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Author(s):
B.Damodhraprasath.
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A Critical Reading of Signal Red by Rimi B. Chatterjee: Glass, Secrecy, and the Gendered Laboratory
Abstract
The current paper examines the critical reception of Rimi B. Chatterjee's first novel, Signal Red (2005), which was a near-future narrative of India written primarily at a fictional Indian defence research centre called the 'Centre.' Through an examination of Science and Technology Studies, Gender Criticism, and Postcolonial Science Fiction, the present study demonstrates that Chatterjee utilizes a fictionalized tool known as "Signal Red" glass and its nano-powder derivatives to make a larger point regarding secrecy, complicity, and the domestic cost of a militarized scientific research program. The present study demonstrates how Chatterjee's three major characters, the scientist Gopal Chandran; his wife Vidura; and the visiting sociologist Anuprabha, were positioned along a continuum of proximity to and distance from state secrecy, and how their positioning relates to gendered spaces inside the Center's isolated campus. The present study places Chatterjee's novel within the growing number of post-liberalization Indian SF novels and examines where this work fits within Chatterjee's larger trajectory toward overtly dystopian and climate-focused SF.
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Author(s):
1) Dr S SATHIYABAMA 2) Dr.M.R. PRAKASH.
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The Impact of Digital Financial Services on Women Self-Help Group Enterprises
Abstract
Women can find profitable occupation through business endeavor they won't transform into a social weight and the watchmen may not compel them to get hitched early. When they find their way to deal with big business and increase for themselves, they gotten the chance to be dynamic people from the Society having dauntlessness to update the inadequacies of their male accomplices. Women are dynamically monitoring their essence, their privileges and their work situation. The execution of undertakings depends on upon the degree to which the women are incorporated into managing their undertakings.
If women incorporate themselves in various managerial decisions, it would emphatically influence their endeavor. The Tamilnadu's Women Development Venture conceptualized the Self Help Groups under the name of Mahalir Thittam. This arrangement is a replication and organized up scaling of Tamilnadu Women Development Program triumphs. Keeping in context of the objectives of the examination, the investigation has identified with the help of the concerned people (officials and pioneers of SHGs) women the people who are busy with running Micro endeavors for choosing the example.
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Author(s):
1) A. DHILIPKUMAR 2) G.MAHALAKSHMI 3)Dr.M.R.Prakash.
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A STUDY ON CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT IN AN ORGANISATION
Abstract
The emergence of services organizations in the corporate sector, the growing competition due to liberalization, and the growing expectations of customers propelled by globalization and facilitated by IT revolution – are defining new rules of game for existing private and public enterprises in India. Telecom is one of the fast growing sectors among the services. The mobile revolution has created a new wave of interest among people to utilize telephone services. The firms offering the services are vying with each other to capture this sudden spurt in demand. They are using their technology and marketing prowess to attract new customers and simultaneously retain their existing customers, make inroads into competition and at the same time build entry barriers to competition to defend their position.
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Author(s):
1) Dr.M.R. PRAKASH 2) M. SUNDRAMURTHY.
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A REPORT ON STRATEGIC TOOLKITS: SENIORITY, USAGE AND CONCERT IN THE GERMAN SME MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT SUBDIVISION
Abstract
This paper investigates the key tool stash, from a human resource organization (HRM) perspective, with respect to utilize and impact. Assessment to date has tended to think about use, hoping to a particular degree that data and appreciation of explicit contraptions suggest that experts regard them. The investigation on which this paper is put together extends with respect to the likelihood that utilization shows satisfaction, anyway develops the utilization subject to inquire about which pioneers are truly busy with both instrument machine and the fundamental technique. Explicitly convincing to the experts are the informative establishment, age and position of the boss.
Additionally, potential associations with HRM and legitimate execution are in like manner explored. The association of the assessment, the German mechanical assembly and equipment part, gives a comprehension into the business' ability to keep up advancement in face of growing worldwide competition. The paper requires a progressively unmistakable care, from a human resource perspective, and utilization of indispensable organization sharpen and related fundamental authority makes a difference.
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Author(s):
Lohith R (First Author), Dr. M. Ravichandran (Corresponding Author).
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Impact of using Agentic AI in Retail industry
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Retail has always chased any technology that promised an advantage. Agentic AI feels different from all the technology that came before. These are systems that do not simply answer questions or suggest a product. They can plan a series of actions carry them out and change the plan as needed while receiving very little human input. A chatbot tells a customer where an order's an agentic AI system notices that a delivery is running late reroutes it and sends a message to the customer before anyone asks. That difference. It is the starting point for this paper. Of conducting new fieldwork, we assemble what has already been written about agentic AI in retail. Some of this writing is peer‑reviewed some is fresh from arXiv. Some comes from industry research by firms such as Bain and Strategy&. We try to build a picture that fits together. The paper uses four lenses that are normally used separately—the Technology Acceptance Model, Diffusion of Innovation, Agency Theory and the Resource‑Based View—and brings them together into one framework. This framework follows a path from readiness to adoption then through mediating mechanisms such as personalization and adaptive pricing and finally to outcomes like loyalty and operational efficiency. Ten recent studies support the review. We also spend time on what could go wrong: trust, transparency, job displacement and unclear accountability. The literature shows that these issues are not footnotes; they will decide whether agentic AI creates real value or simply shifts problems around. In short, our conclusion is that the technology has upside but it appears only when retailers combine autonomy, with genuine oversight.
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Author(s):
Dhanasekar A .
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A STUDY ON THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF STOCK PRICE MOVEMENT IN SRIRAM BAJAJ SHOWROOM AT RASIPURAM
Abstract
Technical analysis is one of the important methods used by investors to predict future stock price movements based on historical price data and market trends. This study aims to analyze the stock price movement and understand investor awareness regarding technical analysis in Sriram Bajaj Showroom at Rasipuram. The study is based on primary data collected from 120 respondents through a structured questionnaire and secondary data collected from books, journals, NSE/BSE websites, and company records. Percentage analysis was used to interpret the data. The findings indicate that technical analysis helps investors make better investment decisions and improves understanding of market trends.
Keywords: Technical Analysis, Stock Price Movement, Investment, Share Market, Bajaj, Market Trend.
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Author(s):
R Monica Lakshmi.
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Thermo Pilot: A Climate Smart-Jacket
Abstract
In this rapidly changing climate, maintaining body comfort in
extreme weather conditions is a growing challenge. Thermo
Pilot is an innovative, wearable technology designed to address
this issue by automatically regulating temperature based on
environmental conditions. This smart jacket integrates a
temperature sensor, Arduino microcontroller, and heating/cooling
elements to create an adaptive clothing solution.When the ambient
temperature drops, the system activates nichrome wires to generate
warmth. In contrast, during hot weather, a Peltier module provides
a cooling effect. The jacket is powered by a rechargeable Li-ion
battery and can be remotely controlled via a smartphone using
Bluetooth and a custom-built mobile app. Optional OLED display
and safety features ensure enhanced usability and feedback
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Author(s):
1) Dr.M.R. PRAKASH 2) Dr.R.Krithiga Devi.
