Metro Cities Research Articles

Refleksi Praktik Pembelajaran Literasi Baca Anak Melalui Pelatihan Metode Read Aloud Bagi Pengelola Taman Baca Masyarakat Di Kota Metro

The aim of this research is to reflect on children's literacy learning practices through read-aloud method training for managers of community reading parks in metro cities. The method used is narrative inquiry. The instruments used were open questionnaires, interviews, and document analysis. The data analysis technique used is that, because this research is qualitative, the validity and reliability of the data need to be met. Thus, researchers use four criteria: credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. The results of this research are that there is an increase in knowledge and skills, a positive impact on children's literacy, and increased collaboration in the community. Literacy activists are expected to be able to improve their competency in reading aloud through the training of trainers.

Pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organization’s perception toward genetic data reuse for future research

Abstract Background: Pharmaceutical sponsors and Contract research organization plays vital role in the preparation and implementation of clinical trials and give rise to ethical predicaments that pertain to various aspects such as general or genetic consent, optional research, storage and utilization of genetic data and specimens, as well as disclosure of research findings to study participants. Objective: The current investigation is to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Clinical Research Organizations and Pharmaceutical Sponsors in relation to re-use of genetic research data for future research. Study Participants and Methodology: A cross-sectional study conducted on pharmaceutical sponsor and their representatives from the metro cities, India. Results: The present research encompassed N=50 of pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations. Among these, 84% evinced cognizance regarding the re-use of genetic data in clinical trials. Furthermore, 62% of pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations articulated apprehensions with respect to ethical and legal quandaries might arise due to the re-use of genomic data. Discussion: A considerable proportion of participants are a willingness to share and reuse genetic data for future studies. However, it is observed that the perception towards practice is low, particularly in relation to the return of genetic results and ethical concerns while storing genetic samples. Conclusion: There are presently no universally accepted international Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) guidelines in place for the management of genetic sampling and data at the global level. In India, however, ICMR regulations exist to provide direction for the use of biological materials and datasets in research.

Quantifying the Dynamic Factors Influencing New-Age Users’ Adoption of 5G Using TAM and UTAUT Models in Emerging Country: A Multistage PLS-SEM Approach

Objectives. The 5G has ushered in a new age of life-changing breakthroughs and advancements due to faster speeds, greater bandwidth, and ultra-high expectancy. The study proposes a multistage approach for quantifying the dynamic factors affecting users’ adoption of 5G in emerging countries. Method. This study integrated the technology acceptance model (TAM) and unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) to recommend a comprehensive model that the industry–academia can adopt. In the proposed model, various core hypotheses and subhypotheses were tested by employing 510 5G users of the metro cities of India. An online questionnaire was used to collect the facts, and the data were framed in the conceptual model to test the validation using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Results. The findings suggest that users’ perceptions of adopting 5G are overwhelming in that perceived trust was discovered as a mediating enabler between behavioral intention (BI) and selected manifest. Performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social factors (SF), facilitating factors (FF), hedonic motivation (HM), perceived benefits (PB), price value (PV), and habit (HB). Contribution. By identifying key enablers in the suggested model, service providers may better evaluate these aspects, particularly in ensuring reliable infrastructure for 5G service stands. The study is undoubtedly a novel attempt to assist the telecom industry and policymakers in accelerating the adoption of 5G in emerging economies of Asian continents.

FTDA: Performance Enhancement of WSN using Fuzzy based Traffic Data Analysis

In the present time in Wireless Sensor Network plays an essential role in the monitoring of different physical phenomena. Monitoring of city traffic data analysis is very important in different metro cities due to rapid increase in population. This research work proposes a model for traffic data analysis using wireless sensor network incorporated with fuzzy technique. The proposed model is tested for performance parameters such as node dead rate , data packed received. The proposed model improved the efficiency compared to existing techniques of the WSN network for traffic data collection and analysis.

