scholarly journals User Satisfaction through Time, Cost and Visit (TCV) Model: Case of Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Elora Sharmin Ela ◽  
Azizur Rahman ◽  
Riffat Farhana
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Time Cost ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Pass Through

Governments around the world are encouraging private individuals, groups or organizations to join hand in hand in delivering better services to the citizens. Similarly, Government of Bangladesh has also initiated Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in its policies and strategies over the years. Mayor Muhammad Hanif Flyover (MMHF) is one of the key examples of large-scale project implemented under PPP in the country. The main objective of this paper is to assess the level of satisfaction of the service users of MMHF and associated factors that either facilitate or hamper user satisfaction. This study follows a mixed research method with both quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques; small scale survey and interview applied to cover primary sources and content analysis has been applied to get information from secondary sources. This study customizes TCV (time, cost and visit) model used by a2i to assess the efficacy of the use of MMHF. This study finds that most of the service users are satisfied with the time needed to pass through the flyover against the costs incurred and thereby they happily avail the flyover. Despite some challenges this PPP project has paved the opportunity to introduce more partnerships between government and the private sector. Social Science Review, Vol. 37(2), Dec 2020 Page 43-57

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF WAQF LAND FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: IS A HOTEL A VIABLE PROJECT?

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Farhana Mohamad Suhaimi ◽  
Ahmad Fatin Mohamad Suhaimi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Thematic Approach

This article examines waqf(pious endowment) hotel projects developed by Yayasan Waqaf Malaysia(YWM) for the economic development of Malaysian communities. Hotel projects were selected as the scope of this study because of their function as large-scale commercial projects and their impact on the development of Malaysian communities. The study involved three waqfhotel projects in Peninsular Malaysia. This study used interviews as primary sources and relevant documents as secondary sources. Data were analysed using a thematic approach. This study found that waqf hotel projects contribute to the economy through the optimal use of land resources, income generation and employment opportunities. Thus, the implementation of waqfhotel projects have the ability to contribute to the socio-economic development of society and the state.

scholarly journals Biomining – Biotechnological Systems for the Extraction and Recovery of Metals from Secondary Sources

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-742 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Bottom Ash ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Hydrometallurgical Processing ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
Pyrometallurgical Processing

<p>Biomining is the common term used to define processes that utilize biological systems to facilitate the extraction of metals from ores. Nowadays, a biomining concept can be defined as a two stage combined biological systems (1st stage bioleaching and 2nd stage biosorption) in order to perform the extraction and recovery of the metals from secondary sources such as industrial and mining waste, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), bottom ash and end of life vehicles. Overwhelming demand and limited sources of metals have resulted in searching new sources so that attentions have been shifted from mining process towards recycling of secondary resources for the recovery of metals. There are several metallurgical processes for metal recovery from the secondary sources such as pyrometallurgical processing, hydrometallurgical and bio/hydrometal-lurgical processing. Biomining processes are estimated to be relatively low-cost, environmentally friendly and suitable for both large scale as well as small scale applications under the bio/hydrometallurgical processing. Thus, the process involves physical separation (pre-treatment) and biomining (bioleaching and biosorption) and hydrometallurgical processes for recovery of base metals, rare earth elements (REEs) and precious metals from e-waste was evaluated.</p>

scholarly journals A STUDY ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE OF NURSING STAFF WORKING IN PRIVATE HOSPITALS IN PALAYAMKOTTAI

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (8(SE)) ◽  
pp. 72-75
Author(s):  
G. Suguna ◽  
C.Eugine Franco
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Pass Through

At present every successful employee has to pass through the dilemma of work life balance in personal and professional life. For the sake of leading a successful life, people do not hesitate to give extra time for achieving the objectives of life. In the process of getting extra mileage in their professional life they have to make a lot of compromise and sometimes mental piece also gets distorted. We have 24 hours at our disposal to deal with and it is up to us how to schedule and plan the same. It is rightly pointed out by experts, if our life span is 60 years (assumed to be) and if we sleep for 8 hours per day, than 20 years of our life span we used for sleeping only. So planning of our own time is important. At the end of the day priority matters a lot. In addition, relationships suffer and the person begins to experience loneliness and depression. The psychotherapist believes that mid-career professionals are most prone to having work-life imbalances. In the present paper it is an attempt by authors to present a study on work life balance dilemmas faced by nurses working in private hospitals. This study is based on primary sources of data and to some extent secondary sources. Various authentic journals, books and literature on the subject, newspapers, magazines, reports and studies were referred for the conceptual frame work of the study. The analysis is carried out on the basis of socio economic profile and general perception towards the personal and professional life.

