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Nanomedicine: An Emerging Tool in Healing Chronic Wounds and its Opportunities

Chronic wounds generally take a lot of time to recover, which becomes a cause of worry for the patient and also makes it difficult to manage them. Chronic wound affects the minds of millions of people worldwide, which results in a high mortality rate. Nanomedicine has emerged as a promising tool in addressing this issue of chronic wounds. Nanomedicine in chronic wound healing holds the potential to revolutionize wound care by offering various personalized treatments and improving patient outcomes. Advanced wound dressings and nanofibresscaffolds promote tissue regeneration, which also accelerates wound closure. Nanomedicine is also able to provoke the various cellular and molecular mechanisms that are involved in the wound microenvironment, showing the anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and angiogenetic effects. The gene therapy and various inflammation modulations using this emerging tool of nanotechnology show promising results in managing the various chronic wounds. Nanomedicine offers innovative approaches to address these challenges. Nanomedicine also plays a crucial role in tissue engineering, which can also be used for chronic wound treatment. Nanotechnology has enabled the various development of advanced wound dressings and has improved various properties. Nanomedicine also uses antimicrobial nanomaterials, such as silver nanoparticles, to combat the various infections in chronic wounds. The main aim of the review is to provide a concise overview of nanomedicine as a recent tool in healing chronic wounds and also its various opportunities for curing chronic wounds.

Modern Armed Conflicts: Disinformation Campaigns Shaping the Digital Information Landscape

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to reveal the influence and implications of information warfare during the current armed conflicts on the digital information landscape. Disinformation campaigns are not a new weapon on the battlefield, but the rapid development of technology, like artificial intelligence (AI), in recent history has contributed to the rapid transformation of the digital information landscape. This poses a threat to the future of digital information, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, ultimately revealing the depth of disinformation as a contributor to psychological operations during these times. This paper will explore the history of disinformation during armed conflicts, review current literature on disinformation and the implications, analyze the disinformation campaigns utilized during current Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas conflicts, and highlight the humanitarian direness of the transforming digital information landscape. It has been revealed that this issue is multifaceted-undetectably embedding itself within societies across the globe, influencing not only decisive military actions locally, but the minds of millions. Left unaddressed on a global scale, disinformation campaigns may leave the digital information landscape unrecognizable in the future while harming consumers everywhere.

The role of the NPT in preventing further proliferation of nuclear weapons

The entire atmosphere created by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its presence in the world played one of the responsible roles, since after the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons were never used in a military situation (unless, of course, you take into account that the nuclear powers conducted more than 2,000 nuclear explosions at their test sites).
 It can be said that this is the result of a broad consensus reached by the international community on the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the result of the actual operation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons during its more than 50 years of existence. Currently, no bilateral or multilateral meeting on international security issues, including at the highest level, is held without a mention of nuclear non-proliferation, and it is often at the top of the agenda.
 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an international legal and ethical norm that has entered the minds of millions of people. Many countries have developed and adopted national legislation establishing export control rules for materials used in the production of weapons of mass destruction, as well as other laws (customs, etc.) to help ensure the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Extensive training of young experts in basic knowledge to support the international non-proliferation regime of nuclear weapons is ongoing.
 In the field of technology, scientists and experts in reactor engineering are working in many countries to build nuclear power plants that will not produce materials used to create weapons of mass destruction. Many scientists are working to prevent the construction of reactors that threaten the proliferation of technologies and nuclear materials capable of producing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
 The conclusion of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the establishment of an international non-proliferation regime contributed to a fundamental change in the world’s attitude to nuclear weapons. From the first impression in the eyes of the world public that nuclear weapons are a «genius» discovery, the latter is increasingly perceived as a mortal danger that threatens human existence, and this idea penetrates deeper and deeper into the consciousness of millions of people.

S. H. Manto’s legendary contribution to partition of India

The brutality and anguish of the Indian partition drastically altered the social and political development of the Indian subcontinent, and its effects can still be felt today. Along with the deaths and damage, the incident also left a lasting psychological scar on the minds of millions of individuals, particularly the minds of women and children. No writer of the time and its aftermath could escape the age of foolishness, the season of darkness and the time of despair. It is difficult to sweep beneath the rug actual acts of kidnapping, uprooting, train raids, trauma, Insanity, suicide, murder, and the acts of destruction. Both Hindus and Muslims on either side of the Borders, which were once porous and shared by the community, were impacted by the violent riots and massacres that followed. Many more people were displaced, endured poverty, were raped, were subjected to brutality, suffered bodily and mental anguish, and millions of people lost their lives. The bloody mayhem that occurred both during and after the partition drowned out the victims’ cries.Several writers, authors, and poets, including Saadat Hasan Manto, let these stifled voices be heard. Manto, an Indian-born Pakistani writer who immigrated to Pakistan after the country’s independence, brought the horrific facts of Partition to light clearly and uncomfortable. Indeed, the cataclysmic event of India's partition had a profound effect on the society, culture, and literature of the nation. That was a particular trauma that destroyed the lives of regular people. Manto’s representation of the partition violence pinches the intellect rather than appeal to the emotion. It is highly realistic and achieves remarkable objectivity, for it neither shows any biasedness for contending nationalisms of the traumatic times, nor hide own socialism or specific cultural visibility, nor any geographical, political or religious markers. It does not either present detailed characterization or grant the narrator hide authorial voice.

