Betterment Of Quality Research Articles

Aging Skin and Natural Bioactives that Impede Cutaneous Aging: A Narrative Review.

The skin aging which entails modifications in the entire skin and skin support system is caused as a result of complex blend of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The main objective of this review is to provide critical insights into the effect of the aging determinants (intrinsic and extrinsic) on aging skin and to focus on a few classes of natural bioactives that were reported to counteract symptoms of cutaneous aging, pose potential, and beneficial health effect on aging skin supported with relevant scientific evidence. The narrative review of this cutaneous antiaging study incorporating the literature findings was retrieved from the search of computerized databases PubMed and Scopus, hand searches, and authoritative books. The antiaging skin care approach of using bioactives are basically nutritional hormetins, available from our natural heritage, identified as potent free radical scavengers, antioxidants, moisturizers, cell repairing agents, and ultraviolet protectives which have started to seek considerable attention among researchers and consumers due to the undesirable effect of chemical-based constituents on human health and environment. With the booming antiaging strategies, beauty has become the prime factor in considering one's health and overall "wellness". As promoting healthy aging is essential, the objective of aesthetic dermatology should shift from cosmetic interventions to the betterment of quality of life of aging society. The paper also discusses on certain artificial learning/machine-based algorithms, useful in screening of bioactive ingredients, helpful in developing of more tailored formulations. This narrative overview on skin antiaging natural bioactives and artificial learning-based bioactive screening approaches contributes for the improvement in dermatological drug discovery, in the development of novel targeted lead compounds and accelerates aging research and pharmaceutical research.

From the thin concept of quality to the thick one: remedial responsibilities of the universities

This article explores the notion of the responsibility of the university in the global context and attempts to link it to the concept of quality broadly conceived. Specifically, it is argued that there are certain similarities between the discourses of philosophy of higher education (global responsibility of the university) and political philosophy (global justice). It is argued that it is possible to apply David Miller’s notion of remedial responsibility to universities. Based on this, the article offers a dynamic model of university responsibility derived from Georgian higher education reality, which offers promise for improving the quality of university life (understood as an overall betterment of quality of well-being of the students, the teaching and administrative staff). It is suggested that such an approach provides the basis for the richer, thick concept of quality against the thinner one, which only focuses on measuring outcomes and economic efficiency.

Effect of Triphaladi Choornam Mouthwash and Chlorhexidine Gluconate Mouthwash in Radio-Chemotherapy Induced Oral Mucositis in NonMetastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck: A Comparative Study

Background: The cases of lung and mouth cancer have boomed in the last decade due to various reasons, the major one being tobacco consumption. In non-metastatic squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, oral mucositis becomes prominent, especially during chemo or radiotherapy. Such patients also often suffer from stomatitis, xerostomia and pharyngitis. Materials and methods: This comparative study comprises of 36 patients undergoing chemo and radiotherapy. Here, 18 patients each are randomly allocated in two groups. One group receiving the existing prophylactic treatment i.e., chlorhexidine gluconate mouthwash and the other group received, Triphaladi choornam for gargling. Both the groups were asked to perform gargling, from the first day of radiation therapy to 21 days thereafter. Analytical tools: The effectiveness of both mouthwashes was compared for their healing potential and quality of life by WHO oral mucositis scale and Patient Reported Oral Mucositis Symptoms (PROMS)scale respectively. Conclusion: The reduction in mucositis and betterment of quality of life was significant in the group which received ayurvedic mouthwash compared to the prophylactic treatment group.

FACTORS AFFECTING SOCIAL PARTICIPATION RESTRICTION IN INDIVIDUALS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY

Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is considered as a major disability and also life-threatening condition that carries a high risk of morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to discover the factors affecting social participation restriction in the individuals with SCI. Traumatic SCI patients details were collected from medical records of S.D.M Hospital, 30 patients in total were interviewed face to face with items of CHART-SF in the vernacular language. Responses were obtained and calculated as per the manual scoring for CHART-SF. Descriptive analysis was used for finding mean, median, a standard deviation and the median scores for the main domains of CHART-SF which were, for physical independence 32 which is considered to be moderately handicap, cognitive independence 100 which is not handicap, mobility 14 severe handicap, occupation 13.75. The statistical tests used were Kruskal Wallis ANOVA and Mann-Whitney U test to compare the variables (each domain of CHART-SF) with demographic variables and by Spearman’s rank correlation method. We also found the association in between the variables of CHART-SF. All statistics were done with SPSS version 25. A probability value of p ≤ 0.05 was considered to indicate a significant difference. Thus, there is a strong need to focus on planning the better rehabilitation and awareness programs for the betterment of quality of life of people with SCI, highlighting on major aspects/factors affected under these domains that is mobility, physical independence, and occupation in and around Hubli-Dharwad.

