Volume 12 | Issue 8 |

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This research focuses into the multifaceted and culturally rich folk tradition of Assam, renowned for its diverse ethnic groups and vibrant heritage. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the study explores various aspects of Assamese folk tradition, including verbal traditions, social customs, and performing arts. By examining oral literature, social rituals, and traditional performances, this research aims to uncover the deep-rooted beliefs, values, and practices that shape the cultural identity of Assam. Through a nuanced exploration of Assam's folk heritage, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of the region's cultural richness and diversity.

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: Folk, Tradition, Verbal, Heritage, Diversity

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For millennia, human societies have used substances on the skin for both cosmetic and medicinal purposes.Transdermal drug delivery allows drugs to enter the bloodstream through the skin, achieving systemic effects without causing fluctuations in drug plasma concentrations. Compared to traditional oral or invasive methods, topical administration of therapeutic agents offers numerous benefits. It also ensures controlled and prolonged release of medications. A novel form of transdermal drug delivery systems involves wearable patches applied to the skin surface for medication delivery. These patches are typically categorized as either passive or active based on their material properties, design principles, and inclusion of integrated devices.This review summarizes the advantages, skin pathways involved in transdermal drug delivery systems (TDDS), components of transdermal patches, and methods used for their preparation.

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TRANSDERMAL THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM AND THE IMPACT OF WEARABLE PATCHES IN FUTURE HEALTHCARE.

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Dental hygiene is the practice of keeping one's mouth clean and free of disease and other problems by regular brushing of the teeth and cleaning between the teeth. It is important that oral hygiene be carried out on a regular basis to enable prevention of dental disease and bad breath. General guidelines for adults suggest brushing at least twice a day with a fluoridated tooth paste bushing last thing at night and at least on one other occasion. Cleaning between the teeth is called interdental cleaning and is as important as tooth brushing. This is because a tooth brush cannot reach between the teeth and therefore only removes about 50% of plaque from the surface of the teeth. Objectives: 1) To assess the knowledge regarding dental hygiene among the Primary school teachers. 2) To evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding dental hygiene. 3) To find the association between knowledge scores with selected socio-demographic variables.

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Planned Teaching Programme, Dental Hygiene, Primary School Teachers.

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Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, is characterized by progressive damage to the optic nerve, often linked to elevated intraocular pressure. Early and accurate detection is crucial for effective management and prevention of vision loss. This study presents a deep learning approach for glaucoma detection using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a powerful class of neural networks adept at analyzing visual data. The proposed method employs a deep CNN architecture to classify retinal fundus images into glaucoma and non-glaucoma categories. The CNN is trained on a dataset consisting of annotated retinal images, leveraging advanced techniques in data augmentation and transfer learning to enhance model robustness and accuracy. Performance metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, are evaluated to assess the effectiveness of the model. The results demonstrate a promising potential for CNN-based systems in the early detection of glaucoma, offering a significant step towards automated and reliable ophthalmic diagnostics

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Glaucoma detection, Deep learning, Neural networks, CNN algorithm, Image processing, Optic nerve, Retinal fundus images

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In this paper, I have examined the status of Indian women when India celebrates its 75th independence anniversary. India gained independence from Great Britain in 1947; however, not all the population gained equality. Women in a newly independent India continue to be subjects of subservient and domestic roles, and this social role continues into the 21st century. Women of India got the right to vote, and gradually improvements were made in various areas that led to the well-being of women within the society. The formulation of many programs and schemes aimed to bring progress to women. The main aspects that promote women's empowerment are encouraging them to acquire education and participate in employment. However, despite these initiatives, some rural communities still regard women as subordinate to men, which is subject to analysis. This paper stresses the need for sustained efforts to increase the involvement of women to remove socio-cultural barriers, stereotypical attitudes, and violence against women for creating a gender-balanced society.

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Women, Empowerment, Independence, Status, Right to Vote

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This paper presents an approach to design a low cost 3-lead ECG and analysis of the recorded ECG signal for Cardiac Arrhythmia diagnosis. The signals will be recorded through three ECG leads placed at different locations of the body, viz. RA (Right Arm), LA (Left Arm) & LL (Left Leg), and the acquired signal will be amplified and filtered using AD8232 bio-potential signal conditioning module. The processed signal will be then interfaced with a GUI created in LABVIEW, which will analyze the heart rate and check if the condition of Arrhythmia (Tachycardia or Bradycardia) is present or not.

