Behaviour Of Different Segments Research Articles

Automation in Applications for Healthcare, Private, and Public Sectors in IT

The paper will examine the implementation of the new technology in the automation of the healthcare, private, and public sectors. The latest technological advancements tend to alter the modes of the normal behavior of different segments of life among the listed ones in their entire process and responsibly affect their operation. The technology sheds light on specific areas requiring adequate and superb services and offers obscure methods in the field of automation. In doing so, the credibility and accountability of the entire systems that are put in place are enhanced. To investigate how the automation of the application areas is influenced by IT regarding the equation of accountability, a range of documentations that are empirically implemented in the field of IT are explored. The exploration ranges from the purest forms of transactions that involve the automation of lower levels to the highly automated systems, which includes the technologies that analyze biometric fingerprints, among others. From the example, the accountable potential of the IT automation is discussed for the different applications with the hope of investigating the benefits that are brought about by the automation of the applications while doing away with the potentials that are unaccountable and hinders the functionality that may come from the usage of the systems applications on the different fields. Throughout the paper, much stress is on the importance of developing a balance that exists between the benefits of the automated applications in IT and the entire process of automation, including the system that may tend to reduce the efficiency of the applications and be able to bring up accountability.

EDUCAÇÃO PARA OS RECURSOS HÍDRICOS E A DEGRADAÇÃO DO RIO BOTAS

A educação ambiental busca alcançar um mundo mais sustentável por meio da mudança de comportamentos dos diversos segmentos da sociedade. Dentro dessa perspectiva, o projeto Implicações no ambiente no processo de ensino-aprendizagem atua em várias escolas buscando a conscientização dos jovens sobre o uso sustentável dos Recursos Hídricos por meio de oficinas que possam gerar consciência crítica nos alunos. Esse artigo discute o trabalho realizado por esse projeto em escola pública no município de nova Iguaçu com vistas à conscientização de alunos em relação ao Rio Botas.

Integral Equation Prediction of the Structure of Alternating Copolymer Nanocomposites near a Substrate.

The packing structure and phase behavior of polymer-nanoparticle mixtures under confinement play an important role in developing strategies for rational design of nanomaterials. However, understanding the microscopic dispersion and aggregation mechanism of polymer nanocomposites is a great challenge through experimental techniques. In this work, the microscopic structure of alternating copolymer nanocomposites (ACNs) near a substrate is investigated systematically through extension of the inhomogeneous polymer reference interaction site model (PRISM) theory. In order to characterize the flexibility and internal chain stiffness of copolymers, a semiflexible chain model is introduced to describe the intramolecular correlations between different monomers. Based on the bridge functionals derived from the fluids density functional theory, the modified hypernetted chain closure is integrated with the PRISM equation to form a full theoretical framework to capture the density distributions of ACNs. The influence of the particle volume fraction, nanoparticle diameter, and adsorption strengths between different interaction sites on the packing structure of ACNs under confinement is analyzed and discussed in detail. With the increase of the particle volume fraction, the size asymmetry between nanoparticles and copolymer monomers can greatly influence the density profiles of ACNs near a substrate. Increasing the nanoparticle diameter, the density distribution of nanoparticles experiences a process from absorbing onto the solid surface to segregating from the wall to larger distances. With increasing the adsorption strength between copolymers and nanoparticles, the density distribution of nanoparticles decreases, which is similar to the case of nanoparticles containing attractive interactions. All these characteristics of ACNs show that the current inhomogeneous PRISM theory can give a detailed description of the packing behavior of different segments. Predictive approaches could be desired and developed for design control of alternating copolymer nanocomposites under confinement.

Health Seeking Behavior of the Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in Malaysia: Some Suggestive Recommendations in Adjustive Context

Background: Recently, there have been an increasing number of literatures on health seeking behavior of different segments of society in the urban and non-urban regions but rarely have these studies emphasized the health care issues related to migrant workers. With this paucity of investigation, this research focuses on the needs and assessment of Bangladeshi workers working in Malaysia and thus contextualizes it to their health care situation.Methodology and Data Sources: This study is an outcome of a baseline survey conducted in and around Kuala Lumpur city in Malaysia. Based on the snowball technique, the research identified a total of 200 workers through convenience random sampling and interviewed them face-to-face, most extensively with a set of structured questionnaire. The research was further supplemented by a few FGDs.Findings: Until recently, the bulk of migrant workers from Bangladesh come to Malaysia because of bilateral agreements signed by both governments from time to time since 1992. Among these Bangladeshi migrant workers, there is a lack of health facilities in part because of the absence of any precise specification in the agreements. Most of the Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia therefore, are fully devoid of having any Medicare facilities from their respective place of employment and working farms. This is evident when it was pronounced by 87% of Bangladeshi workers who said clearly that they do not receive any medical support or health protection and privileges in times of necessity and crisis. Since they are not protected by any medical insurance whatsoever, they are always afraid of seeing a medical doctor or to visit any health clinics or hospitals. Moreover, due to not having proper documents and also because of other problems and complications, many illegal workers are often denied access to this medical assistance. Most of the workers for that reason either bring some medicine from their back homes or remain sick without getting any proper medical treatment.Conclusions and Recommendations: Because there are no specific agreements on health care issues between Bangladesh and Malaysia, it directs us to conclude that the health care aspects of the foreign workers which are their rights are being ignored. Although foreign workers in Malaysia are accorded equal rights with that of the locals, due to absence of any precise specification on health aspects, these workers are unable to get benefits from the system. For that reason, in the later part of the research, we have concluded with a recommendation saying that since Malaysia is providing placement for a huge number of Bangladeshi workers, it is therefore the government of Bangladesh who should provide initial health support to these workers through a team of medical professionals employed at their foreign mission located in this country.