Solid waste management: The necessity of an epoch for the protection of community, public safety, health, and environmental quality

Solid waste management has been a burning topic that has garnered attention worldwide. Though several studies have been done across metro cities and Upcoming intelligent cities, a sustainable point of view of all the stakeholders in Nagpur city was never registered; hence the researcher intended to have a wholesome knowledge of the process and wanted to get deeper insights about the perception and understanding of solid waste disposal system management in Nagpur. Environment sustainability is the need of the hour. Being a vibrant city, Nagpur has borne the brunt of migration from nearby places but does not have the sustainable infrastructure to dispose of solid waste properly. While analyzing, the researcher discovered that no such research project had been carried out in Nagpur for the purpose described above and intended to do so. The researchers used a structured questionnaire to survey the intended targeted respondents. The questionnaire was distributed, and respondents were identified with a simple random sampling method to avoid bias and maintain the data's accuracy. To get an Expert opinion, the researcher used the scheduled interview method to understand the views and modern techniques available. The researcher gathered detailed information from the stakeholders, which is discussed in detail in the project report. The study offers a holistic view of the complex difficulties faced by garbage accumulation by incorporating aspects of community well-being, public safety, and public health. Furthermore, this research goes above and beyond conventional wisdom by proposing novel solutions. It establishes a structure that safeguards the environment and encourages community participation in garbage management. The originality of this research lies in its multifaceted examination of waste management, community health, public safety, and health.

Influence of aesthetic design elements on residential satisfaction in apartment based on Seoul apartment complex

ABSTRACT This study aimed to examine the influence of aesthetic design elements on residential satisfaction in urban apartment complexes, focusing on elements that are generally considered less important. A total of 65 apartment complexes in Seoul, a city predominantly characterized by middle-class apartment living, were surveyed to assess residential satisfaction. Using multiple regression analysis, the relationships between the dependent variable (post-occupancy evaluation) and 28 independent variables were analyzed. The results revealed significant correlations between residential satisfaction and various independent variables. Specifically, three out of eight aesthetic design factors, namely the main complex entrance design, exterior mass design, and landscape design, were found to have a significant impact on residential satisfaction, collectively accounting for 17.16% of the total satisfaction variance. This finding suggests that aesthetic design elements play an increasingly important role in metro cities. The practical implications of this study are twofold. Firstly, it provides housing providers with strategic guidelines, emphasizing the significance of incorporating aesthetically pleasing design elements to enhance residential satisfaction. Secondly, the study offers potential customers valuable information regarding the importance of aesthetic design in their decision-making process when choosing residential properties. Overall, this research contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between aesthetic design elements and residential satisfaction in urban apartment complexes, shedding light on the growing importance of aesthetics in the housing market.

Spatiotemporal Responses of Vegetation to Hydroclimatic Factors over Arid and Semi-arid Climate

Understanding the dynamics of vegetative greenness and how it interacts with various hydroclimatic factors is crucial for comprehending the implications of global climate change. The present study utilized the MODIS-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to understand the vegetation patterns over 21 years (2001–2021) in Rajasthan, India. The rainfall, land surface temperature (LST), and evapotranspiration (ET) were also analyzed. The changes, at a 30 m pixel resolution, were evaluated using Mann–Kendall’s trend test. The results reveal that the NDVI, ET, and rainfall had increasing trends, whereas the LST had a decreasing trend in Rajasthan. The NDVI increased for 96.5% of the total pixels, while it decreased for 3.4% of the pixels, of theh indicates vegetation improvement rather than degradation. The findings of this study provide direct proof of a significant reduction in degraded lands throughout Rajasthan, particularly in the vicinity of the Indira Gandhi Canal command area. Concurrently, there has been a noticeable expansion in the cultivated land area. The trend of vegetation decline, particularly in the metro cities, has occurred as a result of urbanization and industrialization. In contrast to the LST, which has a decreasing gradient from the western to eastern portions, the spatial variability in the NDVI, ET, and rainfall have decreasing gradients from the southern and eastern to western regions. The results of correlations between the vegetative indices and hydroclimatic variables indicate that the NDVI has a strong positive correlation with ET (r2 = 0.86), and a negative correlation with LST (r2 = −0.55). This research provides scientific insights into vegetation change across Rajasthan, and may help the state to monitor vegetation changes, conserve ecosystems, and implement sustainable ecosystem management.

