Nagabooshanam, P; Dr.Leelakrishnan, P(Cochin University of Science and Technology, July 29, 1988)
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The Constitution of India. which has been described by an eminent writer as a "Corner stone of a nation". Has bestowed sufficient thought on the underprivileged. A number of provisions incorporated in it for their benefit tell the tale of statesmanship of the framers of the Constitution. for the vitality of a Constitution depends on the extent to which it affords protection to the under—priveleged. One such laudable provision in the Constitution relates to "weaker sections of the people", which has directed the State to promote with special care the educational and economic interests of such people. Besides. the Constitution has laid great stress on social justice. No comprehensive analysis in a single work seems to have been made so far of the connotations of social justice and the scope of the constitutional safeguards provided in favour of the weaker sections of the people. This thesis is the result of an attempt to analyse the connotations of social justice and the scope of the constitutional provisions made for the benefit of the weaker sections and the role played by the judiciary in this field The weaker sections, which are sought to be covered in this work, are "Backward C1asses". socially and educationally Backward Classes", "Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes" and women. The first two categories of weaker sections have not been defined in the Constitution. So, their meaning and the criteria to determine them have to be gathered from the reports submitted by various Backward Class Commissions and judicial decisions rendered in a number of cases. The main thrust in this work is to understand the meaning and contents of social justice, identify the relevant weaker sections and to examine the extent to which the social justice has been rendered to the said weaker sections. The scope of this thesis is confined to the examination of the role of the judiciary in this field. So, the enquiry has been focussed mainly on the decisions of the judiciary bearing on the subject with a view to assessing the role of the judiciary in rendering social justice meaningful to the weaker sections in particular and to the Indian Society in general.
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Department of Law, Cochin University of Science and
Technology
Mini,S; Dr.Rajeev, D(Cochin University of Science and Technology, 2010)
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Globalisation has many facets and its impact on labour is one of the most significant aspects.Though its influence is worldwide,it is much more significant in a transforming economy like India.The right of workers to social security is seen recognised under the Constitution of India and other welfare legislations.But,after adoption of the new economic policy of liberalisation and privatisation by the Government of India,the labour is exposed to new set of challenges.They are posed mainly due to economic restructuring affected in employment relationship,coupled with the increase in unprotected informal labour force.This study is an attempt to analyse the new challenges stemming up in employment relation,efficacy of the existing measures for social security of labour in the present economic condition and the suggestions for securing workers'right to social security in the trade regime.
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School of Legal Studies,Cochin University of Science and Technology
Suresh, P R; Rajasenan, D(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, April , 2015)
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The study is focused on education of tribes particularly the problem of high dropout rate existing among the tribal students at school level. Scheduled Tribe is one of the marginalized communities experiencing high level of educational deprivation. The analysis of the study shows that the extent of deprivation existing among STs of Kerala is much higher compared to that of other communities. The present study covered tribes of three tribal predominant districts of Kerala such as Idukki, Palakkad and Wayanad. Out of the 35 tribal communities in the State, 17 of them are concentrated in these districts. Tribes concentrated in Idukki include Muthuvans, Malai Arayan, Uraly, Mannan and Hill Pulaya. The present study analyzed dropouts situation in tribal areas of Kerala by conducting Field Survey among dropout and non-dropout students at school level. High dropouts among STs persist due to many problems which are of structural in nature. Important problems faced by the tribal students that have been analyzed, this can be classified as economic, social, cultural and institutional. It is found that there exists high correlation between Income and expenditure of the family with the well-being of individuals. Significant economic factors are poverty and financial indebtedness of the family. Some of the common cultural factors of tribes are Nature of Habitation, Difference in Dialect and Medium of Instruction etc. Social factors analyzed in the study are illiteracy of parents, migration of family, family environment, motivation by parents, activities engaged in for helping the family and students’ lack of interest in studies. The analysis showed that all these factors except migration of the family, are affecting the education of tribal students. Apart from social, economic and cultural factors, there are a few institutional factors which will also influence the education of tribal students. Institutional factors analyzed in the study include students’ absenteeism, irregularity of teachers, attitude of non-tribal teachers and non-tribal students, infrastructure facilities and accessibility to school. The study found irregularity of students and accessibility to school as significant factors which determine the dropout of the students.
