Reasonable Justification Research Articles

Walking a mile in their shoes —How local politicians reason about trade-off decisions

ABSTRACT In times of increased financial constraints and ageing population, politicians must make difficult trade-off decisions that challenge their legitimacy in the eyes of the public. This is not least the case at local level where policy issues tend to be more immediate and comprehensible to individuals than policy decisions at the national level. Analysing originally collected responses from over 800 Swedish local politicians through free-text questions, we examine the perspectives of those responsible for making difficult trade-off decisions, as well as their strategies for generating public acceptance. Our findings show that politicians are prepared to make difficult trade-offs, but also that they expect the public to do their part by engaging in constructive dialogue and accepting reasonable justifications. The study thereby provides a practice-based understanding of the considerations of local politicians that can inform contemporary debates on democratic representation and the role of citizens in political decision-making.

Assessing the Influence of Zero‐Flow Threshold Choice for Characterising Intermittent Stream Hydrology

ABSTRACTZero‐flow recordings in gauged streamflow data are critically important for intermittent stream research. Acknowledging the high uncertainty in zero‐flow recordings, many studies pick a small number as zero‐flow threshold, below which the flow is considered to be zero. The choice of zero‐flow threshold is often arbitrary or unjustified, which leads us to wonder: would selecting a slightly different threshold change analysis result significantly? Here, we used a simple sensitivity analysis to assess how the choice of zero‐flow threshold impacts the calculated values of relevant metrics to intermittent stream research. Results show that these metrics tended to be more sensitive to lower zero‐flow thresholds, suggesting that even choosing a slightly different threshold could lead to meaningfully different results from the management perspective. This study highlights the need for reasonable justification of the choice of zero‐flow threshold and concludes with potential ways to reduce uncertainty in zero‐flow measurement.

What if We Seem to Seem and Not Seem? Estimating the Unreasonable Price of Illusionism

With its strategic consideration of phenomenal consciousness illusorily seeming to us, illusionism claims to deny phenomenality and thereby obviate the hard problem of consciousness. The problem with illusionism, however, is that, although its thesis appears persuasively simple, it strikes as absurd insofar as the phenomenal illusions themselves also seem as much as phenomenality, keeping no fundamental differences between the two. In short, it reinforces the same phenomenon/issue, i.e., phenomenality, that it claims to deny/avoid. This single absurdity is reflective of its self-refuting nature, and it alone is enough for a rejection of illusionism. However, does illusionism have any reasonable justification to defend itself in the face of the experientially undeniable reality of phenomenal consciousness? This paper attempts to find out if there is any such illusionist justification.

PET TAC and Resting state EEG-fMRI in Evaluation of the Ability to Understand and want in Patients Affected by Dementias with Neuro-psychiatric Disorders and other Mental Disorders

Introduction: We strongly believe that RS-fMRI using independent component analysis (ICA) must be considered as a technique to be systematically used in the near future, as positron emission tomography (PET TC) is today. Unfortunately, this technique is not yet used in Italy because, despite the studies just summarized, it is considered “experimental” and not routine without reasonable justification! Aim of the Study: We present two cases studied with these techniques, after the informed consent obtained by the patients 1) A young woman from Sicily, in whom an RS-fMRI revealed her severe personality disorder, was found capable of insight and strong-willed and was therefore found guilty by the criminal court of the murder of her young son, with a strange motive: RS-fMRI cannot be considered part of the assessment because it is so far considered experimental. PET-TAC was also classified as routine in Italy after a long legal discussion. We hope that all these studies, which are now summarized in this review, will be considered useful, at least in Europe, when a judge has to decide whether to sentence a person with psychological or psychiatric problems or to consider them as a person to be treated in a specific residential home (called REMS in Italy). 2) Another woman from Bergamo, after having killed a neighbor of hers, was, instead, considered not guilty because of her inability to want to kill him, and so admitted to a particular structure (REMS: residence to execution of security measures) to treat her problem, front temporal dementia, with a severe neuropsychiatric disorder (NPS), diagnosed after the crimen was fulfilled. Conclusions: These two interesting cases demonstrate that in Italy nowadays, we do not have a homogeneous methodology to investigate the ability to understand and want, limiting the study only to personality tests. Here we describe new techniques that may help in this objective.

Confessions of an Antinatalist Philosopher.

