Does Meat Consumption Affect the Environment?
One day while I was eating at a restaurant that offers both vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisine. When I was leaving, I saw that all the waste meat was being discarded not in a garbage can but was just dumped onto a pile of waste. This inspired me to find out if meat consumption affects the environment. My main aim by researching and writing a report on it is to educate people on the causes, consequences of consumption of meat and what can be done to reduce its effects on the environment. Production of meat has huge environmental effects – increasing greenhouse gas discharges, usage of pastoral land and consumption of huge volumes of freshwater that are required to grow feed crops, provide animals with drinking water and clean filthy factory farms. Meat consumption also escalates the chances of long-lasting diseases along with disturbing biodiversity. Moreover, the emission of methane gas from cattle adds stress to the environment leading to global warming. Research indicates that people living in the USA, Australia and other countries rely strongly on diets containing meat, and not many actions have been taken by their governments to overcome the issue. On the other hand, the government of countries like Israel, encourage their people to follow a vegan diet to reduce the effects of meat consumption on the environment. Nationally and globally, awareness about the outcomes of meat intake on healthiness and ecosystem and the positive impact of a vegan diet can be widely spread through posters and campaigns. After researching this issue, I can now deeply understand the impacts of human dietary choices on the environment, public health, animal extinction and imbalance in ecosystems nationally and globally.
Published by: Shah Mahirie Jalpesh
Author: Shah Mahirie Jalpesh
Paper ID: V7I2-1257
Paper Status: published
Published: April 6, 2021
Can an automated vitals kiosk machine deliver quality vital measurement?
Vital signs monitoring is an important first step in the early detection of the clinical conditions of patients in a hospital OPD setting. In all hospitals, the vital measurements are recorded by trained staff nurses in OPD before a doctor consult. A Nurse is a very valuable and scarce resource in a hospital setting and repetitive mechanical tasks like measuring vitals need not be done by a nurse in an OPD and can be automated using a kiosk so that nurses can be redeployed for clinical care. India Health Link (IHL) self-service kiosks can measure parameters like Blood Pressure (BP), Body Mass Composition (BMC), Height, Weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), Electrocardiogram (ECG), Pulse rate, Oxygen saturation (O2), Body Temperature and a 6 lead ECG – All basic parameters which are required pre doctor consult. If placed and used in a hospital setup, it could potentially reduce the time to doctor for all patients, since they need not wait for vitals reading by a dedicated medical professional. It could also help prioritize which patients may require the immediate attention of the doctor and whether the patient is to be treated in an emergency or can be redirected to OPD. It could also be advantageous if installed in public hospitals making it accessible to a large number of people, thus reducing the time to doctor by highlighting any abnormalities in vitals readings – and making the user aware of the same
Published by: Dr. S. Saravana Kumar, Manickavasagam, Dr. Renuka Vidyashankar, Sameer Mehta
Author: Dr. S. Saravana Kumar
Paper ID: V7I2-1296
Paper Status: published
Published: April 5, 2021
Law of maintenance under hindu law
This paper deals with the Maintenance of wife under the Hindu Marriage Act. The concept of maintenance aims at putting the wife back in the same position of comfort and lifestyle as she was at the time when her marriage existed. There is no fixed amount of maintenance that the husband is liable to pay to his wife, and it's upon the discretion of a family court to fix the amount of maintenance that the husband needs to pay either on a monthly basis or in form of a lump sum. Maintenance to wife is a very complicated issue under Hindu Marriage Act. It is often stated as a means to exploit the husband by asking alimony for life. Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (the Act) states that either husband or wife may claim maintenance pendent lite i.e. maintenance till the proceedings are in process. Further, section 25 of the Act states the grounds permanent alimony. Maintenance to wife refers to the payments, which a husband, under certain circumstances is under an obligation to pay. The obligation of payment of maintenance can either during the subsistence of the marriage or after the dissolution of the marriage. The most important aspect of maintenance has no independent source of income to support himself/herself. The quantum of maintenance and the expenses of the proceedings have not been specified in any of the Indian Matrimonial statuses except the Divorce Act.
Published by: Swetha Sree V.
Author: Swetha Sree V.
Paper ID: V7I2-1287
Paper Status: published
Published: April 5, 2021
Trends and application in data mining
In our day to day life, many Terabytes of data are generated by various organizations around the world, as data has been increasing each day in Tremendous amount there is a need for some tools and techniques which may be used and hence help humans to analyze large data repositories and gain some useful information. This need which keeps on increasing on daily basis gives rise to an area known as Data Mining or Knowledge Discovery of Databases. The main aim of Data Mining is to extract some useful unknown patterns or knowledge or information from the vast amount of data repositories. In this automated world, many organization uses Data Mining as it enhances various fields of human life including education, agriculture, business, etc. using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and various data visualization techniques. This paper discusses and describes Data Mining and how data mining is performed for Retail Industries, the paper also describes how data mining can be used for Fraud Detection.
Published by: Manish Choudhary, Sagar Patil, Mehar Singh
Author: Manish Choudhary
Paper ID: V7I2-1295
Paper Status: published
Published: April 5, 2021
Effect of neem treatment on the total sugar content of mango midge fly
Neem was proved to be an eco-friendly & best insecticide. Neem components show multiple effects against different insects. In the present work, neem leaves were used for the gall treatment. The total sugar content of mango midge larvae was determined in this investigation. After 24hrs of treatment larval sugar was found to be decreased significantly (p>0.01). After 48hrs and 72hrs, it showed a moderately significant (p>0.05) decrease. After 72hrs,7days, and 15 days this decrease was more significant (0.001).
Published by: Pallavi Kohirkar
Author: Pallavi Kohirkar
Paper ID: V7I2-1225
Paper Status: published
Published: April 1, 2021
Effectiveness of study skills on academic performance among nursing students
Study habits are the most important predictor of academic performance and global research has revealed that study habits affect academic performance. In this regard, Nursing students are faced with a large amount of information that is difficult to organize and learn, which requires not only knowledge but also the application of study skills. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of study skills on academic performance among nursing students. A pre-experimental research approach, group pre-test, and post-test research design were adopted. The data was collected from 78 students of I year B.Sc Nursing (2019 batch) of PSG College of Nursing, Coimbatore. The tool comprised of Demographic variables, VARK Questionnaire (version 7.8), and Study skills questionnaire. Assessment of Learning styles indicates that in total, 58 students (76%) preferred only one learning style (single modal), and 18 students preferred to use multiple learning styles (multimodal). The statistical student's test was computed between pre-test and post-test mean scores of Academic performance. The calculated was 35.93, which was greater than the tabulated value (3.195) at p<0.001 level. The results clearly stated that there was an improvement in academic performance of first-year B.Sc. Nursing students after the understanding of study habits.
Published by: Leena J., Reena RCJ, Dr. A. Jayasudha, Hema D., Jenifer Gracy M., Keerthana B., Abishak R., Blessy M.
Author: Leena J.
Paper ID: V7I2-1276
Paper Status: published
Published: April 1, 2021
