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RaagDarbari: An Analysis of the Post-Colonial Political Scenario in India
Get PDFIn the novel, RaagDrabari, Shrilal Shukla explores the little nuances and complexities of the largest democracy in the world, India. This creative work as a political satire explicitly presents the pathetic condition of India by metaphorically presenting a typical Indian village called Shivpalganj. It is a microcosm of Indian villages which are alienated and neglected in terms of modern material outlooks and developments. In India, politics and government are the two important factors that decide the fate of the country. As Gillian Wright points out in her introduction to the translated version of RaagDarbari, ‘politics and government’ are the two integral aspects of this novel. Therefore, the first part of this paper traces the evolution of these two strong pillars of India by focusing on the ideas presented in the novel. And the remaining part elucidates how much India changed since independence in terms of the socio-political and cultural perspectives envisioned by the visionary leaders and shared by common men
The Relationship Between Financial Sustainability And The Balanced Scorecard And Its Impact On The Unit Economic
Get PDFThe research aims to provide a theoretical framework for financial sustainability and its importance, as well as to identify the balanced scorecard and its dimensions and to determine the reality of financial sustainability indicators for the research sample through financial and non-financial analysis of those indicators. Develop some indicators for both financial sustainability and balanced scorecard perspectives, and the research reached some conclusions, including financial sustainability represented and that the purpose of financial sustainability is to prepare an integrated work strategy for unit management that contributes to assessing The risks of non-sustainability and the opportunities available to the unit that contribute to making investment decisions, as the economic unit can evaluate the non-financial information and the sustainability information side by side and provide a complete view of the unit’s performance.
 
Firm Agile Human Resource and Organizational Performance: A Case Study of the NOREB Counties, Kenya
Get PDFPurpose: The purpose of the study was to assess the agile human resource and organizational performance: A case of the NOREB Counties, Kenya. The research questions of the study were; what is the relationship between agile sensitivity training and organizational performance of NOREB Counties? How does agile organizational culture management relate to the organizational performance of NOREB Counties? What is the relationship between agile management level of interactions and organizational performance at NOREB Counties? What is the relationship between agile HR Policy and organizational performance at NOREB Counties? A correlational research design was used to assess the relationship between the variables.
Approach/Methodology/Design: The study targeted 1129 respondents. The sample size for the study was 285 respondents. The study employed multistage sampling. Questionnaires were used as the main data collection instruments but were supported by interview schedules. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the responses and multiple regression was used to analyze the data inferentially.
Findings: The results of multiple regressions, that Agile Sensitivity Training had no significant relationship (p = 0.080), agile organizational culture management had a significant relationship (p = 0.000), and agile management level of interactions style had no significant relationship (p = 0.065) and agile human resource policy had a significant relationship (p = 0.000) at 5 percent confidence with Organizational Performance.
Originality/value: The study concluded that content in sensitivity training needs to be relevant and current to assist solve organizational problems. That, there is need for good teamwork and cooperation in the organization as a way to enhance agile organizational culture. Further, management needs to provide the required budgets to support HR programs. The HR policy includes and emphasizes on HR training. The study recommended need for HR policy to transform HR operations to be more Agile
Econometric model of the impact of government investment spending on selected variables in the public health services sector in Iraq for the period 2012-2021
Get PDFThe research aims to show the impact of government health investment spending on some indicators of the effectiveness of the health sector during the period 2012-2021, and the problem of the study was summarized in the low investment spending in the health sector and its inability to promote this vital sector, but the goal was to highlight the importance and role of government investment spending in the health sector, and accordingly, the basic hypothesis was based on the weak impact of the aforementioned spending in the health sector, and for the purpose of taking note of the subject of the research , the most important concepts were addressed The theory of government health investment spending and the importance and components of government investment health spending in Iraq, as for the applied side, the ARDL model model has been adopted and through which the hypothesis was proven and it was found that the impact of government health investment spending was weak due to the lack of investment allocations for the health sector, and finally the research has adopted a number of recommendations, the most important of which is to deliberately The government to increase government health investment, raise the level of health spending, promote the development of the health industry, and promote sustainable economic growth in Iraq
Assessment of Maternal Risk Factors for Low-Birth-Weight Neonates: A Case Control Study in Teaching Hospital
Get PDFPurpose: A major factors contributing to infant deaths and morbidity is low birth weight (LBW). Low birth weight (LBW) is a significant marker for the population's general health condition and reproductive health. Maternal risk factors are controllable and vary from one region to another depending on geographic, socioeconomic, and cultural factors and are biologically, socially interrelated.
Subjects and Methods: The study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in kalaburagi. A total of 85 cases and 85 controls with normal birth weight. Mothers of aged 18-35 years who delivered a live-born singleton baby without any congenital abnormalities and gestational age 37-42 weeks were enrolled on the same day as delivery are eligible. Mothers who had multiple pregnancies were not eligible. Data was collected from Pre-tested survey.
Results: The mean age of mothers in case and control group was 23.73 years and 5.04 years. Mean weight gain during pregnancy of mothers in case and control was 4.2 kg and 6.5 kg. Mean weight of the newborn of cases and controls was 2012 grams and3065 grams respectively. Maternal education, tobacco exposure, maternal anaemia, lower socioeconomic status (class IV+V), maternal occupation (laborer), heavy physical activity, pre term birth of baby, history of UTI were identified as significant risk factors for LBW neonates. Significant association was found between age of mother, height of mother<145 cm, pre pregnancy weight <45 kg, mean weight gain (<6.5kg), prior infant death, inadequate ANC visits, and LBW.
