Role of Prejudice in the Life of a Person

According to Cambridge Dictionary, prejudice means an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge. Prejudice is an unjustified or incorrect attitude towards an individual. It is normally a negative attitude towards an individual. Normally it is purely based on the individual’s membership of a social group. When a person holds prejudiced views towards a certain race or gender etc. (e.g. sexist), it is an instance of prejudice. Discrimination is related to the behavior or actions. It is also usually negative, towards an individual or group of people, particularly on the basis of sex/race/social class, etc. Prejudice can influence a person very deeply as to how to behave and interact with others, particularly with those who differ from them. Prejudice is, as such, a baseless and normally a negative attitude toward members of a group. The salient traits of prejudice are: negative feelings, stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group. Although specific definitions of prejudice expressed by social scientists often differ yet most of them agree that it involves prejudgments that are usually negative about members of a group. When people have prejudicial attitudes toward others, they are inclined to view everyone who fits into a certain group as being ‘all the same’. They brand every individual who holds particular characteristics or beliefs with a very broad category. They do not appreciate a person as a unique individual. Most people have had the experience of prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination at some time in his or her life. There is little doubt that social discrimination, prejudice, and hostility still create serious problems and challenges, even in today’s society which considers itself to be very advanced

A Review Of Trends In Research On Web Mining

In recent years the growth of the World Wide Web exceeded all expectations. Today there are several billions of HTML documents, pictures and other multimedia files available via internet and the number is still rising. But considering the impressive variety of the web, retrieving interesting content has become a very difficult task.So, the World Wide Web is a fertile area for data mining research.Web mining is a research topic which combines two of the activated research areas: Data Mining and World Wide Web. Web mining research relates to several research communities such as Database, information Retrieval and Artificial intelligence, visualization.This paper reviews the research and application issues in web mining besides proving an overall view of Web mining

Factors correlated with occupational stress among university lecturers

Lecturers are expected to cope with stress in their workplace in order to continue to be productive. The demand to fulfill targets will increase the incidence of occupational stress. The aim of the study was to determine the factors associated with occupational stress among state university lecturers in Bandung, Indonesia. The study was carried out on 354 state university lecturers in Bandung, who came to the research location during May 2017. It was conducted by means of a diagnostic survey with the use of the Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ), Spiritual Wellness Inventory-R (SWI-R), Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS), Miller Smith lifestyle assessment inventory, and Occupational Stress Scale (OSC). A total of 330 respondents became our study subjects with response rate of 92.94%. A correlation bivariate was applied to analyse the correlation of external and internal factors with occupational stress. The statistical analysis was conducted by means of SPSS Statistics 18.0 with p≤0.05. From 330 lecturers, there were 153 (46.4%) males and 177 (53.6%) females. The marital status included 257 (77.9%) married, 27 (8.2%) single, while 46 (13.9%) did not answer. The results proved the existence of a correlation between life, stress event, life style, mental emotional disorders, with occupational stress. The spirituality factors contributed to occupational stress were selfworth, control, and connectedness. Lecturer had to cope with occupational stress. There are some factors, which could influence occupational stress among lecturers

Recent development of respiratory rate measurement technologies

Respiratory rate (RR) is an important physiological parameter whose abnormity has been regarded as an important indicator of serious illness. In order to make RR monitoring simple to do, reliable and accurate, many different methods have been proposed for such automatic monitoring. According to the theory of respiratory rate extraction, methods are categorized into three modalities: extracting RR from other physiological signals, RR measurement based on respiratory movements, and RR measurement based on airflow. The merits and limitations of each method are highlighted and discussed. In addition, current works are summarized to suggest key directions for the development of future RR monitoring methodologies