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The Impact of Conversational AI and Chat bots on International Customer Relationship Management
Abstract
Forms of recruitment can be broadly categorized into two. One is centralized and the other is decentralized. Centralized recruitment is in action when the organization is having a centralized power structure and the departments are not involved in decision making, it is only concentrated in one central department. In government Organizations it is visible, like in State Bank of India. Advantages may be Control of the administrative costs, standardization in the process, minimizes biased choices, experts are involved. Decentralized recruitment is having authority to each department to choose their staff. The companies who are geographically spread or very big in size will find this form convenient. But the philosophy and Organization culture determines which to follow; like Bausch & Lomb have centralized recruitment form as well as G.E Optical have the decentralized form.
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Author(s):
1) BANUMATHI.P 2)P.CHITRA POURNAMY 3)Dr.M.R. PRAKASH.
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A STUDY ON EXPORT DOCUMENTATION & CLEARANCE PROCEDURE WITH REFERENCE TO 180 DEGREE FREIGHT FORWARDERS PVT LTD
Abstract
Export in simple words means selling goods abroad or Export refers to outflow of goods and services and inflow of foreign exchange. Each country has its own rules and regulations regarding the foreign trade. For the fulfillment of all the rules and regulations of different countries an exporting company has to maintain and fulfill different documentation requirements. The documentation procedure depends on the type of goods, process of manufacturing, type of industry and the country to which goods is to be exported.
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Author(s):
1) U. ANBARASI 2) Dr.M.R. PRAKASH.
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A STUDY ON MANAGERIAL – LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Abstract
The present study examines and validates an empirical model evaluating the impact of administrative leadership on customer satisfaction. This structural model incorporates administrative leadership as an external (antecedent) variable and customer satisfaction as an internal (outcome) variable. Furthermore, the study evaluates the role of Human Resource (HR) training as a mediating variable linking administrative leadership and customer satisfaction. To achieve these research objectives, a quantitative methodology was deployed, utilizing Structural Equation Modeling via AMOS (SEM-AMOS) to test the validity of the proposed research model and hypotheses.
The empirical findings reveal that administrative leadership exerts a direct, significant positive influence on customer satisfaction. Additionally, the results confirm that administrative leadership indirectly enhances customer satisfaction by positively influencing HR training, thereby validating its role as a significant mediating component.
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Author(s):
1) Dr.K.KALEEL 2) DR. MOHAMMED SHABREZ ALI. M 3) Dr.M.R. PRAKASH.
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Logistics Service Innovation By Third Party Logistics Providers In China: Aligning Guanxi And Organizational Structure
Abstract
In light of heightening challenge and raising client desires, outsider logis-tics (3PL) suppliers need to turn out to be progressively inventive. In coordinations administration advancement, outer connections are critical wellsprings of assets and learning. Drawing on social capital hypothesis and the technique structure-execution worldview, this investigation recommends that guanxi (Chinese arrangement of informal communities and connections that encourages business and different dealings), ex-pedites coordinations administration development by 3PL suppliers in China.
This investigation likewise recommends that the effect of guanxi on coordinations administration advancement is dependent upon the arrangement between the kind of guanxi and the supplier's hierarchical structure. We tried our proposed model utilizing review information from 165 3PL suppliers in China. Our findings recommend that both political and business guanxi have a positive effect on coordinations administration advancement; nonetheless, those sorts of guanxi ought to be utilized in light of the firm's authoritative structure. The outcomes propose that as for coordinations administration advancement, political guanxi is progressively effective for 3PL suppliers whose authoritative structure is exceedingly unified or has low formalization. The opposite applies to business guanxi.
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Author(s):
1) Dr. P. KARUPPUTHAI 2) DR. K. THAMAYANTHI.
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AN EVALUATION REPORT ON THE PARAMETERS OF TH INTRODUCTORY AND SUCCESS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Abstract
This paper gives a review of composing on business endeavor and related ways of thinking. It examines the investigation disclosures relating to the effect of various macroeconomic and microeconomic components on section, way out and accomplishment of business visionaries. It moreover fundamentally takes a gander at gathering of Necessity Entrepreneurs in perspective on low post-section execution. The basic responsibility of the article is in perceiving a couple of investigation openings in business venture composing, which can be taken up as assessment issues by scientists of this field. This article proposes Exit Barrier as one of the components influencing the section to business.
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Author(s):
Mrs.B. SHANMATHI and Dr.B.MAHADEVAN .
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT(HRM)
Abstract
Human Resource Management (HRM) is a vital function of management that focuses on the effective planning, acquisition, development, motivation, and retention of an organization's human resources. It aims to achieve organizational goals by ensuring that employees are recruited, trained, evaluated, and rewarded efficiently while promoting job satisfaction and professional growth. HRM encompasses key activities such as human resource planning, recruitment, selection, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, employee welfare, industrial relations, and career development. In library and information centres, effective human resource management enhances staff productivity, service quality, user satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness. With rapid technological advancements and changing workplace environments, HRM has evolved into a strategic function that emphasizes employee engagement, diversity, leadership, continuous learning, and talent management. An efficient HRM system contributes to organizational success by creating a skilled, motivated, and committed workforce capable of adapting to emerging challenges and delivering high-quality services.
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Author(s):
Tanya Bain.
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Design Parameters and Stress Analysis of Automotive Helical Coil Suspension Spring
Abstract
Coil springs are important components of vehicle suspension systems because they absorb shocks and vibrations, support vehicle loads, and help maintain adequate tire–road contact. The present study investigates the structural behaviour of an automotive helical coil spring using finite element analysis (FEA). A three-dimensional spring model was developed in CATIA V5R20 and analyzed in ANSYS Workbench 2022 R1 under progressively increasing static loads of 1500 N, 2000 N, 2500 N, and 3000 N. Three materials—Structural Steel, Chrome Vanadium Steel, and Carbon Composite—were considered for comparative evaluation. Total deformation, equivalent (von Mises) stress, equivalent elastic strain, and safety factor were obtained for each material and loading condition. The numerical results show that deformation, stress, and elastic strain generally increase as the applied load increases. Carbon Composite produced the lowest deformation at all four loads and the lowest strain at 1500, 2000, and 2500 N. At 2500 N it also showed the lowest equivalent stress, while at 3000 N Chrome Vanadium produced the lowest stress. The safety factor remained 15 for all materials and loading cases reported in the study. The results demonstrate the influence of material properties on the structural response of the coil spring and provide a computational basis for material comparison under the investigated static loading conditions.
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Author(s):
Nimish Gupta, Ruchi Gaur.
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Closing the Gap: A Review of Accessible Design Research and Its Real World Implementation, 2020 to 2026
Abstract
This paper reviews how much progress accessible design research has made between 2020 and 2026, and how much of that progress has actually reached real digital products. We look at how much research attention different disabilities receive, whether that attention translates into accessible websites and apps, and why the two often do not match. The review draws on seventeen studies covering UX practitioners, large scale website audits, co design projects, and the newest wave of AI powered accessibility tools. We find that research volume has grown substantially since 2020, but that growth remains concentrated on a narrow set of disabilities, mostly blind and low vision users, while cognitive and intersectional needs stay under studied. We also find that measured research attention does not reliably predict real world accessibility, since blind users, the most studied group by far, remain the worst served group on real websites tested in 2025. The same imbalance reappears in the newest research on AI and accessibility, suggesting the gap between research and practice is not shrinking with new technology, it is repeating itself. We close by identifying where the field's own evidence points to solutions that already work at a small scale, and where a promising idea still needs real testing before it can be called a proven one.
