Management Rules Research Articles

Compliance of E-Waste (Management) Rules in the Government of Assam Offices at Dibrugarh, India

Compliance of E-Waste (Management) Rules in the Government of Assam Offices at Dibrugarh, India

Compliance of E-Waste (Management) Rules in the Government of Assam Offices at Dibrugarh, India

Compliance of E-Waste (Management) Rules in the Government of Assam Offices at Dibrugarh, India

Knowledge and attitude about biomedical waste management among health-care personnel of tertiary care hospital, Surendranagar – A cross-sectional study

Background: Bio-medical waste (BMW) means any waste, which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biological or in health camps. For proper management of the waste in the health-care facilities, the staff is needed to be technically sound in handling of BMW as per BMW management (BMWM) Rules, 2016. Aims and Objectives: This study was conducted among the doctors, staff nurses and sanitary staffs to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding BMWM at Tertiary Care Hospital. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in February 2021 at Tertiary Care Hospital in Surendranagar district. Total 150 Health Care Personnel were selected by Systemic Random Sampling and their Knowledge and Attitude was assessed by pre-designed, pre-tested and semi-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS 24. Results: Out of the total 150 study participants, 98 (65.33%) was taken training on BMWM. On assessing their knowledge and attitude, it was seen that 71.33% were having Good Knowledge and 89.33% were having Good Attitude toward BMWM. Status of Training was associated with the level of knowledge as well as level of attitude of study participant regarding BMWM (P < 0.0001). Conclusion: Resident Doctors and Nursing Staff were having Good Knowledge and Attitude as compared to Sanitary Staff. Training about BMWM was having Positive Effect on Knowledge and attitude of participants.

Collaborative Management to support sustainable Community Forest

The current state of social forestry, including community forestry (HKm) in Indonesia, is practically stagnant. Many factors cause stagnation in HKm management, including the main one being the interaction with the Forest Management Unit (FMU) as forest manager at the site level. This study aims to build an institutional model for sustainable forest management through analysis of the arena of action, community attributes, and forest management rules at the Nambo Community Forest, Central Sulawesi. The results of this research found that the collaborative management model between the government and the community is suitable to be applied in Community Forest management, because it provides greater opportunities for recognizing the rights of local communities to forest resources, as well as increasing the empowerment of rural communities.

Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices Regarding Household Biomedical Waste in an Urban Area of Metropolitan City

Background and Aim Biomedical waste generated annually in hospitals is around three million tonnes which is expected to grow by eight percent every year. Household biomedical waste which contributes to about 0.5 of the medical wastes can be a potential source of infection. This study was aimed to assess the knowledge perceptions and practices regarding household biomedical waste.Method A cross-sectional study was carried out including the households in the field practice area of a medical college from June to August 2017. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge perceptions and practices regarding biomedical waste generated at home.Results Among 450 households included in the study only 75 16.6 demonstrated adequate knowledge regarding household biomedical waste. Among them only 15 20 segregated the household biomedical waste. However the final disposal was done into the municipality binvan.Conclusion Regulatory bodies should consider household biomedical waste as hazardous waste and regulations for its disposal should be taken account into the biomedical waste management rules. Stakeholders have a major role in providing options for safe management making safe disposal a reality.nbsp

The Urgency of Regulations on Waste Management in Indonesia

ndonesia already has Law No. 18 of 2008 on Waste Management and its derivative regulations. However, the condition and need for waste management regulations continues to grow so the regulation is currently not in accordance with the development of waste management needs in Indonesia. In various Final Processing Sites (Tempat Pemrosesan Akhir), there has been some erosion due to being unable to accommodate existing garbage. The purpose of this research is to analyze the shortcomings of existing regulations and provide revised suggestions to the regulations. This research method uses normative research methods. The result of the analysis is that the regulation on waste management that currently exists is not comprehensive enough to regulate waste management. Waste management guidelines are technically submitted to the Regional Regulations causing uneven regulations and the implementation of these regulations is also inadequate. In Singapore, the waste management process is handled by the National Environment Agency and has the full support from the Government. The waste management process in Singapore is done by collecting waste with a special truck and then recycling and burning with an integrated system. Based on those problems, the laws and regulations related to waste management must be changed. In the preparation of the revision, Indonesia needs to learn from various other countries that already have a good system, such as Singapore. This is because the existing rules have not been able to regulate the entire waste management process. This rule needs to be prepared starting from the smallest scope, namely the scope of households, then from garbage carriers in the village scope, to the management at the Final Processing Site (TPA). The existence of regional autonomy to set their own waste management rules is not wrong. However, it is necessary to add compelling rules in the management that apply nationally.

