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Active Rehabilitation For Young Spinal Cord Injured in Indian Cities
(AScon, 2006-12-04) Mehta, Ketna
Are Print Books Taking Back Seats? Connecting Print Books with Readers in the Digital World
(Soference 2013, TCS, 2013-10-19) Kunkur, Giridhar
Article analyses the actual need of the print books over e-books through survey method. Paper proves the importance of the print books over e-books. Analytical statistics signifies the focus of the author in this digital world. This paper is useful for academicians, librarians to develop their educational resources.
Best Practices in LIS: learning points during the deliberations at WeSchool
(WeSchool, 2013-08-03) Savanur, S K; Kunkur, Giridhar; Karnik, Sushma; Venkadesan, S
Big Data: evaluating the nature of data in Indian corporate
(IIM-Bangalore, 2013-12) Agrawal, Minakshi; Pendse, Pradeep; Dhameja, Ritesh
Data-driven decision-making is now being recognized broadly, and there is growing enthusiasm for the notion of "Big Data." Decisions that previously were based on guess work can now be made based on data itself. The Indian economy produces a constant stream of data that is being monitored and analyzed. There has been a tremendous explosion of Information amongst the Indian enterprises over the last few years. Notably in Indian organizations (across verticals like BFSI, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications, and Government) at present have more than 100TB data. The research paper aims to study the amount of data stored by Indian corporate today along with their characteristics such as Size, Type and the rate at which the data is received. The research also focuses on identifying scope for Usage of Big data Technologies in Data Management in Corporate in India.
Crop Protection Industry: an overview
(Department of Plant Pathology, Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, (Maharashtra) 415 712., 2011-10-11) Mandokhot, Arun; Indulkar, A S; Bhurke, Vineel
Developing A Cost Effective E-Library: my experience of working from home
(Ess Ess Publications, 2012) Kunkur, Giridhar
Technology offers many advantages then disadvantages. It has made our life easy, simple, comfortable and even luxurious. It has helped us a lot to connect with people and that is the reason we say - we are living in a global village. If situation demands we need not necessarily work from office or a physical library environment all the time to deliver services. In this case study I am trying to explain how I managed to work effectively from home using simple technology available free of cost and as a team member, in developing E-library for a hospital in Bengaluru. No matter where we work and what technology we use, the challenge before us as librarians is the same - Teach /help people how to find reliable, accurate, pinpointed and relevant information when they need.
A Framework to Explore “the Grass Roots” in Rural Villages By Design Innovation Thinking
(2012-05-21) Salunkhe, Uday; Agarwal, Anuja; Ekman, A; Ekman, S
In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world´s population lives in towns and cities. By 2030 United Nations estimate this number will swell to almost 5 billion, with urban growth concentreated in Africa and Asia [UNFPA, 2011]. While mega-cities like Mexico City, Mumbai and Shanghai have captured much attention, most of the new growth will be in smaller towns and cities. But these have fewer resources to respond to the magnitude of change. Poverty is however now growing faster in urban than in rural areas especially in less-developed regions. A challenge is to find new opportunities, new ideas and building new mindsets for developing the rural areas and their infrastructure with new enterprises, innovation, entrepreneurship, industrial locations, ICT, and much more. The village life can also become models for a more sustainable way of living than in many of the overcrowded cities with their growing slum areas. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss an approach and theoretical framework for an on-going long term project for ideas and new perspectives in design innovation for education and research which probably can change mindsets; and how to provide methods and processes for rural village development.
