“Profession” and “professionalization” are much-debated sociological concepts and the criteria which distinguish professions from other occupations have been strongly contested. Professionalization is a process of occupational change or development that involves the enhancement of the standard and quality of practice, as well as of the stat

This study was carried out to isolate the active antibacterial compounds from marine sponge Neopetrosiaexigua. Using disc diffusion methodm methanol extract of N. exigua showed significant antibacterial activity (The inhibition zone against Staphylococcus aureus was 19.5 mm). sequesntially, liquid-liquid extraction was performed using solvenants wi

This paper is based on reviews of literatures on sociology of profession. The paper argues that the concept ‘actors’ has only narrowly mapped the Western literatures related to professionalization of occupations. Such a narrow conception of ‘actor’ in many ways only reflects a convergence of the Western concerns and context and never gives

This paper examines the factors that might influence recycling behaviour of the households in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Information on recycling activity, socio-economic characteristics, and attitudes of the households towards recycling were obtained from interviews with 456 households in Dhaka. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the

Classical jurists have rigorously studied siyar (the foreign policy of the Islamic state) describing the nature of the principles and norms that influenced the formulation of siyar. On the basis of these principles and norms, the jurists formulated rulings to describe the nature of the relationship of the Islamic state with others. This study exami

Aqueous and organic extracts from four marine sponges collected from the coastline of Malaysia were screened against six microorganisms, including the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus ATCC25923, Bacillus cereus ATCC11778, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC27853, Escherichia coli ATCC35218, the yeasts Candida albicans ATCC10231 and Cryptococcus neoformans AT

This paper proposes an optimized performance of an intelligent H∞ robust controller of a single axis positioning system. The objective is to achieve wider bandwidth, better resolution, and robustness to modeling uncertainties. The main contribution is the combination of intelligent uncertainty weighting function and optimized weighting function i

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to test the impact of customer satisfaction on word-of-mouth in the banking industry of Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – A framework was developed based on the extensive review of literature, with two variables – customer satisfaction and word-of-mouth. The causal relationship envisaged was t

Modern mechanical systems, such as machine tools, microelectronics manufacturing equipment, are often required to operate in high speed to yield high productivity. At the same time, precision/accuracy requirement becomes more and more stringent because of factors like the reduced size of components in modern mechanical devices or microelectronics p

Accessibility to buUt environment are increasing needed due to the increasing number of people surviving to older ages which are adding to the numbers of person with disabilities. The need of frait and firm to elderly persons for accessibJe built environments are similar to those of the group generally describe as persons with disabilities. The mai