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Author(s):
K. S. Ananyashri (First Author), Dr. M. Ravichandran (Corresponding Author).
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CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF AGRIBUSINESS FIRMS: EXPLORING THE PATHWAYS AND DEVELOPING A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Abstract
Agribusinesses generate revenues from a process which no management acumen can shield from weather vagaries. In most cases, even the majority of financial analysis views climate as merely a variable in the background. Conceptual paper seeks to pose the following question: how do climate variabilities get to the firm's financials? Relying on the climate risks literature, resource dependence theory and stakeholder theory, this paper posits that the linkage occurs through five channels – physical disruptions, transition costs, regulatory costs, supply chain vulnerability, cost of capital and price and yield volatility. The effectiveness of these channels depends on size, geographic diversity, adaptation technologies and policies support. Based on the above, the paper presents a conceptual framework linking climate variabilities to profitability, firm value and sustainability. The paper concludes by extending the discussion through some propositions, literature review, Indian agribusiness environment and implications for the managers, investors and policy makers. Overall, this paper contends that agribusinesses which view climate risk as a financial planning issue, and not just a mere operational inconvenience, emerge winners whenever the weather goes against their expectation.
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Author(s):
Khushi Rishi, Tanveer Punia, Ruchi Gaur.
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User Experience Framework for Centralized Health Information Systems
Abstract
Purpose: The research explores how User Experience (UX) design and User Interface (UI) Design that can improve the usability of unified healthcare applications that integrate multiple services within a single digital platform. Healthcare users often manage fragmented medical records, repeated consultations, appointments, pharmacy requirements, and hospital visits, creating difficulties in accessing and organizing essential health information. The study investigates how a digitally centralized healthcare ecosystem can reduce information fragmentation while supporting efficient navigation and decision-making.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The research adopts a case-study-based design approach using Navhim, a unified healthcare application concept, as the primary design context. The application integrates digital medical records through a scannable healthcare card alongside doctor consultations, hospital discovery, pharmacy services, appointment management, health reports, and basic symptom-related guidance.
The study examines the application's UX through its information hierarchy, navigation structure, feature grouping, content discoverability, and accessibility of frequently required healthcare services.
Findings: The study indicates that strategically structured information architecture and task-oriented interface design can simplify access to diverse healthcare services within a single platform. Centralizing medical records and organizing secondary services through clearly defined interaction points can reduce navigation complexity, improve discoverability, and support a more coherent user journey.
Practical Implications: The proposed system can reduce dependence on physical medical documentation by enabling affiliated healthcare providers to retrieve a patient's available medical history through a scannable digital healthcare card. This can give doctors quicker access to previous reports, reduce the patient's burden of carrying multiple documents, and support continuity of information across healthcare visits.
Originality/Value: The innovative idea is the Scannable Digital Healthcare Card.
The research proposes a Scannable Digital Healthcare Card as a UX-driven solution for connecting patients' medical histories with affiliated healthcare providers, transforming fragmented physical records into an accessible digital healthcare identity.
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Author(s):
Stuti Singh, Aarushi Gupta , Ruchi Gaur .
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Summon: Integrating an Emotion-Aware AI Companion into Everyday Productivity UX
Abstract
Purpose — This research explores whether a productivity application can meaningfully support user motivation and emotional wellbeing by combining task management with an AI companion character, voice-first task capture, mood-aware adaptation, and gamified progress feedback. The study responds to a persistent gap in existing productivity tools between organising tasks and helping people actually begin them.
Design/methodology/approach — A human-centred design approach was used to conceptualise Summon, a productivity companion in which users select a personality-driven AI character during onboarding. Task creation was designed around natural voice input processed through speech recognition and natural-language understanding, with AI-suggested task structures always confirmed by the user before being saved. A lightweight, optional mood check-in was layered onto the daily flow so that interface tone and task suggestions could adapt without removing user control. Progress feedback was reframed through narrative and gamification patterns rather than flat completion states.
Findings — Six interaction patterns emerged as central to the concept: character-based motivational framing, voice-first task capture with mandatory user confirmation, mood-adaptive rather than diagnostic tone-shifting, narrative-based progress feedback, a deliberately narrow information architecture, and privacy-by-design handling of behavioural and emotional data.
Practical implications — The findings suggest that productivity interfaces can reduce the gap between intention and action by treating motivation, and not only organisation, as a first-class design problem, while remaining accountable for emotional-data collection, AI error correction, and user autonomy.
Originality/value — This paper contributes a conceptual framework, the intention–action gap, and a companion-based interaction model that extends existing human–AI interaction and gamification literature into the specific, under-examined context of everyday personal productivity software.
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Author(s):
Aashi Saxena , Chaitanya Gandhi , Pari Singh, Ruchi Gaur.
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Multimodal Urban Transit System Design
Abstract
Commuters in dense urban ecosystems face fragmented transit systems that require multiple
disjointed applications to plan, track, and pay for a single journey. This fragmentation increases
cognitive load, navigation anxiety, and transfer friction, most acutely across the first- and last-mile
legs where live schedule information is often missing or unreliable. This study examines multimodal
urban transit as an end-to-end user-experience problem rather than a purely infrastructural or
telemetry one, focusing on how a unified interface can lower the switching costs commuters incur
when moving between metro, bus, micro-mobility, ride-haiing, and walking.
The work adopts a user-centered research design incorporating user interviews, contextual inquiry,
task-based usability testing, and systemic service mapping. These methods informed the
development of an integrated multimodal transit platform that unifies real-time route optimization,
multi-agency ticketing, and contextual guidance across multimodal transition nodes into one
continuous flow.
The study demonstrates that a unified transit user experience significantly lowers the switching costs
of commuters' mental models and improves commuter efficiency across complex transit networks.
By consolidating dynamic journey planning, micro-mobility integration, interoperable digital
ticketing, and clear post-trip management into a single interface, the proposed system reduces the
friction that fragmented tools currently create for daily urban travel.
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Author(s):
Naresh Golla.
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NEED OF ALTERNATIVES TO PLASTIC IN FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY
Abstract
Plastic packaging plays a vital role in preserving food quality, extending shelf life, and ensuring safe transportation. However, its widespread use has created significant environmental and public health challenges due to its non-biodegradable nature, greenhouse gas emissions, and generation of microplastics. Plastic waste accumulates in landfills and oceans, contaminates ecosystems, and enters the food chain through bioaccumulation. In addition, hazardous chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates, and styrene can migrate into food, posing risks including endocrine disruption, reproductive disorders, neurotoxicity, and cancer. This review examines the environmental impacts and health risks associated with conventional plastic food packaging while evaluating sustainable alternatives such as bio-based and biodegradable materials, including polylactic acid (PLA), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), starch-, cellulose-, and chitosan-based packaging. It highlights the need for innovative, safe, and economically viable packaging solutions that support circular economy principles, reduce plastic pollution, and ensure long-term environmental sustainability without compromising food safety.
