Volume 8 | Issue 3 |

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The importance and antiquity of education to bring desirable change in our life, especially the higher education is considered as an essential pillar for overall development of any country in terms of social, economic and political aspects. In Kerala education expanded very rapidly in the last six decades after independence. There are several people from Kerala around globe that are well known for their potentiality and the good skill and technique. During the time of second five year plan there were 10079 educational institutions in Kerala, Today Kerala rank first position in literacy among Indian state. Kerala has special care to the development of an education system that is inclusive and universally accessible. In this research paper, an effort has been made to discuss the present situation of higher education in Kerala and by analyzing various data to identify the key issues.

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Keywords: Higher education, Enrollment of students, growth of colleges, emerging issues

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Traffic sign detection and recognition is an important part of any autonomous vehicle. One of the many important aspects for a self-driving vehicle is the ability for it to detect traffic signs in orders to provide safety and security for the people not only inside the car but also outside of it. Road signs which are designed for human eyes are easily detectable and recognizable provide the result that the method is fast and robust. The detection and recognition procedure is performed in a real time. So, we design a system which can automatically detect and recognizes the traffic sign board with image processing technology.

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Road signs, traffic sign detection, traffic sign recognition, autonomous vehicle, image processing, opencv libraries.

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In spite of services rendered by several extension agencies, information reach to the farming sector is not up to the expected level. Despite wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. Though transfer of technologies from lab to land has become motto of all research institutes and Government agencies, on an average public extension services reach only 6.8 per cent of farmers. On the other hand due to the non availability of public extension system, farmers have found alternate mode of receiving information through television channels, neighboring progressive farmers and more importantly through social media in recent years. Due to the increasing level of mobile network penetration in rural areas, It makes instant access of information by the farmers through. social media. It has become most convenient in accessing new technologies adopted by famers across the globe. Hence exploring other options of alternate communication delivery mechanisms gains more importance in present scenario. At this moment Social media stands as a prime source for farmers to gain knowledge and sharing views on farm technologies. This paper tries to explain the constraints faced by the farmers in accessing information from public extension agencies and also tries to prove that social media can be utilized effectively as an alternate communication channel. As a result of this analysis, farmers are in regular access to social media to meet their knowledge requirement and YouTube remains most preferred by farmers due to the audio visual communication. This helps in increasing efficiency in reaching farmers and minimize communication gap in farming sector.

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social media, Agriculture communication, extension, documentary film

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The objective of this paper is to analyze and select the maintenance strategies of a chemical plant-FACT using Analytic Network Process. ANP model structures the decision problem in a hierarchical form and links the determinants, dimensions, and enablers with alternatives available to the decision maker. ANP is a powerful multi-criteria decision-making tool to consider interdependencies among and between levels of decision attributes. The comparative evaluation between alternatives was done based on the feedback of ten relevant executives. Geometric mode of their response was considered as the combined evaluation score. Thus, the ANP-based approach for enhancing the maintenance strategy selection proposed in this paper provides a more realistic and accurate representation of the problem. Further, a quantified value named as overall weighted score, which would give an indication of the maintenance of an organization and provide directions to managers where the improvement efforts has been derived. The paper concludes with managerial implication and scope for future work.

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AHP, ANP, super matrices, overall weighted score

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A Rapid and sensitive U.V. spectrophotometric method for the determination of Metformin Hydrochloride Hydrochloride and Rosuvastatine calcium calcium in the pharmaceutical synthetic mixture was developed. The UV spectroscopy method was performed at 232.6 nm for Metformin Hydrochloride Hydrochloride and 240.4 nm for Rosuvastatin and samples were prepared by using water as solvent. The linearity range for Metformin Hydrochloride is 5-25 ?g/ml and for Rosuvastatine calcium is 0.4-2.0 ?g/ml. Regression Coefficient For Metformin Hydrochloride and Rosuvastatine calcium is 0.999 and 0.998 respectively. The LOD and LOQ for Metformin Hydrochloride e was found to be 0.264 ?g/ml and 0.80 ?g/ml respectively. The LOD and LOQ for Rosuvastatine calcium was found to be 0.1143 ?g/ml and 0.3464 ?g/ml respectively. The proposed methods were simple, rapid, precise, accurate and sensitive can be used for routine of the quality control in pharmaceuticals.

