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Software development with UML modelling and software testing techniques
This chapter focuses on software development principles and discusses each principle thoroughly with diagrammatic representation. It also includes the definition of UML (unified modeling language) modelling with an explanation regarding how UML modelling takes place and a detailed example. It also focuses on software testing methods, with each method definition and diagrams well explained. A simple case study situation is taken to discuss the example of UML model. This chapter's main objective is to focus on all key points of software development testing and model design techniques precisely. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Software Quality Prediction by CatBoost: Feed-Forward Neural Network in Software Engineering
Software quality is the key aspect of every software organization. Multiple frameworks and algorithms are essential to ensure quality. However, multiple software failures occur uninvited. There are multiple aspects that skew a softwares efficiency. Now the software quality analysis framework mostly focuses on design flaws and test plans done during development. To overcome this problem of software failure, this research proposes a prediction for software efficiency analysis in software engineering using enhanced feed-forward neural network machine learning classification with CatBoost. This research also evaluates the parameters of efficiency of each software component before implementation. This proposed work also analyses the basic aspects that need to be ensured before the design phase of any software. 2024 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. -
Special Military Application Antenna for Robotics Process Automation
A special military application antenna for robotics process automation is presented in the following chapter. An antenna is a device that uses wireless communication. Wireless communications main advantage is protecting our soldiers from undefined enemies. To keep this thing in mind, we have designed a special military application antenna. The presented antenna is useful for defense and satellite communication, including wi-fi and Wimax, which is useful for the robotics automation process. Most of the military robotics automation is based on wireless communication. Our proposed antenna is very useful and capable of receiving or transmitting high signals in terms of GHz. The presented geometry can radiate the large frequency band from 2.9 to 11.6 GHz, which covers the 5G-(I) Sub- 6GHz band and X-Band Communication, with high efficiency. The impedance bandwidth of the radiator is 120%, with an electrical size of .14?x.14?x0.014? in lambda. The antenna is simulated with an FR4 substrate using a CST Simulator. Simulations also investigate the 08-stages evolution process and corresponding S-parameter results are presented. The proposed structure also demonstrates stable radiation patterns across the operating bandwidth. The proposed radiator has a high gain of 6.78 dBi and an efficiency of 89%. Therefore, it is useful for 5G-(I) Sub-6GHz band and X-band military applications, including satellite mobile, Radar, and Satellite microwave communication. 2023 Scrivener Publishing LLC. -
Spectroscopic parameters of red emitting Eu3 +-doped La2Ba3B4O12 phosphor for display and forensic applications
Eu3+-activated La2Ba3B4O12 (LBBO) phosphor was synthesized by the solid-state reaction method. LBBO phosphors characterized by structural analysis (X-ray diffraction), including refinement parameters and crystallite size, morphological analysis by (Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy). Photoluminescence (PL) studies of synthesized phosphors monitored in the range of 450-675 nm for the LBBO phosphor doped with Eu3 +. An excitation peak was found at 254nm and several sharp emission peaks were found around 466, 541, 588, 593, 613, and 626nm with high intensities. The crystallite size of the Eu3 +-doped LBBO phosphor was around 126nm. It is found that the intense emission peak is in the red region. The detailed processes involved and a possible mechanism for the PL are studied and discussed. The phosphor can also be used in forensic science to detect fingerprints. 2021 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. -
Spiritual Dispositional Coping and Health Hardiness on Stress and Related Illnesses: Aftermath COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an array of challenges that have taken a significant toll on psychological well-being and health. Public fear-mongering, hopelessness, and uncertainty have contributed to many negative emotions during the pandemic. The psychological ramifications of these emotions include stress, anxiety, and depression. The extreme stress that people experienced caused mental conditions like post-pandemic stress disorder. Literature suggests there is also an increased susceptibility to stress-related chronic illness. Another major concern post-coronavirus contraction is long COVID (post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, or PASC), which further leads to complications impacting physical, cognitive, and mental health dimensions and multiple organ system syndromes. As a result of this predicament, there is an increased reliance on various complementary and alternative approaches and interventions for engaging in health-promoting behaviours. The chapter focuses on how spiritual dispositional coping and health hardiness can be used as health protective measures. It also focuses on various strategies that spiritual dispositional coping and health hardiness offer for overall well-being and better adaptation to post-pandemic complications. Therefore, this chapter aims to understand the pandemics stress-related health consequences, re-affirm the relationship between health hardiness and spiritual dispositions, and demonstrate how combining these strategies will provide effective coping methods. 2025 selection and editorial matter, Dr Uzaina, Dr Rajesh Verma with Dr Ruchi Pandey; individual chapters, the contributors. -
Sports Tourism and Community Development: Exploring the Links and Sentiments