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Author(s):
Manibha Jain , Ruchi Gaur .
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A UX-Centered Redesign of 1HP’s Streetwear E-Commerce Experience
Abstract
Direct-to-consumer streetwear brands in India are multiplying faster than their digital infrastructure can support, leaving founder-led labels with strong cultural positioning but thin, conversion-poor websites. This paper documents a UX-led redesign of the e-commerce storefront for 1HP, an Indian streetwear brand built around oversized graphic tees, carried out during a two-month design internship.
The purpose of the study was to determine whether a structured, human-centred design process could close the gap between 1HP's brand identity and its digital execution, and to record the design decisions this process produced for future reference by similarly positioned D2C brands. The design approach combined a competitor and market audit, a SWOT analysis of the brand's existing digital presence, user persona construction, sitemap and information-architecture mapping, low- and high-fidelity wireframing, and a working Shopify build, following a human-centred design cycle consistent with ISO 9241-210:2019.
The process surfaced three recurring gaps in the original site — an unclear product-discovery path, an absence of storytelling or trust signals such as user-generated content, and a checkout flow not optimised for the mobile-first, Gen-Z-dominated traffic the brand actually receives — each of which was addressed through a specific interface intervention. The findings indicate that even a small, founder-run brand benefits measurably from a research-first redesign sequence rather than a purely visual refresh, and that low-cost interventions such as a dedicated “Styled by 1HP” section and a rewritten About page can substitute for the trust infrastructure larger brands build through scale.
The practical implication is a reusable design workflow for early-stage Indian streetwear and D2C brands operating with limited engineering resources. Its originality lies in treating a single working brand engagement as a documented case study of UX research methods applied end-to-end, from discovery through a shipped, live website, rather than as a hypothetical or simulated design exercise.
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Author(s):
Dr. Sangeeta Ranadive .
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IMPACT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS ON THEIR TEACHING COMPETENCY
Abstract
Abstract: In this paper research find out Impact of administrative skills of secondary school teachers on their teaching competency. Sample of the study 100 teachers of Indore city 50 male teachers 50 female teachers and findings of the research was impact did not shows of administrative skills on teaching competency.
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Author(s):
Perla Varaprasad.
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A Hybrid Multimodal Transformer-Based Approach for Text Extraction and Audio Generation from Images Using NLP
Abstract
A receipt or invoice is still one of the most common ways an everyday transaction gets put on paper, but pulling clean data out of a photograph of one is harder than it looks. Skewed lighting, odd angles, and cluttered backgrounds all chip away at how much a standard optical character recognition read can be trusted, and even once the words are out, a second problem remains: figuring out which word is the vendor name, which is the date, and which is the total. This paper describes a hybrid pipeline that pairs a deep-learning OCR engine with a transformer that reads text, position, and visual styling together rather than treating recognized words as a flat sequence. A rule-based fallback and a second OCR pass keep the system producing usable output even when the learned model cannot confidently label a field, and the resulting structured data is also converted into spoken audio, aimed at helping visually impaired users read printed documents they could not otherwise access unassisted. The complete pipeline was trained and evaluated on a public receipt dataset, with design choices checked against a text-only baseline and against manual testing on real-world receipts collected outside the training set
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Author(s):
Chirayu Tongra1, Ruchi Gaur2.
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Verified To Rewarded
Abstract
Corporate travel and expense reimbursement inside large professional-services firms still runs on a fractured sequence of tools: a travel booking portal, a separate expense-report form, a manager's inbox, and a payroll cycle that arrives weeks later with little visibility into what was approved and why. This paper documents the design rationale, research grounding, and prototyped interface of an internal KPMG mobile application that collapses this sequence into one verified, end-to-end flow, in which an employee's official trip is confirmed before any spend is logged, and every eligible flight, train, hotel, food, or fuel bill tied to that trip is automatically tracked toward a single redeemable amount credited to salary. The design approach combined a human-centred design cycle (empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test) with an AI-native, conversational prototyping workflow, sometimes termed vibe coding, in which high-fidelity mobile screens were generated, reviewed, and iterated through natural-language direction rather than manual interface construction alone. Findings from the surrounding literature indicate that perceived security and system transparency, rather than ease of use alone, are the strongest predictors of trust and honest disclosure in electronic reimbursement systems, that optical character recognition can remove the friction of manual receipt entry without removing the need for a human verification checkpoint, and that visible progress and reward framing measurably increase engagement with financial tools when applied without encouraging risk-taking. Practically, the resulting design demonstrates how a trip-verification gate, a transparent redeemable-amount tracker, and an auditable approval trail can be combined into a single interaction pattern suited to enterprise deployment.
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Author(s):
Harsh Yadav.
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Designing a Trustworthy, Low-Friction Platform for On-Demand Community Support Services
Abstract
This study explores the needs, expectations, and trust concerns of users seeking everyday community support services — such as home repairs, caregiving, tutoring, and local errands — through a digital platform, examining service discovery, provider trust and verification, booking clarity, pricing transparency, and accessible, responsive design. A user-centred design (UCD) approach structured around the Double-Diamond model was adopted over a seven-week UI/UX design internship, combining secondary research into on-demand service-marketplace behaviour with a competitive audit of leading service platforms; the findings informed personas, journey maps, information architecture, user flows, a component-driven design system, low- to high-fidelity screens, an interactive prototype, and moderated usability testing focused on the booking and checkout flow. The study found that users experience friction across provider discovery, trust and verification, and — most acutely — the booking/checkout flow, and that they value clear provider credentials, transparent and upfront pricing, simple multi-step booking, and responsive, accessible screens across devices, with reducing booking steps and surfacing trust signals (verification badges, ratings, past-work evidence) emerging as the highest-impact design opportunities. Practically, the study demonstrates how user research and a reusable design system can inform community-support platforms that simplify discovery, comparison, and booking while remaining consistent, responsive, and accessible, and it contributes a trust-first, booking-focused, user-centred perspective to service-marketplace design, translating everyday user needs into concrete design decisions and positioning verification, transparent pricing, and responsive accessibility as core considerations.
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Author(s):
Bhumika Jain, Ruchi Gaur.
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A UX-Driven Approach to Connect Buyers and Sellers in Off-Market Real Estate
Abstract
Purpose – The off-market real estate industry works through a fragmented process. Wholesalers look for buyers for their properties, while buyers look for investment opportunities that may not be available on conventional property marketplaces. Properties are often circulated through personal networks and databases rather than through one shared channel. This creates problems in property discovery, lead generation, buyer-seller communication, verification, and deal management. OffMarket is a real estate platform designed to address these problems by connecting wholesalers and buyers through one digital experience built for off-market transactions. This study documents its design and looks at how UX principles can simplify interactions within a multi-sided real estate platform.
