Vijay Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3723790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vijay Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vijay |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Galgotias University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8345-4312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Historicising pigs, caste, and Dalits in colonial North India
Pigs played a varied role in the history of colonial North India depending on whether they were wild, semi-wild, or domestically reared. While colonial elites hunted and ate wild pigs, Muslim elites and upper-caste Hindus were ambivalent towards them. But both these groups stigmatised domestic pigs and the Dalit groups that raised them. The latter used domestic and semi-wild pigs to affirm their identities and as a source of power and resistance …
Performative Power and Visual Discourse
This study explores high-profile media interviews as performative spaces where power and gender are visually and discursively constructed. Drawing on visual discourse analysis and qualitative examination of interview narratives, the paper investigates how framing, body language, questioning strategies, and visual cues shape gendered power relations. The analysis demonstrates that interviews function as staged performances in which authority is ne…
A Stylistics Study of Displacement and Nostalgia in Gulzar’s Mahamari Lagi Thi
The historic reverse migration of Indian migrant labourers, during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), revealed the profound socio-economic vulnerabilities faced by this marginalised community. Despite its magnitude, the human suffering associated with this crisis remained largely unheard and underrepresented. Gulzar’s poem Mahamari Lagi Thi emerges as a significant literary response to this unaddressed humanitarian issue, dema…
Navigating the shore
This article examines the intertwined dynamics of ecological precarity and coastal erosion in Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan, situating the narrative within the broader context of indigenous vulnerability in coastal Pakistan. It argues that the novel foregrounds forms of indigenous ecoprecarity produced through the overlapping forces of climate change, uneven development, and historical marginalisation. It engages postcolonial ecocritical debates…
Learning From Failure for Doctoral Education
Failure in doctoral education is a taboo topic for many supervisors and doctoral candidates. Failure in thesis doctoral examination is hard to admit to or explain and has not been deeply investigated. We aim to disrupt the silence around failure in the doctoral context and generate new discussions relevant to doctoral education. We conduct a theoretical integrative review (TIR), which allows for the inclusion of primary research studies, along wi…
Global Trends, Collaborative Networks, and Research Gaps in Substance Use and Mental Health
Ai in Photojournalism Ethics and Management
The present paper is a critical discussion of the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in relation to Photojournalism Ethics and Management, it is a discussion how visual journalism is being transformed as a result of automation, data analytics and algorithmic decision making. It examines the role of AI in changing the image-making, image-checking, and image-editing process and posing a threat to undermine traditional conceptions of authenticity…
Human Activity Recognition
The rapid development of emerging technologies has elevated human activity recognition (HAR) into a field with unprecedented capabilities for monitoring and understanding human behaviors across diverse contexts. Powered by machine learning algorithms and extensive datasets from wearables, smartphones, and smart environments, HAR systems now achieve high accuracy in recognizing and predicting activities. Beyond technical progress, however, the int…
Botanical repositories for Indian medicinal plants
Supervisors’ Roles in Facilitating L2 Doctoral Students to Write a Thesis and for Publication During Candidature
Regional analysis of patterns and determinants of migration in India
Measurement and determinants of economic inequality between migrants and non-migrants
Revolution, recuperation, and wild speculation
Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050
BACKGROUND: Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to policy makers and the public at large. This information can be used for policy and long-term health investment, planning, and prioritisation. We have expanded and improved upon previous forecasts produced as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) and provide a reference forecast (the most likely future), and alternativ…
Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 ri…
The Semiotic Analysis of Pre-Wedding Rituals of Hindu Marriages Performed in the State of Bihar
The paper critically analyses the semiotic dimensions of Hindu pre-wedding rituals performed in the state of Bihar, delving into the meanings and philosophies embedded in these rituals and artifacts associated with them. By interpreting these rituals (symbols), the study seeks to preserve the rich tradition of Indian weddings, with special focus on the traditional and cultural heritage of Bihar. Using Roland Barthes’ theory of semiotics, the stud…
Ayurveda for Promotion of Health
Health is self produced by equilibrium and balance in the behavior of individuals at every level. This is the real meaning of wellbeing advancement on public health according to Ayurveda. Ayurveda is based on universal principles -- not constrained to a specific ethnic gathering or culture-being both individual focused and intercultural and it very well may be utilized as a joining of the existent human services frameworks just as a layout to saf…
Agrarian Movement and Agricultural Labourers of Punjab
The depiction of migrant labourers in transit has reignited discourse surrounding our adopted economic model and the substantive security afforded to our labour class. The imposition of COVID-19 lockdowns further imperilled agricultural labourers, shedding light on their predicaments—previously marginalized within mainstream deliberations. While contentious farm laws and labour codes dominated discussions, the plight of agricultural labourers rem…
Contagion comeback
