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Reducing waste in frozen crab stick product inspection process by applying ECRS technique
Get PDFThe objective of this research is to reduce waste in the process of inspection of frozen crab stick products by applying ECRS (Eliminate, Combine, Rearrange and Simplify) technique to an analysis to find the ways to reduce time, defects and effects of waste in the process of inspection of frozen crab stick products. Research findings indicate that it takes a long time to complete the process to inspect frozen crab stick products. The severity, probability of occurrence, and ability to detect the defects are assessed. Then, the Risk Priority Number (RPN) is calculated to choose the primary cause of the problem to be solved. This research study has also employed ECRS, a lean technique, to help analyze the causes of problem, make required improvements, and control the quality of production process. After making improvements, the Risk Priority Number is analyzed and used to identify possible causes affecting the defects before making the improvements. The percentage of the amount of time spent before the improvements is 65.93% whereas that after the improvements is 14.56%. The percentage of the reduced amount of time is 77.92%
Development of strategic plan for new normal creative tourism: Hala-Bala Forest areas community, Thailand
Get PDF The operation emphasizing development until it reaches the utmost effectiveness has to rely on plans, which will be guidance for such operation. A strategic plan is a framework for such development by focusing on success according to the goals and period determined. The background of this study is to develop the tourism industry after the Coronavirus pandemic. It is an essential and urgent issue to recover tourism potentially and welcome tourists like before. Furthermore, it builds reliability to the tourists on hygiene and protection of such disease. It is the background of the study. The research was carried out by using the Qualitative Research type using the Participatory Action Research (PAR). The objectives are to study the contexts and develop the strategic plan for new normal creative tourism of the Hala-Bala forest areas community, Thailand. The key informants derived from Purposive Sampling from the representatives of both public and private sectors, community leaders, and community agents, a total of 38 persons, in the Aiyerweng Sub-district of Betong District, and Mae Wat Sub-district of Than To District, Yala Province
Investigative approach for consequences of computational delay of cloud data centers towards eco-friendly green computing paradigm
Get PDFGreen technology is the emerging new sustainable technology which paves the way for lowering the raise in the earth’s temperature. The increase in toxic waste from the electronic devices in every level of usage increases the global warming and thus the need of green technology is inevitable. The contributions towards green computing in global community will save the environment by minimizing the energy consumption. Emerging technologies in Internet of things, pervasive applications, cloud computing provides effective consumer, scientific and business domains. Due to the massive data storage and computation of cloud computing, there is an exponential increment in the demand of cloud computing. The growth of enormous amount of data brings a huge challenge to the cloud computing environment. Data centers are the main module of the cloud computing environment, but the major issue is the management of power computing in those data centers. Green data centers are established with limited power consumption and carbon-di-oxide emission. The research work mainly focusses on the delay time of the data centers in Internet cloud which in turn increases the usage of power consumption in data centers. The analysis is simulated with Internet cloud and data centers
Evaluation of the dermal irritation and skin sensitization due to thiocolchicoside transdermal drug delivery system
Get PDFThe skin irritation and sensitization potential of the new transdermal patch of the Thiocolchicoside formulated with Dura 87-6908 was evaluated on the rabbits and guinea pig as per the standard guidelines of OECD. Skin irritation test was performed on the rabbits by applying the placebo patch for 72 hours and dermal reactions like edema, erythema were noted. No clinical signs or dermal reactions were observed in the rabbits. Sensitization potential was measure on the guinea pig and animal was challenged to transdermal therapeutic system of the Thiocolchicoside, negative control group while group exposed to CDNB produced the sensitization reactions. These findings proved that Thiocolchicoside does not produce any dermal toxicity, irritation and sensitization and hence it is safe for dermal use
A predictive analysis of heart diseases using machine learning algorithms
Get PDFSo far human beings have passed many centuries apart from many illnesses. The human body is a prodigy created by nature. Among human organs, the very special thing is Human Heart. The development of science in the field of medicine has contributed much to predicting heart diseases. The very recent development technique for predicting heart ailments at the very early stage is data mining. In this audit, a machine learning algorithm is employed to predict the imminent level of heart disease. There are about fifteen drug criterions which are taken into account like age, sex, blood pressure, cholesterol, and obesity for alerting heart ailments. This is applied for prophesying the liability of the stoics who endures heart problems. These tactics are skilled in getting the overall health factors of the nursling especially all about their heart. In this study, K-Nearest Neighbour and Tuned K-NN are applied. The concluding data reveal that the pitfall (risk factor) regarding heart is skillfully guessed with the help of this set diagnostic system
Impact of digitalization on work life balance of employees in police department in Chennai
