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Growing Human Population and Sustainable Development
Get PDFThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. No Poverty, Zero hunger, Health & Wellness, Gender Equality, Clean Water, and many others have been kept on priority for development across world. But what plays a critical role in planning, execution, and success of these goals is “Resource Estimation & Planning” and that in turn is dominated by the ‘Human Population Trends’ of different regions on globe. Growing Human Population has been a challenge for all future-plans for sustainable development across globe and their success. The current paper highlights the close correlation between trends of growing human population and sustainable developmen
Fear Psychosis and Behavioral Changes Affecting Kids in War-Zones
Get PDFFear is the most natural and ancient feeling, the mankind is exposed since the beginning of the civilization and the existence of human beings. This feeling of wellbeing, your life and the survival of you and your loved ones is very common. All those who are exposed to the wars, riots, clash, and natural disaster are well aware of the feeling and as anybody have more or less experienced this feeling at some point of time in his/her life. But situation becomes worse when it comes to the kids in their growing age and specially those who are forced to live in the war zone among the fear of attacks in the habitat
Integrating Soft Skills into Courses in Malaysian Public Universities: (Undergraduates’ Perception)
Get PDFMalaysian employers demand a high proficiency in soft skills. They are looking beyond academic results when interviewing new staff, hence undergraduates acquiring soft skills is an important issue from different perspectives: the employers, the education system and the students themselves. Despite this emphasis, potential employees, according to employers; lack soft skills. Considering the importance of this issue, this paper’s objective is to comprehend and highlight the perception of undergraduates of the soft skills programs in five research universities in Malaysia. The information presented in this paper is obtained from a survey conducted by distributing 600 questionnaires to undergraduates in Malaysia’s five research universities to determine their understanding of soft skills and how these skills are taught and evaluated in these universities. The initial findings show that there is a strong awareness of the importance of soft skills among undergraduates but the students are not clear about the methods of teaching and evaluating these skills in different courses in different universities. The results illustrate a need for universities in general to develop strategies to enhance soft skills teaching and learning and make undergraduates aware of how these skills are evaluated. The results also suggest that integrating soft skills into university courses does not follow a standard procedure and each university may value and emphasis a different skill. It appears therefore that if universities collaborate their knowledge and experience, they may be able to offer a more practical and beneficial soft skill-training program for undergraduates
Contribution of Community Based Organizations in the conservation of Volcanoes National Park. “Case study of SACOLA in Nyange and Kinigi Sectors, Musanze District, Rwanda.â€
Get PDFThe Community Based Organizations play an important role in the conservation of protected areas. However, they are still at the early stage in Rwanda and require scientific researches to assess their contribution towards National parks conservation. This study was conducted through four cooperatives (Turate ubuhinzi, Ingenzi Kinigi, ANICO, and Muhisimbi) with the sample size of 72 respondents. The data was collected using questionnaires for four months (from July to October 2011) and analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), version 16.0. The study was aimed at assessing the contribution of community based organizations to the conservation of Volcanoes National Park, focusing on SACOLA activities in Nyange and Kinigi Sectors, Musanze District. The results indicated that people in the study area conduct many activities but crop production is conducted at 100%. Concerning the activities of SACOLA, the results show that 81.9% of population have already benefited from employment (buffalo wall construction and maintenance, guides in community tourism, porters, etc.). The output from Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test showed that 55% have decreased their frequencies to go into the park. The same test shows that (11%) respondents have increased their frequencies to enter the park. The study showed also that 33% did not change their attitude towards the use of VNP resources. Referring to the statistical analysis at (p=.000), there is a significance statistical difference between the frequency of going into the park before and after SACOLA activities. There was also an association (P=0.026, Pearson Chi-Square) between satisfaction with SACOLA activities and the probability of going into the park. From these results, the population is that they are beneficiaries of SACOLA at 100% and they are informed about its activities, and 65.3% recognized to be satisfied at a very high level, while 19.4% of respondents mentioned not to be satisfied. Finally, the results show an improvement in conserving Volcanoes National Park since the creation of SACOLA in 2004, and conclude that the contribution of Community Based Organizations is positive and recommend that more effort is needed to maximize the community involvement and also recommend further researches in the same field.E
Color image retrieval using taken images
Get PDFNow-a-days in many applications content based image retrieval from large resources has become an area of wide interest. In this paper we present a color-based image retrieval system that uses color and texture as visual features to describe the content of an image region. To speed up retrieval and similarity computation, the database images are segmented and the extracted regions are clustered according to their feature vectors. This process is performed offline before query processing, therefore to answer a query our system need not search the entire database images; instead just a number of candidate images are required to be searched for image similarity. Our proposed system has the advantage of increasing the retrieval accuracy and decreasing the retrieval time. The experimental evaluation of the system is based on a 1,000 real taken color image database. From the experimental results, it is evident that our system performs significantly better and faster compared with other existing systems. In our analysis, we provide a comparison between retrieval results based on relevancy for the given ten classes. The results demonstrate that each type of feature is effective for a particular type of images according to its semantic contents, and using a combination of them gives better retrieval results for almost all semantic classes
Role of work stress and coping strategies of employee’s Performance: An Empirical study with reference to private university employees.
