India: Cyclone Ockhi, a stitch in time

Cyclone Ockhi, which hit southern India late last year, brought out the need to empower communities to manage risks through locally owned and locally appropriate approache

Improving Scalability and Usability of Parallel Runtime Environments for High Availability and High Performance Systems

The number of processors embedded in high performance computing platforms is growing daily to solve larger and more complex problems. Hence, parallel runtime environments have to support and adapt to the underlying platforms that require scalability and fault management in more and more dynamic environments. This dissertation aims to analyze, understand and improve the state of the art mechanisms for managing highly dynamic, large scale applications. This dissertation demonstrates that the use of new scalable and fault-tolerant topologies, combined with rerouting techniques, builds parallel runtime environments, which are able to efficiently and reliably deliver sets of information to a large number of processes. Several important graph properties are provided to illustrate the theoretical capability of these topologies in terms of both scalability and fault-tolerance, such as reasonable degree, regular graph, low diameter, symmetric graph, low cost factor, low message traffic density, optimal connectivity, low fault-diameter and strongly resilient. The dissertation builds a communication framework based on these topologies to support parallel runtime environments. Such a framework can handle multiple types of messages, e.g., unicast, multicast, broadcast and all-gather. Additionally, the communication framework has been formally verified to work in both normal and failure circumstances without creating any of the common problems such as broadcast storm, deadlock and non-progress cycle

PENERAPAN PRINSIP KEHATI-HATIAN (PRUDENTIAL PRINCIPAL) PADA PEMBERIAN PEMBIAYAAN PADA PT. BPRS HAREUKAT LAMBARO ACEH BESAR

Prinsip kehati-hatian (prudent banking principle) adalah suatu asas atau prinsip yang menyatakan bahwa dalam menjalankan fungsi dan kegiatan usahanya bank wajib bersikap hati-hati (prudent) dalam rangka melindungi dana masyarakat yang dipercayakan padanya.Bank Syariah adalah lembaga keuangan yang usaha pokoknya (sebagaimana halnya dengan Bank Konvensional) menarik dan memberikan kredit (pembiayaan) dan jasa-jasa dalam lalu lintas pembayaran serta peredaran uang yang pengoperasiannya sesuai dengan prinsip syariah Islam.Beberapa hal yang perlu diperhatikan dalam analisa pembiayaan yaitu adanya prinsip analisis pembiayaan yang harus diperhatikan oleh pihak bank yang didasarkan pada rumuSs 5C dan 1C, yaitu Character, Capacity, Capital, Collateral, Condition dan Constrain.Dalam penilaian pembiayan bukan hanya dengan metode 5C dan 1C saja tetapi dapat dianalisis juga dengan metode 7P yaitu personality, party, purpose, prospect, payment, profitability, protection

Overfishing Trends and the Global Food Crisis

Fish are a vital source of nourishment, especially to people in the world's poorest nations. Widespread over?shing has led to a decline in catch globally; however, the links between over?shing and food security have not been well-understood. The authors of scientific article "Food security implications of globalmarine catch losses due to overfishing." assessed potential losses, globally and regionally, in ?sheries catch and revenue resulting from over?shing. They found a third to a half of commercial marine species had been over?shed during the past half-century, with billions in potential revenue lost. By placing country-level catch loss trends in the context of undernourishment levels in many of the world's poorest countries, the authors estimated that in 2000 the additional catch from sustainable ?shing could have helped 20 million people cover their food de?cit and avert undernourishment. This Pew Ocean Science Series report is a summary of the scientists' ?ndings

The Impact of Clinical Application Protocols for Multiple Topical Products on Drug Delivery to the Skin