Sports tourism has emerged as one of the most effective forms of tourism through its ability to satisfy the need of modern-day tourists who prioritize novelty, engagement, and experience. Meanwhile, the sustainable community (development) agenda is also parallelly getting its due attention in the form of SDG11. Recently, the power of sports tourism and events in harnessing community development has been discussed in various patches. However, the structure and mechanism of this growing linkage are rarely discussed holistically, making generalizability a challenging goal to achieve. Further, the aspect of sustainability needs to be studied more. In this regard, the authors of this chapter have attempted to develop a conceptual framework mapping the linkages of sports events and community development, keeping the sustainability agenda in the backdrop. Further, sentiment analysis through NVivo has been performed on all significant works to understand the general sentiments across various communities regarding sports tourism contributing to their development. While the framework development objective is conceptual in nature, the retrieval of the significant themes and sentiments is attained through analytical research. It is concluded that the impacts of sports tourism and events on communities align with the three (triple) bottom lines of sustainable development, i.e., economic, sociocultural, and environmental. These influences result in the sustainable development of the communities. Sentiment analysis points toward the positive sentiment for sports tourism resulting in community development in most cases analyzed. This research will assist both academicians and practitioners in better understanding the linkage between sports tourism and community development and devise measures to make this linkage more sustainable. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2024. -
Stakeholders' expressions of tech layoffs: A text mining analysis on the "Balance of Arguments"
The volume and nature of work undertaken by the tech employees is humongous, tech employees are known to manage those high tides because of attractive salary packages, perks, and other incentive options, which turn out to be a catastrophic collapse when such layoffs are levied, giving little or no room for a quick transfer to another job from the viewpoint of the affected employees. User-generated unstructured data content in the forms of either tweets, reviews, or comments from around seven major social media platforms were collected to understand the various expressions and discussions linked to layoffs. The collected data is further segregated into employee expressions, social media reviewers, news critiques views, etc., and their perspectives were further analysed. The overall analysis of sentiments on various stakeholders are formulated using Python (Juypter Notebook) package. The authors attempt to model out the viewpoints of various expressors and suggests various measures to be taken by the tech majors to better handle the phenomenon of layoffs. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Starting from the roots of teacher education: Inclusion of educational neuroscience in teacher training in India
Educational neuroscience has warranted much research and showed much promise in recent times. However, there is a lack of effective bridging between research in this field and its implementation in actual classroom settings. In order to bridge this gap, a key strategy is to include educational neuroscience in teacher training and education. The current study uses a survey method to assess student-teachers' awareness, opinions, and openness toward educational neuroscience concepts and techniques. This study examines a snowball sample of 83 Indian student-teachers who joined the Bachelor of Education program in 2018, 2019, and 2020. The results of this study indicate that although most student-teachers are aware of certain techniques, they are unaware that it is part of educational neuroscience. Further, the student-teachers also showed interest in learning such techniques and considered it relevant and useful in classroom teaching. Finally, this study also highlights the role of decision-makers in including educational neuroscience in the B.Ed. program, possibly as an optional paper. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. All rights reserved. -
State of local governance and urban development problems: A study of Bengaluru
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Statistical Data Analysis of Anticorrosion and Antifouling: Unveiling Insights from Performance and Trends
This chapter provides intended insights about the current antifouling and anticorrosion conventional coatings, each with a distinct quality, that fall short of fully satisfying the contemporary requirements of material preservation in a marine environment. To solve these issues and accomplish the required goals, a number of novel terminologies and procedures have been investigated and several recently published research works were referred to and briefly examined in order to provide appropriate conclusions. In order to explore new methodologies that provide total protection for materials from biofouling and corrosion in maritime environments, this study looks into the complex realm of antifouling and anticorrosion methods. 2024 Scrivener Publishing LLC. -
Stock market prediction using DQN with DQNReg loss function
There have been many developments in predicting stock market prices using reinforcement learning. Recently, Google released a paper that designed a new loss function, specifically for meta-learning reinforcement learning. In this paper, implementation is done using this loss function to the reinforcement learning model, whose objective is to predict the stock price based on certain parameters. The reinforcement learning used is an encoderdecoder framework that is useful for extracting features from long sequence prices. The DQNReg loss function is implemented in the encoder-decoder model as it could provide strong adaptation performance in a variety of settings. The model can buy and sell the index, and the reward is the portfolio return after the days trading has concluded. To maximize yield the model must optimize reward function. The DQNReg loss implemented DQN network and the Huber loss DQN network is compared with the Sharpe ratio considered for return. 2024 selection and editorial matter, Arvind Dagur, Karan Singh, Pawan Singh Mehra & Dhirendra Kumar Shukla; individual chapters, the contributors. -
Stormy minds and the long-term mental health impact of climate-linked natural disasters