Globalisation and Quality of Management Education – The Challenges of Changing Scenario
(10th South Asian Management Forum (SAMF) conference, 2009-04) Paila, Anil Rao; Rao, P S
In a world where national boundaries are fast disappearing and becoming more accessible, the world is becoming smaller and has now become Global Village. The technological advances in transportation, electronics and telecommunications are supporting these changes. Globalization poses a number of challenges before management education and also demands to upgrade its course curriculum adopt new and effective teaching methods, motivate faculty to take up the challenges ahead, with extensive research to understand international markets. Management education is in great demand especially after the change towards liberalization, privatization and globalization. There are several challenges of management education which require change in the character and structure of management education, integration of management education with corporate sector, upgradation of curriculum and course content, designing of different programs for executives, maintenance of an efficient and effective regulatory system to check mushrooming, and emphasis on research. India being the part of global linkage in the aftermath of WTO agreement is becoming a technology driven society. Nearly one lakh management graduates pass out every year in India, providing a tremendous potential to contribute to the creation of a 'knowledge society'. The world around us is changing and changing very fast. The speed of change is so fast that we cannot turn back. The changes are visible in multiple forms and in multiple directions. An attempt is made in this paper to identify the gaps and refocus the areas of management education with its prospects and challenges in the global context
A novel clip-on for smartphone dermoscopy in India
(Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT), 2017 IEEE, 2017-11-08) Sahoo, Aparajita; Wahi, Akshat; Patel, Sonali; Poojary, Shital; Jaiswal, Saurabh; Das, Anshuman
Dermoscopy is the in vivo technique of skin surface microscopy which is frequently used in visual examination of the skin. With the rise in the usage of smartphones, many smartphone attachments have been developed that enable dermoscopy on a phone but these attachments are very expensive and are available only for high-end phones. We have developed a novel 3D printed clip-on that can convert any smartphone into a polarizing dermoscope at a price which is highly affordable than the existing devices and is universal in its design. After visual examination and comparing images taken by both the devices using Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), we found the images to be highly similar. This clip-on for smartphones is one of the first prototypes using techniques of 3D printing which can make dermoscopy affordable, especially in developing countries like India. There is an acute need for such devices by clinicians practicing in remote areas, where such clip-ons can help in improving the preliminary visual examination of a large number of patients.
Portal is Vital: making libraries relevant and responsive to changing user requirements
(Management Libraries Network, 2012-10) Kunkur, Giridhar; Pendse, Pradeep
It is evident that in this era of digital information environment, library users are becomeing highly tech-savvey and love to access the "most needed" information almost instantly without wasting too much of their time. It is a general experience across most of academic institutions where Wi-Fi is very Common, that there is a distinct shift in the Priorities of Gen-Y who are now connected with the world via Smartphone, pc - tablet, i-pad, laptop and the like. The ease of access to information on the Internet with these swanky gadgets, the footfalls in the libraries are gradually dipping. It is necessary for librarians to reach out and connect with the users rather than depending on them to come to the library. For this, the libraries need to become more relevent, appropriate and quick to respond to their needs. Well designed library portals certainly play a vital role in making librariaes move from their passive state to an activwe state and help in transforming them as vibrant places in terms of meeting information needs and developing loyal community of users.
Smartphone-based fluorescence spectroscopy device aiding in preliminary skin screening
(2018-02-13) Sahoo, Aparajita; Wahi, Akshat; Das, Anshuman
Preliminary diagnosis of closely resembling skin conditions can be highly subjective for dermatologists. In ambiguous cases, it often leads to performing invasive procedures like biopsies. Different skin conditions, however, have varying concentrations of fluorophores (like collagen, NADH) and chromophores (like melanin, hemoglobin) which can alter their fluorescence spectra. We demonstrate a handheld, portable, smartphone-based spectrometer that leverages these alterations in skin autofluorescence spectra for rapid screening of skin conditions. This methodology involves excitation of affected skin areas with ultraviolet (UV-A) 385 nm light, capturing the generated fluorescence spectra and sending the data wirelessly to a companion mobile application for data storage, analysis and visualization. By collecting the fluorescence spectral signals from healthy and unhealthy skin conditions, we establish that the signals collected using this portable device can be used to develop a classification method to help in differentially diagnosing these conditions. It shows promise as a useful skin screening tool for both dermatologists and primary health care workers. This device can enable quick, non-invasive and a more objective preliminary examination. We envision the device to be especially useful in primary healthcare centers of developing countries where availability of dermatologists is limited.
