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Rewriting Women: A Critique of Misogyny, Structure and Agency in the Novels of K. R. Meera- A Review
Get PDFPurpose: The purpose of this review paper is to highlight the fact that lack of state support creates violence and injustice. Women, as a minority, and as a gender, need to be recognized, and protected. The age-old notion of patriarchy still has its roots running through the lives of our society. Equality if not given, is exercised and asserted by K. R. Meera’s characters. Transgression occurs when limits are drawn and tightened. The State has its responsibilities toward its subjects irrespective of their gender. If violated, they should be enforced by appropriate judicial measures. This paper establishes that the only way to assure social justice for women, the paper establishes.
Design: Based on the secondary sources, a method has been designed to reveal the very basic human tendency to ask for what is allowed to every other sect. Society might have drawn boundaries, which if transgressed would invite punishment. Rejection of emotional acceptance is considered to be against human rights. For a human, irrespective of gender, there’s no necessity to surrender his/her individual freedom and happiness. The happiness of a woman need not be sacrificed just for the sake of her family. This research largely depends on the findings from research journals from Google Scholar, ResearchGate, SSRN, Elsevier, Academia, and Shodhganga for identifying the research gap. To highlight the key aspects of the research, ABCD analysis is used. The interviews and social posts of the author also give much insight into the different aspects of the research question. The literary compositions of the author are the major source of research.
Findings: The main finding of the research is that the law of the country and its administration support the privileged, all-powerful patriarchy. The finding also includes a discussion about the insecurity of women under such a system and how it becomes one of the reasons for the chaos that goes on within the country. Transgression is one of the powerful methods adopted under such situations by the women of K. R. Meera’s novels, a reflection of what we get to see around, especially through social media and this is where the research paper stands out in its finding. The research paper explores the nature of a self-subsistent, self-reliant woman in the making of powerless patriarchy.
Originality: This research is unique as full-fledged research on the author’s works is yet to be done. It doesn’t further discuss the proven elements that are found in the research journals published. Most of them explore the hindrances patriarchy creates in framing the identity of women, mainly in the light of a single text of the author. But they never discuss how women use violence as a means to secure themselves from the all-powerful people protected by the system. The concept of justice and its failure to protect women of the country is never mentioned or studied in the papers already published or researched based on the author’s novels. Thus, the research is original in its area and findings.
Paper Type: Review Pape
Oil and Gas Industries in India- A Case Study
Get PDFPurpose: The petroleum industry is one of the India's core industries, and it has a significant impact on decision-making in the critical sectors of the India’s economy. Oil and Natural Gas Industries occupies the core in the world’s energy market. These enterprises assumes a significant part in each nation's economy and monetary development of India is firmly connected with its energy interest. Investment in this industry is continuously increasing as the energy demand is also continuously increasing in India. This paper will discuss and analyze about the Oil and Gas Industries of India related to multiple factors impacting these industries which includes technological trends, innovations, corporate social responsibility, research and development, Covid-19 impact and its related economic impact.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Oil and Gas Industries are chosen and in depth analysis done by getting data from websites, journal, articles and blogs. Focused on Industry related objects, studied, evaluated and compared various points related to oil and gas industries.
Findings/Result: Oil and Gas Industries are analyzed by understanding and studying the different aspects of these industries. Indian monetary development is additionally affected due to these businesses. Alternatives to Oil and Natural Gas, technological innovations and research and development as recommendations are also discussed and suggested.
Originality/Value: Oil and Gas Industries data from different sources studied and documented.
Paper Type: Case study analysis
A Review on Access to Agriculture Finance by Farmers and its Impact on their Income
No full textPurpose: Agricultural financing is a critical component of all agricultural development operations aimed at improving the productivity. Farmers must have access to sufficient and timely financing for irrigation, farm mechanisation, and land expansion. The main goal of the study is to identify and explore the factors affecting agriculture finance, understand the challenges faced by the farmers, to compare the growth of farmer’s income before and after availing finance support and the strategies required to improve the agriculture credit to farmers.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study is based on secondary data gathered from several publications, websites, and other pertinent substance from NABARD and RBI annual reports.
