Volume 8 | Issue 8 |

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Transgenders are not unfamiliar community in our society. Their presence in the events like marriages and child birth functions is considered auspicious; people feel their graces are signs for good omen. But it is very pathetic to know that though their presence is considered good in marriages and birth functions but they are exempted from marrying and giving birth to children. They are treated as separate entities by major part of the world. Writings on Transgenders� problems are very rarely seen in Indian writings. Mahesh Dattani is one of the powerful Indian writers in portraying the issues which are serious but neglected, prominently about gender discrimination. Even though many of his plays focus on contemporary issues like corruption, communal rivalries, male superiority but his main attention is on the problems of Transgenders. They are shown as the victims of our own human society. Seven Steps Around the Fire, a significant play of Dattani that deals with the sufferings of these transgenders through the help of the character Kamla. It is a tragic play of Kamla, a beautiful eunuch who loves Subbu, a minister�s son and marries him but gets killed just because she is a transgender. Uma is another major character who brings into limelight the sufferings of these transgenders and reveals the murder mystery of Kamla with the help of Anarkali. Two tragic incidents are shown in this play the first is the murder of Kamla and another is the death of Subbu. This play deals with the emotions of transgenders as all human beings feel and advices for the equality of all genders.

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Transgenders, Pathetic, Gender discrimination, Contemporary, Mystery.

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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, the 2015 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar winner, and the nominee of The Hindu Prize, The Crossword Book Award and The International Dublin Literary Award suffered a ban for The Adivasi Will Not Dance by Jharkhand Government on the grounds that it is offensive to the dignity of Santhal women. It is also blamed to be pornographic in nature. The book has a large variety of Santhal and non-Santhal female characters spread across the socio-economic spectrum. Most of the female characters be it Baso-jhi, Sona and others featured are defiant and daring. They are weighed down by the burdens of injustice, illiteracy, unemployment, etc. All the female characters mentioned below faced abuse, injustice and exploitation by the so called sophisticated society. This paper presents before the literature readers a review kind of investigation of the tribal female characters depicted in the short stories �The Adivasi Will Not Dance� of Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.

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Tribals, Baso-jhi, Sona, Sulochona, Mathabhangi, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

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The performance of a pavement is very responsive to the characteristics of soil sub grade. The economic design of pavement results in saving countries economy. The construction of roads in most of the places across the world faces major problems due to weak sub grade soil. Sub grade being the support for the whole pavement, it needs the utmost care in its construction. During last few decades� research has been conducted on various aspects of low volume roads resulting in innovative and unconventional approaches of road constructions. Many suggestions have been put forward by various scientists to improve the subgrade.Usually adopted methods are stabilization methods. Use of waste material and natural fiber for improving soil property is advantageous because they are cheap, locally available and eco-friendly. In this study, the stabilizing effect of Natural fiber (coconut coir) and ceramic waste powder on soil properties has been studied. Over the last decade the use of waste material and fiber has recorded a tremendous increase. Keeping this in view an experimental study is conducted on locally available i.e. clayey soil mixed with varying percentage of coir fiber and ceramic waste powder. Long term performance of pavement structures often depends on the stability of the underlying soils. Conventional waste disposal methods are found to be inadequate. The existing soil at a particular location may not be suitable for the construction due to poor bearing capacity and higher compressibility or even sometimes excessive swelling. For sustainable development use of waste material should been encouraged.It is crucial for highway engineers to develop a sub grade.

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Ceramic dust,,California Bearing Ratio,cohesion,coir fibre

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Stress is any action that places special physical or psychological demands upon a private, anything that will unbalance his individual equilibrium. There are various sources of stress including toxic work environment, negative work load, isolation, types of working hours, role ambiguity & role conflict, lack of autonomy, difficult relationship with coworkers, managerial bullying, harassment etc. Work related stress could also be a possible reason for concern in healthcare workers and is expounded to decreased job satisfaction, days off work, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, medical errors and near misses. To match stress level levels n numerous groups of healthcare worker and identity causes of stress, we conducted a survey based study at a superb speciality public sector hospitals.

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Stress, Healthcare Workers,work load, Public sector Hospitals.

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Europe no longer ruled Africa. But it still fed them in a hundred ways like its language, culture, education, wonderful goods and many more. Despite the formal independence of African countries from colonizers, these countries have not become independent in true sense. Their dependence continues and they rely on the colonizers for many things still. They hate everything associated with colonizers and they try to destroy the things of colonizers. But they don�t have any thing concrete to fall back on in the name of their own culture, administration, or a society etc. Colonizer�s everything like language, culture, religion have altered and made hybrid. Despite the wish neither they can go back to their bush culture nor they can follow colonizer�s culture completely. They are stranded in- between Consequently, the country has descended into chaos. Violence erupts everywhere. Same condition prevails which was prevalent during colonization. Few elite people like Big man try to restore the lost culture of Africa but in doing so he follows European ways. His very methods of doing so are reminders of European�s. True motif of him is to gain power and take benefit of the situation for the personal Agenda and not to improve the condition of African�s.

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Colonizer, colonized, & in -between culture of Africa.

