Volume 14 | Issue 4 |

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Human suspicious activity detection is an important application in intelligent surveillance systems. Traditional monitoring methods require continuous human observation and may fail to detect suspicious behavior accurately. This research proposes a deep learning-based approach using the YOLO model for detecting suspicious human activities such as fighting, running, theft, intrusion, and unusual movement patterns in CCTV footage. The system is implemented using Google Colab with Python, OpenCV, and the Ultralytics YOLO framework. Experimental results show that the proposed model can detect suspicious activities in real time with high accuracy and reduced processing time.

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Suspicious Activity Detection ,YOLO ,Anomaly Detection ,Real-Time Surveillance ,Deep Learning , Google Colab , Computer Vision

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In today's fast-paced lifestyle, maintaining proper fitness and nutrition has become a challenge for many individuals. This paper presents an AI-powered Virtual Fitness Trainer designed to assist users with real-time exercise guidance and personalized diet recommendations. The system uses computer vision techniques with MediaPipe and OpenCV to monitor body movements and analyze posture during exercises such as push-ups, bicep curls, and yoga poses. It provides instant feedback to help users correct their form and improve workout effectiveness. In addition to exercise tracking, the system includes a diet recommendation module that analyzes nutritional intake based on user inputs like calories, protein, and fat. A machine learning model is used to evaluate diet quality and suggest improvements according to the user's fitness goals. The system also supports natural language input, allowing users to enter their daily food intake in a simple and intuitive way for automatic nutritional analysis. The application is developed using a Flask-based backend with an interactive web interface, making it accessible and easy to use. The results show that the system can effectively guide users in both exercise and diet management, offering a convenient and affordable solution for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. This work demonstrates how AI can be practically applied to enhance personal fitness and wellness.

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Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Pose Estimation, MediaPipe, Fitness Trainer, Exercise Detection, Real-Time Tracking, Diet Recommendation System, BMI Calculation, Machine Learning

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This study analyzes consumer perception and brand awareness in the EdTech sector and their impact on user adoption. With the increasing use of digital learning platforms, understanding consumer behaviour has become important. The research is based on primary data collected through a structured questionnaire among college students, supported by secondary data from relevant studies. Key factors such as brand awareness, perceived quality, ease of use, and social influence were considered. The findings show that brand awareness significantly influences consumer perception and the adoption of EdTech platforms. The study concludes that improving brand visibility and maintaining positive perception are essential for success in the EdTech market.

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Consumer Perception, Brand Awareness, EdTech, Consumer Behaviour

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The heavy engineering sector is a critical pillar of India's industrial and infrastructure growth. In an increasingly competitive landscape, companies must build strong brand associations to differentiate themselves and foster long-term customer relationships. This study evaluates the brand association of RK Heavy Engineering Pvt. Limited and examines customer perception of its products and services. The main objective is to analyse how brand attributes such as quality, reliability, innovation, and service excellence shape customer preference and loyalty. Primary data were collected from 200 respondents comprising engineers, managers, contractors, and suppliers, using a structured questionnaire. Statistical tools including Percentage Analysis, Chi-Square tests, and One-Way ANOVA were employed for analysis. Key findings reveal that 87% of respondents recommend the company to others, 42% rate it as excellent, and brand association is significantly influenced by age, residence, educational qualification, occupation, and monthly income. The study concludes that RK Heavy Engineering Pvt. Limited has established meaningful brand associations rooted in product quality and reliability, with scope for further growth through increased digital presence, customer engagement, and innovation.

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Brand Association, Customer Perception, Heavy Engineering, Brand Awareness, Brand Loyalty, RK Heavy Engineering, B2B Marketing.

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Apprentice Arm is a 6-Degree-of-Freedom, hand-gesture controlled, real-time. (6-DOF) robotic arm system based on the use of computer vision, machine learning, and embedded systems to allow contactless, intuitive robotic manipulation. The system will live video on a regular USB webcam, and will extract 21 three sided video. dimensional hand landmarks with MediaPipe Hands deep-learning of Google. pipeline, and maps the spatial geometry of the hand of the user into six. independent servo motor angles Base rotation,Shoulder lift, Elbow bend, Wrist Pitch, Wrist Roll and Gripper open/close-in real time. The software layer is developed using a Python Flask back-end which integrates. Hand tracking using MediaPipe, Exponential Moving Average (EMA) signal. deadband filtering, smoothing and serial communication into one. cohesive application. The backend is annotated MJPEG video which is being streamed to a modern. web dashboard (HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript) that features a live camera feed, an interactive Three.js 3D digital twin of the robotic arm, six manual override. sliders, a complete task recorder and player engine and an ML-based Smart. Presets module which opts K-Means clustering (scikit-learn) to automatically. find and propose the most common arm positions based on recorded. task history. Hardware On the hardware side, an Arduino UNO microcontroller receives commands regarding the angles. over a 9600-baud UART serial connection and drives a 16 channel I2C PWM, the PCA9685. servo driver. The Base, Shoulder, and have three MG996R high-torque servos. Elbow joints: There are three SG90 micro-servos that drive the Wrist Pitch, Wrist. Roll, and Gripper. The servos use two 3.7 V lithium-ion as a power source. batteries (in series) (~7.4 V), reduced to a regulated (~5.5 V). with an LM2695 DC-to-DC buck converter and then to the V+ of PCA9685. servo power rail. The Apprentice Arm has a gesture to servo end-to-end latency of. around 60 ms, a hand-tracking frequency of 30 FPS, a refresh of the dashboard. frequency of 12.5 Hz, and 3D frame rate of over 60 FPS. The system is developed to be modular, reproducible and extensible, which is why it is suitable. in the case of academic research, educational demonstrations, and hobbyist robotics. HRI projects.