Human Resource Development in District Shopian of Jammu and Kashmir-A Geographical Analysis

This article focuses attention on the problems of human resource development in district Shopian of Jammu and Kashmir. The broad objective of this paper is to examine the levels of human resource development in education sector. The aim of this paper is to analyse the conditions necessary for human resource development in the study area. The notion of human resource development includes not only education, vocational training, nutrition but also health and access to the sources of self-determination. The human resource development is a process to enhance the knowledge, develop the skills and modify the hidden abilities within an individual in a society. The process of human resource development open the doors of opportunities to push the region towards the modernization. The development of human resource is vital for any organisation that is dynamic and growth oriented in nature. Human resource development is an organized activities based on experience and learning, conducted within a specialized time and designed to produce behavioural change. It plays an important role to eradicate the poverty and inequality in a region. The Indian country, bestowed with vast amount of natural resources but remained backward over the decades as the resources are not properly developed in the form of a human capital. Also the natural resources of Jammu and Kashmir are not properly managed and developed in the form of human capital to enhance the socio-economic development. The development of human resource enables all individuals to modify and improve their skills in a sustainable manner to invest the human capital for the betterment of quality of life. Development is a continuous and systematic learning process which never ends.

PREVALENCE OF OSTEOPOROSIS AND ITS IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE OF PRE AND POST MENOPAUSAL WOMEN

Background: Globally, osteoporosis is one of the major health concerns as there is a drastic increase in incident of osteoporotic related fractures. It is a silent bone disease which is characterized by a progressive decrease in bone mass and density(2). In Pakistan, occurrence of osteoporosis is quite common among females and negatively affects patient’s quality of life.(6)
 Aims and Objectives: The aim of current study is to associate the osteoporosis prevalence in both pre and post menopause, and also to evaluate quality of life and its awareness.
 Methodology: A survey based study was conducted and data was collected from patients by using a questionnaireand analyzed by the application of statistics.
 Results: The results of current study have revealed that incidence of osteoporosis is greater in post menopausal women as compared to pre menopausal women. High occurrence of disease in post menopausal is due to a direct relationship between levels of estrogen and osteoporosis. In post menopausal women decrease level of estrogen enhances bone reabsorption which causes increase bone fragility. Hence, all the post menopausal women should be evaluated for osteoporosis.
 Conclusion: Lack of understanding about disease, imbalance diet, poor treatment and diagnosis increase the risk for developing osteoporosis. Furthermore severe pain, deprive of sleep and inability to do work also adds to the demotion in patient’s quality of life. So in order to reduce incidence rate and for the betterment in quality of patient’s life having osteoporosis, it is necessary to promote awareness, modification in life style, patient counseling, accessibility to treatment and prior diagnosis of disease

Three Decades of Indian Remote Sensing in Coastal Research

The launch of the first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite in 1988 ushered in a new era of utilization of satellite data and technology in natural resources monitoring, coastal area management, disaster mitigation, weather and climate change studies. India with its very long coast line, areal extent, resources and population would have been a huge challenge to the coastal researchers and administrators if not for the Indian Remote Sensing satellite data that provided the much needed temporal, thematic information for effective mapping, monitoring and management of the coastal areas. The country’s large and diverse coastal regions are economically important and ecologically rich but also extremely vulnerable and highly prone to natural and anthropogenic hazards. Through the last three decades, the Indian remote sensing programme has contributed immensely to our understanding of the coast and ocean processes, coastal ecosystems, habitats, marine pollution and the vulnerability of the coast to natural hazards. IRS-1C with its improved spatial resolutions, additional spectral band, improved repetitively ushered in a new era of research specifically in the management of coastal areas and resources. Availability of spatial data at various resolutions, low cost, advances in technology resulted in new applications for management coastal areas. IRS-1C also can be aptly termed as the precursor for thematic satellite series such as OCEANSAT, RESOURCESAT and CARTOSAT, thereby setting the environs for thematic research in coastal areas. Integrated utilization of remote sensing data, numerical models, GIS and GPS has paved the way for the development of operation systems for management of coastal areas, thereby realizing the vision of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, the father of Indian Space Programme, of building a self-reliant and indigenous Space Programme for the betterment of quality of life of the common people.