This chapter delves into the enduring psychological ramifications stemming from climate-linked natural disasters, encapsulated in the term "Stormy Minds." As our planet grapples with an escalating frequency of such events, understanding the protracted effects on mental health becomes imperative. This abstract provides an insightful overview of the research, focusing on the intricate interplay between climate-induced disasters and the long-term well-being of individuals. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the study explores the psychological dimensions of enduring stress, anxiety, and trauma caused by these disasters. By assessing and documenting the persistent mental health impact, the research aims to contribute valuable insights for policymakers, mental health professionals, and communities striving to build resilience in the face of an increasingly turbulent climate. 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Strategic Data Analytics for Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Data and analytics have become major assets for all organizations to leverage into superior strategic positions in this cut-throat competitive world with buzzwords like data crunch, metrics, and dark data. This chapter discusses the structural and economic reasons of why business analytics is necessary for organizations. The ability to collect different resources and entities such as talent, process, data, and information technology to bring out a valuable output is crucial for business analytics success. The most common difficulty of big data begins when organizations are in the journey of business analytics. Since a number of organizations are still in the baby steps of basic, tackling data challenges is humongous for them. This situation calls for the need to foster a business analytics ecosystem by every organization. This paper discusses how optimizing analytics could lead to a sustainable competitive advantage, building data strategy, and setting Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for business analytics. The chapter further explores how analytics is used across business domains and the challenges in crafting a business analytics strategy. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024. -
Strategic Management Practices for Sustainability: A Study of Micro-entrepreneurs of Wellness Industry in Mysore District
The global wellness industry is seeing a major shift in its relevance and growth post COVID-19. The fast-growing wellness industry is driven by organizations of all sizes and scope: large, medium, small and micro enterprises offering a range of services from holistic wellness offerings to focused services, such as beauty, spa, alternative therapy, gym and physical fitness. While we have heterogeneous businesses on the supply side, we have the entire global population on the demand side. Due to the size of the market and growth potential, the competition in wellness service space is intense. In such a situation, it is a challenge to register growth and sustain the same. The challenge is more pronounced for micro-entrepreneurs due to their limited resources and reach. It calls for a strategic approach to managing the businesses to endure the competition and succeed. Hence, wellness businesses are adopting Strategic Management Practices (SMPs) in greater numbers. However, not all strategies work. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of significant SMPs adopted by micro-entrepreneurs on business sustainability in the wellness industry. Responses of 392 microentrepreneurs from the wellness industry are recorded and analyzed for the SMPs adopted by them for the economic, environmental and social sustainability of their businesses. The study identified various strategic approaches that are implemented by micro-entrepreneurs in Mysore District and studied the impact SMPs had on sustainability factors of the wellness industry. A model is proposed to support the study. The results conclude that the application of a good amount of SMPs in the form of strategic entrepreneurship enhances the sustainability of a venture as well as the industry, aiding transformation from an unorganized to an organized sector and better regulations. 2024 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. -
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND REGIONAL RESILIENCE: Exploring the Evolving Landscape of India-Southeast Asia Relations
India and Southeast Asia share an elusive sphere of influence, yet face formidable challenges in realising ambitious goals set for the region. Over the years, Indias foreign policy has progressed from being principled to goal driven and objective oriented. Based on analysis of secondary sources of literature, this chapter traces through the relationship between India and Southeast Asia, highlighting a shared landscape of experiences, weaving socio-cultural practices and further boosting economic and international relations. These historical references have found avenues for remodelling in contemporary times in the form of diplomatic success in varied dimensions of engagements. Drawing from these developments and taking the transformations in the geopolitics of Indo-Pacific region into cognizance, this chapter envisions the future prospects for India and Southeast Asia through the lens of building community resilience, promoting its potential to guide regional development and explore the sustainability of social, economic and environmental systems to manage change. This renewed line of thought supports a new analytic of governance which advocates that the local define the configurations and prospects for sustainability of policy frameworks and agreements in the global system. Thus, in the background of the rising traditional and non-traditional challenges, this chapter contributes to a better understanding of change and complexity through a revitalised scope for coordination, cooperation and pragmatism in partnership between the countries. 2024 Taylor & Francis. -
Strategies for Sustainable Practices in a Post-Pandemic World
