March 2019

The study relating to the Interpersonal relations and work motivation in Public Sector Human resource management is concerned with a very wide field of activities. This is does not concern itself with providing with merely welfare activities for the workers. This includes any activity which gives the workers confidence in the management and improves their morale and efficiency. Hence, under this, can be included all those activities for the management which are connected with recruitment, terms of employment, wages, industrial relations, welfare activities, prevention of accidents, education and training, joint consultation, research human resource development etc. Among the various factors affecting industrial efficiency, the most important ones are technical factors, economic factors, organisational factors, geographical factors, psychological factors and so on. How important a role the psychological factors play in determining the efficiency in an industry is evident from the fact that in industrially advanced countries, many of the industrial corporations employ professionally trained psychologists on full time basis. The psychological factors usually exercise their impact in an indirect manner. These factors help the workers to strengthen their aptitude for a particular work, offer a suitable outlet to the instinctive behavior of the workers, provide necessary incentives and disincentives and make factory environment pleasant and agreeable.

DC-DC converter is used to stabilize or control the DC output voltage. Many optimization techniques have been developed to turn the PID parameters. In this paper, deals with the Modified Bacterial Foraging based Optimization technique for DC–DC Buck converter. MBF algorithm is proposed new method for PID controller optimization to improve the dynamic performance of the voltage regulator. The result of simulation shows MBF- PID controller provide better performance of the Buck converter than the conventional PID controller.

The Straits of Malacca and Singapore is among the world busiest shipping lane, making the Straits among the main arteries of global trade and commerce. Due to its status as important shipping lane, the Straits accommodate an unlimited volume of shipping traffic. High in shipping activities have increased the risks of vessel-source marine pollution to occur. The impact of the pollution has resulted in serious damage to marine environment respectively, thus measures to regulate it is urgently needed. There are growing concerns among the littoral States of the Straits over protecting and preserving the marine environment from vessel-source marine pollution. The adoption of the Law of the Sea Convention and IMO convention namely the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (MARPOL 73/78) by the littoral States was intended to combat vessel-source pollution effectively in the Straits. The objectives of this article is to address vessel-source marine pollution issues in the Straits and way to regulate them by focussing on the international legal framework for prevention of vessel-source pollution. This paper concludes that the governments of the littoral States are full of zip in legislating pollution prevention instruments with the aim of the Straits to be asserted as a safe waterway for navigation in the future.

Malayan tapirs are highly endangered and wild populations are fast declining. Thus, captive breeding programs in zoos and governmental breeding centers are the most promising conservation strategy for this species. Despite being common, lip licking, a type of oral behavior, has received little attention in the past, and impacts on the welfare of captive Malayan tapirs have not been quantified. Here, we videoed the behavior of seven captive tapirs for eight hours per diem (0900 - 1700) using instantaneous sampling for six months to investigate which stressors in captivity (enclosure type, enclosure size, humidity, visitors) cause increased lip licking behavior. We show that lip licking is induced by unsuitable humidity whereby dry humidity below 65% caused a significant increase in this behavior. We found lip licking behavior in tapirs is not a stereotypic behavior, but it may indicate a stress response towards heat. Hence, we suggest that breeding centers re-evaluate their exhibit design and behavioral enrichments, implementing simple design changes that would help to reduce lip licking and consequently increase the welfare of captive Malayan tapirs.

Technological advances have made e-learning an increasingly central delivery system enhancing teaching and learning processes. Unlike face-to-face methods of teaching, which depend on physical structures, e-learning provides a potentially better alternative to face-to-face learning and makes learning easily accessible. With e-learning, education can be facilitated from virtually anywhere and at any time because of the convenience and affordability of the new technology. At the same time, however, new technology has introduced platforms that attract illegal activity. Consequently, e-learning is exposed to such threats, and security has, therefore, become one of its most pressing issues. This paper identifies and catalogs information regarding the security of e-learning systems and the protections needed to secure the users (i.e., instructors, students, and administrators) from authorized security threats.

Background: Patellofemoral pain (PFP) has a debilitating effect on sufferers, daily lives by reducing their ability to perform sporting and work related activities pain free. The Kujala Patellofemoral Disorder Score (KPS) was particularly designed and developed for the assessment of patients having anterior knee pain as well as patellofemoral conditions. Objective: The purpose of the study were to culturally translate and validate the Arabic version of KPS (and evaluate the test-retest reliability, internal consistency, construct validity ceiling or floor effects of this instruments) in Egyptian patients with PFP to measure the physical function and to ensure better care delivery. Methods: Three expert panels (each consists of nine experts) and 46 patients with PFS participated in this study. Forward translation, development of preliminary initially translated version, backward translation, and development of the pre-final version and testing of pre-final version using experts then testing of the final version on patients were done. Clarity index, expert proportion of clearance, index of content validity, expert proportion of relevance, descriptive statistics, missed item index, time taken to answer the scale, Cronbach’s coefficient alpha and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients were used for statistical analysis. Results: The scale index of clarity equaled 89%, while The S-CVI equaled 86.5%. With regard to internal consistency, the Cronbach's alpha equaled 0.598 (range from 0.487 to 0.660). In addition, the Spearman’s rank correlations were moderate to strong in the majority of items. Conclusion: The Arabic KPS is a valid and reliable tool and is comparable to the original English version and other translated versions.

