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Investigating The Potential And Pitfalls Of Ev-Encapsulated Micrornas As Circulating Biomarkers Of Breast Cancer, Brian M. Moloney, Katie E. Gilligan, Doireann P. Joyce, Clodagh P. O'Neill, Killian P. O'Brien, Sonja Khan, Claire L. Glynn, Ronan M. Waldron, Ciarán M. Maguire, Emma Holian, Erin Naughton, Mohamed Elhadi, Andrea B. Grealish, Carmel Malone, Emma Mcdermott, Peter Dockery, Thomas Ritter, Adriele Prina-Mello, Michael J. Kerin, Róisín M. Dwyer Jan 2020

Investigating The Potential And Pitfalls Of Ev-Encapsulated Micrornas As Circulating Biomarkers Of Breast Cancer, Brian M. Moloney, Katie E. Gilligan, Doireann P. Joyce, Clodagh P. O'Neill, Killian P. O'Brien, Sonja Khan, Claire L. Glynn, Ronan M. Waldron, Ciarán M. Maguire, Emma Holian, Erin Naughton, Mohamed Elhadi, Andrea B. Grealish, Carmel Malone, Emma Mcdermott, Peter Dockery, Thomas Ritter, Adriele Prina-Mello, Michael J. Kerin, Róisín M. Dwyer

Forensic Science Publications

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) shuttle microRNA (miRNA) throughout the circulation and are believed to represent a fingerprint of the releasing cell. We isolated and characterized serum EVs of breast tumour-bearing animals, breast cancer (BC) patients, and healthy controls. EVs were characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), protein quantification, western blotting, and nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA). Absolute quantitative (AQ)-PCR was employed to analyse EV-miR-451a expression. Isolated EVs had the appropriate morphology and size. Patient sera contained significantly more EVs than did healthy controls. In tumour-bearing animals, a correlation between serum EV number and tumour burden was observed. There was no significant relationship …

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The Impact Of The National Lock Down On Migrant Workers, S. Saraswathi, J. Maheswari Jan 2020

The Impact Of The National Lock Down On Migrant Workers, S. Saraswathi, J. Maheswari

International Review of Business and Economics

A migrant worker is a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work. The International Labour Organization estimated in 2014 there were 232 million international migrants worldwide who were outside their home country for at least 12 months and approximately half of them were estimated to be economically active, i.e. being employed or seeking employment (Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda).In India about 120 million …

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Emerging Issues And Challenges Of Public Health Infrastructure Of Covid-19 In India, S. Kiruthika Ph.D., G. Raja Ph.D. Jan 2020

Emerging Issues And Challenges Of Public Health Infrastructure Of Covid-19 In India, S. Kiruthika Ph.D., G. Raja Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

Today Indian health care system is in pathetic condition, its needs radical reforms to deal with new emerging challenges and issues. COVID-19 is spreading really fast around the world. The Indian government facing the problem of lack of resources and infrastructure facilities, there are insufficient number of beds, rooms, ventilators and medicines. Public health is the practice of preventing disease and promoting good health within groups of people, from small communities to entire countries. The countries concentration has been focused on the crucial need for a strong public health infrastructure to protect community health. The current study describes the situation …

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Effective Capital Budgeting Decisions By Firms, Manunath M. S., Praveen B. Jan 2020

Effective Capital Budgeting Decisions By Firms, Manunath M. S., Praveen B.

International Review of Business and Economics

Finance is the life blood of business. Finance is said to be the circulatory system of the economy body, making possible the required cooperation between the innumerable units of activity. Finance guides and regulates investment decisions and expenditure of administers economic activities. Capital budgeting means planning for capital assets. Capital budgeting decisions are complex process of paramount importance in financial decisions, because efficient allocation of capital resources is one of the most crucial decisions of financial management. Capital budgeting is budgeting for capital projects.Because the long-term profitability of most enterprises depends on the nature and quality of their capital project …

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A Study On External Environment Of Business And Its Influence On Msmes In The Context Of Covid-19, Saranya Devi M., Nm. Anirudh Jan 2020

A Study On External Environment Of Business And Its Influence On Msmes In The Context Of Covid-19, Saranya Devi M., Nm. Anirudh

International Review of Business and Economics

Businesses across the globe has decided ‘just to survive apart from making huge profit’, from a global pandemic which has created huge disaster to economy of almost all countries in the world. In India pharmaceutical industry is improving its status day by day, on the other hand travel and tourism industry, entertainment sector, market for luxury products and services is deteriorating among which the drastic-hit is the MSMEs.This study aims at analysing various external factors influencing the performance of business especially during times of COVID-19 pandemic, those factors include political, social, cultural,economic, legal, technological, etc., The study aims at finding …