Antinatalism assigns reproduction a negative value. There should be fewer or no births. Those who say that there should be fewer births have been called conditional antinatalists. A better name for their view would be selective pronatalism. Those who say that there should be no births face two challenges. They must define the scope of their no-birth policy. Does it apply only to human or sentient beings or can it also be extended to all organic life, perhaps even to machine consciousness? And whatever the scope, they have to justify the eventual extinction of humankind or other life forms, an inevitable consequence of unconditional antinatalism. Different axiologies and moral theories produce different responses to these challenges. It is argued that a two-value conflict-sensitive negative utilitarianism would produce a kind and reasonable justification for ending at least human and factory-animal reproduction. The conclusion is purely moral and supports only voluntary extinction for humankind.

Analysis of Students' Mathematical Critical Thinking Skills and Collaborative Collaboration Skills

This study will provide an overview of the relationship between student collaboration and the mathematical critical thinking skills of grade VIII-F students of SMP N 1 Yogyakarta. The correlational technique is a technique used to test the relationship between the two variables. Based on the findings, there is a linear relationship between the mathematical critical thinking capacity of learners and the willingness to work together. The conclusion that can be drawn is that there is a substantial relationship between collaboration skills and mathematical critical thinking skills of grade VIII-F students of SMP N 1 Yogyakarta because of r_hitung>r_tabel (0.467>0.29). so that the conclusion that can be obtained is that there is a significant relationship between the ability to think critically mathematically and the collaboration of students of VIII-F SMP N 1 Yogyakarta. In addition, the relationship between the two research variables was positive because r_hitung= 0.467. Overall, students' collaboration skills fall into the medium, high, and very high categories, while their mathematical critical thinking skills fall into the low, medium, and high categories. However, some of them have collaboration skills that fall into the medium category but have low mathematical critical thinking skills, and there are also students who have collaboration skills that fall into the high category but have medium mathematical critical thinking skills. Low mathematical critical thinking skills make students unable to express reasons and justifications accurately. Although learners with intermediate critical thinking skills can provide reasonable justifications for such questions, the arguments they provide may not be entirely valid.

A Harmonious Synthesis of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism in the Matrix of Chinese Culture: An Overview

This paper proposes a process of synthesis based on Chinese socio-historical context in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the synthesis of three major religious traditions of East Asia such as Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. At the same time, to be considered is the syncretic approach through which these religions have attained popularity throughout all Eastern and Far Eastern parts of Asia. Thus, in order to make a reasonable justification for the current study, an attempt is made to explore how these religions have appeared to be more or less similar to each other in case of their beliefs and practices. The purpose of the current paper is to decipher the points where and how these three religions interact with each other in terms of belief and practice that is based on a cultural bridge between China and other East Asian countries. This paper offers an overview of the harmonious synthesis of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism in the matrix of Chinese culture. In conclusion, it points out a new mode of syncretism which can be called "Hybridization"- a new insight into the process of synthesis. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Hum.), Vol. 68(2), 2023, pp. 207-218

Push and Pull Strategies of Women Entrepreneurs in the Food Processing Sector – A Quantitative ABCD Analysis

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the multifaceted phenomenon of Push and Pull Strategies of Women Entrepreneurship focusing on the Advantages, Benefits, Constraints, and Disadvantages with a particular emphasis on the Food Processing Sector by using the strategic analysis tool under "ABCD analysis framework." The study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to strategically evaluate the push and pull factors of women entrepreneurs to its four constructs-Advantages, Benefits, Constraints, and Disadvantages. Design: The research study is done to analyze the model in both qualitative and quantitative ways, thereby comprising an ABCD analysis framework that finds the pertinent score weightage allocated to all the important elements under each variable. It evaluates each construct’s overall score through a focus group discussion and empirical data analysis is done to determine the performance of women entrepreneurship in the food processing sector. Findings: Based on the data gathered and analyzed from the focus group, this study found that the women entrepreneurs' push and pull strategies in the food processing sector can be enhanced by applying the strategic model, which also provides a reasonable justification for using the ABCD analytical framework to evaluate different business models, strategies, ideas, or systems. Originality: The study makes extensive use of the ABCD analysis framework to strategically evaluate the push and pull strategy model of how women entrepreneurs combine push and pull factors, revealing how these strategies drive innovation, differentiation, and sustainable growth in the food processing sector. By focusing on gender-specific entrepreneurial choices in this sector, the model adds a unique perspective to existing literature, improving our understanding of how the challenges faced by gender, entrepreneurship, and sector intersect. Paper Type: Research Analysis