Social Responsibility has been associated with large corporations. Scarcity of literature on humanistic social responsibility of Small and Medium indicates that few researchers tend to carry out such study. They have the perception that Small and Medium enterprises regard social responsibility as a costly initiative. This scenario undermines the importance and critical role that Small and Medium Enterprises play in society. The study aims at exploring factors driving sustainable growth through humanistic social responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises of developing countries. The study intended to assess attitude of Small and Medium Enterprises towards humanistic social responsibility; investigate the humanistic social responsibilities practices exhibited by Small and Medium Enterprises; exploring barriers undermining the humanistic social responsibility practices and examine small and medium enterprises owner-managers’ values key to sustainable growth of their businesses. The Stakeholder Theoretical framework guided the study. A mixed method approach was adopted where data was obtained by means of self-administered questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The results revealed that respondents had negative perception towards humanistic social responsibility. Stakeholders were not treated equally as required by the Stakeholder Theory and humanistic social responsibility took as position of extra-curricular from their core-business. The study recommends that local authorities must play a leading role in supporting Small and Medium Enterprises to promote humanistic social responsibility. The small and medium enterprises should come up with their own governance code which promotes humanistic social responsibility. Small and medium enterprises should play a role of responsible business citizens.

The rapid advances in technology and the changes these advances have brought to people’s lives have led to increased study of technology acceptance. Studies have shown that a factor such as behavioral intention affects college students’ e-based learning acceptance. Despite the substantial amount of knowledge on the acceptance of technology, there was a gap in knowledge regarding the veracity of TAM undeveloped countries. Using the quantitative explanatory methodology, this study examines the predictive relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, self-efficacy, and digital literacy of college students, and their behavioral intention (BI) to accept e-based learning. To test the hypothesis, questionnaire data were collected from 85 university students studying in Liberia, with random selection. Responses from the survey were analyzed utilizing the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results of this study indicated that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, self-efficacy, and digital literacy significantly explain students’ BI to accept e-based learning, accounting for 56.7% of the variation in behavioral intention.

Technical development in Industry 4.0 offer the humanity, the assumption for living a simple yet advance life maintains on increasing. "SMART Connected" word is ending up being preferred nowadays by most of us. We live in an interesting time where increasingly more daily items, objects are becoming SMART! All objects have sensing units and can communicate to various other objects and also can supply control to more objects. The Internet of Things (IoT), is upon us in a significant way and also designers are rapidly designing new gadgets that enhance our lives. We have cellular phones, smart Televisions, smart homes and so on. The primary suggestion behind the "smart" tools is that they can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously therefore assisting individuals in taking care of the devices easily and also wisely. Based upon this suggestions, a smart house automated system is designed by applying related software application as well as equipment’s. With the quick boost in the variety of users of internet over the previous decade has made internet a component of life, as well as IoT is the latest and arising internet modern technology. IoT is a growing network of daily object-from industrial equipment to durable goods that can share information as well as full jobs while you are busy with various other tasks. The home automation system differs from various other system by allowing the individual to operate the system from anywhere all over the world via smart connected environments. Wireless Home Automation system utilizing IoT as a system that makes use of computers or mobile phones to manage fundamental residence features as well as features immediately with internet from anywhere around the globe, an automated home is often called a smart house or smart home. It is indicated to save the electrical power and human energy.

Objective: This review aimed to investigate the current trends of auricular acupuncture (AA) research in the U.S. and its future direction from recent journal publications. Methods: AA relevant articles published by authors from the U.S. were collected from PubMed database from 2014 to 2018. Results: The following categories were analyzed: 1) publication years, 2) AA topics, 3) article types, 4) research collaborators by country, 5) AA tools and combinations of other therapeutic methods with AA, 6) NADA protocol and BFA protocol, 7) p-values, 8) number of subjects, and 9) animal model experiments. Top four AA article topics in the U.S. were pain management, psychological disorders, addiction, and U.S. military health care. The journal article types were primarily clinical study, review, and research supported by the U.S. government. Other therapeutic methods combined with AA treatment were electroacupuncture, body acupuncture, guasha, tuina, relaxation technique, antiemetic medication, and botulinum toxin A injection. U.S. authors wrote articles in collaboration with authors mainly from China and Hong Kong. Conclusions: Recent AA research in the U.S. may underscore the current major health care needs and concerns in American society – pain management, psychological disorders, addiction, and military and veteran’s health care. U.S. military department has supported AA research and clinical practice in order to respond to these health issues. Further AA research projects with international collaborators may advance in AA intervention.