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An empirical study of the role of human resource management in developing human capital for achieving global excellence
No full textSampling hurdles : “Borderline Illegitimate” to legitimate data.
No full textIn this paper the author discusses how sampling access and recruitment problems encountered in an in-depth interview study heightened her sensitivity to “borderline illegitimate” data. The term illegitimate data usually refers to the data collected during a covert study, whereas “legitimate” data are collected during an overt study. Hence, data collected during any nonconsented period(s) of an overt study lie on the borderline of illegitimacy and legitimacy, and constitute what the author calls borderline illegitimate data. Such data need legitimization before use. The borderline illegitimate data were collected during the pre- and postinterview stages of her study as they explained how medical and ethnic cultures and sensitivity to racism as a topic combined to create sample recruitment difficulties of the study. The author later legitimized them by sharing them with the participants, guaranteeing anonymity, and asking their permission to use them
Unpacking the impact of the TikTok ban on local content creators and the rise of Indianized social media apps.
No full textThis paper investigates the repercussions of the TikTok ban in 2020 and the subsequent migration of local content creators to alternative platforms, with a particular focus on the identity negotiation of the marginalized LGBTQIA+ community. The author positions this paper as an exploration of the displacement experienced by rural young queers in expressing their queerness following the ban. TikTok was a platform that transcended class barriers and provided an equal platform for socioeconomically diverse users. However, its ban led to the emergence of Indianized social media apps that have further segregated the classes. The author argues that this phenomenon requires academic attention because the rise of these Indian apps coincides with the overshadowing of right-wing populism. By exploring these complex dynamics, this paper contributes to the understanding of the impact of digital media on the social fabric of contemporary India.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/177335/1/15-Garg-Tiktok-Social Media and Society in India Proceedings-66-72-10.73027932.pdfSEL
The Association of Serum Progesterone Levels on Day of Oocyte Retrieval with Pregnancy Outcome
No full textAims and Objectives: To establish the level of serum progesterone (P4) on the day of oocyte retrieval beyond which it can affect the outcome of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), and to further establish the incidence of serum P4 rise in an agonist and antagonist cycle. Methods: This prospective observational cohort study was conducted from November 2020 to November 2021 at the Sarvodaya Fertility and IVF Centre, Delhi, India. For this study, the author recruited 352 couples with infertility who were treated with IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer, of which 279 patients completed an IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer cycle during the study period and were included in the final analysis. The standard gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist (fixed or variable) and long gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist controlled ovarian stimulation protocols were used in all patients. Participants were recruited if they were undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation with all gonadotropins, recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone/urinary human menopausal gonadotropin, or recombinant luteinising hormone. The study population was sub-grouped into two groups according to their P4 level on day of oocyte retrieval (calculated according to receiver operating characteristics curve): Group A (p≤11.6 ng/dL; n=247 out of 27; 88.5%) and Group B (p>11.6 ng/dL; n=32 out of 279; 11.5%). Statistical analysis was performed with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 17.0 version (IBM, New York City, New York, USA). Results: The percentage of patients with a rise in P4 on the day of oocyte retrieval were found significantly more in the antagonist protocol (13.3% [24 out of 181]) than in the agonist protocol (8.2% [8 out of 98]; p=0.04). Pregnancy rate was significantly higher in Group A (39.3% [97 out of 247]) compared with Group B (12.5% [4 out of 32]). The clinical pregnancy rate was also significantly higher in Group A (34.4% [85 out of 247]) compared with Group B (6.3% [2 out of 32]). Conclusion: Patients with higher levels of P4 (>11.6 ng/mL) were associated with lower pregnancy and clinical pregnancy rates
Correction: Singh et al. An Experimental Investigation on the Material Removal Rate and Surface Roughness of a Hybrid Aluminum Metal Matrix Composite (Al6061/SiC/Gr). Metals 2021, 11, 1449
No full textHarish Kumar Garg was not included as an author in the published article [...
Leggett-Garg inequalities for quantum fluctuating work
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from MDPI via the DOI in this recordThe Leggett-Garg inequalities serve to test whether or not quantum correlations in time can be explained
within a classical macrorealistic framework. We apply this test to thermodynamics and derive a set of LeggettGarg
inequalities for the statistics of fluctuating work done on a quantum system unitarily driven in time. It
is shown that these inequalities can be violated in a driven two-level system, thereby demonstrating that there
exists no general macrorealistic description of quantum work. These violations are shown to emerge within the
standard Two-Projective-Measurement scheme as well as for alternative definitions of fluctuating work that are
based on weak measurement. Our results elucidate the influences of temporal correlations on work extraction
in the quantum regime and highlight a key difference between quantum and classical thermodynamics.HM is supported by EPSRC through a Doctoral
Training Grant. J.A. acknowledges support from EPSRC,
grant EP/M009165/1, and the Royal Society. This research
was supported by the COST network MP1209 “Thermodynamics
in the quantum regime”
Atomic "bomb testing": The Elitzur-Vaidman experiment violates the Leggett-Garg inequality
No full text\ua9 The Author(s) 2018. Elitzur and Vaidman have proposed a measurement scheme that, based on the quantum superposition principle, allows one to detect the presence of an object-in a dramatic scenario, a bomb-without interacting with it. It was pointed out by Ghirardi that this interaction-free measurement scheme can be put in direct relation with falsification tests of the macro-realistic worldview. Here we have implemented the "bomb test" with a single atom trapped in a spin-dependent optical lattice to show explicitly a violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality-a quantitative criterion fulfilled by macro-realistic physical theories. To perform interaction-free measurements, we have implemented a novel measurement method that correlates spin and position of the atom. This method, which quantum mechanically entangles spin and position, finds general application for spin measurements, thereby avoiding the shortcomings inherent in the widely used push-out technique. Allowing decoherence to dominate the evolution of our system causes a transition from quantum to classical behavior in fulfillment of the Leggett-Garg inequality
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