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Metformin Hydrochloride, Rosuvastatine calcium, Q method

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Appropriate nutrition is an important contributing factor to healthy life, which helps in physical and mental health as well as prolonged life expectancy of people. Unfortunately, in developing countries such as Afghanistan there is little focus on the youth nutrition, growth and development. There is imbalance nutritional status among this group, some of them are underweight and some others are overweight. Having normal body weight is one of the important factors for health and wellbeing of the human being and studying the proportion of body height and weight has always been the key focus areas of the researches. Objective: To identify the height and weight ratio among the 4th year students of Kabul University of Medical Sciences Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on the fourth year students of Kabul Medical University, aged 20 to 25 years. The study materials include digital scale, height measurement instrument and a specific table for recording of the measurements including the subjects� related other information, based on which the BMI of the students in two groups of those who are living in hostel and those who are not in hostel. Results: a total of 236 students participated in this study including 162 residence of hostel and 74 not hosteled. The mean BMI in non-hosteled student was SEM 22.1�0.1, while it is SEM 19.9�0.1 among those who are residing in hostel. Conclusion: There are differences between the mean BMI value of hosteled and non-hosteled students with low BMI in hosteled students in comparison to the non-hosteled students.

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Nutrition, Weight, Height, Hostel, Non-hostel and BMI.

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Community participation in operation and maintenance of rural water supply schemes is the need of the day. To achieve this, training on O &M needs to be imparted to villagers along with awareness generation on safe water use and hygiene practice. It has been found that sincere and sustained effort for a long duration needs to be made to achieve successful participation of villagers in O & M of rural water supply schemes.

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Community participation, O & M, Sanitary Diggi, rural water supply scheme

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The study was conducted to establish a relationship between internships in hospitality industry and their effect on individual�s social personality. Aim of the project is to identify how internships in hospitality industry affect an individual�s personality traits. It also aims at clarifying how we can maximize the positive outcomes of internships and the future careers of their participants. The study was conducted through Big Five personality trait model. Each of these traits was analyzed with individual�s internship experience and results were summarized. A survey was conducted among 243 candidates from Bangalore who had undergone a minimum of 2 months of internship in hotel industry. It was found out that openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness and work environment has a significant impact on willingness to join the industry. These personality traits help in building network, socializing and taking risk in the work place which in turn enhances their work experience. On the other hand, neuroticism and extraversion had the most negative effect on willingness.

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Big Five personality trait model, work environment, duration of internship, willingness to work in hospitality industry

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Divestitures in Indian corporate are increasing in recent times. Divestitures are seen as one of the means for growth of the business and also to create value to the shareholders. There are various forms of divestitures, in which most of the recent divestitures are in the form of spin-offs. This paper examines the effect of spin-off on shareholders wealth at Arvind Ltd. Four years pre-spin-off and three years post spin-off data is considered for the study. The results showed that operating performance of new company is in increasing trend. The average stock returns in post spin-off announcement period are higher when compared to pre spin-off announcement period average returns.

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Restructuring, Divestiture, Spin-off, Value, Event study

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Studies based on humor are increasing day by day due to its connection with positive psychology. This study is based on the relationship of sense of humor and the positive psychological capacities in differently abled Emerging adult women. The sample size is 50 and the sample was collected from Chennai. This study studies the relationship between sense of humor and the four main dimensions, hope, confidence, resilience and optimism among differently abled women. A correlational study was done in which it was found that sense of humor has a positive relationship with positive psychological capacities, hope and resilience. This study can give a foundation for future studies on differently abled people.

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Sense of humor, women, positive capacities

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