The Economics of Disarmament and Arms Control through the Gorbachev era
The paper examines the economic crisis in the Soviet Union and, in this context, analyses why arms control was so important from the Soviet point of view. It further discusses the organic relationship between disarmament and development and rounds with a case for conversion of Soviet military economy. The ‘administered’ economy of the Soviet Union was in glaring contrast to the ‘market economies of the West. Unlike the Soviet-type command economy, the Western capitalist economy had capital-intensive production, private proprietorship, competition between firms, production for the market and global reach.
Published by: Dr. Soumen Dhar Choudhury
Author: Dr. Soumen Dhar Choudhury
Paper ID: V7I3-1663
Paper Status: published
Published: June 3, 2021
Ban on Chinese apps
India and China were maintaining good relationships with each other in several ways economically, politically, culturally etc. Both are members of several international cooperation bodies like the United Nation system organizations, BRICS etc. Chinese troops attacked Galwan Valley at Ladakh and in this face off 20 Indian army personnel were killed. Also, several news came regarding compromise with privacy of data of the Indian users who were using Chinese applications. So in light of these burning issues and the losses that Indian citizens suffered, government of India after thinking pros and cons and all the aspects legally, financially and economically banned 59 Chinese apps to safeguard the, sovereignty and integrity of India invoking powers under 69A of the Information Technology act read with relevant provisions of the Information Technology Procedure and Safeguards for blocking of access of information by Public Rules, 2009).
Published by: Felix Wilson, Sooraj Nair
Author: Felix Wilson
Paper ID: V7I3-1657
Paper Status: published
Published: June 3, 2021
Preliminary phytochemical screening and Invitro antioxidant activities of “Antidesma alexitera L.” leaf extract
There is no plant in the world that is non-medicinal, or which cannot be used as medicine is used as medicine. Folk or traditional systems of medicines always played an imperative role in the global healthcare system. Antidesma alexiteria L (Thalimaram), belongs to the Phyllanthaceae family. Antidesma species has been used in many traditional medicines to treat diarrhea, skin complaints, hemorrhages, and abdominal disorders. The present study focuses on the preliminary Phytochemical screening and evaluation of the antioxidant potential of Antidesma alexiteria L. For qualitative analysis, standard tests were used to identify phytochemicals present in the extract and confirmed the presence of carbohydrates, coumarins, glycosides, saponins, phenols, and phytosterols. Leaf extracts were also subjected to total phenolic content(TPC), total tannin content (TTC), and total flavonoid content(TFC). In quantitative estimation, the TPC content of each extract was 24.13, 32.65 & 3.89 mg of GA/g extract, TFC was 230.38, 493.85 &217.15 mg of Ru/g extract and total tannin were 613, 503 &39.67 mg of CTN/g extract respectively. Antioxidant properties of the three extracts were evaluated using DPPH assay, Nitric oxide scavenging activity, and total antioxidant activity. Ascorbic acid was used as standard. In DPPH free radical scavenging assay IC50 value of alcoholic, hydroalcoholic, and aqueous root extracts were found to be 650.7,534.1 and 7704.18μg/mL respectively. For the Nitric Oxide Radical Scavenging assay IC50 value of alcoholic, hydroalcoholic, and aqueous root extracts was found to be 928.9, 354.6, and 380.24 μg/mL respectively. The total antioxidant activity of the plant extracts was calculated from the calibration curve of ascorbic acid, and the results showed 49.76, 44.97 and84.14 mg of AA/g activity for ethanolic, hydroethanolic, and aqueous extracts respectively
Published by: Noreen Grace George, Dr. S. R. Suja, Meera T. S., B. S. BijuKumar, R. Prakash Kumar
Author: Noreen Grace George
Paper ID: V7I3-1603
Paper Status: published
Published: June 3, 2021
Combined Sine-Logistic chaotic map and its application in an image encryption scheme