Design/methodology/approach – The design process covered problem identification, workflow analysis, competitor analysis, information architecture, user-flow development, wireframing, interface design, and responsive prototyping. It focused on two user groups, wholesalers and buyers, whose requirements differ but are closely linked. No primary user research was carried out; design decisions draw on published research, workflow mapping, and a competitor comparison. Wholesalers need to list and manage properties, share listings, monitor deal performance, identify likely buyers, and talk to interested leads. Buyers need map-based property discovery, personalised BuyBox preferences, property information, verification, and direct contact with sellers.
Findings – The design puts particular weight on reducing friction between property discovery and deal engagement. It gives users a clearer route from finding a property, to making contact, to managing the lead. Seller and buyer verification, messaging, property matching, notifications, and structured lead interactions are built into the platform so that transactions are more transparent and better
organised. The study describes how UX design can help structure complex interactions within the off-market real estate ecosystem.
Practical implications – OffMarket proposes a transaction-oriented experience that brings property discovery, buyer matching, communication, and lead management into one platform, in place of the separate channels the process now relies on. Wholesalers and buyers each get tools built around their own goals, inside a shared environment. The case study also identifies opportunities for future development through improved matching algorithms, personalised filters, notification systems, and intelligent deal recommendations.
Originality/value – Existing UX research on real estate platforms mostly deals with specific parts of the experience, such as search. Few studies look at off-market platforms that need discovery, communication, verification, and lead management to work together. This case study addresses that gap. It sets out the design decisions behind a platform that serves wholesalers and buyers in the same ecosystem.
Keywords: Real Estate Technology; Property Discovery; Digital Lead Management
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Author(s):
Dr.P.Uma.
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Firm-Specific Factors Affecting Dividend Policy of Selected BSE Listed Oil and Gas Companies of India
Abstract
The dividend policy of an organization is one of the most crucial financial decisions related to the distribution of the profits earned by the firm in the form of payment of dividends to its shareholders and retention of profits for further investment. The decision becomes more crucial in the Oil & Gas industry as these organizations operate in the capital-intensive environment and need sufficient finances for exploration, refining, transportation, distribution, investment in infrastructure and developing emerging energy sectors. The research work analyzes the impact of firm-specific variables on the dividend policies of some selected BSE-listed firms in the Oil & Gas industry in India. Six firms have been selected for this purpose including Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), GAIL (India) Limited and Reliance Industries Limited for the years FY 2020–21 to FY 2025–26. Secondary data has been used for this research work which includes annual reports of the selected firms. Dividend payout ratio (DPR) has been used as the variable of dividend policy and profitability, financial leverage, liquidity, firm size and capital expenditure as firm-specific variables. The measures for profitability are represented by the ROCE, the debt level by Debt-to-Equity Ratio, liquidity by Current Ratio, firm size by natural log of total assets, and the capital expenditure by the ratio of capital expenditure to total assets. Descriptive Statistics, Trend Analysis, Correlation Analysis, and Panel Data Regression are used in order to analyze the dividend payout trend and the impact of the dividend policy on the above-mentioned firm specific variables. The Oil and Gas sector is chosen due to high capital intensity of the sector and significant investment needs as well as the necessity to maintain a balance between payouts to the owners and investments into the growth of the company.
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Author(s):
Ananya Bajpai, Anvicka Misra.
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Tidewalk: A Transdisciplinary Design Ecosystem for Supporting Daily Autonomy in Parkinson’s Disease
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Purpose: Parkinson's Disease progressively disrupts not just motor function but the entire fabric of daily life affecting independence, social participation, and caregiver wellbeing simultaneously. Existing assistive interventions tend to address isolated symptoms within clinical settings, failing to account for the unpredictable, domestic reality of living with the condition. This research investigates how a human-centred design approach can produce an integrated ecosystem of touchpoints that supports patients across motor, cognitive, and emotional dimensions within the home environment, with specific attention to India's early-onset cohort and the systemic care gaps unique to low-to-middle income urban contexts.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The project employs a transdisciplinary design research methodology combining secondary literature synthesis, expert consultation with neurological practitioners, and qualitative user journey mapping. A behavioural adoption framework grounded in the Push-Pull-Habit-Anxiety model was used to identify systemic barriers to assistive technology uptake among India's Parkinson's population, particularly within Stages 1 to 3. Insights were synthesised into design principles that informed an ecosystem-level intervention spanning wearable stabilisation hardware, an AI-driven symptom monitoring companion, and caregiver coordination tools.
Findings: Research revealed three compounding failure modes in current care: the unpredictability of on/off motor fluctuation cycles across the day, the near-total neglect of non-motor symptoms including fatigue, anxiety, and sleep disruption in technology design, and high device abandonment rates driven by social stigma. India-specific factors including geographic care dispersion, caregiver burnout, and affordability constraints further widen the gap between clinical intervention and lived experience.
Practical Implications: The resulting Tidewalk ecosystem proposes a low-cost, stigma-conscious design framework that decentralises chronic condition management. By distributing support across physical, digital, and service touchpoints, the system reduces dependency on episodic clinical visits while generating longitudinal data that improves remote care quality and caregiver confidence.
Originality/Value: This work contributes a replicable ecosystem-level design methodology for chronic neurological conditions in low-to-middle income contexts, moving beyond single-product intervention toward a holistic sociotechnical framework grounded in dignity, daily rhythm, and caregiver equity
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Author(s):
Mrunali Vasava.
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Sustainable Flexible Pavements: A Comprehensive Review of Waste plastic, Crumb rubber, and Basalt fiber Integration
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Rapidly increasing traffic loads and climatic variations have accelerated the deterioration of flexible pavements. At the same time, the exponential accumulation of solid waste, such as plastic packaging and end-of-life tires, presents a severe global environmental crisis. To address these dual challenges, this literature review evaluates the integration of waste plastic, crumb rubber, and basalt fiber as modifiers and reinforcing agents to simultaneously enhance road durability and mitigate waste disposal issues. By synthesizing recent experimental studies, life-cycle assessments, and field applications, the review examines various incorporation techniques, including the "dry process" for coating aggregates with plastic, the "wet process" for blending rubber and polymers into bitumen, and the three-dimensional dispersed reinforcement mechanism provided by basalt fibers. Investigations reveal that waste plastics (such as high-density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene, and polyethylene terephthalate) significantly increase Marshall stability, minimize aggregate water absorption, and substantially enhance resistance to high-temperature rutting. Similarly, crumb rubber-modified bitumen substantially improves the binder's viscosity, elastic recovery, and resistance to fatigue and thermal cracking. Furthermore, the introduction of basalt fiber provides structural reinforcement that amplifies flexural tensile strength, frost resistance, and overall durability against climatic fluctuations. At the same time, hybrid combinations of these materials demonstrate an optimized balance between mixture stiffness and elasticity. Ultimately, transitioning to emissions- and e-modified, and fiber-reinforced asphalt mixtures extends the service life and structural integrity of road networks, lowers life-cycle construction costs, significantly reduces carbon footprint emissions, and firmly anchors civil infrastructure development within the principles of a circular economy.
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Author(s):
Sarah Jain, Bhumika Goswami, Ruchi Gaur .