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The 2019 coronavirus disease outbreak (COVID-19) has quickly evolved into a large pandemic, causing a public health and economic crisis. This is a new virus distinct from SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, with the most likely origin being the chinese horseshoe bats. The transmission takes place primarily through spreading droplets or contact routes. The threat of transmission of infection between dental health care personnel (DHCP) and patients can be very significant based on the characteristics of the dental settings. This article provides a brief description of the virus structure, transmission modes and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 disease. The purpose of this article is to recommend strategies for infection control and patient management protocols to provide optimum dental care while simultaneously preventing nosocomial infection in dental settings.

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Coronavirus, COVID 19 , Dental health care personnel, Prevent Infection

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Title of the study: Conservative treatment of a 55 year old lady with bipartite patella: A Case report Abstract : Background and purpose: The knee joint is one of the most important weight bearing joints of the bony. Each knee joint bears 50% of the body weight. The knee joint comprises of the Femur, the Tibia and the Patella as its parts The Patella plays a significant role in the knee biomechanics by smoothly gliding over the anterior aspect of the knee. In some rare cases it is observed that patients report with a congenital defect of the patella called as bipartite patella. The incidence of this congenital abnormality is only 1 � 2%. Even though the incidence of such defect is very rare but it becomes a cause of disability for the person with the defect. The purpose of this case report is to present such a rare congenital defect of Patella and to suggest a protocol of conservative treatment which is proven beneficial for the patient. Study design: Case report Description of the case : A female aged 55 years reported to the clinic with history of severe right anterior knee pain , swelling and inability to walk properly since last 1 month. There was no complain with the left knee. The patient had a history of fall . The radiographic studies reveal that there is a Bipartiate Patella. Patient was treated with medication including Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and antacids along with Physiotherapy treatment. The Physiotherapy treatment included ice packs, Ultrasound therapy, Interferential therapy, Active assisted ROM exercises and Progressive resisted exercises. Outcome : The Pre treatment VAS score and Lysholm Knee scoring scale are noted . The patient was treated for a total period of 4 weeks with a frequency of 6 days in a week. It was observed that after treatment VAS grades decreased from 9 to 3 in the right knee. The Lysholm Knee Score scale grading improved from 63 to 82 . Following completion of 4 weeks the subject returned to complete functional activity with almost no pain and limitation. Discussion The present case is a rare disorder of Patella which is found in only 1 % of population . The condition is common in males then in females. As the defect is a rarer entity a proper understanding of the clinical presentation and the absolute way to manage the defect was the intention behind this study. In the study the patient presented with a unilateral anterior knee pain which was diagnosed as Bipartite patella. The problem was successfully managed with medication and physiotherapy as a conservative treatment. So it is evident that these defects can be well managed with conservative management.

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Anterior knee pain, Bipartite patella, Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale, C T Scan

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the impacts of some prominent macroeconomic factors on the Indian Stock Market index, BSE-30 (Bombay sensitivity index-30). For centuries, and mostly since the 20th century, stock markets are the heart of economies. In the present era, the largest economic crises arise from the stock market instabilities and thus, the stock markets are the focus of interest of the economy. Economists, investors, and policymakers predict the tendency of share prices, which substantially depend on foreign and domestic macroeconomic factors. Within this purpose, this study tries to investigate the impact of some selected macroeconomic factors on BSE-30 index over the 2000�2018 period. The findings obtained from the data via the ARDL Bounds Test suggest that economic growth, the relative value of the domestic currency, portfolio investments and foreign direct investments raise the stock market index while interest rate and crude oil prices negatively affect it. The results briefly reveal that the Indian Stock Exchange Market needs stronger domestic currency, higher international capital inflows, and lower energy and investment costs.

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stock market; macroeconomic indicators; BSE-30; autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test

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Plant growth promoting bacteria are known to influence the plant growth by various direct or indirect mechanisms. In search of efficient PGPR strains with multiple activities, a total of 10 bacterial isolates belonging to Bacillus species isolated from chilli rhizosphere, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Out of ten only one isolate Bacillus sp. PB-3 showed potential activity of producing IAA, Gibberellic acid production, Siderophore production. Bacillus sp. PB-3 showed the maximum IAA (85 �g/ml ) and Gibberellic acid productions 52 �g/ml were observed. An orange halo appears around the Bacillus species on CAS agar media indicates the siderophore production. The optimum conditions for siderophore production in Bacillus sp. PB-3 was selected for this study. CAS medium was supplemented with mannitol (18.6 �g/ml) and Urea (18.4 �g/ml) was used as carbon and nitrogen sources showed maximum amount of siderophores. These plant growth promoting abilities can make this isolate a potential PGPR candidate for its application in sustainable agriculture.

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Gibberellic acid, Indole Acetic Acid, Siderophore

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David Herbert Lawrence was gifted with a prophetic vision. The novel for him was a medium to communicate his vision of life. He is against the over intellectualism of life. He is of the opinion that science with its over emphasis on reason destroys the intuitional and instinctive life of man. In his pursuit of life man should rely more on the impulses than on the reason. Thus, Lawrence often comes near with the Romantics. He wanted people to be corroborated by the dictates of the blood. In this study we shall make an attempt to focus on the essential elements of Lawrence�s philosophy-- � the religion of blood� -- an orientation towards non-intellectualism -- a type of blood-conciousness�a rely on and resort to our impulses.

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Intellectualism , impulses , blood - conciousness.

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