Human Resource Management Policies and Diversity Management (A Case Study on Sainsbury’s)

It is a well-known fact that, to cultivate success in the present competitive business world, an organization must realize the importance of strategic diversified human resources policies and must understand the depth of the implementation necessity of those. This study is based on the purposes of illustrating how a diversified workplace affects the performances of the individual employees, how the work group’s performances are affected and how the total organizations become affected. Motivating the employees to achieve organizational goal is no more a package to be used for years and years. Due to workforce diversity it has become a challenge for the organizations that recruit diversified workforce to manage their human resources by making them loyal and growing the team sense among them. During the last decade and already in the late 90s diversity management has started to gain quite a robust position in the human resource strategies of international companies and organizations. This has occurred largely due to the globalization and international merges, as they have influenced the movement of workers around the globe. The role of diversity management will even grow in importance and significance in the future.However to accomplish this report based on the given perimeter a regression has been conducted with the help of different variables which influence the efficiency of company by making satisfy or dissatisfy them and which derives from the efficient HR policy and the practice of diversified management. A hypothesis from the theory and appropriate strategy to test a hypothesis to accept or reject that is developed from the deductive approach. To find the things out a questionnaire has been made and surveyed, and to make the computation easier, likert scale has been adopted. Furthermore, to find out the stability and the consistency of respondent’s response a Cronbach’s Alpha test has been conducted and found the stability and consistency because all the questions resulted above .7 of standard mark. Finally the result showed that there is a positive and influential relations between dependent and independent variables as well as all the hypothesis is accepted.Eventually it can be said that diversified management and efficient human resource policy should be employed by a company to attain highest level of efficiency. Tight integration of the three dimension (individual, group, and organization) of human resource management help to remain fully active and in producing maximum output from minimum input with variant workforce environment. An important factor is diversification in getting success in today’s business and changing management can help to support the main stream of the organization. Keywords: HRM, Sainsbury, Polices, Diversity, Churchill and Iacobucc

The Effect of activators on non-banking financial service receiving behavior in developing countries: An application of artificial neural network Neural Network

Aim of this paper is to measure the prediction of consumers’ response level at each selected factor using the artificial neural network, and to provide proper evidence to financial managers and executive readers for evaluating and using these variables to develop non-banking finances in developing countries. Sample size of the study was 207 respondents, and 41 variables under 8 factors were used to examine whether they respond to 5-point scale with strong relationship between input neurons, hidden neurons and output neurons throughout the artificial neural network. The results showed that Comparative Capital Benefits, Cost Benefits, Branch Service Coverage, Self-efficacy and Service Quality were positively related with Service Intention, and Risk was negatively related with Service Intention towards non-banking financial services. Finally, consumers’ attitude towards non-banking financial services positively influenced Service Behavior

A qualitative Design and optimization of CIGS-based Solar Cells with Sn2S3 Back Surface Field: A plan for achieving 21.83 % efficiency

Conventional Copper Indium Gallium Di Selenide (CIGS)-based solar cells are more efficient than second-generation technology based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) or cadmium telluride (CdTe). So, herein the photovoltaic (PV) performance of CIGS-based solar cells has been investigated numerically using SCAPS-1D solar simulator with different buffer layer and less expensive tin sulfide (Sn2S3) back-surface field (BSF). At first, three buffer layer such as cadmium sulfide (CdS), zinc selenide (ZnSe) and indium-doped zinc sulfide ZnS:In have been simulated with CIGS absorber without BSF due to optimized and non-toxic buffer. Then the optimized structure of Al/FTO/ZnS:In/CIGS/Ni is modified to become Al/FTO/ZnS:In/CIGS/Sn2S3/Ni by adding a Sn2S3 BSF to enhanced efficiency. The detailed analysis have been investigated is the influence of physical properties of each absorber and buffer on photovoltaic parameters including layer thickness, carrier doping concentration, bulk defect density, interface defect density. This study emphasizes investigating the reasons for the actual devices' poor performance and illustrates how each device's might vary open-circuit voltage (VOC), short-circuit current density (JSC), fill factor (FF), power conversion efficiency (PCE), and quantum efficiency (QE). The optimized structure offers outstanding power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 21.83 % with only 0.80 μm thick CIGS absorber. The proposed CIGS-based solar cell performs better than the previously reported conventional designs while also reducing CIGS thickness and cost

The Antioxidative Fraction of White Mulberry Induces Apoptosis through Regulation of p53 and NFκB in EAC Cells.

