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Press Coverage of Rohingya Issue: A Content Analysis of Four Newspapers In Jammu And Kashmir

The aim of this study is to know the coverage of newspapers on the world fastest- growing refugee crisis and an ethnic minority group of Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar. Extreme repercussions of violence caused them to seek refuge in neighboring countries including Bangladesh, Thailand Malaysia and in many states of India. There are around 14,000 Rohingya refugees as per United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) registered with them in India out of which 7,000 are in Jammu (Abhishek, 2018). The propaganda by some sections of media label Rohingyas as a danger to national security which has created panic among the refugees. The Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) report quoted by Aljazeera (2017, December 14) says that 6,700 Rohingyas, including at least 730 children aged below five years, were killed in the fresh outbreak of violence when militants attacked the security forces on August 25, 2017. The incident draws media attention across the globe. The sudden rise in migration of Rohingya people to India including Jammu and Kashmir grabbed the attention of regional and national media of India. The broad objective of the present study is to investigate the framing and characterization of Rohingya issue in a period of one month (26 August to September 24, 2017) by print media of Jammu and Kashmir. This study used purposive sampling and analyzed the content of four newspapers publishing from two regions and explored their treatment whether positive, negative and neutral towards the Rohingya refugees. The study found that Greater Kashmir has published more content on Rohingya issue and most of that has been covered on humanitarian grounds. Although Kashmir based media has treated the Rohingya issue positively, Jammu based newspapers have portrayed the issue negatively.

Autonomous adaptation to climate-driven change in marine biodiversity in a global marine hotspot.

While governments and natural resource managers grapple with how to respond to climatic changes, many marine-dependent individuals, organisations and user-groups in fast-changing regions of the world are already adjusting their behaviour to accommodate these. However, we have little information on the nature of these autonomous adaptations that are being initiated by resource user-groups. The east coast of Tasmania, Australia, is one of the world's fastest warming marine regions with extensive climate-driven changes in biodiversity already observed. We present and compare examples of autonomous adaptations from marine users of the region to provide insights into factors that may have constrained or facilitated the available range of autonomous adaptation options and discuss potential interactions with governmental planned adaptations. We aim to support effective adaptation by identifying the suite of changes that marine users are making largely without government or management intervention, i.e. autonomous adaptations, to better understand these and their potential interactions with formal adaptation strategies.

Projection of fossil fuel demands in Vietnam to 2050 and climate change implications

AbstractOver the past decade, Vietnam has emerged as one of the world's fastest growing economies. Fossil fuel use, which is a dominant energy source and vital for economic growth, have been increasing considerably. Undoubtedly, the projection of fossil fuel demand is essential for a better understanding of energy needs, fuel mix, and Vietnam's strategic development. This paper provides an outlook for coal, oil, and gas demand in Vietnam to 2050. The projection is based on the calibrated results from a hybrid model (that combines a GTAP‐ R version for resources, and a micro simulation approach) and an energy database. Under the baseline scenario (business as usual), from 2018 to 2050, the demand for coal, oil products, and gas are expected to increase by a factor of 2.47‐fold, 2.14‐fold, and 1.67‐fold, respectively. Emissions are also projected to increase. Because fossil fuels are the dominant source of carbon emissions in Vietnam, it follows, going forward, that an effective fuel‐mix strategy that encourages the development of renewables and energy efficiency is essential.

One-piece polarizing interferometer for ultrafast spectroscopic polarimetry

This paper describes a new class of ultrafast dynamic spectro-polarimetry based on a specially designed one-piece polarizing interferometer. It provides spectral polarimetric parameters of an anisotropic object in milliseconds with high precision. The proposed ultrafast spectro-polarimetry has no moving parts and it is highly robust to external noises. The one-piece polarizing interferometric scheme enables the world fastest and simplest solution in spectroscopic polarimetry. The distinct simple concept on one-piece polarizing interferometer can extract spectroscopic polarimetric parameters Ψ(k) and Δ(k) precisely with a speed of over 200 Hz over the entire visible wavelength range with a spectral resolution of less than 1 nm. The proposed novel one-piece scheme will have a significant potential of a paradigm shift from lab to fab in polarization metrology.