The myofeedback-based teletreatment system and its evaluation

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 308-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard GA Bults ◽  
Daniël F Knoppel ◽  
Ing A Widya ◽  
Leendert Schaake ◽  
Hermie J Hermens
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Muscle Activity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Muscle Relaxation ◽  
Relaxation Times ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
System Quality ◽  
System Use

The myofeedback-based teletreatment system allows patients to receive tactile and/or visual feedback on muscle activity and muscle relaxation times. Health-care professionals can analyse muscle activity and muscle relaxation times and provide guidance to the patient on the course of treatment. The system was evaluated in a small clinical trial. Qualitative data were obtained by interviews and visual inspection of graphical patient data during the trial. Quantitative data were based on post-trial data analysis. We used a revised version of the information systems success model to evaluate the teletreatment system, and focused on the success categories of system use and user satisfaction. The evaluation found good input data quality, system quality and information quality. Both system use and user satisfaction were good. Thus the teletreatment system appears suitable for small scale clinical deployment. However, the sensory components suffered from heavy use and embedded software problems which made them unreliable. Large scale deployment requires improvement in terms of durability and reliability of the system's sensors.

scholarly journals Natural Resource Conflicts as a Struggle for Space: The Case of Mining in Tanzania

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Japhace Poncian ◽  
Henry Michael Kigodi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Conflicts ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Space Data

<p><em>Natural resource extraction in Africa has been characterised by conflicts between large scale and small scale miners on the one hand and large scale miners and the communities on the other. In some countries such as Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Liberia, natural resources have bred political instability and civil wars. A great deal of academic discourse on resource conflicts in Africa focuses on greed, corruption, political struggles for state capture and control over resources, economic liberalisation policies for attracting foreign investors and creating conducive climate for them to invest their capital in natural resource extraction, and foreign forces. While recognising the significance of the above approaches in explaining resource conflicts in Africa, this paper aims at explaining resource conflicts as a struggle for space between the communities, artisanal and small scale miners and large scale foreign mining corporations. The paper, therefore, argues that natural resource extraction conflicts in Africa can well be understood if we approach them as a struggle for space.  Data for this paper are drawn from secondary sources including academic literature, government reports, media reports and internet sources.</em></p>

scholarly journals Practices of Motivators in Adopting Agile Software Development at Large Scale Development Team from Management Perspective

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 2341
Author(s):  
Rashid Ali Khan ◽  
Muhammad Faisal Abrar ◽  
Samad Baseer ◽  
Muhammad Faran Majeed ◽  
Muhammad Usman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scale Development ◽  
Software Development ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Agile Software

Agile software development methodologies have become the most popular software development methods in the last few years. These methodologies facilitate rapid development. The low cost and prioritized user satisfaction make these methodologies more attractive. These methodologies were also intended for small scale developmental teams. Therefore, challenges were encountered when these methodologies were used in large-scale development teams. This study was based on the identification of factors which were discovered in our previous study. Some of the factors included “leadership strong commitment and team autonomy”, “cooperative organizational culture”, and “team competency—agile development expertise”. A total of 147 practices were identified in this study via a systematic literature review. These practices will help practitioners and project managers to adopt agile software methodologies and encourage them to the enhance them.

scholarly journals Load Balancing at Fog Nodes using Scheduling Algorithms

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 4129-4134
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Scheduling Algorithms ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Time Cost ◽  
Cloud Server ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Cloud Servers

Cloud Computing proves to be most predominant innovative field in the area of Information technology. Cloud is best suited for small scale to large scale businesses and personal purposes such as storing, computing, managing data & resources, running applications and many more. Due to increasing large volumes of data over cloud servers created subsequent specific issues like data maintainability, network elasticity, managing Internet of Things (I.o.T’s) devices and many more. Recent progresses in Technology are given rise to fog computing or decentralized cloud to overcome cloud server issues called fog nodes. In this paper we present a brief note on how cloud issues can overcome using fog nodes benefits along with elaboration of load balancing factor. To maintain load balancing of fog nodes no much appreciable work took place in the field of fog computing. This paper proposes a scheduler which receives the devices in to a Job Queue to be connected over cloud. To apply scheduling algorithms like F.C.F.S, S.J.F, P.S, R.R and W.R.R. over fog nodes will be discussed along with their merits & demerits. At last we try to compare the various parameters of load balancing among various scheduling algorithms. In this paper we focus on how fog nodes perform functions like considerable storages, low latency, heterogeneity, allocation & interaction with limited IoT devices and Security along with architecture cloud to fog. During allocation of IoT devices to various fog nodes we will come across a serious issues i.e load balancing on fog nodes. Our detailed study presents the comparison of above mentioned scheduling algorithms load balancing factors such as rich resources allocations & Balancing among fog nodes, Identification of devices, Authentication of fog nodes, bandwidth consumption, location awareness, response time, cost maintenances, Intrusion detection, fault forbearances and maintainability.