In this study, the antioxidative fraction of white mulberry (Morus alba) was found to have an apotogenic effect on Ehrlich's ascites carcinoma cell-induced mice (EAC mice) that correlate with upregulated p53 and downregulated NFκB signaling. The antioxidant activities and polyphenolic contents of various mulberry fractions were evaluated by spectrophotometry and the ethyl acetate fraction (EAF) was selected for further analysis. Strikingly, the EAF caused 70.20% tumor growth inhibition with S-phase cell cycle arrest, normalized blood parameters including red/white blood cell counts and suppressed the tumor weight of EAC mice compared with untreated controls. Fluorescence microscopy analysis of EAF-treated EAC cells revealed DNA fragmentation, cell shrinkage, and plasma membrane blebbing. These characteristic morphological features of apoptosis influenced us to further investigate pro- and anti-apoptotic signals in EAF-treated EAC mice. Interestingly, apoptosis correlated with the upregulation of p53 and its target genes PARP-1 and Bax, and also with the down-regulation of NFκB and its target genes Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL. Our results suggest that the tumor- suppressive effect of the antioxidative fraction of white mulberry is likely due to apoptosis mediated by p53 and NFκB signaling

Cone-manifolds and hyperbolic surgeries

We first introduce hyperbolic, Euclidean, and spherical cone-manifolds of arbitrary dimension. After that, we carefully describe a deforming hyperbolic 4-polytope of finite volume. Finally, we glue copies of that polytope to get some interesting deformations of hyperbolic cone-manifolds of dimension four. In particular, we discover some four-dimensional instances of Thurston's hyperbolic Dehn surgery and degeneration. We also find the smallest known hyperbolic 4-manifold that is not commensurable with the integral lattice of O(4,1)

Differences in the hematological parameters of normal group (Group I: non tumor-bearing, which received vehicle only), untreated tumor-bearing control mice (Group II), and EAF-treated tumor-bearing mice (Group III) on day 12 after tumor inoculation.

<p>(A) White blood cell (WBC) count, (B) Red blood cell (RBC) count, (C) % of Hemoglobin (Hb). Significant differences of Group II and Group III was compared with Group I marked as asterisk and phi represents significant differences between Group III and Group II (*/^φ<i>p</i> < 0.05, **/ ^{φ φ}<i>p</i> < 0.01, and ***/ ^φφφ<i>p <</i> 0.001). Tumor weight differences (D) was measured and % of tumor weight was calculated compared to Group II, Group III, and Group IV (bleomycin-treated tumor-bearing mice) daily per mouse upto 20 days of treatment. Data are representative of three independent experiments (4 mice per group). Significant differences of Group III and Group IV was compared with Group II marked as asterisk (*<i>p <</i> 0.05, **<i>p <</i> 0.01, and ***<i>p</i> < 0.001).</p

Polyphenol content of CME, PEF, CHF, EAF and AQF.

<p>Polyphenol content of CME, PEF, CHF, EAF and AQF.</p

Determination of morphological changes of tumor bearing EAC cells and percentage of apoptosis by fluorescence microscopy and flowcytometry, respectively.

<p>(3A) Tumor-bearing untreated control group (Group II) versus (3B) EAF treated, tumor-bearing group (Group III); arrows indicate apoptotic features, including condensed chromatin, apoptotic bodies, plasma membrane blebbing, and nuclear fragmentation. (3C) EAC cells were treated with EAF <i>in vitro</i> for different time intervals and percentage of apoptotic cells of total cells was analyzed by flow cytometry. Data are shown as means of 3 independent experiments (n = 3).</p

Analysis of mRNA of pro-and anti-apoptotic genes.

<p>Expression of (A, upper panel) NFκB, p53, and PARP-1 and (B, upper panel) Bcl-xL, Bcl-2, and Bax genes was analyzed by semi-quantitative RT-PCR in EAF-untreated EAC control mice (C) and EAF-treated EAC mice (T). The positions of the genes along with their length are indicated on the left in bp. The bottom panel shows the PCR products of GAPDH as a control. GAPDH transcript was used to normalize the expression levels. Relative expression of (A, lower panel) NFκB, p53, and PARP-1 and (B, lower panel) Bcl-xL, Bcl-2, and Bax genes was determined by a densitometric method. (C (i), upper and C (ii) lower panels) Fold changes of NFκB and p53 relative to untreated control (C) was determined by a densitometric method. Error bars indicate the S.D. from three different experiments. M represents 1 kb DNA ladder; C and T indicate control and EAF-treated mice, respectively. The asterisks indicate that EAF treated tumor bearing mice is significantly different (*<i>p <</i> 0.05, **<i>p <</i> 0.01, and ***<i>p</i> < 0.001) from untreated control group.</p