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Session 2 | 22 December 2020 | Day 3

Chairperson 
Dr. Suganda Ramamurthi     
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Lady Doak College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRICING POLICY OF INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Nadiia Shmygol and Olena Saienko

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Presenter Name
Olena Saienko

The article presents the scenarios of price equilibrium developed by the authors, which were implemented in the oil and gas sector of the economy. These scenarios were developed by the authors using Leontiev's intersectoral model. It was proved that these developments allow not only to perform appropriate calculations, but also to find out how these changes affect resource efficiency in particular, and sustainable development in the end, including by changing the coefficients of direct costs, intermediate consumption, value added and gross profit.

Economic and Mathematical Methods for Classifying the Stability of Indicators in Assessing Business Development

Nadiia Shmygol and Maiia Kasіanok

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Presenter Name
Maiia Kasіanok

This article considers the algorithm for estimating and calculating the integrated indicator of sustainable business development. As the business structures of each industry will have their own, unique specifics and conditions of activity, this leads to the fact that the normative or recommended values of business indicators from one industry to another may differ. This should have an appropriate effect on the limits of the stability intervals of the integrated indicator. Individual indicators, which are calculated to assess sustainable development, should be based on primary data and, ultimately, provide information on the status and dynamics of business structures. Currently, the development and calculation of integrated indicators, which are aggregate or weighted indicators based on several other indicators, are widely used. On the basis of development indicators, an integrated indicator of sustainable development can be calculated, which will allow to assess the overall development in terms of its sustainability, as well as to compare the theoretical and actual results of its operation. The results of this analysis can serve as a basis for management decisions in the transition to sustainable development, thereby increasing not only the economic and social efficiency of business structures.

Review on the Effect of Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy on Graduates� Employability

Vasantha S and Yasmeen Bano

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Presenter Name
Yasmeen Bano

The paper has demonstrated that self efficacy and emotional intelligence influence graduates employability in labour market. Self efficacy and Emotional intelligence play important role on graduates� employability and it also increases the employment rate in the job market. Pool & Sewell (2007), discussed that self efficacy is recognized to be very crucial in the employment of the recent graduates. Hashemi & Ghanizadeh (2011), suggested that institution should encourage and promote skills and capabilities related with emotional intelligence in their classroom activities and their curriculum. The paper has reviewed the concept of self efficacy and emotional intelligence of the graduates. This paper collected information through the secondary sources e.g. internet sources and published papers. Based on the several reviews the study has concluded that emotional intelligence and self efficacy influences graduates employment in labour market and helps them to gain success in their relevant field.

TUBERCULOSIS IN SOUTH ASIA A REVIEW

Rakesh Kumar and Shalini Singh

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Presenter Name
RAKESH KUMAR

Ackground:
Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs though it can spread to other parts of the body one’s brain or spine.
The bacteria are spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It can also spread through saliva (by kissing or sharing drinks etc.). A type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the cause of the disease. Tuberculosis (TB) remains formidable threat to global health despite concerted efforts during past decades by the global health community. The mortality rate has fallen by 47% between 1990 and 2015 [1]. Sixteen out of 22 high TB burden countries have achieved the millennium development goals for TB.

The global health community has set an ambition target for the post 2015, ENO-TB strategy of a 25% reduction in incidence and 75% reduction in mortality between 2015 and 2025, and by 2035 a 95% reduction in mortality and 90% reduction in incidence [1]. As per the news item published in the daily, “The Times of India” dated 16th February 2020, The Health Minister of India, Dr. Harsh Vardhan informed that the country has even more ambitious target of eliminating the disease from the country by the year, 2025 and said that, the mission Indradhanush is already operational for the purpose.

Although T.B elimination is a much complex problem, our understanding of infectious diseases, global connectivity and range of interventions has also increased. In order to accelerate TB elimination we must maximise research in high burden regions like South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Maldives). The WHO South-East Asia (SEA) is home for 26% of the world’s population with 44% burden of TB. An estimated 4.4 million people fell ill with TB and estimated 6,38,000 died because of the disease which is more than half of the global TB deaths[2].