Radhakrishna Pillai, S; Dr.Sukumaran Nair, M K(Cochin University of Science And Technology, May , 1991)
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The contemporary explanations and discussions of
the relationship between medicine and health, and society
centre around assumptions that can be broadly classified
into three setsl.
The first set considers health and illness as
predominantly ‘biological’ and therefore, having nothing to
do with the social and economic environment in which it
occurs. The struggle to combat illness therefore, lies
entirely within the purview of modern medicine which is
neutral to economic or social change.
The second considers practice of medicine as a
natural science. It allows the doctor to separate himself
from his subject matter, the patient, in the samelway as the
natural scientist is assumed to separate himself from his subject matter, the natural world. As a 'science' and with
the scientific method, it can produce unchallengable and
autonomous body of knowledge which is free from the wider
social and economic context.
The third, different from the above, recognises
the relationship between health, medicine and society.
Social and environmental aspects as determinants of illness
or of health comes to sharp focus here and it assigns to
medicine the status of a mediator, the only viable mediator,
between people and diseases. In this scheme of things the
usefulness of medicine is unquestionable but the problem
lies in not having enough of it to go arounds.
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Department of Applied Economics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Nandha, B; Dr.Mary,Joseph(Cochin University of Science and Technology, September 3, 1998)
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In general the behavioural sciences have contributed very little to filariasis research.Man's actions in creating vector breeding sites have been noted and discussed frequently inthe frlariasis literature. but virtually no systematic studies of these fonns of behavior have been undertaken (Dunn. 1979). Human behavioural observations and inquires into values and attitudes atfecting behavior that inhibits or promotes vector breeding are essential if any progress is to be made in developing self help programmes of vector control. Therefore, a systematic study on the socio-economic aspect of the community is warranted before undertaking any control programme against filariasis. In view of this the present study has been carried out which reveals the knowledge, attitude and practice concerning the causation, transmission, treatment and control of the disease. Socio economic factors that influence the creation and maintenance of vector breeding habitats were identified. characterization and ranking of these sociological factors will be helpful in identifying the determinants of human behavioural changes towards the containment of the disease- Information on the existing indigenous perception of the disease and the factors that hinder the control will be useful in developing a sound strategy from the human angle, which can be put to practical use.
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School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science
and Technology
Emmanuel, Kadudose A; Dr.Sankaranarayanan, K C(Cochin University of Science and Technology, August 9, 1989)
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This thesis Entitled Socio-Economic Survey of a Specific village.For the purpose of analysis the thesis is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter introduces the subject of study and explains the significance of the study.It also provides the profile of the village. Chapter two deals with the different aspects of agriculture in the village.Chapter three discusses the problems of industrialisation in the Village. Chapter four is on village administration. It elaborates on the services rendered by government machinery in facilitating the development of agriculture and industry in the village.Chapter five explains the ways and means of marketing of village produce, both industrial and agricultural origin. It also explains the relevance of intra village connections in facilitating marketing.Chapter seven provides information regarding the income and expenditure pattern of the village.Chapter eight is on village social life. It explains the social life of the villagers, including religious
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Department of Applied Economics, Cochin
University of Science and Technology
Reena, Murali; Dr David Peter(Cochin University of Science and Technology, February 15, 2016)
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Post-transcriptional gene silencing by RNA interference is
mediated by small interfering RNA called siRNA. This gene
silencing mechanism can be exploited therapeutically to a wide
variety of disease-associated targets, especially in AIDS,
neurodegenerative diseases, cholesterol and cancer on mice with the
hope of extending these approaches to treat humans. Over the recent
past, a significant amount of work has been undertaken to understand
the gene silencing mediated by exogenous siRNA. The design of
efficient exogenous siRNA sequences is challenging because of many
issues related to siRNA. While designing efficient siRNA, target
mRNAs must be selected such that their corresponding siRNAs are
likely to be efficient against that target and unlikely to accidentally
silence other transcripts due to sequence similarity. So before doing
gene silencing by siRNAs, it is essential to analyze their off-target
effects in addition to their inhibition efficiency against a particular
target. Hence designing exogenous siRNA with good knock-down
efficiency and target specificity is an area of concern to be addressed.
