A study on motivation factors that would affect employee’s job satisfaction at Clay Industries Sdn Bhd / Nurul-Fateha Md Sandollah

Job satisfaction has been a matter of concern and attention in any field of business nowadays. Organizations realize that employee job satisfaction is the essential element to increase employee’s productivity. Employee’s dissatisfaction will lead to high absenteeism, poor performance and also give impact to organization output. Therefore, organization especially HR management must understanding what factor leads employee dissatisfaction and find the solution to overcome this problem. The dissatisfied employee complaints can be a useful source of information for the organization to develop motivation strategies to ensure that all employees are satisfied with their job. The past researcher shows that there are many factors of motivation that affect the employee’s job satisfaction. Therefore, this research study could be the tools that can increase employee’s job satisfaction .This study have been conducted at Clay Industries Sdn Bhd and it involved 300 respondents. In the final chapter, some recommendations were provided for future use to any researcher in this academic field

Case Report: Epinephrine-Containing Topical Anesthetic Gel Inducing Systemic Epinephrine Toxicity

Systemic epinephrine toxicity is a rare complication following inadvertent or excessively large or rapid subcutaneous, intramuscular or intravenous administration. Signs and symptoms of epinephrine toxicity include rapid onset of transient agitation, hypertension, tachycardia, lactic acidosis, and dysrhythmias with potentially fatal consequences. In this case report, we present a 33-year-old female who experienced epinephrine toxicity following the use of a topical anesthetic cream containing lidocaine and epinephrine. The patient had multiple applications to her chest before and during tattoo placement which led to tachycardia, elevated blood pressure, headache, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, and anxiety. The patient was brought into the ED where her vital signs had begun to normalize but laboratory analysis was concerning for severe lactic acidosis and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction. After admission to the hospital the patient’s symptoms quickly improved, the lactic acidosis resolved, and further workup was unrevealing. Our goal of this case report is to educate clinicians that topical epinephrine anesthetic gel use can cause systemic epinephrine toxicity. We aim to create mindfulness of the symptoms of epinephrine toxicity and management

Development and Presentation of a Lesson on Mental Health for High School Students During the 2021 COVID-19 Pandemic

With the support of the HRSA, the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) was established to increase the number of students from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue careers in healthcare. HCOP combines the efforts of high school, undergraduate, and medical students in creating an original project to serve a need within the community. In this HCOP project, we aim to address the issue of mental health with high school students at two New Jersey high schools: Pennsauken and Williamtown

Secrecy Performance Analysis of Mixed Hyper-Gamma and Gamma-Gamma Cooperative Relaying System

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Screening For Antibiotics of Marine Microorganisms from Xanthid Crab.

A study was carried out to isolate antibiotic producing microorganisms from xanthid crabs which were collected from Satang Island, Division of Kuching, Sarawak. Isolation procedure involved swabbing method on NA and PDA medium. Nine bacteria and four fungi were successfully isolated from xanthid crab. Preliminary screening for antibacterial activity was conducted using spot inoculation method for bacteria and agar overlay technique for fungi against Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Enterobacter aerogenes and Escherichia coli. Of the nine bacterial isolates obtained, five isolates (B1.4, B2.1, B2.3, B2.4 and B2.5) were positive against S. aureus, and S. typhi. Besides, three fungal isolates (B1.1, B1.4 and B2.1) showed antibacterial activity against all test bacteria. The positive isolates were subjected to a second antibacterial test by agar well method for bacteria and agar overlay technique for fungi. In second antibacterial test, four bacterial isolates (B1.4, B2.3, B2.4 and B2.5) and three fungal isolates (B1.1, B1.4 and B2.1) showed positive antibacterial activity. For antifungal test, B1.1 showed zone of inhibition against Fusarium sp., B1.4 and B2.1. Another two fungal isolates (B1.4 and B2.1) were inhibited by Fusarium sp. Moreover, five methanol extracts of bacterial and fungal isolates were tested for antibiotics activity by Kirby-Bauer disc-diffusion method. Findings revealed that two bacterial extracts (B2.4 and B2.5) showed positive inhibition against all test bacteria meanwhile, two fungal extracts (B1.4 and B2.1) have activity against S.aureus and none inhibition showed by B1.1. The highest diameter zone of inhibition was recorded against S.aureus (9mm) for fungal extract (B1.4). The fungal isolates were identified as Penicillium sp. (B1.4 and B2.1 meanwhile, B2.4 and B2.5 bacterial isolates were identified as Gram negative. The results indicate that the bacteria and fungi isolated from xanthid crabs produce potential antibacterial, antifungal and broad spectrum of antibiotics compounds