scholarly journals Enabling Optimal Energy Management with Minimal IoT Requirements: A Legacy A/C Case Study

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 7910
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Michailidis ◽  
Paschalis Pelitaris ◽  
Christos Korkas ◽  
Iakovos Michailidis ◽  
Simone Baldi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Model Free

The existing literature on energy saving focuses on large-scale buildings, wherein the energy-saving potential is substantially larger than smaller-scale buildings. However, the research intensity is significantly less for small-scale deployments and their capacities to regulate energy use individually, directly and without depreciating users’ comfort and needs. The current research effort focused on energy saving and user satisfaction, concerning a low-cost—yet technically sophisticated—methodology for controlling conventional residential HVAC units through cheap yet reliable actuation and sensing and auxiliary IoT equipment. The basic ingredients of the proposed experimental methodology involve a conventional A/C unit, an Arduino microcontroller, typical wireless IoT sensors and actuators, a configured graphical environment and a sophisticated, model-free, optimization-and-control algorithm (PCAO) that portrays the ground basis for achieving improved performance results in comparison with conventional methods. The main goal of this study was to produce a system that would adequately and expeditiously achieve energy savings by utilizing minimal hardware/equipment (affordability). The system was designed to be easily expandable in terms of new units or thermal equipment (expandability) and also to be autonomous, requiring zero user interventions at the experimental site (automation). The real-life measurements were collected over two different seasonal periods of the year (winter, summer) and concerned a conventional apartment in the city of Xanthi, Northern Greece, where summers and winters exhibit quite diverse climate characteristics. The final results revealed the increased efficiency of PCAO’s optimization in comparison with a conventional rule-based control strategy (RBC), as concerns energy savings and user satisfaction.

scholarly journals Beyond the Bioceanic Route: indigenous crafts and the potential of ethno-tourism in the southwest of Mato Grosso do Sul

2021 ◽  
pp. 1335-1352
Author(s):  
Gilberto Luiz Alves ◽  
Fábio Luciano Violin ◽  
Maristela Benites
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Data Survey ◽  
Government Propaganda ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul

The object of this article is the relationship between indigenous crafts and the potential of ethno-tourism in the southwest of Mato Grosso do Sul. With the implementation of the Bi-oceanic Route, government propaganda has been promising that this economic corridor will stimulate tourism, hence the objective of probing the potential of ethno-tourism in that region, which will directly suffer a great impact as a result of this large-scale undertaking. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on the basic assumption that human productions necessarily result from work, hence the need to treat them as social relations. Therefore, the object of research only acquires understanding within the most general frameworks of capitalist society, expressed by categories such as capital, labor, labor force, market, merchandise, among others. Regarding the methodology, the empirical data survey looked for primary sources of a documentary and imaginary nature, especially photographs. Systematic observations were also recovered in work siltation, carried out both in production and commercialization stations of indigenous artifacts. Secondary sources relevant to the object were also raised, such as catalogs, scientific articles, master's dissertations, doctoral theses, books, and book chapters. To make ethno-tourism viable, the general conclusion is that it invests in a set of initiatives, planned in an integrated and continuous manner within a permanent project. In this group, the improvement of ethnic artifacts is urgent; the recovery and systematic maintenance of the access roads to indigenous lands, as well as the restoration and adaptation of the buildings already available in the villages, with a view to adapting them to the provision of services and products to tourists.

scholarly journals Socio-economic Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Smallholder Livelihoods in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mhlanga ◽  
Emmanuel Ndhlovu
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
The Government ◽  
Capital Intensive ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

The article revisits previous viruses such as Ebola to extrapolate the socio-economic implications of the COVID-19. Using secondary sources and the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) to guide understanding, the article argues that unless measures are put in place to safeguard smallholder activities in Zimbabwe, COVID-19 has the potential to reproduce the same catastrophic implications created by Ebola in West African countries where peasant food systems where shattered and livelihoods strategies maimed. With a perceptible withdrawal of the government from small-scale farming towards large-scale capital intensive operations, smallholders could now be even more vulnerable. The article concludes that social assistance should now be intensified to protect its vulnerable population from the ravages of COVID-19.

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