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 Social Sciences

India is one of the leading economies in the world in terms of trade on various goods and services. The traditional Indian goods were demanded more at the global level. India is the leading producer of many goods and among these goods, tea is one of the consumable beverages produced at the large scale. India is one of the leading producers, exporter and consumers of tea in the world. India was once the leading producers and exporter of tea in the world. The trend has changed now. India lost its place to China. The share of India's tea production and export has been declining over the years. The present research has taken up this issue to analyses the status of India in the world tea economy. The present study is based on the secondary data for analysis. The study covers the period of 14 years from 2001 to 2014. The research has used econometric and statistical tools for analysis. The study found that India's contribution towards the world tea production and tea export has not increased significantly over the years;the area under tea cultivation in India has not increased in par with the area under tea cultivation in the world. The study suggests that there is a need for increase in the production of tea through increase in area under tea cultivation, export of tea should be increased and import of tea should be decreased to preserve the valuable foreign exchange reserve and there is an urgent need for creating awareness among the people about the health importance of tea.

Department of Commerce

School of Social Sciences & Languages

Vellore Campus

International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research

The problems and prospects of indian tea industry - An analysis

A survey was conducted to examine the strength of a relationship that develops over the years between children (confined to teenagers and those below 24 years of age) and parents who stay together with their children as well as those who don't. Also it was observed whether the distancing of children from the places they grew up and spent their childhood in after a particular age helped them become either independent or less dependent on their parents thus, helping them develop a more mature mentality than those staying with their parents. The survey was carried out in VIT University, Vellore, India selecting 60 day scholars (equivalent number of boys and girls) and 60 hostellers (equivalent number of boys and girls). Category specific sets of questionnaires were provided and the result was interpreted on the basis of the distance between parents and children and the decision making ability of an individual which directly affected the independency or dependency level of the child on his or her parents. The independent variable chosen here is distance between parent and children whereas the dependent variable taken is the independency in decision making ability observed in children.

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International Journal of Indian Psychology

Independence in Decision Making: Considering the Distance between Parents and Their Children

NHAI is one of the most important PPP project undertaken in India. The National Highways connects India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Maharashtra to West Bengal. Twelve National Highways cross through Tamil Nadu, which has a total distance of 4462 Kms. From the stage of acquiring encumbrance land to the construction of NH, costs are incurred at various stages. The cost of one stretch of NH is different from the cost of another stretch of NH. Cost depends on number of factors like the over bridges, ROB, RUB and culverts, and also on the nature of elevations construction. Depending on the cost, basic toll rates are determined. In this paper analysis of Cost and Revenue are taken up for two stretches of NH 45. © Research India Publications.

International Journal of Applied Engineering Research

Analysis of cost and returns from NHAI – A case study of Nh45

AbstractThe present study adopts a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the impact of perceived parental differential treatment towards 30 non-disabled siblings of children with cerebral palsy 7–10 years of age. Standardised inventories such as, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (SBIT), the Connors Parent Rating Scale-Revised (CPRS) and the Draw-a-Family test were used pre and post intervention. Scheduled interviews were used for parents and children to obtain information regarding family cohesiveness. A special program was designed to structure the home environment and to maximise parental involvement that catered to the “needy child” and this was implemented for 6 months after which the children were reassessed. Prior to the intervention, we observed deficits in cognitive skills and siblings had concerns in hyperactivity and oppositional behaviour. Scheduled interviews with siblings elicited responses that represented neglect, perceived differential treatment and negative emotional well-being. Projective tests revealed that family dynamics were disturbed and chaotic. Post intervention, we observed significant differences in the cognitive orientation, behavioural engagement and also in the interpersonal relationship within the family. We may conclude therefore, that parental involvement significantly predicts academic and psychosocial adjustment of siblings and this is an important implication for practitioners in developing early intervention programs.