Findings: The study revealed that smallholder systems, policies, and investments are meant to improve infrastructure, boosting efficiency to expand and finance services, and increasing labour availability or automation; formal financial outlets have improved in region regions; financial institution violations are regulated by regulatory frameworks, such as charging exorbitantly high interest rates or taking excessive risks with people’s savings or investors’ assets; and financial institution violations are controlled by regulatory frameworks, such as charging exorbitantly high interest rates or taking unnecessary.
Originality/Value: This study is infrequent in that it endeavours to trace the access of agricultural finance by farmers, as well as its impression on farmer’s income level varying to numerous agricultural strategies that have been enacted as a result of agricultural finance.
Paper type: Review Pape
Procedures for Digital Forensics and Incident Response on Including Data Integrity Constraints on Solid-State Drives (SSD) - A Literature Review
No full textBackground/Purpose: To get evidence from suspect computers running on Windows Operating System, law enforcement agencies and corporations follow many standard procedures relevant to Digital Forensics and Incident Response processes. The primary contrast between forensics and incident response is that forensics is evidence-driven and is often more closely connected with criminal activity, while incident response is more focused on discovering, containing, and recovering from breach of security incidents. A guideline is often intended to simplify certain procedures in accordance with a predefined routine or good practice. As data storage technology progresses from hard disc drives (HDDs) to solid-state drives (SSDs), it has become more difficult for Digital Forensics Analysts to perform evidence acquisition tasks from suspicious systems due to file integrity issues. Existing forensic principles and methods were created mostly on the basis of hard disc drive technology. This literature survey analyses several guidelines to identify gaps in SSD Forensic challenges and makes recommendations for improvement.
Objective: To survey leading Digital Forensics and Incident Response guidelines on how SSD forensic acquisition procedures are outlined and to find the gaps and suggest enhancements that might be made.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Data from academic papers, web articles, and other sources is analysed and presented using ABCD analysis.
Findings/Results: Cyber Security Framework is a vital aspect of an organisations strategy to safeguard its IT assets from cyber assaults and other form of damages. Most organisation use NIST framework since it is being generally acknowledged. However, owing to quick improvement in new technologies CSF’s need to be kept up to date in order to confront emerging cyber security threats. After verifying the policy framework of NIST 800-61, it was determined that the SSD forensic gathering approach which raises problems about data integrity has not been addressed.
Originality/Value: A study comparing and contrasting different CSFs in the field of Digital Forensics and Incident Response with the most recent emerging technologies will draw more attention to this area from a wider range of stakeholders, allowing the policy framework to keep pace with the most recent emerging technologies in the same time frame.
Paper Type: Literature Review Paper
Assessing the Magnitude of Waste Material Using Lean Construction
No full textPurpose: Wastage of construction material always results in cost overrun not only for the construction cost of the project but also for the management and disposal cost of such construction waste. It is interesting to evaluate the magnitude of waste material based on the lean construction approach.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The present study adopted both primary as key informant interviews and secondary bills documents to analyze the Percentage of waste.
Findings/Result: The findings reveal that average wastage of material with standard deviation for five construction projects: rebar (2.096±1.09), bricks (2.56±0.77), cement (2.82±0.672), sand (3.634±0.5325), and aggregate (7.486±4.76). Compared with the other similar studies, waste percentages found are quite low because of adopting the lean construction approaches in the construction site. In the project, some of the wastage can be recycled and reused so the percentage of waste material is low due to the implementation of lean construction approaches. The practice of various reuse strategies like use of broken bricks in soling, cut a piece of rebar in the casting of a large number of manholes manhole grating, waste sand in Hume pipe bedding and backfilling, etc. Expire cement are used in unstructured work, cover block and aggregate are used for different purpose of construction..
Originality/Value: The study contributes by illustrating situation of wastage to implement lean construction. Governmental agencies, clients, consultants, and contractors are interested in waste management in building construction projects.
Paper Type: Action Research analysi
Channels of Digital Marketing in Maritime Education –A Review on Cadets Decision Making
No full textPurpose: With reference to cadets' decision-making on a maritime career, the goal of this research is to identify the digital marketing channels in maritime education.
Design/Methodology/approach: The data for the descriptive study was gathered from maritime education cadets attending in private maritime universities. Using a structured questionnaire and the convenience sampling approach, 60 respondents were chosen as the study's sample size.
Findings: The results of the empirical investigation show that the target group under study has a high level of awareness regarding digital marketing channels in maritime education.