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Beyond the Portfolio: A Community and Mentorship Platform for Emerging Designers
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Purpose – This study outlines the design and development of Drift.io, a gamified digital community platform built to give emerging and established designers a single, dedicated space to connect, seek mentorship, and build creative confidence. The primary objective was to address the fragmentation of existing tools for designers which typically serve either job-seeking, portfolio hosting, or course delivery in isolation by unifying peer community, mentor session booking, creative challenges and games, and curated events within one cohesive experience.
Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive UI/UX design process was followed, beginning with a structured user survey and persona development to identify the specific behavioural and emotional barriers facing emerging designers, including creative block, imposter syndrome, and difficulty finding trustworthy mentorship. Findings were translated into a user flow and information architecture spanning eight core modules discussion, daily challenges, mentors, events, games, resources, direct messaging, and profile management. The interface progressed from low-fidelity grayscale wireframes to a high-fidelity prototype built in Figma, supported by a defined visual design system comprising a custom display typeface, Bricolage Grotesque for body text, and a dark-themed, pink-accented colour palette.
Findings – The study demonstrates that a majority of the surveyed audience (57%) identified as design beginners, with strong appetite for gamified engagement (86% interested in design games) and peer community interaction (93% interested in community discussion), while consistently citing imposter syndrome, lack of time, and difficulty finding relevant mentorship as primary barriers to growth. Persona-based validation indicated that direct, low-friction access to mentors and a non-performative community space were the features most associated with meaningful behavioural change.
Practical implications – The project resulted in a high-fidelity, responsive prototype spanning the platform's core modules, supported by a documented information architecture, a defined visual design system, and a freemium business model combining subscription access to mentors and premium resources, a commission on mentor booking fees, sponsorships, and certification-based badges establishing a viable path from design concept toward a sustainable product.
Originality/value – This research demonstrates how mentorship infrastructure, gamified skill-building, and non-performative peer community can be unified within a single UX system tailored specifically to the psychological and professional needs of emerging designers, an audience currently underserved by generalist professional networks and single-purpose learning platforms.
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Author(s):
Chaitanya Handa.
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A Conceptual Framework for Brand Identity Development in Traditional Performing Arts
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Purpose:
This research investigates the conceptualization and design methodology employed in developing the visual identity of a Kathak dance institute through a practice-based case study undertaken as a freelance design project. The study examines the process of translating traditional Indian classical art forms into a contemporary, scalable, and enduring brand architecture that reflects individual artistic practice, cultural values, and the evolution of the institution.
Design Approach/Methodology: The methodological framework adopts a structured, concept-driven progression transitioning from a cultural design brief to a flexible corporate identity system. The visual execution merges the Pushpata Hastak (the traditional flower-offering gesture) with the botanical metaphor of a blooming lotus, signifying resilience and transformation. Furthermore, the design incorporates the founder's distinct silhouette, integrates fundamental Kathak rhythmic syllables (Ta, They, Tat) into the floral petals, and pairs a customized serif wordmark (Cormorant Garamond) with legible sans-serif and Indic typography.
Findings: The study evidences that synthesizing deeply personal, culturally embedded narratives - such as the founder's physical posture and canonical dance vocabulary - elevates a standard logo into an authentic personal signature. The resulting multi-layered brand system guarantees aesthetic consistency across primary vertical, horizontal, and monochrome configurations while enforcing rigorous spatial criteria.
Practical Implications: The empirical insights provide a replicable framework for branding traditional performing arts institutions, demonstrating how cultural authenticity and modern design scalability can successfully integrate to bolster institutional positioning.
Originality/Value: This paper contributes a novel methodological case study bridging classical Indian performing arts and contemporary graphic design, illustrating how heritage-driven concepts can be systematically structured into versatile visual frameworks.
Theory Reference: Grounded within the classical Guru-Shishya parampara framework alongside established paradigms of cultural symbolism and visual identity construction.
Keywords: Kathak dance, visual identity, cultural branding, logo design, traditional performing arts
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Author(s):
Pankaj Jangir, Ruchi Gaur.
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Cross-Modal Design Systems: Translating Synesthetic Hallmarks into Multi-Sensory UI Tokens to Reduce Cognitive Load and Perceptual Error in Digital Interfaces
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Contemporary digital interfaces are overwhelmingly biased toward the visual modality, demanding sustained visual attention that rapidly exhausts human working memory. While multi-modal feedback systems have been introduced to mitigate this visual fatigue, these systems frequently rely on arbitrary, non-ecological mappings between visual, auditory, and haptic cues.
The arbitrary pairing of cross-modal stimuli inadvertently triggers sensory Stroop interference and exacerbates cognitive load. Under conditions of high visual demand, the Colavita visual dominance effect dictates that the human nervous system will often attenuate or completely ignore incongruent auditory and haptic feedback, so secondary sensory channels function as extraneous noise rather than meaningful data conduits.
Grounded in synesthetic neuroscience and crossmodal correspondence theory, this study introduces the Synesthetic Design Token Model — mathematically rigorous, isomorphic mappings between visual properties (luminance, geometry, scale) and acoustic (frequency, envelope) and haptic (vibration frequency, sharpness) parameters. A within-subjects design (N = 30) evaluated the model across three conditions: Visual-Only, Incongruent Multi-Modal, and Congruent Synesthetic, measured via reaction time, error rate, and NASA-TLX cognitive load.
The Congruent Synesthetic interface produced significantly faster reaction times and lower error rates than both other conditions. The Incongruent condition produced the highest cognitive load and slowest reaction times, confirming cross-modal Stroop interference; the Congruent condition significantly reduced mental demand, effort, and frustration.
Extending W3C design tokens to biologically congruent audio-haptic values yields a measurable “diversity gain” in information processing, letting DesignOps teams mitigate the Colavita effect and build higher-throughput, more accessible interfaces.
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Author(s):
Frano Paulson.
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Designing Better Grocery Experiences
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The rapid adoption of digital commerce has created new opportunities for grocery delivery services, particularly in markets where online grocery shopping was still emerging. This paper examines the UX/UI optimisation of Popote Fresh, a Benin-based grocery delivery application, undertaken in 2021 as part of a four-month remote design engagement. The project focused on improving the usability and visual clarity of an existing mobile application while preparing interfaces for development.
The study focuses on a central UX challenge observed during the design process: presenting large amounts of product information without creating cognitive or visual overload. A retrospective design research approach was used, combining existing-product analysis, competitive review, UX principles, team critique, information architecture, user-flow development, wireframing, and iterative interface design. The work examined key journeys including product discovery, search, product details, cart, checkout, payment, delivery, and supporting features such as recipe videos and wallet management.
The resulting design approach prioritised information hierarchy, progressive disclosure, predictable navigation, persistent access to important actions, and consistent UI patterns. Particular attention was given to the redesign of product cards, where primary purchase information was retained at the browsing level while secondary information was moved to deeper layers of the experience. The study demonstrates how UX reasoning can translate into practical interface decisions within an information-dense mobile commerce environment.
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Author(s):
Sivaguru S Urban Planner,Nithin L Urban Planner and Dr. Sooraj G Associate Professor, Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE), Madurai.
