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Cultural and Historical Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke: A Postcolonial Perspective
Authors: Satya Narayan  
Published: August 2022

Amitav Ghosh is a prominent writer of present times. In his writings, Ghosh deals with the effects of colonialism on contemporary societies and cultures. By depicting the modern postcolonial situation, he problematizes the dominant discourse of culture and history. My paper proposes to examine and explore the cultural and historical identity in River of Smoke from the perspective of postcolonialism. He is considered an iconic figure in English Literature owing to his singular and unorthodox perception of history. Historical identity is a reservoir of past events and incidents. One of those historical incidents is the Opium War (1839-42), which has been dealt extensively by Amitav Ghosh in River of Smoke (2011) in sequential manner. In his fiction, Ghosh meticulously deals with many things: the troubled legacy of colonial knowledge and discourse about formerly colonized societies and ideas, the ambivalent relationship to modernity of the so-called developing or ‘Third World’, and the formation and reformation of identities in colonial and post-colonial societies. The main purpose of this research paper is to examine in detail about the postcolonial traits with specific reference to the Indian diaspora.
The Ideal of Democracy is distorted in Naipaul’s The Suffrage of Elvira
Authors: Dr. Devanampriya M.  
Published: August 2022

Democracy it’s a beautiful concept, where Equality, Freedom, Justice provided to the people of all strata of society irrespective of caste, creed, gender etc. Actually Democratic form of system is very ideal for administrative point of view. There are equal opportunities for all sorts of people to participate in the formation of government and equal responsibility while framing rules and regulations as well. Both the people and the elected representatives failed completely to uphold the very basic objectives of democracy. And this is nothing but the murder of Democracy. Because in Democratic form of system everything should be transparent but whereas for as third world countries are concerned, no transparencies only corrupted administrative officials, corrupted representative and the people too. This leads to the distortion of the ideal of the Democracy. Abraham Lincoln says about Democracy “of the people, by the people and for the people”. But the present scenario reconstitutes the statement “of the money, by the money and for the money”. Hence in this article Naipaul’s The suffrage of Elvira will be discussed.
Poverty as the Explicit Theme in Aravind Adiga’s Between the Assassinations
Authors: Dr. Nidhi Gupta  
Published: August 2022

Adiga is an influential voice of 21st century India. He depicts the agony of the subjugated class of India. In Between the Assassinations, Adiga presents a vivid picture of lives of the marginalized. The novel contains the theme of poverty, hunger and exploitation of poor as the main theme. The novel is a scrupulous examination of microcosm of India. It is a simmering fury at the wide gulf between the haves and have not’s. The novel provides a glimpse of the India of Darkness through its twelve stories spinning around the assorted aspects of life in the town Kittur. The novel highlights the social and political turmoil of India during 1984 and 1991 and reflects how poverty, the mother evil, gives rise to other evils in the society. The novel contains a wide array of characters from famished person to the richest person of the town, Kittur. It describes the harsh realities of poor villagers who have to but migrate to cities in order to survive and live on the streets.
Ontological Emergence and Human Freedom
Authors: Sprintzen David 
Published: August 2022

ABSTRACT
This article develops the ontological doctrine of naturalistic emergence, detailing three distinct but related types of emergent structures. It thus provides a coherent framework for making sense of the reality of human freedom, consistent with the operative determinism of natural science. This possibility emerges from taking seriously the implications of the reality of non-separability and decoherence, the significance of conservation laws, and the causal significance of systemic properties. The metaphysics of ontological emergence that is thus suggested reveals the ontological limitations of Aristotelian logic, Cartesian reduction, and their modern epigoni. Specific attention is paid to the formulations of scientific reductionism by E. O. Wilson with his theory of “consilience,” and to Jaegwon Kim’s critique of the doctrine of emergence.
Mimesis as Poiesis: The Production and Reproduction of Likeness in an Extra-Moral Sense
Authors: Wu Yi 
Published: August 2022

