How Job Crafting is Shaping the Future of Hospitality Industry: through the Lens of Industry 4.0

The burgeoning of the global travel and tourism industry is the most significant contributor to the growth of the worldwide hospitality industry. The Asia Pacific comprises the largest percentage of global hospitality market share at 43%, followed by North America with 25%, and about 2% by Africa, and Eastern Europe. Although the compound annual growth rate of the global hospitality market is projected at 8% to $5,891 billion by 2022, the evolution of Industry 4.0 has a spillover effect on the workforce of manufacturing as well as the service industry. This paper explores the workforce challenges of Industry 4.0 in the hospitality sector, providing bottom-up job design, i.e., job crafting as a way out to accommodate technological advancements

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF THREE-PHASE SPLIT SOURCE INVERTER

In many DC-AC power conversions a voltage source inverter (VSI) along with an additional DC-DC boosting stage is required. To overcome this problem in VSI, a split source inverter is preferred. This paper presents a combination of boost stage and VSI stage as a single unit DC-AC power conversion named as split source inverter (SSI). The proposed topology require three additional diodes with same number of active switches of VSI and eight same states of conventional pulse width modulation. This work present the analysis of SSI with sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique. The developed SSI model is simulated on MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. Simulation results have been obtained for inverter voltage, inductor current, output line current and total harmonic distortion of output line current

Smartphone Enabled Nonintrusive T&D Detection

Now-a-days the most top dangerous behaviors for drivers is Texting-while-Driving(T&D).There has been many mobile phone applications and interesting systems that have been used to detect and reduce T&D. However, to make the System practical, there must be a key property that will be used to distinguish Driver�s mobile phone from passenger�s. There are many existing solutions to this problem which involve user�s manual input, or utilize specific localization devices to determine driver�s location. Contrast to all of this solution, In this paper, we propose a method which automatically detect T&D without using any additional devices. The basic idea of our system is when a user is using the mobile phone, the smart phone embedded sensors (i.e., gyroscopes, accelerometers) will collect the connected information that includes touch-strokes, holding orientation and vehicle speed. . The collective information will then be examined to see if there exists any specific T&D patterns. In addition with the infrastructure free and high accuracy, the method does not access the content of messages and therefore is privacy-preserving

Incidentally Detected Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Renal Pelvis in Patients with Staghorn Calculi: Case Series with Review of the Literature

Squamous cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis is a rare neoplasm, often unsuspected clinically due to its rarity and ambiguous clinical and radiological features, and hence patients present at advanced stages resulting in poor prognosis. We report here four cases of incidentally diagnosed primary renal squamous cell carcinoma, treated at our hospital over a short span of one year, and review the relevant literature. Mean age of the patients (3 males, 1 female) was 60 years. All suffered from staghorn stones. Interestingly, renal carcinoma was unsuspected clinically in all patients. In one case, a computerised tomography scan showed a suspicious nodule. All underwent nephrectomy for nonfunctioning kidney. In just two cases, tumor was identified on gross examination, while the other two only showed thickened pelvis. Our series emphasises the need for pelvicalyceal biopsy during treatment for long-standing nephrolithiasis, and thorough sampling of the renal pelvis in nephrectomy specimen of such patients

Cerebral Palsy among Children Visiting the Outpatient Department of Pediatric Orthopaedics in a Tertiary Care Centre

Introduction: Cerebral palsy is a group of neurological disorders that appear in infancy or early childhood and occur as a result of anomalies in the developing brain that impair the brain's capacity to regulate movement, maintain posture, and maintain balance. Healthcare professionals can better predict the need for the medical, rehabilitative, and support services needed by people with cerebral palsy by using accurate prevalence statistics. The aim of the study was to find out the prevalence of cerebral palsy among children visiting the Outpatient Department of Pediatric Orthopaedics in a tertiary care centre. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among patients visiting the Outpatient Department of Pediatric Orthopaedics in a tertiary care centre. Data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019 was collected between 25 April 2023 to 5 May 2023 from medical records after obtaining ethical approval from the Institutional Review Committee. Convenience sampling method was used. The point estimate was calculated at a 95% Confidence Interval. Results: Among 6984 children, the prevalence of cerebral palsy was 545 (7.80%) (7.17-8.43, 95% Confidence Interval). The most common type of cerebral palsy was found to be spastic diplegia 219 (40.18%). Conclusions: The prevalence of cerebral palsy among children visiting the Outpatient Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic was found to be higher than in other studies done in similar settings

Read-Through for Nonsense Mutations in Type XVII Collagen-Deficient Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa

The project is funded by E-Rare-3 Joint Translational Call 2017 (to CH, MR, and FLL) and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 01GM1805 (to CH). IC received a fellowship from the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. We thank Blanca Duarte for skin-equivalent grafting procedures. The funding sources for this study : ERA-NET E-RARE JTC 2017 (MutaEB) (CH, MR, and FLL), (Grant AC17/00054 [FLL]) cofunded with European Regional Development Funds, BMBF 01GM1805, EADV (IC

Machine-Learning-Based Radiomics for Classifying Glioma Grade from Magnetic Resonance Images of the Brain

