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Tuesday, 7 April 2020

CIVIL Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Meditation: A remedial to improve quality of life

Meditation: A remedial to improve quality of life

With the benefits of meditation the term meditation become popular in world. The popularity of meditation is touching the sky day by day as more people came to know about its benefits.

It is a process of making your thoughts clear and trains your mind to be focused at particular direction. It may help you to increase yourself awareness to the surrounding. It is the best way to reduce your total day stress and develop your mind concentration level. Factors like pain, tolerance, good and healthy sleep, positive mood, self discipline, outlook etc can be developed in the people through the regular practice of this exercise. There are number of benefits of meditation from which some are discussing below:

1) Reduce stress: The one of the most solid only reason why people try meditation is to reduce stress. In a study including over 4000 adult showed that the stress reduction is the major benefit concerned with the regular practice of meditation. Stress hormone called cortisol gets increased due to mental and physical stress. This may lead to much harmful effect on the body such as release of inflammation- promoting chemicals called cytokines. This effect can contribute to fatigue and cloudy thinking, increase blood pressure, promote depression and anxiety and also can disrupt sleep.

2) Control anxiety: If you are in less stress that means you have less anxiety. A two month study of mindfulness meditation helped participants to reduce their anxiety level. Most participants continued practicing regular meditation for some period and maintained lower anxiety levels over the long time.

3) Promotes emotional health: Some types of meditation may also help to improve self image and more positive outlook of life. Two studies of mindfulness meditation found decreased in the level of depression in over 4,500 adults. A study relates activity between the brains of participant those who perform mindfulness meditation over a period and the brains of others who perform regular schedule without meditation. Those who meditated results measurable changes in activity in real life areas related to positive thinking and optimism.

4) Enhance self awareness: A stronger understanding of yourself and to grow at your best level can be developing by practicing some form of meditation.

5) May reduce age related memory loss: you can keep your mind young by improvement in attention and clarity in thinking.

6) Lengthen Attention Span: Meditation is like a weight lifting for your attention span. As long as u keep continue with this practice your attention will increase. A study showed that people who regularly practiced mindfulness meditation stayed focused on a task for longer. These people also remembered details of their tasks better than their peers who did not practice meditation.

7) Can Generate Kindness: Some kind of meditation can gradually increase positive feelings towards each aspect and actions toward yourself and others. A type of meditation named as, Metta or loving-kindness meditation help in producing kind thoughts and positive feeling towards other.

8) May help Fight Addiction: The Addictive behaviour of human can also controlled as meditation can help in develop the mental discipline and provide break in your unnecessary dependencies.

AUTHOR:

Mr. Mohit Dureja

(Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department)

GEC WRITHLON 2

CIVIL Tuesday, April 07, 2020

HIGGS BOSON

HIGGS BOSON

INTRODUCTION

Matters at subatomic level consists of small particles with vast empty spaces in between. These small particles are electrons, protons, neutrons, pi-mesons, neutrino and so on.

Subatomic particles are those particles which are much smaller than atoms. There are two kinds of Subatomic particles first is Elementary particles, which according to present theories are not made of other particles and Composite particles. Nuclear and Particle physics comprises these particles and do study how they interact. Higgs boson is an elementary particle of the standard model. The term boson was given by Paul Dirac in honour of Satyendra Nath Bose (an Indian physicist who provided the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate and laid the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics). Bosons are energy particles; they are responsible for interatomic forces. Higgs particle is named after the theorist Peter Higgs who along with several other scientists proposed its existence in 1964.

THE STANDARD MODEL

Matter and energy can be best understood in terms of kinematics and interaction of elementary particles. The standard model consists of several classes of elementary particles (fermions, gauge bosons and the higgs boson). All particles can be sum up as follows:

⮚ The Standard Model includes twelve elementary particles of spin ¹⁄₂known as fermions. Fermions are matter particles. Each fermion has its corresponding antiparticle. There are six quarks (up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom) and six leptons (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, tau neutrino).

⮚ In standard model, Gauge bosons are defined as force carriers that mediate the strong, weak, and electromagnetic fundamental interactions. The value of the spin is 1, making them bosons.

⮚ The Higgs boson was the last particle of the standard model to be experimentally confirmed. The standard model doesn’t predict its mass directly. On 4^thJuly2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiment at CERN announced the discovery of a boson at a mass approximately 125 GeV which is Higgs Boson.

WHAT IS HIGGS BOSON?

Peter Higgs predicted in 1964 that due to higgs mechanism things in the universe – stars, planets even people have mass. During its discovery in mainstream of media it is often referred to as the ‘GOD PARTICLE’.

Peter Higgs proposed energy field that permeated the entire universe, this energy field is now called higgs field. The presence of the field, can be confirmed by experiments, explains why some fundamental particles have mass. The Higgs field consists of countless Higgs Bosons.