BTS And Its Musical Impact: A Study of Urban Youth of Metro Cities of India

The BTS phenomena is known to all and the impact that they have created over the last few years cannot be neglected. The goal of this research is to explain the story of BTS from the perspective of an urban teenager in India, as well as how BTS is influencing the Indian music industry. The study used online survey method and studied 125 young urban youth from five metro cities of India as a sample to analyse the musical impact of BTS among the urban youth of India and how it is helping them in dealing with their mental health. The music of BTS is truly special as it has affected the minds of millions of young people from all around the world. The research study's overall aim is that BTS is forming a new community of urban youth who are stronger, better, and more optimistic toward the world, and who are ready to accept change.

South Korea's Household Debt Crisis and Its Impact on Korean Society

South Korea’s household debt crisis was brought to the forefront of the minds of millions of people around the world due to the hugely popular Netflix series Squid Game. In Squid Game, individuals with large amounts of personal debt engage in childhood games like “Red Light, Green Light” but with a macabre twist: they must risk their lives and the lives of others to win a cash prize that could relieve themselves of crushing debt. This paper examines the major economic, financial, and societal factors that contribute to the ever-worsening household debt crisis in South Korea. In the past 25 years, South Korea has endured several major economic and financial crises, notably the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the 2017 Global Financial Crisis, and the Covid-19 Pandemic. In particular, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 brought about significant changes to South Korea’s financial, corporate, and labor sectors, primarily due to reforms imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Furthermore, run-away housing prices, elevated levels of self-employment, and societal structures and behaviors unique to Korea have exacerbated the household debt crisis. All these factors have contributed to the growth and the continuing trend of extreme household debt that disproportionately impacts South Korea’s youth, self-employed, and part-time workers.

FAKE NEWS DETECTION USING VARIOUS MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

Online platforms are being used for outspreading malicious talk, which creates an impact on the minds of millions. Many distinct approaches have been brought forward to detect this fake news, but very few have been carried out in the actual world. We address this problem of estimating the rumor authentication in a real-world in less time with significantly high accuracy. We design and implement an approach addressing the above issue. We accessed whether the news is fake or not using various Machine learning techniques. We evaluate this algorithm on a set of data set scrapped from random online sites. The result shows that the performance of this improved algorithm is better than the original classification method. And finally, we consider various sizes of data to view and compare the accuracy. KEYWORDS—Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Fake Content, Naive Bayes, Machine Learning Models

Aju Mukhopadhyay’s Short Stories: A Multicoloured World

Aju Mukhopadhyay is one of the brightest stars in the firmament of contemporary Indian English Literature. He is a magnificent literary artist, in fact a versatile genius. As a visionary poet he has enraptured the hearts and minds of millions of poetry lovers, both in India and abroad. He is a profound critic, and his insightful critical studies are highly valued in the literary world. His essays on various subjects have made a mark in every field. He is a great storyteller too, both in English and Bangla, and the range of his short stories has baffled the fiction lovers. Like his previous volumes of short stories, the present collection too offers a large variety of subjects and feeds the craving of every set of readers. Aju’s world is so vast that you cross the national boundaries many times to peep into a new world. You open the window to a new story and step into a different world altogether. “In the Company of William, Samuel and Dorothy”, Aju takes us to the Lake District of England to enjoy the company of the great Romantic poets, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth. His description is so vivid that you really feel you are watching everything happening before your ‘fleshy eyes’. In the next story “They Came Down from the Roof of the World”, the writer takes you indeed to the roof of the world, Tibet and the Tibetan Cause. Tibet and New York come alive before you and you partake in the stormy scenes, the rebellion, the persecution, the great Dalai Lama escape and the aftermath.

Get in Formation: Black Women’s Participation in the Women’s March on Washington as an Act of Pragmatic Utopianism

Images of the Women’s March on Washington are now indelibly imprinted in the minds of millions. Recalling what has been deemed the largest day of protests in American history may bring to mind wome...