Get PDFThe article tries to explore the role of Work stress and coping strategies of employee performance, This study is an attempt to emphasis that performance of employees is influenced by Work stress and effort expended by them in coping with stress. Private university Employees are not a stress free community. Overall similarity in coping behavior of employees is indicative of a possibility that the bureaucratic structure has an important role to play in deciding the reactions of employees. According to Lazarus & Folk man (1984) coping is a mechanism of handling external and internal demands that are exceeding the resources of the person in order to prevent negative consequences. This research paper is inferential analysis in nature and makes use of primary data as well as secondary data .Regression analysis were used to test the statistical significance of this impact and ANOVA were used to test the hypothesis. The study found that Majority of employees perceived moderate work stress that are inter-related with Employee’s Performance
Emotional Dynamics of Action and Core Involvement: A new theoretical perspective for designing development strategies in schools
Get PDFEmotional Dynamics of Action and Core Involvement are theortical perspectives that define an individual\u27s life long scope of learning and progress.
An individual’s life long Emotional Dynamics of Action (EDA) and his/her Core Involvement in what he/she aspires to do, in what he/she takes up, in whatever he/she achieves get immensely impacted in school. EDA and CI are not isolated patterns of emotional construct; they get constantly evolved and devolved, constantly learned and unlearned. An individual\u27s EDA and CI constantly impact those around and also constantly get impacted by those around. Thus school becomes a space that defines the life-long capacity of an individual. Schools greatly make up a society and its behavioural and attitudinal construct.
The aim of this paper is to on a fresh construct define how schools play a pivotal role in determining a child’s consciousness. The psychological patterns determining communication between a child’s internal and external settings and his level of self-awareness get shaped in school. And these psychological patterns define the EDA and CI of the individual. Researcher defines how positive EDA and CI can be cultivated and practised and how schools can become a major strageic point for development
Analysis of Various Data Mining Techniques using Novel Ratings Prediction
Get PDFAvailability of large amount of data in unprocessed form has increased the need of data mining. Various data mining techniques are available for this purpose but we need to choose one which is more accurate. Looking at the increasing interest of people in novel reading, data collected for prediction is based on novels. People were asked to rate different genre novel s. This study has predicted ratings of dystopian novel based on ratings given to other genre novels by readers using various data mining techniques and calculated their prediction accuracy
Opportunities and Challenges in Paper Printed RFID
Get PDFRFID technique has gathered interest in many areas. But due to high installation cost and comparatively low read range, it has not reached its full potential. In this paper, how ‘conductive’ ink-jet printing technique, as an effective approach for the printing of RFID tags on paper has been studied. Various results characterize paper as a good substrate for the fabrication of sensor modules. Also, the use of implantable RFID tags for bio-monitoring applications is investigated that may open interesting opportunities in telemedicine. Although the technique is exciting enough to be adopted and can revolutionize data fusion but still there are certain unresolved issues that can restrict its use for the development of a ‘ubiquitous’ network for device and body monitoring applications
Factors causing work related stress in the Hospitality Sector: A study of employees in three star hotels in Dehradun Region
Get PDFHotels are an important component of the hospitality sector as every tourist wants a comfortable and secure stay. Customers rate a tourist destination according to the performance of the hotels. The workforce of a hotel plays an important role in satisfying a customer. But the workforce is highly stressed because of a number of factors pertaining to the hotel industry. This paper aims to identify the factors causing work related stress among hotel employees. Descriptive research method was used to identify the factors causing stress and technique of factor analysis is applied. Findings of the study identified Work load, Control over work, Role clarity, Interpersonal relations Managerial Support and Organizational Policies as six major factors causing stress among employees in the hotel industry. The findings of the paper are a guideline for the hotels to bring about modifications in these factors and hence improve mental well-being of their workforce.
Key words: Hospitality, hotels, work related stress, service delivery