Development of Mathematical Model and Process Optimization of Deep Groove Ball Bearing

The purpose of this research paper is to present the importance of DOE methodology to improve the quality of ball bearing.As per the survey currently faces the main problem in automobile are noise and vibration it happens mainly in 2 wheelers, but noise is the most common complaint in ball bearings. The noise has directly affected the production and manufacturing of ball bearing and it is not good for any ball bearing industry. The noise is majorly depend on various factors like damage faced, bad surface finish and extra overload, improper assembly, unskilled drivers, etc.Therefore, it is very important to reduce the noise for betterment of quality and bearing life.The paper has done an analysis of mathematical model preparation by using different process optimization of ball bearing. The main aim of this paper is to explain the methodology of DOE used in reducing the noise of ball bearing.The Cause and Effect diagram, using data of bearing company easy introduction of 7 Quality Control tools and to improve the quality level of manufacturing processes of ball bearing, this paper is based on real experimental values done on Bearing name-ball bearing (6205).

Tiered Document Clustering Through Finest Centroid Assortment

Data growth is enormously higher today and difficult to handle in an organized manner and in effective time limit. In data mining, a wide range of research is available for managing data effectively. Similarly, document clustering is one of the notable firm process in the data mining utilized to assemble the related documents. In this article, we generate an algorithm for clustering by means of Adaptive Pillar K-means and Gaussian Firefly Algorithm (GFA). For determining the proper centroid in order to attain the proper clustered documents, Adaptive Pillar K-means Algorithm is utilized. Subsequently, GFA is exploited for the optimization process and also for enhancing the precision that results in reducing the sum of squared errors and computational time. Here, the performance of the proposed methodology is compared with various algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm, Ant colony optimization, and gravity clustering. The attained results shows the performance of the proposed methodology and the simulation results illustrated the betterment in quality with low sum of squared errors.

Googling the Guggul (Commiphora and Boswellia) for Prevention of Chronic Diseases.

Extensive research during last 2 decades has revealed that most drugs discovered today, although costs billions of dollars for discovery, and yet they are highly ineffective in their clinical response. For instance, the European Medicines Agency has approved 68 anti-cancer drugs, and out of which 39 has reached the market level with no indication of increased survival nor betterment of quality of life. Even when drugs did improve survival rate compared to available treatment strategies, most of these were found to be clinically insignificant. This is a fundamental problem with modern drug discovery which is based on thinking that most chronic diseases are caused by alteration of a single gene and thus most therapies are single gene-targeted therapies. However, extensive research has revealed that most chronic diseases are caused by multiple gene products. Although most drugs designed by man are mono-targeted therapies, however, those designed by “mother nature” and have been used for thousands of years, are “multi-targeted” therapies. In this review, we examine two agents that have been around for thousands of years, namely “guggul” from Commiphora and Boswellia. Although we are all familiar with the search engine “google,” this is another type of “guggul” that has been used for centuries and being explored for its various biological activities. The current review summarizes the traditional uses, chemistry, in vitro and in vivo biological activities, molecular targets, and clinical trials performed with these agents.

Monitoring changes in quality of life in patients with lung cancer under treatment with chemotherapy and co administration of zoledronic acid by using specialized questionnaires.

Background: Due to the severity of the primary disease in patients with lung cancer, quality of life (QoL) is often overlooked. Factors that form QoL should be taken in consideration when planning the appropriate treatment and determining therapy targets, because of the increasing frequency of bone metastasis leading to high levels of pain. Purpose of this study is to assess quality of life in patients with lung cancer, before and after treatment combined with zoledronic acid.Methods and materials: QoL was assessed in 80 patients (49 males-31 females), of which 45 developed bone metastasis. Prior and post treatment (with co administration of zoledronic acid) seven reliable scales: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality index (PSQI), Epworth Sleeping Scale (ess), Dyspnea Scale (ds), Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), Fact-G scale for sleep quality and EQ-5D for general health condition.Results: Statistically positive correlations were verified between PSQI-DS, PSQI-FSS, BPI-ESS, DS-FSS, DS-BPI and BPI-FSS (p<0,005) prior and post treatment. Patients sleep quality was improved, pain levels decreased and betterment in quality of life was marked (p<0,001). Although significant decrease in fatigue levels was observed (p<0,001) there has been an increase in dyspnea symptoms (p<0,001).Conclusions: Significant improvement was apparent when zoledronic acid was co administered in any treatment in patients with lung cancer. Sleep quality, fatigue and pain parameters also improved, with no positive impact on the symptoms of dyspnea.

