81 research outputs found
Determinants of Adolescents Well Being
No full textWell-being is a dynamic concept that includes subjective, social, and psychological dimensions as well as health-related behaviors. Adolescents form two-thirds of our population, this is a unique group of people with special needs. The study aims to identify the lifestyle and behavioral patterns of this group and subsequently come up with issues that require special attention. The competitive environment in every field has propelled maladjustment in different spheres of life such as home, social, health, emotion and educational problems. In order to address adolescents’ psychological issues, it becomes everyone’s responsibility to give assistance to protect the future generation
Academic writing challenges at Universities in Saudi Arabia and solutions
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A teacher of English always faces a challenge to teach the writing skill to the foreign language students especially at the UG level. As one of the language skills, writing is excelled only when the other three language skills are excelled. It is the combination of process and product. It involves mastery in grammar and vocabulary to present the message. It requires self-knowledge to express the thought process. It is felt a dry exercise, only used to write the exams. Though the students have the knowledge in English finds it difficult to express. Most of them depend on rote system to get through the examination. If the teacher is asked to teach the students whose English knowledge is absolutely poor at the UG level, it becomes a challenge. We tried all the traditional methods and modern methods to teach writing here in our university, and found out the reasons for the problem. The reasons may not be new, when we compare with that of Indian university students’. But the difference is here the students do not feel it as a challenge. In India, students force themselves to learn writing for official purposes. This paper tries to present the methods that have been used to teach the foreign students whose mother tongue is Arabic.
 
Keyword Extraction Using Particle Swarm Optimization
No full textAbstractWithout formal structure data are those that have no prearranged form or structure and are full of textual data. Typical unstructured systems include emails, reports, telephone or messaging conversations, etc. The main goal of this work is to extract the keywords from a conversation using particle swarm optimization. Keywords are grouped together under their classification and then suggested to the user. In existing work, using diverse keyword extraction, to find topic modelling information, representation of the main topics of transcript and diverse keyword selection. It maximizes the coverage of topics that are automatically recognized in transcript of conversation fragment. Once a set of keywords is extracted, it is clustered according to their user queries and recommended to the user. At the end of result, a single implicit query cannot improve user's satisfaction with the recommended documents. So, swarm intelligence technique is to be applied, it will minimize redundancy in a short list of Keywords and provide accurate query result compared to greedy algorithm
Seasonal Variations in Wave Energy and the Changing Beach Characteristics: A Case Study of Beaches of Karachi
No full textThe study of beach characteristics is generally described in terms of the relationship of wind velocity, wave energy, beach profile and grain size variation of the beach sediments. Most of the coastal research is concerned with investigating the behavior of water and sediments along the shoreline; these being the processes responsible for the formation of coastal land forms. The amount of erosion and depositional activities along a shoreline depends on the quantity of energy in the waves which are also responsible for bringing changes in the beach profile and hence beaches are classified on the bases of the impacts of these processes which are presented here in this paper
Technological Singularity in Sujatha Ranganathan’s En Iniya Iyanthira and Meendum Jeeno
No full textThe research paper aims at exploring the narrative aesthetics of Tamil science fiction in which the author takes twenty-first-century politics in India within the context of technological singularity. The article presents the political situation and totalitarianism in the age of technological singularity. The research focuses on the social impacts of artificial intelligence’s ability to read, learn, think, and act against its pre-programmed mechanism. A robotic dog struggles to restore a democratic political system from autocracy. The dystopian fictions “En Iniya Iyanthira” and “Meendum Jeeno” written by Sujatha Ranganathan depict the cognitive power of super intelligence behind a woman’s political actions to protect the people of India from exploitation, and corruption to create a better future. The paper demonstrates what a world without individual freedom looks like under the digital surveillance system of a totalitarian regime. The paper raises the question of what happens when a robot develops its rationality and mimics human behaviour. In these fictions, humans attempt to destroy the robotic dog. The robotic dog reaches a standard where nothing can destroy it. The paper explores the ways the robotic dog gains the knowledge to understand and practice the concept of humanity. The paper concludes with the post-humanistic conflicts between a woman and a robotic dog in emotional, ethical, and political aspects
h) industry employees towards the use of information technology
No full textPurpose - The extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1991) is used in this
research to understand the post-pandemic behavioral intentions of tourism and hospitality
employees in relation to their use of information technology.
