WORKING MOTHERS DILEMMA IN PAKISTAN: ANALYZING THEIR BATTLE WITH WORK, FAMILY DEMANDS AND WELL-BEING

Working mothers often are in a dilemma in balancing their work and family lives. Their lives are affected by various work and family demands. Eastern culture imposes a lot of family responsibilities and liabilities on women. The objective of present study was to look into the well-beings of mothers working as nurses and doctors in government hospitals. Specifically, work-family demands such as family involvement, work time demands influencing job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Sample included 187 registered nurses and doctors. Purposive sampling design was used for questionnaire survey with the response rate of 78%. Data were examined by means of SPSS and AMOS software. The results showed that family involvement is positively related to work time demands but negatively related to life satisfaction. Work time demands are negative related to both job and life satisfaction. Job satisfaction and life satisfaction are positively related to each other. Further, mediation relationships were examined by using Hayes Bootstrap procedure for SPSS. The results showed that relationship between family involvement and life satisfaction is not mediated by work time demands. However, the relationship between family involvement and life satisfaction is partially mediated by jointly job satisfaction and work time demands

WORKING MOTHERS DILEMMA IN PAKISTAN: ANALYZING THEIR BATTLE WITH WORK, FAMILY DEMANDS AND WELL-BEING

Working mothers often are in a dilemma in balancing their work and family lives. Their lives are affected by various work and family demands. Eastern culture imposes a lot of family responsibilities and liabilities on women. The objective of present study was to look into the well-beings of mothers working as nurses and doctors in government hospitals. Specifically, work-family demands such as family involvement, work time demands influencing job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Sample included 187 registered nurses and doctors. Purposive sampling design was used for questionnaire survey with the response rate of 78%. Data were examined by means of SPSS and AMOS software. The results showed that family involvement is positively related to work time demands but negatively related to life satisfaction. Work time demands are negative related to both job and life satisfaction. Job satisfaction and life satisfaction are positively related to each other. Further, mediation relationships were examined by using Hayes Bootstrap procedure for SPSS. The results showed that relationship between family involvement and life satisfaction is not mediated by work time demands. However, the relationship between family involvement and life satisfaction is partially mediated by jointly job satisfaction and work time demands

Al Hybrid Content-Based Retrieval Approach For Video Data

Increasing use of multimedia data makes it crucial to develop intelligent search mec:hanisms for retrieving multimedia data by content. Traditional text-based methods clearly do not suffice to describe the rich content of images, voice or video. Digital vidseo requires the incorporation of temporal information for any effective contentbased retrieval scheme. We present a novel technique which integrates object motion ancl temporal relationship information in order to characterize the events for subsequent search for similar clips. We propose a hybrid mechanism based on object motion trails similarity match and interval-based temporal modeling that leads to a unique framework for spatio-temporal content based access in digital video. We implemented the proposed methods and demonstrated that high-level query formulation can be achieved for the aforementioned purpose. Development of such technology will enable true multimedia search engines that will accomplish what current Internet search engines like Infoseek or Excite do today for textual data

Percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty in the era of transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a narrative review

The role of percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) in the management of severe symptomatic aortic stenosis has come under the spotlight following the development of the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) technique. Previous indications for BAV were limited to symptom palliation and as a bridge to definitive therapy for patients undergoing conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR). In the TAVI era, BAV may also be undertaken to assess the ‘therapeutic response’ of a reduction in aortic gradient in borderline patients often with multiple comorbidities, to assess symptomatic improvement prior to consideration of definitive TAVI intervention. This narrative review aims to update the reader on the current indications and practical techniques involved in undertaking a BAV procedure. In addition, a summary of the haemodynamic and clinical outcomes, as well as the frequently encountered procedural complications is presented for BAV procedures conducted during both the pre-TAVI and post-TAVI era

Human resource development and organisational performance: Evidence from Pakistan

Purpose: This study is an endeavour to find the effect of human resource development on organisational performance. Human resource development is essential for better organisational productivity and effectiveness. Research purpose: This study specifically investigates the impact of organisational context, resourcing, training and development, skills, attitude and behaviour on organisational performance. Design/Methodology/Approach: This research study focuses on manufacturing companies in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. A standardised questionnaire with a response rate of 85% was used to gather data from a random sample of 50 manufacturing companies. The structural equation modelling technique was used for data analysis. Findings: Organisational performance has a positive association with all the independent factors studied in this article: resourcing, training and development, employees’ abilities, employee attitudes, employee behaviour and the organisational context. In addition, the outcomes of this research support the idea that human resource development methods might have a favourable influence on manufacturing business performance. There is no direct correlation between resourcing and organisational performance, although training and development activities are favourably connected with it. Contribution: For the first time, this research aims to evaluate how human resource management (HRM) influences organisational performance in Pakistan by examining theoretically created pathways between key exogenous and endogenous factors

