Human cloning: A biological objection to it     

K. K. Verma  Rashmi Saxena 《Resonance》1999,4(9):38-43

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Editorial     

Kaushal Verma 《Resonance》2017,22(10):905-906

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Are we using Thyroid Function Tests Appropriately?     

Gupta S  Verma M  Gupta AK  Kaur A  Kaur V  Singh K 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(2):178-181

Thyroid function tests are very important for the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with thyroid dysfunction. The guidelines recommend serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) as the single most reliable test to diagnose all common forms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. The aim of this study was to analyze the ordering pattern for thyroid function tests by physicians and the analysis of results based on the clinical history. The mean age of the patients was 32.5 ± 6.5 years. Majority of samples (87.7% of total) were received from the departments of Medicine and Gynae. Thyroid profiles (47.5%) were ordered more frequently as compared to TSH only (46%). There was no significant difference in the percentage of normal reports for both types of tests. 77.8% of TFT and 76.6% of TSH samples had results within the reference range. The percentage of abnormal results was 13.7% in the patients who were screened for thyroid disorders. There is a need to redefine the case definition for thyroid dysfunction and order the appropriate test in a rational and cost effective manner.  相似文献   

Review of skilled manpower forecasts and changes in occupational structures of India     

M.C. Verma 《International Journal of Educational Development》1984,4(3):173-221

Skilled manpower forecasts are considered the essence of national or regional manpower planning. A variety of such forecasts in such a vast and complex country as India is not unexpected. Skilled manpower was and continues to be considered an essential building block for nation-building in most developing countries including India. Indeed, it has been difficult to rationalise expenditure on most new educational institutions — technical or non-technical — in India with its vast problems of high illiteracy and low per capita income without some manpower demand forecasts.Given this setting, this paper has attempted to take a close and dispassionate look at the experience of India in manpower planning, especially since Independence. The paper has reviewed the methodology used in the various exercises made for such forecasts — sometimes done right up to matriculation level — and attempted many realisation comparisons. Even for the high professional categories such as engineers, scientists and doctors it has found serious discrepancies. While it has tried to rationalise them and assessed their actual impact on educational decision-making, it had to take note of very serious data constraints which make both supply and demand estimates difficult. The data situation in the predominantly agrarian Indian economy has therefore been carefully reviewed and suggestions for adjustments and improvements of data made.Since occupational structures and their evolution are almost a sine qua non of a classical manpower requirements approach, the paper takes a close look at the latest available data from the Census and other sources. It certainly found growth in occupational divisions 0, 1 and 2, but sometimes cannot separate the genuine growth from that due to the ‘supply’ effect. Despite all these limitations the paper notices that manpower planning activity continues to be favoured at practically all levels — national, State, regional or industrial.  相似文献   

Some effects of curriculum innovation on the racial attitudes of adolescents     

Gajendra K. Verma 《Int J Intercult Relat》1977,1(3):67-78

The paper reports results of one aspect (assessment of racial prejudice) of a large-scale British curriculum research project concerned with the problems and effects of exposure to three different race-oriented teaching strategies. Over 1,500 14–16 year olds from 39 British schools of varying multiracial composition participated in this research which was also concerned with gaining some insight into the relevance of teaching about race relations in schools. The conclusions point to the possible benefit of such teaching but also draw attention to the constraints operating against curriculum innovation in this area and to the need to consider other contributory factors before definitive answers can be given.  相似文献   

Appropriateness of recommended agricultural water-management technologies as perceived by the personnel of research and extension system: A study in the eastern region of India     

Souvik Ghosh  H.N. Verma  Dinesh Chandra  P. Nanda 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(1-4):17-26

