EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE VS DECISION MAKING; ARE THEY COMPLEMENTARY? IF YES, HOW THEY ARE RELATED?

Emotional intelligence refers to the ability of an individual to understand the emotions of one’s own self and understanding the emotions of others. Whereas decision making is the ability of an individual to make wright choice not only at the time of distress as well as during day to day choices. Howard Gardner explained emotional intelligence is only one aspect of intelligence which is called as interpersonal and intrapersonal. According to him the multiple intelligence an individual possess collectively compliments one another in effective problem solving and decision making. In this paper the relationship between decision making and emotional intelligence is evaluated among learned population in general. In order find the relationship between emotional intelligence and decision-making, a survey was conducted among teacher sample (males and females) in the age group 25 to 55 years, average age =35.5, working in government as well as private schools in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The result of survey indicated that emotional intelligence plays a significant role in decision-making highlighting the role of feeling aspect of emotional intelligence in decision-making revealing the fact that teachers are to be more empathetic in their profession. Article visualizations

Association of maternal plasma or serum zinc concentration with the birth weight of the child

Background: Zinc is a divalent cation first isolated in 1509 and since then its importance has been increasingly recognised in human health and nutrition. Present study has been undertaken to confirm the association between maternal plasma or serum zinc concentration and birth weight.Methods: Present study was cross-sectional study conducted in tertiary care hospital. Newborns with a birth weight of < 2.5kg and their mothers labelled as study group while newborns with a birth weight of > 2.5kg and their mothers were considered as control group. The analysis for the serum concentration of zinc was done using the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometric method (AAS), this method analytically the most reliable for routine assessment of serum zinc levels. The results deduced from the analysis were accordingly grouped to the study group / control group. We had a sub-group analysis based on the gestational age, as Preterm and Term.Results: Maternal serum levels of zinc 67.04 μg /dl±16.66, in the study group, was less as compared to the maternal serum levels of zinc in the control group with a mean level of 75.39 μg/dl±17.89. The results show a significant association between zinc levels and birth weight. Mean Maternal serum levels of zinc 67.04 μg /dl±16.66, in the study group, was less as compared to the maternal serum levels of zinc in the control group with a mean level of 75.39 μg/dl±17.89. The results show a significant association between zinc levels and birth weight.Conclusions: Present study showed a positive correlation of maternal zinc levels with birth weight and prematurity. Hence, we recommend routine zinc supplementation could be included with other nutritional supplements during pregnancy

Qualitative Study Models in Understanding of Aggression, Bullying, and Violence

Aggression in humans is characterised under two categories a) physical and b) Mental aggression. Physical aggression is the Psychological as well as Social behaviour in which an individual literally causes physical harm leading to pain on another individual, whereas mental aggression is the one in which an individual causes emotional pain verbally on another individual. Both the types of aggression damages social well-being of the individuals involved in it. This scenario is similar to the outbreak of Tsunami followed by an Earth quake. In both the situation the consequence is damage. Bullying is a psychological act of provocation as the result of destress by the individuals exhibiting their power on others. Though bullying is very common in school environment, it also occurs in office environment etc. Bullying causes emotional damage to a greater extent compared to physical damage. Violence is the product of aggression and bullying resulting in physical injury as well as emotional break down. The present chapter discusses in detail a qualitative model in understanding of the acts of aggression and bullying resulting in violence as well as suggestions controlling the act of aggression and bullying

The Role of Multimedia and Hyper Media in Enhancing Information Processing Ability of Learners

Information processing ability is the uniqueness with which an individual perceives the concept of information that is conveyed having diversity of meanings from everyday usage to technical settings by means of mental stimulus. Human mind acts as a software and brain as hard ware in information processing and is closely related to cognitivism, "a theoretical approach in understanding the mind, by quantitative , and scientific methods" similar to a mechanical speaker converting an electrical signal in to sound waves the organic human brain transforms the information received as sensory input, to Thinking, learning & memory by binding the information chemical molecules to receptor site proteins on nerve cells forming neural networks or circuits which contain thoughts, memories, knowledge and skills. In this paper the importance of the usage of multimedia and hypermedia to enhance the information processing ability has been highlighted

Irrigational impact of distillery spentwash on the nutrients of S- 30, S-36 and Vishwa (DD) mulberry (Morus alba) leaves

