International Journal of KIU Volume (2) Issue (2) December 2021

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Assessment of the Level of Knowledge on Autism among the Mothers of Toddlers in Selected Village, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India

Background: Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Mothers of toddlers should have knowledge on Autism to identify the child in earlier age and to treat the child. Objectives: The study aimed to assess the level of knowledge on autism among the mothers of toddlers. The objectives were to find out the level of knowledge on autism among the mothers and to find out the association between the level of knowledge on autism and selected demographic variables of the mothers of toddlers. Materials and Methods: A non-experimental, descriptive study was conducted. The sampling technique was snow ball sampling technique with the sample of 50 mothers of toddlers and questionnaires were formulated, a structured interview schedule was used to assess the level of knowledge on autism among the mothers of toddlers. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data. The data collection procedure was done for period of 2 weeks. The study was initiated after obtaining prior permission from the concern authorities. Results: The findings of this study revealed that 44% of the mothers of toddlers had inadequate knowledge, 44% had moderately adequate knowledge and only 2% had adequate knowledge on autism. There was significant association between level of knowledge and demographic variables such as age, occupation and previous knowledge on Autism of mothers of toddlers.

Rapid Assessment of COVID-19 Screening Program for Travelers in Iran: A Qualitative Study

Objective: COVID-19 screening stations set up by Iranian Red Crescent Society have been available for seventeen days with the aim of identifying and treating people with coronavirus, reducing road trips, and sensitizing people to the problem. This study aims to investigate the challenges of the procedure. Methods: A qualitative study was used to find the challenges of the COVID-19 screening centers. Volunteers, branch managers, and headquarter managers of the Iranian Red Crescent Society participated in this study applying snowball sampling. Data were collected via in-depth semi-structured telephone interviews in April 2020 after completion of the fever screening plan. All interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim, always with prior permission of interviewees. Results: The interviews with 20 participants in the plan indicated six relevant challenges including logistics, lack of planning, lack of coordination, legal challenges, mental health, and ethical challenges. Conclusions: The results indicated that although establishing fever detection centers in Iran was a rapid response to COVID-19, it had significant flaws in the structure and adversely affected volunteers and staffs’ health and financial resources. Therefore, well-structured protocols are required for similar responses in the future.

Formulation of Pulka Using Citrus Limon Peel

Citrus limon is a very demanding plant to grow totally intolerant of frost. Although the peel of citrus is bitter in taste if it is eaten as a raw but it also play a major role in making of marmalade or other soups. Peel is the protective outer covering or outer skin of the fruit. The peel is used against digestion, peptic, ulcer, scurvy, eye infections, respiratory disorders, gums, piles, skin care, weight loss etc. The objectives of the study is to dehydrate the selected sample, to formulate the value added product pulka, to find out the acceptability of value added products by organoleptic evaluation and to know the glycemic index level by the effect of Citrus limon The Citrus limon samples were cleaned, cut into pieces, inner white fleshly part is removed separately, cleaned, peels were removed separately, cut into small pieces, dry in an air oven drying, powdered, seived and stored in air tight container for future use. The pulka were formulated in four different variations V0, V1, V2 and V3. Sensory assessment was evaluated based on the quality descriptions. Around 80 subjects who were willing to participate in the experimental study were included with prior permission or concern from subjects. They were selected in-between the age of 30-40 years, with body mass index of 16.5 to 26.3 kg/m2, normal blood pressure and not suffering from any ailments. Eighty subjects were divided into four groups with 20 subjects in each group. The result revealed that the appearance of standard pulka followed by V3 pulka shows the best and the V2 shows the least result. Based on the colour of the product V1 shows the best and V3 shows the least result. The flavor of the product V3 followed by V0 shows the best. The V3 variation shows the best for the taste of the product compared to V1 and V2 variation. The result revealed that among the four groups the sample pulka consumed subjects shows the best result. The blood glucose level gets reduced during the consumption of 0.4gm Hot air oven dried Citrus limon peel incorporated pulka. Thus the present study conclude that the Citrus limon peel was dehydrated and the value added product Pulka was developed in various proportion and the acceptability of the value added product was done by the organoleptic evaluation. The present study demonstrated that Pulka shows the best result.

Job Satisfaction: An Exploratory Study of the Perceptions of University Teachers

This research study was conducted to explore the job satisfaction of university teachers. The study might contribute from theoretical, management and academic perspectives. It was correlational research. The study was delimited to the University of Education Lahore. The population of the study was teachers working at the University of Education Lahore. The Census sampling technique was applied to select the desired sample. The job satisfaction survey developed by Spector was used with prior permission. The validity and reliability of the instrument were insured through pilot testing. The data were collected with prior permission from the concerned authority. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to the data. Teachers reported themselves to be satisfied with their jobs. They were found satisfied on the subscales Supervision, coworkers, nature of work, promotion, communication, fringe benefits, pay, contingent rewards, operating procedure, respectively. No significant difference was observed in job satisfaction on the basis of designation, age, qualification, marital status and gender.