Get PDFUsing digitalization in law and enforcement has certainly been a path breaking development and literally transformed their approach of work life balance. These technologies are emerging has a boon for reducing workload through which employees can spend more time with their families. Digitalization gives freedom of work from home mode as well as reporting to department whenever called for so it is mandatory to study the importance of digitalization and its effects on police employees work life balance. The purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of digitalization on work-life-balance of employees in police department. Digitalization as an independent variable with sub factors online communication, safety apps and work/life balance as a dependent variable with sub factors flexible working arrangement and workload. The researcher believe that digitalization boosts the work-life balance of employees of police department. Research design: The data for this survey were obtained from a sample of 106 police department personnel and analyzed using correlation and regression techniques to determine the effect of independent variables on dependent variable. Practical Implications: The study's findings will assist the police department in analyzing the impact of digitalization on the work-life balance of employees in the Chennai police department
Gastrointestinal tract microbiome: The effect of Cnestis ferruginea Vahl ex DC (Connaraceae) root bark extract on albino Wistar rats
Get PDFObjective: To determine the effect of Cnestis ferruginea Vahl ex DC (connaraceae) root bark extract on gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiome of Albino wistar rats. Materials and Method: A total of 15 wistar rats were used for this study. They were randomly divided into 5 groups. Fecal samples were collected, a 10 fold serial dilution was done and plated using a spread plate method. The powdered root bark of Cnestis ferruginea was extracted with 80% methanol using a soxhlet extractor at 60°c. The resulting extract was administered to the rats in different doses, 200 mg/kg body weight (low dose) and 400 mg/kg body weight (high dose) for 14 days. Results: The study revealed that at both low and high doses, the root bark extract of C. ferruguinea was able to reduce the population of the bacteria present in the GIT of the Wistar rats with only providencia, Aeromonas spp, and Proteus spp as remaining organisms when compared to the control group, thus confirming the antimicrobial effect of the root extract
Management of HEIs during pandemic
Get PDFThis article aims to assess the changes in the HEIs management system elements during the pandemic. The methodology was built on the analysis of management cases of Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko and National University "Lviv Polytechnic". The internal documentation of HEIs management: strategies and development plans, internal documentation of quality management system implementation defining the main challenges of HEIs management were also used for case analysis. Results. It was determined that the pandemic generated significant structural changes in the system of HEIs management caused by changes in students' needs, development, and spread of innovative learning technologies, reduction in the number of international students, closing, merging, and restructuring of universities due to funding cuts. The pandemic has put forward challenges to the core business of higher education in supporting students through a wide range of curricula. These challenges make it much more difficult to implement interactive, person-centered traditional classroom instruction based on years of university experience. To adapt to a long-term pandemic, HEIs require flexible educational methods that will continuously adapt to different stages. COVID-19 led to the activation of long-term pedagogical trends, created a natural experiment to test and evaluate numerous innovations
Features of choreography teacher activities in COVID-19 pandemic conditions and distance learning
Get PDFThe aim of the study in highlight the practical experience of organizing distance learning of choreographers at the Kyiv Municipal Ukrainian Academy of Dance named after Serge Lifar. Practical Significance lies in using the research results in the educational process in teaching disciplines of the choreographic cycle “Theory and methods of working with the choreographic team”, “History of choreographic art”, “Theory and methods of teaching choreographic disciplines at higher educational institutions” for students of the educational program “Choreography" at the Kyiv Municipal Ukrainian Academy of Dance named after Serge Lifar. The approbation of modern forms of organizing distance learning and its daily analysis in conditions dictated by real events makes it possible to state that it is convenient to work with students-choreographers in practical classes using video communication in the mobile applications Viber, Messenger on Facebook and Instagram, as well as in the mode of video conferences in the Zoom program
Assessment of efficacy of transcaudal injection in patients with chronic low back pain
Get PDFBackground: Chronic low back pain, which has negative effects on life and which causes labor force loss, is an important community health problem. The present study was conducted to assess efficacy of transcaudal injection in patients with chronic low back pain. Materials & Methods: 94 patients of chronic low back pain of both genders were hospitalized and 20 mL, triamcinolone, prilocaine and bupivacaine were administered. Visual analog scale was used for both low back and radicular pain. Parameters such as straight leg rising (SLR) degree, hand finger-floor distance (HFFD) were determined. Results: Out of 94, there were 46 males and 48 females. Common surgical indications were spinal instability in 44, signs of conus medullaris, cauda equina in 26, neurologic claudication in 16 and neurologic deficit in 8 cases. The difference was significant (P< 0.05). VAS (Radicular pain) at 1 month was 7.6, at 3 months was 4.3 and at 6 months was 2.6. VAS (back pain) was 8.4 at 1 month, 6.2 at 3 months and 3.1 at 6 months. The mean straight leg rising was 40.6 degree at 1 month, 60.3 degree at 3 months and 72.4 degree at 6 months