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

School of Social Science and Languages

English as the Second language learning recently gained attention in the field of research. The ESL (English as Second Language) learners need vocabulary enhancement and fluency for proficiency of the language which can be achieved through training. By learning and practicing a language with enhanced vocabulary will increase the vocabulary. TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) talks are a world’s biggest digital platform for public speaking. Vocabulary elements given in the TED talks can be defined as a lexicon of language which plays a significant role in communication. The aim of this research conveys the significant role of TED talk videos’ speaker and its influence towards its audiences. This can be achieved only by practical use of vocabulary by the ESL and EFL learners. In this research work, Persuasive and Argumentative vocabulary in the transcript of random 25 TED talk videos with time frame of 0-6mins, and sorted by ‘newest’ tab are analyzed. Also, in-depth analyses of both Persuasive and Augmentative keywords used and its frequencies are listed out from the 25 videos. This research significantly concludes that for effective communication, the learner has to be proficient in vocabulary acquisition. © BEIESP.

World University root node

Language

Chennai Campus

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering

Technological modality to influence persuasive and argumentative vocabulary for effective communication with reference to selected TED talk videos

The evolution and transformation of human beings is a part of nature, but as human beings civilized,they started to migrate from one place to another to enhance their condition of existence. As time passed, migration has transformed into different frames and even people have transformed themselves according to advancements in technologies. At present, migration has become an ordinary occurrence due to globalisation. Its not that migration alone has transformed, but also the perspectives of the migrants; they have started to adapt to the migrated culture without giving up their origin culture. They maintain multiple connections with different nations without disturbing their origin. The theory of studying the multiple networks of immigrants and undergoing struggles in acclimatising and emerging with both the migrated culture and native culture is termed as transnationalism. “When people overcome the crisis by accepting, adapting and emerging with both the identities making dual identity and multiple connections with other nations the they are termed as transnationals or trans-border communities”. (Abirami and Alamelu, 2018, p34)Both men and women migrate, but when women migrate, they undergo infinite struggles in their migrated land. When women transcend nation, they are labelled as transnational women; many writers have penned and verbalised the tussles and challenges of immigrant women. Among those writers, SelinaSiak Chin Yoke's novel The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds sets as a best model to interpret transnational women's experience. The objective of the present paper is to analyse the transnational experience and the tussles of immigrant women in the novel The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds through the lens of orthogonal cultural identification theory. © 2019 Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication. All rights reserved.

Assimilation and intergration of cultures: A study of transnational experiences in Selina Siak Chin Yoke's novel 'The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds'

The first ethical dogmas are imparted by parents and elders; however societies strongly believe only the documented proofs. So their ideas are attributed as document forms for historical evidences in philosophical view. These shreds of evidence have their origin from Ancient Greek Western ethical theories, and they consist of clever advices on how to live happily, to avoid unnecessary troubles, and to gain progress in one’s career. It is also helpful for rulers to judge people and treat them impartially. Unfortunately, these western ethical theories have eventually developed as more anthropocentric, and humans have started cultivating a chauvinistic attitude towards both nonhumans and natural resources or environment. Anthropocentrism plays a crucial role in the field of environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. This paper mainly deals with environmental ethics, which is the human ethical liaison between people and the natural world and the sort of opinion people create about the environment based on this relationship. Further it analyses how western ethical theories (misinterpretation of biblical teaching and applied normative ethics utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, and Aristotle’s virtue ethics) have given importance to human intrinsic values and how this anthropocentric chauvinism of the western ethical theories is the root of our present environmental crisis. It also proves that we are facing global crisis today not because how the ecosystems function but rather because of the immoral functioning of our ethical system.

VIT Unitversity

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering Special Issue

Environmental Ethics: Anthropocentric Chauvinism as Seen in Western Ethical Theories

Vocabulary teaching is one of the most imperative aspects of instruction for ESL learners because it influences both productive and respective skills of students. This prudent study stresses and explores how to use hyponyms of the select TED wordlist nouns in academic writing. Therefore, the qualitative gap in vocabulary understanding of ESL learners can be linked. The method made use of WordNet to evaluate and the outcome was analyzed. The acquired results of this research revealed that the effective use of WordNet increased more acquaintance for learning the meaning of new vocabulary. Copyright © 2019 by authors, all rights reserved.

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Universal Journal of Educational Research

Improving Noun Hyponyms Using Select TED Wordlist through WordNet: An Investigational Study

This paper aims to bring about a comparison between the philosophies of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Nietzsche. The universal nature of these philosophies and how they measure up against each other will be analyzed. Furthermore, the superiority of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s philosophy over the others (philosophies mentioned above) is also tested in terms of universality and humanistic values. The litmus test for all these theories is whether they can impact every individual in their quest for inner peace. Hence, all the theories are examined and compared for the attainment of peace, fulfillment and joy for every individual as a world citizen, not on the basis of nationality, religion or community. © 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved.

Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems

Comparative study of the philosophies of jiddu krishnamurti, friedrich nietzsche, ayn rand and jacques derrida

Be it for the purpose of seeking better education, to make a living or just to live a busy life full of hustle and bustle, people find themselves travelling to huge metropolitan cities. With the numbers increasing with leaps and bounds, the cost of living is drastically affected. The resources are used extensively, but the process of mass production acts as a counter to this in some sectors. It is imperative to be aware of the necessities and their costs in these cities to plan a satisfactory life, without causing a ruckus and ending up broke. Keeping in mind, the necessity of living in these metropolitan cities, a statistical study is aimed to analyse the cost of living in these huge hubs, which would help the people to get a good idea of the financial challenges and aid them to plan their budget for comfort life. The study involves a survey inquiring about the cost of basic amenities required to live in metropolitan cities in India. The average expenditure of people is to determine the deviation across the country. Testing of hypothesis is applied to test the significant difference between average from our observations (which acted as sample) and average from the internet source (as population). The statistical study proves to be an efficient tool in identifying the most cost efficient city, to sustain a satisfactory life at minimal expense and financial efficiency in various aspects. The result clearly indicates the significance of the data analytics which guides the individuals to plan their future living in these humungous cities. The report serves as an aid to the common masses to sustain a satisfactory lifestyle in the buzzing metropolitan cities, getting the most out of every penny. © BEIESP.

Mathematics

School of Advanced Sciences

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering

Cost of living in metropolitan cities: Statistical analysis using R studio

Era of technology has bestowed with plethora of developments and evolution in the routine human life. One field in which such changes could be experienced much is the genre of films. In the recent past, there are myriads of films released with the concept of AI (Artificial Intelligence). The globe of AI, is often an interesting topic for the engineering graduates but it is not focused by the students pursuing graduation in Humanities. The objective of this research critique is to bring out how AI could be introduced in humanities classrooms using films. Attempt is made to justify the objective using a few films as examples.

International Journal of Engineering & Technology

“Humanities to Humanoids”: Edutainment of Artificial Intelligence through Ict

In the present world, social networking sites offer a great platform to communicate, collaborate and socialize – personally and professionally with the world around us. According to WHO report, blind people are a significant group comprising 45 million totally blind and 285 million partially blind. This paper reviewing studies on the non (use) of social media by blind people in and out India. It examines the impediments, achievements and expectations of blind people with regard to social network sites based on past research work.

Psychology

Blindness and Social Media in India

Prophenoloxidase is a conserved Cu-containing enzyme acting as a major defense molecule in the immune response of crustaceans. In the present research, we purified prophenoloxidase from the haemolymph of Portunus pelagicus (Pp-proPO) by Blue Sepharose CL-6B chromatography. Pp-proPO exhibited only one band with molecular weight of 75 kDa on SDS-PAGE. The purified Pp-proPO was characterized through X-ray diffraction (XRD) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Pp-proPO showed phagocytic activity on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as well as encapsulation on sepharose CL-6B beads associated with CM sepharose and beads of sodium alginate. Pp-proPO also led to strong agglutination on human erythrocytes. Furthermore, Pp-proPO showed magnified PO activity when altered with activated particles acting as pathogen combined molecular patterns (PAMPs), metal ions or other chemicals. Pp-proPO showed relevant antibiofilm activity on Gram negative bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. Overall, the above results allowed us to claim that Pp-proPO play a key role in immune defense mechanisms of P. pelagicus crabs, in particular towards microbial pathogens; notably we added basic information to the functional characterization of Pp-proPO, as well as to understand its immunological role in crustaceans defense systems. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.

Department of Biotechnology

School of Bio Sciences and Technology

Vellore Campus

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Identification, characterization and immune response of prophenoloxidase from the blue swimmer crab Portunus pelagicus and its antibiofilm activity

Using the technological devices all the time is the order of the day for students nowadays. The question ‘Why we should not cash in on their liking towards those devices’ kindled the researcher to carry out a study to know the effect of using such a device on their writing performance. However, using technological devices outside the class room is more beneficial and thus, enables the instructor to flip the class. In fact, inverting the class delegates the responsibility to students and lets teachers to clarify their doubts in the next day’s class and check their understanding with the time available. At the same time, it provides plenty of opportunity for students to get a thorough knowledge about the topic prepared by the teachers using devices. The aim of present study is to find out which instructional model, traditional or flipped improves the writing skills. The students who constituted the sample attempted to write a project proposal on two different tasks, the assigned tasks both after the traditional Instructional model (teacher- centered teaching)&nbsp; and after their exposure to the audio clippings on ‘How to write a project proposal’ prepared by the instructor cum researcher. The parameters set for the study to measure the improvement in their writing performance are the following: content, organization and readability of the proposal prepared. The correlation co-efficient using R statistical software is found to be in supportive of flipped instructional model than traditional instructional model for the utilization of the available class time for questioning and discussion on the modality of writing a project proposal.

Letravailhumain

Is Flipped Instructional Strategy Preferable to Traditional  Instructional Strategy to Improve the Writing Performance of  Tertiary Level Students?