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Adopting critical discourse analysis, this study investigated good and evil roles of women in 30 top-grossing action movies with the following objectives: 1) to examine the verbal and non-verbal elements in women’s representation and 2) to trace significant changes in good and evil roles of female characters between 1930 to 2012. Findings indicated that good female characters were kind and gracious in the first two eras. They were allowed to fight on the battlefield in the new era. The classic good characters used imperatives while they showed their supporting nature by using modal verbs in the new Hollywood. Evil women appeared as sexy alluring spy in the second era. They got supernatural power in the last era. The post-classical villains preferred to use imperatives, but they used a variety of verbs to reveal their villainy in recent movies.

Post colonial literature in India has close connection with subalternity and ecofeminist questions. Memory novels help us in revisiting the past which will yield positive results. Colonization has witnessed cultural transgression and this has ultimately brought about losses, culminating in the question of identity. Arundhathi Roy and Kiran Desai are Booker prize winning female fictionists who have tried to map the post coloniality that exists in our country. They track all traces of despair in the society and reach the conclusion that it is a big mistake to infer that the subaltern cannot speak.

Seeds of Vigna aconitifolia Jacq. (mataki seeds) pre-soaked in cell free culture filtrate of post-harvest sapota fungi viz. Geotrichum candidum, Aspergillus niger and Rhizoctonia solani. In order to study the effect of incubation period on toxin production, the fungi were grown for different period ranging from 5-25 days. It is clear from the result that with the increase in incubation period, toxicity also increased. All the fungal filtrates showed decrease in percentage of seed germination with increase in filtrate age i.e. soaking time in all the fungal filtrates.

It is necessary to considered as the specialties of the sidha system. As the name suggests, this system endeavors to make its user, a siddha by making body fully resistant. Plants play a major role in curing disorders. Another specialty is examining the pulse or nadi sastram. This systems uses pulse as an aid to identify the disorders. The variation in pulses contains the types of pulses, corresponds to diseases and symptoms to be provided is been done by the practioners. As like that of our Indian traditional medicine. Same like our Indian traditional medicine, we have Korean Traditional Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. This paper gives the information regarding the methods and techniques used in those medicines.Siddha is a natural treatment and the oldest medical system of healing in the world. Nadi which is a pulse-based diagnosis method which is the skill of feeling the pulse, and is known to dictate all the salient features of a human body. In this paper, we provide a complete spectrum of details of our procedure for obtaining three different pulses based on time series. This system contains contains a strain gauge equipped with a diaphragm element, a transmitter and also an amplifier, a digitizer which quantifies the analog signals. The system is designed with 16-bit accuracy in such a way that it provides no interference noise and no external electronics. Compared with the prior systems like ECG, the system provides a detailed classification of the nadi pulses which produces the waveforms with respect to abnormalities.

Technology is being used by children and adults on a daily basis by way of web surfing, texting, social networking, interactive games, and in more ways. We are evolving technological society and in many ways have become dependent on its use. Thus, the use of technology and teaching students have to use it has become a high priority in the public schools. Modern technology tools that enable design, media production, self-expression, research, analysis, communication, collaboration, and computer programming are common place in various professions and disciplines, and facility with these tools is an essential part of becoming ready for college and careers. Interacting with digital learning environments that support the development of deeper learning skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and inquiry is also crucial. Technology is a factor improving learning is the fact that technology is becoming such an integral part of our everyday world. The most jobs today require some type of technology use. Also, the students and adults are using technology on a daily basis to communicate, get information in multiple ways. The prevalent daily use of technology in people’s lives overall makes the use of technology very relevant to the students and provides a connection that will greatly benefit student learning.

