The influence of psychosocial adjustment factors on team embeddedness at the workplace

The high prevalence of aggression, anxiety and stress symptoms among team members in the organisation, while acquisition of task is alarming causation of adjustment disorder influences on team embeddedness, is the subject of this study. The ontogenesis of psychosocial adjustment disorder in any employees is not palingenetic, this is exact reproduction of psychosocial factors (PSF) which develops at workplace The most important strategy for productivity improvement is based on the fact that human productivity, both positive and negative, is determined by the attitudes of all those who work in the enterprise and gap surfaced between teamwork and competence development particularly with regard to managing individualism within organisation and specifically individualistic approach, organisational justice, productivity management and psychosocial support. We strongly feel that there is a need to reexamine organisational team credentials and possible strong influences on individual’s psychosocial adjustment disorders. Findings suggest psychosocial adjustment factors are significantly correlated with psychosocial disorders (PSDs)

Functional neurological disorder: a faith and cultural perspective

Section A: A systematic review of research that can contribute to knowledge of understandings and use of Cultural Competence (CC) initiatives in UK healthcare settings. A search of databases found ten studies. The findings were integrated to identify six themes relevant to understanding the term CC and CC initiatives. The review highlights inconsistencies in conceptualisations of CC and problems were found in the implementation of CC initiatives which often go unmonitored. Section B: An empirical paper exploring the role of family, faith and culture in Black and Asian individuals experiencing functional neurological symptoms. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The results indicate that individuals largely understood their symptoms from a Eurocentric medical lens, but that the diagnosis was difficult to come to terms with. Cultural influences such as help-seeking behaviours, symptom and suffering perceptions, upbringing and language were found to play a part in how one experiences FND. Stigma and faith were found to play a significant role in individual’s experiences

Effect of soil applied zinc sulphate on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown on a calcareous soil in Pakistan

A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of soil application of zinc fertilizer on yield and yield components of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Inqlab 91) grown on calcareous soil in Pakistan. The levels of zinc sulphate were 0 (control), 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 kg ha-2 and the zinc sulphate was combine-drilled at the time of sowing. Zinc sulphate increased the Leaf Area Index, the total number of fertile tillers m -2, number of spikelets spike-2, spike length, grain spike-2, thousand grain weight, grain yield, straw yield and biological yield and decreased harvest index. Most of the response trends were curvilinear although the decrease in harvest index was linear. All applications of zinc sulphate gave economic increases in margins over costs but the application of 5 kg ha-2 gave the highest marginal rate of return. It is recommended that under such calcareous soil conditions growers can expect good returns from the application of 5 kg zinc sulphate ha-2 at the time of sowing but if the grain price were to increase or the price of zinc sulphate were reduced economic responses could be expected from higher levels of zinc sulphate. © 2008 Akadémiai Kiadó

Controlling the thermal contact resistance of a carbon nanotube heat spreader

The ability to tune the thermal resistance of carbon nanotube mechanical supports from insulating to conducting could permit the next generation of thermal management devices. Here, we demonstrate fabrication techniques for carbon nanotube supports that realize either weak or strong thermal coupling, selectively. Direct imaging by in-situ electron thermal microscopy shows that the thermal contact resistance of a nanotube weakly-coupled to its support is greater than 250 K*m/W and that this value can be reduced to 4.2(+5.6/-2.1) K*m/W by imbedding the nanotube in metal contacts

Effect of Moringa Oleifera Leaves Meal or Its Combination with Phytase Enzyme on Nutrient Digestibility of Broiler

Moringa oleifera leaves meal are good source of amino acids, Vitamins, and it has medicinal uses also are rich in carotene level and ascorbic acid with a good amino acid profile its leaves given with combination of Phytase enzyme because Poultry required enzymes which help in feed breakdown because chicken have not enzyme for fibres break down. The using of enzyme have many benefits in poultry diets include not only enhanced feed conversion, performance and nutrient digestibility. The present study was undertaken in order to determine the effect of Moringa oleifera leaves meal or its combination with phytase enzyme on nutrient digestibility of broiler. Two hundred day-old Ross broiler chicks from a commercial hatchery were purchased & after initial weight; birds were arbitrarily separated in groups, i.e. A (control) was offered 0% Moringa oleifera meal whereas; 1.25% (group B), 2.5% (group C) and 3.75% (group D) moringa oleifera leaves meal and with combination of 0 g/kg group A (control), 0.025 g/kg (group B), 0.075 g/kg (group C) and 0.05 g/kg (group D) phytase enzyme provided in broiler feed. Parameters which selected in present research work as, weight gains, feed intake, water intake, feed conversion ratio nutrient digestibility calculated. The results shows that feed intake was significantly higher in group A followed by group B, group C, and group D (g/chick), the higher water intake was recorded in group A, followed by other treated groups B, C and D. Live body weight gain was significantly higher in group C followed by group A, group B, and group D (chick). Feed conversion ratio was significantly (p˂0.05) better in group C, followed by group A, B and group D. Furthermore, crude protein digestibility starter/finisher was recorded significantly higher in group C followed by control group A, group B and group D. Metabolizable energy starter/finisher was Maximum in group C followed by control (A), group B and group D. Keywords- Broiler birds, Moringa oleifera, phytase enzyme, body weight gain, nutrient digestibility. DOI: 10.7176/JBAH/11-10-04 Publication date:May 31st 202