In the treatment of inflammatory skin conditions patients are often prescribed more than one topical product: a topical corticosteroid (TCS), an emollient and a topical antibiotic in cases of clinically infected skin. Despite widespread prescribing, there exists a remarkable lack of consensus between healthcare bodies on the optimum application protocol for the products, with recommendations made on the basis of clinical ‘expert’ opinion rather than evidence-based findings. Thus, the aim of this thesis was to evaluate the impact of clinical application protocols on the in vitro percutaneous absorption and skin retention of TCSs and topical antibiotics. A two component model was initially employed where the model TCSs (Elocon cream and Dermovate cream) were applied before or after six emollients, with a five or thirty minute interval. The Aron mix, a tailored extemporaneous therapy, was subsequently investigated to confirm whether the trends observed with TCSs and emollients were applicable to further complex mixtures of a topical antibiotic (Fucidin cream) and a TCS (Diprosone cream) substantially diluted in an emollient base (Diprobase cream). The findings demonstrated that applying multiple topical products to the skin can induce rapid formulation changes in situ or indeed in the extemporaneously prepared Aron mix, resulting in an altered performance of the medicinal products in a formulation specific manner. Mixing of the TCSs or topical antibiotic with an emollient dissimilar to the product base resulted in a multitude of effects including alterations in drug and solvent thermodynamic activities, rapid drug crystallisation and emollient excipients acting with penetration enhancing effects. Complementary drug stability investigations of the extemporaneous Aron mix did not support the typically recommended shelf life for the product (two weeks to one month), with significant decreases in drug content evident after seven days. In disagreement with clinical recommendations for TCSs and emollients, allowing up to thirty minutes between product applications was not sufficient to mitigate emollient effects on TCS drug delivery to the skin. Furthermore, application of the TCS after the emollient largely decreases drug delivery to the skin up to 4.4 fold compared to the TCS alone, findings which counter the clinical opinion that application of a TCS to well moisturised skin can increase drug delivery. Overall, the work presented in this thesis delivers a body of evidence previously unreported to suggest that applying multiple topical products to the skin at similar times may significantly alter the critical quality attributes of the product(s) to unpredictable extents and upon further investigation, these findings will support the advancement of conclusive clinical guidance

Work Motivation of Teachers: Relationship with Organizational Commitment

Abstract: In the modern world of competitive higher education the role of motivated teachers is undeniable. This study aims to find the importance of organizational commitment in motivating the teachers. Data was collected from 450 degree college teachers of Bangalore city. Analysis of data and the discussion is included. The results showed a positive relationship between work motivation and organizational commitment of degree college teachers. More committed teachers were found to be more motivated. Implications of the findings and limitations of the study are given. Key words: Work motivation; Organizational commitmentRésumé: Dans le monde moderne de l'enseignement supérieur compétitif le rôle des enseignants motivés est indéniable. Cette étude vise à trouver l'importance de l'engagement organisationnel dans la motivation des enseignants. Les données ont été recueillies à partir de 450 enseignants universitaires de la ville de Bangalore. L'analyse des données et la discussion sont inclus. Les résultats ont montré une relation positive entre la motivation au travail et l'engagement organisationnel des enseignants universitaires. Les enseignants qui engagent le plus ont été trouvés à être plus motivés. Implications des conclusions et des limites de l'étude sont donnés. Mots clés: Motivation au travail; Engagement organisationne

BHRINGARAJA BHAVITHA GANDHAKA KALPA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF VYANGA - A CASE STUDY

Acquired disorders of hyperpigmentation affects individuals of all skin types. In Ayurveda, Vyanga is a Kshudra roga and a Rakta pradoshaja vikara which mainly affects the complexion of a person by producing Niruja, Shyava varna mandalas over face. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of Bhringaraja bhavitha gandhaka kalpa in Vyanga which is the eighth Gandhaka kalpa mentioned in the eight Taranga of Rasatarangini.  Variables like percentage of area involved, darkness and homogeneity were assessed before and after treatment. This paper highlights a case study of Vyanga treated with Bhringaraja bhavitha gandhaka kalpa

A Self-Produced Extended Play: A Magical Blend of Psymbient Electronic and Experimental Rock Music

The purpose of this project is to compose, record and produce an extended play (EP) of six songs influenced by psymbient electronic music and experimental art rock music that blends the earthy sound of analog world and digital ambient tones, inspired by some of the life changing experiences that motivated the author to leave his eight year corporate job to pursue his passion for music. The EP will musically reflect the authors struggle with depression and anxiety during the transition phase and how he overcame it. On some of the songs the author aims to use a different approach where he composes the instrumentation completely and get his collaborators to write and compose vocals over it. Coming from a rock and metal music background, the author aims to improve his skills in the production of electronic music, analog synthesis , sound design, hybrid recording and stereo mixing with this creative project and aims to find his artist identity through the process.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1226/thumbnail.jp