An exploratory study of the influence of life management strategies on job satisfaction and job performance in a personal selling context

Extant literature on goal oriented behaviors suggests that individual goal orientation is an important determinant of a salesperson\u27s job satisfaction and job performance. However, the present conceptualization of goal orientation suffers from flawed paradigmatic structure. There are two major disparate paradigms of goal orientation in the extant literature. The first paradigm views goal orientation as a stable personality trait and the second paradigm views it as contextually driven phenomenon. The present study proffers a new approach of conceptualizing individual goal orientation, by introducing the meta-model of Life Management Strategies (Baltes and Baltes, 1998; Freund and Baltes, 1998) in the personal selling domain. Utilizing the Life Management Strategies model this study extends a single paradigm of goal oriented behavior, which combines the dispositional and contextual paradigm of goal orientation. This study presents a second-order LMS construct, which subsumes the three life management strategies, namely elective selection strategy, optimization strategy and compensation strategy. The second-order LMS construct capture salesperson\u27s goal-setting, goal-pursuit and goal-striving. The second-order LMS construct is an overarching construct which captures the motivation of an individual to engage in goal-oriented behavior. Furthermore, the relationship between the second-order LMS construct with two seminal individual performance outcomes: job satisfaction and job performance is examined in a personal selling context. Results indicate the second-order LMS construct predicts salesperson\u27s job satisfaction and job performance above and beyond goal orientation

Localized Microdontia: Unilateral Peg Shaped Mandibular Central Incisor

Diverse morphological, structural and tooth number aberrations can occur within human dentition secondary to genetic and epigenetic influences which can be manifested as microdontia, macrodontia, hypodontia, oligodontia etc. Microdontia is much more common than macrodontia. Non-syndromic microdontia is not often noted, especially in the permanent mandibular incisors. This is a detailed description of a case of a non-syndromic peg shaped permanent mandibular central incisor in a 9 year old male. Early detection of dental development anomalies is very important, as they may lead to many complications. Documentation of these discrepancies helps in assessing the evolutionary structural and morphological changes in human dentition

Proposed T-Model to cover 4S quality metrics based on empirical study of root cause of software failures

There are various root causes of software failures. Few years ago, software used to fail mainly due to functionality related bugs. That used to happen due to requirement misunderstanding, code issues and lack of functional testing. A lot of work has been done in past on this and software engineering has matured over time, due to which software’s hardly fail due to functionality related bugs. To understand the most recent failures, we had to understand the recent software development methodologies and technologies. In this paper we have discussed background of technologies and testing progression over time. A survey of more than 50 senior IT professionals was done to understand root cause of their software project failures. It was found that most of the softwares fail due to lack of testing of non-functional parameters these days. A lot of research was also done to find most recent and most severe software failures. Our study reveals that main reason of software failures these days is lack of testing of non-functional requirements. Security and Performance parameters mainly constitute non-functional requirements of software. It has become more challenging these days due to lots of development in the field of new technologies like Internet of things (IoT), Cloud of things (CoT), Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, robotics and excessive use of mobile and technology in everything by masses. Finally, we proposed a software development model called as T-model to ensure breadth and depth of software is considered while designing and testing of software.

Milk and Its Products: Effect on Salivary pH

BACKGROUND: Dairy products are perceived to be important for one’s overall and dental health. Dairy products have been identified as having anticariogenic activity due to the high content of calcium and phosphorous ions and casein phosphopeptides.AIM: To determine the pH levels of human saliva after consuming different dairy products.DESIGN: sixty students were divided into 2 groups (30 with caries and 30 caries free) aged 5-9 years, visited to department of paedodontics and preventive dentistry, who agreed to refrain from oral hygiene procedures for 24 hours were selected for this study. Both groups were further randomly sub-divided into 3 groups (milk, curd and paneer group). After determining baseline salivary pH using a digital pH meter, the subjects were asked to eat the test foods (milk 50ml, curd 50g and paneer 50 g) and salivary pH was measured at time intervals of 1, 5, 15 and 30 minutes.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The results were statistically measured by using ANOVA test for intergroup and intragroup comparison. Significant decrease in pH was observed at various time intervals and more decrease was observed in caries active group

NUTRACEUTICALS: USING COMMON FOODS TO IMPROVE HEALTH, PREVENTING ILLNESS, AND ADDRESS SAFETY ISSUES

Important dietary components known as nutraceuticals have both therapeutic and nutritional impacts. The active ingredients in these foods, including such carotenoids, collagen hydrolysate, and dietary fibers, are what provide them their health benefits. Nutraceuticals have been shown to have a good impact on immunological and cardiovascular health, as well as play a part in the prevention of infections and cancer. Depending on its nature and manner of action, nutraceuticals can be divided into many types. Various nutraceutical categories and their therapeutic potential effects, including anti-cancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-lipid activity in disease, will be examined in this study. In addition, the many ways in which these accepted methods and structures, their application, and human safety would be covered, along with recent trends and nutraceuticals’ potential for the development

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) Based Virtual Organization Model for the Coordination of Sustainable Textile Supply Chain

The lack of attention on the forward and backward supply chain issues, i.e., the transparency between supply chain agents, information sharing, resource deployment, workforce knowledge, waste reduction, cost efficiency, and resource management are the major problems of textile supply chain. The coordination of forward and backward supply chain becomes difficult due to the players\u27 self-interest and firmographics. It becomes much complicated when we consider the triple bottom line of sustainability (TBLS) in the supply chain. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an Industry 4.0 (I4.0) based virtual organization model for the coordination of the forward and backward supply chain. The results obtained through virtual organization model are also compared with the centralized supply chain and traditional cost-sharing contract. The results reveal that virtual organization model can perform better than the price only contract and it will be help firms in achieving greater sustainability with respect to traditional contract mechanisms

Preparing Generic Spiral Structure using Optimized Design Parameters

In this paper, frequency reconfigurable spiral patch antenna is designed. Frequency reconfiguration is achieved by changing the electrical length of antenna with the help of PIN diode switch. Design parameters of spiral antenna are optimized to get improved results. After that, a generic spiral structure is designed using these optimized values. This will reduce complexity and simulation time. Now, there is no need to redesign spiral structure for different values of design parameters. Just have to put values of parameter in their respective variable and this generic structure will be converted to desired structure. This will reduce design complexity and simulation time

Modeling and Control of PV Emulator with Different Controllers and Transient Load Conditions

To keep up with the pace of renewable energy, PV Emulators are encouraged during the design and installation stages. Short circuit current, maximum power point and open circuit voltage are required to analyze the complete characteristic plot of PV panel.This paper focuses on the modeling and control of PV Emulators, as well as the comparison of the results obtained by implementing P,PI, PID and FOPID as conventional controllers with AI-based PSOPI, PSOPID and ANFIS controllers. This work will aid in minimizing time, cost and on-site constraints, allowing timely installation of PV panels after covid. Another distinguishing feature of this paper is the comparative analysis of designed models with various control strategies and their associated performance indices over complete range of PV characteristics