We know from experience that possessions dont better themselves with time. In order to generate income, we must work. So, what do sustainability experts in the global business-school community recommend companies do when calamity begins to subside and some kind of reality is restored? Companies worldwide have suffered greatly from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the epidemic, businesses are being forced to develop long-term strategies that are both profitable and sustainable in terms of society, the economy, and the environment. There is little doubt that businesses contribute significantly to the overall gross domestic product (GDP) of any nation. Because of the pandemic, businesses had to work even harder to reduce waste, adapt to changing demands from customers in record speed, and achieve peak performance alone. This has further raised the status of sustainability to one of moderate significance. Businesses must develop novel and cutting-edge approaches to ensure economic, environmental, and social longevity. Scholars have yet to settle on a single definition due to the business model's complexity. A study found that COVID-19 had both positive and negative impacts on educational technology (edtech) companies. As a result of the pandemic, businesses in the edtech sector no longer needed to make the case for the importance of their products in classrooms. Second, there was a rise in the acceptance of online education among educators. Also, edtech companies grew rapidly and benefited greatly from user feedback, and investors showed a lot of interest in the sector. However, due to the obstacles, sales discussions were either put on hold or cancelled. Edtech companies were unable to expand into new areas as a result of travel limitations. The purpose of this research is to investigate the link between the elements of sustainable development that contribute to the occurrence of enterprises and edtech enterprise employment and interest. 2024 selection and editorial matter, Vandana Sharma, Balamurugan Balusamy, Munish Sabharwal, and Mariya Ouaissa. -
Strategies to achieve carbon neutrality and foster sustainability in data centers
Data centers and transmission networks are crucial in the digital age, with the market expected to grow from $50 billion in 2021 to $120 billion by 2030. However, their extensive computing infrastructure and continuous operation generate significant heat, necessitating energy-intensive cooling systems. The IEA report revealed that data center power consumption surged by over 60% between 2015 and 2021, with transmission networks experiencing a 60% usage increase. Addressing these growing energy demands poses significant challenges for the industry, with some countries considering restrictions on new data center licenses due to environmental concerns. To mitigate the climate impact, the industry must prioritize the procurement of low-carbon or carbon-free electricity to reduce Scope 2 emissions related to electricity, heating, and cooling. Tech giants like AWS, Google, and Meta/Facebook have already adopted ambitious public targets, either running on carbon-free electricity or investing in global projects for cost-effective and large-scale emissions reduction. 2024, IGI Global. -
Strategizing Talent Acquisition for Fostering Future Workforce Success: Addressing Millennial Turnover and Hiring Challenges in a Rapidly Evolving Business Landscape
Rapid technical breakthroughs and a competitive labor market characterize today's business prospects, emphasizing the need for successful recruitment and talent acquisition. Preparing for your company's future workforce entails evaluating who, when, why, and how you hireall of which are mirrored in your talent acquisition strategy. If given the option, 49% of Millennial workers would quit their present employment within the next two years (2019 Deloitte Global Millennial Survey). Many businesses consider finding the right people with the proper abilities their most pressing hiring challenge. Companies that employ effective talent acquisition methods lead to a successful workforce. However, lousy hiring can significantly reduce company profitability and efficiency. This research paper aims to analyze the current talent acquisition practices and processes adopted by the company and to understand the various factors affecting talent acquisition practices. A proactive talent acquisition strategy, encompassing strategic workforce planning, employer branding, continuous talent pipelining, technological integration, skill development, collaboration with educational institutions, data-driven decision-making, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, forms a comprehensive model for long-term sustainable success. By adopting and adapting these practices, organizations can build a resilient and adaptable workforce capable of navigating the challenges of an ever-evolving business landscape. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
Streaming success: Examining the impact of ott media on content production and consumption of New Malayalam Cinema
Exploring the prosperous union of New Malayalam Cinema and OTT platforms, this chapter scrutinises the circumstances under which the former thrived on OTTs during the COVID-19 pandemic. It delves into Malayalee market trends, the content diversification incited by OTTs, and the expansion of New Malayalam Cinema's market. As it explores changing audience consumption patterns and the prospects of India's OTT landscape, it particularly accentuates Malayalam regional cinema. By providing examples of films that debuted on OTT platforms, such as C U Soon and Joji, the chapter offers an in-depth analysis, highlighting the success of this symbiotic relationship. 2024, IGI Global. -
Strengthening Supply Chain Management Through Technology
The removal of trade barriers with the advent of WTO and which led to LPG (liberalization, privatization, and globalization) across the universe increased choices of brands for consumers and even the complexity of products within organization and the expectations of consumers rising daily. Organizations look for better management of their supply chain from end to end, i.e., sourcing of raw materials from vendors to delivering finished products at the doorstep of consumers. This means businesses that used to be operations hubs within the company have moved into the epicenter of business innovation, and this process can not be done manually or by few people within organizations, thus the need to back up business innovations and product complexities through advanced technologies. Using sensors like RFID, CRM, AI, and ML, organizations today collect information at every checkpoint from status of raw materials flow to the location of finished goods. Supply chain management is the process of planning and implementing the operations of the sourcing of quality materials at competitive cost. This chapter explores strengthening supply chain management through technology. 2023 by IGI Global.