Stuck between the ideal worker and the bread winner: experiences of motherhood and work during the COVID-19 pandemic in India

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the experiences of middle-class working mothers from the ITES (Information Technology Enabled Service) sector in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their experiences of work from home are studied in the backdrop of the ideal worker model at work and the adult worker model at home. Further, the study aims to identify the need for sustainable, inclusive practices for working mothers in Indian organizations to break the male breadwinner model in middle-class households.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach to collect data from 39 middle-class mothers working in MNCs in four metro cities in India. The semi-structured, in-depth interviews focused on their experiences of motherhood, care and work before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThe pandemic made it evident that the ideal worker model in organizations and the adult worker model at home were illusions for working mothers. The results indicate a continued obligation of the “ideal worker culture” at organizations, even during the health crisis. It made the working mothers realize that they were chasing both the (ideal worker and adult worker) norms but could never achieve them. Subsequently, the male breadwinner model was reinforced at home due to the matrix of motherhood, care and work during the pandemic. The study concludes by arguing the reconstruction of the ideal worker image to make workplaces more inclusive for working mothers.Originality/valueThe study is placed in the context of Indian middle-class motherhood during the pandemic, a demography less explored in the literature. The paper puts forth various myths constituting the gendered realities of Indian middle-class motherhood. It also discusses sustainable, inclusive workplace practices for mothers from their future workplaces' standpoint, especially in post-pandemic times.

Accident Prediction Modeling for Indian Metro Cities

Road accidents are one of the biggest concerns to the road safety of developing nations. In India, around 150,000 fatal accidents occur annually. Road accident prediction models help in accessing the factors responsible for and those that contribute more to accidents. Most of the prediction models focus on the parameters like road characteristics, traffic characteristics, driver characteristics, and road geometrics. In this study, we considered socio-economic and land-use parameters as input data for accident prediction modeling. The socio-economic and land-use variables data of 20 Indian metro cities were collected. The data were collected for a period of 5 years ranging from 2016 to 2020. A multiple linear regression model was developed between the total number of accidents that happened in the 20 metro cities and the socio-economic and land-use variables. ANN model was also developed to check its applicability to this study and the results obtained are satisfactory.

Intelligent Vehicle Management: Harnessing Emerging Technologies for Efficiency and Sustainability

Vehicle Management System provides useful features for the users (drivers) to make drive easy and use application smoothly without any friction. In today’s fast-growing digital world of internet, we see often see many conflicts and disputes based on buying and selling old vehicle cause by the lack of transparency. Also, there is huge traffic in metro cities and not able to find parking areas and get fined. So, people are not able to find the available area and if available only some types vehicles can be parked like bikes and cars. There are such more problem related vehicles that exists in real world like connecting with mechanic for breakdown of vehicle. To Solve some of these problems we are intended to make a Vehicle system that helps an drive to make drive easy and reduce dispute.

New sustainable ideas for materialistic solutions of smart city in India: A review from allahabad city

Taking into account the application of the “sustainable and smart city” conception with the shift in modern town-building priorities in the newly selected city to make them a smart city in India, the article explains the opportunity of this conception for improving economic opportunities, infrastructure and services, management created before town-building (especially Prayagraj). The author has evaluated the key components of the “sustainable and smart city” idea, its course of growth and evolution, its standards and solutions, and the reasons and barriers stipulating their application. The article provides information about the “smart” market's capacity and structure, application stages, and scenarios. Investigations have been done about this conception's use in India. This paper aims to offer and suggest sustainable solutions that can improve, alter, and promote Prayagraj’s development as a smart city, model village, or Adarsh village, and also cover the managerial implications of the article for sustainable and smart cities in India that can resolve the issue of slum regions before transforming them into smart towns, smart cities, or smart metro cities that have future transformation ideas with the growing population and finally set new and sustainable environment in a smart city in Prayagraj.

