The Impact of Rapid Change in Technology on the Information Systems Organization

Information technology is changing today at a rapid pace. Emerging technologies include not only new hardware, software, and data communications for user applications but also planning and development tools for IS professionals. In fact, the rate of IT change appears to be increasing dramatically. New products seem to surface with greater alacrity than ever before in the history of computing. Research has suggested that this swift change is causing difficulties for today\u27s IS organization. IS professionals on a lengthy development project can witness the emergence of dramatic, new, useful ITs and the passing of others. Capitalizing on the new opportunities while avoiding the risks of the fads can pose a complex challenge to the IS organization. Given this state of affairs, research is needed to help IS managers understand, plan, and control the impact of new IT. To advance such study, this paper describes research-in-progress that attempts to answer the following two questions: In what ways is the rapid change in IT affecting the IS organization? How are IS organizations dealing with problems that arise from this change

Zoonotic Diseases: A Changing Landscape Demands Global Action

During recent years, the globe-wide zoonotic disease landscape has evolved drastically posing significant challenges to the health of the individual and environmental sustainability. Zoonotic illnesses, which occur in animals and are transmission-capable to people, have been an ever-present risk throughout history. According to the “World Health Organization (WHO)”, an estimated 60% of known infectious diseases and around 75% of new or emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin. These illnesses have the potential to inflict widespread morbidity and mortality, along with severe economic losses. However, today's dynamics of our changing environment, which include urbanization, climate change, and growing human-animal interaction, are increasing the probability of zoonotic spillover occurrences. (1) The worldwide spread of the consequences of zoonotic illnesses underscores the critical need for collective effort through international leadership frameworks integrating government, private industry, and civil society. “The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)” and the WHO are collaborating on projects to address these concerns and improve global health security. The WHO launched the "One Health Joint Plan of Action," which intends to inscribe health hazards to humans, animals, plants, and the environment. It emphasizes the interconnection of human, animal, and environmental health. (2

Heuristic Approach to Satisfaction Level of Demand Maker in Three Stage Scheduling with Fuzzy Due Time

This paper discusses three stage flow shop scheduling including transportation time in frame work of fuzzy due date with bi-objective criteria. On one side to minimize the tardiness of jobs while on other way to determine the satisfaction level of demand maker with the help of fuzzy due date to each job. The analysis has been made through heuristic algorithm based on mathematical theorem regarding tardiness of the jobs. The objective of the paper is to find due time to each job and optimal or near optimal sequence of jobs in order to minimize the tardiness of jobs so that they can be performed within time. The paper ends with a numerical illustration and analyse graphically the satisfaction level of demand maker. Keywords: Fuzzy processing time, trapezoidal, tardiness, <AHR>, linguistic variable, fuzzy quantifier

Use of Open Access Resources during the Covid-19 Lockdown by the Research Students of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (India)

During the Covid-19 period electronic resources particularly open access resources were the only source of information for the research students in order to complete their work timely. This present study enquires awareness and use of open access resources during the Covid-19 lockdown period in the years 2020 and 2021. Questionnaire method was adopted to collect the desired data. A total of 180 valid samples were collected and used for data analysis. The result of the study indicates that majority of the respondents were aware and used open access journals, Institutional repositories, consortium based resources, etc. during the lockdown period. Majority of them accepted that open access would lead to easier accessibility of electronic documents. The research students were availed and used all the academic resources, which were within their reach and they suggested to enhancing library services for them to avoid such crisis in future

Infant oral health care in pediatric intensive care unit : Need for capacity building

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Analysis of Queuing System Consisting of Multiple Parallel Channels in Series Connected to Non-Serial Servers with Finite Waiting Space and Balking, Reneging

This chapter provides the steady-state analysis of more general queuing system in the sense that M service channels in series are linked with N non-serial channels having reneging and balking phenomenon where each of M service channels has identical multiple parallel channels.The input process is Poisson and the service time distribution is exponential.The service discipline follows SIRO-rule (Service in random order) instead of FIFO-rule (first in first out).The customer becomes impatient in queue after sometime and may leave the system without getting service.The input process depends upon the queue size in non-serial channels.Waiting space is finite. The practical situations where such a model finds application are of common occurrence. For example, consider the administration of a particular state at the level of district head quarter consisting of Patwaris, Kanoongoes, Tehsildars, Sub-divisional magistrates, district commisioner etc. These officers correspond to the servers of serial channels. Education department, Health department, Irritation department etc. connected with the last server of serial queue correspond to non-serial channels. The people meet the officers of the district in connection with their problems.  It is also a common practice that the officers call the people for hearing randomly .Further District commisioner may send the customers to different departments such as education, health, irrigation etc. if their problems are related to such departments