Some methods have been developed already by considering both
inhibition efficiency and off-target possibility of siRNA against agene. Out of these methods, only a few have achieved good inhibition
efficiency, specificity and sensitivity.
The main focus of this thesis is to develop computational
methods to optimize the efficiency of siRNA in terms of “inhibition
capacity and off-target possibility” against target mRNAs with
improved efficacy, which may be useful in the area of gene silencing
and drug design for tumor development. This study aims to
investigate the currently available siRNA prediction approaches and
to devise a better computational approach to tackle the problem of
siRNA efficacy by inhibition capacity and off-target possibility. The
strength and limitations of the available approaches are investigated
and taken into consideration for making improved solution. Thus the
approaches proposed in this study extend some of the good scoring
previous state of the art techniques by incorporating machine learning
and statistical approaches and thermodynamic features like whole
stacking energy to improve the prediction accuracy, inhibition
efficiency, sensitivity and specificity. Here, we propose one Support
Vector Machine (SVM) model, and two Artificial Neural Network
(ANN) models for siRNA efficiency prediction. In SVM model, the
classification property is used to classify whether the siRNA is
efficient or inefficient in silencing a target gene. The first ANNmodel, named siRNA Designer, is used for optimizing the inhibition
efficiency of siRNA against target genes. The second ANN model,
named Optimized siRNA Designer, OpsiD, produces efficient
siRNAs with high inhibition efficiency to degrade target genes with
improved sensitivity-specificity, and identifies the off-target knockdown
possibility of siRNA against non-target genes. The models are
trained and tested against a large data set of siRNA sequences. The
validations are conducted using Pearson Correlation Coefficient,
Mathews Correlation Coefficient, Receiver Operating Characteristic
analysis, Accuracy of prediction, Sensitivity and Specificity.
It is found that the approach, OpsiD, is capable of predicting
the inhibition capacity of siRNA against a target mRNA with
improved results over the state of the art techniques. Also we are able
to understand the influence of whole stacking energy on efficiency of
siRNA. The model is further improved by including the ability to
identify the “off-target possibility” of predicted siRNA on non-target
genes. Thus the proposed model, OpsiD, can predict optimized
siRNA by considering both “inhibition efficiency on target genes and
off-target possibility on non-target genes”, with improved inhibition
efficiency, specificity and sensitivity. Since we have taken efforts to
optimize the siRNA efficacy in terms of “inhibition efficiency and offtarget possibility”, we hope that the risk of “off-target effect” while
doing gene silencing in various bioinformatics fields can be
overcome to a great extent. These findings may provide new insights
into cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapy by gene silencing. The
approach may be found useful for designing exogenous siRNA for
therapeutic applications and gene silencing techniques in different
areas of bioinformatics.
Jayasankar, M; Dr.Warrier, K G K(National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, December , 2009)
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The thesis entitled "Sol-Gel Alumina Nano Composites for
Functional Applications" investigate sol-gel methods of synthesis of alumina
nanocomposites special reference to alumina-aluminium titanate and alumina-lanthanum
phosphate composites. The functional properties such as thermal
expansion coefficient and thermal shock resistance, machinability of composites as well as thermal protection are highlighted in addition to novel
approach in synthesis of composites.A general introduction of alumina matrix composites materials,
followed by brief coverage of alumina-aluminium titanate and alumina-lanthanum
phosphate composites is highlight of the first chapter. The second
chapter deals with the sol-gel synthesis of aluminium titanate and alumina-aluminium
titanate composite. The synthesis of machinable substrate, based on
alumina and lanthanum phosphate forms the basis of the third chapter. The
fourth chapter describes the sol-gel coating of mullite on SiC substrate for the
possible gas filtration application.
Sankar, Sasidharan; Dr K.G.K Warrier(Cochin University of Science and Technology, January 16, 2015)
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Lanthanum phosphate is one among the lanthanide family of “Rare Earths” following the periodic table of elements. Known under the generic name, Monazite, the rare earth phosphates have melting points above 1900 °C, high thermal phase stability, low thermal conductivity and thermal expansion coefficient similar to some of the high temperature oxides like alumina and zirconia.