Design/methodology/approach - Data were collected using an online survey, and 449
responses were considered to meet the selection criteria. Structural equation model (SEM) is
used to empirically test the proposed research model.
Findings - The results of SEM show that all the variables of TPB (attitude, subjective norm and
perceived behavioral control) along with trust are positively associated with the behavioral
intention of employees in T&H industry towards the use of information technology and the
model has better predictive power.
Originality/value- This study provided deep insights and outstanding contributions to the
theoretical framework and proposed a model for post-pandemic employee behavioral intention
regarding the use of IT. This study explores the factors that influence T&H employees’ postpandemic behavioral intentions regarding information technology use. It also explores and
integrates the various benefits of information technology to T&H industry employees and
provides insight to hotel employees, travel agents, tour operators, and other stakeholder
Telehealth in maternity care: benefits, barriers, and the future of digital maternity care: a narrative review
No full textTelehealth is emerging as a vital tool in maternity care, supporting pregnant women and their families through remote healthcare services, it creates new opportunities to provide continuous, patient-centered, and accessible care. This review examines the applications, benefits, and challenges of telehealth in maternity care with a focus on its implications. A structured search strategy was conducted across PubMed Medline, Google Scholar, Research Gate, Scopus, and Science Direct. Keywords included telehealth, telemedicine, nursing, and maternity care. Relevant studies were screened and references cross-checked to capture additional evidence. Telehealth interventions in maternity care demonstrate significant benefits such as reduced travel costs, decreased waiting time, and improved access in rural or underserved areas. For health care workers, telehealth supports timely antenatal education, early detection of complications through remote monitoring (e.g., blood pressure and weight), and enhanced patient engagement via mobile applications. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of virtual antenatal consultations, creating opportunities for nursing professionals to extend their role in health promotion, psychosocial support, and counseling. However, challenges persist technological barriers, inequitable access, patient trust issues, and limitations in replacing physical examinations with virtual care raise concerns about patient safety. Telehealth in maternity care holds promise for advancing practices through innovations like tele-ultrasound, remote blood pressure surveillance, self-monitoring of fundal height, and digital maternal health education platforms. Yet, barriers related to equity, nurse preparedness, provider adoption, and regulatory frameworks must be addressed. Collaborative, research and policy support are essential to harness the full potential of telehealth, ensuring safe, equitable, and holistic care for pregnant women and their families
Molecular docking and spectroscopic investigations aided by density functional theory of Parkinson’s drug 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethylamine
No full textONE NATION INVISIBLE: U.S. VETERANS OF COLOR AND THE AUTHORING OF CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP THROUGH ASYMMETRICAL AUTHORSHIP
No full textThe national story of America is one of a country that has managed the contradictory: many bodies coming together, “out of many, one.” However, such a mythos naturally evades the problematic erasure of many cultural and minority bodies and stories, in the proposition that unity demands such an erasure. As an extension of American civil society, the U.S. military has operated as a part of this system of whiteness, while its military operations have been celebrated as victory for progress and democratic ideals, particularly in WWII. Bodies of color, recruited into the national agenda through military service, while historically denied equal freedoms and rights under American civilian society, highlight, and uphold, this systemic contradiction. Military whiteness, a structural and implicit form of whiteness, surfaces in both the WWII era and now in the 21st century military in racially exclusive recruitment language, war preparation and policies, and in media portrayals such as military advertising. As such, military service for servicemen of color becomes a “no man’s land”, a constantly shifting space, where the serviceperson’s individual identity and work become unregistered or submerged within the national agenda of the abstract national subject: the American G.I.
Military service is thus not only a civic duty or national obligation, but the site and catalyst of a particular kind of citizen authoring: a critical cultural citizenship for servicepersons of color. This form of cultural citizenship is pronounced as an asymmetrical authorship, an indirect reckoning with whiteness. This dissertation presents three archival examples of asymmetrical authorship through black WWII veterans and cultural producers Romare Bearden, abstract expressionist visual artist, Masood Ali Warren, sculptor and painter, and John Henrik Clarke, Africana Studies founder and activist. Their authorship, whether in private soldier letters building community, visual art during their military service, recordings or journal writings, represent their bodily reality in resistant and parallel ways, as a new form of cultural citizenship, critical of the American identity while deeply embedded within its national hegemony. America’s myth of exceptionalism is thus contradicted by the work of the very soldiers that served such an ideal
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