Measuring Use Patterns of Electronic Resources: A Study of College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand)

This research study sought to determine the use patterns of Electronic Resources and limited to the College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand). A questionnaire was distributed among the Post Graduate students, Research Scholars and Faculty Members of the various post-graduate departments of the college to collect desired data. 120 valid samples were collected and used for data analysis and interpretation in this present study. The result shows a growing interest among the respondents to the use of E-Resource at College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand). It was found that E-resources of Elsevier Publisher with 77.5% was the most used and useful publisher for the agricultural community. Majority 59.17% of the respondents used online databases 2-4 times in a week. Awareness among the users about the availability of online journals was found highly satisfactory. Electronic Resources were mostly used for studying course work and writing research papers. PDF format of E-Resources was the most preferred format. There are many reasons highlighted by the users that promote the use of E-Resources

Nuevo marco para utilizar la minería de datos y reglas de asociación para la clasificación de la gravedad de accidentes de tráfico

Introduction: Traffic accidents are an undesirable burden on society. Every year around one million deaths and more than ten million injuries are reported due to traffic accidents. Hence, traffic accidents prevention measures must be taken to overcome the accident rate. Different countries have different geographical and environmental conditions and hence the accident factors diverge in each country. Traffic accident data analysis is very useful in revealing the factors that affect the accidents in different countries. This article was written in the year 2016 in the Institute of Technology & Science, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, up, India. Methology: We propose a framework to utilize association rule mining (arm) for the severity classification of traffic accidents data obtained from police records in Mujjafarnagar district, Uttarpradesh, India. Results: The results certainly reveal some hidden factors which can be applied to understand the factors behind road accidentality in this region. Conclusions: The framework enables us to find three clusters from the data set. Each cluster represents a type of accident severity, i.e. fatal, major injury and minor/no injury. The association rules exposed different factors that are associated with road accidents in each category. The information extracted provides important information which can be employed to adapt preventive measures to overcome the accident severity in Muzzafarnagar district.Introducción: los accidentes de tránsito son una carga indeseable para la sociedad. Cada año se reportan alrededor de un millón de muertes y más de diez millones de lesiones debido a accidentes de tráfico. Por lo tanto, se deben implementar medidas de prevención de accidentes de tráfico para superar la tasa de accidentalidad. Los países tienen diferentes condiciones geográficas y ambientales y, por ello, las variables que inciden varían en cada país. El análisis de los datos de accidentes de tráfico es muy útil para revelar los factores o variables que inciden en la accidentalidad en diferentes países. Este artículo fue escrito en el 2016 en el Instituto de Tecnología y Ciencia, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, UP, India. Metodología: proponemos un marco para utilizar la minería de datos y reglas de asociación (arm) para la clasificación de severidad de los datos de accidentes de tráfico obtenidos de registros policiales en eldistrito de Mujjafarnagar, Uttarpradesh, India Resultados: los resultados revelan ciertamente algunos factores ocultos que se pueden aplicar para entender las variables detrás de la accidentalidad de tráfico en esta región. Conclusiones: el marco permite establecer tres categorías en el conjunto de datos que representan el tipo de gravedad del accidente: fatal, lesiones graves, y lesiones menores o inexistentes. Las reglas de asociación expusieron diferentes factores relacionados con los accidentes de tráfico en cada categoría. Los datos extraídos proporcionan información importante que se puede emplear para adaptar las medidas preventivas para superar la gravedad de los accidentes de tráfico en el distrito de Muzzafarnagar

Improved Capacity Image Steganography Algorithm using 16-Pixel Differencing with n-bit LSB Substitution for RGB Images

With the intrusion of internet into the lives of every household and terabytes of data being transmitted over the internet on daily basis, the protection of content being transmitted over the internet has become an extremely serious concern. Various measures and methods are being researched and devised everyday to ensure content protection of digital media. To address this issue of content protection, this paper proposes an RGB image steganography based on sixteen-pixel differencing with n-bit Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution. The proposed technique provides higher embedding capacity without sacrificing the imperceptibility of the host data. The image is divided into 4×4 non overlapping blocks and in each block the average difference value is calculated. Based on this value the block is classified to fall into one of four levels such as, lower, lower-middle, higher-middle and higher. If block belongs to lower level then 2-bit LSB substitution is used in it. Similarly, for lower-middle, higher-middle and higher level blocks 3, 4, and 5 bit LSB substitution is used. In our proposed method there is no need of pixel value readjustment for minimizing distortion. The experimental results show that stego-images are imperceptible and have huge hiding capacity