Practical Implications: To be familiar with digital marketing platforms and their profound influence on cadets' decision-making in maritime education.
Originality/Value: The impact of cadet decision-making in maritime education utilizing digital marketing has been examined using descriptive and t-test analysis.
Type of the Paper: Empirical Study
Molecular Basis of Role of Insulin Resistance in Pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease
Get PDFBackground:The older population in the world is more predisposed to development of diseases linked to oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and endoplasmic reticulum stress including neurodegenerative disease and insulin resistance. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the progressive neurodegenerative disease. It contributes to major cause of dementia in older population. Ageing is the most predominant factor in the pathology of AD with 65 years or older age group is more prone to disease. The cognitive impairment is mild in the initial stage of Alzheimer disease but the severity of dementia exacerbates with the progression of AD.
The insulin resistance is marked by hyperinsulinemia contributing to glucose intolerance manifesting as chronic hyperglycemia. The cascade of molecular events further triggers reactive oxygen species-mediated oxidative damage of biomolecules. These events subsequently precipitate inflammatory response by immune cells leading to irreversible injury to cells and neurons.
Aim & Objective: The aim of the paper is to find out molecular basis of insulin resistance in pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease. Present paper reviews various molecular events in insulin resistance that are associated directly or indirectly with the pathophysiology to Alzheimer’s disease.
Research Methodology: Research design encompassing critical analysis, qualitative analysis and retrospective research study is followed using secondary data from books, monographs, journals, conference proceedings for the evaluation leading to conclusions beneficial either for future research study or in understanding intricate molecular events between insulin resistance and Alzheimer’s disease.
Result: Based on the research design, study revealed several common stressors involved in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance and Alzheimer’s disease. Drug designing targeting stressors could help to ameliorate the severity of Alzheimer disease
Originality of Paper: Comprehensive approach was adopted to include papers related to the topic within frame-work of research design to deduce conclusion.
Paper Type: Critical analytical review pape
Redefining Nationhood and Nationality through Historiographic Metafiction in the Shadow Lines
No full textPurpose: Postmodernism is a general movement that developed in the late 20th century across the arts, philosophy, art, architecture, and criticism, marking a disappearance from modernism. The term has been more often used to describe a historical age which followed after modernity. Postmodernism is a period of uprising which refers to ups and downs in each walk of life and the different disciplines of knowledge be it literary work, philosophy, or science. Postmodern literature revokes some modern literary methods by transforming them. Historiographic Metafiction is a contradictory term that consists of two opposite categories such as history and metafiction. It is having dual representations because such writings reflect the reality as well as fictional position. An attempt is made by the Post-colonial Indian English writers to liberate Indian English literature from the foreign bondage. Historical events such as agitations, migration, movements, refugees, colonial hegemony; social-economic and cultural problems like encounter of the east-west, caste, and class became the concerns of the writers.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper is prepared by making a study of Primary source and accumulating secondary data from educational websites and written publications. This qualitative research is carried out by studying and interpreting the existing knowledge on the subject. The paper tries to analyze the historiographic metafictional features as depicted in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh.
Findings/Result: After reviewing many articles, books and thesis it has been found that the paper aims to study Amitav Ghosh's notions like ‟ Nationhood and National distinctiveness in "The Shadow Lines” as a reminiscence novel, highlights a few historical happenings like the Second World War, the Swadeshi movement, and the Partition of India in 1947 and communal uprisings in Bangladesh and India. The ardent nationalism upheld by the protagonist that is the narrator’s grandmother is questioned and re-analysed. Ghosh searches for appropriateness of traditional identity such as nation and nationalism.
Originality/Value: This paper makes a study of the major character Thamma with special reference to her concerns of Nationhood and Nationality. The identity of Thamma in the novel is given prominence being a woman she stands for her thoughts and identifies her as an individual who faced tragedy but still who had the courage to raise her voice till the end.