Oxygen transport characteristics of blood from the fastest terrestrial mammal, the African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)

The African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the world's fastest terrestrial mammal, capable of reaching speeds of about 100 km h−1 over short distances. Central to its exceptional athleticism is the ability to deliver oxygen to muscles, where the cardiovascular system plays a critical role in supplying oxygen and preventing the accumulation of metabolic waste products even during intensive sprints. However, little is known about the blood transport properties of cheetahs. Therefore, we measured the effects of temperature on blood viscosity (ηbl) and hemoglobin (Hb) O2 affinity (P50) at resting body temperature (38 °C) and post-sprint body temperature (41 °C) in 5 adult animals undergoing routine health checks. Mean hematocrit (Hct) was 41.5 ± 2.5 (SD) %. Whole blood ηbl was exponentially-related to Hct (P<0.001; r2 >0.99) at both temperatures; the slopes (0.024 ± 0.0003) of this relationship were not different at the two temperatures, but the y-intercept was lower at 41 °C (P<0.001). Increased temperature from 38 °C to 41 °C significantly (P<0.001) reduced η of whole blood (3.39 ± 0.23 vs. 3.08 ± 0.23 mPa s) and plasma (1.27 ± 0.04 vs. 1.15 ± 0.04 mPa s). Purified Hb had a P50 of 22.2 mm Hg at 38° C and 25.8 mm Hg at 41°C. O2-affinity of Hb decreased only slightly (~3–4 mm Hg) in the presence of 2-fold molar excess DPG, similar to other felid Hbs, and decreased by ~13–14 mm Hg with the addition 100 mM Clat both temperatures. Neither temperature nor allosteric modifier significantly changed the Hill coefficient of Hb. These results indicate that cheetah blood has rheological properties similar to that of other mammals and Hb properties similar to other felids. The reduced viscosity at higher temperatures, typical of exercising muscles, would facilitate blood flow and O2 transport during sprints. Support or Funding Information Supported by Natur og Univers, Det Frie Forskningsråd (FNU), Denmark. Blood viscosity as a function of Hct at two temperatures for cheetah blood Purified cheetah Hb P50, Hb P50with DPG and Hb P50with chloride at 38 °C. Different letters reflect significant differences (P<0.05). This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Offline: India's health crisis: will democracy deliver?

Last weekend, on Jan 26, India celebrated its 70th Republic Day. The theme was the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth. 2019 is indeed a year to pause and reflect on India's past achievements and future prospects. Soon, India's Election Commission will announce dates for elections to the Lok Sabha, the House of the People (the lower and more powerful House in India's bicameral Parliament). Elections for 543 seats are held in phases and, based on recent history, will probably take place in April and May. The battle for the votes of 850 million people is between the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who leads the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Rahul Gandhi, who leads the India National Congress. In the 2014 election, Congress was destroyed by a landslide victory for Modi (he won 282 seats, the Modi wave). Until recently, Modi was expected to win again in 2019. But his popularity seems to be waning, while political momentum is now behind Gandhi. In December last year, Congress won three state elections—in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh—propelling Gandhi into the unexpected position of being (possibly) India's next Prime Minister. Shashi Tharoor, a Congress member of the Lok Sabha in Kerala, has called the forthcoming election “a battle for India's soul”. What issues will shape this election? Modi is basing his campaign on the twin claims that he has successfully established India as one of the world's fastest growing economies and has had the courage to tackle endemic corruption. Earlier this month, speaking to non-resident Indians in Dubai, Rahul Gandhi also identified two priorities. First, the “crisis of unemployment”, especially unemployment among young people. Second, the challenge facing Indian farmers who “are in deep trouble” and who need “a new green revolution”. His focus on farmers is strategic: two-thirds of voters earn their living from agriculture in some way. He called Modi's record one of “sad years” in which “my beloved country is being divided for political reasons and political benefits”. He called for “humility and tolerance” after years of “intolerance” under Modi. Gandhi argued that India is not merely a “geographical idea”. The idea of India is about the nation's values. “India is a particular way of looking at the world.” But India's values and its way of looking at the world raise difficult and uncomfortable questions. Disappointingly, health does not yet seem to be an important factor in India's election. The best that Rahul Gandhi could do in Dubai was cite health care as a future industrial opportunity—“We have the most complex DNA structures on the planet”, he said (rather inexplicably). Meanwhile, Modi might point to his Ayushman Bharat health reforms, launched last year. The BJP has promised to deliver universal free primary health care, together with health insurance for 500 million people. (Although observers, such as Gro Harlem Brundtland, have raised concerns that “Modicare” will favour hospital over primary care.) The extent of India's failure to address its health crisis was analysed by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen in their book, An Uncertain Glory (2013). While praising India's economic revival, they pointed out that “the majority of Indian people have been left behind” (which amounts to 80–90% of a population of 1·4 billion). The result has been what Drèze and Sen call “unaimed opulence”: economic growth with little attention to the consequences for people's lives. The fault lies with India's democracy, including “huge failings of the Indian media”: “health is virtually absent from public debates and democratic politics in India”, write Drèze and Sen. India needs a new narrative—“India has to cultivate democratic engagement in demanding universal health care.” For that to happen, the nation's media have to overcome “a lack of serious involvement in the diagnosis of significant injustices and inefficiencies”. For a country with such a “shockingly defective record” in health—from childhood immunisation to nutrition, from public health care to sanitation—it seems inconceivable that the 2019 election would not be informed by a debate about health, “perhaps the biggest adversity facing India today”. But modern India is a divided land. Privileged political elites and biased and indifferent media serve only a small part of the population. India faces a challenge: not to squander this opportunity to make the health of its most deprived people the country's supreme political priority.