The design strain sensitivity of the schenberg spherical resonant antenna for gravitational waves

The main purpose of this study is to review the Schenberg resonant antenna transfer function and to recalculate the antenna design strain sensitivity for gravitational waves. We consider the spherical antenna with six transducers in the semi dodecahedral configuration. When coupled to the antenna, the transducer-sphere system will work as a mass-spring system with three masses. The first one is the antenna effective mass for each quadrupole mode, the second one is the mass of the mechanical structure of the transducer first mechanical mode and the third one is the effective mass of the transducer membrane that makes one of the transducer microwave cavity walls. All the calculations are done for the degenerate (all the sphere quadrupole mode frequencies equal) and non-degenerate sphere cases. We have come to the conclusion that the “ultimate” sensitivity of an advanced version of Schenberg antenna (aSchenberg) is around the standard quantum limit (although the parametric transducers used could, in principle, surpass this limit). However, this sensitivity, in the frequency range where Schenberg operates, has already been achieved by the two aLIGOs in the O3 run, therefore, the only reasonable justification for remounting the Schenberg antenna and trying to place it in the sensitivity of the standard quantum limit would be to detect gravitational waves with another physical principle, different from the one used by laser interferometers. This other physical principle would be the absorption of the gravitational wave energy by a resonant mass like Schenberg.

Cotton Web Limited: a journey from disintegrated complaint handling to an efficient and robust e-complaint management system

Learning outcomes The purpose of this study is to make students understand the logic behind and implications of the “Socio-Technical Imbrication Framework” that can help them understand the importance of aligning workforce motivation and capabilities with the modern technology deployed in the organization. Moreover, students will understand the essentiality and criticality of customer satisfaction for the organization. Case overview/synopsis The technical services operations team at Cotton Web Limited formerly relied on JS Node, e-coordination system, to address customer complaints. There were many bugs in that system as it did not carry along the complaint tracking protocol, was slow in response, fundamentally structured upon manual complaint record keeping that resulted in piling up un-resolved complaints for a longer period of time. The team under the leadership of Mr. Hasan Ali, a competent expert working as GM Research and Data Analytics, undertook detailed analysis of recurring glitches in this system and replaced it with a novel Web-based automated complaint management system at Cotton Web Limited. This entire diagnosis and intervention process took almost three months till completion. The case is written for use in courses in the curriculum of BBA, BBIS, BSIT and BSCS programs at undergraduate level. It is most suitable for the courses in leadership, change management, business process reengineering, soft engineering, team building and business communication. Complexity academic level The case is suitable for teaching at Undergraduate level to the students of BBIS, BBA, BSCS and BSIT students in the last year of their degree programs. Teaching faculty can use case-based methodology for student learning by putting them into a real-life situation faced by an organization and letting them think critically and identify following points for further discussion and clarity: individual or in groups; problem identification through discussion; the stakeholders involved in the company’s situation through presentation or one-pager presentation; case analysis with reaching best solution to prevailing issue at hand through group discussion; reaching a decision or solution with reasonable logic and justification through group discussions; and create further dilemma on the basis of questions unanswered within this case story. Supplementary material Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 7: Management Science.

VATS phrenic nerve harvesting for brachial plexus neurotization: literature review and our experience.

