A critical study of Employee Empowerment Initiatives in selected organizations

The recent changes and fluctuations in the economic trends around the globe has increased the need for better and improved functioning of the organizations to deal with contingent situations. Thus organizations and their managers tend to change their mindsets and need to engage themselves in broad based thinking, visualizing and nurturing accompanied by the best use of the knowledge and creativity of employee’s .To fulfill this aim the best philosophy is to empower employees thus enabling them to make decisions about their own work and taking responsibility for their results

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACUPRESSURE IN REDUCING MENSTRUAL PAIN AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS WITH PRIMARY DYSMENORRHEA STUDYING IN SELECTED

Dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls may be managed using acupressure which is a non-invasive, cost-free, and timely way to manage their own discomfort. the aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of acupressure in reducing menstrual pain among adolescent girls with primary dysmenorrhea studying in selected schools at bengaluru. a quasi experimental approach with pre and post- test control group time series was used in this study. sixty adolescent girls during menstruation were conveniently selected and 30 in experimental group and 30 in control group. the data was collected using visual analogue pain scale for pain perception, questionnaire and rating scale for menstrual discomforts. data was analysed using chi-square, and t-test. the adolescent girl’s mean age was 15yrs in control group and experimental group was 14yrs, both the groups 18(60.1%) had attained menarche at 13 years and above age, and majority of them were mildly malnourished. both the groups showed mild degree of menstrual discomfort and mild degree of pain in the pain scale 0-4. the mean pre-test pain score of experimental group was 5.23 and for control group 5.9. significant differences in control and experimental group observed before intervention showed t=2.339 (p<0.01) and after 2hrs of intervention t=13.695 (p<0.01). the study reveals that the acupressure on the sp6 meridian can be an effective non-invasive intervention for alleviating primary dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls for at least 2 hours. the result supported that acupressure application is a very suitable and practicable therapy of non-pharmacological measure of reduction in pain perception during menstruation for at least 2 hours. the findings suggested that acupressure at san yin jiao can be an effective, cost-free intervention for reducing pain and anxiety during dysmenorrhoea, and recommend its use for self-care of primary dysmenorrhoea

A Study To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Planned Teaching Programme On Knowledge And Practice Regarding Prevention Of Obesity Among Adolescents In Selected Schools Of Bangalore District.

There is no simple solution to obesity, and no fast way to create the energy deficit required for sustainable loss of fat - weight loss requires long-term commitment to permanently change eating and exercise habits. Valid advice is to reduce overall energy intake, include more vegetables, fruits and whole grain products and fewer foods high in saturated fat, sugar and salt. While mindful of the need to encourage individuals to make changes, the medical profession needs to lead the charge to advocate for changes to our obesogenic environment

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STAFF NURSES REGARDING CARE OF UNCONSCIOUS PATIENTS IN A SELECTED HOSPITAL, MANGLORE

A study to assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding care of unconscious patients who are working in a selected hospital Mangalore. The samples consisted of 80 registered staff nurses, selected by purposive sampling. The result revealed area wise analysis of staff nurses knowledge regarding care of unconscious patients shows the highest means of knowledge score was 5.32 which is around 59.16%of the total score for area on ‘care of skin’. The mean score for the area ‘fluid and electrolyte management’ was 3.41 which is around 68.25% of the total score of that area. The lowest mean score was .52 which is around 17.5 of total score of the area of ‘unconscious conditions’

Diminution of Natural Resources: With Special Reference to Dungarpur

The present study was conducted on the diminution of natural resources, especially land and water, in Rajasthan. Dungarpur district of Rajasthan is selected for this study. This study is based on secondary data. The results of the study publicized that over the years, percent share of area below non-agricultural use (5.96%), total cropped area (51.84%) and area sown more than once (16.97%) to total geographical area has progressively gone up in the district. The share of surface water irrigation in total net irrigated area has shrivel from 42.00 per cent to 31.77 per cent while the share of ground water irrigation has increased from 61.40 per cent to 68.23 per cent during the study period

ANALYSIS OF GREEN MARKETING AS ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION TOOL: A STUDY OF CONSUMER OF DEHRADUN

Green marketing refers to the process of selling products or services  based  on  their  environmental  benefits  such  as  the contribution    to    reducing    environmental    pollution    and prevention of degradation. Such products are  manufactured, packaged and marketed in an environmental friendly manner and  process. Green  marketing  has  emerged  as  one  of  the most  important  marketing  techniques  in  the  present  global business  environment.  Consumers  now  have  worries  about the  future  environment  of  the  world  and  as  a  result  of  this mostly  prefer  environment  friendly  products.  In  recognition of  these  concerns  of  consumers,  companies  have  started  to make  their  marketing  strategies  more  appealing  by  offering environment-friendly products and promotions. Combination   of   appropriate   marketing   tools   along   with products    and    packaging    can    have    a    multiplier    and accelerating  effect  in  the  conservation  efforts.  Today    most of  the  companies  adapt  green  marketing  as  environment protection   tool.   Present   paper   aims   to   analyze   green marketing  as  Environment  Protection  Tools:  Questionnaire was   designed   and   piloted   on   predetermined   sample   of consumers   of   Dehradun   with   the   motives   of   analyzing consumer  behavior  and  their  green  consciousness  in  their purchase  pattern.    Study  reveals  that   Green  marketing  is  a materialization   of   a   new   market.   The customers   are becoming    more    eco-responsible    and    customers    are concerned   about   environmental   issues   in   new   market.Different suggestions have been drawn out for consideration and implementation by green product marketing companies. It  has  been  stablished  through  the  present  research  that green  marketing    can  have  a  profound  influence  in  Green marketing efforts

A System to locate and recognize ZIP codes in hand written addresses

A system to automatically locate and recognize ZIP Codes in handwritten address is described. Given a grey-scale image of hand-written address block, the system preprocesses the image by thresholding, border removal and underline removal. One or more candidate words for the ZIP Code are isolated. Each candidate is divided into 5 or 9 segments and recognition is attempted on each segment. Digit recognition is accomplished by means of an arbitration procedure that takes as input the decision of three different classifierse template matching using stored prototypes, a mixed approach that uses statistical and structural analysis of digit boundary, and a rule-based approach to analyze digit strokes. The result of ZIP Code recognition is verified using a postal directory. Performance of the system, still under refinement, is promising

Recovery of mail piece shape from range images using 3D from deformable model

Automatic sorting of all classes of mail must take into account different shapes and sizes of mail pieces. A system for classification of mail pieces according to their shape using range images is proposed. Volumatric models of single mail pieces characterized by position, orientation, size and shape parameters are recovered using least squares minimization of a model fitting function. The models used are superquatrics with global deformations. The recovered parameters can serve for different classification schemes which depend on the particular methods used for the manipulation of the mail stream. A classification scheme that divides mail pieces is presented