Management of Stress through Yoga

Today man has made advancement in every walk of materialistic life. What was till yesterday just a dream has been realized or in the pipeline for realizing in the time to come. Things once considered to be impossible have been achieved to a large extent. Whatever we have got today could not have been dreamed of by our forefathers. Scientists, technocrats, doctors and researchers have entirely changed our lifestyle. Science has been constantly showering new means of comfort and convenience. We can reasonably assert that we have got the abundance of means and material but a big question looms large as far as happiness is concerned. Craving for more and more means of comfort has made us heartless. Human values are on the decline. The competition, jealousy, restlessness etc. have led us to be the victim of stress and strain. Mental tension and strain creates undesirable effect on our mind and body. They are accountable for various diseases such as heart attack, kidney, cancer, diabetes, acidity, hypertension, paralysis and so on. These days even small children are falling prey to these diseases in large number. Silent heart attacks, cancer, tumor and such diseases are the offshoots of lifestyle and outlook

ICT for Honing Linguistic Skills

With the day to day progress in Information Communication Technology (ICT), it is becoming easier and convenient to learn the languages, particularly, the international language like English. There is a well accepted principle in education that seeing is believing and the ICT is such a powerful means that it can address this concern. It can make the learning experience very interesting and enriching. The only requisite thing is that the learner should have the hardware and software to use and the proper motivation, initiative and skills to learn the language. In the recent time, Instructional technology (IT) has become an integral part of teaching and learning, both in and out of the classroom. The use of technology in the effective manner while learning and teaching English can yield very tangible results. ICT as a means is very important but equally important is the user who can put the technology to various uses to achieve the objectives. He can find out ways and means to enhance learning and teaching

ICT for Honing Linguistic Skills

With the day to day progress in Information Communication Technology (ICT), it is becoming easier and convenient to learn the languages, particularly, the international language like English. There is a well accepted principle in education that seeing is believing and the ICT is such a powerful means that it can address this concern. It can make the learning experience very interesting and enriching.  The only requisite thing is that the learner should have the hardware and software to use and the proper motivation, initiative and skills to learn the language. In the recent time, Instructional technology (IT) has become an integral part of teaching and learning, both in and out of the classroom. The use of technology in the effective manner while learning and teaching English can yield very tangible results. ICT as a means is very important but equally important is the user who can put the technology to various uses to achieve the objectives. He can find out ways and means to enhance learning and teaching

Teachers of English Facing Challenges in India

There is a well-settled principle that what is relevant today may not be equally true tomorrow. Language teaching is also not an exception. The teachers of English cannot follow or adopt all the methods and approaches as were practiced by their predecessors. Change is the salt of life. When the profile of students is no longer the same, the teachers also cannot remain the same. English is the second language in India both for teachers and students. At present challenges before teachers of English include putting their learning into practice in day-to-day life to fulfill their practical demands through effective communication skills apart from gaining command over the English language.

Preliminary survey on the use of probiotics by shrimp farmers in Nellore district Andhra Pradesh

In the recent past shrimp production from farm and hatcheries have declined considerably due to disease out breaks and water quality problems. Farmers were able to control these problems to certain extent with the use of antibiotics and therapeutic agents. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics leads to the development of resistant strains of bacteria . The probiotic approach can be an alternative to these problems and it has immense potential in aquacultur

Anaesthetic management and perioperative complications during deep brain stimulation surgery: Our institutional experience

Background: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery is an established therapeutic option for alleviating movement disorders. It represents unique challenges for anaesthesiologists. We retrospectively reviewed the patients, who underwent this surgery at our institution, to study anaesthetic management and perioperative complications. Materials and Methods: After taking approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee, medical, surgical and anaesthesia records of 67 patients who were admitted to undergo DBS surgery during 11 years period (January 2001 to December 2011) were retrieved and reviewed. Sixty-five patients underwent the procedure. Various anaesthetic events and perioperative complications were noted and appropriate statistical analysis was carried out to analyse the data. Results: Electrode placement under monitored anaesthesia care (MAC) was the most commonly used technique (86% of patients). Intra-operative complications occurred in 16 patients (24%) whereas post-operative complication occurred in 10 patients (15.4%). There was one mortality. Though age >60 years and American Society of Anesthesiologists status >II were found to be the risk factors for post-operative complications in the bivariate analysis; they were not significant in multivariate analysis. Conclusions: We report our experience of DBS surgery, which was performed using MAC in majority of patients, though general anaesthesia is also feasible. Further prospective randomised studies comprising large number of patients are warranted to corroborate our finding and to find out the most suitable sedative agent