VIT Unitversity

International Journal on Disability and Human Development

Perceived parental differential treatment, cognition, behaviour and family cohesiveness among siblings of children with cerebral palsy? A family-mediated intervention to understand “displaced” children

Background: Perfectionism is a multifaceted concept. It had both advantages and disadvantages. Perfectionistic traits have been associated with leadership and very intellectual people. The present study is an attempt to understand if engineering students possess perfectionistic orientation and whether it influences self-efficacy, social connectedness, and achievement motivation. Materials and Methods: The present study adopts a random sampling design to evaluate the presence of perfectionism as a personality trait among undergraduate engineering students (N = 320). Standardized inventories such as Almost Perfect Scale-Revised were administered first to identify perfectionists and second to differentiate the adaptive from the maladaptive perfectionists. Scheduled interviews were conducted with students to obtain information regarding birth order and family functioning. Results: Findings from the study reveal that there were a significant number of maladaptive perfectionists and that they experienced higher levels of personal and societal demands leading to a negative emotional well-being in comparison to the adaptive perfectionists. We also observed that first-born children were more likely to display a perfectionistic self-presentation and from scheduled interviews, we understood that paternal influences were stronger when it came to decision-making and display of conscientiousness. Conclusion: The study draws on important implications for helping students to understand perfectionism and to respond to demands of the family and societal subsystems in a positive and an adaptive manner. © 2016 Indian Psychiatric Society | Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow.

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

Does birth order and academic proficiency influence perfectionistic self-presentation among undergraduate engineering students? A descriptive analysis

International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

Socio-Economic conditions of the Elderly : A Review

One of the most significant battles in southern part of India that resulted in a huge blood shed among both the forces is the Battle of Talikota. Roughly 1.5 lakh of warriors died along with the destruction of the medieval city of Vijayanagara. This battle that happened in the year 1565 marked the beginning of the Hindu-Muslim dispute in the southern part of the country. The battle of Talikota not only resulted in the destruction of Vijayanagara but also many other surrounding territories'. With the data provided by famous researchers and by a thorough analysis on the subject, the Battle of Talikota is one of the most significant battles etched in South Asia's history. The battle lead by the famous king Rama Raya against a frontier of Muslim coalition saw the defeat of the Hindu army by a well-planned Sultan attack. The defeats say the Hindu armies fall in two centuries. © Serials Publications.

Man in India

An analysis of the battle of Talikota

This research work describes the region-based approach for satellite image classification to extract land use details in the Vellore District of Tamil Nadu, India. The objective is to find the greenery and used lands of the study area by classifying the satellite imagery using fuzzy-based, K-nearest neighbourhood, support vector machine classification methods and spectral information of a LANDSAT satellite image. The LANDSAT image is applied along with the image processing algorithms to get classified image. These algorithms are implemented and the objects are identified. These identified objects and ground truth values of study area are compared. By comparing producer's accuracy, user's accuracy, omission error and commission error, the overall accuracy is calculated and the algorithm which gives the better performance is identified for LANDSAT image of the study area, Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India. © 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Department of Embedded Technology

School of Electronics Engineering

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management

Accuracy analysis of various classification algorithms for used land

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Background: Visual impairment tends to evoke more discomfiture than any other disability. Primarily, the biggest issue may be that blindness is visible. Furthermore, visual impairment develops serious medical, psychological, social and economic problems. Objectives: The focus of the current study was to investigate the psychological and psycho physiological problems of visually impaired adolescent students. Patients and Methods: Purposive sampling was adopted to select 150 visually impaired students (71 males and 72 females) from five schools in Coimbatore city of the Tamil Nadu state, India. Anxiety, frustration, aggression and social and personal adjustment levels of the visually impaired students were measured in this study using Taylor's manifest anxiety scale, frustration test, aggression scale and the adolescent adjustment inventory, respectively. Results: Anxiety (χ 2 = 185.66, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01), frustration (χ 2 = 167.23, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01) and aggression (χ 2 = 57.66, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01) were significantly related to adjustment among visually impaired students. The adjustment score had a significant positive correlation with anxiety (r = 0.919, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01), frustration (r = 0.887, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01) and aggression levels (r = 0.664, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01), anxiety was significantly correlated with frustration (r = 0. 961, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01) and aggression levels (r = 0.727, P &lt; 0.01) and frustration was significantly correlated with aggression level (r = 0. 637, P = 0 at P &lt; 0.01) of visually impaired adolescents. There was a positive relationship between psycho-physiological disorders and anxiety frustration, aggression and adjustment among visually impaired students. Conclusions: Visually impaired students exhibited significant levels of psychological and psycho-physiological problems. © 2016, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.