IoT Application on Secure Smart Shopping System

The IoT based smart trolley is designed using Arduino. The system eliminates the unnecessary time at a queue. In shopping mall shopping is a daily activity in metro cities. User will have to various products and keep them into the trolley & will have to go to the counter for bill payment of all the products. By using barcode reader, the cashier will make the bill at the billing counter. To make a system that can be used to solve the difficulties of customer and save the valuable time of users is the main aim of this project. In the shopping mall all the goods will have beset with RFID tags. When a user will keep the products in the trolley, the code and the weight & the name of product will be detected and the total amount of those products will be saved in system memory, the name of product and total amount is shown on server and it will be sent to cashier counter by wirelesses ESP modules. It would reduce the rush at shopping mall & save the unnecessary time at billing counter. Automatic billing is done through the RFID tag.

Using the Power-Interruptions-Finances-Resources model to tackle the financial management problems of municipal corporations in India

PurposeThe paper aims to explore the problems related to the financial management of municipal corporations in India and to suggest solutions.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on primary data collected from a sample of 577 employees of municipal corporations working in four metro cities of India, namely Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Delhi. Data were put through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis for problem identification and inferences were classified and grouped to map the solutions for these problems.FindingsThe study found that municipal corporations in India face four major problems or issues in their financial management. These problems are mainly related to the four dimensions: Power, Interruptions, Finances, and Resources. The model used to explore these four types of issues is named as “PIFR model” by the author.Originality/valueThe findings suggest that real-world problems can be represented through a conceptual model that helps in identifying practical suggestions which can be implemented by municipal corporations at the ground level for better financial management.

The Difficulty of Being an Entrepreneur from Taluka and Village Level Places in India

The entrepreneurs play a significant role in the development of any country. The most of the technological startups begin with metro cities because of availability of many facilities in metro city. But over a billion Indians live outside the metro cities. The audience comprising nearly 72% of the total size of market in India, lives in Tier-II, Tier-III cities and beyond. Various issues and challenges are faced by Entrepreneur. For India to become a economic superpower and bring about a more spread of employment in rural area the government must make some policies to helps entrepreneurs from Tier-II and Tier-III cities.

A multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach for evaluating the performance of Indian cities' sustainable infrastructure

Mass transit system play a key role especially in metro cities. In the last decade, many Indian cities have started the bus rapid transit system (BRTS). In many cities the system is successful and serving large number of passengers and generating good revenue also. Most of the cities have dedicated routes which enhances the operational speeds and also the consistency. This study evaluates the performance of BRTS of eight Indian cities on the basis of eleven evaluative criteria. The suggested approach uses a hybrid Entropy-Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methodology to weigh the evaluative measures and select the best ranking BRTS. Initially, it was found that evaluation criteria were based on the operational data of BRTS. Subsequently, author framed a methodology to achieve the performance assessment by calculating the weight of each criteria through Entropy Weight Method (EWM). Then, TOPSIS technique was adopted to determine the broad assessment standards and performance rankings of cities considered for present study. Lastly, sensitivity investigation was performed for 2 criteria which showed minor change in the ranking of BRTS cities.

