scholarly journals Emergency Preparedness of The New Generation Retail Outlets of Kerala

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.36) ◽  
pp. 829
Author(s):  
R. Roshan ◽  
D. Kinslin
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Retail Outlets ◽  
Indian State ◽  
New Generation

The aim of this research study is to analyze the preparedness of the new generation retail outlets of Kerala to face an unexpected emergency situation. Kerala is a small south Indian state with 580km of its western boundary as a coastal line to the Arabian sea. With a population density of 860 people per square kilometer and a human development index of 0.79 which is the highest in the country, the state is multi hazard prone, though it ranks high in education health, and purchasing power. The last decade has seen a tremendous increase in the number of organized retail outlets in the state. With 14.5% of the state prone to floods, 14.4% of the area prone to landslides and with an average of 70 people dying of lightning every year this consumer state has to be more conscious about the safety measures existing in the new generation sales outlets. This study was focused on discovering the awareness, the presence, the maintenance and the usage of emergency management systems in the new generation retail outlets. The data was collected using interview schedule and observation. The result of the study shows an alarming nature of general negligence to even the simplest precautions that could be taken. 

scholarly journals Employee Training on Emergency Management in the New Generation Retail Outlets of Kerala

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Employee Training ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The State ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
Retail Outlets ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Density Population

The aim of this study is to analyze the readiness of the employees of new generation retail outlets of Kerala to handle an unexpected emergency situation. The state of Kerala, a little, long stripped land in the southern tip of India has the largest population density in the country (860people/km²-2011 census). It is more vulnerable to population disasters because of its high density population and high standard of living. Records show that in the last 80 years, there has been a change in its population profile, a shift from the basic agrarian society to an urbanized consumerist society. The result is an increase in the total number of shops from 2, 31,046 in 2004 to 2, 87, 598 in 2015, with more organized and professionalized management. About 50 malls have come up in the State in the last three years and all these developments in a state were about 14.5% of the area is prone to floods and 14.4% of the area to landslides. This is one of the reason why Kerala has to be more conscious about its safety measures. And making this data even worse, the recent floods (2018) that affected the state has proved more fatal than before as all the fourteen districts were affected. The data presented in this study was collected six months prior to this recent emergency situation and was mainly focused on knowing the precautions existing in outlets with respect to employee training, to handle the most common disasters that may happen. Data was collected using an interview schedule. The analysis shows varying results as the knowledge and preparations of the staff of the outlets in most of the places is not enough to make them confident about their emergency management competence.

“Sultan among Hindu Kings”: Dress, Titles, and the Islamicization of Hindu Culture at Vijayanagara

1996 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip B. Wagoner
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
South India ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Natural Result

When Robert Sewell inaugurated the modern study of the South Indian state of Vijayanagara with his classic A Forgotten Empire (1900), he characterized the state as “a Hindu bulwark against Muhammadan conquests” (Sewell [1900] 1962, 1), thereby formulating one of the enduring axioms of Vijayanagara historiography. From their capital on the banks of the Tungabhadra river, the kings of Vijayanagara ruled over a territory of more than 140,000 square miles, and their state survived three changes of dynasty to endure for a period of nearly three hundred years, from the mid-fourteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries (Stein 1989, 1–2). According to Sewell, this achievement was to be understood as “the natural result of the persistent efforts made by the Muhammadans to conquer all India” ([1900] 1962, 1). Hindu kingdoms had exercised hegemony over South India for most of the previous millennium, but were divided among themselves when the Muslim forces of Muhammad bin Tughluq swept over the South in the early decades of the fourteenth century: “When these dreaded invaders reached the Krishna River the Hindus to their south, stricken with terror, combined, and gathered in haste to the new standard [of Vijayanagara] which alone seemed to offer some hope of protection. The decayed old states crumbled away into nothingness, and the fighting kings of Vijayanagar became the saviours of the south for two and a half centuries” (Sewell [1900] 1962, 1).

scholarly journals Analysis of non-pharmaceutical interventions and their impacts on COVID-19 in Kerala

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Goult ◽  
Shubha Sathyendranath ◽  
Žarko Kovač ◽  
Christina Eunjin Kong ◽  
Petar Stipanović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Therapy ◽  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
International Media ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

AbstractIn the absence of an effective vaccine or drug therapy, non-pharmaceutical interventions are the only option for control of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019, a pandemic with global implications. Each of the over 200 countries affected has followed its own path in dealing with the crisis, making it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of measures implemented, either individually, or collectively. In this paper we analyse the case of the south Indian state of Kerala, which received much attention in the international media for its actions in containing the spread of the disease in the early months of the pandemic, but later succumbed to a second wave. We use a model to study the trajectory of the disease in the state during the first four months of the outbreak. We then use the model for a retrospective analysis of measures taken to combat the spread of the disease, to evaluate their impact. Because of the differences in the trajectory of the outbreak in Kerala, we argue that it is a model worthy of a place in the discussion on how the world might best handle this and other, future, pandemics.