The emergence of rifampicin resistant or multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR) is one of the main challenges to the control of tuberculosis epidemic. Drug resistant tuberculosis is caused either by the transmission of already resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis or by suboptimal treatment of susceptible strains. It is no surprise therefore that with such a high burden of TB disease, this region has an estimated number of 184336 multi drug resistant (MDR) cases among the notified TB cases, which accounts for the third of global MDR burden [2]. Most of the MDR cases in this region remain untreated due to substantial gap between the policy and practical implementation [3]. As such, there is an imperative need to improve and strengthen research capacity in these high burden countries.

Treatment:
The recent licensing of bedaquiline and delamanid is a major advance in our fight against drug resistant TB[4-5]. Effective treatment depends upon accurate diagnosis. The Gene X port scale up has dramatically increased detection of MDRTB in the region. Until molecular drug susceptibility testing for drugs other than rifampicin improves, phenotype drug susceptibility testing will remain necessary to appropriately treat MDR TB cases. Despite the large population of 1.8 billion, the ratio of drug sensitivity testing (DST) laboratories to population remains alarmingly low at about 0.2 labs per 5 million population. It is estimated that the cost of treatment of a single MDR patient is about 500 times the cost of a drug susceptible patient. Investing in strong MDR TB control is therefore highly cost effective if it successfully checks MDR transmission. This

apart the new shorter MDR TB treatment regimen from Bangladesh, now adopted and recommended by WHO should be implemented region wide.

PREVENTION AND INFECTION CONTROL:
The whopping number of latently infected individuals throughout the world presents a substantial challenge to eradication efforts. Various models created for control strategies suggest that without tackling latent TB, TB eradication is not possible. A rough estimate was that about one third of the world population was suffering from latent TB. But a recent study using annual risk of infection estimates derived from a number of sources has given a figure of 1.7 billion people, a quarter of world population. Scaling up isoniazid preventive therapy(IPT) in endemic countries has received serious considerations in the last decade. For its large scale feasibility shorter regimens must be developed as also the regimens applicable in areas of high isoniazid resistance. The 12 dose , 3 months rifapentine isoniazid regimen is a step in the right direction but more must be done to evaluate strategies for IPT scaleup beyond those currently being undertaken in people living with HIV. South Asia is also vulnerable to natural disasters and political un stability. Contingency measures are to be kept in place for prevention of decease spread in case a disaster visits. The 2015 earthquake in Nepal and lack of proper delivery system of healthcare measures is a grim reminder in this regard.

RESEARCH PRIORITIES:
The discovery of an effective vaccine to treat TB seems an unachievable goal in the near future. While efforts must be kept on for finding a vaccine, we must make plans to eradicate TB without a vaccine. Research priorities for the South Asian region must focus on packaged interventions both in large urban cities and remote rural areas. Research capacity should be strengthened by enlarging the network of good clinical practice(GCP) compliant clinical trial sites to spread up novel regimen evaluations, improving laboratory capacity for bacterial culture and drug susceptibility testing .Networking research across the region to share and scale up best practice, engaging governments and fund providers in research projects to ensure translation and political commitment to sustainable funding.

CONCLUSION:
There is an opportunity for the scientific fraternity to embark on a path of new research to find real cure for the vast majority of TB afflicted population in the South Asian region. South Asia has patients with a rich pool of innovative scientists which could enable it to seize the opportunity and lead global TB elimination programmes by demonstrating feasibility in densely populated cities and remotest reaches of the Himalayas. Political will and leadership with a vision are the two attributes which are essential to facilitate the loftly programme of TB elimination. The malady cannot be defeated by a single intervention, instead continuous innovations are required. This is the time that researchers in the region join hands, work with cohesion, develop an unified agendum to ensure successful research for TB eradication. THE SOONER, THE BETTER

HFIPO-DPNN: A Framework for Predicting the Dropout of Physically Impaired Student from Education

