Volume 12 | Issue 8 |

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Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko," to start with conveyed in 1688, is a seminal work in the run the show of early English composing that offers a noteworthy commentary on bondage and colonialism. This paper analyzes how Behn's delineation of these issues reflects and assesses the political and social setting of her time. By analyzing the account structure, character portrayal, and topical components of "Oroonoko," this consider focuses to reveal how Behn locks in with present day wrangles almost around colonialism and subjugation, highlighting her nuanced focuses of see and the socio-political proposals of her work. Introduction Aphra Behn, a initiating figure in early English composing, is celebrated not as it were for her commitments to the enhancement of the novel but besides for her striking engagement with cutting edge political and social issues. She was the to start with lady who earned her living by her compositions. "Oroonoko," one of her most exceptional works presents a story affluent with commentary on the issues of bondage and colonialism. This paper looks for to analyze how Behn's outline of these points reflects and ponders the political and social stream of the late 17th century. Historical Context To totally appreciate Behn's commentary in "Oroonoko," it is crucial to get it the unquestionable view of her time. The late 17th century was stamped by the basic expansion of European colonial spaces and the heightened of the transoceanic slave trade. Britain, along with other European powers, was significantly included in colonial meanders and the mishandle of oppressed individuals bunches. Behn's account rises from this setting of burgeoning colonialism and racial abuse, giving a fundamental central point through which to see these issues. Narrative and Character Analysis Behn's story in "Oroonoko" is encompassed as a first-person account, which credits it an examine of validity and instantaneousness. The saint, Oroonoko, is an African ruler who is sold out and sold into oppression. Behn's portrayal of Oroonoko as a respectable and moral character challenges winning generalizations of Africans in her time, promoting a stark assess of the dehumanizing portrayal of oppressed people. Oroonoko's regard, bits of knowledge, and resistance to his circumstance separate emphatically with the brutality routinely credited to Africans by present day European conversation. Behn's delineation invites perusers to empathize with Oroonoko and address the moral genuineness of oppression and colonial abuse. His terrible predetermination underscores the brutal reality gone up against by various oppressed individuals and highlights the moral irregularities unavoidable in the colonial enterprise.

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Keywords: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, colonialism, slavery, political commentary, 17th-century literature, racial representation, narrative analysis, British colonialism, socio-political critique

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In an era where media consumption is rapidly evolving, understanding how university students engage with mass media provides crucial insights into contemporary media trends. This study investigates the patterns and preferences of mass media usage among postgraduate students(N=354) at two prominent Indian universities: Central University of Haryana (a central university) and Maharishi Dayanand University (a state university). The aim is to elucidate the media consumption patterns and preferences across selected universities and assess how these trends align with broader societal shifts. Employing a quantitative research approach, this study utilized an online structured questionnaire distributed to 354 postgraduate students from these two selected universities. The data collected offers a comprehensive overview of students' media habits, including their preferences for digital versus traditional media, frequency of use, and the influence of media on their academic and social lives. The findings reveal distinct patterns of media consumption between students from selected universities. Central University of Haryana students exhibited a stronger inclination towards digital media, while Maharishi Dayanand University students showed a more balanced consumption of both digital and traditional media. This study underscores the importance of considering institutional and contextual factors when analyzing media consumption patterns among university students.Future research should explore the impact of emerging media technologies and socio-cultural factors on these trends. Understanding these dynamics can inform media educators and policymakers, fostering strategies that better address the evolving media landscape and its implications for student engagement and learning.

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Media consumption, preferences, mass media, new media, traditional media

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In recent years, environmental pollution becomes severe and the stakeholders are considerably worried about the issue which paved the way for the growing concern about the implementation of environmental accounting. Environmental accounting and awareness have given more important as it is the need of the day. Green accounting popularly called environmental accounting; resource accounting or integrated economic and environmental accounting refers to accounting practices incorporating the environmental costs, impacts and consequences. It is about aggregation of data that links the environment to the financials of the company, which will obviously have a long-run impact on both economic and environmental policy of the organization.

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Environment, Green Accounting and Costs.