With the rapid growth of technology, Information Security has become a significant concern in the contemporary world. Today, many new-fangled methods have been developed to transmit data in a fast and secure way. Among all the data that is being transmitted, digital images play a vital role. About 60 percent of the data that is being transmitted is in the form of digital images. These digital images require a safe and concealed method of transmission. Researchers have developed many concepts to execute image encryption like chaos theory, data encryption standard (DES), image filtering technology, advanced encryption standard (AES), neural network-based image encryption, DNA coding, fractional Fourier transforms, quantum theory, and compressive sensing. In the late years, additional scholars have focused on executing chaos theory in image encryption schemes due to large key space’s advantages and high-level security. In the project, we have provided a new logic for digital image encryption. This method combines the usage of the logistic map and sine map to create a new chaotic map. By doing this, the randomness, sensitivity and robustness are further increased. The proposed system used row by row and column by column confusion and diffusion mechanisms, which increases the security multi-fold. Unlike conventional methods, this method uses scrambling pixels from their actual rows and columns and applies bit-level manipulation to each pixel. This disrupts the interrelationship between adjacent pixels of the ciphered image. Further, the security and simulation analysis show that 1DSP-1E has a greater level of reliability than the other encryption schemes
Published by: Aasha Suresh
Author: Aasha Suresh
Paper ID: V7I3-1643
Paper Status: published
Published: June 2, 2021
Plight of the Subaltern woman in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”
ABSTRACT Europeans identify them with ‘Eurocentrism’ and observe themselves as dominant and superior, and their colonized land as inferior to them. The colonizers are concerned about the possibility of being contaminated by the interaction with the colonized people and have always been frightened of this interaction, thereby leaving behind their supremacy and power over the colonized, consequently, the colonizers consider the interaction as a menace and disguised their fear. This study examines Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi” which reflects the Subaltern concept which is one of the significant concepts of Postcolonialism. It was popularized by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s essay titled, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1985). The status of women in the society, predominantly marginalized is engrossed with the sense of negligence. These marginalized women are suffering in terms of their gender, class and caste discrimination. These women are not provided any authority with regard to their own self and existing. The marginalized women live on the edge of the domination and anguish. This paper persistently attempts to re-examine the marginalization of the tribal woman with reference to Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”, which is a metanarrative, capturing the life and times of its protagonist Dopdi Majhen, a Santhal tribal, at the intersection of modern developmental state and subsistent subaltern survival. It raises the issues of class, caste and colonialism, and their collusion in the formation of hegemonic patriarchal nation state and how this mainstream formation maintains itself through violent ‘othering’ of the margins. Mahasweta Devi is one of the contemporary woman writers who deal with the forms of oppression in her works. She is considered as one of the boldest of Bengali female writers whose works are associated with the rural tribal community of West Bengal, women and dalits. Feministic aspect is observed in her works through the sympathetic portrayal of women and their consequent revolt. She exemplifies the sufferings of women, miseries and their power of enduring and resistance. She also deals with the women issues like loneliness, separation, women’s fight for survival, exploitative situations like rape, marital violence, death and its loss and female slavery. Critics like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak view Mahasweta Devi’s works as rich sites of feminist discourse.
Published by: S. Karthicka
Author: S. Karthicka
Paper ID: V7I3-1642
Paper Status: published
Published: June 2, 2021
TravelBRAT – WEB application
Inspired by the idea of changing the world of travel websites, we thought there hasn’t been an evolution when it comes to websites. Normal websites don’t provide enough exposure to what the user wants and provide only limited amount of functionality. This project was solely focused to make the user like the concept of this application and would expose them to the idea of new destinations in a better interactive manner than the current travel websites.
Published by: Bhavya Gor, Tanya Mistry, Rajkaran Shukla, Adheesh Salian, Chintamani Chavan
Author: Bhavya Gor
Paper ID: V7I3-1639
Paper Status: published
Published: June 2, 2021