Brachial plexus traumatic lesions often lead to severe upper extremity deficits that dramatically compromise quality of life of mostly young patients. Optimal treatment aims to restore elbow flexion transferring various donor nerves. Phrenic nerve (PN) is a powerful source of transferable axons and, despite supraclavicular sectioning being the most used technique, it can be harvested through video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). About PN harvesting, less than 20 articles were found in Literature. Most of them are clinical case-reports or case-series or expert opinions. Most of these studies are from China and East Asia and very rarely from Europe; none from Italy. Therefore, we present our experience in PN VATS harvesting in two patients, first cases reported in Italy. Few papers explore risks and benefits of PN as a donor site for brachial plexus reconstruction. There is no clear consensus in the literature whether a traditional approach or minimally invasive surgery is advisable to harvest PN for neurotization. Currently there's no clear indication nor a definitive contraindication about routine use of PN for surgical treatment of BPTLs, it's mostly a matter of choosing the best donor nerve for every single patient. This choice depends on the patient's characteristics, type of traumatic lesion, time from the traumatic event and on the center's experience. The only real concern about using PN as a donor is the potential loss of pulmonary function. In our center two patients with complete brachial plexus avulsion underwent PN transfer via VATS in 2021. Usually, recovery of muscle function depends on time between injury and surgical repair. A commonly accepted recommendation is to perform surgery within six months from the traumatic lesion12. In our experience, the time between trauma and surgery was five months for patient A and six months for patient B. Even if some authors13 consider previous thoracic trauma with rib fractures a major contraindication for homolateral PN harvesting, we believe that the presence of pleural adhesions should not exclude a patient from surgery. No intra or postoperative complications were observed. Both patients were discharged on IV postoperative day. An intense rehabilitation program within three months after surgery is mandatory and regular follow-up is needed to monitor any improvement. No respiratory symptoms or discomfort is recorded up to now. Nerve transfer is a safe and reliable surgical reconstructive procedure and phrenic nerve, due to its pure motor nature, is a very good donor for brachial plexus injuries14. VATS is a valid procedure to guarantee a much longer nerve, avoiding any graft use, and doesn't seem to determine significant pulmonary function loss. Previous thoracic trauma, rib fractures and pneumothorax are commonly considered contraindications for VATS harvesting. However, a major trauma leading to BPTL often implies homolateral thoracic trauma with or without rib fracture or pneumothorax. This could be a reasonable justification to reconsider those contraindications and extend the potential cohort of patients that could benefit from this technique.

Study of the underground tunnel planning. Cognitive modelling

A study of the underground tunnel planning reliability for megacities is proposed based on the use of foresight and cognitive modeling methodologies. Using the foresight methodology allows, with the help of expert estimation procedures, to identify critical technologies and build alternatives of scenarios with quantitative characteristics. For the justified implementation of a particular scenario, cognitive modeling is used, which allows to build causal relationships based on knowledge and experience, understand and analyze the behavior of a complex system for a strategic perspective with a large number of interconnections and interdependencies. The suggested study allows the reliability planning of underground tunnels on the basis of reasonable scenarios selection and justification of their creation priority.

Investigating pathways to a net-zero emissions building sector in the European Union: what role for the energy efficiency first principle?

European Union (EU) legislation is increasingly embracing the energy efficiency first (EE1st) principle. This principle seeks to prioritise energy efficiency measures whenever these involve lower costs to society than generators, networks and other energy supply options while achieving the same outcomes. This study contributes to the quantitative evidence on the relevance of EE1st by modelling the impact of moderate to ambitious end-use energy efficiency measures on energy supply and the associated system cost under a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions constraint by 2050. These measures focus on the EU building sector and include both building retrofits (e.g. wall insulation) and efficient products (e.g. lighting). The results indicate that implementing more ambitious energy saving measures reduces the total electricity, heat and hydrogen capacities needed to achieve the net-zero target. Reducing energy use in buildings by at least 21% between 2020 and 2050 is essential to avoid excessive energy supply costs. This requires actions that go well beyond business-as-usual trends. Reductions of around 30% could be justified on the grounds of (i) high fossil fuel prices and (ii) multiple impacts (e.g. health benefits). Overall, the outcomes provide reasonable justification for the EE1st principle. To put the principle into practice, policy actions such as doubling building renovation rates and setting higher energy efficiency targets are key.

Epistemic problems with mental health legislation in the doctor–patient relationship

Mental health legislation that requires patients to accept ‘care’ has come under increasing scrutiny, prompted primarily by a human rights ethic. Epistemic issues in mental health have received some attention,...

Development and Implementation of a Medical School Course Integrating Basic, Clinical, and Health Systems Sciences.

