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Diversification is known to play a significant role in organizational strategic management and a country’s economy. Consequently, assessing the relationship between diversification and performance has attracted a lot of attention, due to its continued importance in corporate growth and better financial performance. This study explores the relationship between the Diversification strategy and measures of performance; Total turnover, Profitability, Sales Volume and Capacity Utilization in the context of sugar companies. Study findings leads to the conclusion that diversification strategy has significant predictive influence on performance in most performance measures except total turnover. Findings show significant increase in profitability and capacity utilization through companies’ involvement in unrelated production activities while sales volume increases through related production activities.

This study aims to examine the relationship of school environment with the participation of students in extra-curricular activities in schools in the State of Johor. This quantitative research using survey method through a questionnaire. A total of 225 teachers Advisor co-curricular activities were randomly selected from 21 schools. Survey instruments used in this study may be modified based on the "School-Level Environment Questionnaire" to assess the school environment and the "National Survey of Student Engagement 2011" to measure student involvement in extra-curricular activities. Correlation analysis shows there is a significant relationship (r = 0.294, p = 0.00) between the school environment with the participation of students in extra-curricular activities. The findings indicate that the school environment is a significant factor in improving student involvement in extra-curricular activities.

Stress has become a pervasive issue in modern life, significantly affecting both mental and physical health. Behavioural, hormonal, immunological, and physiological responses to stressors lead to physical expressions of fatigue and psychological expressions of tension or irritation. If not treated, it can lead to chronic problems like despair, therefore requiring effective evidence-based treatments. Current medications mainly target psychological or physical symptoms, and they often have side effects, including overuse risks. An emerging approach includes the use of functional foods, nutraceuticals, or products that are a combination of nutrition and therapy. These include dietary fiber, prebiotics, probiotics, antioxidants, and natural foods, which significantly affect stress management. This review explores the impact of nutrients and diets on managing stress. The release of cortisol during stress serves a purpose but can become harmful when elevated over time. Although practices like meditation and exercise are often recommended for stress relief, the role of functional foods is frequently overlooked. These foods offer more than basic nutrition; they contain bioactive compounds that support brain function, regulate hormones, and enhance overall well-being. By nourishing the body and mind with essential nutrients, functional foods serve as natural allies in managing stress. This literature review examines various types of functional foods and their health implications, particularly in stress management. Understanding their mechanisms and benefits can provide a path to optimal use in promoting health and resilience in our increasingly stressful world. Although the present body of research is promising in showing the potential of functional foods in managing stress, there is a need for holistic studies that consider both psychological and physiological outcomes. Future human trials to study the efficacy of nutritional interventions to reduce acute responses to stress need to pay attention to several critical aspects of study design.

The post-9/11 travel industry has transformed with partnerships and alliances commonplace between airlinesbecoming the norm and imperative, with economic and other pressures arising from reduced travel, recently further exacerbated by the pandemic. The consequence of these airline unions of economic convenience has warranted the operation staffing with a diverse blend of employees, due to international relocation of employees and demographic shifts in the United States population. The research aim was to peruse the operations environment and explore the management strategies of the resultant diverse workforce and discern the challenges. It is known that organizational performance is contingent upon the deftness of human resources in the optimization of the workforce. The transformational leadership theory was the theoretical foundation and the lens to underpin the exploration of the strategies U.S.-based international airline alliance leaders in ground staff operations use to successfully manage a diverse workforce to ensure organizational sustainability and profitability. A qualitative approach using semistructured interviews included a purposive sample of five airline alliance leaders located in the state of Georgia, who held at least 2 years of successful experience in implementing strategies to manage a diverse workforce. Content and thematic analysis were used to analyze the data, leading to the emergence of the key theme of the importance of strategic human resources management, and leadership in increasing organizational effectiveness. A key imperative is for airline alliance leaders to align diversity, equity, and inclusion policies with corporate human resources strategy. The implication for organizational success is that airline alliance business leaders must deftly manage a diverse and inclusive workforce in a rapidly changing world.

the study of the bacterial ecology in a surgical intensive care unit has a huge interest for the fight against the infections. the aim of this work is to analyze the epidemiological and the bacteriological profiles of infections, also to identify the risk factors and others influence the prognosis, finally to propose the measures of prevention. during one year at the bacteriology unit of mohammed V military teaching hospital of Rabat city in Morocco this prospective study was giving: the results of the total samples about the surgical intensive care unit patients. The characteristics of the patients “having infectious state” in intensive care unit: the middle age is 45,5 years old, the majority of cases correspond to male people, the high blood pressure (35,29%) and diabetes (23,53%) are the most frequent breeding . the severe cranial trauma corresponds to the most cases (16, 33%), secondly, we find the polytrauma 14, 28%. the infection incidence was considered as 6, 10%. the gram-negative bacilli are the most observed (69, 23%), secondly, we find the gram-positive cocci 23,10%. the klebsiella pneumoniaei is the most frequently identified species (25%), is the most frequently isolated on catheters samples, it has an important susceptibility to imipeneme. the acinetobacter baumanii is present in the second row (13,46%), having a susceptibility to colistine. the escherichia coli (9, 62%) and staphylococcus coagulase negative (9,62%) are both in the third row, this one is the most frequently isolated species in blood cultures and presents a neatly susceptibility to teicoplanine and vancomicine. in the fourth row we find enterococcus faecalis (7, 69%), corresponds to the second germ isolated from protected bronchial specimens, pratically found in the almost specimens, and presents a high susceptibility to ampicilline, vancomycine and teicoplanine. the mortality dealing with infections is 55, 56%, while the mortality happened to “sepsis states” is 20%; the male people are frequently affected (73%). a global strategy of prevention must be established for fighting infections and making better the prognosis.

