Digital Technologies and the Barriers K-12 Teachers Face: A Phenomenological Study During a Global Pandemic

The COVID 19, global pandemic has brought upon many changes in the world we live in today. The educational community has had to accept the drastic changes in teaching and learning through embracing digital technologies more rigorously than ever before. Specifically, in Long Island, New York, once the initial cases of COVID 19 were identified, educational institutions were challenged with enabling instruction remotely. Teachers faced the reality of mandatory implementation of digital technology in the curriculum. This research sought to identify the phenomenon of how teachers have experienced known barriers to using digital technologies during a global pandemic; specifically, when teachers had no choice but to embrace these modalities to best educate students. This phenomenological study surveyed teachers in Long Island, New York to ascertain a better understanding of their experiences related to the extrinsic and intrinsic barriers faced while adopting, integrating, and implementing digital technologies in the classroom during the COVID 19 global pandemic. Themes emerging from the essence of the phenomenon included three major points that are recommended for teachers to use as a model to guide them in creating a digital classroom; (a) accepting change, (b) breaking barriers, and (c) checking for self-efficacy. The abc’s Model for a Digital Classroom Teacher evolved from this research can guide not just teachers but can encourage other diverse occupations to adopt, integrate, and implement digital technologies in a wide variety of disciplines

Adoption and Use of Internet Banking in Pakistan

The basic objective of this research is to recognize the key factors that preventing Pakistani community (Individual & Business Clients) from adopting of e-banking in terms of services offered by the Banks of Pakistan. Other than that, this research also examines the association among the customers who were eager to use e-banking and the 4 uniqueness of individual and businessmen’s. Quantitative technique is adopted by utilizing survey approach from sample size of 150 respondents, in which 100 returned questionnaire were used for analysis. Descriptive statistics are used to analyze the customer’s opinion by calculating gap between expectations and perception. The result shows some misconceptions regarding Internet Banking and also has found some major factors that preventing consumers for adopting of Internet Banking services in Pakistan. This research illustrates that customers require awareness and more safety measures and these two are the key reasons for slow adoption of e-banking. Unreasonable price is in third ranking. The result also shows that non-access to computers/Internet, resistance to change and difficulty in use are not the major factors affecting adoption of Internet banking

PROTEIN FUNCTION, DIVERISTY AND FUNCTIONAL INTERPLAY

Functional annotations of novel or unknown proteins is one of the central problems in post-genomics bioinformatics research. With the vast expansion of genomic and proteomic data and technologies over the last decade, development of automated function prediction (AFP) methods for large-scale identification of protein function has be-come imperative in many aspects. In this research, we address two important divergences from the “one protein – one function” concept on which all existing AFP methods are developed

Impact of Labeling and Packaging on Consumer Buying Behavior

The purpose of this research is to know the impact of packaging and labeling on consumer buying behavior and how such factors are behind the success of brand recognition. The research is based in Karachi (Pakistan). The packaging is the most important tool to attract the customer towards the brand. The dependent variable is consumer buying behavior. Packaging elements like color, material, design and font style, and printed information is as predictors or independent variable. Due to increasing self-service and bring change in consumer life style the interest in package as a tool of sales promotion and stimulator of impulsive buying behavior is growing increasingly. So package performs an important role in marketing aspects, especially in the point of sale and could be treated as one of the most important tool influencing consumer’s purchase decision. A sample of 120 was taken to assess the relationship between consumer buying behavior and packaging color, material, design and font style and printed information. Result of the study shows that the impact of labeling and packaging influence on packaging color, material, design and font style and printed information Keywords: Consumer Behavior, Packaging color, material, design and font style and printed information

Growth of the green mussel, Perna viridis (Linn. 1758), from Moheshkhali Channel of the Bay of Bengai, Bangladesh

Growth of Perna viridis L. inhabiting Moheshkhali jetty of the channel was studied for one year from November, 1990 to October, 1991. The mussel attained 88.12mm±14.69 in length within 12 months with a mean growth rate of 7.34mrnlmonth. Employing von Bertalanffy's growth equation it was found that P. viridis can be 88.43mm, 114.69mm and 121.9lmm at the age of 1, 2 and 3 year respectively. The highest growth rate was recorded during November-April, coinciding with the maximum abundance of phytoplankton and the greatest salinity. The maximum growth rate (99.38%) was recorded at an early stage and was followed by a sharp decline to 4.47%. The growth pattern of P. viridis fitted well with the von Bertalanffy's growth equation