An Overview of Applying the Sustainability aspects and the Hazardous Waste Management in a Chemical industry in India

The hazardous waste management in the chemical industry has been monitored from April 2021 to March 2022. All different kinds of hazardous waste were segregated by the concerned department and handed over to the environmental department. Different types of hazardous waste were handled, stored, and disposed of as per the directions, which are provided in the combined consent of operations. We have followed the hazardous waste management rules 2016 for handling and disposing of hazardous waste. We have introduced a sustainable initiative, where the spent salt from the effluent treatment plant, fly ash from the boiler and spent carbon from the process have been mixed in a suitable proportion in the form a utilizable waste, which is having higher calorific value has been sent in the cement industry in the regular basis. In this way, we are not only utilizing the hazardous wastes but the various heavy metals such as Arsenic, Chromium, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Lead, Selenium, Zinc and Copper, which are present in the spent salt, fly ash and spent carbon is not let out into the environment. In case this toxic waste is not maintained properly, it would increase the toxicity in the environment. Further, it will deteriorate the health of the employees and the contractors working in the working environment. We have taken the highest safety precautions while handling toxic hazardous waste so that we can protect the environment and occupants working in the hazardous zone. We have studied the literature and identified the various twenty-four numbers habitat, which includes seventeen trees, three herbs, two shrubs, one grass and one bamboo are the recommended plantation species, which can be planted in the fly ash storage area. Planting such type of species near to the fly ash storage area, will help us in absorbing the fly ash dust pollutants and the impacts of exposure to the pollutants of fly ash can be reduced in the occupational environment.

Decision as a Service for Transaction Banking Using Service-Oriented Modeling Architecture Methodology

In order to gain a competitive edge in the banking industry, direct face-to-face interactions between customers and banks are being gradually replaced by virtual interactions. Instead, they communicate using electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and web applications. Transaction banking, which provides commercial services for banking products to small, medium, and large corporations, is a highly typical work unit in banking. Shipping and international payments, risk management for international trade, and other services are provided. We use the Service Oriented Modelling Architecture (SOMA) methodology to solve the problem of the transaction banking unit by relocating it from a system with general dependencies to a system that is independent of the entire service and operates on a small function scale. The study found that a decision as a service (DAAS) model with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Business Process Management (BPM), and Business Rule Management (BRM) solution can provide guidelines for the design of decision rules pertaining to integrated or separate business modeling, thereby aiding business unit delivery.

An Empirical Study on the Use of Digital Technologies to Achieve Cost-Effectiveness in Healthcare Management.

Objectives: Healthcare cost reduction is one of the major challenges of the current era. This study was based on the general system theory-based view to assess the significance of sensing communication technologies and processing actuation technologies in improving healthcare quality, leading to cost reduction. Moreover, the contingent rule of healthcare supply chain management in enhancing the influence of improved quality on healthcare cost reduction was also empirically tested. Methods: The sample of the study comprised 337 middle and senior healthcare managers employed in various government and private hospitals and health institutions in Jakarta, Indonesia. The administrative departments of each hospital and health institution was visited to take their consent to conduct this survey at their clinical and non-clinical departments. The data collected was analyzed using SmartPLS ver. 4 software. Results: Results reveal a significant direct and indirect influence of sensing communication technologies and processing actuation technologies on achieving cost-effectiveness in the healthcare sector, in the presence of perceived quality improvement as a mediator. However, the strength of the associations varied and was based on highly reliable and familiar nature of sensing communication technologies compared to processing actuation technologies which were emerging and gaining popularity in recent years. Conclusion: Considering the healthcare cost as a critical factor based on limited resources in emerging economies, healthcare institutions/centers should use digital technologies to achieve cost-effectiveness for providing healthcare facilities in the industry 4.0 era.