Conclusions: Health education, socio-economic development, maternal nutrition, and increasing the use of health services during pregnancy, are all important for reducing LBW
The Emergent Writes Back: Emergent Ethnic Self-History Recasting Dominant Ethnohistory in Khaled Hosseini’s Fiction
Get PDF“Anglophone,” “Postcolonial,” Diasporic,” “Transnational,” “Ethnic,” “Multicultural,” “Cosmopolitan,” and “Emergent” are all umbrella terms that are used to lump together writers who write from the fringes of the Western center. Such writers, however various and different their literary productions are, create worlds in their stories and populate them with characters that defy and counteract many Western essentialist misconceptions about their homelands. In this context, and resonating with Salman Rushdie’s seminal statement— “the empire writes back to the center”—and Smaro Kamboureli’s “the diaspora writes back home” (30), I argue that “the emergent” also writes back as a response to the dominant mainstream discourse. This paper seeks to read Khaled Hosseini’s fiction as an exemplar of an emergent narrative that deals with Afghanistan’s ethnic self-history and voices the gory details that can only be perceived and mirrored through the lenses of an insider. Being a diasporic ethnic writer, Hosseini’s fiction discredits the Western ethnohistory that mainly offers an essentialist depiction of the writer’s homeland, typifying, thereby, the colonial discourse as dominant.
Selection of Therapeutic Strategies after Preoperative Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer
Get PDFRectal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in China, which is mainly middle and low rectal cancer. Due to the particularity of the physiological and anatomical location of the rectum and the neglect of the relevant clinical symptoms, patients with rectal cancer in real life often have the local progression stage. A large number of studies have shown that neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy should be performed in such patients, to achieve tumor downstaging before rectal cancer surgery. In this study, different treatment measures for rectal cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy are presented
Hepatitis C Virus Prevalence in Hemodialysis Patients in Karbala Province
Get PDFPurpose: The study aimed to evaluate HCV infection rates are widespread in hemodialysis patients and identify any potential HCV infection risk factors in this cohort.
Methods: Hepatitis C virus statistical information was collected from the publicly accessible Karbala province/ Iraq.
Results: All told, 236 dialysis patients, 150 (63.6%) male and 86 (36.4%) female, they are between the ages of 15 and 78 (44.39 + 15.06 S.D.) years. Sampling lasted from May to October 2019-2021. Each HD treatment required three to four hours, and depending on their haemodialysis facility, patients were divided into two shifts for each of their two or three weekly dialyses. Dialysis membranes were single-use, disposable devices.
Conclusions: The information in this study indicated that HCV is prevalent in hemodialysis centers are comparatively high and also demonstrated that the greatest risk factor for developing HCV seems to be the duration of time undergoing hemodialysis therapy, which raises the possibility of nosocomial transmission
Credit Risk Minimizing: Analysis study of Islamic and conventional banks in Yemen
Get PDFPurpose: The study aims to compare the credit risk minimization between Islamic and conventional banks in Yemen.
Approach/Methodology/Design: This paper is limited to a homogeneous sample that includes the Islamic and conventional banks' coverage as they represent the most significant part of the Yemeni banking sector. Using a descriptive-analytical method, data has been collected by a questionnaire sent by post to each Islamic and conventional bank separately located in Yemen's capital city.
Findings: The study concludes that credit risk is the most critical risk facing banks, and there is a significant difference in credit risk minimizing between Islamic.
Originality/value: The result showed that the banks' most critical risks are credit risks, and there is a significant difference in credit risk minimisation between Islamic and conventional banks. Also, conventional banks possessed a credit risk minimizing system better than Islamic banks. Several recommendations identified where the Yemeni banks, whether Islamic or conventional, should use advanced methods to measure and analyze credit risks
Real Interest Rate, Investment and Economic Growth: Panel Evidence from West African Monetary Zone
Get PDFPurpose: This paper investigated the effect of interest rate on investment and growth on countries under the West African Monetary Zone (Gambia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea and Liberia) with the use of Panel data analysis from 2000 to 2021.
Approach/Methodology/Design: The study uses the Levin and Lin test to confirm the unit root of the selected variables. The stationarity shows that real interest rate, exchange rate, inflation and term of trade are integrated at levels and real gross domestic product, investment, and savings are integrated at order one. Also with the use of Kao Panel Co-integration test, it was confirm that there exists a long run relationship among the variables.
Findings: The study revealed that real interest rate shows a non-significant relationship to both investment and growth in the countries under the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ). According to the study, these countries need to reduce their real interest rates in order to increase investment in WAMZ, particularly Ghana, Gambia, and Liberia, as a result of the findings. It is imperative that policy makers in West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) countries implement policies that will contribute to the achievement of the threshold inflation rate consistent with higher economic growth.
Originality/Value: In this study, Panel data analysis has been estimated and after the test of hausman test the random effect method was used to carry out the estimation to know the impact of real interest rate on investment and economic growth with evidence for West African Monetary Zone for the period 2000 to 2015