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Socio-Economic Status Of Migrant Women Labour Force In Goa: A Literature Based Analysis, Vijaya Nemikal, Prabir Kumar Rath Jan 2020

Socio-Economic Status Of Migrant Women Labour Force In Goa: A Literature Based Analysis, Vijaya Nemikal, Prabir Kumar Rath

International Review of Business and Economics

Goa is one of the most economically prosperous states of India. Many migrants flow in to Goa from various parts of India to seek employment. Since rural areas people faced the problem of lack better employment opportunities in the villages, they migrate to urban areas where they expect to get productive employment. Though male migrants outnumber females the role played by women migrants cannot be overlooked. Women have migrated to Goa either with their spouses, or independently and they have taken up jobs on various levels of hierarchy from unskilled, casual work to highly paid and highly skilled jobs. The …

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Role Of Self Help Groups In Promoting Rural Entrepreneurship For Strengthening Aatma Nirbhar Bharat, S. R. Nagaraja Ph.D., G. M. Sudharshan Ph.D Jan 2020

Role Of Self Help Groups In Promoting Rural Entrepreneurship For Strengthening Aatma Nirbhar Bharat, S. R. Nagaraja Ph.D., G. M. Sudharshan Ph.D

International Review of Business and Economics

The corona-19 pandemic has pervaded into every nook & corner of the world. Since the entire globe has announced lockdown for uncertain period, the commercial activity has pushed the indicators of economic health in a state of depression. A multi-centered approach is the need of the hour to take the economy out of this crisis. In India on May 12th, the Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, announced a special economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore with the aim of making the country independent against the tough competition in the global supply chain and to help in empowering the people …

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Knowledge, Awareness, Attitude Andpurchasing Decision Making Behaviour Among Women Towards Gold Jewellery In Vellore City – An Assessment, G. Yoganandham Ph.D., A. Govindaraj Ph.D., P. Senthil Kumaran Ph.D. Jan 2020

Knowledge, Awareness, Attitude Andpurchasing Decision Making Behaviour Among Women Towards Gold Jewellery In Vellore City – An Assessment, G. Yoganandham Ph.D., A. Govindaraj Ph.D., P. Senthil Kumaran Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

Society is diversified in all aspects. We see this among consumers, marketers, producers and even among consumer behavior from theoretical aspects. A decade has elapsed since the onset of the millennium and there have been many changes occurring across global economics which has had its repercussions on the Indian economy. Since the time of the liberalization of our economy Indian market has been greatly influenced by the global economy and global markets. From prehistoric times people all over the world have exposed special interest in gold jewels either for ownership or prestige or status. Passion for jewels is renowned. It …

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Lindenwood Digest, January 7, 2020, Lindenwood University Jan 2020

Lindenwood Digest, January 7, 2020, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

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Covid – 19 Pandemic And Primitive Kurumba Tribes In Nilgiris District Of Tamil Nadu – A Theorietical Perspectives, G. Yoganandham Ph.D., A. Govindaraj Ph.D. Jan 2020

Covid – 19 Pandemic And Primitive Kurumba Tribes In Nilgiris District Of Tamil Nadu – A Theorietical Perspectives, G. Yoganandham Ph.D., A. Govindaraj Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

The tribal community is the most economically backward and vulnerable population in the country. Their backwardness is in addition difficult by their deprived health indicators and status. Health is an significant factor in social development. It seems that the fruits and benefits of progress have not reached to this section of the society properly. The health situation of tribal community is in a state of a immense crucial and wretched state of affairs in spite of the government’s vast efforts and apprehension for this immature section of the society. The present paper mainly concentrate on the COVID – 19 Pandemic …

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A Comparative Analysis On The Distribution Of Population Among The Districts Of Tamilnadu & The Concentration Of Industrial Growth, Jony Fathimal Jan 2020

A Comparative Analysis On The Distribution Of Population Among The Districts Of Tamilnadu & The Concentration Of Industrial Growth, Jony Fathimal

International Review of Business and Economics

In this paper, I have made an attempt to study the density of population in various districts of Tamil Nadu and the problem arises in highly dense areas. It also analyse the spread of Industrial expansion among the various districts with the migration of population from rural to urban areas. In this study, I try to examine the relationship between the industrial growth and the density of population in the state. Among the highlypopulatedcities,Chennaiisthe topmost with the population of 26,000 persons per sq. km. compared with the second highest dense population which is accounted of 1,119 persons per sq.km in …

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New York State’S Population Is Aging: Will Communities Be Ready?, Claire Pendergrast Jan 2020

New York State’S Population Is Aging: Will Communities Be Ready?, Claire Pendergrast

Population Health Research Brief Series

The population is aging nation-wide, and New York State is no exception. 3.2 million New Yorkers (nearly one in six), are aged 65 and older, and the older adult population is growing faster than any other group in the state. This issue brief explains what it means to “age in place” and how New York State is responding to the large increase in older adults state wide.