Some varieties of Mulberry plants were irrigated with distillery spentwash of different concentrations. The spentwash i.e., primary treated spentwash (PTSW), 50% and 33% spentwash were analyzed for their plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and other physical and chemical characteristics. Experimental soil was tested for its chemical and physical parameters. Sets of Mulberry Plants were sowed in the prepared land and irrigated with raw water (RW), 50% and 33% spentwash. The impact of distillery spentwash on proximate composition, Vitamin content (carotene and Vitamin-C), mineral and trace elements of different varieties of Mulberry Plant leaves were investigated. It was found that the uptake of nutrients of all varieties of mulberry plants (Morus alba) –S-30, S-36 and Vishwa (DD), were more in 33% spentwash irrigation than raw water and 50% spentwash irrigations

SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF 1-[(8-NITRONAPHTHO[2,1-B]FURAN-2-YL) CARBONYL] PIPERIDINE

Naphtho [2,1-b] furan-2-carboxyazide has been synthesized from ethyl 8-nitronaphtho [2,1-b] furan-2-carboxylate, by first converting into 8-nitronaphtho [2,1-b] furan-2-carboxyhydrazide , followed by diazotization. The reaction of carboxyazide with piperidine resulted in nucleophilic substitution reaction giving 1- [(8-nitronaphtho [2, 1-b] furan-2-yl) carbonyl] piperidine (NNFCP). The compound has been characterized by FT-IR, 1HNMR, Mass spectral data and X-ray diffraction analysis

SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF 3 - (4 - METHOXYBENZYL) - 2, 3 – DIHYDRO - 4H – CHROMAN – 4 - ONE

3-(4-methoxybenzyl)-2,3-dihydro-4H-chroman-4-one(C17H16 O3) was synthesized by refluxing 2'-Hydroxydihydrochalcone dissolved in ethanol with paraformaldehyde and 50% aqueous diethylamine. The compound is characterized by IR,1HNMR, MS and X-ray diffraction studies. The X-ray structure analysis indicates that the crystal suffers from the positional disorder over two positions, atomC1 and C9 with required site occupancies of 0.590 and 0.410 leading to a conformational difference between the major and minor components. After applying similarity restraints, the final reliability index is 0.0275 for 2209 unique reflections .The crystal packing is stabilized by inter molecular C-H…O, C-H…π and π …π interactions

Rhodobacter johrii sp. nov., an endospore-producing cryptic species isolated from semi-arid tropical soils

An oval to rod shaped phototrophic purple nonsulfur bacterium, strain JA192T was isolated from an enrichment culture of a pasteurized rhizosphere soil sample of jowar crop collected from Godumakunta village, near Hyderabad, India. Strain JA192T is Gram-negative, motile and produces endospores. Phylogenetic analysis on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the strain JA192T is closely related to Rhodobacter sphaeroides DSM 158T (99.9% sequence similarity), Rhodobacter megalophilus JA194T (99.8%) and Rhodobacter azotoformans JCM 9340T (98.1%) and clusters with other species of the genus Rhodobacter of the family Rhodobacteraceae. However, DNA-DNA hybridization with Rba. sphaeroides DSM 158T, Rba. megalophilus JA194T and Rba. azotoformans JCM 9320T showed a relatedness of only 38-57% with respect to JA192T. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, DNA-DNA hybridization data, morphological, physiological and chemotaxanomic characters, strain JA192T represents a novel species of the genus Rhodobacter, for which the name Rhodobacter johrii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JA192T (= DSM 18678T = JCM 14543T = MTCC 8172T)

The unconventional cytoplasmic sensing mechanism for ethanol chemotaxis in Bacillus subtilis

Motile bacteria sense chemical gradients using chemoreceptors, which consist of distinct sensing and signaling domains. The general model is that the sensing domain binds the chemical and the signaling domain induces the tactic response. Here, we investigated the unconventional sensing mechanism for ethanol taxis in Bacillus subtilis. Ethanol and other short-chain alcohols are attractants for B. subtilis. Two chemoreceptors, McpB and HemAT, sense these alcohols. In the case of McpB, the signaling domain directly binds ethanol. We were further able to identify a single amino-acid residue Ala431 on the cytoplasmic signaling domain of McpB, that when mutated to a serine, reduces taxis to ethanol. Molecular dynamics simulations suggest ethanol binds McpB near residue Ala431 and mutation of this residue to serine increases coiled-coil packing within the signaling domain, thereby reducing the ability of ethanol to bind between the helices of the signaling domain. In the case of HemAT, the myoglobin-like sensing domain binds ethanol, likely between the helices encapsulating the heme group. Aside from being sensed by an unconventional mechanism, ethanol also differs from many other chemoattractants because it is not metabolized by B. subtilis and is toxic. We propose that B. subtilis uses ethanol and other short-chain alcohols to locate prey, namely alcohol-producing microorganisms