128 research outputs found
Cell scientist to watch – Mahak Sharma
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Mahak Sharma graduated with a bachelor's degree in biotechnology from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India. She then moved to the laboratory of Steve Caplan at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA, where she received her PhD in 2009. After post-doctoral research with Michael Brenner at the Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Harvard Medical School, she returned to India in 2011 as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER) in Mohali. Mahak is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust/Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship. Her research group investigates the mechanisms of late endosome and lysosome trafficking, lysosome positioning, and how intracellular pathogens use the host trafficking machinery to their advantage for growth and survival.</jats:p
The Application of Interpretive Structure Model in Evaluating Criteria for Online-Hotel-Booking-Website
No full textWith the development of Information Technologies (IT) and the penetration of the internet, new expectations arise from the travel industry. The ease of access, an abundance of information, and low transaction costs of the web have motivated the tourism industry to provide online travel services. In intensely competitive and dynamic tourism and travel market, it is mandatory for online hotel booking websites (OHBS) to adopt innovative forms of IT to survive and flourish. This study uses the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) method to examine user adoption of online hotel booking. The results show that the factors are associated with each other using ISM-digraph. It is expected that by focusing on these fundamental drivers, OHBS will be able to develop and facilitate their users effectively. The present study will also help practitioners while creating their main marketing strategies for increasing user base and retaining existing users
Exploring cloud computing adoption: COVID era in Academic Institutions
Full text linkCloud computing (CC) is a revolution that can provide information technology (IT) as a service. CC offers infrastructure, platform, and software services, as demand peaks and surges. This paper aims to investigate how prospective adopters behave when external factors such as “Coronavirus Pandemic- COVID-19” impact their technology adoption decision-making. The study also explores how a prospective adopter behaves i.e., if his/her intention to adopt any new innovation increases in presence of stronger disruptive factors (COVID-19). This research empirically examines if the intent to adopt secured (online) services impacts actual CC adoption (CCA) in pre-COVID-19 and during COVID-19 eras. It also provides an idea of how prospective adopters behave when they face disruptions caused by the pandemic situation, and how the holistic relation is reflected in terms of its influence on academic performance. This study has used Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with sequential mediation effect of intent to adopt secured online services and CCA on Academic Performance (AP) using a sample of 867 students from 25 different Indian universities in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. Using AMOS, a structural equation modelling was conducted to test the research model. The results highlight that there is a significant difference between the influence of perceived usefulness (PU) as well as perceived ease of use (PEOU) on CCA due to COVID-19. The results also provide empirical evidence of gender moderating the relationship of PU as well as PEOU with CCA. This is the first study that provides comparative results from pre-COVID and post-COVID era, this work provides a reference point to practitioners and academicians, especially when evaluating factors before making a final decision regarding any emerging technology’s adoption
Dietary Diversity in School Going Children: Review
Full text linkChild malnutrition is a public health problem in developing countries, and dietary diversity is one of the important determinants of undernutrition. Different nutrients are obtained from different food groups and to meet the requirement of recommended Dietary Allowances entitled as Dietary Diversity. The current review revealed that the nutrition status of children is directly related to the food groups consumed. Food diversity depends on many factors such as Socio-economic Status, education level, sex, and age of the subjects. The food group consumed and food items taken from each group were low in the low Socio-Economic Status (SES) subjects, rural areas, females, and less educated families, resulting in malnutrition among children of various countries. Low level of Dietary Diversity can be the reason for undernutrition in children worldwide, especially in developing countries. Many studies thus supported that Dietary Diversity and Food Variety can provide nutritional adequacy
On the conjecture of non-inner automorphisms of finite -groups
Full text linkLet be a prime number. A longstanding conjecture asserts that every
finite non-abelian -group has a non-inner automorphism of order . In this
paper, we prove that if is an odd order finite non-abelian monolithic
-group such that every maximal subgroup of is non-abelian and for every maximal subgroup of and .
Then has a non-inner automorphism of order leaving the Frattini
subgroup elementwise fixed
Sustainable Tourism Using Decision Support System Based On System Dynamics: A Case Study From Amsterdam
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