In recent years, significant steps have been made in integrating basic science and clinical medicine. There remains a gap in adding the third pillar of education: health systems science (HSS). Core clerkships represent an ideal learning venue to integrate all three. Students can experience the value of integrating basic science as they learn clinical medicine in environments where HSS is occurring all around them. We outline the creation of Sciences and Art of Medicine Integrated (SAMI), a course that runs parallel with the clerkship year and integrates basic science and HSS with clinical medicine. A complete description of the planning and implementation of SAMI is provided. We include the participants and educational setting, the goals and objectives, and the structure of each session. To encourage the integration of basic science, HSS, and clinical medicine, students utilize a series of tools, described in detail. Examples of each tool are provided utilizing a case of a patient presenting with obstructive sleep apnea. We successfully implemented this course with positive reception from students. This course represents a step not only toward the integration of HSS with basic science and clinical medicine but also an advancement in training future clinicians to provide high-value care. Future curricular development must consider the validation of a measure of clinical reasoning that assesses a student's ability to think in a cognitively integrated fashion about basic science, HSS, and clinical medicine demonstrated by enhanced justification of clinical reasoning and a more holistic approach to planning patient care.

Orientalists Attack Against Prophetic Traditions: Awareness and Wake up Call

Orientalists had been working seriously towards the demolition of the second primary source of Islamic law where most Islamic proofs are derived. Given the strong links between the unnecessary allegations against some Prophetic traditions and irrelevant arguments about the compilation of Sunnah clearly proves their sceptics around the entire words of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him). With this regard, there is a pressing need to replace some assumptions and misconceptions regarding these standpoints through academic approaches, so that Muslims will not be discouraged and misguided away from the real sources of Islamic law. For this sake, this study seeks to establish a number of facts which can eliminate the doubtful mind Muslims might have assumed from the wrong perceptions this group had created around the compilation and validity of Sunnah. In addition to that, this article aspires to reveal Orientalist deceiving facts in swapping false theories into realities in Islam. It also tends to evaluate the group’s plan and see whether they really wish to support Islam with these agendas or demolish it. Moreover, do they have any sincere intention and objections in probing the authenticity of Sunnah? In achieving these goals, descriptive method is used to pinpoint techniques and features of this set of group. While analytical approach is adopted with the aim of acknowledging their strategies. Apparently, findings assert that Orientalists doesn’t have any reasonable justification in challenging the validity of the Prophetic tradition. Asides that, results show that this set of people are merely using this ideology to divert Muslims’ attention from the faithful belief they have for the Prophet and his traditions.

Understanding reinforcement learned crowds

Simulating trajectories of virtual crowds is a commonly encountered task in Computer Graphics. Several recent works have applied Reinforcement Learning methods to animate virtual agents, however they often make different design choices when it comes to the fundamental simulation setup. Each of these choices comes with a reasonable justification for its use, so it is not obvious what is their real impact, and how they affect the results. In this work, we analyze some of these arbitrary choices in terms of their impact on the learning performance, as well as the quality of the resulting simulation measured in terms of the energy efficiency. We perform a theoretical analysis of the properties of the reward function design, and empirically evaluate the impact of using certain observation and action spaces on a variety of scenarios, with the reward function and energy usage as metrics. We show that directly using the neighboring agents’ information as observation generally outperforms the more widely used raycasting. Similarly, using nonholonomic controls with egocentric observations tends to produce more efficient behaviors than holonomic controls with absolute observations. Each of these choices has a significant, and potentially nontrivial impact on the results, and so researchers should be mindful about choosing and reporting them in their work.

지방대육성법령상 지역인재 선발규정의 위헌성에 관한 연구

The Act on the Development of Local Universities and Colleges and Regional Human Resources (the “Act on Local Universities”) mandates local universities and colleges to allocate a fixed percentage or more of their admission quota to local applicants, identified in the Act as regional human resources. Such a mandatory admission system has the following ground for further unconstitutionality. First, Section 15(6) of the Act on Local Universities violates the rule against blanket delegation, because: (1) delegation is implemented when there is no need; and (2) no predictability can be recognized. In addition, the regulation section 10(3), promulgated under the Act on Local Universities, likewise does not provide any predictability, and the relevant provisions under the rule allow arbitrary interpretation and enforcement by the administrative agencies, violating the principle of clarity. Furthermore, the system at issue interferes with the local universities and colleges’ right to the autonomy of institutions of higher learning and the right to carry out necessary education to pursue an occupation of their choosing held by the applicants who have graduated from universities and colleges in the Capital city area, by violating the doctrine against over-inclusiveness, a basic doctrine the government must comply with whenever it attempts to interfere with the basic rights of citizens. Finally, the scheme under the Act on Local Universities violates the principle of equality, as it imposes the obligation of admitting local talents only upon local law-schools, not upon the law schools located in the Capital city and its suburbs. There is no reasonable justification for such a discriminatory treatment of law schools. Accordingly, the scheme of selecting local talents under the Act on Local Universities must be stricken down, or if the government wants to continue the system, there should be legislative amendments and improvements to the system. First, when the Act on Local Universities delegates legislative authorities to rule-making agencies, the legislature must specify the maxim ratio of local talent admission in the Act itself, and only the authority to determine detailed ratios shall be delegated. Second, the timing to implement the system must be specified in the rules, considering the possibility of local law schools’ failure to fill the mandated ratio. Third, the definition of local talents shall be enlarged to include those who have graduated from relevant local high schools. Here, it should be noted that the government, central or local, shall fully support such local talents financially so as for such students to focus only on pursuing their legal education. Fourth, the duty to admit local talents shall be imposed also upon law schools located in the Capital city and its suburban cities so that the burden is shouldered fairly.