Consumer attitude and behaviour: A segmentational analysis

Consumerism is dependent upon the different variables including paying capacity, social influences, and necessities of the commodities which affect the attitude and behaviour of the consumers. This is an important indicator of the market operation dominating the demand of the commodities in context to the different segments of the product classification and consequently determining the attitude and behaviour of the consumer. However, it is pertinent that different strata of the society have different in demand for different products. The product preferred by one segment is not preferred by the other segment of the society due to the influences of different nature. At this juncture, for the marketing experts and scholars, it is necessary to understand the attitude and behaviour of different segments of the consumers in terms of the environment, price, product design, texture, quality and so many other considerations. The research project is a modest attempt to examine the consumer behaviour and attitude as per the different segments of the society.

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Multilingualism in Educational Contexts: Identities and Ideologies

This Teaching and Learning Guide is intended to provide instructors of courses in Sociolinguistics some guidance in incorporating the topic of multilingualism in educational contexts into their syllabi. Although schools the world over are increasingly serving multilingual populations, awareness of this reality has not, in many cases, sifted through to public consciousness, and incorporation of this topic into the sociolinguistic curriculum is a crucial step in addressing this gap in awareness. The incidence of multilingualism in educational contexts has increased greatly in the last few decades in a number of critical ways. First, while multilingualism has long been the norm in educational settings in places such as India and some countries of Africa, widespread multilingualism has only recently begun to be seen as a factor in education in many parts of the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Second, in addition to there being more regions of the world that have multilingual populations of schoolchildren, the demographics of these populations are also changing. There are increasing numbers of middle class professionals moving to countries in which immigrants were previously overwhelmingly citizens of poor countries who came to work unskilled jobs. Third, not only have different patterns of immigration led to a broader range of regions and social groups becoming multilingual, but the ability to speak more than one language is increasingly seen as desirable for those who stay put. Bilingual education or intensive language study for the children of majority language populations is gaining popularity in Europe, the United States, and Asia. What this amounts to is that multilingualism in schools is becoming more common, and the situations in which it occurs are as varied as the languages involved. This article addresses the social issues of language ideologies and identity construction in this context.

Spectroscopic linear dichroism FT‐IR studies of synthetic spider silk

AbstractThis work deals with the analysis of the orientation behavior of different segments of synthetic spider silk samples containing hard and soft segments. Two different types of spider silk were examined, one with an aliphatic hard segment (hexamethylene‐diisocyanate) and an amorphous soft segment (polytetramethylene oxide) (A40) and the other with an aromatic hard segment (4,4′‐methylene bisphenyl diisocyanate) and a semicrystalline soft segment (polyethylene oxide‐polypropylene oxide‐ polyethylene oxide) (A143). In order to observe the orientation behavior of the hard and the soft segments it was necessary to define marker bands. While for both samples the chosen marker bands for the hard segments were the same, the marker bands for the soft segments were different. FT‐IR spectra were recorded while strain was applied to the material at the same time. Two parameters, the dichroic ratio R and the order Parameter f were used to evaluate the behavior of these materials under conditions of strain. It was found that sample A143 broke at a strain level of 37,5 %, while sample A40 showed a high dynamic range up to a strain level of 307 %.

An infrared spectroscopic study of photo-induced reorientation in dye containing liquid-crystalline polymers

Abstract Infrared spectroscopy is used to study simultaneously the orientational behaviour of different segments of dye containing liquid-crystalline side group copolymers in sandwich type films of about 2 μm thickness. Under continuous irradiation with polarized light above and below T g of the polymers both azobenzene and phenyl benzoate side groups reorient preferentially normal to the film plane leading to a strongly biaxial orientation distribution. The analysis of the kinetics reveals that the reorientation is essentially a mono-exponential process with an additional faster process only found for the azobenzene dye and assigned to the initial trans to cis isomerization step. Investigation of an isotropic copolymer system containing azobenzene in the side groups shows that an anisotropy can be induced through irradiation with polarized light that is strongly dependent on temperature.

Effects of fatigue and reduced intracellular pH on segment dynamics in 'isometric' relaxation of frog muscle fibres.

1. Longitudinal movements of marked segments of single fibres from the anterior tibialis muscle were recorded during tetanus and relaxation under isometric (fixed-end) conditions. 2. During relaxation, shortening and lengthening of different segments occurred simultaneously, starting at about the same time as the end of the linear fall of force (shoulder on the force record). 3. Variations in intracellular pH, measured with pH-sensitive microelectrodes, along the length of fibres were not statistically significant, and are unlikely to be responsible for the non-uniform behaviour of different segments. 4. As expected from earlier studies, both fatigue (produced by increasing tetanus duration or decreasing the time between tetani) and intracellular acidification (produced by raised extracellular CO2), reduced the tetanus force and prolonged the linear phase of force decline in relaxation. Each treatment delayed the start and markedly reduced the amount of segment movement in relaxation. 5. Fatigue and intracellular acidification have a smaller effect on force during stretching than on force produced under isometric conditions. This may contribute to making the segments behave in a more uniform way during relaxation under these conditions. 6. Changes in the Ca2+ uptake mechanisms are also discussed as possible causes for the changes in segment behaviour in relaxation.

World War II and Female Labor Force Participation Rates

Between the years 1940 and 1947 the demand for female labor in the United States shifted rapidly. Wages for women rose swiftly during the war, then fell suddenly when industries converted to peacetime production. This paper makes use of household production theory to explore the behavior of different segments of the female labor force as they responded to the radical changes in demand brought by World War II. The analysis suggests that a crucial turning point in the efforts to hire women was reached in the second half of 1943.