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Consumers now view brands as more than just indicators of quality, trust, and reliability. They have become a part of consumer identity, allowing individuals to express themselves and realise their unique style, especially in the fashion industry. In particular, popular Bollywood actresses play a crucial role in shaping fashion brand identity. Their diverse personalities and immense popularity enable brands to connect with specific audiences and build a strong emotional bond, ultimately influencing consumer perception and brand image. Celebrity endorsements have emerged as a powerful communication tool, as celebrities carry more influence and relatablity than anonymous models. Campaigns often highlight the significance of the celebrity in relation to the brand. The paper takes a conceptual approach, drawing upon a range of literature in the areas of branding, celebrity endorsements, and fashion marketing. The research concludes that fashion branding has adopted a new strategy for bollywood celebrity advertising, one that reflects the need to move away from traditional campaigns and shift the focus from print media to social media with a change in consumer's attention span and brand preferences.

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Celebrity Endorsement, Branding, Fashion Marketing, Advertising, Brand Communication, Female Celebrity

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Since the beginning of humanity, human beings have tried to communicate with each other, but whenever there is communication, there can be interference. So, to prevent interference from occurring in important communications, cryptography and steganography were created. Where encryption transforms the current text into non-perceivable text and steganography masks the information so that it is not perceptible. These techniques are thousands of years old, partly following different paths, with cryptography being, without a doubt, the one that has stood out the most over the centuries, as it is the one that has always been at the service of military leaders and rulers. Without a doubt, the most popular of all was the one called the Caesar Cipher, because it was used by Julius Caesar, Roman emperor around the 4th century BC. This, given its simplicity and versatility, gave rise to some others, such as: Vigenere, Beaufort, Gronsfeld, etc. Throughout this article we will study the evolutionary relationship of the Cesar cipher with those of: Vigenere, Beaufort and Gronsfeld.

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The current study examines the complex challenges faced by Women With Disabilities (WWD), highlighting the impact of societal attitudes, intersectionality, and institutionalized gender norms. It discusses the significant marginalization these women experience across various life spheres, exacerbated by factors like gender, race, and socioeconomic status. Despite some research advancements, their experiences often must be more represented, particularly in the labor market and healthcare. The study calls for more inclusive research and practices that address the unique needs of women with disabilities, emphasizing the importance of gender-sensitive approaches, legal reforms, and more robust support systems to uphold their rights and dignity.

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Women With Disabilities (WWD), marginalization, labor market, healthcare

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This Paper presents an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT), focusing on enabling technology, protocols, and application concerns. The Internet of Things is enabled by the latest breakthroughs in RFID, smart sensors, communication technologies, Internet protocols. The core assumption is that smart sensors interact directly without human intervention to deliver a new class of applications. It describes about the different IoT enabling technologies like wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, big data analytics, communication protocols, embedded system. These technologies together enable development of IoT applications. It describes a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a collection of devices which communicate through wireless channels and a WSN consists of distributed devices with sensors which are used to monitor the environmental and physical conditions with some examples of WSNs used in IoT. It also describes Cloud computing is a computing model in which applications and services are delivered over Internet. The resources provisioned by cloud can be compute, networking or storage. Cloud allows the users to access resources based on utility model. Along with this, the characteristics of the cloud computing, three basic service models (Infrastructure-As-A-Service, Platform-As-A-Service, Software-As-A-Service) and four cloud deployment models like public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, hybrid cloud are also explained. Additionally, it covers big data analytics which involves collecting, processing, and analyzing large, diverse datasets. In big data analytics the six step data analytics frameworks are summarized. In addition to these, it mentions communication protocols that allow devices to exchange data over networks and explains about the embedded systems which are specialized computer systems designed to perform specific tasks. Also explains about the characteristics and three components of the embedded system. It also discusses IoT protocols for data communication and connection models. It describes the key pillars of IoT protocols as being device, connectivity, data, and analytics. It also outlines various types of IoT data protocols like AMQP, DDS, XMPP, and WebSocket that establish end-to-end communication. Additionally, it covers IoT network protocols like Bluetooth, LPWANs, ZigBee, Z-Wave and others that facilitate secured communication between IoT devices over the internet. It also features the list of communication protocols that are suitable for Internet of things. IoT Layered architecture protocols help to establish Communication between IoT Device (Node Device) and Cloud based Server over the Internet. It helps to send commands to IoT Device and received data from an IoT device over the Internet. It features from http to CoAP in four layer categorization i.e., link layer protocol uses 802.3, 802.11, 802.16, etc, Network layer discuses about IPV4, IPV6, 6LoWPAN, Transport layer protocol explains about TCP, UDP and finally application layer protocol describes the HTTP, CoAP, MQTT. Finally, it elucidates the logical design of IoT i.e., IoT functional blocks that provide the system capabilities for identifying, sensing, actuation, communication and management. The IoT communication models discusses about request response model, publish subscribe model, push pull model and exclusive pair. In addition to these it discusses about two different types of IoT communication API's i.e., rest-based communication API's and web socket-based API's.