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Anarchaeologies: Reading As Misreading [Table Of Contents], Erin Graff Zivin Jan 2020

Anarchaeologies: Reading As Misreading [Table Of Contents], Erin Graff Zivin

Literature

How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability in works of philosophy and art.

Rather than applying concepts from philosophy in order to understand or elucidate cultural works, the book exposes works of philosophy, literary theory, narrative, poetry, film, and performance art and activism to one another. Working specifically …

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International Student Mobility: Recent Developments And Prognosis With Special Reference To India, Anand Kulkarni Jan 2020

International Student Mobility: Recent Developments And Prognosis With Special Reference To India, Anand Kulkarni

International Review of Business and Economics

This paper examines global student mobility. It finds that student mobility has been on the rise rapidly in the last five years, mostly of a global nature, rather than intra-regional, especially in the case of Indian students. Students are highly aspirational and seek an edge in the labour market through specialist studies and post study work rights, and are focussed on obtaining a strong return on educational investment. Universities around the world increasingly seek to cater to these aspirations. Beyond the traditionally dominant inbound countries, a number of others, including especially in Asia, are becoming hubs of international student activity …

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The Effect Of India’S E-Commerce & Trade Due To Covid-19 Pandemic, Yogeshkumar A. B.. Ph.D. Jan 2020

The Effect Of India’S E-Commerce & Trade Due To Covid-19 Pandemic, Yogeshkumar A. B.. Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

The enforcement of group distancing, lockdowns and other dealings in answer to the COVID-19 virulent disease has led regulars to raise up online shopping, public media use, internet telephony and teleconferencing, and streaming of videos and films. This has resulted in spikes in business to consumer(B2C) sales and an increase in intensity in business to business (B2B) E-commerce. The expansion in B2C sales is mostly evident in online sales of check up supplies, household requisites and fare products. Query has further more better for internet and mobile information services. The net faculty and spectrum to accommodate the stint to online …

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The People And Activities Of Business Like Human Resource, Productivity For Online Education, Glanciya Fernandes Jan 2020

The People And Activities Of Business Like Human Resource, Productivity For Online Education, Glanciya Fernandes

International Review of Business and Economics

The effects of the digitization of the work provide companies and educational institutions uncertainty. Therefore new future working skills of employees will be necessary. This applies in particular to those employees in the field of information technology who are particularly affected by digitization and who mostly perform on the technologically cutting edge of information technology. The practical part of this aims to present an analysis model which explores the work activities of IT specialists through quantitative and qualitative analysis methods and shows which informal skills are placed in the work activities of the employees. In today’s business climate of global …

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Human Resource Practices In The Organised Retail Sectors, S. Krithika Jan 2020

Human Resource Practices In The Organised Retail Sectors, S. Krithika

International Review of Business and Economics

Indian organized retail market is growing at a fast pace due to the boom in the India retail industry. In 2005, the retail industry in India amounted to Rs 10,000 billion accounting for about 10% to the country’s GDP. The organized retail market in India out of this total market accounted for Rs 350 billion which is about 3.5% of the total revenues. Traditionally the retail industry in India was largely unorganized, comprising of drug stores, medium, and small grocery stores. Most of the organized retailing in India have started recently and is concentrating mainly in metropolitan cities. The growth …

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Covid-19 And Its Impact On Indian Economy With Respect To Crude Oil, Sunitha V., Arun Kumar L.S. Jan 2020

Covid-19 And Its Impact On Indian Economy With Respect To Crude Oil, Sunitha V., Arun Kumar L.S.

