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This present study deals with the facile synthesis of Zinc (Zn), Strontium (Sr) Co‐substituted hydroxyapatite (M‐HAP)/lignin composite for biomedical applications. For composite formation, HAP was isolated from egg shell through wet precipitation method, biopolymer of lignin was extracted from neem wood through organosolve technique then HAP composites (HAP, HAP/lignin, Zn‐HAP/lignin, Sr‐HAP/lignin, Zn, Sr‐HAP/lignin) were obtained using freeze drying performance. The synthesized HAP composites were characterized using X‐ray powder diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Energy‐dispersive X‐ray analysis (EDAX). The antibacterial behavior of the HAP composites was investigated against E. Coli, B. Subtilies, P. Aeruginosa and S. Aureus pathogens. Then the mechanical property of the HAP composites was carried out using Vicker's microhardness test which reveals a better improvement in mechanical hardness. The antibacterial activity confirms that the HAP composite exhibits enhanced antibacterial activity. Further, the cell viability analysis shows that the co‐substitution of Zn and Sr in HAP lattice improved cell viability analysis, which indicates that the obtained Zn, Sr co‐substituted HAP/lignin biocomposite acts as a potential biomaterial for better biomedical application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study the new energy of Sanskrit renaissance in Europe due to European voyages to India, followed by trade and then the construction of British India. It created a new social impetus to Sanskrit in India too, and the Indian intelligentsia, empowered by western education also began to examine texts written in the language. Interpretations came out in a pouring manner of these ancient texts, some locating them as the manufacturers of caste system, and some appreciating their contribution to science, literature, and philosophy and especially law. We have to re-understand how German intelligentsia interpreted and viewed these texts. The concept of nation in the age of nationalism, and its ideology of an imagined community with similar culture and shared beliefs has brought forth the necessity to enquire into the foundation of India’s modern identity, as perhaps, constructed by Oriental scholarship and the knowledge with new developments it brought forth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at tracing the way the role of women has been designed by society in societies, and how it has begun to change with human evolution. Mary Wollstonecraft has asked very significant questions about women's lack of freedom in society and has demanded that she is given a life with equal opportunities. Art has defined beauty as something that gives pleasure to the viewer, and it is the woman who possesses this symmetry and beauty till a particular age, mainstream socio-political thought believes so. Science and technology's intervention with such perceptions, market forces, capitalistic globalization are the new areas that might bring in innovative changes in contemporary thinking, and women might not only be the only one who would be pleasing the viewer, but even men might join this process of pleasing - now as women are operating in politically powerful positions men might be required to please them - perhaps an effort to sustain the human race on earth, competing with the rest of the animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: RebiSmart® is an electromechanical multidose autoinjector developed for administering subcutaneous interferon beta-1a in patients with multiple sclerosis (pwMS). This online survey aimed to understand MS nurses' and pwMS preferences and perceptions regarding the features of an upgraded version of the RebiSmart device (RebiSmart 3.0) compared to other assistive devices used for multiple sclerosis (MS) therapy. Patients and Methods: Eligible MS nurses and pwMS from Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom completed a double-blind, 30-minute online self-administered questionnaire, including a 10-minute video describing the features of RebiSmart 3.0 and its use in administering interferon beta-1a. Results: In total, 102 participants (MS nurses, n=52; patients, n=50) completed the survey. Overall, 70% respondents found the RebiSmart 3.0 device "very"/"extremely" appealing, 53% were "very"/"extremely" interested in learning more, and 71% stated they would be "very"/"extremely" comfortable using (pwMS) or educating (MS nurses) on it. Among current or recent RebiSmart 2.0 users (vs RebiSmart 2.0 nonusers), 67% (vs 52%) rated RebiSmart 3.0 "very" or "extremely" appealing, 52% (vs 43%) were "very" or "extremely" interested in learning more about the device, and 67% (vs 48%) stated they would be "very" or "extremely" comfortable using the RebiSmart 3.0 device. Respondents ranked customizable injection process (including injection speed, hold time, depth and rotation guide), self-injection process, and hidden needle as the most important self-assistive device features. RebiSmart 3.0 was rated higher than other self-injecting devices on all tested features. Overall, with respect to the top three features, 89% of the MS nurses and 73% of PwMS rated RebiSmart 3.0 "very good" or "excellent". After reviewing the video, 52% respondents had no questions, 67% nurses recommended providing more information on