BTS And Its Musical Impact: A Study of Urban Youth of Metro Cities of India

The BTS phenomena is known to all and the impact that they have created over the last few years cannot be neglected. The goal of this research is to explain the story of BTS from the perspective of an urban teenager in India, as well as how BTS is influencing the Indian music industry. The study used online survey method and studied 125 young urban youth from five metro cities of India as a sample to analyse the musical impact of BTS among the urban youth of India and how it is helping them in dealing with their mental health. The music of BTS is truly special as it has affected the minds of millions of young people from all around the world. The research study's overall aim is that BTS is forming a new community of urban youth who are stronger, better, and more optimistic toward the world, and who are ready to accept change.

Provincialising Alappad’s Nationalistic Gaze: A Spatial Complexity Siting the ‘South’ Beyond the Metro

We look at Alappad in coastal South India’s Kerala and suggest the spatiality of power as a useful analytic to critique the trend towards nationalistic developmentalism. Recent recognition of the urban beyond metro cities is increasingly framed as a policy-heavy developmentalism. Here, central agencies, think tanks and non-governmental organisations reinforce this form of liberal perspectives, but also, such frames are reinforced by international collaborative projects with researchers of progressive ideological positions seeking to simplistically bring back the welfare state with little understanding of power structures on the ground. Here, groups termed at risk and marginal in line with ideas of southern epistemologies emphasise their political agency as particular constellations and varied material realms. To counter these ideas, we focus on the spatialities associated with various material practices. Without this, attempts to provincialise development in contexts such as Alappad are essentialising and de-politicising.

Do cities favor female entrepreneurs? Evidence from India

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the economic determinants of female-owned proprietorships for 52 metro cities in India. The National Sample Survey (NSS) unit-level data are used for the analysis. The descriptive results show that women's proprietorship is much lower than its counterpart. The Probit regression results at the individual level show that women entrepreneurs do not have a bank account or computer but use the internet, are not registered under any act or authority, and do not expand considerably. They operate within household premises with a limited number of months and duration of a day, undertaking mainly contract basis. They also face several problems that hinder their activities. City-level factors such as work participation rate, consumption expenditure, higher levels of general and technical degrees, and vocational training are essential. The likelihood of becoming a female entrepreneur is negatively impacted by the two agglomeration variables of population size and participation in mixed activity. City-level poverty and inequality also adversely affect it. State-level Human Development Index, Gender Development Index, and Gender Inequality Index are also significant. Finally, we propose important policies to enable the city environment to improve women's entrepreneurship activities for higher and sustainable economic development.

Impact of economic shocks on mental health during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adult residents of Indian metropolitan cities.

The causal impact of income shocks on mental well-being in developing countries is an under-researched area. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with the economic recession caused by the lockdowns to reduce transmission, provides a natural experimental setting to examine the causal impact of a decline in monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) on mental health of the general population in India during the pandemic. To evaluate the impact of income shocks on mental health of adults in metro cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were collected using the abridged version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Schedule administered through a telephonic survey on adult residents of six metropolitan cities in September-August 2020 and July-August 2021. In the present study, 994 adults participated from six metropolitan cities. Average treatment effects were estimated using Propensity Score Matching. The mean normalized scores are significantly higher for respondents whose MPCE had fallen (treated) vis-à-vis respondents whose MPCE had remained same or increased (control): anxiety (0.21 for treated vs -0.19 for control), stress (0.16 vs -0.14), and depression (0.04 vs -0.19). Propensity score matching reveals that the normalized scores for anxiety, stress, and depression were 33 (95% confidence intervals, CI: 20.0-46.7), 25 (95% CI: 12.9-36.9), and 36 (95% CI: 18.6-53.1) higher among the treated group vis-a-vis control group. The ATET was 34 (95% CI: 18.9-48.9), 26 (95% CI: 10.1-42.9), and 32 (955 CI: 12.3-50.7) for these three outcomes, respectively. The post-estimation tests indicated that the results are valid. The study advocates that policies to ensure income security should be made an integral part of the response packages to tackle pandemics like COVID-19.

Discussion of “Revisiting Basic Wind Speed of Metro Cities of India”

Discussion of “Revisiting Basic Wind Speed of Metro Cities of India”