BEST PRACTICES AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR REMARKABLE EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP

The importance of leadership cannot be overstated in an environment where the goal is that every person will achieve at high levels. In effective educational environment, leadership capacity is developed and supported at every level. The issue of leadership styles has recently attracted the attention of the general public and people are exerting energies into research to nd its courses and effects. Excellence can be imparted only when an individual adopts the policies with consistent and clear communication collaboratively and helping to set up a framework to achieve goals which are specic, measurable, attainable, relevant and time bound. Also, the excellence involves the practice of planning, evaluation, coordination and improvement of self which is a never ending process in leadership. Primarily the study was to assess the effective practices of leadership that shall enhance the quality of excellence. The present article highlights the aims and objectives, methodology, leadership styles, limitations and conclusions with better practices and innovative strategies for excellence in leadership.

Epicureanism and Schopenhauer’s Consolation in Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death”

The concept of death is important in Schopenhauer’s philosophy. For him, it is the only certainty. He regards life as a never-ending process of dying. The triumph of death is inevitable and this causes existence to be an absurd tragedy. Influenced in this by Buddhist thinkers, he regards death as the origin of philosophy because it makes us think and search for a solution to counter the futility of existence. This inevitability is discussed in Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Red Death. The paper examines the concept of death in the story and the futile human struggle to avoid it. Our needs and lusts and the desire to satisfy those needs which he called the Will to Live make life a pain. One of the solutions that Schopenhauer proposed in his philosophy towards consolation and to counter our insatiability is asceticism. Poe’s short story which is a long series of profound symbols replicates Schopenhauer’s philosophy and man’s futile attempts to escape death. The only diversion from Schopenhauer’s concept is that the protagonist fails to live up to the proposed solution and the protagonist is in the end caught in the inevitability of death

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF THREE MODE CONTROLLER FOR HOME APPLIANCE USING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

An attempt is made to enhance the automation and sophistication of a home appliance. In this work, electric lamp is considered as a home appliance and it is controlled through three different modes. Technology is a never-ending process, the home automation is a well-known field of recent research, which makes the customer to reach the next level of sophistication. One such next level is presented in this article. The proposed paper is about design, experimentation and testing of three-way control for a lamp, using low cost microcontroller, Bluetooth module and android mobile application. The three modes of control are manual switch mode, Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) mode and Bluetooth based Wireless communication mode. The work is initially simulated using Proteus 8 Professional Application and then implemented as a real time working model. Also, the working performances were tested using the Simulation and developed working model. The control in Bluetooth mode is based on an Android Application. A dedicated Android Application is developed for testing the developed working model, using MIT App Inventor. ABSTRAK: Percubaan dibuat untuk meningkatkan automasi dan kecanggihan perkakas rumah. Dalam karya ini, lampu elektrik dianggap sebagai perkakas rumah dan ia dikendalikan melalui tiga mod yang berbeza. Teknologi adalah proses yang tidak pernah berakhir, automasi rumah adalah bidang penyelidikan baru-baru ini, yang menjadikan pelanggan mencapai tahap kecanggihan yang seterusnya. Satu tahap seterusnya ditunjukkan dalam artikel ini. Makalah yang dicadangkan adalah mengenai reka bentuk, eksperimen dan pengujian kawalan tiga arah untuk lampu, menggunakan mikrokontroler kos rendah, modul Bluetooth dan aplikasi mudah alih android. Tiga mod kawalan tersebut ialah mod suis manual, mod Perintang Bergantung Cahaya (LDR) dan mod komunikasi Tanpa Wayar berasaskan Bluetooth. Karya ini pada mulanya disimulasikan menggunakan Proteus 8 Professional Application dan kemudian dilaksanakan sebagai model kerja masa nyata. Juga, prestasi kerja diuji menggunakan Simulasi dan model kerja yang dikembangkan. Kontrol dalam mod Bluetooth didasarkan pada Aplikasi Android. Aplikasi Android khusus dikembangkan untuk menguji model kerja yang dikembangkan, menggunakan MIT App Inventor.

Design and Implementation of an Advanced Home Automation

Technology is a never ending process. To be able to design a product using the current technology that will be beneficial to the lives of others is a huge contribution to the community. This paper presents the design and implementation of alexa based home automation system. The design is based on a PIC the home appliances are connected to the input/ output ports of this board via relays. The communication between the alexa and the PIC Controller is wireless. This system is designed to be low cost and scalable allowing variety of devices to be controlled with minimum changes to its core.

Strategies and Therapies for Wound Healing: A Review

: Wound healing is the complex and a never-ending process that involves numerous mediators, enzymatic cascades that are directly or indirectly involved in the mechanism. So, it becomes necessary to closely examine critical factors such as gaseous exchange, a moist environment, anti-microbial activity, and exudation liquids' absorption while designing wound dressings. There is a heap of wound dressings available for human use, but they all are way apart from the ideal dressing. Use of biopolymers may be a solution to tackle the difficulties such as combining with growth factors and cells that can trigger the wound healing. This article reviews such therapies for wound healing application.