Multi-trend trade system for financial markets

At present, more and more people are beginning to be interested in the field of investment. This is due to the growth in incomes of the population, on the one hand, and development of financial technologies, on the other hand. The problematic situation is analyzed in this article and the main known models, algorithms and indicators used to build trading strategies are considered. A conservative trading strategy based on trend indicators is proposed. The strategy can be an alternative to the popular conservative “buy and hold” strategy. Exponentially moving averages of various orders that reveal the presence of trends of variable duration in the price dynamics of a financial asset are used as system indicators. A distinctive feature of the proposed trading system is the combination in one approach of the trading method that generates trade signals and the rules for position size management. The article contains results of testing a proposed trading strategy based on historical data. A comparative analysis of the results obtained with the results of the “buy and hold” strategy and the strategy based on two exponential moving averages of different orders is carried out. The proposed system can be easily integrated into automated trading systems. The R language was used for data processing and visualization.

Toward Distributive Classroom Management: Cogenerative Dialogue and Cooperative Inquiry

The strict classroom control philosophy often adopted within public schools can have counterproductive effects on students, especially African Diaspora and Latinx students. Public schools should ideally provide quality instruction for all students. Unfortunately, teacher-centered practices reinforce stereotypes that African Diaspora and Latinx students are unruly and need institutionally imposed discipline and management, thereby undermining the mission of equitable educational achievement. Students, especially diverse urban students, would benefit from a shift in classroom management from strict control and discipline to student-centered inclusion and cooperative inquiry. We recommend distributive classroom management and examine the practice in the context of its enactment by stakeholders in one social studies classroom in the East New York Alternative Learning Center. Under this model, students demonstrated distributed classroom management actions that fostered improved classroom behaviors and expressions of group solidarity. Students maintained a fertile learning environment by proposing a distributive management practice during the research period. Additionally, students enacted the same approach in the classroom. The study’s findings suggest that teachers and students can integrate standard classroom management rules with transformative stakeholder-directed practices to benefit all participants.

Biomining: A Sustainable Solution for Reclamation of Open Landfills in India

Urban India produced around 62 MT of municipal solid waste (MSW) (450 gcapita-1day-1) in 2015. Approximately 82% of the generated MSW was collected and only 28% of the collected waste was treated and the remaining 72% was openly dumped. Open dumping is the popular MSW disposal practice in India due to budget constraints and lack of technological advancement. Open dumpsites are considered a potential threat to environment and human health since they contaminate land and water resources during migration of leachate and create air pollution in terms of release of landfill gases (LFGs) with high percentages of greenhouse gases and thus contribute to climate change. It also consumes valuable land which could be converted into revenue generated assets. In 2011, India needed 380 km2 areas for waste disposal which will be 660 km2 by 2030. In 2016, the India Government has amended the Solid Waste Management Rules (SWM) for effective and proper management of MSW and reclaim the large old dumps by closure and recommend rehabilitate by a feasible solution in terms of reduction of waste by biomining. Biomining concept is an innovative, environmentally acceptable, economically and practically feasible and rapid measure to remediate the old open landfill site to successfully bring to zero emission of LFGs and leachate and also reclaim the land reusability and zero maintenance. In this study, the concept and utility of biomining as a key part of sustainable landfill management especially for the rehabilitation of MSW dumpsites in different megacities in India have been discussed.

EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE EFQM EXCELLENCE MODEL IN MEGA SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS

The EFQM Excellence Model, which is a scale based on the rules of total quality management, is applied to companies, both in the private and public sectors, with the aim of better satisfying both consumers and employees (Foncera, Amaral and Oliveira, 2021). The purpose of the present paper was to record employees' perceptions of the EFQM Excellence Model in mega sports organizations. It was hypothesized that the average of the five criteria namely Leadership, Human Resources, Strategy and Policy, Suppliers / Sponsors / Resources, and Procedures that they constitute the enablers, would not differ significantly from the average of the four results criteria namely Results for customers, Results of Human Resources, Results for society and Performance Results that they constitute the results. Ninety-nine employees of Peace and Friendship Stadium, who agreed to take part in the study completed the questionnaire of the Administrative Excellence of Greek Sports Organizations (Karastathis, Afthinos, Gargalianos, 2014), which was modified accordingly for the purpose of the study. The reliability check produced a Cronbach's α index of 0.88, while the corresponding indices for the 9 criteria ranged from 0.77 to 0.90. After the analysis of the data carried out with descriptive statistics and the Wilcoxon test, it was founded that there was a statistically significant difference between the five and four model’s criteria (3.77±0.35 vs. 3.30±0.34, z=-8.391, p<0.001). It is concluded that the perceptions of the employees of the Peace and Friendship stadium are positive for the criteria of the conditions of the European model of business excellence and less positive for its results.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0265/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Relevance of Kautilya’s Arthashastra in Modern Economics