the customizable injection process feature of RebiSmart 3.0 to patients, and 88% nurses considered patient demonstration materials to be the most helpful type of information for them when initiating and educating pwMS on self-assistive devices. Conclusion: The overall reactions of MS nurses and pwMS to the RebiSmart 3.0 device features were positive. The incremental advances over previous versions of the device as well as in comparison with other currently available assistive devices were welcomed. The MS nurses identified key needs for patient education on the use of the device and the suitable approaches (training videos and educational leaflets) to support MS nurses and pwMS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analysing the manner in which the ancient and modern world conceived the civilized and the savage. People have always felt distant from tribal communities and have constructed narratives projecting them as inferior to civilised societies, believing in their own myths that may be meaningless to other societies and building peculiar practices that may seem strange to others like the Indian caste system. The Enlightenment philosophy's negotiation has been one-sided as the people with 'voices' and 'expressions' wrote their versions of stories vehemently denying the existence of the others. Human thought and systems of languages accepted the division of civilised as advanced from uncivilized. Still, humanity moves on including all people under the umbrella of democracy, capitalism, and globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of scavenged tissue for reconstruction of an injured limb, called as "spare-part surgery. It allows primary reconstruction of injured part without harvesting tissue from other regions of the body and without further donor morbidity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical experience and outcomes of spare parts surgery in mutilating hand injuries. Total 12 patients were included in this study from January 2022 to January 2023. In 7 patients bone from amputated part used as bone graft, 4 patients avulsed skin from amputated distal part was used as skin graft. In one patient digital nerve used as spare part for nerve. Outcomes were measured. In 75% of patients the spare part used was survived without any complications. 5 out of 7 patients with bone graft, bone graft was viable with maintenance of digit length. 3 out of 4 patients in whom skin graft was done, skin graft settled well. In 1 patient in whom digital nerve was used as nerve graft, Tinel's sign progressed and regain of touch sensation was noted in 6 months follow up. Complications were noted in 3 patients (25%). Re-intervention was done in 2 patients (16%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at studying Shelley's poems as exemplifying the philosophy of Enlightenment. Shelley's poems on 'Napoleon,' 'Ozymandias' and his 'Poetical Essay' show him as a Romantic writer who strongly believed in European Enlightenment philosophy. His poems are musical treats, highly spontaneous, metaphorical, allusive and romantic in style, but the core content of his poems is the Enlightenment philosophy of his contemporary Eurocentric thought. Shelley was a voracious reader, as exemplified by Mathew Arnold, and absorbed the ideologies of philosophers and thinkers hailing from the middle classes and universities, and his poems reveal the highly volatile period during which Europe shifted from monarchy to democracy through revolutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study if Shakespeare had become aware of the role played by money in the common man's life. His Timon presents an excellent understanding of money power and describes its social role in humanity. Gold is a private venture and is the achievement of the rising middle class. Marx's Das Capital analyses the role of private capital in a detailed manner, while Shakespeare sums up the social and political power of money in a few lines. Timon of Athens is a great contribution to the political economy, as exemplified by Marx in his personal writings. This interpretation of Marx has created a platform for researchers to use literary works as tools to understand economic processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at re-reading Shelley's "Ozymandias" from a post-colonial perspective. The nineteenth century witnessed colonial expansion and the western countries began negotiating with the eastern countries from a culturally and politically superior position. Asia and Africa came to be perceived as inferior in popular imagination due to the academic endeavours in structural anthropology that had racial characteristics and archaeology that encouraged hegemonic thinking of the superiority of the occident. Poets and thinkers, caught in these sociopolitical thoughts expressed their opinions of the world from a colonial perspective. Thinkers like Karl Marx (1818-1883) and poets like Percy Byshe Shelley (1792-1822) invoked Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC) who had written on Egypt. In the twentieth century Edward Said (1935- 2003) analysed how academia was influential in re-creating a new world order in which the occident was portrayed as higher. This paper attempts to understand how Shelley picturised Egypt in his simple and famous poem "Ozymandias." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at studying how Shakespeare impacted on Herder, and how Herder uses Shakespeare's works as an illustration to form his opinions on nationalism. Shakespeare reflected the ideology, geo-politics of his age. His plays show the rise of the individual showing the signs of the rise of nationalism and the independent ideology of political freedom. Herder views them as a break from Greek drama having its regional features. Shakespeare becomes a symbol of Herder's nationalism and cultural diversity. The romanticism of Herder provided elements for the building of the idea of nation in Germany, and Shakespeare's plays helped him to arrive at a focused understanding of the changing processes and trends of European political history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the significant health issues affecting women that impacts their fertility and results in serious health concerns is Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Consequently, timely screening of polycystic ovarian syndrome can help in the process of recovery. Finding a method to aid doctors in this procedure was crucial due to the difficulties in detecting this condition. This research aimed to determine whether it is possible to optimize the detection of PCOS utilizing Deep Learning algorithms and methodologies. Additionally, feature selection methods that produce the most important subset of features can speed up calculation and enhance the effectiveness of classifiers. In this research, the tri-stage wrapper method is used because it reduces the computation time. The proposed study for the Automatic diagnosis of PCOS contains preprocessing, data normalization, feature selection, and classification. A dataset with 39 characteristics, including metabolism, neuroimaging, hormones, and biochemical information for 541 subjects, was employed in this scenario. To start, this research pre-processed the information. Next for feature selection, a tri-stage wrapper method such as Mutual Information, ReliefF, Chi-Square, and Xvariance is used. Then, various classification methods are tested and trained. Deep learning techniques including convolutional neural network (CNN), multi-layer perceptron (MLP), Recurrent neural network (RNN), and Bi long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) are utilized for categorization. The experimental finding demonstrates that with effective feature extraction process using tri stage wrapper method + CNN delivers the highest precision (97%), high accuracy (98.67%), and recall (89%) when compared with other machine learning algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Nurses’ oral case presentation is a core clinical communication skill with distinctive linguistic qualities that require specific language training. The present paper is a user feedback analysis of a start-up Mobile Assisted Language Learning application (MALL app) developed and implemented to provide English language training to improve Oral Case Presentation (OCP) of student nurses pursuing baccalaureate degrees from a nursing college in South India. Objective: The aim was to develop and test an Android based OCPMALL application for user acceptability and effectiveness in improving OCP performance and decreasing the perceived language difficulty. Methodology: Sixty-two student nurses from a reputed nursing college in Chennai, South India, using Android mobile phones participated in the study. All the participants were given access and instructions on the use of OCP-MALL app. A comparison of pre and post-test of perceived level of language difficulty and OCP pre and post score along with users’ acceptance were collected. Results: The users’ acceptability showed that all participants rated the clarity in reading the text with highest mean score of 8.29 and std of 1.276, simplicity in navigation – moving to next page with next highest mean score of 8.19 and std of 1.526, clarity in text application layout with a mean score of 8.14 and std of 1.497 and user friendliness of the application with a mean score of 8.13 and std of 1.393. Conclusion: This startup OCP-MALL app user satisfaction feedback proves that Indian ELT trainers can create cost-effective and need-based m-learning applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sampling plans developed based on the process capability indices have great impact in assuring the quality of procured goods since such indices are widely applied in industries to monitor the process quality. In this manuscript, a modified double sampling plan is proposed for variables inspection based on the process capability index Cpk. The proposed sampling plan, an alternative to the existing double sampling plan, can be used with less complexity for the inspection of normally distributed quality characteristics when both mean and variance are unknown. To determine the optimal parameters of the proposed plan for symmetric and asymmetric cases of fraction nonconforming with double specification limits, we use the methodology of two points on the operating characteristic curve. It is shown that the proposed plan is more advantageous than other existing sampling plans under variables inspection. Finally, an economic aspect of design of the proposed sampling plan is also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analysing the perspectives of A. W. Schlegel's famous work Lectures on Dramatic