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.

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

The Induction and Evaluation of Productive Semidwarf Mutants of Basmati-370

Dry, uniform seeds of Basmati 370 with about 14% moisture content were exposed to 0, 15,20 and 25kR doses of gamma rays (60Co source). Twenty one semi-dwarf mutants were selected from 36,000 M2 plants originating from about 12,000 Ml plants. The breeding behaviour of these mutants was studied in M3 and consequently 6 mutants were selected. The comparative yield test of mutants with mother cultivar Basmati-370, established the high yield potential and semi-dwarf plant posture of mutant strains. The other plant attributes as well as physico-chemical traits of the mutants and parent cultivar are also presented

Condensation in disordered lasers: theory, 3D+1 simulations and experiments

The complex processes underlying the generation of a coherent-like emission from the multiple-scattering of photons and wave-localization in the presence of structural disorder are still mostly un-explored. Here we show that a single nonlinear Schroedinger equation, playing the role of the Schawlow-Townes law for standard lasers, quantitatively reproduces experimental results and three-dimensional time-domain parallel simulations of a colloidal laser system.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

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

Ground defected planar super-wideband antenna: a suitable transceiver for short distance wireless communication

A planar microstrip patch super-wideband antenna is presented for short distance wireless communication applications. The antenna is comprised of a simple patch and a ground plane and etched on two sides of a 1.6 mm-thick standard FR4 substrate material with a relative permittivity of 4.5 and loss tangent (0.02). The proposed antenna possesses a compact size of 29 × 20.5 mm2 with an electrical dimension of 0.25 λ × 0.18 λ. To enhance the operating bandwidth, the ground plane is modified by adding seven small rectangular slots on its upper side. Through numerical studies, it is found that insertion of the slots enhances the coupling between the patch and ground plane resulting in achievement of a super-wide operating band. From the measurements, it is observed that the fabricated prototype antenna has a bandwidth from 2.63 to more than 18 GHz, a symmetric omnidirectional radiation characteristic and the maximum peak gain of 5.85 dBi which makes it a suitable transceiver for short distance communication applications

Zero-Shot Generalizable End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog System using Context Summarization and Domain Schema

Task-oriented dialog systems empower users to accomplish their goals by facilitating intuitive and expressive natural language interactions. State-of-the-art approaches in task-oriented dialog systems formulate the problem as a conditional sequence generation task and fine-tune pre-trained causal language models in the supervised setting. This requires labeled training data for each new domain or task, and acquiring such data is prohibitively laborious and expensive, thus making it a bottleneck for scaling systems to a wide range of domains. To overcome this challenge, we introduce a novel Zero-Shot generalizable end-to-end Task-oriented Dialog system, ZS-ToD, that leverages domain schemas to allow for robust generalization to unseen domains and exploits effective summarization of the dialog history. We employ GPT-2 as a backbone model and introduce a two-step training process where the goal of the first step is to learn the general structure of the dialog data and the second step optimizes the response generation as well as intermediate outputs, such as dialog state and system actions. As opposed to state-of-the-art systems that are trained to fulfill certain intents in the given domains and memorize task-specific conversational patterns, ZS-ToD learns generic task-completion skills by comprehending domain semantics via domain schemas and generalizing to unseen domains seamlessly. We conduct an extensive experimental evaluation on SGD and SGD-X datasets that span up to 20 unique domains and ZS-ToD outperforms state-of-the-art systems on key metrics, with an improvement of +17% on joint goal accuracy and +5 on inform. Additionally, we present a detailed ablation study to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed components and training mechanis