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ECG, GUI, LABVIEW, Tachycardia, Arrhythmia, Bradycardia

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Aegle marmelos (L) is an important plant with various medicinal values.It is commonly known as Bael or (Bel), a wooden apple and bilva pant. It belonging to the family Rutaceae. The bael tree considerd as a sacred tree by the Hindus offer its leaves to Lord Shiva during worship the essence of its fruits and leaves possess an evaporating oil which is good for human system. It contains various bioactive components in leaves, fruits, flowers,wood,root,and bark which have different biological activities and high therapeutic importance.Uses of bael in day to day life has great nutritional,environmental and commercial importance. Aegle marmelos used in preparation of summer drinks, which helps to overcom sunstrokes.It use as formulation of Ayurvedic medicin for loss of appetite. It have many properties that are analgesic,anti-inflammatory,antibacterial,antiviral,antioxidant properties. A marmelos leaves gives relief from recureent cold and respiratory infections. Aegle marmelos cultivated in to southeast Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Nepal. It include various phytochemical substances alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols, tannins, coumarins, saponins, carbohydrates, carotenoids, terpenoids, vitamins. The main phytochemical compounds isolated from A. marmelos plant are aegelenine, fragrine, halfordinol, marmelide, marmelosin, marmesin, marmin, psoralen, umbelliferone, limonene, rutin, skimmaianine, lupeol, querectine, esculectin, scopolectin, auraptene, seseline, etc.

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Aegle marmelos, phytochemical constitutents, Ehonobotinical uses, Pharmacological activites

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In the era of rapid transactional digital transformation, we are now equipped with high-speed internet facilities embodied with dynamic technology. Now a days, surprisingly technology has not biased anyone in terms of literacy casing different levels of education. The digitalization and digital revolution have transformed and is offering unprecedented opportunities for empowering sustainability. Even in the field of education, teaching fraternity and students have witnessed a digital transformation of offline teaching methodology to online teaching methodology. However, this era of digitalization also brings forth significant challenges after adopting new advances in technological improvements particularly regarding digital wellness. This cross-sectional study explores the intersection of digital revolution, digital wellness and factors affecting empowering sustainability, urgent call attention to an extensive need for a balanced approach to harness the benefits of dynamic & vibrant technology and mitigating adverse effects on well-being and welfare and the environment. After studying, examining and analyzing researches, trends, and best practices done on digital wellness in past and today's era, the objective and aim of this research paper focus majorly on key areas affecting and strategies for promoting digital wellness in the pursuit and inclination towards sustainable development. This research paper will try to emphasize on usage of mindful technology to ethical design principles and environmental considerations, this review offers insights to guide individuals, organizations, and policymakers in navigating the complexities of the digital age while fostering well-being and preserving our planet for future generations.

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Digital Wellness, Digitalization, Environmental considerations, Sustainability, Sustainable future

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ABSTRACT The present research paper investigates the association of self efficacy and the locus of control in the management and self care of type 2 diabetic patients. In India, there are estimated 77 million people above the age of 18 years are suffering from diabetes (type 2) and nearly 25 million are pre-diabetics (at a higher risk of developing diabetes in near future). More than 50% of people are unaware of their diabetic status which leads to health complications if not detected and treated early (World Health Organization Report, 2024). In addition to physiological effects of diabetic on health, the psychological burden of this disease is substantial and quality of life can be markedly reduced in affected people (Bradley & Speight, 2002; & Peyrot, 2001). This research paper will try to attempt to predict and improve diabetes self care and management is become increasingly important to optimize patient glycemia control to delay or prevent long term ill consequences of diabetes. Researches in this field show that adults with diabetes have a two- to three-fold increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. Combined with reduced blood flow, neuropathy (nerve damage) in the feet increases the chance of foot ulcers, infection, and the eventual need for limb amputation. Diabetic retinopathy is an important cause of blindness and occurs as a result of long-term accumulated damage to the small blood vessels in the retina. Diabetes is among the leading causes of kidney failure. Type 2 diabetes is primarily a self managed disease as treatment relies heavily on self care and self management skills (Song, 2010). Diabetes required lifelong adherence to demanding and often complex self care regimens, as well as major lifestyle changes. Recent research studies have shown that diabetic education and adherence to self care behavior improves health outcomes. In this paper 200 participants of Chhattisgarh state have taken from private clinics and hospital that are coming for their routine checkup. Relevant information regarding diabetes and other illness associated with this disease has taken. For collecting data behavior chance self efficacy, locus of control, confidence in diabetes self care scale and measure of diabetes self care behavior scale was used. For analyzing descriptive statistics and Multiple Regression Analysis was used. The result of the study reveals a significant role of self efficacy and locus of control in predicting diabetes self health care behavior. This finding may be crucial for health care professional, dietician and diabetes educators to determine an approach for assessing individuals with diabetes not only with initiating self care behavior, but also maintaining that behavior change.

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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Self efficacy, Perceived control, Diabetes self care, confidence in diabetes self care

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A laboratory trial was conducted during two years of 2018 and 2019 at College of Agricultural Information Technology, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat to study the effect of magnetic field on germination and seedlings growth of onion. The samples were exposed with three levels of static magnetic field intensities of 20, 40 and 60 mT having 15, 30 and 60 minutes of exposure time. The seed of onion variety "GAWO 2" was taken for this experiment. From the experimental results, it was found that the exposure of magnetic field increased the germination rate, seedling fresh and dry weight, root and shoot length as well as seedling vigour as compared to no exposure. However, exposure of 20 mT magnetic field applied to the onion seeds for 60 minutes was recorded significantly higher germination percentage, seedling fresh weight, dry weight, root and shoot length and seedling vigour index I and vigour index II.

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Static Magnetic field, germination percentage, seedling vigour index I and II.

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