the present study investigates the possibility of enriching adult artemia franciscana with singular or combined administration of pediococcus acidilactici and fructooligosaccharide (fos). the experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with four treatments, including synbiotic, p. acidilactici +fos (t1), probiotic, p. acidilactici (t2), prebiotic, fos (t3) and control (t4). to ev...

Insured Financial Position and Investment benefits are key factors that drive the Insurance industry to competitive edge. To draft out investment consumer, effective procedures, policies should be derived delivered consumer in a lucid way. Consumer usage level of financial product can well identified by awareness products market best suits customer with proper deliverables. As environment techn...

Our aim was to investigate some predictors and outcomes of family-to-work enrichment (FWE) via a mixed-method approach. We sampled 447 married employees of an Italian factory. Survey results from Study 1 showed that emotional support from family positively predicted FWE, while this latter mediated the associations between the former on one side, and work engagement and life satisfaction on the ...

The Social Web provides a vast source of user-generated content embedding different views on real life events and activities. Although there is a notable effort to utilise this content in personalisation applications, the existing approaches do not exploit the diversity of individual viewpoints for user modelling and adaptation. On the other hand, the semantic web community has developed extens...

Aims and method To review the literature to examine the factors that may be affecting recruitment into psychiatry in the UK. We systematically searched four databases to identify studies from 1974 to 2016 and identified 27 papers that met the specified inclusion criteria. Results Most papers (n = 24) were based on questionnaire surveys. The population in all studies comprised of 1879 psychiatri...

The evaluation policy of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is described in this article. Three studies are presented that exemplify SAMHSA's evaluations. These include evaluations of a program to prevent substance abuse among pregnant and postpartum women and their infants; a Job Corps treatment enrichment program; and the McKinney program for homeless perso...

This study investigated the relationships among Hispanics’ self-esteem, acculturation, and skepticism of women’s employment. Using a sample of Hispanic students, mediated regression analysis was initiated to determine whether acculturation mediated a proposed negative relationship between self-esteem and traditional gender attitudes. The results indicated that self-esteem and acculturation were...

Introduction An increasing focus on quality in the world of business is no longer an option but an absolute requirement in the face of growing competition (Wilkinson et al 1991). Founded over two decades ago by Deming and Juran, the Total Quality Management (TQM) movement has quickly become the most popular program for improving quality. Some say that TQM provides a unique historical approach t...

A holistic review of ergonomic history shows that science remains important for general occupational health and safety (OSH), the broad society, culture, politics and the design of everyday things. Science provides an unconventional and multifaceted viewpoint exploring ergonomics from a social, corporate and OSH perspective. Ergonomic solutions from this mindset may redefine the science, and it...

This paper presents some insights into automation of assembly process of a consumer product. The methods developed towards achieving this objective include: surveying the available literature on automated assembly systems; defining the advantages and limitations of the various systems; studying different classifications and programming methods of Industrial Robots with a view to examining their...