ABSTRACT
Artworks of realism have been the chief target continuously employed by critics to perpetuate a traditional view of art as mere imitation. In this article, I argue for a way to understand artworks of realism based on a suspension of the classical distinction between mimesis (understood as imitation) and poiesis (understood as making, fabrication or production). By examining the perception model (the case of the trompe-l’œil of fifth-century Greek and Renaissance European paintings) and the poiesis of mechanically reproduced art (the case of the photograph), I argue that (1) contrary to the traditional view, an artwork of realism does not represent what is ordinarily called “reality” by imitating it; (2) in what may seem a representation of the world an artwork of realism actually creates something from scratch, making neither an ontological claim to become and to replace the object in question nor an artistic claim to copy after the object; and (3) despite its apparent achievement of resembling the objects in the world, an artwork of realism should be judged by itself as well as by itself as embodiment of conditions of seeing and of encountering, inhabiting, and interpreting the visible at a certain historical juncture.
Real-time sign language recognition system
Authors: Mohammedali Atyaf Hekmat , Abbas Hawraa H. , Shahadi Haider Ismael 
Published: August 2022

One of the more natural ways of interaction between the machine and human is offered by Human gestures which are useful for sign language recognition (SLR). Sign language is the speaking tongue of a segment of people who are known as Deaf people. they are the most people who benefit from the (SLR) by the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).Most natural people cannot understand these kinds of languages, so Deaf people fail to communicate with them without this helper which achieves by the (HCI). This study introduced a proposed system that offered SLR in real-time for some gestures from the American sign language (ASL), by using one of the most suitable deep learning-based architectures that were called Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and choosing the Squeezenet module After comparing it with a traditional machine learning system that relied on extracting [HOG] features. Squeezenet presented the best result in accuracy reached to (100%) in the off-time testing and about (97.5%) in the real-time with a competition time of about 3.3sec for capturing the image, predicting it, and converting it to a text and spoken sentence.The system achieved this result without making any preprocessing for the image, which gave it simplicity and low computing time.
Cytotoxicity of Fe2+, Cu2+, and Ni2+ metal complexes of thiosemicarbazide Schiff bases with dibenzalcyclohexanone & Di-o-bromobenzalcyclohexanone
Authors: Abdul-Salam Maryam , Tawfeeq Nabeel Arif 
Published: August 2022

The work included the synthesis and characterization of two ketones (chalcones) through the reaction of cyclohexanone with benzaldehyde in the presence of a strong base, as well as ketones were prepared replaced with bromine in the ortho position from the reaction of brominated benzaldehyde in the ortho site with cyclohexanone . The first ligand prepared through the reaction of the thiosemicarbazide compound with dibenzalcyclohexanone, while the second ligand was prepared by reacting di-o-bromobenzalcyclohexanone. The resulting ligands are bi-dentate ligands that can bind to transition metal ions in a molar ratio (ligand:metal) 2:1. As mononuclear complexes were prepared through the reaction of these ligands with the divalent metallic elements under study, which are copper(II), iron(II) and nickel(II). The novel complexes have been characterized by 1H&13C-NMR, (Mass Spectra), magnetic susceptibility and molar conductivity. And through spectroscopic studies and magnetic susceptibility, the geometry of the prepared complexes were suggested. The iron and copper complexes are paramagnetic complexes, and the magnetic moment values are within the range of the distorted tetrahedral. While for the nickel complexes, they are diamagnetic complexes, and the magnetic moment values are within the range of the distorted square planar shape.
Identification of nosocomial infection bacteria from hospitals, and effect of some antibiotics in Wasit Province
Authors: Mahdi Jasim R. , Makhrmash Jasim H. , Taher Taqi Mohammed Jwad 
Published: August 2022