Cyber psychology and cyber behaviour of adolescents-the need of the contemporary era

Cyber psychology is also addressed as Internet psychology or web psychology. In the modern era it is gaining momentum as a field, as more and more people are embracing the virtual world. Changing lifestyles and a constant digital presence is impacting the minds of millions of youngsters as the average amount of time spent on the internet increases rapidly. Youngsters are spending a lot of time online-chatting with their friends through social networks, playing online games with their peers, and shopping products online. As the individual need for recognition and self actualisation grows, youngsters are trying to form and establish identities online. This hunger for appreciation, coupled with long hours spent online are paving way for several problems regarding the health and well being of the adolescents. This manuscript proposes a research framework which will enable classification of adolescents as Expressive, Impatient, Connected, Impersonal, and Knowledgeable, based on their social media presence.

Bringing Down an Uprising: Egypt's Stillborn Revolution

Despite warnings that bleak socio-economic conditions were pushing Egyptians to the brink, few could have predicted the timing and extent of what has come to be known as the “January 25th revolution.” For the two years that followed this unprecedented revolutionary moment, many Egyptians believed their nation was headed toward a political rebirth in the direction of democratization – albeit in fits and starts. But what ultimately transpired was far from a revolution, but rather an uprising. Those who risked life and limb in multiple mass protests are now in jail or dead while the military-security apparatus sits firmly at the apex of power. Rather than join other countries moving forward toward a free society, dissent in Egypt is brutally crushed harking back to Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s pervasive police state. This article seeks to answer the question on the minds of millions across the globe who witnessed Egyptians inspire the world as they rose up against a brutal authoritarian state: What happened to Egypt’s revolution? In hindsight, it has become clear that the moment the Egyptian military took on the official reins of leadership through the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) on February 11, 2011, a pall was cast on the people’s revolutionary aspirations. What was supposed to be a historic political opening to transition Egypt onto a more democratic political trajectory resulted in a regression to military domination where soldiers, rather than civilians, control the levers of political, economic, and security power. This is part of a larger project that addresses the role of law and the judiciary in Egypt’s stillborn revolution. As such, this article provides the political backdrop in the lead up to January 25 and the key political decisions made by the SCAF and the military-backed interim government led by President Adly Mansour, which lays the foundation for my future articles on the Egyptian judiciary and the role of law in Egypt’s post-January 25 aftermath. In doing so, I analyze the historic events of the past three years to address the first of two pressing questions: 1) did January 25, 2011 permanently redirect Egypt’s political trajectory toward a more democratic, openly contested political system and 2) what role did the law play in producing the outcome? Here, I argue that, as of the fall of 2014, Egypt shows signs of increasing political contestations at the margins while simultaneously regressing to repressive state policing practices firmly under the grip of the military. There is a growing tension between Egyptian youth’s expectations of meaningful political change, regardless of their political or religious persuasions, and the state apparatus reverting to calls for stability at the expense of political rights. In the end, the military hijacked a revolutionary moment by transforming it into a mere uprising. Recognizing Egypt’s missed opportunity to have the revolutionary outcome called for by its youth paves the way for an honest discussion on whether a real revolution is imminent, if not inevitable.

Internet CDROM Unit: its Impact on Users

Internet has become one of the most effective electronic media for selection, collection, storage management and dissemination of digital information in the gamut of knowledge. It has not only drastically changed the people to make use of information irrespective of its cost, time, space barriers, but also triggers the minds of millions of users to go beyond the world of information which can be useful for social, economic, scientific, industrial, academic, research development of the people of any country.

Fighting for the rule of law: civil resistance and the lawyers' movement in Pakistan

Pakistan, sometimes referred to as ‘the most dangerous place on earth’, is not typically thought of as a place where popular nonviolent resistance could take root, much less succeed. Citizen apathy, poor governance, and fear of regime repression and terrorist violence are barriers to effective civic activism inside Pakistan. Yet, over the past two years, Pakistan's authoritarian ruler was ousted and its independent judiciary restored following a massive grassroots campaign led by lawyers. The ‘men in black’, whose insistence on the rule of law and embrace of nonviolent struggle captured the hearts and minds of millions of Pakistanis, helped transform the country's political landscape in unexpected ways. The successes tallied by this nonviolent movement, this article will argue, can be attributed to the large-scale non-cooperation and civil disobedience that pressured two successive Pakistani regimes – one authoritarian and one democratic – to yield to its demands. Unity and mass participation, nonviolent discipline, and the creative use of nonviolent tactics were three key ingredients of success. While instability and Islamist extremism continue to plague Pakistan, the lawyers' movement highlights the steadily growing strength of Pakistani civil society have a potential to influence democratic change in the country.