EMP absolute and variable characteristics

English for Specific Purpose appeared due to an urgent demand for an international language worldwide in the fields of Business, Trading, Medicine, Law, Tourism and since the increasing awareness of General English Curriculum does not fit the learners’ specific needs, especially in higher education. Designing an ESP course is a never – ending process which requires permanent improvement and changing in the syllabus, design and ESP teaching materials used within classrooms. The aim of this study was to analyze the challenges that arise in teaching English for Medical Students by examining the ESP absolute and variable characteristics. Some practical suggestions are also given in order to overcome these problems.

REALITISASI PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER SEBAGAI WUJUD BUDAYA BELAJAR SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR

<p>Kegiatan yang dilakukannya guru adalah kerja keras, kerja cerdas, dan kerja iklas, serta disiplin harus dijadikan pedoman dalam pendidikan karakter di sekolah. Hal ini sangat penting, terutama untuk mencapai hasil yang optimal, sehingga peserta didik sebagai generasi muda <em>(The Young Generation)</em> memilki kerakter tinggi sesuai yang diharapkan yang merupakan harapan pemerintah Indonesia. Hal ini dilakukan adalah untuk mencegah kekewatiran masyarakat atas kehilangan jati diri/ karakter pada peserta didik.</p><p>Dengan berkarakter yang tinggi sehingga akan membawa peserta didik yang bermoral berakar pada filosofi, pengalaman dan memilki nilai cultural, religius bangsa Indonesia. Dengan demikian Pendidikan karakter harus berkelanjutana dan tak pernah berakhir <em>(never ending process),</em> sebagai bagian terpadu untuk menyiapkan genarasi bangsa, yang disesuaikan dengan sosok manusia memiliki masa depan.</p><p>Pendidikan karakter harus menumbuhkembangkan filosofi dan pengamalan atas keseluruhan karakter bangsa ini secara utuh, dan menyeluruh <em>(kaffah).</em> Karakter bangsa mengandung perekat budaya dan cultural yang harus terwujud dalam kesadara cultural <em>(cultural awareness)</em> dan kecerdasan cultural <em>(cultural intelligence)</em> setiap warga Negara.</p>

Reconstructing Self- Identity: The Image of Albanian as “The Other”

The “other” is seen as a social construction, which helps the establishing of the own identity. To explore how self-identity is reconstructed through deconstructing the image of “the other”, we chose to analyze the case of migrants, who are positioned as ‘the other’ and are treated as distant from the host societies. Albanians in Italy, especially those who have experienced the exodus of March and August of 1991, are at the center of the analysis, because they were the first ones in contact with the Italian society, after the collapse of the communist regime. The secondary data from the literature review and the qualitative primary data, generated from the biographical narration of eighteen people have been used to explore the phenomenon. In order to meet this research criteria, there are some questions to be answered which will help in solving the core issues of the problem. How the boats that arrived from Albanian coasts in Italy did create the image in the plural of settled people as “the other”? Which were the strategies used by these people to deconstruct the image as “the other”? How has self-identity been reconstructed through the time? The research pointed out that the image of “the other”, as a universal process, is created more quickly under the influence of factors that make the "other" more visible, such as the massive exodus through the boats. Although the mimesis tendency was adopted in Albanian immigrants’ case, pushed by the will for a positive social identity, the coexistence with the natives helped to rebuild the perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and identities, even though self-identity is a never-ending process. Received: 2 January 2021 / Accepted: 27 February 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021

Visual ageism and the subtle sexualisation of older celebrities in L'Oréal's advert campaigns: a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

This study focuses on the recent increase in the use of older celebrities in cosmetics advertising. It asks what kinds of ideas and values these images may attribute to discourses of ageing. Drawing on a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) perspective, this study focuses on L'Oréal UK and Ireland Web advertisements, examining how these advertisements use older celebrities to redefine/reposition ageing and exploring how they relate to the notion of ‘successful ageing’. In these advertisements, using cosmetics is presented as a positive, empowering choice. The advertisements simultaneously promote new discourses about ageing in which older women's sexuality is presented as a form of power. However, the analysis shows that the underlying discourse pathologises ageing and presents ageing as something which can be evaded through the consumption of cosmetics. It thus turns ageing into a choice, but one where the ‘right choice’ aligns with neo-liberal ideas about ageing well. For women, decision-making about ageing seems to be a never-ending process that requires constant construction, promoted through the older celebrity's sexualisation. Women are expected to always look good and present the best versions of themselves, even at the latest stages of life, which reproduces and legitimises sexist and ageist expectations about women's appearances, including the expectations that for older women to remain visible and attractive, they must hide outward signs of ageing.