Mitigating air pollution: planetary health awaits a cosmopolitan moment

Mitigating air pollution: planetary health awaits a cosmopolitan moment

Child Labour Utilization in the Tourism Industry: A Case Study from Ampara District in Sri Lanka

The tourism industry is considered as one of the world's fastest growing economic activities and the largest employer of manpower which generates millions of employment opportunities. Since tourism is a labour intensive industry there is an escalating demand for labour in different sectors of tourism. This demand becomes a critical issue due to reasons such as the scarcity of the trained and skilled human resource, lower salaries and wages and unwillingness among many people to pursue tourism-related employment. As a remedy to this critical issue, child labour has been used frequently. They have been employed in both formal and informal sectors of the tourism industry. This situation is more common in the Sri Lanka tourism industry, especially in remote tourism regions. The main objective of this research was to study the nature of child labour in the tourism industry of the Ampara district of Eastern Tourism region of Sri Lanka. After a preliminary survey, Ulla, Panama North and Panama West GNDs of the Ampara district of Eastern tourism region were selected as the study area. Applying judgment and purposive sampling techniques, 56 child workers and 19 accommodation establishments were selected as the sample. Both quantitative and qualitative methods such as questionnaire surveys, observations, interviews, group discussions and case studies were employed to collect data. The data was analyzed applying both qualitative and quantitative analytical methods. The overall findings of the study are discussed under several subheadings including the socioeconomic and family background of child workers, the existing nature and types of child labour, reasons for selecting of employment linked to tourism, places of work, salaries and wages, the nature of expenditure and problems faced by child workers. The overall findings of this study revealed that child workers have been employed in formal and informal sectors of the tourism industry. All the child labours are in the age range between 15 to 17 years. The most common form of utilizing child labour in the study area is as sellers. Economic burdens at home are the major reasons which draw the children to these jobs. Engaging in different activities, they are able to earn an income ranging from Rs. 3,000 to 15,000 and they have spent this income on different purposes. Since there are many problems related to child labour utilization active policies and plans are timely and significant to alleviate these problems. KEYWORDS : Tourism Industry, Child Labour, Labour utilization

Better Brand Management Through Design Thinking

The world is evolving fast, and in a global society that is developing at an astounding pace, borders of any kind are eliminated one at 0 a time. Moreover, the competition between companies is becoming fiercer and fiercer, so the differentiation of products and services has gradually turned into a real necessity. In this context, design thinking is one of the elements that is currently drawing new directions, often being associated with the innovation process and the gain of competitive advantages. Recent studies show that design principles applied at a strategic level, especially in the field of innovation, significantly increase its success rate. Design thinking focuses on obtaining solutions and is action oriented, providing all the necessary premises in order to discover new market needs and, moreover, to satisfy them. Another extremely important element in the current global context is brand, which gives the main points of differentiation for offers existing on the market. A correct and efficient management of the brand supports the creation of strong emotional relationships with consumers, bringing competitive advantages, especially by increasing their loyalty. As a result, brand management is an area of particular interest, and design thinking, together with innovation, can successfully support its specific actions, bringing with them the benefits of creativity, that translate into defining new concepts for attracting consumers and their trust. This article addresses aspects of design and design thinking, as elements that support a successful brand management, taking the tourism domain, which is currently the world's fastest growing industry, as a case study. The authors sought to study the connection between design, design thinking and brand management by correlating two studies, one of them conducted among consumers and the other one, among economic agents. Thus, questionnaires were addressed to consumers in order to identify their perception on design and design thinking, but also to economic agents in order to determine their actions in this regard. The way design and design thinking influences customers’ consumption behavior represents a starting point for building brand management strategies, indicating either the need to enhance their use or, on the contrary, the lack of need for design.