The experiment was conducted at the fields of Agriculture College-University of Baghdad Al- Jadiriyah in 2015 in sandy loam soil to evaluate using locally Ultrasonic device for determining the tillage appearance for different primary tillage equipment. New Holland" tractor was used in this study. Two levels of soil moisture included 18-20% and 14-16% and primary tillage implements included: disc plow , chisel plow and sweep plow were used . Soil surface roughness, number of clods with diameter larger than 10 cm , disturbed soil volume, bulk density, total porosity were measured. Split plot design under randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replicates was used. The results were showed that the best soil surface roughness was obtained at the second moisture level, and higher porosity 53.89 % at the first moisture level and there were no significant differences for levels moisture in both the number of clods with diameter larger than 10cm , disturbed soil volume and bulk density. Sweep plow superior in obtained less soil surface roughness , less number of clods with diameter large than 10cm 10.00 clod / m2 and higher porosity 53.94 % compared with chisel plow and disc plow. Higher disturbed soil volume obtained at the chisel plow 1193.00 m3 / hr, while no significant differences in bulk density attributed by plows types. Sweep plow with second moisture level was the superior in obtained less soil surface roughness and less number of clods with diameter large than 10cm 9.33 clod / m2, and sweep plow with first moisture level obtained less bulk density 1.17 mg / cm3 , higher porosity 55.33% While higher disturbed soil volume 1202.00 m3 / hr. obtained in chisel plow with first moisture level treatment

An expedious one pot, synthesis of bis (indolyl) methane was achieved in quantative yield, utilizing indole and substituted aromatic aldehyde using 5-SulphoSalicyclic Acid as a catalyst at room temperature within a short period of time.

An analysis of Mongolian idioms reveals that there is lot of cultural significance which could be compared with cultural context of other society especially Tamil society. The paper highlights some of the idioms used in Mongolian cultural context and presents the meaning of each idiom. The study is made in general perspective and the meaning of each idiom is explained both in Mongolian and Tamil context. The culture of Mongolia has been heavily influenced by the Mongolian nomadic way of life. A few idioms used in the contexts of family life, discussion with older people and village people are analyzed and their contextual significance is highlighted. The present attempt is to bring out the contextual relevance of some of the Mongolia idioms and show how significantly they fit into Tamil culture and tradition.

Set partitioning problems are known to be NP-hard, thus it requires massive amounts of times and efforts to solve them using linear programming and traditional algorithms. This study proposes to use a tabu algorithm for such problems. The proposed algorithm is applied to the distributing network design problem of a wholesale company. The orders of 420 customers from 24 cities in the region are currently satisfied from a central warehouse of the company. The proposed algorithm in this study aims to set up groups of customers based on their geographic locations with the goal of minimizing the total amount of traveling, thus cost and time throughout the network. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm reduces the total traveling by a considerable amount of 10%. The possible scenarios for alignment of the customers are suggested at the end of the study as a way of implementing the findings of this research.

Single crystals of potassium acid phthalate (KAP), a semi organic crystal have been grown from aqueous solution by slow evaporation technique by adding non essential, semi essential and essential amino acids L-cystine (CY), histidine (HI) and L-lysine(LY) as additives. Powder X-ray diffraction studies confirmed the phase formation and amino acids doping into KAP crystals. Optical absorption studies reveal that all the doped crystals possess higher absorption of visible ray than pure KAP crystals. Optical transmission is found to be low in case of LY doped KAP than all the other crystals. TG-DTA studies show the onset decomposition temperatures to be 255, 260, 247 and 230?C for pure, CY, HI and LY doped KAP crystals respectively. All crystals show SHG efficiency. 8.6mV, 6.8mV, 8.6mV and 5.5mV for (28mV for KDP) pure, CY, HI and LY doped KAP crystal. Grown crystals were subjected to FTIR, microhardness and dielectric studies. Key words: A. Optical materials; B. Crystal growth; C. Infrared spectroscopy; C. Thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA); C. X-ray diffraction; D. Dielectric properties; E. NLO and microhardness. a*Corresponding author:Email: wkum62@gmail.com,Tel: + 91 9566891852,