scholarly journals COVID-19 in Kerala: analysis of measures and impacts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Goult ◽  
Shubha Sathyendranath ◽  
Žarko Kovač ◽  
Anas Abdulaziz ◽  
Nandini Menon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Therapy ◽  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Effective Vaccine ◽  
International Media ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

Abstract In the absence of an effective vaccine or drug therapy, non-Pharmaceutical Interventions are the only option for control of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019, a pandemic with global implications. Each of the over 200 countries affected1 has followed its own path in dealing with the crisis, making it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of measures implemented, either individually, or collectively. In this paper we analyse the case of the south Indian state of Kerala, which received much praise in the international media for its success in containing the spread of the disease in the early months of the pandemic, but is now in the grips of a second wave. We use a model to study the trajectory of the disease in the state during the first four months of the outbreak. We then use the model for a retrospective analysis of measures taken to combat the spread of the disease, to evaluate their impact. Because of the unusual aspects of the Kerala case, we argue that it is a model worthy of a place in the discussion on how the world might best handle this and other, future, pandemics.

scholarly journals Convectively-coupled High-frequency Atmospheric waves triggered Kerala floods in 2018 and 2019

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIRAN S R
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Events ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The State ◽  
Equatorial Waves ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Normal Rainfall

Abstract Floods have repeatedly battered the South Indian state, Kerala, as a result of the unprecedented heavy rainfall during Boreal Summers, in recent years. The state witnessed large departures from normal rainfall in 2018 and 2019. Previous studies have seldom adopted a systematic approach to understand the phenomenon responsible for the recurrent extreme events. Hence, this study, based on spectral methods, identifies a characteristic propagation of high-frequency equatorial waves in the atmosphere, which travelled from near tropical west Pacific to the east coast of Africa. These waves stimulated intense convection and ensured sufficient availability of moisture over the state, and are hence responsible for Kerala Floods.

Awareness and practice of road safety measures among undergraduate medical students in a South Indian state

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaman Kulkarni ◽  
Tanuj Kanchan ◽  
C. Palanivel ◽  
M.K. Papanna ◽  
Nithin Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State

THE NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT PLAN IN BULGARIA - ANALYSIS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venelin Krastev Terziev ◽  
◽  
Ivan Stefanov Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Financial Resource ◽  
The State

This paper is the part of an extensive study which analyzes and examines the processes on the Bulgarian market that unfold in the emergency situation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemics. The focus is on the state of the labour market before the pandemic crisis and the subsequent changes in the current national employment plan in view of the challenges of the situation caused by COVID-19. It proposes measures and supports actions for restructuring the financial resource for adaptation of the plan to the new challenge to the labour market in Bulgaria.

Political and Economic History of Land-Grabs in India

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
The State ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Land Grabs ◽  
Indian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

This chapter begins with tracing the roots of colonialism in India, followed by understanding its various structures and processes of resource-grabbing. It argues, that India has largely followed the colonial approach towards land appropriation. After independence, although the Indian state followed a nationalistic path of development, the developmental approach of the state was far from being pro-peasant and/or pro-ecology. In a similar fashion, hydroelectricity projects in Kashmir, developed by NHPC from 1970s, have been displacing thousands of peasants from their lands and houses. Despite this, they are yet to become a major debate in the media, in the policy circles, or in academia in India.

scholarly journals Safe and Effective Use of Ozone as Air and Surface Disinfectant in the Conjuncture of Covid-19

Gases ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Elena Grignani ◽  
Antonella Mansi ◽  
Renato Cabella ◽  
Paola Castellano ◽  
Angelo Tirabasso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Toxic Substance ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Effective Use

The present paper extrapolates quantitative data for ozone virucidal activity on the basis of the available scientific literature data for a safe and effective use of ozone in the appropriate cases and to explore the safety measures developed under the stimulus of the current emergency situation. Ozone is a powerful oxidant reacting with organic molecules, and therefore has bactericidal, virucidal, and fungicidal actions. At the same time, it is a toxic substance, having adverse effects on health and safety. Its use is being proposed for the disinfection of workplaces’ and public places’ atmosphere, and for disposable masks and personal protective equipment disinfection for reuse, with particular reference to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Ozone can be generated in situ by means of small, compact ozone generators, using dried ambient air as a precursor. It should be injected into the room that is to be disinfected until the desired ozone concentration is reached; after the time needed for the disinfection, its concentrations must be reduced to the levels required for the workers’ safety. The optimal use of ozone is for air and surface disinfection without human presence, using a concentration that is effective for the destruction of viruses, but not high enough to deteriorate materials.

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