Higgs Mechanism: - Mechanism by which certain particles interact with higgs field and have property of mass.

DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSONS

The LHC is a discovery machine is currently world’s largest hadron collider, where protons are accelerated in 27km circumference synchrotron and collide at very high energy. The LHC was built by CERN, in tunnel located approx. 100m underground. Collisions are analysed with usage of detectors.

CONCLUSION

Evidence of the higgs bosons, higgs field and its properties has been extremely significant for many reasons. The Higgs boson's importance is largely that it is able to be examined using existing knowledge and experimental technology.

AUTHOR:

Ms. Jyoti Narwal

(Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department)

GEC WRITHLON 0

Sunday, 5 April 2020

CIVIL Sunday, April 05, 2020

CARBON SEQUESTRATION

Carbon dioxide the prime greenhouse gas which is a major issue in the world. Carbon Sequestration is long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon from atmosphere or source point or anthropogenic (man-made) source such as power plants, refineries, cement processing, natural gas processing plant through biological, chemical and physical processes.

Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) has potential to take a stand for curbing the emission by consuming minimal resources.

The process of Carbon Sequestration involves following steps:

1. CO2 is captured from its source point

2. CO2 is compressed and liquefied

3. It is transported through railways, waterways or pipeline for release in:

a) Area of degraded forest or where deforestation has been done, CO2 is fixed by forest or land plants called as Green Carbon which increases the productivity and the process is called as Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration.

b) If captured CO2 is injecting in ocean in its photic zone and is fixed by aquatic plants or hydrophytes or algae, it is called as Blue Carbon.

c) If captured CO2 is injected in rocks such as sandstone dolomite (Red Fort is made up of sand stone dolomite) or rocks containing fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and this process is called as Geological Carbon Sequestration and this method increases carbon content in them, thereby increases the quality of fossil fuels.

Flowchart of Carbon Sequestration

India has been taking approach towards this technology. Due to low understanding of public and lack of technical parameters for storage, and majorly due to the economic feasibility, the government is taking low interest in demonstration of the technology. On the other hand, because of the people’s reaction for storing CO2 in underground and the findings of geological capacity of India this is very limited. The International Energy Agency predicts that in terms of CO2 emission, India will be among top list of World by the year 2023.

In the year 2007-2008, India has given special attention to capture carbon for research and development by Department of Science and Technology but after 2013 only few researches are still taking on and a point to be noted is that India doesn’t have specific policy for this new technology that’s why India lacks in this to take it further.

Author:

Padma

Student B.Tech CE 4th Year Geeta Engineering College

GEC WRITHLON 0

Saturday, 4 April 2020

CIVIL Saturday, April 04, 2020

CHOICE IS YOURS- GET INJURED OR GET VICTORY

A 5 years child is very excited today as he is about to cross thermal power station which is about 10 km away from his house. The thermal power station which he usually sees from his terrace will now in front of him.

As much as he is going closer to the power station excitement level goes higher and higher.

He is thinking… The thermal power station which is 10km away and still visible from his terrace…

How much bigger it will be…?

As he comes in front of thermal power station he fills with eager. He fills with that much eager as he couldn't forget that moment in the age of 20.

Now the question arises

Why he (not only him everyone) get filled with eager by seeing the object which is much higher?

Why there is record to climb over Mount Everest & have no record to cover a valley?

We are getting afraid to see the depth but filled with eager to see the height… though it is easier to cover kms of depth but takes too many efforts to climb few meters over heights…

Why this eager and fear comes!

Where will we see…?

We look at the output

If we fall in depths…

we get injured and

if we climb over heights…

we get victory

If we look into its technical aspects

Gravity supports you when you fall… it opposes when we climb...

Gravity is like negativity /bad habits/bad company you would feel enjoying all but what will be the output you get injured but if we effort beyond all these distractions we will get victory.

Now the choice is yours you want to get injured or get victory!

Victory

What is it you dream of?

How far will you go?

To show the world your greatness

So everyone will know

Will you go the distance?

Will you pay the price?

Learning all the lessons

And heeding good advice

There are no guarantees

No tricks and no sure thing

There’s simply strength and passion

That define what hope may bring

It’s when it comes together

The perfect turn of fate

When strength pushes us forward

To enter Victory’s gate

A Change to fly

Silence does surround you

Just listen to the wind

Feel the changed direction

Of what will soon begin

The answers are around you

The path has been revealed

Where passion turns to motion

And wounds of old are healed

Do you have the courage?