Marina.B and Dr. A. Senthilrajan

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Presenter Name
Marina B

Education plays a significant role in individuals� development and economic growth of the developing countries like India. Dropout of students from their studies is the major concern for any order of education. Some models for predicting the dropout of students are developed with several factors. Many of them lacked consistencies as they backed their studies with the academic performance of the students. Especially, for those students suffered with physical impairment the drop out depends on several external factors. In the present study, a novel HFIPO-DPNN is proposed to predict the dropout of the student rooted on the previous semester marks. The proposed model enclosed the hybrid firefly and improved particle swarm algorithm to optimize the feature selection that influence the dropout of hearing-impaired students. The optimized feature data are used to predict the dropout with the novel DPNN. The optimized data was split and used for training the DPNN. The testing data is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed framework. The outcome for the proposed framework is evaluated on several metrics. The accuracy of the proposed model is about 99.02%. The HFIPO-DPNN framework can be enhanced for predicting the dropout for students with other disabilities. The optimization showed that factors influencing the education other than familial factors to be considered in prediction of dropout.

E-HRM in miscellaneous workforce efficiency on organizational performance

Akila B and Vasantha S

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Presenter Name
Akila

The main aim of this paper focuses on the reviews of literature based on e-HRM followed by the studies relating to organizational performance and workforce ability. This paper draws a structure to resemble the variables on e-HRM workforce ability and organizational performance. Mixture of management focuses on developing and depreciate varies ideas that construct employees e-HRM that access to employees feeling and offended. Hence, HR practitioners slot the strategy role which increases the value of people and organization. The importance of workforce research is based on the organizational rules and individuality that straitens both organization theory and practice. The conclusion is falls on the teamwork that leads to promote agility which promotes to reward system and employees engagement. This paper represent to resemble the variables on e-HRM workforce ability and organizational performance.

To Study and Analyze the Impact of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants on Indian Outbound Tourism

Nanita Tyagi and Dr. Shipra Saxena

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Presenter Name
Nanita Tyagi

The objective of this paper is to study the impact of economic and non-economic determinants on India�s outbound tourism demand. To accomplish this objective 20 top Indian Outbound tourism receiving countries� data will be collected for all the possible determinants of outbound tourism for the last 11 years i.e. the year 2009 to 2019. Determinants will be identified/explored through experts (experts from industry and academia) opinion and content analysis will be done for selected empirical research papers to explore/identify the determinants. After exploring the determinants for Indian outbound tourism, an analysis will be done by pooled and fixed effect in multiple regression will be studied for country-wise data set to found country-specific determinants for tourist departure from India. The results will show the economic and non-economic factors which have a significant impact on Indian outbound tourism.

Molecular modelling and docking simulation for un-raveling medicinal properties of Soor and Pakhoi, the lesser known traditional drinks of Himalayas

Somya Sinha, Mariam Nawaz, Kumud Pant, Promila Sharma and Bhaskar Pant

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Presenter Name
Somya Sinha

With the spread of COVID-19, there has arisen a high need to find drugs that can combat and prevent this disease. Most of the researches on finding suitable drugs are using corona virus spike protein as a target. In this study, we have used alternate drug targets of SARS-CoV-2 and have used the phytochemicals of an alcoholic beverage of Tons Valley, Garhwal Himalayas called Soor and Pakhoi, to check whether this drink could act as an anti-viral agent. For this purpose, we have applied modern computational techniques like molecular modelling and docking simulation with the help of iGEMDOCK software. We have found permissible results in the form of high docking interaction energy. If the phytochemicals are binding with the viral protein, their natural ligands are interrupted from binding with the viral proteins. Hence, Soor and Pakhoi can be a deterrent for corona virus

IMPACT OF ICT USAGE ON STUDENT'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE- MODERATING ROLE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS

Krithika M and Ramya J

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Presenter Name
Dr.Krithika.M

ICT or information communication technology refers to the different types of tools and resources used to produce, distribute or publish, save, and administer information. Recently there is a growing concern among the teaching fraternity about the usage of ICT in the education sector. The question remains whether the ICT enhances the teaching or whether it is merely publicity or propaganda that has no significant effect on the academic performance of the students. This paper tries to explore the relationship between the usage of ICT and the academic performance of the students. Whether there is a significant relationship between the two variables and the role of socio-economic status. There have been several studies that have carried out focussing on ICT and its impact on academic performance. This study is unique in trying to find the moderating role of socio-economic status. Further, the study focuses mainly on the students who are undergoing professional engineering courses in various private colleges and universities

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