Measles, a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the measles virus (MeV), poses significant global and national public health challenges despite advancements in vaccination efforts. Though measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, recent years have seen a resurgence of cases, particularly in under-vaccinated communities. This resurgence is compounded by factors such as vaccine hesitancy, the impact of the COVID-19 pa…
Communicative Competence in the Select Speech of Shri Narendra Modi
The close connection between language and ideology has long been a recurring subject of study among linguists. Politicians often rely on language manipulation to convey specific messages, discussing topics that seem familiar but may not be fully understood by the audience. This study uses critical discourse analysis to identify the presuppositions and entailments, and thus the ideology, in a speech delivered by the Prime Minister of India, Shri N…
A Lexical Study on the Acquired Meanings of Selected English Words Used by Indian Railways
This study aims to investigate how the English Language used by the Indian Railways is different from other registers of English, and most importantly what is the effect of this register of English upon the common people. In other words, the present study aims at viewing the variety of language used by the Indian Railway as an independent register. For the purpose of investigation, a stylistic analysis is carried out. The data for the current stu…
Learning from senior academics’ perspectives of success and failure
A full academic career encompasses both successes and failures. The purpose of this study was to delve into academic successes and failures, going beyond the conventional focus on objective measures, such as performance, rankings, and funding. Through semi-structured interviews with twelve senior academics from seven countries, we explored personal definitions of success and failure and lessons learned from these experiences. Key findings reveal …
Correlates and Brain Substrates of Happiness in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in India
Understanding the key correlates is critical for identifying both modifiable factors that can be targeted in well-being interventions and fixed characteristics that identify those at-risk for reduced happiness. The widespread pattern of brain regions associated with happiness is consistent with the multifactorial nature of happiness and, given that the regions identified do not overlap with those vulnerable to cortical thinning, can help explain …
Remapping Caste, Dalits, and Nature
This article investigates the workings of the caste system and its negative impact on Dalit lives and Nature as represented in Akhila Naik’s Bheda. Using the broad approach of ecocriticism, it focuses on ‘environmental casteism’ to assess various dimensions of caste discrimination meted out to the Dalits. It exposes the paradoxical underpinnings of the naturalisation of caste and varna system through which Dalits and various landscapes, water bod…
Ambiguity and peripherality in doctoral co-supervision workload allocation
Doctoral education and supervision have changed in recent decades. The increasing prevalence of co-supervision has been a notable aspect of this, but change also includes stricter accountability and quality assurance measures, such as the quantification of workload allocations in supervision as well as of academic work more broadly. This paper focuses on challenging issues pertaining to such workload allocation in co-supervision, an important and…
Pictorial maternal and neonatal records for illiterate traditional birth attendants
A pictorial card was devised for illiterate traditional birth attendants to record the important events during pregnancy, childbirth and the neonatal period. Between October 1979 and July 1980, traditional birth attendants from 15 villages completed 88 pictorial records. The card has served successfully as a prompting device to ensure continuing maternal and newborn care.
Sexual Dimorphism in Punjabi Infants
Sexual dimorphism for 12 somatometric traits (9 absolute and 3 generated) was calculated on a group of 154 Punjabi infants by using the formula given by WOLANSKI (1965). The magnitude of differences between male and female infants was found to change with age and these changes were not unidirectional. Periods of greater and smaller differences were found to occur among infants of Punjabi parentage
Hawthorne effect
Body weight and crown-heel length measurements were undertaken on 154 urban Punjabi infants by longitudinal and 721 comparable infants by cross-sectional methods. The growth attainments were comparable in the first 4/5 months, but after this age infants assessed by longitudinal method demonstrated significantly better growth attainments (p<0.05) as compared to those assessed by cross-sectional method. This pattern is explained on the basis of HAW…
A longitudinal study of growth in length and weight of Punjabi infants in Chandigarh, India
One hundred and fifty-four Punjabi infants (86 male, 68 female) were followed longitudinally and their lengths and weights measured each month during the first year of life. Monthly distance and velocity means for their weight and crown-heel length with the respective standard deviations are presented. The general pattern of growth is characterized by a period of rapid initial increase followed by a period of slower increment during the second ha…
Longeot test of cognitive development in Indian context
Faster, cheaper, deeper user research
In vivo and in vitro effect of latex of Calotropis procera on gastrointestinal smooth muscles
Male Fertility and Male Sexuality
Male fertility is the correct word for fertility of a couple as men’s decisions often prevail over women, particularly in developing countries. The indulgence of men in sexual activities both within and outside marriage determines the actual fertility performance of men. Men belonging to backward classes are continuously under stress particularly in matters of sexuality and fertility due to social and cultural problems. Therefore a study of the r…
Daily life, not markets
Purpose – As companies try to gain a deeper understanding of consumers, they are increasingly turning to user-observation and ethnographic processes. However, because of this work is normally done in an informal manner, it tends to only have value for the small number of team members working on a particular project. This paper seeks to describe a method that is much more structured than normal processes, allowing companies to conduct observationa…
