How to increase the operational efficiency on dry vacuuming service in Spotless cleaning Hamilton?

This research is based on Spotless private limited company. The organisation has various services within it, but this research is concentrated on its cleaning service, to increase the operational efficiency of dry vacuuming by surveying thirty workers regarding organisation, and interviewing the supervisor. This involves both quantitative and qualitative research so is a mixed method. The results gave a new perspective to the research. Initially the research started with one problem and ended up dealing with three problems. The research findings are that there is a need • to increase the power and decrease the weight of vacuum machines. • to give regular follow up training for workers • to increase the number of permanent workers The recommendation to the company to increase operational efficiency on their dry vacuuming service are: first step, to give training to the employees. Second step, to buy new vacuum machines, which have good power and weigh less. Third step, the company should start recruiting new permanent workers. By doing all the steps the company can out-shine its competitors, and increase the operational efficiency in dry vacuuming services

Elevated 1st trimester serum uric acid - a risk for gestational diabetes mellitus among South-Indians: a prospective observational, longitudinal study

Background: Mildest carbohydrate intolerance during pregnancy may increase the risk of maternal and foetal complications. Studies suggest interesting relationships between elevated 1st trimester SUA and development of GDM, but they have not been consistent and as per our literature search we did find only one or two such studies carried out on South-Indian women in whom, the food habits, genetics, environmental factors differ from rest of the world.Methods: 124 pregnant women were studied with an aim to prospectively evaluate relation between 1st trimester SUA levels with development of GDM. Continuous data were analyzed for average/mean, median and standard deviation; and categorical variables using chi-square, independent t-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and ANOVA.Results: 36% of the study sample had risk factors for GDM with an incidence of 22.6%. Pearson correlation with 1st trimester SUA concentration of 3.2 mg/dl as a cut-off point for predicting GDM risk was found to be statistically significant. At cut-off levels of 3.98 mg/dl, risk of women developing GDM requiring insulin therapy in addition to diet was statistically significant.Conclusions: Along with other risk factors, elevated 1st trimester SUA levels is an independent risk factor for development of GDM. If diagnosed early and properly monitored, GDM usually doesn’t affect pregnancy outcome in our population

Nude in a Classroom: The Contemporary World of Life Modelling

Throughout the history of Western art, drawing the human figure from live nude models has been considered one of the most efficient way to develop artistic skills. While drawing live nudes used to be something one had to enroll in an art school to do, life drawing has now transformed to a leisure practice across widely diverse cultural groups. Professional art models hold a unique place in contemporary society because of the profession’s historical roots with nudity and sexuality. The symbolic boundaries in life drawing in art schools strongly encourage desexualization as a necessary way of shedding the stigmatized and sexualized identity of life models. New forms of life drawing, however, contradict the desexualized environment, where the boundaries of pedagogical conventions and sexual connotations often blur. Through interviews with art models and participant observation in life drawing sessions in art schools, and recreational spaces in New York City, my dissertation examines the challenges that the social taboo of nudity poses to models and their experiences in the changing work environment. The occupational identity and meaning-making of contemporary life models have implications for understanding the complexities involved in an under-valued occupation

The relationships between onboarding program and newcomers’ turnover intention : the role of organizational identification as mediator

Research on turnover intention is gaining momentum again as Gen Y and millennials have dominated the workforce. While a growing body of work provides strategies on retaining them, not much is known about the importance of organizational identification in influencing turnover intention. To address this gap, this study investigates the role of organizational identification as mediator in the socialization—turnover specifically between onboarding program and turnover intention. Questionnaire survey were distributed to newly recruited employees who have less than 2 years working experience in ICT industry. A total of 320 samples were analyzed using PLS-SEM version 3.3.2. The results revealed that organizational identification significantly mediate the relationship between effective onboarding program and turnover intention. Theoretically, the present study contributed to knowledge by providing support for the significant role of organizational identification in reducing turnover intention. This study also contributes to the understanding on the importance of enhancing onboarding program as organization socialization mechanism in retaining newcomers. Practically, the organization should emphasise on onboarding program as it enables the newcomers to equip themselves with knowledge about the organization and the job-related tasks, but most importantly facilitate the development of organizational identification that stems from social relationship and sense of self-belongingness among the newcomers, so that they can become effective organizational members, which in turn may reduce their turnover intention