Software Tool for Supporting Ethnographic Research in Design and Innovation Projects in Management Education
(IEEE, 2010-07-01) Agrawal, Minakshi; Agarwal, Anuja; Krishnamoorthy, Aparna; Pendse, Pradeep
Increasing interest in Design/Ethnographic research in various domains including management education creates opportunities and challenges. One of them is the qualitative data of various types such as observations on sticky notes, photos, observation diaries, video clips etc. Where the volume of such qualitative data is small a designer can use simple visual clustering techniques to discover insights. However for large design research projects it could become unmanageable to say the least. The question arises if a software tool could be created which could support this process of mining insights. This paper aims at introducing such a software tool for supporting design/ethnographic research in management education. Such a software was developed and deployed for capturing observations about the lifestyle of the people living in villages with a view to understand their energy needs. The software helped capture qualitative and quantitative data from nearly 80 field researchers engaged in this research. Encouraged by this success, the software is being enhanced to become a generic tool for design/ethnographic research. The paper describes the challenges in managing design/ethnographic research data using the energy project as a case in point and the utility of the software for that project as well as the visualization of a more generic solution for design/ethnographic research.
Strategies and Policies for Collection and Transportation of Biomedical Waste
(Tenth AIMS International Conference on Management, 2013-01) Kumar, Chitralekha; Laveti, Pallavi; Haldankar, Siddesh
The paper in detail will look at the protocols followed by the different medical facilities across various hospitals in Maharashtra during segregation and disposal of the waste.The paper will also help in understanding the awareness levels of the medical staff with respect to different methods and training involved in disposing off this waste.
Team Communications for the New - Age Workforce: A Qualitative Study
(Tenth AIMS International Conference on Management, 2013-01-06) Adyasha, Roopa; Vijayashree, L
For professionals in any work area today, with the advent of sophisticated information technology there is a major shift evident in the way they communicate internally and externally. Dealing with words, figures and data with effective business communication could redefine the business processes today. Language is a learned social behavior, and how we use it to communicate is important. Language not only communicates ideas but it also builds rapport and creates elationships between colleagues. Most work in organizations happens through meetings, presentations, negotiations, discussions face-to-face or via multimedia. And it is through these communications that managers are judged or they judge.
Training the Hospital Staff: A Path Towards Better Management of Biomedical Waste
(International Conference on Biomedical Waste Management, 2012-07) Kumar, Chitralekha; Agarwal, Sudhir
When Work Becomes Play: Gamification of HR
(Tenth AIMS International Conference on Management, 2013-01) Pankajakshan, Vijayan; Nair, Sridevi
It was not uncommon to believe that Children were just less competent than adults, until Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980) proved that the difference was in the very basic way of thinking. As children we are born with a very basic mental structure. We then construct an understanding of the world around us and through our experiences and the process of maturation, identify the discrepancies. Just like a program we have an idea of the process, also called schema and when faced with the scenario we call upon that particular schema and use it to guide us. As adults our schema are more in number and more complex (Jean Piaget, 1936) Years later, in 2011, when the team at Nottingham Trent University released their study and created the phrase Game Transfer Phenomena or GTP, there were a lot of arguments. Some researchers refused to accept the term saying that the sample size of 42 was too small to generalise and others believed it was an extension of what was first termed as the ‘Tetris effect’, where even after the game was over people claimed to see moving images at the end of their visual field. But the team from Nottingham claim that GTP is much more. They are not hallucinations but can alter behaviour and reactions to scenarios. Like rewriting a program and thus changing the output. Very similar to what Piaget explained through his concept of schema.
Working Women to Working Mother: A Transition in the Indian Society
(Indian Institute of Management, Banglore, 2012-08) Kumar, Chitralekha
One of the significant changes witnessed by the Indian societies is the status of working women and their excellent management skills. Gone are the days when the women were only a homemaker at the end of the day. The transition of women to successful working women took ages but finally, they have come out with flying colors. With the advances in the norms of society, adaptability of the male members of the family, better education system, flexible work environment and the willingness of women to succeed has finally paved way for a better and secure career for the women of today's era. A woman has to play multiple roles. The present paper attempts to understand the management of roles between an expecting mother and an employee going on a maternity leave. The present paper is based on an exploratory qualitative study of 12 women from academic institutions in Mumbai, India. The outcome of the research reveals four themes: Clear communications; support from the family and coworkers; organizational policies and practices; balancing the role conflict.

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