To take the step upon the road

Freeing up your purpose

As you cast aside your load

Lightened of your burden

So many things you’ll try

Freed of chains and baggage

Give you a chance to fly

The Time is Now

Now’s the time to do those things

That lifts you and give you wings

To shed the smock of sullen days

And cast away the gloom and haze

Tap into the strength you know

And feel your power start and grow

Finish up those things undone

And start anew and have some fun

Prepare now for a new venue

With much to say and much to do

Put behind those things of waste

And set a course with all due haste

Worlds that beacon call you near

To offer things that holds you dear

Enter in with open hearts

And join with those who you’re a part

AUTHOR:

AMAN BATLA

(A.P., Civil Engineering Department)

GEC WRITHLON 3

Friday, 3 April 2020

MANAGEMENT Friday, April 03, 2020

Now and Then Corona- A fear or Blessing in Disguise

Few days of Lock down and look how fresh everything outside feels. Air feels like pure Oxygen coming all the way from Himalayas.

When u hear Birds chirping it feels like you are in Jungles of Amazon. April 1st is feeling like its making fool of us with such a pleasant weather around. No more Danger zone alarms in Delhi or Even odd system news when it comes to Air Quality Index. No more Air Quality Index warning in cities of NCR. No more fear of wearing white shirt when you are on Scooty or Bike. No more suffocation in Traffic.

Dogs have started showing courage of Groaning looking at Humans like we are entering their territory. So quickly it’s forgotten that there use to be so many humans that these dogs never use to get place to walk. No more busting our ears with noise. No more burning of Life endangering fuel. No more fumes that choke your throat and fill your lungs with Darkest and deadly fumes.

No more factories exhausting dark cloud over the clear blue sky. No more running for work at 0830 AM. No more late night meetings. No more rushing around at 120 KMPL endangering your and other’s lives. No more synthetic food to eat. No more staying outside your home. No more traffic challans. No more road accidents. No more hatred gatherings of people spoiling the public harmony. No more burning of 500kms of fuel to see Taj Mahal which itself is getting spoiled by the fuel you burnt. No more waiting in queues for Railway tickets. No more overcrowded trains or buses. No more fight for land among countries.

Now comes time when you are with your family. When you can feel how easy or difficult it is to work in kitchen. Sky is now smiling with no dimples i.e. Ozone layer has now started recovery. Birds are not thirsty anymore. Sky is clean. Nature is now playing the smoothening music. Family started spending together now. Rivers are cleansing themselves. Roads are clean now without Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan. Yoga started at homes not willingly but out of boredom. Buildings looking clean now. You can feel the fragrance of mother earth and its creatures. You can now stand with trees and feel them actually talking to you when you close your eyes. Countries now want to look for their people rather than attacking others. Humans are now looking to gather food for them rather than racing to take other's share.

Race to be the best has come to halt and regime to survive has started now.

Finally everybody is striving for common cause to beat the demon and survive.

But question is who this demon is!!!

Is it Corona the Virus or Is it the Demon among ourselves because whatever was spoiled was not spoiled by Corona and whatever has restored back is not actually due to Corona. Reason for all this was Human and its mindset and is Human and its change in behaviour.

Corona is just an excuse to make us realise what we were, what we became and what we want to be in near future.

Corona is just helping us see our future options i.e. not just the worst one but glimpses of how better it can be.

It's upto you to decide what your and your future's future should look like.

Decide and act accordingly.

Although Human is the best creature of Mother earth but time has changed and Virus proved to be the bestie for earth now.

English may not be perfect but you will get what i meant and what our future should be like😊

With complement for present and Future.

Author:

Parul & Manjeet S. Ghangas

GEC WRITHLON 8

Saturday, 21 March 2020

CIVIL Saturday, March 21, 2020

GREEN CONCRETE

Green Concrete is defined as the one of the most enhanced type of concrete which is generally manufactured by concrete waste material.

There is no relation with Green color here in the word Green Concrete. This type of concrete is generally obtained by lesser energy in its manufacturing and it produces very less amount of Carbon dioxide. This type of concrete primarily indicates environmental sustainability ; sustainable like socially, economically feasible and its Eco friendliness in construction manner.

As the burden of ever growing industrial ash waste is increasing exponentially, so it becomes necessary to use these waste for making concrete in appropriate manner.A number of waste material used as fly ash product from coal power plants,glass aggregate,recycled demolished waste aggregate,manufactured sand and red mud.

A number of alternative environmental conditions with which for green building concrete structures must comply the following factors:-

No environmental pollution and sustainable development.
It possess better work ability than traditional concrete.
Fire resistance is quite good than environmental concrete.
Use of this concrete after construction requires less maintenance and repairment.

The concept of green concrete considers all important phases of a concrete i.e structural design aspect,its ingredient specifications,concreting operations and maintenance aspect and it includes all aspects of its performance in environment.

Atlast , the definite use of concrete product as green concrete for construction purpose in future will not only decrease the harmful effects of CO2 in nature but it can be economical material to produce and became a revolutionary product from industrial waste in the history of building construction material industry.

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