Economics of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Production and Its Development in District Kech, Balochistan Province of Pakistan

Economics of date palm production and its constraints in District Kech, (Balochistan) was analyzed during 2012-13 using 60 date palm producers; while a good number of market agents/middlemen were also included to analyze date palm marketing. The data indicated that Turbat and Panjgoor are the districts of excellence for their high quality and remarkable date palm production; and Begum Jangi dominates in area and production, followed by Halini, Hussaini, Goknah, Dishtri, Konzenabad, Muzwati, Pashpag, Shakri and Washakar. The total estimated costs on date palm production were Rs. 225271.31/hectare which included Rs. 50903 land inputs, Rs. 66468 initial development of orchard, Rs. 76111 operational costs and Rs. 31789.31 marketing costs. Among initial orchard development costs, purchase of date palm suckers was the item of highest cost, followed by the farmyard manure and ploughing charges. The total land inputs including land rent and land tax accumulated to Rs. 50903/hectare. Among marketing costs the transportation charges were the highest amount of costs. The overall average date palm fruit yield was estimated at 77.29 maunds per hectare. The date palm yield was higher in trees aging 10-20 years; while Washakar variety fetched highest sale price, followed by Begum Jangi, Konzenabad and Goknah, while hydrated form of dates (Chhuhara) is mostly prepared from Halini variety. The income from date palm per hectare was estimated at Rs. 286745.90 against total costs Rs. 225271.31 resulting net returns of 61474.59 per hectare, resulting cost: benefit ratio of 1:1.27. The marketing analysis indicated that total price spread was Rs. 3500.00 per maund while the product reached in the hands of ultimate consumer. The middlemen (Wholesalers and commission agents) and retailer earned marketing margins of 31.68 and 24.69%, net margin 75.23 and 85.34 %, markup 46.36 and 32.78 %. The retailer shared 42.10 paisa of the consumer’s rupee, middlemen (wholesaler and commission agents) 35.86 paisa; while the producer shared the lowest (22.04 paisa) of the consumer’s rupee. The retailer earned 5.82 rupees (CBR=1:5.82), middlemen (wholesaler and commission agents) 3.03 rupees (CBR=1:3.03) and date palm grower earned 0.27 rupee (CBR= 1:0.27) on payment of one rupee cost. Among constraints, farm to market infrastructure and high transportation costs were the problems of rank-1 faced by 100 percent of the growers. Market facility to growers, quality seed and irrigation water, lack of date processing unit and cold storage were rank-2, rank-3 and rank-4 problems, respectively. The quality pesticides and high fertilizer and FYM price and timely availability were the problems at rank-5, while training of date palm growers for production and post-harvest handling and non-existence of soil testing facilities were the problems of low ranking. Keywords: Date Palm, Production and Developmen

A Neural Model of First-order and Second-order Motion Perception and Magnocellular Dynamics

A neural model of motion perception simulates psychophysical data. concerning first-order and second-order motion stimuli, including the reversal of perceived motion direction with distance from the stimulus (I display), and data about directional judgments as a function of relative spatial phase or spatial and temporal frequency. Many other second-order motion percepts that have been ascribed to a second non-Fourier processing stream can also be explained in the model by interactions between ON and OFF cells within a single, neurobiologically interpreted magnocellular processing stream. Yet other percepts may be traced to interactions between form and motion processing streams, rather than to processing within multiple motion processing strea.ms. The model hereby explains why monkeys with lesions of the parvocellular layers, but not the magnocellular layers, of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) are capable of detecting the correct direction of second-order motion, why most cells in area MT are sensitive to both first-order and second-order motion, and why after APB injection selectively blocks retinal ON bipolar cells, cortical cells are sensitive only to the motion of a moving bright bar's trailing edge. Magnoccllular LGN cells show relatively transient responses while parvoccllular LGN cells show relatively sustained responses. Correspondingly, the model bases its directional estimates on the outputs of model ON and OFF transient cells that are organized in opponent circuits wherein antagonistic rebounds occur in response to stimmulus offset. Center-surround interactions convert these ON and OFF outpr1ts into responses of lightening and darkening cells that are sensitive both to direct inputs and to rebound responses in their receptive field centers and surrounds. The total pattern of activity increments and decrements is used by subsequent processing stages (spatially short-range filters, competitive interactions, spatially long-range filters, and directional grouping cells) to dntermine the perceived direction of motion