Paper Type: Analytical Research paper
Effectiveness of Arbitration in Construction Projects
No full textPurpose: It is impossible to specify remedies against every possible situation that may be encountered in construction projects. Any dispute can be settled timely either by negotiation, mediation, adjudication, arbitration, or litigation. This study was based on the context of Road construction contracts selected from the Dispute Resolution Unit of the Department of Roads (DoR, Nepal. The emphasis of this particular research work was to evaluate the effectiveness of arbitration.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The sixteen case studies were the major basis as a quantitative study for the assessment of the effectiveness of dispute adjudication by assessing the success rate of arbitration. Also, the familiarities of the parties about the provision and procedure of arbitration and its spirit/strength to resolve the disputes and responses of parties regarding the arbitration award were assessed based on the qualitative study. The content analysis in terms of percentage was the main tool for data analysis.
Findings/Result: The arbitration award was not accepted in about 78.57% of disputed issues of these sixteen cases and referred to litigation, 42.86% issues were referred by the Employers, 25.00% issues were referred by the Contractors and 3.57% issues were referred by both the Employers and the Contractors. 100% of Employers and 100% of Contractors agreed that they know the procedure and provision of arbitration for the resolution of disputes. The majority of the Employers did not accept the arbitration award and referred to the cases to litigation while mostly were accepted by the Contractors except in a few cases. The majority of the Employers had the perception that the arbitration award was favorable to the contractors while most of the Contractors argued that the decisions were fair to both parties. The majority of the Employers said that it is comfortable to accept the litigation award concerning the arbitration award. It is a prompt, cost-effective, efficient, and easy way of resolving construction disputes. The rejection of the arbitration award has negative consequences for the efficiency of public spending and which is associated with the extensive delay in the project completion and the delay is associated with a cost overrun. While acceptance of arbitration award is associated with timely delivery of the project. The enforcement of arbitration awards is critical to the success of arbitration. In those countries where the arbitration is backed up by statute by acts and enforceable by law, it is found to be more successful and effective.
Originality/Value: This study helps the DoR, Contractors, and other agencies such as the Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO), Nepal council of Arbitration (NEPCA), and different Auditors and arbitrators of Nepal as it gives the perception of the contracting parties towards the arbitration process to familiarize the spirit of arbitration in the Nepalese construction industry.
Paper Type: Policy Researc
Role of MUDRA in Promoting SMEs/MSE, MSMEs, and allied Agriculture Sector in the rural and urban area - To Achieve 5 Trillion Economy
Get PDFPurpose: Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana(PMMY) will offer loans up to 10 lakh to Non- Corporate, Non-farm micro-enterprises to generate income and employment in manufacturing services, retail MSME, SMEs and Agriculture related occupations like beekeeping, horticulture, pisciculture, Poultry, agro-industries, diary, agriclinics, agribusiness, to add to the national wealth with the support of SIDBI, NABARD in providing working capital. The Economic Survey-2020-21 recently tabled in Parliament, has stated that about 54.6 % of the workforce in the country is still engaged in agricultural and allied sector activities(Census2011)as well as Micro, small and medium businesses (MSMEs) have played a major role in India’s economic expansion and Women Empowerment, More than 40 per cent of the nation’s GDP comes from the MSME sector, which is a major source of employment and in the Budge emphasizes MSME and agriculture allied activities. MUDRA act as a refinancing institution to Commercial banks, NBFCs, MFIs, RRBs, SFBs through Shishu, Kishor, Tarun schemes in credit outreach model of delivery is SHGs/JLGs, women entrepreneur and in agriculture allied sectors agripreneurship with development and promotion support to enhance employment opportunities in small and medium-sized enterprises /Micro Small Enterprises (SMEs/MSE) in non –farm activities to achieve US$5 trillion economies microfinance plays a vital role.
Design/Methodology/approach: The Research paper is based on secondary statistics collected from different sources such as websites, and published articles. After the literature review and their area gap in the literature and prospect to analyze the role of MUDRA in promoting MSME, SMEs/MSE and Agri. allied sector's funding needs to create a 5 trillion Economy with an ABCD listing framework.
Findings/Result: The study discloses that the MUDRA maximum limit for the Schemes is to be enhanced and more awareness is to be created about the MUDRA loan for Agri. allied activity, Agriclinics, and lack of clarity relating to the role in refinancing schemes for Banks by MUDRA, and NABARD to promote SHGs and Agri allied activity.
Originality/Value: The Research study was undertaken on the contribution of MUDRA funding needs in terms of working capital to Agri. entrepreneurship in agricultural allied sector activities to enhance employment opportunities in rural and urban areas in India.
Paper type: Conceptual Research