International Review of Business and Economics

India is one of the largest economy in the world, with population around 1.4 Billion, and average GDP (Gross Domestic product) from 2015- 2019 is around 7 percent, India is the third largest oil importer in the world, with 9.7 percent of the world oil imports, after China and USA, India imports around 80 percent of its oil needs and aims to bring down to 67 percent by 2022, by replacing it by local exploration, renewable energy and indigenous ethanol fuel, but in India there is lack of demand for crude oil and oil products due to Covid-19 epidemic, which …

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Biodynamic Preparations: A Dilemma To Use, Shwetazalavadiya Shwetazalavadiya, Anwarulhaq Payalmakavana Jan 2020

Biodynamic Preparations: A Dilemma To Use, Shwetazalavadiya Shwetazalavadiya, Anwarulhaq Payalmakavana

International Review of Business and Economics

Biodynamics is an agricultural management system based on degradation of food produced through farming practices that increasingly relied on additions of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. Biodynamics were thought to be one of the first alternative approaches to modern agriculture as one of three alternative or ‘‘organic’’ agricultural methodologies. Biodynamic preparations influences organic life on earth through cosmic and terrestrial forces that would stimulate vitalizing and harmonizing processes in the soil. Some preparations are made by packing cow manure or silica, respectively, into cow horns and burying them for a number of months before use. It was believed that cow horns, …

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Improve Yield And Quality Of Senile Orchard With Rejuvenation And Nutrient Management, Kiran S. Jotava Jan 2020

Improve Yield And Quality Of Senile Orchard With Rejuvenation And Nutrient Management, Kiran S. Jotava

International Review of Business and Economics

Day by day newer technologies are under implementation and become popular among the orchardists. Decades ago orchard establishment was made by varying spacing and different source of planting materials of either sexual or asexual methods. Due tothedifferenceinsourceofplanting material and short of application of nutrient of orchards leads to the senile or less productive. Poor management practices also brings orchards to the uneconomical zone. Overcrowding and encroachment of trees resulted in competition for nutrient absorption congestion, poor light penetration and act as good shelter house for insect- pests and disease attacks are obvious problems with older orchards, if trees are not …

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Amalgamation Of Digitalisation, Teaching And Learning –A Temporal Study With A Global Perspective, S Selladouraitchy, K. Marcelline Marine Christine Jan 2020

Amalgamation Of Digitalisation, Teaching And Learning –A Temporal Study With A Global Perspective, S Selladouraitchy, K. Marcelline Marine Christine

International Review of Business and Economics

School children of the present day cohort are well aware of the internet and the online services provided in it. The influence of the smart phones and electronic gadgets are being infamous in the contemporary lives of children. Due to the existing Pandemic situation and subsequent quarantine measures, the use of widgets like Smartphones and laptops has been made inevitable. On this regard, the education institutions must undergo a relevant digitalisation to co-exist in accordance with the COVID-19 circumstances. The online education serves as a major step up in manifesting the spread of knowledge among young minds despite such adverse …

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A Comprehensive Analysis Of Goods And Services Tax (Gst) In India, Maruthi M. V Jan 2020

A Comprehensive Analysis Of Goods And Services Tax (Gst) In India, Maruthi M. V

International Review of Business and Economics

The Goods and Services Tax (GST), implemented on July 1, 2017, is regarded as a major taxation reform till date implemented in India since independence in 1947. GST was planned to be implemented in April 2010, but was postponed due to political issues and conflicting interest of stakeholders. It is a comprehensive tax system that will subsume all indirect taxes of states and central governments and unified economy into a seamless national market. The primary objective behind development of GST is to subsume all sorts of indirect taxes in India like Central Excise Tax, VAT/Sales Tax, Service tax, etc. and …

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Impact Of Leather Industries On Groundwater In Tamil Nadu With Special Reference To Vellore District, A. Royal Edward Williams Ph.D., M. P. Parvez Ahmed Jan 2020

Impact Of Leather Industries On Groundwater In Tamil Nadu With Special Reference To Vellore District, A. Royal Edward Williams Ph.D., M. P. Parvez Ahmed

International Review of Business and Economics

Tanning industry is a one of the traditional business industry in India. The leather and leather based industries can emphasize to be the world’s one of the largest industrial sector based upon a by-product. Leather and leather goods are vital role in the foreign exchange earnings. Tannery process unit is very important factor for enhancing the quality in leather production. On the other side, during this processes large quantum of toxic waste is disposed into the nature which invites vital threat to the environment at large. It leads to the contamination of water resources (both surface and ground water), soil …

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Role Of Agriculture Banking Towards Economic Development, A. Elavarasan Jan 2020

