Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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VIT University

Department of English

Agriculture is back bone of world’s economy and human life to survive. Agricultural Industry has more or less remained dependent on conventional methods of farming. The farming conditions have changed significantly over last few decades. Soil Fertility, Amount of Water for Irrigation and other resources have become scarcer but the global population has increased immensely. This calls in need for implementation of better farming methods like precision farming which increase the overall yield. In recent years there had a gradual increase in the usage of such systems. WSNs tell us about some problems like interoperability, communications, scalability and connectivity. The main aim for precision farming (PA) is to increase the farming production by concerning climate, water quality, terrain, weather and crop status. In recent years farmers are using information systems for the improvement of crop management and to increase productivity. This leads to create a platform for managing farm activities and to improve biodiversity and to reduce the usage of water. Such new invention should be made to enhance and develop the farming. This paper analyses and reveals how IoT can lay a strong foundation towards sustainable development in agriculture. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Journal of Critical Reviews

Review of internet of things towards sustainable development in agriculture

This paper offers an interdisciplinary exploration linking the narratives of disaster studies and civil engineering programme in a Malaysian context. In Malaysia, civil engineers play a pivotal role in advancing the nation and people through the construction of infrastructure. This includes highways, buildings and dam construction. These constructions are heavily related to human beings and society at large. However, current literature indicates that civil engineers in Malaysia lack the ability to understand the narratives of trauma especially in cases of manmade and natural disasters. This is due to the fact that most civil engineering programmes focus on technical knowledge while little emphasis is given to trauma studies. Hence, this case study aims to link trauma studies and hydrometeorological disasters in Malaysia. Drawing theoretical frameworks from the work of the trauma narrative expert Cathy Caruth, this project aims to take her conceptual undertaking of trauma narratives to add on, compliment and strengthen the existing curriculum. The crux of this project involves civil engineering students in engaging with trauma narratives of disaster victims. The methodology is a narrative technique to capture the elements of trauma that can be represented in many forms. The paper reports on challenges and reflections as well as methodological constraints from this case study. It concludes with a promising integration of narrative technique in the curriculum. © 2020 IEEE.

IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON

A case study of trauma narrative for civil engineering students on hydrometeorological disaster victims in Malaysia

Learning of the English language has always been a high road for ESL learners, especially for many from Tamil Nadu. English is taught in forms of poems, prose, text etc. Though many of the students who reach the university to undergo their graduate programmes come from an English medium background, many find it challenging to understand and respond in English. Blame it for their innate fear they have towards the language or any other reason. Technology is something that these students embrace with so much ease. It is pretty evident the way they use their smartphones and masters the skills of using it in no time. Surviving a day without a smartphone is simply impossible for this generation. Hence, taking the aspect of their ease and loyalty to the smartphone, this paper attempts to critically analyse how the device will be of potent help in developing the reading skills in English. © 2020 Innovare Academics Sciences Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.

A critical review on developing reading skills using smartphones by ESL learners

Development of eco-friendly goods and services, of late, has been perceived as a fundamental principle for sustaining demand-driven industrialization. The global economy is steadily moving towards the next generation of industrialization courtesy green technological innovation. However, Carbon Emission Trading (CET) has been a major threat to the global march towards green economy. This study offers a case-based analysis of CET in terms of its genesis, evolution, and current practices to expose the limitations of such extreme free market environmentalism and its negative impact on the emerging green technological eco-system. CET has strengthened corporate control over environment and is a violator of environmental justice and, in turn, has come out as a nemesis of the ambitious green technological innovation. The major socio-economic actors who are supposed to push the green growth discourse, strategy, and action will be trapped in the new nihilistic competition unleashed by CET and the brown economy will continue to prevail upon the global technological innovation. © 2020 IJSTR.

International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research

Eroding environmental justice: can carbon emission trading stimulate green technological innovation?