Exploring Leadership Capability Team Leaders for Construction Industry in Malaysia: Training and Experience

It has been said that the construction industry must unleash its potential as a source of wealth creation and provide opportunity for the betterment of quality of life. In ensuring the quality of workmanship at construction sites, supervisory skills of site supervisors need to be enhanced. It stressed out that to match business growth and excellence overseas, we must recognize and act on the importance of continuously developing niche expertise and capabilities. Undoubtedly, the role of research in determining the specific leadership skills and the needed core capabilities cannot be over-emphasized. In ensuring the quality of workmanship at construction sites, leadership skills especially supervisory skill for site supervisors need to be enhanced. In this study, quantitative research design with survey questionnaire was used to collect the data and simple random sampling was employed in selecting 248 respondents involving team leaders in construction industry from whole of Malaysia. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics; ANOVA in SPSS 21.0. Training and experience in leadership has been found to be significance to leadership capability of team leaders. The opinions from the respondents also indicated that they need the training of leadership and they had to enhance themselves to enable them to become better and more competitive leaders. The results of this assessment can pinpoint the areas needing improvement and therefore can be used as basis in designing and/or deciding development programmes. This study also found that generally the team leaders in construction industry needed more opportunities to expand their leadership capability to become the effective leaders in future.

Palliative surgery in management of advanced carcinoma stomach and its outcome

Background:Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of death from malignant disease World-wide and most frequently discovered in advanced stages. The incidence of gastric cancer in India is low compared to developed countries. But in India southern and northeast area more number of cases was diagnosed. More cases of cancer stomach are diagnosed in the early stages in Japan due to effective screening programme. Lack of such screening programme, ignorance about the disease and lack of awareness of warning signs of cancer lead to the detection of many cases in the advanced stage of gastric cancer. Where palliation is the mainstay of treatment. We discussed the different methods of palliative surgery and its outcome in this paper. Methods: This is a prospective study over 5 years February 2011 - 2016 January including 6 months follow up. 104 advanced carcinoma stomach patients were included in this study. To evaluate role of palliative surgery in advanced gastric cancer we analyse the data in the basis of presentation of disease, sex distribution, type of palliative surgery, relive of symptoms, preventions of complications, post-operative mortality morbidity, and overall survival.Results:In our study mean age of presentation is 58 years. Most common affected are male. Stage III disease are more common. Immediate post-operative mortality is 4 patients 7.14% comparable to the non-resection group 1 patients (2.63%). Symptoms relived 46 patients in resection group (82.14%), in non-resection group it is 16 (42.1%). Overall survival is (6 moths - 1 years) 19 (33.9%) patients, and in non-resection group it is only 2 (5.26%) patients. Median survival rate is 10 months.Conclusions:Palliative resection should be carried out for betterment of quality of life where it is possible. Relief from symptoms and complications can be achieved by resection of tumour mass in advanced carcinoma stomach.

Sustainability reporting quality of Indian and American manufacturing firms: A comparative analysis

The content analysis method has been adopted to study the pattern of reporting on sustainability indicators by 10 American and 10 Indian manufacturing firms in their sustainability reports prepared as per the GRI framework and published during 2011-2013. Scores of 2, 1 and 0 have been respectively assigned for full, partial and non disclosure of sub clauses of economic, environment and social indicators to compute a SDI (sustainability disclosure index). Independent t test found a significant difference in the quality of sustainability disclosure of the sampled American and Indian manufacturing firms during 2011-13. The improvement/deterioration in the quality of disclosure over the period were correlated with changes in performance parameters like EPS and ROA to examine if betterment in quality of sustainability reporting translates into financial performance of the firms. Multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the variables which explain the variation in the sustainability reporting quality of firms.

BENEFITS DERIVED BY SMES THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF TQM

Small and medium scale enterprises have contributed in the growth of the country’s economy. Being the suppliers for various components and sub assemblies to the large scale enterprises these companies are certainly required to continuously work towards the betterment of quality. There are various reasons why companies follow various Quality Management practices. ISO9001 and TQM are the most preferred out of them. TQM is about changing the entire working pattern and becoming more systematic in terms of everything which a company does. It also focuses on overall growth of the company with a special emphasis on the quality. Following TQM principles certainly bring good results in terms of productivity, reduction of rejection, cost reduction etc. It also helps in reducing gap between management and employees which in turn leads to several other benefits. This research paper is bringing out the facts about the positives derived by SMEs as a result of following TQM principles with the help of a survey of manufacturing companies.