Background: Nosocomial infections are illnesses obtained after medical care. The responsible pathogens are represented by several types of microorganisms and this study aimed to define the causative bacteria and their sensitivity to different antibiotics. Methods: A total of 308 samples have been collected from different places and surfaces prone to bacterial contamination in the three main governmental hospitals in AL-Kut city. Firstly, bacteria were isolated and identified using the biochemical test, then antibiotic sensitivity of isolates was performed using different antibiotics for Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Acinetobacter baumannii, Serratia marcescens, and Enterobacter cloacae on Mueller Hinton agar using Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. Results: There were 83 (26.9%) bacterial-contaminated samples. The most common type of isolated bacteria was Staphylococcus haemolyticus (20.5%) followed by Acinetobacter baumannii (12%) of the total bacteria. Culture and sensitivity for Staphylococcus haemolyticus bacteria showed that bacteria were resistant to all selected antibiotics reaching 92.9% for Azithromycin and 85.7% for Erythromycin. Results for A. baumannii bacteria showed bacterial resistance to all antibiotics and the highest rate (87.5%) was reported for Piperacillin. Results for Serratia marcescens bacteria showed bacterial resistance to most antibiotics except for Meropenem with 100% resistance to Augmentin and Nitrofurantoin.
Ameloglyphics: A mutidimensional tool in human identification
Authors: Shetty Rakhshith , Bose Surajit , Chattopadhyay Jayanta , Sen Subhalakhmi , Bhattacharya Maumita , Banerjee Abhishek 
Published: August 2022

Background: Dental proof may provide significant assistance in identifying a victim’s body and determine specific facts thus influencing the investigative procedure. Ameloglyphics or tooth prints symbolizes exceptional differences enlightening distinctive patterns between teeth of unlike individuals and of the same individual, and also between males and females.
Aim: This novel study was performed to determine and establish the fact that enamel in teeth could be used to identify an individual as such by the help of the tooth prints or ameloglyphics. Materials & Method: 30 individuals (15 males and 15 females) were selected for the study. The anterior tooth of every individual was dried with cotton and impression of the enamel imprints were obtained on a cellophane tape which was then transferred to a glass slide and was subjected to photography. These photographs were then analyzed using Image Analysis Colorimetry. Results: The colorimetry analysis showed two different variations i.e. Red waves depicted male prints and Black waves showed females tooth prints. The results showed that ameloglyphics helped to determine the gender of an individual and also revealed that each individual had a separate discrete type of imprint.
Study the oxidative stress parameters in serum and saliva of the workers at the heavy fuel oil combustion unite
Authors: Ahmed Aisha Majeed , Hasan Hathama Razooki 
Published: August 2022

The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of the pollutants emitted from the combustion of heavy fuel oil (HFO) on the workers’ health who are working at this unit. This was done by checking the changes in serum and saliva total oxidant status ( TOS), total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and the oxidative stress index (OSI).The participants of the study were male workers (N= 83) who are working at the combustion of HFO unit in the electricity Dora station. They were divided into subgroups according to: their age, smoking habit, and the service period. Age and gender matched healthy individuals, (N=53) were also included in the study as a control group. Serum and saliva total oxidant status (TOS) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) were measured using Erel's methods and OSI was calculated. Serum (TOS) and (OSI) levels were found to be higher (p-value <0.000) in the workers than in controls with a reduced levels of antioxidants (p-value <0.05) in these workers.
Method, types and frequency of formative assessment in competency learning: Student view
Authors: Bhansali Swaroop Chand , Sunder Ragam Ravi , Shankar Nachiket , Balananda Perugu 
Published: August 2022