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Integrated Transportation Planning for a Highway Town: A Case Study of Sattur Municipality, Virudhunagar District, Tamil Nadu
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Small highway towns in Tamil Nadu absorb a disproportionate share of through traffic relative to their municipal road inventory, producing chronic congestion, unsafe pedestrian conditions and declining public-transport utility in the historic core. This paper presents an integrated transportation planning study of Sattur Municipality in Virudhunagar District, a compact second-grade municipality of about 3.83 sq. km lying on National Highway 44 (formerly NH-7) and on the Madurai–Kanyakumari broad-gauge railway. The town functions as a taluk headquarters, a cottage-industry cluster (match frames, stainless-steel tongue cleaners and related light manufacturing) and a service centre for surrounding villages along the Vaippar river.
Primary investigations conducted in December 2025 comprised a household interview survey of 612 households, classified traffic volume counts at six critical locations, 248 onboard public-transport interviews, a parking inventory of six activity clusters, and pedestrian counts at three conflict points. Two-wheelers account for 38.4 per cent of person-trips; walking remains significant at 18.6 per cent; bus and auto-rickshaw together serve 28.3 per cent. Peak-hour volumes on the NH-44 / bus-stand junction reach 3,125 passenger car units (PCU) in the evening peak, well above the practical capacity of a two-lane urban carriageway. Public-transport users rate last-mile access and passenger information below 2.3 on a five-point scale. Observed parking demand on the main road frontage exceeds authorised supply by 86 per cent.
The paper diagnoses the town as a classic “highway-bisected municipality”: a high-speed regional corridor cuts the settlement, the bus stand and railway station sit adjacent in a constrained core, and internal streets lack hierarchy, footpaths and organised parking. A three-horizon strategy is proposed: short-term traffic management and parking regulation; medium-term junction geometrics, bus-stand rationalisation and a local mini-bus / e-auto circuit; and long-term completion of a functional inner ring, freight bypass discipline and integration with district electric-bus programmes. Indicative capital requirement for the first eight years is placed at Rs. 28.6 crore in 2026 prices. The findings are transferable to other NH-44 corridor towns of similar size in southern Tamil Nadu.
Keywords: transportation planning; small town mobility; Sattur; Virudhunagar; NH-44; traffic management; public transport; parking; Tamil Nadu
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Author(s):
1) Dr.M.R. PRAKASH 2) ARULBARATHI K .
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A STUDY ON RECRUITMENT PRACTICES AND INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE OF CANDIDATES AT NAZ V HR SOLUTIONS
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This study titled “A Study on Recruitment Practices and Interview Experience of Candidates at Naz V HR Solutions” focuses on understanding the effectiveness of recruitment strategies and evaluating the overall interview experience of candidates. Recruitment plays a vital role in organizational success, and candidate experience has become an important factor in attracting and retaining talent. This study aims to assess how candidates perceive various stages of the recruitment process and to identify areas for improvement.
The primary objective of the study is to analyze the relationship between demographic variables such as age, gender, and experience, and candidates’ responses toward recruitment practices and interview procedures. The study also seeks to evaluate candidate satisfaction levels and identify challenges faced during the interview process.
The research is based on primary data collected through a structured questionnaire distributed to 81 respondents. The data collected has been analyzed using statistical tools such as percentage analysis and Chi-square test. Percentage analysis is used to understand the distribution of respondents, while the Chi-square test is applied to examine the association between demographic variables and candidate responses.
The findings of the study indicate that there is no significant relationship between demographic variables and candidates’ responses, suggesting that the recruitment and interview process at Naz V HR Solutions is consistent across different demographic groups. However, the study highlights key factors such as effective communication, transparency in the recruitment process, and timely feedback as critical elements influencing candidate experience.Furthermore, the study emphasizes the importance of creating a positive interview environment and providing adequate support to candidates during the recruitment process. These factors contribute to enhancing candidate confidence and overall satisfaction. The suggestions provided in the study aim to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of recruitment practices at Naz V HR Solutions.
In conclusion, the research offers valuable insights into candidate expectations and experiences, helping the organization to refine its recruitment strategies. The study also provides a foundation for future research in the field of recruitment and selection, contributing to the development of more candidate-centric hiring practices.
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Author(s):
Lalith Kumar Dharavath.
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The Banjara Legacy: How India’s First Settlers, Traders, and Transporters, Pioneered Indus Valley Urbanism., First Migrants, First Pastoralists, and First Farmers
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By linking Sir John Marshall’s foundational stratigraphic records with Darwinian adaptive principles, this study proves that the ancestral Banjara community—operating as the prehistoric Pani and Gorvamsha traders—built an unbroken 6,000-to-8,000-year logistical legacy that pioneered and sustained Indus Valley urbanism through cross-continental trade
This paper posits that the Banjara community constitutes the foundational socio-economic bedrock of ancient Indian civilization, functioning as the primary catalysts for human advancement in the Indian subcontinent. Rather than viewing nomadic and sedentary cultures as historical opposites, this study argues that the ancestral Banjaras underwent a systematic, sequential evolution. They transitioned from the subcontinent’s first indigenous settlers and seasonal migrants into its pioneering pastoralists and early farmers. This evolutionary trajectory culminated in their role as the premier trans-regional traders and logistics providers whose organized networks directly underpinned and populated the first planned urban centers of the Indus Valley Civilization.
Interdisciplinary evidence supporting this transformation spans ancestral migratory pathways, early zooarchaeological records of cattle domestication, and material culture distributions. Central to this thesis is the antiquity of the pack-bullock transport system—an overland supply-chain infrastructure uniquely perfected by the Banjaras' ancestral transport guilds (Tandas). Spatial mapping reveals that prehistoric campsites in resource-extraction zones directly align with traditional Banjara transit corridors. This indicates an undeniable structural overlap between proto-historic nomadic logistics and the economic surpluses found within planned Indus cities.
Analyzing these connections reveals that nomadic logistics mastery served as the vital connective tissue making South Asian urban ecosystems possible. The ancestral Banjara network bridged the gap between mobile resource zones and fixed urban markets, sustaining a specialized, non-agricultural urban population. Thus, the "Indus Urbanite" was an evolution of the highly organized mobile trader. Ultimately, this study rebalances historical discourse by challenging sedentary-biased narratives. By demonstrating that mobile transport guilds were central to ancient state-building, this paper directly links the very roots of South Asian urbanization to the enduring legacy of the Banjaras.
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Author(s):
Rupesh Chandrasen Londhe.
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Hybrid Governance for Innovation Impact: India’s Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) and Global Partnerships
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Abstract- Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), launched by AICTE, have become a cornerstone of India’s higher education innovation ecosystem. This study critically examines the IIC’s evolving role in embedding innovation culture and positioning Indian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within global knowledge networks. By benchmarking against EU and US innovation hubs, the paper highlights governance, funding, and evaluation gaps while introducing the IIC Global Innovation Integration Model (IICGIIM). Using hierarchical linear modeling (N=120 HEIs, 12 regions), the study demonstrates that institutional innovation outputs (patents, startups) significantly predict globalization outcomes, while regional contexts (funding, policy strength, ecosystem maturity) moderate these effects.
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Author(s):
Dr. Surinder Mahi .