Person Re-Identification with RGB–D and RGB–IR Sensors: A Comprehensive Survey

Learning about appearance embedding is of great importance for a variety of different computer-vision applications, which has prompted a surge in person re-identification (Re-ID) papers. The aim of these papers has been to identify an individual over a set of non-overlapping cameras. Despite recent advances in RGB–RGB Re-ID approaches with deep-learning architectures, the approach fails to consistently work well when there are low resolutions in dark conditions. The introduction of different sensors (i.e., RGB–D and infrared (IR)) enables the capture of appearances even in dark conditions. Recently, a lot of research has been dedicated to addressing the issue of finding appearance embedding in dark conditions using different advanced camera sensors. In this paper, we give a comprehensive overview of existing Re-ID approaches that utilize the additional information from different sensor-based methods to address the constraints faced by RGB camera-based person Re-ID systems. Although there are a number of survey papers that consider either the RGB–RGB or Visible-IR scenarios, there are none that consider both RGB–D and RGB–IR. In this paper, we present a detailed taxonomy of the existing approaches along with the existing RGB–D and RGB–IR person Re-ID datasets. Then, we summarize the performance of state-of-the-art methods on several representative RGB–D and RGB–IR datasets. Finally, future directions and current issues are considered for improving the different sensor-based person Re-ID systems

Person Re-Identification with RGB–D and RGB–IR Sensors: A Comprehensive Survey

Learning about appearance embedding is of great importance for a variety of different computer-vision applications, which has prompted a surge in person re-identification (Re-ID) papers. The aim of these papers has been to identify an individual over a set of non-overlapping cameras. Despite recent advances in RGB–RGB Re-ID approaches with deep-learning architectures, the approach fails to consistently work well when there are low resolutions in dark conditions. The introduction of different sensors (i.e., RGB–D and infrared (IR)) enables the capture of appearances even in dark conditions. Recently, a lot of research has been dedicated to addressing the issue of finding appearance embedding in dark conditions using different advanced camera sensors. In this paper, we give a comprehensive overview of existing Re-ID approaches that utilize the additional information from different sensor-based methods to address the constraints faced by RGB camera-based person Re-ID systems. Although there are a number of survey papers that consider either the RGB–RGB or Visible-IR scenarios, there are none that consider both RGB–D and RGB–IR. In this paper, we present a detailed taxonomy of the existing approaches along with the existing RGB–D and RGB–IR person Re-ID datasets. Then, we summarize the performance of state-of-the-art methods on several representative RGB–D and RGB–IR datasets. Finally, future directions and current issues are considered for improving the different sensor-based person Re-ID systems

Isolation and identification of duck egg-borne bacteria and their antibiogram profile

Objective: The present study was aimed to isolate and identify the egg-borne bacteria from different parts of duck eggs such as egg shell (outer and inner), yolk and albumen, and to assess the anti-biogram profile of the isolated bacteria. Materials and methods: A total of 40 samples were collected randomly from different grocery shops of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) Campus and Kaowatkhali, Mymensingh. Following necessary preparation, the samples were streaked onto various selective media like Salmonella-Shigella (SS) agar (for Salmonella spp.), Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB) (for E. coli), and Mannitol Salt (MS) agar (for Staphylococcus spp.) respectively for isolation of bacteria. The bacteria were confirmed based on cultural and biochemical characteristics. Antibiotic sensitivity test of the bacterial isolates was performed using seven antibiotics (Ampicillin, Chloramphenicol, Ciprofloxacin, Gentamicin, Vancomycin, Kanamycin and Cephalexin) by following disc diffusion method. Results: E. coli, Staphylococcus spp. and Salmonella spp. were isolated and identified from the duck egg samples. Prevalence of E coli in outer egg shell was 80%, whereas in inner egg shell and inner egg content, this prevalence was 20% and 10%, respectively. Similarly, the prevalence of Staphylococcus spp. was 75%, 17.5% and 7.5% in outer egg shell, inner egg shell and inner egg content, respectively. The prevalence of Salmonella spp. was 82.5% in outer egg shell, 22.5% in inner egg shell and 12.5% in inner content of egg. All these three bacterial isolates were sensitive to Ciprofloxacin and Gentamicin and resistant to Ampicillin and Cephalexin. Conclusion: The duck eggs harbor multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria which may impose public health hazards if these MDR bacteria are transferred to human through food chain. [J Adv Vet Anim Res 2018; 5(2.000): 110-116

A miniature energy harvesting rectenna for operating a head-mountable deep brain stimulation device

This paper presents design, implementation, and evaluation of a miniature rectenna for energy harvesting applications. The rectenna produces DC power from a distant microwave energy transmitter. The generated DC power is then utilized to operate a head-mountable deep brain stimulation device. The rectenna consists of a miniature three-layer planar inverted-F antenna and a Schottky-diode-based bridge rectifier. The antenna has a volume of π × 6 × 1.584 mm, a resonance frequency of 915 MHz with a simulated bandwidth of 18 MHz (907-925 MHz), and a measured bandwidth of 18 MHz (910-928 MHz) at the return loss of -10 dB. A dielectric substrate of FR-4 of ε = 4.5 and δ = 0.02 is used for simulation and fabrication of the antenna and the rectifier due to its low cost. An L-section impedance matching circuit is employed between the antenna and the rectifier to reduce the mismatch loss. The impedance matching circuit operates as a low-pass filter eliminating higher order harmonics. A deep brain stimulation device is successfully operated by the rectenna at a distance of 20 cm away from a microwave energy transmitter of power 26.77 dBm. The motivation of this paper includes creation of a deep brain stimulation device that operates indefinitely without a battery. From the application standpoint, the developed energy harvesting rectenna facilitates long-term deep brain stimulation of laboratory animals for preclinical research investigating neurological disorders