The Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
Punjab Technical University (PTU), at Jalandhar
DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology
Lovely Professional University
Govt. Tanning Institute,
Apeejay Institute of Management,
DAV College
DOABA College
Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya (HMV),
Kanya Maha Vidyalaya (KMV),
Mehr Chand Polytechnic,
Apeejay College of Fine Arts,
Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus, Ladhewali,
B.D. Arya Girls College,
Lyallpur Khalsa College
Trinity College,
Sant Baba Bhag Singh Educational Complex
CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology, Jalandhar
CT Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jalandhar
Army Nursing College, Jalandhar
Bhai Mati Dass School of Nursing, Jalandhar
Bharat Institute of Nursing Training, Jalandhar
Guru Nanak Nursing Training Institute and Hospital, Jalandhar
Indian Medical Institute of Nursing, Jalandhar
Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Nursing Education, Jalandhar
Mahatma Hans Raj DAV Institute of Nursing, Jalandhar
Nursing Training Institute and Hospital, Jalandhar
Parul School of Nursing, Jalandhar
Phoenix The Global Institute of Nursing, Jalandhar
Sant Baba Bhag Singh Institute of Nursing, Jalandhar
APS College of Nursing, Jalandhar
KCL Institute of Laws for Women, Jalandhar
St Soldier Law College, Jalandhar
Social Institutes of Management and Technology, Jalandhar
St Soldier Management and Technical Institute, Jalandhar
Apeejay Institute of Management, Jalandhar
CT Institute of Management & IT, Jalandhar
CT Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Jalandhar
Mega serial on Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Bollywood actor Raj Babbar’s ambitious Hindi
serial on the life and achievements of legendary Maharaja Ranjit Singh, which would
be telecast in 52 episodes on national hook-up in coming days, has been completed
with the shooting at the historical Gobindgarh Fort, heretoday.
The main attraction of the serial for the people of the holy city would be that many actors and actresses including Arvinder Bhatti, Neeta Mohindera, Anita Devgan, Hardip Gill, Pawel Sandu, Rajvinder and Surjit Dhami hail from Amritsar.
Kabootarbaazi again Education tours are the new route
The Punjabi’s lure for foreign lands often betrays signs of desperation, bordering on mania. Many skirt the law to go abroad by joining a sports team or a musical group, and then opt out to vanish making borders irrelevant. Kabootarbaazi, an euphemism for human trafficking in Punjab, has become even more ingenious. Six students from Punjab, three from a college and three from two schools of Kapurthala district, recently went on an education tour to Germany but disappeared. Educational excursions now seem to have become the latest modus operandi of overzealous Punjabis to go to foreign lands for whatever the reasons. Earlier, two students from Jalandhar and four along with a woman teacher from Hoshiarpur district were reported missing on trips to NASA, clearly without intention to embark on a journey into space.
Indian studies must be integral part of syllabi’
Dr Harish Narang, dean, Jawarhar
Lal Nehru University, while inaugurating the 3-week refresher course in English organized
by Academic Staff College of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, asked the scholars
and academicians of India to unite and fight for the Indian studies, which have still
not been assigned their rights despite the fact that many third world countries have
marched much ahead in the field of literature and literary studies.
Speaking against the foreign studies, which are still continuing to be a part of almost all the Indian universities, he asked the framers of the syllabi to incorporate Indian writings or for that matter other regional writings in the recent syllabus. He said since most of the Indian writers were as good as or even better than British writers, there should be no reason why a particular course of study should be followed even after 51 years of India’s independence from the clutches of foreigners.
He asked the academicians to hold cudgels against the teachings of foreign studies in India and wage a war beyond English. He said 75 per cent of the syllabus should bear the works of Indian, Pakistani, Australian, Nigerian, Kenian, South African writers etc. He further said the foreign studies should be given only as much due as required and there were many more current and significant issues like female foeticide, communal harmony, Hindu-Muslim Unity etc, which needed to be discussed and focussed rather than continuing with the same old books and same old foreign writers for centuries together.
Campus
Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar was established in January 1997 for advancement of technical education & development. The University has under its affiliation 40 Engineering colleges,56 Management, 17 Pharmacy colleges ,6 Architecture 2 Hotel Management and 13 colleges imparting courses in Medical Lab Technolgy& IT disciplines. The University has an intake of more than 12700 and total strength of more than 60,000 approx. University has established 12 Regional Centres for M-Tech courses and has established school of Enterprennership 2 TQM as Mohali. In a country like India, Distance education is an effective way of spreading the education & technology to the people. Distance education is an established and recognized mode of education, which is in consonance with changing soci-economic needs and emerging demands of the knowledge era. Keeping up with the spirit of Open University system and in accordance with National Policy of Education which lays emphasis on continuing and distance education, the University is running various Undergraduate and Post Graduate courses in various disciplines in the rural and urban areas. For the purpose of providing quality education, Punjab Technical University has set up more than 200 state-of-the-art study centres equipped with modern facilities in all the regions of Punjab and other states of India. As we all are well aware of the fact that Distance Education programme was a tremendous success among the students of different streams from our region and a few even from abroad have got themselves enrolled with Punjab Technical University (PTU) has not only raked in revenue for the University and the State of Punjab at the start of academic session but also created hundreds of jobs for the youth of Punjab through its Study Centres and a whole separate distance education department. The major factors of this tremendous response are, on one hand, the economical fee structure and, on the other hand the credibility of Punjab Technical University and well designed courses.
