100 research outputs found
IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS (FDI) IN MALAYSIA
No full textAbstract: his paper discusses the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Malaysia. Corruption is an abuse of power to obtain personal benefits while foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to a growing investment relationship between nation, people and economic activities. In this regard, this study examines the relationship between corruption and FDI in Malaysia. Since this study need the latest information, this study uses quantitative secondary data. The data were obtained from 1995 to 2016. This study covers time series data, then the statistical test such as Unit Root Test, Vector Autoregression Estimates (VAR) Test, ARDL Method Test, Breusch-Godfrey Test, White Test Heteroskedasticity and the Ramsey Reset Test are used. The results of the study shows that when foreign direct investment in a country increases, the level of corruption in the country will increases as well. The corruption can be reduced by certain actions and strict laws.
Keywords: Corruption, Foreign Direct Investment, Malaysia.
Title: IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS (FDI) IN MALAYSIA
Author: KAVITHA CHANDRAN
International Journal of Recent Research in Commerce Economics and Management (IJRRCEM)
ISSN 2349-7807
Vol. 10, Issue 1, January 2023 - March 2023
Page No: 89-97
Paper Publications
Website: www.paperpublications.org
Published Date: 14-March-2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7732593
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https://www.paperpublications.org/upload/book/IMPACT%20OF%20CORRUPTION-14032023-5.pdfInternational Journal of Recent Research in Commerce Economics and Management (IJRRCEM), ISSN 2349-7807, Paper Publications, Website: www.paperpublications.or
Comparing the efficacy of visual inspection with acetic acid and lugol’s iodine as a screening tool for detecting cervical lesions in asymptomatic women of reproductive age group with colposcopy and biopsy in a tertiary care hospital
No full textBackground: A quarter of global burden of carcinoma cervix is experienced in India, where about 1, 26,000 new cases and 71,000 deaths attribute to cervical cancer are estimated to occur each year. Cervical cancer constitutes 15-55% of all female cancer and value of age standardized incidence ranges from 17.2 to 55 per 1 lakh women in different region in India with 5-year survival rate of less than 40% as most are detected at advanced stage. The objective of present study was to identify the incidence of cervical lesions in sexually active asymptomatic women.Methods: This prospective study conducted in a tertiary care hospital for 1 year. This study comprises study subject of 734 women who were attending general and gynecology OPD. All 734 patients were subjected to visual inspection and magnification (VIA/VILI), colposcopy and biopsy was done in the positive patients.Results: Of 734 cases studied, colposcopy was positive in 97 (13.1%). Among 97 cases who were colposcopy positive, VIA/VILI was positive in 90 cases. Colposcopy guided biopsy was positive in 97 cases. The sensitivity of VIA/VILI in detecting preinvasive lesions was 91.84% and specificity was 100% when compared with colposcopy which has sensitivity 98.98% and specificity 100%.Conclusions: There is an enormous increase in the incidence of cancer cervix in geometric proportion. This can be controlled only with the introduction of mass screening programme by magnavision in a coordinated way in low resource settings.</jats:p
Comparing the outcome of patients discharged in early postoperative period, with patients discharged at late postoperative period in a tertiary care hospital
No full textBackground: It has become common practice to discharge women from hospital early after caesarean section, to satisfy their wishes or to reduce workload the objectives of this study were to determine women’s satisfaction, and rates of wound infection, maternal readmission, and early postnatal depression. Postnatal hospital stay has two main objectives; the first, to identify any complication for both mother and newborn and the second, to provide the necessary support to the new mother for her return home. The two main reasons for this change in the service provided are to improve women’s satisfaction during this period and to reduce the cost to the health system.Methods: Retrospective study from January 2016 to January 2017 in a tertiary care hospital. Patient underwent Lower Section Caesarean Section (LSCS) were grouped into 2 groups. Group I- patients discharged on 5th post-operative day (POD). Group II-patient discharged at 8th POD. 500 patients were included in each group. Patient discharged on 5th POD was instructed about the warning symptoms of puerperium about fever, breast engorgement, wound discharge, foul smelling vaginal discharge, and advised for suture removal in nearby health facility.Results: Those who discharged at 5th POD (500) were followed through phone at 10th POD and only 498 could be traced and complications and satisfaction was made in discharge proforma. Of 500 patients discharge at 5th POD only 498 responded to phone call. Wound infection was found in 2 patients of those 2, both were asked to attend the post- natal clinic and found to have mild wound induration with minimal wound discharge which responded well to oral anti biotic and daily dressing in nearby health facility.Conclusions: In developing countries like India 70% of the patients undergo delivery in government hospitals. Most of them were belong to low socio-economic status and they have to go to daily work for their daily needs. If a patient is admitted for a prolonged period in a hospital the helping members who come to hospital, have to stay along with the patients and they will lose their daily income which will create debt to the family which in turn causes economic burden and psychological stress. This will reflect on the post-natal nutrition to the mother and baby.</jats:p
Influence of thyroid gland in women with abnormal uterine bleeding in reproductive age group