Overview of Risk factors of diabetic macular edema treatment prognosis

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is just one of the world's fastest growing chronic conditions as well as a leading cause of acquired vision loss, diabetic macular edema (DME) is a disease linked to diabetes. Some individuals with diabetes will certainly get a kind of retinopathy-a problem of the retina in the eye. Diabetic retinopathy could progress as well as result in DME (additionally referred to as retinal swelling) that might impact your vision, and is among the most usual reasons for blindness. Objective: In this review we discuss about the most dangerous risk factors during treatment and in daily life, which can worsen the treatment prognosis. Methods: PubMed and Embase database were searched up to July, 2018 for relevant studies that discussing the risk factors of glaucoma. Result: It is clear that the variety of people affected by DM is expanding greatly, as is the variety of patients with problems from DM. Fortunately; the eye symptoms of DME can be identified and managed prior to considerable vision loss happens if patients with DM undergo routine eye tests and much better manage their systemic condition. Conclusion: Close collaboration in between doctors and also ophthalmologists is important in the managing of patients with diabetic retinopathy and also DME. To make certain very early medical diagnosis as well as treatment all diabetic person patients should be screened for diabetic person retinopathy. Control of blood pressure, serum lipids, and also renal function are very important treatments focused on prevention of visual impairment associated with diabetic retinopathy and DME.

Overview of Risk factors of diabetic macular edema treatment prognosis

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is just one of the world's fastest growing chronic conditions as well as a leading cause of acquired vision loss, diabetic macular edema (DME) is a disease linked to diabetes. Some individuals with diabetes will certainly get a kind of retinopathy-a problem of the retina in the eye. Diabetic retinopathy could progress as well as result in DME (additionally referred to as retinal swelling) that might impact your vision, and is among the most usual reasons for blindness. Objective: In this review we discuss about the most dangerous risk factors during treatment and in daily life, which can worsen the treatment prognosis. Methods: PubMed and Embase database were searched up to July, 2018 for relevant studies that discussing the risk factors of glaucoma. Result: It is clear that the variety of people affected by DM is expanding greatly, as is the variety of patients with problems from DM. Fortunately; the eye symptoms of DME can be identified and managed prior to considerable vision loss happens if patients with DM undergo routine eye tests and much better manage their systemic condition. Conclusion: Close collaboration in between doctors and also ophthalmologists is important in the managing of patients with diabetic retinopathy and also DME. To make certain very early medical diagnosis as well as treatment all diabetic person patients should be screened for diabetic person retinopathy. Control of blood pressure, serum lipids, and also renal function are very important treatments focused on prevention of visual impairment associated with diabetic retinopathy and DME.

Study on economics and its two major branches

Purpose of this journal is to study Economics and its two main branches and overall Indian economy. Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. It enquires how a business gets its income and how it’s used. It is a study of wealth as well the study of a business. Economics can be divided into Microeconomics, which concentrates on the behaviour of the aggregate economy and Macroeconomics, which focuses on individual consumers. Every economy whether developed, developing or under developed has to face some economic problems as the means are limited and wants are unlimited. The economy of India is a developing mixed economy. It is the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). The country ranks 141st in per capita GDP (nominal) with $2,134 and 123rd in per capita GDP (PPP) with $7,783 as of 2018. After 1991 economic liberalisation, India achieved 6-7% average GDP growth annually. In FY 2015 and 2018 India's economy became the world's fastest growing major economy, surpassing China.

Impact of Computer Aided Learning to Increase the Performance of the Students in Selected Arts, Science and Commerce Colleges

The Indian telecommunication industry is the world's fastest growing industry with 851.70 million mobile phone subscribers as of June 2011. It is also the second largest telecommunication network in the world in terms of number of wireless connections after China. The industry is expected to reach a size of 344,921 crore by 2012 at a growth rate of over 26 per cent and generate employment opportunities for 2.8 million people directly and for 7 million people indirectly during the same period. In 2008-09 the over all telecom equipments revenue in India stand at Rs.136,833 crore during the fiscal year, as against Rs.115,382 crore in the last fiscal year. The total revenue of Indian telecom services company is likely to exceed Rs. 2,00,000 crore for financial year 2011-12.

Perceived stress, alcohol consumption, and Internet use among Korean college students: Does sensation-seeking matter?

The drinking culture in South Korea is fairly permissive, and the country is one of the world's fastest growing leaders in Internet connectivity. Given very slim knowledge on the mediating role of sensation-seeking on the association between stress, alcohol consumption, and Internet use among Korean college students, a cross-sectional study was conducted using Structural Equation Modeling on 870 college students (Mean age = 21.9 (SD = 2.4), Males: 65.6%). Sensation-seeking positively mediated between perceived stress level and alcohol use, but no effect on Internet use was found. Findings suggest the need to understand the direct effect of stress on drinking as well as linkages between stress, sensation-seeking, and alcohol consumption.