Revised Theory Suggests Carbon Dioxide Levels Already in Danger Zone
The authors, who include two Yale scientists, assert that to maintain a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, an optimum CO2 level would be less than 350 ppm — a dramatic change from most previous studies, which suggested a danger level for CO2 is likely to be 450 ppm or higher. Atmospheric CO2 is currently 385 parts per million (ppm) and is increasing by about 2 ppm each year from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) and from the burning of forests.
“This work and other recent publications suggest that we have reached CO2 levels
that compromise the stability of the polar ice sheets,How fast ice sheets and sea
level will respond are still poorly understood, but given the potential size of the
disaster, I think it’s best not to learn this lesson firsthand.”
The statement is
based on improved data on the Earth’s climate history and ongoing observations of
change, especially in the polar regions. The authors use evidence of how the Earth
responded to past changes of CO2 along with more recent patterns of climate changes
to show that atmospheric CO2 has already entered a danger zone.
Controlling the flow of heat could be another way to store digital information
Someday, computers might store information using not only electric charges or magnetism, but also tiny packets of heat called phonons. Such heat-based memory is theoretically possible within the laws of physics, new research shows, and this memory would be durable and could be read without destroying the information — two key requirements for useful data storage.
Circuits based on quantum packets of heat rather than electric charges could enable computers to use waste heat — which is currently just shed to keep a processor from overheating — to perform useful computations and store information. A surge of research in the last few years on the physics of controlling the flow of heat packets has yielded designs for heat-based diodes, transistors and logic gates that perform AND, OR and NOT operations.
Unlike the electrons in an electric circuit, phonons in a thermal circuit are not actually particles. Instead, phonons are discrete units of vibration among the atoms in a solid. The stronger these vibrations are, the hotter the solid will be. In materials that conduct heat, phonons travel through the substance just as electrons travel through electrical conductors.
Concentrated heat normally tends to dissipate over time, which would seem to make heat-based memory impossible. Normally, heat flows faster when the temperature difference between two materials is greater, which is why a red-hot burner will heat a pot of water faster than a burner on medium. But the team previously showed that materials can be designed to work in the opposite way, so that a greater temperature difference causes heat to flow more slowly. This reversed response is what allows phonons at one of two temperatures — representing the “on” or “off” of digital memory — to stay at that temperature long enough to make the thermal memory useful.
Violent Video Games Affect Boys Biological Systems
In the study boys (12-15) were asked to play two different video games at home in the evening. The boys’ heart rate was registered, among other parameters. It turned out that the heart rate variability was affected to a higher degree when the boys were playing games focusing on violence compared with games without violent features. Differences in heart rate variability were registered both while the boys were playing the games and when they were sleeping that night. The boys themselves did not feel that they had slept poorly after having played violent games.
The results show that the autonomous nerve system, and thereby central physiological systems in the body, can be affected when you play violent games without your being aware of it. It is too early to draw conclusions about what the long-term significance of this sort of influence might be. What is important about this study is that the researchers have found a way, on the one hand, to study what happens physiologically when you play video or computer games and, on the other hand, to discern the effects of various types of games.
It is hoped that it will be possible to use the method to enhance our knowledge of what mechanisms could lie behind the association that has previously been suggested between violent games and aggressive behavior.
Getting the Solution Of Hair Loss
After six years of research scientists have succeeded in identifying a gene that is responsible for a rare hereditary form of hair loss known as Hypotrichosis simplex. The scientists are the first to identify a receptor that plays a role in hair growth. They now hope that their research findings will lead to new therapies that will work with various forms of hair loss.
Although Hypotrichosis simplex is very uncommon, it may prove critical in our search for an understand of the mechanisms of hair growth. The disease is inherited and affects both men and women. Sufferers generally begin to go bald during childhood. The process of hair loss (alopecia) then advances with age, especially around the scalp.
The cause of Hypotrichosis simplex in the form examined in this project is a genetic defect. It prevents certain receptor structures on the surface of hair follicle cells from being correctly formed. It has been found that when messengers from outside bind to these receptors they trigger a chain reaction in the cell interior which is apparently needed for the hair follicle to function normally. Such a receptor that plays a specific role in hair growth was previously unknown to scientists.