Place of Birth
In spite advances in medical care and services urban women prefer home deliveries followed by public facility compared to private facility. The NFHS-1 and 2 data are utilized for this analysis. The reasons are many. Multinomial regression it revealed that a good proportion of short-term migrants, respondents with low levels of education, lack of media exposure (radio, News paper reading, and T.V), low standard of living, SC/ST, are more log odds …
Institutional Flaws and Corruption Incentives in India
India has achieved a respectable rate of economic growth in an environment that is quite permissive of corrupt practices to the extent that acts of corruption, if sufficiently clever, are not scorned but praised. Despite the coexistence of corruption and unprecedented economic growth we argue that there is unrealised potential for further growth that is held back by the institutions of administration and associated corruption. With growth as subs…
Trends in seasonal and annual rainfall and rainy days in Kashmir Valley in the last century
Chemopreventive and anti-cancer properties of the aqueous extract of flowers of Butea monosperma
Parental Demographics and Preschool Children's Theory of Mind
This research investigates the difference between theory of mind (ToM) and parental demographics of preschool children. One hundred and sixty six 3.6- to- 5.6 year old children were tested on three standard false belief tasks and a verbal ability test. A significant difference was found between mother’s occupational status and ToM. However, hierarchical regression analysis showed that mother’s occupational status was a significant predictor of ch…
Pro-apoptotic and anticancer properties of Thapring – A Tibetan herbal formulation
Decentralised Governance and Delivery of Services - Way to Good Governance
The chaukidari force
Recruitment in the chaukidari forces under colonial police administration was an alternative to the colonial army for Dalits to get socio-political status, consciousness, ‘economic freedom’ (cash salary, rewards, lands and concessions), education and ‘civic equality’. Therefore, the chaukidari in the colonial police administration was a positive source of support for a section of Dalits, despite the limitation of numbers
Bacteriological evaluation of groundwater in open-defecation-free villages of Kurukshetra district, Haryana, India
The present study was designed to analyse the microbiological quality of groundwater in open-defaecation-free (ODF) villages of the Kurukshetra district in Haryana. Twenty-seven groundwater samples were collected from borewells of nine ODF villages located in three different blocks of the Kurukshetra district in three seasons and analysed for total and faecal coliform count. The presence of gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria was observed in all t…
Differential Impact of Covid-19 Risk Factors on Ethnicities in the United States
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has revealed existing health inequalities in racial and ethnic minority groups in the US. This work investigates and quantifies the non-uniform effects of geographical location and other known risk factors on various ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic at a national level. To quantify the geographical impact on various ethnic groups, we grouped all the states of the US. into four different regions (Northe…
Investigating the role of convenors in the PhD viva
The oral examination, or the viva voce, is the culmination of the doctoral examination process in many traditions. In these traditions, the chair or convenor facilitates the viva. The idea of convenors is one that has not been discussed at length within the literature of higher education. In this paper, we explore the findings of a qualitative survey that aimed to gain insights into the role of convenors in an oral examination and their views of …
Evaluating the effectiveness of fingerling stocking and ecological perspectives in enhancing fish harvest in a large tropical reservoir of Northern India
Partnering with doctoral students in research supervision
Discourse regarding modern doctoral studies criticises the traditional notion of doctoral education as being too narrow to facilitate knowledge creation and transfer towards the knowledge economy. This study considered the pedagogical links to supervisory practices to enable transformative learning experiences. The study, grounded in the student–faculty partnership framework and transformative learning concepts, partnered five senior doctoral stu…
The supply is there. So why can’t pregnant and breastfeeding women in rural India get the Covid-19 vaccine
Despite COVID-19 vaccines being available to pregnant women in India since summer 2021, little is known about vaccine uptake among this high need population. We conducted mixed methods research with pregnant and recently delivered rural women in northern India, consisting of 300 phone surveys and 15 in-depth interviews, in November 2021. Only about a third of respondents were vaccinated, however, about half of unvaccinated respondents reported th…
What do the undergraduate medical students think of their educational environment
Context: Assessment of medical education is important to identify the deficiencies in medical educational environment. Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) is a pre-validated inventory tool that helps to assess and thereby address those deficiencies. Aims: To know about the student’s perception regarding the education environment at Rajendra Institute of Medical sciences (RIMS), Ranchi. Methods and Material: This cross-sectional stu…
How leadership style creates an impact on job satisfaction level of employees in an organization
In this study, we tried to show how a good leader positively impacts employees, which leads to job satisfaction while working in an organization/business. Under this study, we are trying to examine the meaning and importance of Leadership towards job satisfaction of employees, how good leadership help in helping their employees, and they feel satisfied with their current working job. This study is based on two leadership styles: Responsible Leade…
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