Ground Water Quality Assessment using Data Mining Techniques

Water is a key resource in all economic activities ranging from agriculture to industry. Only a tiny fraction of the planet’s abundant water is available to us as fresh water. Assessment of water quality has always been paramount in the field of environmental quality management. It is the foundation for health, hygiene, progress and prosperity.With ever increasing pressure of human population, there is severe stress on water resources.Therefore efficient water management is essential to civil society for betterment of quality of life. The present study emphasizes on the groundwater quality, sources of ground water contamination, variation of groundwater quality and its spatial distribution. The basis for groundwater quality assessment are groundwater bodies and representative monitoring network enabling determination of chemical status of groundwater body.For this study, water samples were collected from 40 of the bore wells and open wells representing the entire corporation area of Guntur. The water samples were analyzed for physicochemical parameters like TDS, TH, Cl and NO3, using standard techniques in the laboratory and compared with the standards. The results obtained in this study and the Association rules will be helpful for monitoring and managing ground water pollution in the study area in terms of water quality.

Appraisement of Policies in Improving Education through Public-Private Partnership: A Case-Study

In today's world of globalisation and competition, education is as essential as food, clothes or shelter for human beings. It is a mechanism that paves one's way through life to face all the perils and struggles. On the one hand in India, we have references of education as old as the Ramayana, but as ages passed by, somewhere in the later Vedic age, it became a tool of the powerful, the rich and the higher caste. The situation further worsened in the two centuries of British rule. Even after six decades of independence, the figures show a low rate of literacy. The quality of education needs a total revamp, although it is on scale of improvement. Therefore, this study appraised the policies in improving education through public private partnership in Himachal Pradesh. This study has highlighted how the education market and effective regulatory framework can work together for the betterment of quality in education with effective employment of public resources.

Survey on Impact of Software Metrics on Software Quality

Software metrics provide a quantitative basis for planning and predicting software development processes. Therefore the quality of software can be controlled and improved easily. Quality in fact aids higher productivity, which has brought software metrics to the forefront. This research paper focuses on different views on software quality. Moreover, many metrics and models have been developed; promoted and utilized resulting in remarkable successes. This paper examines the realm of software engineering to see why software metrics are needed and also reviews their contribution to software quality and reliability. Results can be improved further as we acquire additional experience with variety of software metrics. These experiences can yield tremendous benefits and betterment in quality and reliability.

Educating Adolescent Girls and Young Women on Family Life Education Issues with the Use of Communication Aids in a Village of Uttrakhand

Present research is an experimental development in Udhansinghnagar district of Uttrakhand in India to educate adolescent girls and young women on family life education issues through the use of communication aids. Gender equality and equity improvement of reproductive health, betterment of quality of life in the family, promotion of education and health facilities and moderation of population distribution process as key contributors to population stabilization. These are the element which the National Population Education Programme in India has been focusing with a view to helping the nation attain its demographic and developmental goals. The qualitative research has been done, taking total sample of 50 female respondents (25 married and 25 unmarried). To assess the pre and post knowledge and opinion regarding family life issues, interview schedule was used for both the respondents separately. Charts, Posters, Flash cards, Video films, Focus group discussion, Slogans and Role play were used to educate both married and unmarried respondents regarding family life issues. Finding concluded that there is remarkable positive change in their attitude regarding gender discrimination, Family planning information and nutritional and reproductive health of mother and child after experimentation through family life education through the use of communication aids. It can be concluded that if proper use of communication aids is carried out in such education sessions or capacity building trainings for the women of rural area, programme can be more effective and easy to learn. It is recommended that Village worker at village level should be trained in such a way that they will be able to communicate effectively with the village people regarding family life issues.

Conversações, convergências, paradoxos, paradigmas e os estudos organizacionais

O artigo discute a necessidade de conversações em estudos organizacionais e a mensagem que pode ser encontrada em autores antigos e, aparentemente, esquecidos, que conseguem efetuar conversações frutíferas e encontram convergências insuspeitadas entre várias áreas de pesquisa. Discute também os esquemas de poder das tendências dominantes nos estudos organizacionais e a necessidade de conversações para abertura da academia a teóricos alternativos às tendências dominantes. Introduz, finalmente, algumas proposições práticas na linha de trabalhos que tentam abordar a necessidade de melhoria da qualidade nos estudos organizacionais.