Breed and timepoint-based analysis of chicken harderian gland transcriptome during Newcastle disease virus challenge

Introduction: Newcastle disease is a highly infectious disease caused by the Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) and has a devastating financial impact on the global chicken industry. It was previously established that Leghorn and Fayoumi breeds of chicken exhibit variable resistance against NDV infection. The harderian gland is the less studied tissue of the chicken, known to play an essential role in the immune response.Methods: Our previous study, we reported differential gene expression and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) between challenged and non-challenged chickens in the Harderian gland transcriptomic data. Now, we report the analysis of the same data studying the differential expression patterns between Leghorn and Fayoumi and between different timepoints during disease. First, the pipeline FHSpipe was used for identification of lncRNAs, followed by differential expression analysis by edgeR (GLM), functional annotation by OmicsBox, co-expression analysis using WGCNA and finally validation of selected lncRNAs and co-expressing genes using qRT-PCR.Results: Here, we observed that Leghorn showed a higher number of upregulated immune-related genes than Fayoumi in timepoint-based analysis, especially during the initial stages. Surprisingly, Fayoumi, being comparatively resistant, showed little difference between challenged and non-challenged conditions and different time points of the challenge. The breed-based analysis, which compared Leghorn with Fayoumi in both challenged and non-challenged conditions separately, identified several immune-related genes and positive co-expressing cis lncRNAs to be upregulated in Fayoumi when compared to Leghorn in both challenged and non-challenged conditions.Discussion: The current study shows that Leghorn, being comparatively more susceptible to NDV than Fayoumi, showed several immune-related genes and positive co-expressing cis lncRNAs upregulated in challenged Leghorn when compared to non-challenged Leghorn and also in different timepoints during challenge. While, breed-based analysis showed that there were more upregulated immune genes and positive cis-lncRNAs in Fayoumi than Leghorn. This result clearly shows that the differences in the expression of genes annotated with immune-related GO terms and pathways, i.e., immune-related genes and the co-expressing cis-lncRNAs between Leghorn and Fayoumi, and their role in the presence of differences in the resistance of Leghorn and Fayoumi chicken against NDV.Conclusion: These immune-genes and cis-lncRNAs could play a role in Fayoumi being comparatively more resistant to NDV than Leghorn. Our study elucidated the importance of lncRNAs during the host defense against NDV infection, paving the way for future research on the mechanisms governing the genetic improvement of chicken breeds

Two-body abrasion and synergy in abrasion-corrosion of martensitic and complex phase steel

Offshore applications in general and suction pipes of dredgers, in particular, suffer perpetually in severe abrasive action of sand and corroding action of seawater. Therefore, the coupled damage tribocorrosion becomes of the essence which is the main focus of the current work. A customized two-body abrasion–corrosion test rig was designed and constructed in-house by coupling the pin abrasion tester (ASTM-G132) and a three-electrode electrochemical system. The synergy of the abrasion–corrosion system was successfully quantified for martensitic and complex phase steel in three different electrolytes: distilled water, 3.5 wt% NaCl and seawater from North sea. A significant influence of wear over corrosion was observed however, the influence of corrosion over wear was very negligible. In general, martensitic steel performed slightly better than dual phase steel in all the media except seawater. Additionally, abrasion was studied in terms of single asperity contact as well as multiple asperity contact. Within the tested load range, similar specific wear rate was observed in both the materials. Lastly, single asperity scratch was also modelled using finite-element method (ABAQUS 6.14). A stress-controlled parametric model was developed to study the influence of indenter geometry and scratch load on scratch geometry