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    Imperative Role Of Human Resource Management In Organizational Activities

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    Human Resource Management is the strategic approach to the effective management of people in a company or Organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage. The overall purpose of Human Resource is to ensure that the organizational is able to achieve success through people. It practices on organizational performance. The job of HRM is the job of all such departments to ensure that the business gets the most out of its employees. The Human Resources Management needs to provide a high return on the business investment in its people and deals with not just management issues but also human as well. It has widely spread over different channels receiving an application, selection, placement, Training and development, promotional activities, performance appraisal, job definition, compensation, reward and employee participation. In this paper we discuss the reasons for organizations to have a HRM strategy as well as the business drivers that make the strategy imperative for Organizational achievement. HRM becomes a valuable tool for management to ensure the organizational success. In today’s world the human resource management plays a very vital role in the daily life. On the one hand the soft and hard human resource management influence on the business and let them develop rapidly for organizational growth and success

    Proactive Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System

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    In recent times indoor air quality has attracted the attention of policy makers and researchers similar to that of external air pollution. The indoor environments are confined and closed compared to external environments providing less opportunity for the pollutants to dilute. Our everyday devices emit various solids and gases into the environment during their operation. These emissions contain many substances that are harmful to human health, when exposed to them for a prolonged period of time. Here we propose an air quality monitoring system that allows us to monitor and check live air quality in particular areas through IOT. The System uses air sensors to sense presence of harmful gases/compounds in the air and constantly transmit this data to microcontroller PIC16F877A. The sensors interact with microcontroller which processes this data and transmits it over internet. The gas levels can be viewed through a webpage from anywhere in the world. This allows authorities to monitor air pollution in different areas and take action against it

    Automatic Detection of Cyberbullying in Social Media Text

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    While social media offer great communication opportunities, they also increase the vulnerability of young people to threatening situations online. Recent studies report that cyberbullying constitutes a growing problem among youngsters. Successful prevention depends on the adequate detection of potentially harmful messages and the information overload on the Web requires intelligent systems to identify potential risks automatically. The focus of this paper is on automatic cyberbullying detection in social media text by modelling posts written by bullies, victims, and bystanders of online bullying. We describe the collection and fine-grained annotation of a training corpus for English and Dutch and perform a series of binary classification experiments to determine the feasibility of automatic cyberbullying detection. We make use of linear support vector machines exploiting a rich feature set and investigate which information sources contribute the most for this particular task. Experiments on a holdout test set reveal promising results for the detection of cyberbullying-related posts. After optimisation of the hyperparameters, the classifier yields an F1-score of 64% and 61% for English and Dutch respectively, and considerably outperforms baseline systems based on keywords and word unigrams.Comment: 21 pages, 9 tables, under revie

    Association between erythrocyte Na+K+-ATPase activity and some blood lipids in type 1 diabetic patients from Lagos, Nigeria

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    <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Altered levels of erythrocyte Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup>-ATPase, atherogenic and anti-atherogenic lipid metabolites have been implicated in diabetic complications but their pattern of interactions remains poorly understood.</p> <p>This study evaluated this relationship in Nigerian patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A total of 34 consented Type 1 diabetic patients and age -matched 27 non-diabetic controls were enrolled. Fasting plasma levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides and HDL-cholesterol were determined spectrophotometrically and LDL-cholesterol estimated using Friedewald formula. Total protein content and Na+K+-ATPase activity were also determined spectrophotometrically from ghost erythrocyte membrane prepared by osmotic lysis.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Results indicate significant (P < 0.05) reduction in Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup>-ATPase activity in the Type 1 diabetic patients (0.38 ± 0.08 vs. 0.59 ± 0.07 uM Pi/mgprotein/h) compared to the control but with greater reduction in the diabetic subgroup with poor glycemic control (n = 20) and in whom cases of hypercholesterolemia (8.8%), hypertriglyceridemia (2.9%) and elevated LDL-cholesterol (5.9% each) were found. Correlation analyses further revealed significant (P < 0.05) inverse correlations [r = -(0.708-0.797] between all the atherogenic lipid metabolites measured and Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup>-ATPase in this subgroup contrary to group with good glycemic control or non-diabetic subjects in which significant (P < 0.05) Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup>-ATPase and HDL-C association were found (r = 0.427 - 0.489). The Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup>-ATPase from the diabetic patients also exhibited increased sensitivity to digoxin and alterations in kinetic constants Vmax and Km determined by glycemic status of the patients.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>It can be concluded that poor glycemic control evokes greater reduction in erythrocyte Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup>-ATPase activity and promote enzyme-blood atherogenic lipid relationships in Type 1 diabetic Nigerian patients.</p

