SUBJECT CATEGORY: MEDICINE | Feb. 1, 2024
Reassessing Disaster and Emergency Management: A Child Rights Perspective
Ihab Safi, Mohammed Al-Hassan
Page no 32-38 |
DOI: 10.36348/sb.2024.v10i02.001
This paper delves into the critical yet often overlooked aspect of disaster and emergency management: the rights and needs of children. Recognizing that children form a vulnerable segment of society during disasters, this study seeks to evaluate how effectively their rights are being protected and implemented in such crises. Utilizing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as a framework, the research examines key disasters like Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami to assess advancements and gaps in child-centric disaster response. Our findings reveal that children's experiences and needs in disaster scenarios are complexly intertwined with socio-political and economic factors. Despite the ratification of child rights treaties by numerous countries, the actual execution of these rights in disaster situations varies significantly. The paper highlights that children's vulnerability is not just physical but extends to psychological and educational aspects, often exacerbated by inadequate disaster preparedness and response strategies. The study emphasizes the importance of education in mitigating the psychological impact of disasters on children. Post-Hurricane Katrina initiatives, for instance, have shown the effectiveness of educational programs in disaster preparedness. However, challenges in coordination among NGOs and government entities often lead to ineffective implementation of child-focused disaster management strategies. In conclusion, while strides have been made in recognizing and addressing children’s needs in disasters, much work remains. The paper calls for a more nuanced understanding of child vulnerability and advocates for comprehensive strategies that prioritize children's rights in disaster management.
SUBJECT CATEGORY: BOTANY | Feb. 3, 2024
Impacts of Biotic and Abiotic Factors on Evaluation of Triticum aestivum L. as a Crop
Abdul Rauf, Khansa Amber, Adnan Abbas Shah, Rashid Rasheed, Sana Razzaq, Zunaira Naeem, Nisar Ahmad Khan, Farman Ullah, Shafi Ullah
Page no 39-45 |
DOI: 10.36348/sb.2024.v10i02.002
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a self-pollinating annual grass which is cultivated as staple crop widely cultivated in the world belong to the family poaceae. Wheat plays a vital role in human and animal nutrition because it is a major source of carbohydrates. Drought is a generally prolonged period of dryness which creates significant damage to crops and prevents their effective growth. It can also refer to a prolonged period of extremely low precipitation, especially one that has a negative impact on growing or living conditions. The nutritional and versatile value of wheat grain recognizes it so important that it can be refined into semolina, flour, and other products such as cookies, bread, pastries, noodles, pasta and couscous also stated that wheat is largely used to make chapatti, cakes and other food products. The germplasm was comprised of test varieties or test treatments and check varieties or control treatments. The field experiment was out by utilizing augmented block design. Parameters like germination %, tillers per plant, canopy temperature, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), days to 50% heading, flag leaf area (cm2), days to maturity, plant height (cm) were evaluated. Under drought condition yield/plant had positive and highly significant correlation with number of tillers, seed weight/spike and positive non-significant with NDVI, flag leaf area, days to maturity and thousand kernel weight under drought condition.
SUBJECT CATEGORY: BOTANY | Feb. 3, 2024
Role of Potential Plant Hormones for Activation and Enhancing Physiological Processes, Growth and Development
Iqra Fatima, Umer Khurshid, Rida Taseer Shahid, Rashid Rasheed, Nimrah Tehreem, Urooj Bashir, Sadia Mushtaq, Arshad Abbas Khan, Muhammad Abid, Abdul Rauf
Page no 46-52 |
DOI: 10.36348/sb.2024.v10i02.003
Plant hormones are chemicals that are present in small amounts, influence and promote the division, growth, and maturation of cells and tissues. Salicylic acid is a phenolic phytohormone and has a function in growth/development, photosynthesis, transpiration, ion absorption, and transport. By interfering with endogenous signals, SA mediates plant defense against pathogens. It strengthens the body's defenses against infections by promoting the production of pathogenesis-related proteins. It affects the systemic acquired resistance (SAR) pathway, wherein a pathogenic assault on one. Water deficiency affects during tillering, head emergence, filling of grain and maturity water deficiency of wheat. Concentration of carotenoids more during drought stress and that produced for drought tolerance enhancement in bread wheat. Water shortage on pigment contents of photosynthesis, relative water amount, shot weight in dried form, flag leaf area specific mass, parameters for gas exchange, physiological parameters and yield. Drought there more significant reduction in tillers/plant, fertile tillers/plant, length of spike, yield/spike and thousand kernel weight of wheat cultivars during drought conditions as compared with normal irrigation conditions. Polyamine exogenously via spray during grain filling condition. The water deficiency spermidine and spermine reduced the inhibition caused by water deficiency when polyamine had applied.
This paper aims to critically analyse two conflicting ethical orientations that dominate the debate on the issue of justice in the post-war phase: minimalism and maximalism. The former approach narrows down the scope of the third aspect of just war theory, known as jus post bellum (justice after war), to the restoration of peace and the prevention of future hostilities. In contrast, the latter emphasizes the importance of achieving political objectives via military triumph and the use of force. Furthermore, it underscores the need for conscientious state-building after a military triumph in order to guarantee the welfare of individuals and the effectiveness of the justly established state. In line with Immanuel Kant's philosophy, it argues for minimalism by giving importance to upholding the rights of civilians and prisoners of war while striving to achieve enduring peace. In addition, it analyzes the fundamental concepts of Orend's maximalist approach to peace accords. These principles give priority to social justice, equality, human rights, democratic government, and social and economic progress. Orend's criteria for a fair peace settlement after a morally justified conflict include the vindication of rights, proportionality, discrimination, punishment, compensation, and rehabilitation. It also discusses the justifiability of regime change in this context. In line with Walzer, it contends that instances in which a new regime will be significantly better compared to the old one should be the only ones in which regime change is appropriate.
SUBJECT CATEGORY: MANAGEMENT | Feb. 29, 2024
The Future of Work, Changes, and Needs Arising from Technological Development According to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Ricardo A. Boone-Salmon, J. Emilio Méndez-González
Page no 59-63 |
DOI: 10.36348/sb.2024.v10i02.005
This research focuses on the impact that technology is currently having and will have on the development of people's work activities worldwide, as well as the analysis of the skills necessary for optimal performance expected of workers in their respective organizations, according to estimates from Higher Education Institutions in Chihuahua, Mexico. The main objective is to understand the expectations that companies and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, have regarding the skills needed for the future of work and to compare them with the results presented in the World Economic Forum (WEF) Future of Jobs Report 2023. Based on the hypothesis that the degree of correlation between global expectations for future skills and those of Chihuahua would be low, a survey was conducted with 10 educational institutions on the topic. Among the main results, it was found that there is a 60% match in the top 10 skill groups sought both globally and in Chihuahua. Skills such as "Technology Design and Programming," "Emotional Intelligence," "Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Ideation," and "Systems Analysis and Evaluation" were identified as crucial for companies worldwide but not as important locally. Finally, the results presented will enable companies, the government, educational institutions, and the workforce in Chihuahua to understand the coordination needs to achieve the necessary training for developing future work skills that are important globally.