Grading of gliomas is a piece of critical information related to prognosis and survival. Classifying glioma grade by semantic radiological features is subjective, requires multiple MRI sequences, is quite complex and clinically demanding, and can very often result in erroneous radiological diagnosis. We used a radiomics approach with machine learning classifiers to determine the grade of gliomas. Eighty-three patients with histopathologically proven gliomas underwent MRI of the brain. Whenever available, immunohistochemistry was additionally used to augment the histopathological diagnosis. Segmentation was performed manually on the T2W MR sequence using the TexRad texture analysis softwareTM, Version 3.10. Forty-two radiomics features, which included first-order features and shape features, were derived and compared between high-grade and low-grade gliomas. Features were selected by recursive feature elimination using a random forest algorithm method. The classification performance of the models was measured using accuracy, precision, recall, f1 score, and area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic curve. A 10-fold cross-validation was adopted to separate the training and the test data. The selected features were used to build five classifier models: support vector machine, random forest, gradient boost, naive Bayes, and AdaBoost classifiers. The random forest model performed the best, achieving an AUC of 0.81, an accuracy of 0.83, f1 score of 0.88, a recall of 0.93, and a precision of 0.85 for the test cohort. The results suggest that machine-learning-based radiomics features extracted from multiparametric MRI images can provide a non-invasive method for predicting glioma grades preoperatively. In the present study, we extracted the radiomics features from a single cross-sectional image of the T2W MRI sequence and utilized these features to build a fairly robust model to classify low-grade gliomas from high-grade gliomas (grade 4 gliomas)

Social Media and Social Activism

Nowadays, we are connected with our near and dear ones with the help of social media. With the advent and rapid boom of the Internet, social media has eliminated physical and geographical barriers and virtually and we come in contact with a person or a group of people as if two or more people are sitting and talking right next to each other. Imagine, if we can use social media to bring about a change in something, additional to keeping in touch with your family and friends. The answer would be a yes. It would be highly beneficial to use social media to spearhead a campaign or to disclose untold views and stories of anything related. Today, social media has become a primary tool for political and social movements globally. They serve to strengthen the already existing networks of political and social relationships among the masses. It is generally driven by excessive public participation, i.e, more the number of people participate for a cause via social media, the more impactful and successful will it be. There are many ways of social or media activism like publishing censored news on websites, creating effective video and audio presentations, spreading information to the people about the nature and reason for protesting for a cause, and organising campaigns and meetings related to media and communications policies. Often, the main aim of social activism is to change policies of the government that is mostly related to mass media and communication strategies. Social activism is now required by the population for expressing their own views and opinions, in order to bring about a necessary change. With almost half of the countries over the globe having less or no press freedom, according to the rankings made in the Press Freedom Index, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), it is always necessary to garner more public support internally from other areas of a country or externally from other countries, to make the citizens’ voices reachable to the concerned authority. The rise of digital media allows social activists to address this challenge, providing new mechanisms to influence public policy. It is also believed thatthe activists have shaken hands and are supporting with the corporate sectors, in order to influence them with their own decisions. Social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Google+, to name a few have been successful for activists and anarchists for spearheading their digital campaigns, most notable being the Arab Spring in 2011, that toppled the dictators of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen. Many social activists consider the larger picture – how can they find ways to end injustice and hold the perpetrators responsible for such nefarious activities. Also, they tend to create strong communities which encourage economic, social and psychological health. If we define social justice as the belief in an equitable, compassionate world where difference is understood, valued and respected, then we can see that social activism and social justice are flip sides of the same coin. Social action work is a way to meet the goal of social justice. The use of hashtags in social media enables people online to know more about the nature of the digital campaign and also to suggest ideas and opinions to make the campaign an efficient, effective and a successful one in bringing about a change in the society. With the boom of the Internet, media activism is only going to increase more in the coming years and non-democratic governments, who have curbed freedom of expression, are highly threatening by the wrath of the people, who will ensure that the authority falls out and bite the dust finally, to respect the sentiments of the people.

Case series on use of intrathecal morphine in pediatric thoracic spine surgeries

Intrathecal morphine is a very good analgesic agent and was used frequently in the past. Its use has decreased over the years due to side effects such as respiratory depression, nausea, vomiting, pruritis, and so on. Also, with the introduction of drugs like clonidine and the availability of ultrasonography for regional blocks, the role of morphine has declined. Yet, there are surgeries where intrathecal morphine supersedes all other analgesic modalities to provide excellent intraoperative and postoperative analgesia

Curate: A news app for the millennial news consumers

Nowadays we access news on smartphones and tablets and this virtual news reading is increasing day by day, so there is an obvious need for reading news in personalised virtual app interactions. We collectively analysed a set of studies that addressed the concerns in the process involve in the development of versatile news app interfaces. The goal of this application is to deliver the news extracted from different platforms at a single place as fast as possible. On a priority basis, firstly we surveyed the users, secondly their preferences, and lastly conduct; this analysis of survey outcome into three primary types of readers. This evaluation illustrates the different advantages of the familiarization for various users of the news app and the viability of interactive interfaces for news apps. Then we implemented and developed an Interactive news app