    Rhizobacterial salicylate production provokes headaches!

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    A REVIEW ON PROPERTIES, APPLICATIONS AND TOXICITIES OF METAL NANOPARTICLES

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    Nanotechnology is a broad and novel technology related to all branches of science. However, in the Pharmaceutical industry, it plays an immense role in the drug delivery system. Nanotechnology applied on metal-based drug delivery systems varies; the size ranges from 100 nm or less. Metallic nanoparticles are existing the world from the 4th century. The noble metals, like gold and silver have attracted many researchers in the class of anticancer and anti-microbial. Metallic nanoparticles are not only used in the biomedical applications also have major functions in the domain of textiles, agriculture, photography, etc. Various metals are found in various applications in the biomedical industries. At the same time, the metallic nanoparticles have been evidences of remarkable toxicity in various studies. The rationale behind this topic was that the properties, applications and toxicity of individual metal nanoparticles. As this study have not been compiled and reported. So, in the current review, the gap was filled. The main sources for the preparation of the manuscript are Pubmed, Elsevier and google scholars. Keywords used includes metallic nanoparticles, reported toxicity of metals in drug delivery, applications of metals in drug delivery, history of novel metals in drug delivery, etc. Approximately 400 reviews and academic papers were reviewed to compose the manuscript and sorted by reference to the need for a manuscript

    Analysis of water quality in Buckingham Canal

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    The paper presents the study of  physico chemical parameters of water in Buckingham canal within the Chennai city limits .The water has been subjected to immense degradation and pollution due to huge amount of domestic and industrial  waste entering into it .The restoration of water quality is a major challenge to environmental managers .The study area is divided into 5 regions and water samples are collected .The qualitative and quantitative analysis of water samples are conducted to determine the amount of different pollutants present .The study identifies the critical pollutants affecting the water during its course through the city . The results are compared with the standard limits .Solutions are recommended to reduce the critical parameters and make water purposeful

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    Urban Horticulture: A Cutting-Edge Strategy and Essential for the Future

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    Urban Horticulture is a key solution to rapid population growth, urbanization, food crisis and climate change. According to FAO reports, projections indicate that by 2050, the global urban population will exceed 9.7 billion, nearly doubling the current 3.5 billion. In the case of India, UN World Population Prospects foresee that by 2050, 40.76% of the country's population will inhabit urban areas. Considering the above statistics, we can estimate the burden on rural production system to meet increasing demands of fruits and vegetables in urban markets. So, urban horticulture could be the saviour to avoid food crisis and inflation of market. Urban horticulture, with its roots dating back to the mid-19th century, has gained momentum worldwide and can potentially mitigate the looming threats of food crises and market inflation. There are various types of urban agriculture like, kitchen gardening, rooftop gardening, vertical farming, container gardening, etc. Multiple auras of crops can be cultivated in the minimal available space, right from herbs, vegetables and fruits to aromatic and medicinal plants. There are considerable number of advantages of urban farming, like, providing employment and daily wages to poor farmers, educating children, strengthening the community, improving social and emotional wellbeing and environmental justice to tackle climate change. Many cities across the world are practicing urban farming and have achieved success in production, marketing and educating people. While numerous cities globally have embraced urban farming, achieving success in production, marketing, and education, India is still in the nascent stages of this practice. It is imperative for both governmental and private entities to accord greater importance to and invest in the promotion and harnessing of the profitability of urban horticulture in the country
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