Globalisation and Shortages of Skilled Labour in Pacific Island Countries: A Case Study of Australia

During the past two decades, the Australian economy has experienced fundamental changes influenced by the increasing propagation of globalisation. Globalising forces have reduced barriers to labour mobility across countries and economies. Concurrently there has been an increase in the importance of the ‘knowledge economy’ and thus the demand for highly skilled workers. The combination of these factors has increased the competition for highly skilled workers across national economies and in particular among Pacific Island countries (such as New Zealand and Fiji) in which the domestic demand for highly skilled labour outstrips the available domestic supply. The primary objective of this article is to analyse the impact of globalisation on the Australian labour market with a focus on shortages of skilled labour in Australia. The paper also examines the implications of shortages of skilled labour for other Pacific Island countries and suggests policy initiatives in this area.

Influence of Increased Salt Stress on Correlations between Different Attributes of Rice

Twenty four rice genotypes were grown under salt stress conditions, in the artificially salinized cemented field basins. The correlations between different attributes were computed separately for each salt stress. Different inevitable correlations were observed, but increased salt stress affected the magnitude of these correlations. The attributes of number of grains per panicle, total florets per panicle and panicle fertility showed very highly significant positive correlations with yeild per plant under the highest salt stress. Such attributes may be utilized as the selection indices for salt tolerance

Induction of Salt Tolerance in Basmati Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Seven relatively salt tolerant mutants were selecled from segregating populations (1\'12) Wider saline sodic conditions. Further testing of mutants under different salt stresses proved the superiority of one mutant namely RST-24. The mutant also proved its salt tolerance potential under both the gravel culture and saline-sodic field conditions. The mutant slightly surpassed parantal variety Basmati-370, for"length-breadth ratio (milled kernel), elogation ratio and gel consistence .They yield and yield components and other quality traits of mutants and parent unnder salt stress are also presented

Impact of WTO’s Trade Liberalisation on Selected Food Crops in Pakistan

WTO has major implications for almost all the sectors of economy but agriculture sector is the one which is more prone to the implementation of its agreements, particularly the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). The study intended to evaluate the impact of WTO on domestic ma rket and farm-level prices, production and consumption of major food commodities like wheat and rice and ultimately their impact on the producer’s and consumer’s surpluses. The farm level impact was also evaluated to chalk out the eventual position at farm level with the purpose to identify necessary policies and actions to cope with the new world situation. The study tries to provide a useful guide to the likely impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation. It was found that openness of the economy would affect the domestic demand, supply and consumption along with affecting the producer and consumer surpluses. It was estimated that increased prices would have increased production of wheat which would have generated a gain of producer’s surplus of Rs 10,682 million. On the other hand due to increased wholesale price of wheat, the domestic demand of wheat would have declined and caused a loss to consumer surplus of Rs 12,557 million. Similarly, the increased production of rice would have generated a gain of producer’s surplus of Rs 3,708 million. However, due to increase in the wholesale price of rice, its domestic demand would have declined thus causing a loss to consumers’ surplus. Overall the impact of the increase in the international price of wheat would have resulted in a net loss to Pakistan of Rs 1,875 million during 2004-05 while in case of rice it would have resulted in a gain of Rs 1,215 million in 2004-05.Trade Liberalisation, Food Crops, Export, Consumer Surplus, Comparative Advantage, Free Trade.

Internet-based Framework to Support Integration of Customer in the Design of Customizable Products

A necessary element to design and produce customer-centric products is the integration of customers in the design process. Challenges faced during customer integration into the design process include generating models of the customized product, performing analysis of these to determine feasibility, and optimizing to increase the performance. These tasks have to be performed relatively quickly, if not in real time, to provide feedback to the customer. The focus of this article is to present a framework that utilizes CAD, finite element analysis (FEA), and optimization to integrate the customer into the design process via the Internet for delivering user customized products. The design analysis, evaluation, and optimization need to be automated and enhanced to enable operation over the Internet. A product family CAD/FEA template has been developed to perform analysis, along with a general formulation to optimize the customized product. The CAD/FEA template generalizes the geometry building and analysis of each configuration developed using a product platform approach. The proposed setup is demonstrated through the use of a bicycle frame family. In this study, the focus is on the application of optimization and FEA to facilitate the design of customer-centric products.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Realization of Quaranic Teleology: An Initiative to Comprehend its Suitability Comparing it with the Modern Philosophies

Why is teleology expected to understand and explain the evolution of human beings and for the ratiocination regarding their destiny s finalization Is it a rational attempt that the pensive minds tried to visualize the sequences of human history through a teleological lens or is it merely an urge of the unsatisfied minds to justify and rationalize their ontology oriented investigation where teleology is an intellectual vessel of self-satisfaction This essay want to answer these questions glancing over both sociophilosophical teleology and faith oriented or religious teleology In understanding the religious or faith oriented teleology the essay will explore the Quaranic teleological arguments comparing with modern socio-philosophy oriented teleology basically Marxism Marx was the only European Social scientist who tried to put forward a holistic sociological approach which has a grand-narrative and a specific teleology and which is capable to project a total trajectory of its deterministic philosophy The essay will investigate the Neoliberal ideology the most dominant ideology of the West today and try to see whether it promotes any teleology or not The essay will also go into the philosophy of Plato who formed the base of the paradigmatic sequences of the Western thinking in the ancient Greece whose impact is still visible and glaring in the Western world The main purpose of this essay is to compare the teleological stand of the holy Koran and that of the all the relevant modern social philosophies from the critical analytical points and fathom out their basic differences Hence the essay will underscore the Shiite cosmology to observe the courses of Islamic teleology The relevant Gnostic philosophical stands will be evaluated in this article especially the Shiite Gnoses As the writer has its own judgment to understand the Islamic teleology the opinions will be established to bring the whole article before that kaleidoscope summarizing all th

Realization of Quaranic Teleology: An Initiative to Comprehend its Suitability Comparing it with the Modern Philosophies

Why is teleology expected to understand and explain the evolution of human beings and for the ratiocination regarding their destiny s finalization Is it a rational attempt that the pensive minds tried to visualize the sequences of human history through a teleological lens or is it merely an urge of the unsatisfied minds to justify and rationalize their ontology oriented investigation where teleology is an intellectual vessel of self-satisfaction This essay want to answer these questions glancing over both sociophilosophical teleology and faith oriented or religious teleology In understanding the religious or faith oriented teleology the essay will explore the Quaranic teleological arguments comparing with modern socio-philosophy oriented teleology basically Marxism Marx was the only European Social scientist who tried to put forward a holistic sociological approach which has a grand-narrative and a specific teleology and which is capable to project a total trajectory of its deterministic philosophy The essay will investigate the Neoliberal ideology the most dominant ideology of the West today and try to see whether it promotes any teleology or not The essay will also go into the philosophy of Plato who formed the base of the paradigmatic sequences of the Western thinking in the ancient Greece whose impact is still visible and glaring in the Western world The main purpose of this essay is to compare the teleological stand of the holy Koran and that of the all the relevant modern social philosophies from the critical analytical points and fathom out their basic differences Hence the essay will underscore the Shiite cosmology to observe the courses of Islamic teleology The relevant Gnostic philosophical stands will be evaluated in this article especially the Shiite Gnoses As the writer has its own judgment to understand the Islamic teleology the opinions will be established to bring the whole article before that kaleidoscope summarizing all th