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Keywords: Hand Gesture Recognition, 6-DOF Robotic Arm, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), MediaPipe Hands, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, K-Means Clustering, Smart Presets, Exponential Moving Average (EMA), Deadband Filtering, Arduino UNO, PCA9685 Servo Driver, Real-Time Control System, Flask Web Application, Three.js Visualization.

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Adolescence is considered an important stage in an individual's life during which self-consciousness and identity are more prevalent. Adolescents are more sensitive to peer evaluation during this stage. Adolescence is often considered a stage where social anxiety is more common among individuals. Social anxiety is the fear or apprehension experienced by an individual in social situations. Adolescents are more engaged with social media in the modern age compared to previous eras. Two important psychosocial factors that may cause social anxiety among adolescents are imaginary audience beliefs and problematic social media use. This study aimed to investigate whether imaginary audience beliefs and problematic social media use predict social anxiety among adolescents. A sample size of 132 adolescents between 13 and 18 years of age was considered for the study using a convenience sampling design. Standardized instruments were used to measure imaginary audience beliefs, problematic social media use, and social anxiety among the sample group.The results revealed that both imaginary audience beliefs and problematic social media usage were positively related to social anxiety and were significant predictors of levels of social anxiety. These findings underscore the need to take into consideration cognitive and behavioral aspects of social media usage while developing interventions to aid adolescents' mental health. To conclude, this paper makes an addition to the existing body of knowledge on the determinants of social anxiety disorder and the association between imaginary audience and social media addiction. Therefore, it becomes necessary for adolescents to engage in healthy social media behavior and be conscious of their self-consciousness in order to overcome social anxiety.

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Keywords - Social anxiety, imaginary audience beliefs, problematic social media usage, adolescents, psychosocial predictors

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This paper establishes a common fixed-point theorem in complex valued partial metric spaces using rational expansive mappings and newly defined implicit relations. Under the framework of occasionally weakly compatible mappings, the existence and uniqueness of a common fixed point for four self-mappings are proved. Our result is generalization of some of the results existing in the literature.

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Common fixed point, Complex valued partial metric space, Rational expansive mapping, Occasionally Weakly Compatible (OWC) mappings, Implicit relation

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Sacred Waters by Meira Chand is a compelling and multi layered exploration of female agency within the overlapping frameworks of patriarchy and colonial rule in South and South East Asia. This paper analyses the evolution of that agency through the life of the novel's protagonist Sita. She was a victim of the oppressive traditions created by patriarchal institutions that treated female body as subordinate. She goes on to become a war veteran who served in The Rani of Jhansi Regiment, through the medium of literacy and her sheer passion. Drawing on the theory of subaltern by Gayatri Spivak, the paper discusses how the 'grammar of nothingness' was employed by the society to reduce the women to a worthless and voiceless object. The analysis then applies Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity to portray the social transformation of the naive girl into a self-reliant woman by disrupting the gender normed roles. Chandra Talpade Mohanty's critique of the monolithic 'Third World Woman' is deployed to resist the reduction of the novel's female characters to a singular condition of victimhood. It throws light on the differential axes of class, caste, and colonial privilege that fracture the category of women in the novel. Finally, the intergenerational transmission of agency from Sita to her adoptive daughter Amita through Marianne Hirsch's theory of postmemory. The paper argues that Sacred Waters presents female agency not as a single event but as an ongoing process of claiming the voice, body and narrative that is incomplete yet quietly insistent.

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Female Agency, Sacred Waters, Meira Chand, Patriarchy, Rani of Jhansi Regiment, Subaltern, Gender Performativity, Third World Women, Postmemory, Intergenerational

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This study looks at how the book "The Foreigner" by Arun Joshi, written in 1968, deals with big questions about life, like feeling alone, being free, and doing the right thing. The main character, Sindi Oberoi, is like a symbol of people today who are trying to figure out who they are in a world that doesn't seem to care. We're using ideas from philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus to understand how Joshi uses these concepts in an Indian setting. What we found is that Joshi doesn't just show how sad and hopeless life can be, but also how people can wake up and start making good choices by taking responsibility and getting involved. By closely reading the book and using critical thinking, we're saying that "The Foreigner" is an important part of talking about these big life questions in Indian English literature.

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Existentialism, Alienation, Identity, Freedom, Absurdity, Moral Responsibility, Indian English Fiction, Arun Joshi.

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Human development and the ability to overcome the intergenerational cycle of rural poverty are based on access to basic amenities safe drinking water, sanitation, electricity, housing, education and healthcare. The rural-urban disparity in amenity coverage in India is stubbornly large, even after 60 years of planned development and with a multiplicity of flagship programmes. The Bundelkhand area, especially Banda district of Uttar Pradesh is a miniature of this challenge. Having almost 94 percent of its population in the villages, Banda is afflicted with acute depletion of groundwater, unsanitary habits, unstable power generation, lack of health and education facilities and a chronic lack of housing facilities. The present paper is a data based extensive analysis of the situation of, problems in and difficulties of providing basic amenities of rural Banda. Based on Census 2011, government dashboards, third party audits, academic research and field surveys, the study quantifies the coverage and functionality of important services. It determines the key constraints that are hydro geological, behavioural, institutional, financial and governance related that hinder universal access. Lastly, it provides a list of policy recommendations which can be implemented to close the amenity gap, and improve the quality of services and promote inclusive rural development in Banda and other backward regions

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Basic amenities, rural development, water scarcity, sanitation, electrification, housing, primary health centres, Banda district, Bundelkhand.

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