The "Arthashastra" by Kautilya is essentially a text about state administration. There are fifteen books in the Arthashastra. The first five of them deal with internal administration, the following eight deal with ties with neighbouring nations, and the latter two are of an ad hoc nature. Kautilya's Arthashastra placed emphasis on two overarching goals: resource maximization and optimal management. This essay makes an effort to connect his economic theories from the fourth century B.C. with their contemporary applications. The entire study demonstrates that Kautilya's economic theories are founded on specific scientific foundations. A wonderful example of establishing rules for state management is Arthashastra. His economic theories are still relevant today. Therefore, this great leader and philosopher deserve a special place among the greatest economic thinkers in history.

Biomedical Waste Management among Primary Health Care Workers, Bauchi Local Government Area, Bauchi State, NIGERIA

Biomedical waste management is a serious issue to health and environment that must be addressed at primary health care level, especially in Bauchi local government area of Bauchi state. The objectives of this study were to assess on the knowledge, methods and problems of biomedical waste management among the primary health care workers in some selected Health Care Centers of Bauchi L.G.A. of Bauchi state. A cross sectional study was employed and sampling techniques were used to distribute a questionnaire and interview among the health workers at twenty (20) selected primary health centers with (200) sample respondents from public and private health care centers. The result from the current study shows that the knowledge of biomedical waste management awareness among the workers was represented (94%), and only (6%) were not aware. The majority of PHC workers practiced open dumping and burning method (74%), incineration (7%), chemical treatment and only 1% for autoclave methods. while, microwaving (0%), encapsulation (0%) and sanitary landfill methods (0%) were not practiced. The problems of biomedical waste management included improper planning (33%), insufficient funds (25%), lack of material (19%) and (15%) lack of staffs training. There was improper segregation, lack of planning, lack of funds and practiced open dumping and burning, which is against the biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules of 2016. There was improper biomedical waste management at primary health care level in Bauchi local government of Bauchi state. Thus, the Bauchi government should give more consideration towards good plan, allocation resources, set a committee of adequate supervision, monitoring and evaluation for the sustainable biomedical waste management at Bauchi local government of Bauchi state.
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Research on Tax Big Data Supervision System and Method

The tax big data supervision system and method, including the distributed real-time management and control system deployed in the superior unit and each subordinate unit, the superior distributed real-time management and control system is used to receive the management and control rules, and issue the management and control rules to the subordinate distributed real-time management and control System: The distributed real-time management and control system writes the massive data in the data source at the same level into the distributed message queue Kafka in real time, and uses the distributed stream computing engine Flink to compare and calculate based on the management and control rules, and write the data that conforms to the management and control rules. Enter the alarm information into Kafka; the lower-level distributed real-time management and control system pushes the alarm information in the Kafka subscription at this level to Kafka in the upper-level distributed real-time management and control system; the upper-level distributed real-time management and control system pushes the alarm information in the Kafka subscription to users , at the same time push the alarm information to the distributed search engine ElasticSearch to save, and provide the historical alarm information query function.

Computer State Evaluation Using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems

Several crucial system design and deployment decisions, including workload management, sizing, capacity planning, and dynamic rule generation in dynamic systems such as computers, depend on predictive analysis of resource consumption. An analysis of the computer components' utilizations and their workloads is the best way to assess the performance of the computer's state. Especially, analyzing the particular or whole influence of components on another component gives more reliable information about the state of computer systems. There are many evaluation techniques proposed by researchers. The bulk of them have complicated metrics and parameters such as utilization, time, throughput, latency, delay, speed, frequency, and the percentage which are difficult to understand and use in the assessing process. According to these, we proposed a simplified evaluation method using components' utilization in percentage scale and its linguistic values. The use of the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model and fuzzy set theory offers fantastic prospects to realize use impact analyses. The purpose of the study is to examine the usage impact of memory, cache, storage, and bus on CPU performance using the Sugeno type and Mamdani type ANFIS models to determine the state of the computer system. The suggested method is founded on keeping an eye on how computer parts behave. The developed method can be applied for all kinds of computing system, such as personal computers, mainframes, and supercomputers by considering that the inference engine of the proposed ANFIS model requires only its own behavior data of computers' components and the number of inputs can be enriched according to the type of computer, for instance, in cloud computers' case the added number of clients and network quality can be used as the input parameters. The models present linguistic and quantity results which are convenient to understand performance issues regarding specific bottlenecks and determining the relationship of components.

EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN A BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

This paper is written for the purpose of our growing consciousness about the role of teacher in classroom management in a blended learning environment. Blended learning is relatively a new approach to teaching learning process. It is a practice that combines digital media with traditional teacher led teaching methods. It is now considered as one of the most effective ways to teach and blended learning programs can now be found at all levels of education. However, one of the major concerns for the teachers while implementing blended learning strategies is how to manage the classroom. It is indeed a legitimate concern since all the students aren’t used to flexible learning environment. Teachers in a blended learning system have to follow certain rules for an effective classroom management. This paper aims at pointing out the various factors which affect proper implementation of the blended learning system and the various ways as to how to properly manage a classroom in such a flexible environment so that the teaching learning process is not hampered and students are benefitted.

Fabrication of a novel composite gel bead to reclaim methyl orange from a binary dye mixture: An active role of adsolubilization phenomenon

The present work demonstrates a novel protocol in accordance with the reduce, reuse, and recycle principle of waste management rules for dye wastewater treatment as well as selective extraction of desired dye. Here two model dyes viz., methyl orange (MO) (an anionic dye) and methylene blue (MB) (a cationic dye) have been considered as the components of dye wastewater, and alginate-xanthan (Alg-Xan) biopolymer composite hydrogel beads modified with a cationic surfactant such as cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), as the sorbent material. CPC bilayers on Alg-Xan composite surface showed excellent MO uptake performance (>85-90%) via adsolubilization when the MO is present alone or in a binary mixture with MB. On the other hand, MB got partially transferred (~30-50%) to the solid surface through diffusion phenomenon both in the presence (~50%) and absence (~30%) of MO. After the accumulation of the dye molecules, MO can be easily reclaimed (>90%) using 1-butanol as the extracting solvent; however, no detachment of MB from the solid surface takes place. The stability and suitability of the hydrogel beads were investigated under different operating conditions. Furthermore, Alg-Xan-CPC composite beads have been characterized using FTIR, SEM analysis, and particle size distribution. The newly developed Alg-Xan-CPC composite beads show good reusability up to four cycles and they perform well in real wastewater (~95% recovery of MO). The novelty of the current research includes the synthesis of a CPC micelle anchored biopolymer adsorbent, which is capable of attracting both the cationic and anionic dyes from water bodies, followed by extractive reclamation of the anionic dye only. The application of biopolymers for wastewater treatment and resource recovery from the waste stream is undoubtedly a sustainable environmental remediation option. Hence, this research work is expected to present a novel application of biopolymers for dye wastewater mitigation as well as reclamation of desired useful dye.

Turberaied ja nende ökonoomiline hindamine pohla kasvukohatüübi männiku näitel

Abstract The article provides an overview of the experience of using shelterwood systems in Estonia and the methodological aspects of their economic assessment. The methodology is tested with calculations made on the management alternatives of pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stand in Rhodococcum site type. Based on the Estonian forest management rules and the results of previous silvicultural studies, the management models were elaborated for different types of shelterwood harvesting. The difference model was used when predicting stand development, the actual prices of different wood assortments and the actual cost of management activities were used in calculations. The net present value of cash flows is used as a criterion, which allows comparing management periods of different lengths. Calculations were performed for three different periods: one regeneration felling cycle, two regeneration felling cycles and perpetual management cycles. The results of different types of shelterwood systems are compared with the results of clear-cutting scenarios. The calculations indicate that in the short term, the net present value of the different types of shelterwood harvesting and clear-cutting are quite similar. The results of the first cycle of regeneration felling are most affected by the costs of cultivation and tending of a plantation and young forest. In the long run, clear-cutting will have an advantage over shelterwood harvesting, as the stand regeneration period is shorter.