International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences

An inquiry on publishers' criteria for recruitment of translators

Lexical knowledge is a significant and vital component of any language scholarship. This piece of investigation emphasizes how the recent approach enhancing and enriching the level of the vocabulary of ESL learners. There are several methods, approaches, techniques, and instructions for teaching and learning vocabulary. But only a few approaches focus on developing and improving the vocabulary level of ESL learners. Lexis plays an important role in language acquisition, mainly for ESL learners. Obtaining a higher word knowledge - can support these learners to share their ideas and messages effectively and efficiently. However, teaching and learning lexis is not an easy task. ESL learners can be benefited and improved their level of vocabulary through the approach. This paper shows how various approaches play an important role in making ESL learners master Vocabulary. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research.

Recent approaches for enhancing the vocabulary of ESL learners

Gunasekaran's Vadu(scar), an autobiography, explores caste domination, suppression, inequality, caste conflicts that made the Dalit undergo a socio-cultural alienation. His autobiography mainly focuses on how inequality plays a major role in the society and makes the society the dominant and the dominated. The paper deals with how the author reveals the exclusion and alienation he and his community experienced and how the socio-cultural exclusion imposed by the caste -hindus is questioned back. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research.

Addressing the socio-cultural exclusion: A critical study of gunasekaran's vadu (SCAR)

Educational institutions can utilize modern technologies such as IoT to deliver an interactive learning experience. The introduction of IoT in education will give rise to multiple applications that can enhance student safety, offer communication channels for global students, and assist disabled pupils. Today folks square measure creating most out of the technology; web accessibility has created procuring knowledge and staying connected terribly simple. Basically, web of things is simply associate degree extension of web property into hardware to assist in everyday tasks with the assistance of sensors has the potential to attach and act with things over the internet; management and monitor their performance. IoT can provide an engaging medium for educating students and improve efficiency by automating certain administrative tasks. With this approach, educational institutions can make learning more agile and improve the quality of education.IoT created education additional interactive and fun means of learning. This paper reveals some of the areas where IoT has influenced in higher education sectors. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research.

Review on IoT in enhancing efficiency among higher education institutions

The traditional classroom setting in emerging nation primarily involves teachers focusing their lessons solely on the class as a whole total group. At occasions when group activities are conducted, groupings are done randomly without any prior preparation or plan of purposeful grouping or students’ need. In both the cases, chances are high that some of the students are dissatisfied while some are at a disadvantage, because the material/content is taught with a one-size fits all notion, overlooking the fact that some learn fast, while some still remain confused and need more attention in order to grasp what is being taught. Many studies have focused on grouping, streaming or tracking students based on their ability alone. The objective of this study is to determine different types of instructional grouping as a cooperative differentiated strategy that affect learning in the classroom. This study will specifically see how different types of instructional grouping could keep all of the students of mixed ability meaningfully engaged, thereby affect learning in middle school classrooms and determine students’ overall cooperative growth. © 2020, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved.

Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems

Effects of instructional grouping as a cooperative differentiated strategy for learning: A study

In the digital age, security is one of the primary concerns of any organization. Every organization has realized that data is a major resource. Hence, organizations deploy advanced security mechanisms to safeguard business data. However, various industry giants have with major data breaches in the past few years. These data breaches have exposed vital data of millions of customers. Therefore, businesses are constantly looking for better alternatives to traditional security models. Biometrics such as fingerprint and iris scans are being utilized for authenticating employees at the workplace and identifying smartphone owners. Such biometrics can be implemented in organizations to authorize data access for confidential data. Biometrics can be used along with traditional passwords or PIN numbers for multi-factor authentication. Additionally, the adoption of AI will help develop data-driven security protocols. Hence, clubbing AI and biometrics together will lead to the creation of dynamic security models.AI systems can minimize' human error ' events, provided they are properly programmed and can contribute to making quicker choices through cognitive techniques. It is considered to be a very effective technology as it challenges the hackers to penetrate and ensures safety among the users. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)