A Study on Discrimination based on Gender in Parental Leave: The Relevance of the Proportionality Test to the ECtHR's Jurisprudence on Gender-Based Unequal Treatment and the Prohibition of Discrimination under Article 14 ECHR

The principle of the proportionality represents a general principle of law. Its main aim is to protect the citizen from arbitrary and improper state action and in this respect it acts as a standard of justification for interventions by the authorities. Even if this principle is not explicitly standardized in most national constitutions of the Member States of the EU or in the ECHR, it is derived from the principles of democracy and the rule of law and is generally recognized in the law of the ECHR. The levels of the proportionality are first divided according to the legitimate aim of the legally relevant measure, then to its suitability for achieving the aim, followed by its necessity and finally the proportionality test in the narrow sense, the appropriateness of the measure. The prerequisite for the scope of application of Art. 14 of the ECHR is that persons in comparable or legally similar situations have been treated differently. The list of possible grounds for discrimination in Art. 14 of the ECHR is by no means exhaustive, but merely exemplary. Art. 14 of the ECHR also applies when states have granted rights beyond their obligations under the Convention, which fall within the scope of an article of the Convention. According to the ECtHR, unequal treatment according to the criteria just listed constitutes discrimination in the sense of a violation of Art. 14of the ECHR if it lacks an objective and reasonable justification. The principle of gender equality and the related prohibition of discrimination under Article 14 of the ECHR is too important in a pluralistic and tolerant European society to justify its violation merely by referring to the margin of appreciation of the member states. In order to achieve results in line with interests in the future, the case law of the ECtHR can build on the argumentation structure in the case of Konstantin Markin v. Russia. The only aspect requiring improvement is the control density of appropriateness and necessity, which should be taken seriously.

Exponential space and thermal-dependent heat source effects on electro-magneto-hydrodynamic Jeffrey fluid flow over a vertical stretching surface

This paper deals with the study of an incompressible electro-magneto-hydrodynamic (EMHD) Jeffrey fluid flow over a vertical nonlinear stretching surface of variable thickness. Heat and mass transfer effects are analyzed by considering different source terms like viscous dissipation, Ohmic heating, thermophoresis, Brownian motion, thermal heat source, exponential heat source and activation energy. Governing equations for the flow system are converted into dimensionless forms using appropriate similarity transformations. The solution for the resulting governing equations is obtained by using the shooting technique with RK-4 method. The effects of various physical parameters such as magnetic field parameter [Formula: see text], Grashof number (Gr), solutal Grashof number [Formula: see text], Brownian diffusion parameter [Formula: see text], thermophoresis diffusion parameter [Formula: see text], thermal heat source parameter [Formula: see text], exponential heat source parameter [Formula: see text], Prandtl number (Pr) and Lewis number (Le) are presented with the help of graphs. It is observed that the heat transfer effects increase by increasing thermal and exponential heat sources, and mass transfer effects enhance by increasing the activation energy. Entropy generation for this flow system is also analyzed. Entropy decreases with an increase in the electric field parameter. In contrast, the Bejan number initially increases with an increase in the electric field parameter. After some particular value of electric field parameter, it changes its behavior in the boundary layer and decreases with an increase in the electric field parameter. Entropy and Bejan number increase with an increment in the concentration difference parameter. The accuracy of the results is validated by those of published literature and found in reasonable justification. The present results may be helpful in many engineering and industrial applications like manufacturing lubrication, natural gas networks, cooling nuclear reactors and spray processes.