MANAGING MULTI-GENERATIONS IN THE BARBADIAN WORKPLACE –
The Silent Crisis & New Strategies of Human Relations Management
For the first time since World War II, we are experiencing in the Western World
the interesting phenomenon of having four generations in the workplace sitting
and working side by side. In some cases, the baby boomers are working next to
their children and grandchildren of generations X and Y.
This phenomenon has attracted a lot of attention on the part of HR practitioners
in the USA but little research has been done to date in the Caribbean. This paper
will therefore seek to address a similar phenomenon taking place in the
Caribbean through the writer's own experience while serving on the Management
Team of a local statutory corporation.
The findings, though preliminary, are oft times humorous but can serve as a
linchpin to help us better understand the root cause of many of today's personnel
issues within the workplace. The paper further suggests that identifying this
phenomenon is a first step to creating solutions that cut across the needs of
these four generations.
MANAGING MULTI-GENERATIONS IN THE BARBADIAN WORKPLACE –
The Silent Crisis & New Strategies of Human Relations Management
For the first time since World War II, we are experiencing in the Western World
the interesting phenomenon of having four generations in the workplace sitting
and working side by side. In some cases, the baby boomers are working next to
their children and grandchildren of generations X and Y.
This phenomenon has attracted a lot of attention on the part of HR practitioners
in the USA but little research has been done to date in the Caribbean. This paper
will therefore seek to address a similar phenomenon taking place in the
Caribbean through the writer's own experience while serving on the Management
Team of a local statutory corporation.
The findings, though preliminary, are oft times humorous but can serve as a
linchpin to help us better understand the root cause of many of today's personnel
issues within the workplace. The paper further suggests that identifying this
phenomenon is a first step to creating solutions that cut across the needs of
these four generations.
Synchronization by hormones: Hormones cycling the cattle - Optimize the timing and cost (by gathering the IA for the vet) - Reduce the period between 2 calving - Plan unseasonal lactation for getting an higher price on milk - Avoid transfer of sexual pathologies
•Artificial insemination: - Selection on the semen : bull with high genetic potential - Possibility to store the semen - Better profitability of the semen : 1 bull ejaculate = > 1 000 doses - No Distance limit between the male and female
Synchronization by hormones: Hormones cycling the cattle - Optimize the timing and cost (by gathering the IA for the vet) - Reduce the period between 2 calving - Plan unseasonal lactation for getting an higher price on milk - Avoid transfer of sexual pathologies
•Artificial insemination: - Selection on the semen : bull with high genetic potential - Possibility to store the semen - Better profitability of the semen : 1 bull ejaculate = > 1 000 doses - No Distance limit between the male and female
Technological options and approaches to improve supply of desirable animal ge...ILRI
Presented by Azage Tegegne and Dirk Hoekstra at the 19th Ethiopian Society of Animal production Annual Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-17 December 2011.
Role of agricultural biotechnologies in addressing food and nutrition security challenges in Africa: Perspectives from the Agricultural Research Council, South Africa
MaxiChick™ is the patented combination of two scientifically proven DSM products (Hy•D® and Carophyll® Red) that complement each other to boost the productivity of the breeder flock. An efficient source of Vitamin D3 and carotenoids for pigmentation are the two compounds of MaxiChick.
To find out more about DSM's work on poultry visit us on:http://www.dsm.com/markets/anh/en_US/species/species-poultry.html
Or why not speak to a specialist on Twitter: @goldenyolk
Dr. Daniel Linhares - PRRS Field Applicable Research UpdateJohn Blue
PRRS Field Applicable Research Update - Dr. Daniel Linhares, Iowa State University,, from the 2017 North American PRRS/National Swine Improvement Federation Joint Meeting, December 1‐3, 2017, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
More presentations at http://www.swinecast.com/2017-north-american-prrs-nsif-joint-meeting
Rapid integrated assessment of nutrition and health risks associated with the...ILRI
Presented by Sylvain Traoré, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Côte d'Ivoire, at the Safe Food, Fair Food Annual Project Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-17 April 2014
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
DERIVATION OF MODIFIED BERNOULLI EQUATION WITH VISCOUS EFFECTS AND TERMINAL V...Wasswaderrick3
In this book, we use conservation of energy techniques on a fluid element to derive the Modified Bernoulli equation of flow with viscous or friction effects. We derive the general equation of flow/ velocity and then from this we derive the Pouiselle flow equation, the transition flow equation and the turbulent flow equation. In the situations where there are no viscous effects , the equation reduces to the Bernoulli equation. From experimental results, we are able to include other terms in the Bernoulli equation. We also look at cases where pressure gradients exist. We use the Modified Bernoulli equation to derive equations of flow rate for pipes of different cross sectional areas connected together. We also extend our techniques of energy conservation to a sphere falling in a viscous medium under the effect of gravity. We demonstrate Stokes equation of terminal velocity and turbulent flow equation. We look at a way of calculating the time taken for a body to fall in a viscous medium. We also look at the general equation of terminal velocity.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
1. THE SHIFTING ART OF ANIMAL
BREEDING
Sijne van der Beek and Erik Mullaart
2. CRV IS ABOUT SMART
HERD MANAGEMENT
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
3. ACTIVE AROUND THE WORLD
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
CRV Xseed, South Africa
CRV Lagoa, Brazil
Central Bela Vista, Brazil
CRV USA
CRV Spain
Netherlands and Belgium
CRV Germany
CRV CZ, Czech Republic
CRV Luxembourg
CRV Ambreed, New Zealand
Liberty Genetics
CRV Avoncroft, UK
8. CRV Delta nucleus embryo production
Left
De Volmer
Ellmau Warsi,
137 embryos
Right:
Josefien 19 P rf
98 embryos
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Aim for 2020:
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MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
9. How to achieve 20.000 in 2020
• Build new facilities (ready 2017)
• Further improve young stock management
• Start OPU/IVP at even younger age [but only after first natural
heat]
• Individualized animal protocols
• Optimize the use of FSH
• Optimize OPU/IVP protocol
• From “no variation in # embryo’s per donor policy” to
“exploit variation between donor’s policy”
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
10. Today, we sell all our embryo’s
+ Highly flexible
+ Environmental factors average out
+ Farmer participation in breeding program
- Limited control
- Vulnerable for milk price volatility
- Not easy to rapidly increase scale
We need additional methods
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
11. Embryo genotyping
Morulea or
early Blast Biopsy with
knife
Freeze
embryo
Biopsy
Genotype
GS breeding
value
Select
desired for
transfer
Flush embryo
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12. Effect of call rate
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13. Pregnancy rates in vivo embryos
# Embryo’s Pregnancy rate
Not Biopsied 13,000 54%
Biopsied 1,200 46%
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
Not working for IVP yet.
Therefore testing new vitrification protocol
14. Genomic prediction of number of oocytes
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
15. And it works!
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016
R² = 0,27
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16. How to further improve animal breeding
Responsible
Skilful
And Artful
Application of Technology
will do the job!
MoCaS symposium | The shifting Art of Animal Breeding | September 2016