Volume 8 | Issue 9 |

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Work related musculoskeletal disorders have become a major risk in agriculture industry due to lack of ergonomically designed instruments and the wrong work postures occupied by the workers. This paper presents a study on various working postures occupied in manual transplantation activity of vegetables. The agriculture sector have major role in Indian economy and it is the place where work posture analysis is mostly neglected. The study was conducted on 70 workers engaged in various activities of vegetable production. Posture analysis tool Rapid Upper Limb Assessment was used. The different activities of the workers were recorded by video and still photography, and these images were used for analysis. The final scores of Rapid Upper Limb Assessment during various working activities were found to be high. The findings revealed that there are ergonomic deficiencies in the planning and work methods. A significant proportion of the workers are working in high risk postures. Thus the workers are under moderate to high risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The study recommended a proper implementation of ergonomics interventions program with awareness and training among workers to reduce the risks of WMSD.

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RULA, Occupational, Postural analysis, musculoskeletal disorders, vegetable production

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Coke is a crucial raw material and a fuel used in blast furnace iron making. However, the coking industry with coal as the primary raw material is characterized by a relatively low energy utilization rate, high energy consumption per unit, complex process flows, abundant pollution�producing links, and it�s being a large source of highly polluting matters. Therefore, the coking industry is considered a highly polluting industry. The exhaust gas pollutants generated during coking include total suspended particulate matter (TSP), particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters less than or equal to 2.5 ?m (PM2.5), sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The coking industry is also a substantial contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Long-term exposure to coke oven emissions results in inflammation of the skin and inner eyelids and lesions in the lung and stomach. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) classifies coke oven emissions as Group A carcinogens and links them to lung cancer (US EPA, 1999).

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FOSSITIVE EMISSION ,COKE OVEN, CDM,BACT,CAA,AEL.LAER ,EPA, PLD

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At this time of the global crisis, telecommunications play an important role in keeping people connected and working. To a large extent, this is largely the basis for streaming media, social media, and video conferencing to a new level of activity. In this article, we will pay special attention to 5G wireless cellular knowledge and ask profounder inquiries about how the technology will work and what new rations this epidemic may inspire in emerging 6G work. We are definitely going to miss something, so you can submit valuable comments. In the survey, it was found that strategies using potential skills will produce better returns, and these technology strategies can formulate a framework to regulator pandemics or support development of the entire society. A pandemic, which in turn helps control the spread of the infection. This research inspired a variety of implemented technologies that can help health system, the government, and the public against COVID-19 in various ways. In addition, rapid technological development during pandemic or its impact on environment and society were also discussed. In addition to technologies already implemented, this work also involves potential untapped skills that have potential prospects for application in pandemic situation control. In addition to various discussions, some suggested solutions are also proposed for certain situations.

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COVID -19, Wireless Network, 5g Technology, Pandemic Environment

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The informal sector Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) growth is very important to the development and expansion of an economy.Studies have revealed that SMEs in the informal sector are liquidated at infant stage and also not captured in the tax net.The study examined the impact of tax incentives on the growth of SMEs in the informal sector of South West ,Nigeria.The study used survey research design.The population consisted of 2,708 registered SMEs with with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDA). Using stratified and proprtionate quota sampling method to administer questionnaire .to 386 selected samples.The study administered 772 copies of the questionnaire with a retrieval rate of 88%reliability ranged between 0.70 and 0.87 coefficients. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data.The results showed that tax incentives have significant impact on gross margin growth with Adjusted R-squared of 0.890,F-statistics of 455.530 and p-value of 0.000.Also tax incentives have significant impact on asset tangibility growth with adjusted R-squared of 0.781,F-statistics of 60.220 and p-value of 0.000.The study concluded that tax incentives have the predictive power to grow of informal sector SMEs in Nigeria.The study recommended that Federal Inland Revenue Service and State Internal Revenue Board should introduce policies that enable the SMEs in the informal sector to be captured in the tax tax net through tax incentives.This will expand the tax revenue generation to both the federal and state governments of Nigeria.

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Economy,Economic development,Growth,Informal Sector,Poverty,Small and Medium Enterprises,Tax incentives.

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Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) is a current inclusion to the range of online learning options. Many academics have taken interest in MOOCs recognizing the promising to covey education around the world on a remarkable scale. Present study was mainly focusing on attitude of Teacher Educators towards MOOC. The population identified for the current study was 200 Teacher Educators who ware presently teaching in TEIs of Karnataka. This study revealed that Female Teacher educators, Arts subject Teacher educators, Urban area Teacher educators and Associate Professor/Professor of TEIs have more positive Attitude than Male Teacher educators, Science subject Teacher educators, Rural area Teacher educators and assistant professors of TEIs.