No full textBackground: Abnormal Uterine Bleeding is a common complaint encountered in Gynaecology OPD. It occurs in 9-14% of women from Menarche to Menopause affecting quality of life imposing financial burden. Thyroid dysfunction causes broad spectrum of reproductive disorders from abnormal sexual development, menstrual irregularities, infertility and premature menopause. Thyroid disorders are 10 times more common in women and increased prevalence of thyroid disorders in women is possibly due to auto immune nature.Methods: This Prospective study population consisted of 250 women attending the Gynaecology Outpatient Clinic, in Government Dharmapuri Medical College Hospital, with complaints of bleeding problems during menstruation in the age group of 18 to 45 years.Results: Of 250 cases of abnormal uterine bleeding in reproductive age group attending the outpatient department about 68 cases have thyroid dysfunction. The common thyroid dysfunction in our study was hypothyroidism which comprises about 15.6% similarly other thyroid dysfunction are hyperthyroidism in 7.2% and subclinical hypothyroidism in 3.2% and subclinical hyperthyroidism 1.2%.Conclusions: It brings into focus the increased incidence of hypothyroidism among women with menorrhagia and amenorrhea. And increased incidence of hyperthyroidism in women with oligomenorrhea. Early detection by selective screening and specific pharmacotherapy for subclinical thyroid disease early in the course of the disease will prove to be a superior alternative to surgical treatments like hysterectomy.</jats:p
South Asians and the problem of the color line: migration, race, and identity in South Africa and the United States
No full textModern migration has resulted in the unsettlement of the identities of migrants who live, work, and struggle – for rights, opportunities, and recognition – with other populations in new national contexts. This dissertation considers the identities of South Asian migrants to South Africa and the United States, two nation-states that have been involved deeply in the creation of ideologies of race as well as regimes of racial practice. Focusing on the late 19th century to the late 20th century, I show how South Asian migrants were historically positioned within the racial hierarchies of these two societies, and how they constructed their identities in relation to racial others. I analyze contact, conflict, and cooperation between South Asians and other racial subjects in a comparative, cross-national perspective, and consider the transnational exchange of ideas that led to particular strategies of resistance. I argue that South Asian struggles in South Africa and the United States for rights and recognition resulted in a transnational articulation of modern social movements for national liberation, civil rights, and democracy.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Kavitha Ramsam
A Word Embeddings based Approach for Author Profiling: Gender and Age Prediction
No full textAuthor Profiling (AP) is a method of identifying the demographic profiles such as age, gender, location, native language and personality traits of an author by processing their written texts. The AP techniques are used in multiple applications such as literary research, marketing, forensics and security. The researchers identified various differences in the authors writing styles by analysing various datasets. The differences in writing styles are represented as stylistic features. The researchers extracted several style based features like structural, content, word, character, syntactic, readability and semantic features to recognize the profiles of the authors. Traditionally, the researchers extracted various feature combinations for differentiating the profiles of authors. Several existing works are used Machine Learning (ML) methods for predicting the author characteristics of a new author. The existing works achieved good accuracies for predicting the author characteristics by considering the both stylistic features and ML algorithms combination. Recently, in advent of Deep Learning (DL) techniques the researchers are proposed approaches to author profiling by using these techniques. Few researchers identified that the deep learning techniques performance is good for author profiles prediction than the results of style based features. In this work, a word embeddings based approach is proposed for gender and age prediction. In this approach, the experiment conducted with different word embedding models such as Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText and BERT for generating word vectors for words. The documents are converted as vectors by using the document representation technique which uses the word embeddings of words. The document vectors are transferred to three different ML algorithms such as Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Random Forest (RF) and Logistic Regression (LR) for generating the trained model. This model is used for predicating the accuracy of age and gender prediction. The XGBoost classifier with word embeddings of BERT achieved good accuracies for age and gender prediction than other word embeddings and ML algorithms. The experiment implemented on PAN 2014 competition Reviews dataset for age and gender prediction. The proposed approach attained best accuracies for predicting age and gender than the performances of various existing approaches proposed for AP
Comparison of the remineralization potential of CPP–ACP and CPP–ACP with 900ppm fluoride on eroded human enamel: An in situ study
No full textStudies on Functional Properties of Whey Protein and Development of High Protein Product
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Genome-scale analysis of in vivo spatiotemporal promoter activity in Caenorhabditis elegans
No full textDifferential regulation of gene expression is essential for cell fate specification in metazoans. Characterizing the transcriptional activity of gene promoters, in time and in space, is therefore a critical step toward understanding complex biological systems. Here we present an in vivo spatiotemporal analysis for ∼900 predicted C. elegans promoters (∼5% of the predicted protein-coding genes), each driving the expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP). Using a flow-cytometer adapted for nematode profiling, we generated 'chronograms', two-dimensional representations of fluorescence intensity along the body axis and throughout development from early larvae to adults. Automated comparison and clustering of the obtained in vivo expression patterns show that genes coexpressed in space and time tend to belong to common functional categories. Moreover, integration of this data set with C. elegans protein-protein interactome data sets enables prediction of anatomical and temporal interaction territories between protein partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedfinal article publishe
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