Role Of Agriculture Banking Towards Economic Development, A. Elavarasan

International Review of Business and Economics

Whether financial structure influences economic growth is still considered a crucial policy issue. The aims of this research are to analyze the influence of banking development indicators, agriculture sector and industrial sector on economic growth in Indonesia and to examine the relationships between banking development and economic growth. VAR, a time-series econometric model used in this study, estimating three banking indicators that are assets, credits and third party fund, economic growth average per capita at constant price 2000 and two variables of economic growth in agriculture and industry. Two dummy variables are also implemented in VAR model, they are monetary …

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Entrepreneurs - Turns Massive Challenges (Covid 19) In To Meaningful Change, L. Noor Asma Ph.D., P. Prabhakaran Jan 2020

Entrepreneurs - Turns Massive Challenges (Covid 19) In To Meaningful Change, L. Noor Asma Ph.D., P. Prabhakaran

International Review of Business and Economics

An entrepreneur is a person who undertakes risk to make profit from an opportunity, than working as an ordinary employee. As we are experiencing the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Entrepreneurs have to face a new challenge: that it is not only a huge sanitary and health crisis affecting people in all over the world. Though the world is changing rapidly in to the different scenario and reality are not the same depending on where you are running your business today. This is also an unprecedented downturn on the global economy. This paper presents how an Entrepreneur turns massive complexity into meaningful …

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Imperative Role Of Human Resource Management In Organizational Activities, Nandhini B. R., Vimala B. S. Jan 2020

Imperative Role Of Human Resource Management In Organizational Activities, Nandhini B. R., Vimala B. S.

International Review of Business and Economics

Human Resource Management is the strategic approach to the effective management of people in a company or Organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage. The overall purpose of Human Resource is to ensure that the organizational is able to achieve success through people. It practices on organizational performance. The job of HRM is the job of all such departments to ensure that the business gets the most out of its employees. The Human Resources Management needs to provide a high return on the business investment in its people and deals with not just management issues but …

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India’S Government & Globalization In 21st Century Under Pm Modi, Divya Arora Jan 2020

India’S Government & Globalization In 21st Century Under Pm Modi, Divya Arora

International Review of Business and Economics

India is emerging as Asian and global player facing the future challenges to international market. China’s outward integration has comparably succeeded in East and Southeast Asia whereas India have the inward looking strategy. Globalisation to on new globalisation Era have begin in 2020 under the supervision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi proper lockdown efficient and effective fiscal measures and timely aided monetary measures of RBI Governor have given a strong foundation for the investment attraction after the withdrawal from China. India’s foreign policy is shaped by five broad factors across the globe. The factors affecting the trade are geographylater with …

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Dynamics Of Business And Economics - Global Perspective With Respect To India, During Covid-19 Pandemic, Arun Kumar L.S. Jan 2020

Dynamics Of Business And Economics - Global Perspective With Respect To India, During Covid-19 Pandemic, Arun Kumar L.S.

International Review of Business and Economics

International business encompasses all commercial and economic activities between the nations to promote the transfer the goods and services, ideas, resources and technologies across the national borders. Every country has limited resources therefore a country cannot produce all the goods and services that it requires. The present context of the world, there is imbalance in production and supply factors due to Covid-19, which has led to market imbalances in demand and supply. The world economy has been hit hard by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, as on June end more than ten 10 million people around the globe had been affected …

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An Analysis Of Air Pollution And Human Health Effects, A. Subashini Jan 2020

An Analysis Of Air Pollution And Human Health Effects, A. Subashini

International Review of Business and Economics

Hazardous chemicals escape to the environment by a number of natural and/or anthropogenic activities and may cause adverse effects onhuman health and the environment. Increased combustion of fossil fuels in the last century is responsible for the progressive change in the atmosphericcomposition. Air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds(VOCs), ozone (O3), heavy metals, and respirable particulate matter, differ in their chemical composition, reaction properties,emission, time of disintegration and ability to diffuse in long or short distances. Air pollution has both acute and chronic effects on humanhealth, affecting a number of differentsystemsandorgans.Itranges …

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A Study On Outcome-Based Education – Issues And Challenges, C. Nirmala Rani Ph.D. Jan 2020

A Study On Outcome-Based Education – Issues And Challenges, C. Nirmala Rani Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

Outcome-based education, a performance- based approach at the cutting edge of curriculum development, offers a powerful and appealing way of reforming and managing medical education. The emphasis is on the product-what sort of doctor will be produced-rather than on the educational process In study and unambiguously specified. These determine the curriculum content and its organization, the teaching methods and strategies, the courses offered, the assessment process, the educational environment and the curriculum time table. They also provide a framework for curriculum evaluation. A doctor is a unique combination of different kinds of abilities. A three-circle model can be used to …

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