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The COVID-19 pandemic has unquestionably warned all of us that, the outbreak of an infection can lead to a pandemic-like situation all over the world. In order to prevent outbreaks and provide better healthcare, appropriate crowd detection and monitoring systems must be deployed in public areas. By effectively implementing social distancing measures, the number of new infections can be greatly decreased. This idea served as the inspiration for the creation of a real-time Crowd Detection and Monitoring System (CDMS) for social distancing. This paper proposes a fully autonomous system for Real-Time Crowd Detection and Monitoring to help the educational institutions to monitor the students inside the premises more effectively. This system is developed using an OpenCV based Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) detector to detect and count the number of people gathered at an instance. The system raises an alarm to alert the people and adhere to the rules if the gathering is more than the threshold/permitted number of people in the cluster. © 2023 IEEE.
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Background: During the corona virus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, most of the medical schools across the world has started to transfer the curriculum from face-to-face to online delivery using various virtual platforms for undergraduate teaching without any uniformity. It is imperative to understand the students’ outlook about the current online teaching in order to make it more effective. This study was planned to gain an insight into the medical students’ perspective toward online teaching–learning program and the challenges faced by them toward the same. Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted for 3 months at a medical college in Chengalpet district, Tamil Nadu, among 351 medical students across all professional years. The Google form platform was used to administer a semi-structured questionnaire to all the participants to obtain information related to various parameters of online teaching-learning. The statistical analysis was done using frequency and percentages. Results: A total of 351 students participated in this study, including 134 males and 217 females. Almost 318 (90.6%) perceived that online classes were able to cover academic portion amidst COVID-19 pandemic. The most common challenges found were network related issues, lack of practical sessions, including dissection and lack of exposure to clinical cases cited by 181 (90%), 77 (38.3%) and 72 (35.8%) participants, respectively. Conclusions: The study reveals the perspectives of medical students on online teaching–learning sessions and identifies important challenges pertaining to it. However, the positive overall experience by the students provides confidence to the medical education fraternity in the entire process of online teaching and learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. © The Authors.
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The goal of Ayurveda is prevention is better than cure. There are a total of 9152 COVID-19 cases reported in India (till April 13, 2020), 308 people were died because of this disease, and 856 patients were treated successfully in our Country. This virus can easily affect or harm those individuals who have an infection, less immunity and especially who all have been aged more than sixty. Most of the countries are worried only for their people’s life (health). In contrast, the developing countries like India that has a large population have to consider about the livelihood for people like Below Poverty Line (BPL) or those living in slum areas, equally with their life. The main aim of the article is to aware the people not only Urban but also among Rural and needy individuals to adopt the Ayurveda lifestyle during Covid19 outbreak. For this to study various methods which are described in Ayurveda for boosting immunity among various individuals. This study is a review type of article. All information and references have been collected and compiled from various avail-able Ayurvedic classics texts. Research articles are also searched from various websites related to Covid19 outbreak and its effect on needy individuals. All matters have been analysed for some discussion, and an attempt has been made to rule out some conclusions. During this lockdown, people are mostly living a sedentary lifestyle which not only weakens their immune system but also make them more susceptible to infections. Hence Ayurveda is a science of life that is mainly focusing on strengthening persons by boosting their immune system through improving our lifestyle by using medicines, diets, meditation and activities like Yoga. This article will give insights about poor people and effective strategy to threat COVID-19 through Ayurveda in India.