independence number of a graph G is the cardinality of the largest vertex subset of G, whose elements do not share a common induced cycle, and induced cycle covering number is the minimum number of induced cycles in G that covers the vertex set of G. C-perfect graphs are characterized as series-parallel graphs that do not contain any induced subdivisions of K2,3, in literature. They are also isomorphic to the class of graphs that has an IC-tree. In this article, we examine the C-perfection of tensor product of graphs, also called direct product or Kronecker product. The structural properties of C-perfect tensor product of graphs are studied. Further, a characterization for C-perfect tensor product of graphs is obtained. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024. -
Utilizing Artificial Intelligence-Powered Chatbots for Enhanced Customer Support in Online Retail
In many e-commerce contexts, live chat interfaces have become popular as a way to communicate with consumers and provide real-time customer support. Conversational software agents, commonly known as Chatbots, are systems created to converse with users in natural language and are often based on artificial intelligence (AI). These systems have replaced human chat service agents in many cases. Although AI -based Chatbots have been widely used due to their time and cost savings, they have not yet met consumer expectations, which may make users less likely to comply with chatbot requests. We empirically study, through a randomized online experiment, the impact of verbal humanoid design cues and a direct approach on compliance with user requirements, based on Social Reactions and Attachment Commitment Theory. Our results show that consumers are more likely to cooperate with chatbot service response requests when there is humanity and consistency. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that social presence plays a mediating role between humanoid design cues and user compliance. 2024 IEEE. -
Kaizen costing a management technique /
International Journal Of Business And Management Invention, Vol.4, Issue 9, pp.1-5, ISSN No: 2319-801X. -
Multicomponent Synthesis Strategies, Catalytic Activities, and Potential Therapeutic Applications of Pyranocoumarins: A Comprehensive Review
Fused coumarins, because of their remarkable biological and therapeutic properties, particularly pyranocoumarins, have caught the interest of synthetic organic chemists, leading to the development of more efficient and environmentally friendly protocols for synthesizing pyranocoumarin derivatives. These compounds are the most promising heterocycles discovered in both natural and synthetic sources, with anti-inflammatory, anti-HIV, antitubercular, antihyperglycemic, and antibacterial properties. This review employed the leading scientific databases Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and PubMed up to the end of 2022, as well as the combining terms pyranocoumarins, synthesis, isolation, structural elucidation, and biological activity. Among the catalysts employed, acidic magnetic nanocatalysts, transition metal catalysts, and carbon-based catalysts have all demonstrated improved reaction yields and facilitated reactions under milder conditions. Herein, the present review discusses the various multicomponent synthetic strategies for pyranocoumarins catalyzed by transition metal-based catalysts, transition metal-based nanocatalysts, transition metal-free catalysts, carbon-based nanocatalysts, and their potential pharmacological activities. 2023 The Authors. Chemistry & Biodiversity published by Wiley-VHCA AG, Zurich, Switzerland. -
Role of AI in Strengthening ESG Governance: Perspective From Industry Experts
Socially conscious investors, especially Gen Z, value ethics over money. ESG reports are as important as financial reports for them. ESG ratings from various sources can puzzle these Gen Z investors, as there is no standardization in ESG data. Firstly, the chapter focuses on the need to integrate AI into ESG reporting by highlighting the limitations of mere frameworks such as GRI, SASB, and ISSB. Secondly, it emphasizes the difference between traditional reporting and AI-integrated ESG reporting. It also points out the challenges of AI integration and ways to overcome these challenges. Lastly, the chapter also proposes the need for a unified framework, making it easier for investors to compare and make decisions. 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Impact of Variable Viscosity and Gravity Variations on Rayleigh-Bard Instabilities of Viscoelastic Liquids in Energy Sustainable System
Energy sustainability systems are vital for transitioning to a low-carbon economy, addressing climate change, and ensuring a sustainable future for all. Rayleigh-Bard convection (RBC) in viscoelastic liquids is a crucial phenomenon in various industrial and environmental applications, including energy sustainability systems where fluid dynamics play a pivotal role in optimizing heat transfer and system efficiency. The study deals with the combined influence of variable viscosity and variable gravity on RBC in viscoelastic liquids. The influence of space-dependent gravity on the onset of convection is considered. The results are analyzed against the background of constant gravity RBC in viscoelastic/Newtonian liquids with constant/variable viscosity. The possibility of variable gravity accelerating/decelerating the onset of convective instability is examined in this paper. 2024 IEEE.