(Un)Civil war of words: media and politics in the Arab world

As the war on terror rages, another battleground has quickly taken shape and is being waged on daily newscasts around the world. In the Arab world, al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya are leading the fight. But do these news networks simply provide the news? Or, are they, as westerners suspect, tools used by governments and terrorists alike to relay their message to the man on the street as both Arab and Western leaders struggle to win the hearts and minds of millions of people? Fandy examines the impact that these and other news organizations have had on the war on terror, on the Arab world, and on the relationships that Arab nations share with each other, as well as those they share with the West. Focusing on al-Jazeera and other Arab networks, Fandy examines the battle between the Arab world and the West through the popular medium of television. He explores how autocratic governments control the media in order to preserve their own power while simultaneously engaging in a war of words, with their neighbors, the West, or many times, both.

The Social Psychology of Good and Evil

ARTHUR G. MILLER (ED.): The Social Psychology of Good and Evil. New York: Guilford Publications, 2004, 498 pp., $60.00, ISBN 1-57230-989-X The tragic events of 9/11 dealt a shattering blow to the lives of its and their families as well as to the collective political innocence of the American public. The fear and horror generated by this heretofore unimaginable catastrophe will undoubtedly be embedded in the minds of millions of Americans for many generations to come and, much like the Holocaust, many will continue to search, perhaps fruitlessly, for words and insights adequate to explain how anyone, or any group of individuals, could perpetrate such unspeakable acts of inhumanity. The President and his minions rose to the challenge by choosing to use evangelical rhetoric about evildoers that initially resonated with a public desperate for apprehension and, certainly in many cases, revenge. Yet, when the terms and evildoer began to be used by the President to broad-brush whole countries allegedly representing an axis of evil, it required little reflection to recognize that he was indulging in phantasmagoric excess and, as a result, these moralistic terms were largely, though not entirely, dropped from his political lexicon. Obviously a national crisis of this kind called for something more definitive, objective, and morally nuanced. Thus, it is apt and timely that this book about the nature of good and evil has been recently published. It is a book of eighteen chapters in all, each authored or co-authored by academicians, social psychologists, mostly from major American universities. The first chapter, written by Philip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University, makes a cogent case for the transformative power of social situations to induce rather ordinary individuals to inflict pain or harm upon others. In one of his experiments, subjects who could hide behind the shield of anonymity-deindividuation-were more likely to inflict shock upon victims than those who were made to feel uniquely identifiable. In another experiment, using the quotidian streets of the Bronx and PaIo Alto, Zimbardo abandoned used but good-conditioned cars. Within ten minutes the car in the Bronx was vandalized and within two days nothing of value was left to strip. By contrast, the car in PaIo Alto remained unscathed over a period of five days. Zimbardo explains the disparate outcomes on the basis of differences between how much or how little residents care about what happens on their own turf in their respective communities. In one of his most telling and renowned experiments, Zimbardo recruited subjects from the community and university to serve as guards and prisoners in a simulated prison. This experiment was prematurely terminated because the guards soon became overly sadistic and the prisoners showed signs of emotional breakdown. Zimbardo wisely advises that we must, to combat malevolent transformations, learn to appreciate the extent to which ordinary people can be induced into committing evil deeds. The 2nd chapter, written by Ervin Staub, of the University of Massachusetts, explores the origins of helping and harming others. When basic needs are thwarted or frustrated, Staub posits, a sense of well-being is undermined, replaced by an inability to self-soothe and a tendency to engage in harm-doing. As Staub points out, because basic needs are varied and often conflict with one another, a person may do something interpersonally harmful or self-destructive, even though that individual may also harbor the need for physical security. A case in point would be the suicide bomber. Others may act contrary to the need for security by saving lives, as did many rescuers of Jews in Nazi Germany. Staub concludes this chapter by recommending that we evaluate the goodness of societies in terms of how well they fulfill basic human needs. In the 3rd chapter of this book, Roy F. Baumeister, of Florida State University and Kathleen D. …

Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920

California's climate and geography divide the state into a number of diverse and productive subregions, each with its own specialty crops, economy and cultural identity. Yet, ever since journalist Carey McWilliams coined the phrase factories in the field, students of California agriculture have largely characterized speciality crop growers in monolithic terms - as people devoid of any ideology or culture except the desire to cut costs and maximize profits. In the early years, every grower was not in fact like every other, David Vaught argues, whether one examines their labour systems, recruiting methodds, harvest needs, marketing strategies, farm size, or their relationships with their communites, unions and the state. In this work, Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the outset, he explains, these horticulturalists saw themselves as guardians of California's unique culture - raising crops for market while self-consciously building healthy and prosperous communities. The hard work, foresight and devotion to detail required to nurture an orchard or vineyard made them, they insisted, cultivators of a better society. This heightened self-image gained credence as California became synonymous, in the minds of millions of Americans, with fresh fruit and produce. Over time, Vaught concludes, labour relations, seasonal and other pressures beyond their control, the vagaries of distant markets and their own racial ambivalence undermined the growers' horticultural ideal.