Background: Formative evaluation is a range of formal assessment employed by professors during the teaching process in order to modify curriculum activities, to improve student attainment. Since the implementation of Competency Based Medical Education students need to adopt a deep learning approach contrary to traditional learning. We were interested to get their views about formative assessment. Objective: To explore perception of number and types of formative assessment by phase 1 students. Methods: To collect data from a pre validated questionnaire from Phase 1 MBBS students of 3 medical colleges and analyze it, regarding the formative evaluation. Results: 43 to 71 percent felt that frequency of formative assessment was optimal. 61 to 67 percent felt that quantity of portions for the formative assessment tests was optimal. 57 to 72 percent felt that formative assessment motivated them to study regularly.58 to 67 percent of students feel that the level of difficulty of the questions was optimal.59 to 66 percent of students feel that periodic formative assessment tests improved their learning of the pre-clinical subjects. Conclusions: Formative assessment helps them in learning as well as preparing for summative assessment. Formative assessment helps in keeping them motivated to study regularly.
Eeficiency of conventional technique and surgical operating microscope in crown lengthening: An original research
Authors: Potharaju Santhi Priya , Reddy S. Hari Krishna , Sharma Bharti , Baig Fawaz Abdul Hamid , Rajesh Damarasingu , Kurrey Vaibhavee 
Published: August 2022

Background: The success of any periodontal therapy always depends on better visual access and, magnification is an important component which provides good hand eye coordination with a better treatment outcome. The aim of our study is to assess the effectiveness of magnification over conventional method while performing surgical crown lengthening and to evaluate the patient comfort level and pain perception over a period of 3 months. Methods -The study was conducted amongst 20 patients, 10 in each group requiring crown lengthening for restorative purpose and was evaluated ever a period of 3 months. Results - During 3months follow up, significant differences were found between the groups for probing depth with mean difference of 1.22±0.6, position of gingival margin as with mean 2.7±1.15 and biologic width with mean difference 2.8±0.42.Regarding patient comfort and patients pain perception it was found low for microscope group with mean difference of 2±0.67 Conclusion – A good visual access is a primary requisite behind the success of any periodontal therapy and it was concluded from our study that there was significant reduction in probing depth and improvement in biologic width, gingival margin.
A vital and disregarded anatomical landmark: Descending sigmoid colon flexure
Authors: Jha Gouri Shankar , Gautam Archana , Raman Radhika , Mishra G. K. 
Published: August 2022

Background: During the colonoscopy, colon tortuosity is a vital factor to complete the procedure successfully. Endoscopy can be difficult in cases with acute angle bending of adjacent colon segments. Aim: To assess the relationship of descending sigmoid colon flexure to vital anatomical points on CT in adult subjects. Methods: 114 adult subjects with CT examination of the abdominopelvic region were retrospectively analyzed. In 114 subjects, the angle between proximal sigmoid and descending colon was evaluated in degrees along with descending-sigmoid flexure position concerning the anterior aspect of the 5th lumbar vertebra, the median plane, and left anterior superior iliac spine. Results: Descending sigmoid flexure was seen in all 114 subjects. the LV-DSF was significantly higher in male subjects, with a distance of 123.7±23.1mm compared to female subjects where it was 115.6±21.2. This was statistically significant with p<0.005. MP-DSF in male subjects was 97.8±15.6mm which was significantly higher than the female subjects having MP-DSF of 88.8±14.0mm. The minimum to maximum for males and females respectively were 52-149 and 44-116 which was a statistically significant difference with p<0.001. However, for ASIS-DSF, the distance did not differ significantly between males and females with p=0.54 Conclusions.
Effect of thyroid gland dysfunction on menstrual pattern among reproductive age group women
Authors: Abood Bushra Hassan , Alhussaynei Ahmed Jasim 
Published: August 2022

Background: Thyroid hormones play an important role in the body. As a result, any imbalance in these hormones can affect all physiological and metabolic functions of the body, including the health of the reproductive system. Objectives: Assessing the menstrual pattern and investigating the differences in effect of thyroid gland dysfunction on menstrual pattern between case and control. Methodology: A descriptive (case-control) study implemented for 100 women in 15-45 years of reproductive age group, from two hospitals in Salah Al-Din Governorate/Iraq. The study conducted from the period (31th of October 2021 to 2th of August 2022) included obtaining a blood sample for TSH, fT3 and fT4 tests on 50 women with thyroid disorders and 50 women in control group. Results: The finding shows the highest percentage, in the case group (74%) had an abnormal cycle, and most types of menstrual abnormalities were menorrhagia (32%), oligomenorrhea (18%), and polymenorrhea (10%), compared with control group (82%) were having a normal cycle. Conclusions: The highest percentage was abnormality pattern and menorrhagia was their commonest menstrual disorders in case group compared with control group.
Pelatihan Pemanfaatan Penerapan Teknologi Frame Flow Hive di Kandang Lebah Madu Terintegrasi Berbasis IoT pada Petani Lebah Tunas Harapan Kelurahan Gombengsari
Authors: Wardhany Vivien Arief , Subono Subono , Hidayat Alfin 
Published: August 2022