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MOOC, Teacher Educators, Attitude, Teacher Education Institutes

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Human history has witnessed various pandemics throughout, and these cause disastrous effects on human health and country�s economy. Once again, after SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), the world is observing a very tough time fighting an invisible enemy, the novel COVID-19 coronavirus. Initially observed in the Wuhan province of China, now, it has spread across 210 countries. Number of corona affected confirmed cases have reached > 3 million globally and death toll has reached to 258,481 as on 6th May,2020. Researchers are working round the clock, forming collaborative efforts and sharing their data to come up with a cure for this disease. The new coronavirus genome was quickly sequenced, and clinical and epidemiological data are continuously being collected and analyzed. This data is crucial for forming better public health policies and developing antiviral drugs and vaccines. As there is no vaccine available in market against COVID-19, personal health, immunity, social distancing and basic protection measures are extremely important. It is critical to avoid the virus infection and to strengthen the immune system as the coronavirus can be fatal for those with weak immunity. This article reviews the nutritional and therapeutic potential of Spirulina, which is considered as superfood and a natural supplement to strengthen the immune system. Spirulina is highly nutritious and has hypolipidemic, hypoglycemic and antihypertensive properties. Spirulina contains several bioactive compounds, such as phenols, phycobiliproteins and sulphated polysaccharides and many more with proven antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunostimulant/ immunomodulatory effects.

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anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, COVID -19, polysaccharides, Spirulina

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The natural fibres and fillers from renewable natural resources offer the potential to act as a reinforcing material for polymer composite material alternative to the use of natural fibres and other man-made fibres. Among various natural fibres and fillers like aramid, wheat straw, sisal fiberwood powder, jute, hemp etc. are the most widely used natural fibres and fillers due to its advantages like easy availability, low density, low production cost and reasonable physical and mechanical properties. This research work presents the effects of natural fillers, hybrid composite structure is formed. Hybrid fiber reinforced polymer (HFRP) composite is a novel methodology in fiber reinforced polymer (FRP). A Laminate is prepared by stacking of alternative layers of carbon fiber reinforced jute and sisal reinforced composite making a laminate thickness of 10mm. Experiments were conducted HFRP composite for full factorial design to evaluate delamination factor at different drilling parameters, such as drill bit diameter, feed rate and cutting speed. Utilizing full factorial design and ANOVA approach the drilling parameters will optimize.

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Optimization, Drilling, Hybrid FRP, Delamination, Polymer

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In this paper, the authors have calculated the two dimensional mobility in GaN single quantum well and ballastic mobility of Al0.25GaN0.75/GaN Superlattice MOSFET as a function of gate length .In the case of two dimensional mobility in GaN single quantum well the different lattice scattering mechanisms, namely ionised impurity scattering and acoustic phonon scattering are taken into account. A comparative study of two dimensional mobility of GaN single quantum well and ballastic mobility Al0.25GaN0.75/GaN Superlattice MOSFET has been made.

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Pharmaceutical industry is one of the rapidly growing Industry globally. It is exploring new ways of promoting products to the Physicians who are the key decision makers for prescribing Drugs to the end customer which is Patient. Pharmaceutical Industry is spending huge on promoting drugs to the Physicians in innovative ways so as to influence the physician. The study was conducted to find the impact of various Promotional Strategies adopted by Pharmaceutical Companies for influencing Physician Prescription and the Physician�s perspective about these pharmaceutical strategies in the area of Punjab. A qualitative study was conducted for determining the various Promotional strategies and the Physician�s Perspective in Punjab. Interviews were conducted and Open-ended questions were asked to 50 Physicians and 50 Medical Representatives. The main conclusion was that the Physicians develop perception about Pharmaceutical Company based on the Engagement activities with the Physician, Product Knowledge of the Medical Representative and the way the Drugs are promoted to the Physician ( sharing about the benefits and the side effect profile of the drug ) and these were found to be the most effective marketing strategies of the Pharmaceutical Industry for promoting Drugs. The Medical Representatives were also of the same opinion except for the influence of incentives on the Physicians prescription which was not considered as important factor by the Physicians.

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Pharmaceutical Promotional Strategies, Physician, Physician perspective, Medical Representative perspective

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