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A Comparative Study of Menstrual Cycle Changes among Female Sportspersons and Non-Sportspersons
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The menstrual cycle is an important indicator of women's reproductive health and may influence physical performance, training participation, and overall well-being. The present study aimed to compare menstrual cycle characteristics among female sportspersons and non-sportspersons. A comparative descriptive research design was adopted. The study included 200 female participants aged 18-25 years, comprising 100 female sportspersons participating in the All India Inter-University Boxing Championship held at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, and 100 age-matched non-sportspersons. Data were collected through an interview schedule developed by the investigator. Variables studied included cycle length, duration of menstrual flow, irregular periods, and the effect of menstruation on sports performance and participation. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square tests were employed for data analysis. The hypothetical findings indicated that female sportspersons experienced more regular menstrual cycles and fewer menstrual irregularities than non-sportspersons. However, a considerable proportion of athletes reported that menstruation negatively affected training and competitive performance. The study highlights the importance of menstrual health awareness and support systems for female athletes.
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Author(s):
Dev saraf, Ruchi Gaur.
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Multi Threat Respiratory Protection for Civilian Crisis Scenarios
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People living in areas where conflicts are taking place and in the surroundings of industrial or nuclear disasters are now being exposed to a variety of complex atmospheric dangers. Such dangers consist of chemical warfare agents (CWAs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ionizing radioactive dust, and ultrafine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM0.1). Protective equipment of the military type for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) hazards is still too costly, bulky, and generally out of reach for disadvantaged civilian groups, and ordinary filtering facepiece respirators do not offer adequate protection against gases and radiation. This study presents the SafeBreath Guardian Kit, a respiratory protection system that is inexpensive and modular and has been specially designed for use by non-combatant populations.
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Author(s):
Nihar K Naik .
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Design and Performance Evaluation of a CRDT-Based Framework for Conflict-Free Real-Time Collaborative Web Applications
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Real time collaborative web applications must let many users edit shared state simultaneously over unreliable networks without ever diverging. Operational transformation (OT), the dominant production approach, achieves this through a central server that rewrites concurrent edits, which limits scalability and complicates offline use. Conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) guarantee convergence without a central authority, but naive implementations suffer from heavy metadata, unbounded tombstones and costly full-state synchronisation. This paper presents a browser-oriented CRDT framework that combines a run-length encoded replicated growable array for text, observed-remove map and register types for structured state, delta-state synchronisation driven by version-vector digests over WebSocket and WebRTC, and a persistence layer with snapshotting and version-vector-safe garbage collection. Evaluated on an emulated testbed with up to 64 clients against a server side OT implementation, a last-writer-wins baseline and a naive per character CRDT, the framework converged remote edits in 94 ms (median) and 146 ms (99th percentile) at 16 clients, sustained 41,000 operations per second, stored a 500,000-operation document at 1.9 times its content size, and reconciled a ten minute partition in 171 ms with 104 KB exchanged. No divergence was observed across 1.2 million randomised interleavings. Practical guidance for adopting the framework is provided.
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Author(s):
Anamika Yadav 2025.
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When AI Recommends, Who Decides? Exploring User Control and Decision-Making in AI-Generated Financial Recommendations
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This study examines how AI-generated financial recommendations and digital interface design influence users’ trust, perceived control, decision confidence, and willingness to follow financial guidance. The study begins from a simple but important question: when an AI system recommends what a person should do with their money, who still feels responsible for the final decision? AI can process large amounts of information quickly and can present users with recommendations that appear clear and useful. However, the ease of following a recommendation does not necessarily mean that the recommendation has been understood, evaluated, or consciously accepted by the user. This makes the interface through which an AI recommendation is communicated an important part of the decision-making experience.
The proposed study uses a user-centered experimental approach with prototype digital interfaces that present the same type of AI-generated financial recommendation in different ways. Participants will complete simulated financial decision-making tasks and will be asked to evaluate the recommendation and make a final choice. Their experience will be examined through measures related to trust, perceived control, decision confidence, clarity, usability, and willingness to act on the recommendation. The study is designed to compare how different presentation approaches affect the movement from receiving AI guidance to making an independent decision.
The study does not assume that the purpose of an AI interface should be to increase acceptance of its recommendation. Instead, it considers appropriate decision support as an interaction in which the user can understand the recommendation, question it when necessary, compare it with alternatives, and retain a meaningful sense of control. Existing research has separately examined trust in AI, over-reliance, recommendation acceptance, autonomy, explainability, and financial AI adoption. This research brings these concerns together from an interface and user-experience perspective. The expected contribution is a clearer understanding of how interface choices can support AI as a helpful guide without making the user feel that the decision has already been made for them.
Keywords: AI-assisted decision-making, financial recommendation systems, recommendation acceptance, user agency, perceived control, decision confidence, AI trust, interface psychology, human-AI interaction, financial UX.
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Author(s):
Pratishtha Srivastava, Ruchi Gaur.
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A Context-Aware Approach to Personal Security in Smartwatches: An Interaction Design Framework for High-Stress Safety Systems
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Commercial smartwatch emergency features are almost uniformly reactive: they require the wearer to locate, press, and hold a physical button, or to navigate a touch target on a display of 34–45 mm diagonal, in precisely the circumstances where the underlying motor and attentional resources are least available. Laboratory evidence on acute stress shows that threat-type stressors degrade fine force control by a substantial margin while leaving gross force production intact, that usable visual field area contracts under cognitive load, and that threat raises blink frequency such that the wearer is intermittently not looking at anything at all. A reactive interface therefore fails at the moment of need, while the automatic-detection alternative fails in the opposite direction: published evaluations of commercial wrist-worn fall detection report sensitivity of 77% with a 1.7% per-event false-positive rate in induced-fall protocols, and as low as 4.7% sensitivity in populations outside the tuning distribution — and deep models trained on laboratory falls collapse to 0.37 precision on real-world data.
This paper proposes an interaction design framework that treats threat recognition not as a classification verdict but as a graded state negotiated between the system and the wearer. We contribute: (1) a sensor fusion matrix specifying physiological, environmental, and behavioural evidence vectors together with their documented failure modes and the fusion level at which each is combined; (2) a 4-State Transition Architecture (Ambient Baseline, Micro-Verification, Silent Beacon, Critical Broadcast) in which each upward transition is gated by either accumulated evidence or an explicit low-cognition user act, and each state specifies a bounded interaction budget; (3) a low-dexterity modality ladder grounded in published performance envelopes for vibrotactile pattern identification, encumbered target acquisition, wrist-rotation gestures, casing squeeze, and bezel input; and (4) a covert state management model in which the visually deniable presentation is the default rather than an option, motivated by evidence that the adversary is frequently a device-authenticated, co-present intimate. We specify an evaluation protocol with stress induction, adversarial covertness role-play, and metrics spanning Time-to-Acknowledge, false-positive rate, NASA-TLX, and SUS, and close with five design heuristics for safety-critical wearable interfaces.
Keywords: wearable computing; personal safety; context-aware computing; interaction design; acute stress; vibrotactile interaction; covert interfaces; mixed-initiative systems