Madu merupakan salah satu produk unggulan yang dihasilkan oleh kelompok Tani Tunas Harapan di kelurahan Gombengsari. Salah satu faktor utama penyebab kurang maksimalnya hasil budidaya madu adalah proses pemeliharaan lebah masih konvensional serta proses pemanenan madu secara konvensional yaitu metode pengasapan saat panen madu yang mengakibatkan banyak lebah pekerja yang mati pada saat pengasapan kemudian pada saat pemerahan madu dari sarang dilakukan dengan mengambil sarang dengan memotong sarang lebah dan menyaringnya menggunakan kain sehingga mengurangi tingkat higienitas dan banyak madu yang terbuang saat proses penyaringan. Dengan adanya permasalahan tersebut maka program pengabdian masyarakat ini menawarkan solusi dari permasalahan yang dimiliki oleh mitra yaitu dengan memberikan sebuah pelatihan kepada mitra para peternak lebah madu yang memanfaatkan teknologi yang menerapkan penggunaan frame flowhive pada sarang lebah madu sehingga memudahkan proses pemanenan madu berjalan lebih efektif dan efisien serta dapat melakukan monitoring dari jarak jauh. Kegiatan pelatihan ini ditujukan pada para petani yang tergabung dalam kelompok tani Tunas Harapan yang terdiri dari 10 orang para peternak lebah madu. Metode pelatihan yang diberikan yaitu berupa paparan penjelasan tentang perangkat flow hive meliputi fungsi, cara menggunakan perangkat IoT dan penggunaan aplikasi pada Smartphone dengan cara melakukan demontrasi alat secara langsung dan instalasi pada kandang lebah madu dilapangan. Dengan dilaksanakannya kegiatan pelatihan ini pengabdi telah melaksanakan tranfer teknologi kepada para peternak lebah madu. Setelah melaksanakan kegiatan pelatihan ini para peternak lebah madu dapat mengoperasikan perangkat Frame Flow hive dan aplikasi android secara maksimal sehingga dapat memaksimalkan hasil produksi madu.
Xcos on Web as a promising learning tool for Bachelor’s of Electromechanics modeling of technical objects
Authors: Modlo Yevhenii O. , Semerikov Serhiy O. 
Published: August 2022

Research goals: to identify the perspective learning simulation tool for Bachelors of Electromechanics.Research objectives: to prove the feasibility of using the simulation system Xcos on Web as a tool of forming of future Bachelors of Electromechanics competence in modeling of technical objects.Research object: the use of imitative simulation systems to learning the Bachelors of Electromechanics.Research subject: the use Xcos on Web in learning modeling of technical objects the Bachelors of Electromechanics.Research methods used: the analysis of existing software usage experience.Research results. The imitative simulation system Xcos on Web is a promising cloud-based learning tool for Bachelor’s of Electromechanics modeling of technical objects.The main conclusions and recommendations:1. The use of simulation systems, such as Scilab Xcos, is a necessary part of Bachelor of Electromechanics professional training.2. Cloud-based learning environment built on the integrative usage of mobile Internet devices promotes the forming of Bachelor’s of Electromechanics professional competencies.3. Implementation the full Scilab Xcos functionality at Xcos on Web creates conditions for transition in Bachelor’s of Electromechanics learning the simulation of technical objects to the use of mobile Internet devices.