How Employment Brand Impacts Employees, Following A Multinational Acquistion? An Empirical Analysis

Present study explores employment brand in the contextof a multinational acquisition, particularly the implications foremployees who are currently working. Using a sample of threehundred from acquired telecom organization’s employees. Studyexamines identification predictors with the acquiring organization,discretionary effort and intention to leave. Author emphases onpredictors related to employment brand, particularly perceptionsrelated to the unique employment experiences provision, perceivedprestige, organizational identity strength, and perceptions ofwhether the acquiring organization acts with its corporate socialresponsibility claims. Findings suggest that perceptions ofcorporate social responsibility identity claims, perceivedorganizational prestige and organizational identity strength arepositively related to organizational identification and discretionaryeffort and negatively related to intention to leave. Surprisingly,unique employment experience is positively related toorganizational identification and negatively related to intention toleave but unrelated to discretionary effort. The elements ofemployment brand have varying effect on the outcomes underconsideration

Mitigation of Power Losses and Enhancement in Voltage Profile by Optimal Placement of Capacitor Banks With Particle Swarm Optimization in Radial Distribution Networks

The prime purpose of placing a capaci- tor bank in a power system is to provide reactive power, reduce power losses, and enhances voltage profile. The main challenge is to determine the optimum capacitor position and size that reduces both system power losses and the overall cost of the sys- tem with rigid constraints. For this purpose, different optimization techniques are used, for example Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) which converges the com- plex non-linear problem in a systematic and method- ological way to find the best optimal solution. In this paper, the standard IEEE 33-bus and 69-bus systems are used to find the optimum location and size of the capacitors bank. These power networks are simu- lated in Siemens PSS®E software. For the optimum solution of capacitor banks, the PSO algorithm is used. The PSO fitness function is modelled in such a way which contains the high average bus voltage, the small size of capacitor banks, and low power losses. The fitness function used is a weighted type to reduce the computation time and multi-objective function complexity

Clinical practice guidelines on the management of variceal bleeding

Gastroesophageal variceal bleeding occurs in 30 - 50% of patients of liver cirrhosis with portal hypertension, with 20-70% mortality in one year. Therefore, it is essential to screen these patients for varices and prevent first episode of bleeding by treating them with β-blockers or endoscopic variceal band ligation. Ideally, the patients with variceal bleeding should be treated in a unit where the personnel are familiar with the management of such patients and where routine therapeutic interventions can be undertaken. Proper management of such patients include: initial assessment, resuscitation, blood volume replacement, vasoactive agents, prevention of associated complications such as bacterial infections, hepatic encephalopathy, coagulopathy and thrombocytopenia, and specific therapy. Rebleeding occurs in about 60% patients within 2 years of their recovery from first variceal bleeding episode, with 33% mortality. Therefore, it is mandatory that all such patients must be started on combination of β-blockers and band ligation to prevent recurrence of bleeding. Patients who required shunt surgery/TIPSS to control the acute episode do not require further preventive measures. These clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been jointly developed by Pakistan Society of Hepatology (PSH) and Pakistan Society of Study of Liver Diseases (PSSLD)

Micromechanical Properties of Injection-Molded Starch–Wood Particle Composites

The micromechanical properties of injection molded starch–wood particle composites were investigated as a function of particle content and humidity conditions. The composite materials were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction methods. The microhardness of the composites was shown to increase notably with the concentration of the wood particles. In addition,creep behavior under the indenter and temperature dependence were evaluated in terms of the independent contribution of the starch matrix and the wood microparticles to the hardness value. The influence of drying time on the density and weight uptake of the injection-molded composites was highlighted. The results revealed the role of the mechanism of water evaporation, showing that the dependence of water uptake and temperature was greater for the starch–wood composites than for the pure starch sample. Experiments performed during the drying process at 70°C indicated that the wood in the starch composites did not prevent water loss from the samples.Peer reviewe