The study was conducted to determine the variations of age, hair type and body condition score with sperm morphology and cations concentration in 62 Yankasa rams. The results revealed that the average abnormal morphological characteristics of ram semen were; 0.68, 0.47, 0.68, 0.47 and 0.36, respectively for detached midpiece and tail (DMT), midpiece droplet (MPD), detached head (DH), coiled and bent tail (CBT) and acrosome (ACR). Age, hair type and body condition score had significant (P<0.01) effect on sperm morphology except the effect of age on ACR and effect of BCS on MPD and ACR (P>0.05). DMT and DH were more frequent in younger rams of between 12 and 24 months of age than rams of later ages. On the other hand, the problem of MPD was more frequent on rams of 25 to 36 months of age. The CBT was observed more in rams that were between 19-24 months of age. With respect to hair type, the long-smooth haired rams had the highest DMT and DH abnormalities (1.0 x 106), while the short-smooth haired rams had the highest MPD abnormalities (0.6 x 106) while long curly hair type had the highest CBT spermatozoa (0.7x106). However, the short-rough rams showed none of the sperm morphological abnormalities. Age, hair type and body condition score also had significant (P<0.01) effect on semen cation concentrations except the effect of BCS on Na and K ions. The result of this experiment showed that age, hair type and body condition score are important factors in selecting breeding rams for optimum performance.

China is considered as one of the biggest consumers of energy in the world, creating a lot of pollution. There is a noticeable shift to renewable energy in China to solve this issue. However the geopolitical consequences of such a significant transition have received relatively little academic study. With existing literature and most recent data, this paper suggests a general framework for exploring this topic. This paper will briefly explain the energy and environment challenges faced by China and will demonstrate the most recent and significant commitments of the Chinese government to address those challenges. Then it shows the considerable progress already made by China in the energy efficiency of their economy and how China has used renewables to diversify its energy mix. Finally the paper studies the implications, opportunities and challenges, on global politics of such an energy transition. This papers shows how a fast development of renewable energy in China affects geopolitical balance with Japan, EU and US. This paper goal aim is to enrich the theoretical literature about renewable energy geopolitics with a special focus on China. This paper demonstrates that a global energy system dominated by renewable energy will be more sustainable, just and peaceful than the one only dominated by fossil fuels.

Credible disclosure and openness of information is a symbol of good corporate governance which is important in allocation of scarcely available resources. Transparency and accountability creates and sustains confidence of investors and other stakeholders in organizations and the wider society, by providing opportunities to stakeholders to receive necessary information. Organizations may have good policies on transparency and accountability but the extent to which it is successfully implemented influences service delivery. Studies have been conducted on policies and procedures on transparency and accountability in organizations, however there is inadequate empirical literature on influence of transparency and accountability as a practice on service delivery among county owned water organizations in Western Kenya. The study sought to establish the influence of transparency and accountability practice on service delivery among county owned water organizations in Western Kenya. In order to achieve the purpose, the study hypothesized that transparency and accountability practice has no influence on service delivery among county owned water organizations in Western Kenya. The study was guided by Stakeholder Theory. The study employed descriptive survey and correlational design. Data was collected from directors, managers, employees and customers of county-owned water organizations in Western Kenya. The sample size for directors, managers and customers were determined using purposive, stratified, simple random sampling technique. The study collected both qualitative and quantitative types of data using self-administered semi structured questionnaires and interview guides. The overall value of Cronbach’s reliability was high enough while Validity was checked by University experts and content validity index met the threshold. Normality test was conducted using Shapiro Wilk test. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics of inferential statistics such as Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Simple Linear Regression. Qualitative data was analysed using content analysis. Data is presented in form of tables. The values of Pearson correlation coefficients established that there existed a relationship between transparency and accountability and service delivery. The results of simple regression analysis established that transparency and accountability was statistically significant on service delivery among county owned water organizations in Western Kenya. It is hoped that the findings will benefit various stakeholders such as customers, in the water sector in Kenya, and academic researchers. The study recommended that organizations should embrace dissemination of necessary information to stakeholders in order to ensure that there is improved service delivery.

There are millions of computer users around word but only few people have knowledge about diagnostic card, on the other hand if someone has theoretical knowledge then don’t know/understand about the language of diagnostic card. In this piece of work we have tried to resolve issues related to diagnostic card and provided much solution related to routine problems of motherboard. The objective of this research is to provide easily knowledge about the language of diagnostic card so that common user can easily knew that what type of code diagnostic card generated and can resolve the problem in motherboard at its own without consulting to hardware engineer. We have given at home simple solutions about problems related to heating issue of main chip, power supply problem, beep problem, hanging problem, red light problem and processor problem through this diagnostic card.

Development of eco-friendly systems and energy efficient systems has been a great concern for sustainable development. In the present research paper, we are using a two-stage evaporative cooler (TSEC) consisting of two evaporative cooling chambers. The temperature drop through TSIEC can be achieved to be about 100K or below by applying the combined concept of bootstrap air refrigeration cycle and evaporative air refrigeration cycle. In this system we are using indirect evaporative cooling of compressed air in two stages of compression followed by cooling to attain very low temperature which can be used for scientific researches and cryogenics.