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Over the past few decades, marine conservation has become a global concern due to increasing anthropogenic activities in the vicinity of coastal areas, which has led to the development of the concept of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) for the conservation of marine ecology and its biodiversity. Conservation and acceptance of MPAs can only be achieved if coastal communities and fisherfolk are included as significant stakeholders because MPAs have direct relevance to their livelihood. To capture their acceptance towards the Gulf of Kachchh Marine National Park (MNP), Jamnagar, artisanal fisherfolk fishing in and around the MNP were surveyed to determine whether the presence of a well-managed MNP has any positive effects on the adjacent fishing communities since its establishment. The findings showed that the total fish catch was observed to increase over the years, but there has been a perceived decline in total catch in recent years. Similarly, while the total fish catch data recorded an increasing trend, discussions with the fisherfolk revealed a sharp decline in “catch per unit effort” in recent years. Fisherfolk from all sites showed interest in the development of the MNP and were keen to be involved in conservation planning and the management of the MNP.

Introduction: Teleconsultations are a useful approach for triaging patients and reducing unnecessary visits to emergency departments. Scheduled teleconsultations allow the evaluation, monitoring, and follow-up of outpatients who do not require face-to-face assessment. Teleconsultations bring multiple possibilities in the case of pandemic, where authorities may request or impose community isolation, closing of borders, limitation on the means of transportation, and so on, Teleconsultation in healthcare can be used to provide telecare, offer remote assistance, and help with administrative management of patients, triage, follow-up, meetings, and technical discussions among physicians in different locations, among others. Methodology: To conduct research study in Narayan Institute of Agricultural Sciences, a written permission will be obtained from Dean-cum-Principal of the college before starting the study. Written consent will be obtained from the sample. Anonymity and confidentiality of the information will be maintained; in this study Quantitative research approach was used; pre-test post-test research design was used; in this study the variables used were Independent: Socio-Demographic Variables; Dependent STP; the study was conducted in Narayan Institute of Agricultural Sciences Jamuhar, Sasaram; the target population was B.Sc. Agriculture 4 th year students; sampling technique was Purposive sampling technique; sample size was 60; Socio-Demographic variables & Self-Structured Questionnaire was used; the tool was submitted to 4 experts; Reliability of the tool was checked by Karl Pearson's Formulae and the correlational coefficients r=0.75; 10% of the total sample fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were selected using purposive sampling technique; The obtained was analysed by Descriptive and Inferential statistics. Results: The current study shows that the 5-point Likert scale was used to determine the level of knowledge among the samples, where majority of the sample depicted very aware at 36.6 placing them as adequately informed. Association was only found in the category gender, years of using phone, and preference during sickness [n=60 (0.004, 95%, df=4); n=60 (0.006, 95%, df=12); n=60 (0.02, 95%, df=4)] In this study data revealed that was found that, P value and statical significance: the two-tailed P value is less than 0.0001, by conventional criteria, this difference is considered to be extremely statically significant. Conclusion: Among the available sample, majority of the sample depicted had pre-test knowledge of Unaware (n=27) 45%; Neither Unaware nor Aware (n=17) 28.33%; Aware (n=9) 15%; Very Unaware (n=7) 11.66%. Hence, majority of the population had below average knowledge and majority of the sample had post-test knowledge of Very aware (n=22) 36.66%; Aware (n=19) 31.66%; Neither Unaware nor Aware (n=11) 18.33%; Very Unaware (n=5) 8.33%; Unaware (n=3) 5%. Hence, majority of the population had above average knowledge, so there was significant effectiveness of STP on teleconsultation. Association ...

The assessment of liquefaction potential in the present study is based on deterministic and probabilistic approach. The deterministic approach was used to analyze the liquefaction assessment of loose saturated river bed deposit with emphasis to two benchmark location. A wide range earthquake data in form of PGA’s value of 0.18g, 0.37g, 0.6g, 0.75g is used as input motion. The dynamic properties of soil were evaluated by using SPT data obtained from the bore log locations. The shear stress induced within soil deposit due to the seismic excitation in the form of cyclic stress ratio (CSR) and cyclic resistance ratio (CRR) was calculated in order to calculate the factor of safety (FOS) against liquefaction. In addition to that, liquefaction potential index (LPI) and probability of liquefaction was also calculated using input motion. It was observed that the shallow layer soil profile is safe against liquefaction whereas deep layer soil profile is unsafe based on probability of liquefaction index.

Introduction: Smartphones have become an integral part of youth. But at the same time addiction towards its use have become a serious concern among them. Objective:The main objective of the study is to determine the prevalence of smartphone addiction among the nursing students. Further the study was done to find out the association between the smartphone addiction with sleep quality and some selected psychological problems, along with its association with selected demographic variables. Research Approach: A quantitative research approach was adopted in which cross sectional research design was used by the researcher and the samples were chosen by convenient sampling technique. The nursing underwent various scales to assess the relationship between smartphone addiction, sleep quality and psychological problems. Result: The researcher reported that almost 77 students (36 male and 41 female) found to be addicted with smartphone usage. Further on, a fair positive significant association (0.226) was obtained between smartphone addiction and sleep quality. The researcher identified and mention that fair positive relationship found between smartphone addiction and psychological problems such as depression, anxiety and stress at the p level <0.001. Conclusion: Thus, the analysis suggested that there is a need to develop counselling programs where experts can raise the awareness of university students, to understand the Pons and cons of smartphone usage.