Art. With the advent of science, literary artists and professors began to write the principles of writing and an urgency to work it out in an objective and scientific manner. Schlegel aims at tracing the way poetic styles shifted from classicism to Romanticism during the 19th century. European writing came under the influence of the Greeks and Latin works, later took influences from Christianised writings of various nations in Europe, inspired by Shakespeare's writings that broke away from the Greek and Latin model and again met with the Sanskrit texts from India. A great transformation took place amalgamating all these varied influences into a new type of writing, later termed as 'romantic' in nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new sampling plan by integrating the resampling concept in a skip-lot sampling plan of type SkSP-3 with a single sampling plan as the reference plan is proposed and designated as SkSP-3-R plan. The performance metrics are derived by using the Markov chain formulation. A designing methodology using two points on the operating characteristic curve approach is proposed to determine the plan parameters of the SkSP-3-R plan involving minimum the average sample number. The execution of the proposed SkSP-3-R plan is discussed with an illustrative example. The comparative study shows that the proposed plan has better performance where the inspection is involved in terms of nonconforming items rather than nonconformities. In addition, it demonstrates that the proposed SkSP-3-R plan is more efficient than SkSP-2 plan, SkSP-3 plan, SkSP-2-R plan, and SSP. Based on average run length, the SkSP-3-R plan's characteristic of response-to-change in quality is also investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to study how Heinrich Heine redefined romanticism in his seminal treatise “The Romantic School” and aims at bringing into argument how Friedrich von Schlegel and August Wilhelm von Schlegel have exemplified the ideology of Romanticism. These German thinkers responded to Indian thought, religious practices and also delved into deep analyses of Catholicism and the way Christianity influenced European or German thinking. Heine argues that Romanticism is a social response to Christianity’s rigid disciplines of asceticism. Scholars opine that the Schelling brothers also have contributed to the definition of Romanticism and these views are also valid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific workflows have gained the emerging attention in sophisticated large-scale scientific problem-solving environments. The pay-per-use model of cloud, its scalability and dynamic deployment enables it suited for executing scientific workflow applications. Since the cloud is not a utopian environment, failures are inevitable that may result in experiencing fluctuations in the delivered performance. Though a single task failure occurs in workflow based applications, due to its task dependency nature, the reliability of the overall system will be affected drastically. Hence rather than reactive fault-tolerant approaches, proactive measures are vital in scientific workflows. This work puts forth an attempt to concentrate on the exploration issue of structuring a nature inspired metaheuristics-Intelligent Water Drops Algorithm (IWDA) combined with an efficient machine learning approach-Support Vector Regression (SVR) for task failure prognostication which facilitates proactive fault-tolerance in the scheduling of scientific workflow applications. The failure prediction models in this study have been implemented through SVR-based machine learning approaches and the precision accuracy of prediction is optimized by IWDA and several performance metrics were evaluated on various benchmark workflows. The experimental results prove that the proposed proactive fault-tolerant approach performs better compared with the other existing techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collaborative learning using Active Learning Strategies (ALS) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools in programming subjects facilitate the studentsinstructors into effective ways to make everyone engaged in Teaching Learning Process. In such learning, learners required to respond one another’s ideas. Teachers are the key players in collaborative learning process by launching the learning environment, accommodating student requirements and ensuring the classroom activities. In this study, benefits of ALS and ICT tool usages have been analyzed for the Object-Oriented Programming course offered to engineering undergraduates. The impacts are analyzed in terms of teaching methodology, practicing lab, pass percentage, course outcome attainment, internal and terminal test performances and course exit survey. The outcomes indicate that, ALS and ICT approach yields positive result in performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to introduce and investigate a new subclass of analytic functions involving Gegenbauer polynomials. We obtain for the introduced class various geometric properties giving the coefficient inequalities, distortion theorem, radius of close-toconvexity, starlikeness, convex linear combination, partial sums and convolution properties. Further, we obtain a neighborhood result for the class defined in the present paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]