Recovery of tellurium from aqueous solutions by adsorption with magnetic nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVFe)

Waste tellurium cadmium solar cells, as one of the world's fastest growing electronic waste, contain abundant valuable rare elements, offering potential for the prospects of resource exploitation and separation. Herein, we proposed a facile magnetic adsorption separation of tellurium from aqueous solutions by nanoscale zero-valent iron. As the precursor of tellurium adsorbents, the nanoscale FeOOH were first prepared by facile hydrothermal reaction. Then, magnetic nano zero-valent iron NZVFe was obtained by thermal reduction of FeOOH in the hydrogen atmosphere. The physical and chemical properties of magnetic NZVFe were characterized by a number of analytical techniques including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and N2 adsorption-desorption. The results indicated that the obtained NZVFe exhibit high specific surface areas (64.43 m2/g), uniform pore sizes (2.80 nm), and high pore volumes (0.045 cm3/g). XPS results indicated that the surfaces of NZVFe were covered by a layer of tellurium, implying the successful extraction of tellurium. Parameters such as initial tellurium concentration, solution pH, interfering ions, adsorption times and adsorption temperatures that affect the adsorption efficiency of tellurium were studied. Due to the highly accessible surface and fully exposed active sites of NZVFe, the samples exhibit excellent adsorption capacity of 190 mg/g towards tellurium in water, and separation efficiency can reach >95%. As a clean and high-efficient adsorbent, NZVFe has tremendous potential to handle and recycle cadmium telluride solar cells waste.

SwSpTRSV

Sparse triangular solve (SpTRSV) is one of the most important kernels in many real-world applications. Currently, much research on parallel SpTRSV focuses on level-set construction for reducing the number of inter-level synchronizations. However, the out-of-control data reuse and high cost for global memory or shared cache access in inter-level synchronization have been largely neglected in existing work. In this paper, we propose a novel data layout called Sparse Level Tile to make all data reuse under control, and design a Producer-Consumer pairing method to make any inter-level synchronization only happen in very fast register communication. We implement our data layout and algorithms on an SW26010 many-core processor, which is the main building-block of the current world fastest supercomputer Sunway Taihulight. The experimental results of testing all 2057 square matrices from the Florida Matrix Collection show that our method achieves an average speedup of 6.9 and the best speedup of 38.5 over parallel level-set method. Our method also outperforms the latest methods on a KNC many-core processor in 1856 matrices and the latest methods on a K80 GPU in 1672 matrices, respectively.

The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil): Objectives and Design.

Brazil is experiencing among the world’s fastest demographic aging worldwide. This demographic transition is occurring in a context of few resources and great social inequalities. The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil) is a nationally representative study of 9,412 people aged 50 years or older, residing in 70 municipalities across the 5 Brazilian regions. ELSI-Brazil allows investigations of the aging process, its health, psychosocial and economic determinants, and societal consequences. The baseline examination (2015–2016) included detailed household and individual interviews and physical measurements (blood pressure, anthropometry, grip strength, and timed walk and balance tests). Blood tests and sample storage were performed in a subsample of study participants. Subsequent waves are planned for every 3 years. The study adopts a conceptual framework common to other large-scale longitudinal studies of aging in the world, such as the Health and Retirement Study, allowing cross-national comparisons. The goal of ELSI-Brazil is not only to build an understanding of aging in a large, Western, middle-income country in a rapid demographic transition but also to provide scientific data to support and study policy changes that may affect older adults. We describe the methodology of the study and some descriptive results of the baseline survey.

Ocular findings in Zucker Diabetic Fatty rats emphasize the key role of neuroglia degeneration in diabetic retinopathy pathophysiology.

Ocular findings in Zucker Diabetic Fatty rats emphasize the key role of neuroglia degeneration in diabetic retinopathy pathophysiology.

Essence of High Speed Rail Technology, Learning from Nature, Episodes of the Developing world fastest 500 Series Shinkansen

Essence of High Speed Rail Technology, Learning from Nature, Episodes of the Developing world fastest 500 Series Shinkansen

Globalization and commoditization: The transformation of the seafood market

The seafood market has changed dramatically in recent decades. Increased trade has created a global market for groups of species with similar characteristics, and the number of species that are becoming part of these global market segments continue to grow. Increased trade and stagnating landings of wild fish has also facilitated the rapid growth of the aquaculture industry and made it the world's fastest growing food production technology. The growth in aquaculture has been sufficient to also increase the per capita consumption of seafood globally. These two factors have allowed scale, modern logistics and marketing practices to be used also for seafood, increasingly commoditizing the main species groups.