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    Mahesh B.
    Professional Assistant – Library@Chanakya University Knowledge Centre | Supporting Scholarly Access & Research Excellence | Former LIM Project Trainee at JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc., Bangalore.
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    Information Sharing Behaviour of Generation Z (Gen Z) Students through Social Networking Sites: A Descriptive Study
    (International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 2025-02-05) ;
    Maheshwari M
    This study investigates the information sharing behaviour of Gen Z students in use of social networking sites (SNSs). Social network sites have become a necessity for survival in today's interconnected world by transforming personal and professional lives to connect, communicate, and share information. This study employed a quantitative method, where the questionnaire was shared with the respondents through Google Forms via emails. The study comprised Generation Z Students among UG and PG students to understand their level of awareness of SNSs. The study found that both UG (52.28 %) and PG (47.71 %) students were aware of SNSs, and the majority of the students used smartphones (41.56%) to access these sites. Similarly, most respondents (31.36%) used SNSs for more than one hour daily. In addition, they used more than 2-3 forms of SNSs for varying purposes such as entertainment (13%), discussion, sharing of ideas/events (6.67%), communicating with new friends (4.58%), and interacting with teachers and friends for academic communication purpose (11.83%), job searching purpose (11.42%), etc. Furthermore, the study found that the most commonly used SNSs were WhatsApp (16.19%), YouTube (15.77%), and Instagram (15.01%). Notably, among the challenges Gen Z students face regularly include shifting the focus of using academic/research information to other purposes, unwanted advertisements (16.83%), data security (15.61%), privacy concerns (15.17%), and lack of concentration on their studies (25.05%). The study concluded that despite positive and negative perceptions, most Gen Z students were satisfied with using SNSs.
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    Multi-Source Hybrid Framework (MSHF) for High-Accuracy Flood Forecasting in Indian River Basins: Validation Using the INDOFLOODS Database
    The increasing number and intensity of floods in India show the urgent need for better early-warning systems that combine different data sources and modeling methods. To address this need, this paper introduces the Multi-Source Hybrid Framework (MSHF). MSHF merges an LSTM-Transformer module for analyzing rainfall and discharge patterns over time, a Graph Neural Network for understanding spatial dependencies in river networks, a satellite-radar fusion pipeline for detailed precipitation mapping, and a social media sentiment analyzer for gathering situational awareness from crowdsourcing. All these elements are connected by an attention-based ensemble meta-learner. MSHF runs on a cloud platform that processes real-time gauge and weather data from over 200 stations in the Brahmaputra, Ganga, and Krishna basins. It generates rolling six hour forecasts with an end-to-end delay of under five minutes. Trained on historical events from the INDOFLOODS database and validated with data from 2021 to 2024, MSHF achieves over ninety-five percent predictive accuracy and high hydrological efficiency. A comparative evaluation against standalone LSTM-Transformer, GNN, satellite-radar, and social media models uses paired t-tests and chi-square goodness-of-fit tests to confirm significant statistical improvements. Targeted ablation experiments—Temporal, Spatial, Fusion, Social, and Attention Ablations—show that removing any component significantly reduces performance. Operational trials also demonstrate consistent detection of severe flood events with few false alarms across various lead times and river basins. This emphasizes MSHF’s readiness for proactive flood risk reduction in India’s diverse hydrological contexts.
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    Prasad, Rajesh Kumar
    Rajesh Kumar Prasad has taught at Chanakya University’s School of Engineering since January 2025. He is interested in Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Modern Engines and Ignition systems, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning and Laser fired combustion. Earlier he has served as Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University Kanpur formally known as Kanpur University from September 2022 to December 2024. He also served as Assistant Professor in ICFAI university Jharkhand from September 2019 to September 2022 and many more. He also served as NAAC Coordinator, Mechanical Engineering Department, CSJM University Kanpur (A++) from 1st October 2022 to 23rd December 2024 And Assistant Dean, Innovation Cell, CSJM University Kanpur (A++) from 1st October 2022 to 23rd December 2024. Prasad teaches Basic Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Machines, Heat transfer, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning, Internal combustion engines in the core curriculum and an elective course. He has published widely cited work on “Elsevier” Journals ( Q1) like Fuel, Energy, Applied Energy, Renewable Energy etc. and Scopus indexed Book Chapter in “Springer Nature”. He has also published several text books on Mechanical Engineering Courses as author/co-author.