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AMQP, DDS, XMPP, 802.3, 802.11, 802.16, HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, TCP, UDP, IOT, WSN

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Timely quarantine and medical treatment for suspected COVID-19 patients depend heavily on an accurate and quick diagnosis. To combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Using 3D CT volumes, a weakly supervised deep learning system was created for lesion localization and COVID-19 classification. A pre-trained U Net was used to segment the lung region for each patient. The segmented 3D lung region was then fed into a 3D deep neural network to predict the likelihood of COVID-19 infection; the COVID-19 lesions are localized by combining the unsupervised connected components and the activation regions in the classification network.

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SARS-CoV-2, DeCoVNet, deep learning, CT, COVID-19, and weak label.

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Abstract Purpose: The sporting field is one of the most lucrative industries that most producers would want to share and drive-in sales towards its direction. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate how sports psychology has become a useful discipline in enhancing consumer purchase intentions. Research design, data, and methodology: This study employs a qualitative coding method to analyze and interpret the data obtained with a PRISMA declaration for analytical purposes. Using Web QDA (Qualitative Data Analysis) online tools, the current study coded the data obtained. Results: According to the prior studies, marketers should go the extra mile of looking for what sports customers are looking for. They understand that one way to increase the customers' willingness to purchase their products is by looking into the specific things that the customers look for and enjoy in sports.

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The gynecologic disorder known as adenomyosis is heterogeneous. Adenomyosis patients may present with a variety of clinical symptoms. Although patients with adenomyosis can occasionally present asymptomatic, excessive menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhea are the most prevalent presentations. There are currently no accepted diagnostic imaging standards, making it difficult to determine which course of action is best for each patient. Diagnosing adenomyosis and assessing its response to treatment can be difficult because women with this condition frequently have other related gynecologic conditions, such as endometriosis or leiomyomas. This study aimed to present the most recent clinical data concerning the adenomyosis pathophysiology, imaging findings, clinical symptoms, diagnosis, risk factors, and treatment. The idea that adenomyosis arises from endometrial invasion of the myometrium, resulting in changes to the junctional zone, is supported by a number of studies. Imaging tests including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) frequently reveal these alterations. The second most popular explanation holds that pluripotent mullerian fragments that are displaced during embryonic development cause adenomyosis. Historically, adenomyosis was only identified after a hysterectomy; however, research has indicated that biopsies obtained during laparoscopy and hysteroscopy can also identify the condition. A differential diagnosis can be guided by noninvasive imaging. A review is conducted on the most prevalent findings on 2-dimensional/3-dimensional TVUS and MRI. Though new research suggests that 3-dimensional TVUS is preferable to 2-dimensional TVUS for the diagnosis of adenomyosis and may enable the detection of early-stage disease, both two-dimensional TVUS and MRI have reasonable sensitivity and specificity. Adenomyosis treatment options, including both surgical and medicinal ones, are discussed.

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IUDs, Uterine bleeding, Treatment, Endometrium, Uterus wall, Pelvic pain, Dysmenorrhoea, Menstrual cramps, Fibroids.

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