The key to agricultural development in the eastern region of India, where problems of excess water and water scarcity coexist, is the scientific management of water resources with the adoption of recommended water-management technologies. A vast networking of infrastructure for the development and dissemination of water- management technologies have been designed since the very inception of planned economic change. Despite these concerted efforts, a large number of recommended technologies are either being adopted in piece-meal or not at all. The research and extension systems have been generating and disseminating technologies, therefore, it was felt worthwhile to assess the feasibility and appropriateness of recommended tecnologies as perceived in the first instance by the personnel of the research system and followed by the extension personnel. These steps were felt to be a precursor to screen the recommended technologies for their dissemination and evaluation in different farming systems. The assessment of recommended water-management technologies was performed after their documentation from different organisations working in the field of water management in two eastern India states viz. Orissa and West Bengal. The perception of 30 personnel members of the research system regarding the feasibility of these technologies elucidated that out of 86 documented recommended water-management technologies, 40 were having feasibility scores of ≥ 4.0; 8 technologies with score £ 3.0 and the rest of the 38 technologies with a score between 3.0 and 4.0 on a feasibility continuum range from 1.0 (not feasible) to 5.0 (highly feasible). Out of 40 recommended technologies (already assessed as highly feasible by the research personnel), extension personnel have perceived 16 and 10 technologies as highly appropriate and feasible, respectively. While six and four technologies were found to be less appropriate and feasible, respectively. Correlation of all nine indicators of appropriateness with feasibility of technologies was significant. Five indicators of appropriateness viz. simplicity, physical compatibility, production sustainability, cultural compatibility and cost together constituted 36.8 per cent of the total variation in feasibility with the ‘t’ values and ‘F’ values being significant. It indicates that not appropriateness of technologies alone but other factors influence the feasibility of technologies.  相似文献   

An extension of the technology acceptance model in the big data analytics system implementation environment     

Surabhi Verma  Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya  Saurav Kumar 《Information processing & management》2018,54(5):791-806

Research on the adoption of systems for big data analytics has drawn enormous attention in Information Systems research. This study extends big data analytics adoption research by examining the effects of system characteristics on the attitude of managers towards the usage of big data analytics systems. A research model has been proposed in this study based on an extensive review of literature pertaining to the Technology Acceptance Model, with further validation by a survey of 150 big data analytics users. Results of this survey confirm that characteristics of the big data analytics system have significant direct and indirect effects on belief in the benefits of big data analytics systems and perceived usefulness, attitude and adoption. Moreover, there are mediation effects that exist among the system characteristics, benefits of big data analytics systems, perceived usefulness and the attitude towards using big data analytics system. This study expands the existing body of knowledge on the adoption of big data analytics systems, and benefits big data analytics providers and vendors while helping in the formulation of their business models.  相似文献   

A theory for decoupling lossless coupled tapered lines with applications to directional couplers     

M.N.S. Swamy  B.B. Bhattacharyya  S.N. Verma 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1975,299(6):381-398

A simple theory is presented for decoupling a pair of lossless coupled nonuniform transmission lines (CNUTL), with a common return and supporting TEM waves, into two lossless nonuniform transmission lines (NUTL). This theory is independent of the port terminations, symmetry conditions, etc. The method directly relates the line parameters of the lossless CNUTL's to those of the decoupled lines and vice versa; further, the matrix parameters of the CNUTL's as a four-port are explicitly expressed in terms of those of the decoupled lines as two-ports. This theory is then utilized to study the applications of CNUTL's as directional couplers.It is shown that for CNUTL's to behave as a codirectional coupler, each of the decoupled lines should be a proportional line, while for contradirectional coupler action, the two decoupled lines have to be duals of each other. The coupling response of the codirectional coupler is found to be periodic, while the phase shift between coupled and transmitted signals varies linearly with frequency. The coupling response of various contradirectional couplers with smooth transition at one of the ends, for which the decoupled lines are “basic NUTL's with hyperbolic solutions”, are studied in detail. It is shown that all these couplers have a high-pass response and that the CNUTL's with “hyperbolic cosine squared lines” as decoupled lines have the best response of all the CNUTL's considered.  相似文献   

Atmospheric heavy metal pollution     

Rohit Shrivastav 《Resonance》2001,6(4):62-68

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Eco-friendly alternative refrigeration systems     

S S Verma 《Resonance》2001,6(11):63-67

We saw in Part 1¹ of this article the need, suitability and the technological developments of two eco-friendly alternative, i.e. magnetic and thermoelectric, refrigeration systems. In the present article, we briefly introduce the principle of thermoacoustic refrigeration technique along with the latest developments in this technology. S S Verma is a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab.  相似文献