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    Banu Priya M.
    Banu Priya Mohan has taught at Chanakya University’s School of Engineering since 2024. She is interested in deep learning for healthcare, artificial intelligence in diagnostics, database systems, and cloud technologies. She has held prior academic positions at CMR University, ICEAS Bangalore, SEA College of Engineering and Technology, CMR Institute of Technology, and Impact College of Engineering and Applied Science. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence at Vels University, Chennai, where her research focuses on building interpretable deep learning models for early disease detection using multi-modal healthcare data. She has co-authored work on lightweight cryptographic security in IoT environments, recently published in the Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management. Her published design patent on “Patient Monitoring System with Mobile Alerting for Early Detection in Smart Health Environments” reflects her applied interest in smart healthcare innovation. In her project AI-Powered Early Detection System for Ovarian Cancer, she integrates clinical and imaging data with attention-based deep learning models, while incorporating explain ability techniques such as SHAP and LIME to support transparent decision-making in clinical settings.
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    Use of medicinal plants through sacrificial fire to treat Tuberculosis: A review
    (Chanakya University, 2022)
    P. Srilekha
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    Dr Manasa R.
    Tuberculosis, a widespread pulmonary disease in the world, claims millions of lives every year. The ever-growing demand for better treatment and care, mounting costs of treatment and negligence among the patients is also a concern. In the view of modern medication and its side effects, literature suggests use of medicinal plants in the treatment of Tuberculosis. The Sacrificial fire therapy (Yajna) or the Ethnobotanical inhalation therapy is a prominent method in Ayurveda to treat pulmonary diseases. Studies have shown the sacrificial fire therapy to be effective in curing Neurological disorders too. In this process, parts of Ayurvedic medicinal plants are selected in specific proportions, sublimated, and evaporated and the components released have exhibited the potential to treat Tuberculosis. This paper explores an idea that can help against antibiotic resistance and analyses the effect on microorganisms and seems a possible option to use it as a complimentary medicine to the humankind.
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    Rejuvenating the ancient Indian food preservation methods: A critical analysis
    (Chanakya University, 2022)
    Dr. Manasa R.
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    Right from the dawn of civilisation, every society had this problem: How to save food for the proverbial rainy days - safe from microbes and insects out to spoil it. The ancient Indian wisdom of preserving food, both perishable and non-perishable, has survived for centuries. Based on wisdom passed through generations, our ancestors practised several food preservation methods. For several years, these methods were on the decline. However, of late they are staging a comeback with necessary modifications. Regardless of the recent advances in modern food storage technologies, the revival of low-cost, readily available, environment friendly ancient food storage methods appear to be a promising option to minimise the post- harvest losses. Understanding the science behind these traditional practices and improvising them to make them relevant in the present context is the need of the hour as borne out by the studies we conducted in different climatic conditions of India. We studied the various food preservation methods prevalent in these regions and reviewed their potential for modern times. There is no doubt that traditional storage methods, when appropriately modified, can significantly reduce losses and contribute to increased food security and poverty alleviation by increasing the returns of smallholder farmers.
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    Chaitanya Ramesh
    A dedicated and goal-oriented committed to holistic development of every student, adaptable to diverse student learning styles. She has an enriched satisfying teaching career of over 16 years in Microbiology and foundation courses. Started her academic journey in 2006 at Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women in the department of Microbiology, where she guided students for UGC STAR-DBT Projects. She subsequently joined NMKRV College for Women on 2017, as Assistant Professor, HOD Science and Society. She has an Instructional NCC training experience of 16 years as an Associate NCC Officer commissioned as a Lieutenant from Officer’s Training Academy (OTA),Gwalior in 2007; promoted to the rank of Captain in the year 2013. In addition to raising the NCC unit in her previous institution, also responsible for successful implementation of various community development programs and social service activities which are so critical in the developing the all-round capabilities of the students while impacting the society positively. She has extensive functional experience in encouraging students to involve in community connect and social service activities. She is a recipient of Chief Minister’s Commendation 2013 and 2018. She was given the responsibility as a contingent ANO during “Prime Minister’s Rally in 2018”. Ms Chaitanya has achieved “Young Scientist” gold medal, in the 5th Annual meeting of International Association of Zoologists” and 2nd International virtual Seminar Dec 2021. She has successfully entered the “Guinness Book of World Record” and “Limca Book of World Record” for training blind students and participating in the largest “Tarangam Dance “in 2013.