Anomalous open-circuit voltage from a high-Tc superconducting dynamo

This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in C. W. Bumby, Z. Jiang, J. G. Storey, A. E. Pantoja, and R. A. Badcock, Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 122601 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943663.

Anomalous open-circuit voltage from a high-Tc superconducting dynamo

This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in C. W. Bumby, Z. Jiang, J. G. Storey, A. E. Pantoja, and R. A. Badcock, Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 122601 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943663.

Conditions And Requirements to Obtain Commercial License By An Agent to Practice Commercial Agency ( Comparative Analytical Study)

The commercial agency contract receives a great attention compared to the other commercial contracts. This is because of the importance of this contract in the field of commercial activity and its role in the prosperity of any countries' economy. In addition to the fact that this contract is considered a legal means in order to facilitate the dealings. Shall a client is unable to carry out his/her work by him/herself; s/he can delegate another person, an agent, to carry out the task. It is a contract whereby the commercial agent is obligated to represent his/her agent in distributing, selling, offering, or providing a commodity or service in a specific area of ​​activity or according to the agreement, and the commercial agent exercises his work independently in return of a fee. However, the commercial agent cannot practice the profession of commercial agency except after obtaining a license to practice the profession. When reviewing the provisions of, the effective, Iraqi Commercial Agency Organization Law and the laws of comparison, we find out that there are several conditions and procedures that the commercial agent must follow to obtain a license to practice commercial agency business, otherwise it is not permissible for any person to accept agency from another person without prior permission taken from the competent authorities, failure to that, s/he will be exposed to the penalties that are stipulated in the law which regulates commercial agency. In order to inform and study aspects of the research, we divided the study into two chapters. In the first chapter, we explain the conditions that must be met by the applicant for a license to practice the business of commercial agency. While in the second chapter, we describe the procedures necessary for a commercial agent to obtain a license to practice the business of commercial agency. In the research, we came to an end with a conclusion that includes a set of conclusions and recommendations.

Polivach A.P., Gudev P.A. The IMEMO Sea Powers’ Rankings 2021 (2.0). – Moscow, IMEMO, 2021. – 178 p.

This book describes the system of indexes, developed by the IMEMO for evaluation of the overall maritime potential of a country. The Index of Maritime Might (IMM) is atop this system. This research includes the rankings of the top-100 countries according to their involvement in the maritime domain. The countries are compared by their ability to conduct a variety of maritime activities, either military or economical, which were calculated on the basis of statistical data as of the 1st of January 2021. This edition contains an updated version (2.0) of the indexes. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise without the prior permission of the IMEMO. The terms country, power and nation as used in this book do not imply any judgment of the authors or the IMEMO concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of particular boundaries. The terms are used for research purposes only as maritime statistical data for a range of geographically self-contained economic areas are maintained on a separate and independent basis.

Characteristics of suspected COVID-19 patients admitted with non-COVID illness in department of Endocrinology, BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka

Background: Since March 2019 the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Bangladesh. There is variable presentation of COVID-19. Though SARS-CoV-2 primarily involves respiratory system, as time passing on it is evident that it can affect any other system including gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and neurological system. This study described the characteristics of the patients admitted in Department of Endocrinology, BIRDEM General Hospital with non-COVID illness and later revealed positive for SARS-CoV-2. Methods: This observational study was conducted during the period of 13th April to 14thOctober, 2020.Data of all patients admitted in Department of Endocrinology, BIRDEM General Hospital during this period was retractedretrospectively from hospital electronic medical records with prior permission from institutional head. Though admitted for non-COVID illness, patientshavingsymptoms or supportive lab investigations of COVID- 19 were advised RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2. All hospital records of these suspected COVID-19 cases wererecoded and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Results:Total patients were 63. Among them 21(33.3%) patients were admitted with uncontrolled diabetes (DM),19(30.2%) had other endocrinopathies(later query revealed history of fever),8(9.5%) had newly detected DM,11(7.5%)had hypoglycemia,6(9.6%) had general weakness. Though all study subjects were advised to do RT-PCR for COVID, 22(34.9%) refused the test either due to symptom denial or due to cost of the test and 24(38.1%) become positive. Conclusion: Non-critically ill COVID-19 patients had variable clinical characteristics. This study shows that uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, newly detected diabetes and hypoglycemia are found in patients with COVID- 19 and may not have typical clinical features. Birdem Med J 2020; 10, COVID Supplement: 29-32