Finding Your Self by Losing Yourself: Integrating Spirituality and Business

A revealing interview with Mr. Nand Kishore Chaudhary (NKC) shows the profound impact of one man’s influence on the development and growth of a business — Jaipur Rugs Company, India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of handmade carpets. Mr. Chaudhary, whose efforts and actions have been recognized globally by both management scholars and nation-states, has worked tirelessly to effect the holistic development of the most downtrodden section of Indian society for over 35 years. The key to his management style and his business’s success? Love. As the foundation for any type of business, he believes that love gives way to respect, empathy, integrity, trust, and devotion. He views these qualities as spiritual values and the basis of growth and success in organizations

XML and Fuzzy-Based Two Various Knowledge Retrieval Methods in Edaphology

In this paper, we propose a proficient method for knowledge retrieval in edaphology to assist the edaphologists and those who are related with agriculture in a big way. The proposed method mainly consists of two phases of which the first one is to build the knowledge base using XML and the latter part deals with information retrieval using fuzzy search. Initially, the relational database is converted to XML database. This paper discusses two algorithms, one is when the soil characteristics are given as input to have the plant list and in the other, plant names are given as input to have the soil characteristics suited for the plant. While retrieving the query result, the crisp numerical values are converted to fuzzy value using the triangular fuzzy membership function and matched to those in database. Those which satisfy are added to the result list and subsequently, the frequency is found out to rank the result list so as to obtain the final sorted list. Performances metrics are used in order to evaluate the method and compared to baseline paper to identify the number of plants retrieved, ranking efficiency, and computation time and memory usage. Results obtained proved the validity of the method and the method obtained the average computation time of 0.102 seconds and average memory usage of 2 486 Kb, which are all far better than our previous method results

Salt Effects in the Solvolysis of Some Alkyl Chlorides in Different Solvent Systems

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Uncovering Customer Orientation in Product Development - A Qualitative Study based on the Software Industry

PURPOSE: The purpose of this research project is to further advance theory on management of product development by providing insights on customer orientations. The study contributes to the literature by bringing in Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a new perspective to theorize the process of translations between customer orientation and engineering orientation within product development. RELEVANCE: Due to a mismatch in thinking between customer and development teams it is observed that it can be complicated for a product manager to help the development teams to perceive the product in terms of the customer usage. The inability of software development teams to incorporate customer perception into product development leads to unwanted delays and increased costs. METHODOLOGY: A qualitative research method was employed with an interpretive approach, using an abductive approach of reasoning. Eight face-to-face and electronic semi-structured interviews were conducted, utilizing hermeneutic analysis. FINDINGS: Our findings indicate that tensions between product development and customer orientation could be best confronted by stressing the use of technological artifacts as a medium of communication, and cross-functional management for translating customer orientation. The role of the PM as a mediator, collaborator and influencer is emphasized and crucial for negotiating a balance between a dominant engineering approach with customer orientation in product development. Knowledge visualization tools support the transfer of tacit knowledge and enable knowledge creation. CONTRIBUTIONS: Our contribution is an in depth understanding of the underlying tension that exist when incorporating customer perception in product development. We have endeavored to make sense of product management challenges in this respect

Kinetics of Mercuric Chloride-catalysed Oxidation of Isopropyl Alcohol & of Acetone by Ceric Sulphate in Sulphuric Acid

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Fermi and Gamow-Teller Strength in Charge Exchange with Radioactive Beams

At forward angles, and bombarding energies E > 200 MeV, the (p,n) and (n,p) reactions are thought to be directly proportional to the Gamow-Teller transition strengths in the nuclei. Assuming that this relationship also holds for charge exchange induced by high-energy heavy ions, it would be very useful in studies with radioactive beams. Contrary to this expectation, we show that the determination of Gamow-Teller and Fermi matrix elements from heavy-ion charge-exchange at forward angles is very inaccurate.Comment: 9 pages, RevTeX, 4 PostScript figures available upon reques

Competition Between T=0 and T=1 Pairing in Proton-Rich Nuclei

A cranked mean-field model with two-body T=1 and T=0 pairing interactions is presented. Approximate projection onto good particle-number is enforced via an extended Lipkin-Nogami scheme. Our calculations suggest the simultaneous presence of both T=0 and T=1 pairing modes in N=Z nuclei. The transitions between different pairing phases are discussed as a function of neutron/proton excess, T$_z$, and rotational frequency, $\hbar\omega$. The additional binding energy due to the T=0 $np$-pairing correlations, is suggested as a possible microscopic explanation of the Wigner energy term in even-even nuclei.Comment: 8 RevTeX pages, 3 uuencoded POSTSCRIPT figures include

A Microscopic Energy- and Density-Dependent Effective Interaction and its Test by Nucleus-Nucleus Scattering

An effective nucleon-nucleon interaction calculated in nuclear matter from the Bonn potential has been parametrized in terms of a local density- and energy-dependent two-body interaction. This allows to calculate the real part of the nucleus-nucleus scattering potential and to test this effective interaction over a wide region of densities ($\rho \leq 3\rho_0$) produced dynamically in scattering experiments. Comparing our calculations with empirical potentials extracted from data on light and heavy ion scattering by model-unrestricted analysis methods, we find quantitative agreement with the exception of proton scattering. The failure in this case may be traced back to the properties of the effective interaction at low densities, for which the nuclear matter results are not reliable. The success of the interaction at high overlap densities confirms the empirical evidence for a soft equation of state for cold nuclear matter.Comment: 8 pages 3 Figures included, to appear in Phys. Lett.

Testing 6,8^{6,8}He density distributions by calculations of total reaction cross-sections of 6,8^{6,8}He+28^{28}Si

Calculations of the $^{6,8}$He + $^{28}$Si total reaction cross sections at intermediate energies are performed on the basis of the Glauber-Sitenko microscopic optical-limit model. The target-nucleus density distribution is taken from the electron-nucleus scattering data, and the $^{6,8}$He densities are used as they are derived in different models. The results of the calculations are compared with the existing experimental data. The effects of the density tails of the projectile nuclei as well as the role of shell admixtures and short-range correlations are analyzed.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to the International Journal of Modern Physics