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    Prof. Ramakrishna Pejathaya
    Dr. Ramakrishna Pejathaya has a doctorate from the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (RSVP), Tirupati, for his research on the medieval text on astronomy Siddhāntaśekhara of Śrīpati and its influence on later astronomers. He has been actively involved in teaching Jyotiṣa, Sanskrit literature, Indian Knowledge Systems and Poetics since 2007. Ramakrishna holds a Vidvat degree in Triskandha Jyotiṣa which he studied traditionally along with Sāhitya and Siddhānta Kaumudī at SMSP Sanskrit College, Udupi. He has several research papers and books to his credit. He has also produced study material for the texts Jātakālaṅkāra, Janmapatradīpakam and Bhāskarīya Bījagaṇitam. He was a co-investigator for the encyclopaedia project Jyotiṣaviśvakoṣaḥ undertaken by SMSP Sanskrit Research Centre, Udupi. The output has been published in nine volumes by the centre. He as a Principal Investigator is now in the revising process of a research project Idiomatic expressions from classical Sanskrit plays funded by Samskrit Promotion Foundation. Currently, Dr. Pejathaya serves as Associate Professor in the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems at Chanakya University. During his service at Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth he was the Program Director of MA Sanskrit and the founder Director of the Centre for Avadhanām, a joint initiative of Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth and Indic Academy. He has designed several innovative courses. Noteworthy of them are Kauṭilya and Public Finance Administration, Puruṣārthas: Perspectives from Mahābhārata, Life Lessons from Bhagavad Gītā and Avadhāniśikṣā. He is also a member of academic bodies such as the Academic Council and Board of Studies at several institutions. Dr. Ramakrishna is one of few practitioners of the art of Avadhānam in Sanskrit and classical Kannada. He has performed more than 25 Aṣṭāvadhānas till date in different parts of the country including Udupi, Sringeri, Bengaluru, Ernakulam, Calicut, Tirupati, Somnath, Prayag Raj and Varanasi.
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    Soils in Hindu Scriptures (including Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism)
    (Chanakya University, 2023)
    Tapas Bhattacharyya
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    Dr. Manasa R.
    Hinduism is considered unique in the world of religions since it had no founder yet grew gradually over five thousand years, absorbing, assimilating, and guiding all other faiths to bear the cultural heritage of India. Hinduism has no Bible/Koran/Dhammapadam to find potential solutions for problems. Hinduism clarifies the differences and shared beliefs of different schools of thought within it, thus resembling Christianity binding human civilization with a common thread. There is no historical creator of Hinduism as in Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. According to the literature (Hindu text, the Bhagvad Gita), relationships of human/nature (yagna), human/divine (tapas), and human/human (dana) are conceptualized to stitch human beings and nature through soil, soul, and society. This suggests a high level of realization to connect these three to have a harmonious relationship with nature and sustain human civilization. All religions address soils differently and portray diverse cultural patterns of understanding this valuable natural resource. According to Hindu religious belief, soil (matter, nature) is considered divine and respected as Mother. Soil is seen as a feminine donor, attributed predominantly to chthonic (Ancient Greek word: khthon, which means earth or soil). In Hinduism soil is referred as dharti/bhoo mata: Mother Earth is also related to cosmic elements. In Buddhism, the soil is described as a symbol of dust in this ephemeral world to support life. Humans belong to nature, and when they cultivate soil, it always reverberates in their mind. To relate humans with soils, two different types of religious concepts, namely natural religion and salvation religion are postulated. During the long history of human civilisation with primal religion (Primal religion has a priority where the fundamental aspect of religion is available). Being dominant, the soil is considered supernatural and controlled by an unseen power. Soils are part of religious reverence, justifying certain rituals to sustain their fertility. However, the modern-day approach to soils takes environment, ethics, and ecology as more essential aspects. Human ecology is related to human concepts of nature and destiny (religion). Hindu religion always considers land/soil as mother earth, cautioned about its use and abuse, and recommends its preservation for posterity. Given this, Hinduism and other religions such as Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism and their concepts indirectly believe in the environment and ecological sustenance. They are in line with the modern-day vision.