"The Most Powerful Instrument of College Discipline": Student Disorder and the Growth of Meritocracy in the Colleges of the Early Republic

America's founding fathers seemed to agree: one of the best means to secure a virtuous new republic would be through the education of the upcoming generation. Even as faction gave way to party divisions, few disputed the importance of educational institutions. America's most promising youth would complete their training in citizenship and preparation for governmental leadership in college. The optimism of this vision for American schooling was perhaps best displayed in the prize-winning essay of University of Pennsylvania graduate and Jeffersonian newspaper editor Samuel Harrison Smith. In his anonymous 1797 essay for the American Philosophical Society, Smith identified the benefits of education for both the individual and society. The citizen would learn to protect liberty for himself and others: “(He) will be a free man in its truest sense. He will know his rights, and he will understand the rights of others.” If Americans could collectively concentrate on the science of government, they might achieve its perfection: “No circumstance could so rapidly promote the growth of this science as a universal illumination of mind. The minds of millions centering in one point could not fail to produce the sublimest discoveries.” In its perfected state, America would truly serve as a city upon the hill: “She would soon become a model for the nations of the earth.”

The Politics of Songs: Myths and Symbols in the Chinese Communist War Music, 1937–1949

Nie Er (1912–1935), a young Communist musician from Yunnan, could not possibly have imagined that when he wrote this patriotic song (with lyrics by the left-wing writer Tian Han [1898–1968]) for the 1935 filmChildren of Troubled Times (Fengyun ernü) it would soon become one of the most popular tunes in China. The overwhelming success of the song reflected a nation, long frustrated by imperialist (especially Japanese) aggression, thwarted reforms, domestic armed conflicts, and government ineptitude, venting its anger and crying out for a solution. When the Japanese invaded China two years later, ‘The March of the Volunteers’ was rapidly transformed into the quintessential song of resistance against Japan, sung at schools, in the army, at rallies, and on the streets. The song was influential in capturing the hearts and minds of millions during China's eight-year War of Resistance against Japan (1937–1945); its impact, in the words of one contemporary song critic, was ‘similar to that of the “Marseillaise” [in the French Revolution]’. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seized power in it adopted the song as the official national anthem.

The Supreme Court and the Story of American Freedom

Freedom is one of the most cherished and commonly invoked principles in Western democracy. From the Revolutionary War to the writing of the American Constitution to the debate over slavery to the civil rights movements of the 1960s, freedom has been a defining fea ture of the American experience. The resonating significance of free dom remains at the center of public discourse as the world watches Russia and other Eastern bloc countries struggle to establish demo cratic governing systems. Freedom's enormous influence over the hearts and minds of millions beckons us to consider the substance of

On the origin of the notion that sport serves as a means of national representation

In the following paper the beginning of the notion that elite sports serve the purpose of national or political representation will be looked at. Although like so many other things this notion was already present to some extent in Greek antiquity,’ I will limit myself to modern sports. Betts claimed that ‘by 1920 sport had become associated in the minds of millions of Americans, with local and national prestige and with democratic society’,’ yet not until the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 did the American government and Congress provide money to enhance this prestige.3 This underlines the problem of operatising the association in the minds of millions at a time when public opinion surveys were unheard of. I will therefore try to find ‘hard’ evidence that the notion of national prestige through elite sports was publicly accepted and that something was done about increasing or maintaining such prestige. As very little was done to prepare American teams for international competition by national bodies, even at a time after 1952 when international competition against the Soviet Union was connected with such prestige-as it was supposed to be the touchstone for the effectivity of the socio-economic system4I will look mainly at Europe for the origin. National prestige through elite sports requires international competition to show one’s superiority. Although some international championships already took place prior to the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896,5 they did not have the format to do anything for national reputation. One of the first international comparisons for the sake of national prestigeother than fighting wars-took place in the international expositions in London 1851, followed by others in Paris 1855,1867,1878,1889,1900, Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Sydney 1879, Melbourne 1880, 1888, Chicago 1893, Brussels 1897, 1910, Saint Louis 1904, Liege 1905, Milan