The present study explores the role of workplace spirituality in moderating the relationship between occupational stress and the health of managerial personnel in India. A sample of 150 managers working in different public and private organizations was used to measure workplace spirituality, occupational stress, and health using the Spirituality at Work scale, the Occupational Stress Index and the 28-item General Health Questionnaire, respectively. The findings reveal that workplace spirituality moderates the negative relationship of stress and health. The study also found that stress has a negative impact on health while workplace spirituality positively correlated with health. The findings also support the practical importance of spirituality in the workplace for improving health conditions by providing a healthy atmosphere and meaningful work for employees. This exploratory study encourages future research to understand the role of spirituality in the workplace.

Background Racial disparity in presentation and outcome of breast cancer is established but cause is unexplained . Many studies show various molecular markers for racial differences in the prognosis of breast cancer. There is scarcity of data on prognostic signifi cance of HER-2/neu in Indian breast cancer. Aims and ObjectiveTo know incidence and prognostic signifi cance of HER-2/neu expression in Indian patients.To correlate HER-2/neu Expression with other prognostic markers and ER/PR Receptor status. Statistical Analysis Data was analyzed by univariate and multivariate analysis for all prognostic factors. Signifi cance was calculated by using Chi square test and survival analysis by using Kaplan Meier survival curve. Material and MethodsResults The median age of 112 patients was 46.56 (±9.55) years. HER-2/neu over expression was present in 46.37%. Signifi cant correlation was found between HER-2/neu over expression and lymph node status, grade of tumor and ER/ PR receptor status. Median follow up period of 23 months. There was signifi cant tumour free survival advantage (p < 0.01) and overall survival advantage (p < 0.001) in patients with HER-2/neu negative expression.Conclusion HER-2/neu oncogene over expression is higher (46.37%) among Indian patients in comparison to 25-30% shown in most western literature. HER-2/neu oncogene over expression signifi cantly correlates with grade, lymph node involvement, ER/PR status and also affects survival.

Silver nanoprisms of different sizes influence fluorescence enhancement in YVO4:Eu(3+) nanoparticles to various degrees under excitation of green light (532 nm). The local field generated by silver nanoprisms and their dimers is simulated through the FDTD method and a direct correlation with fluorescence enhancement is established.

Scintillator materials convert high-energy radiation into photons in the ultraviolet to visible light region for radiation detection. In this review, advances in X-ray emission dynamics of inorganic scintillators are presented, including inorganic halides (alkali-metal halides, alkaline-earth halides, rare-earth halides, oxy-halides, rare-earth oxyorthosilicates, halide perovskites), oxides (binary oxides, complex oxides, post-transition metal oxides), sulfides, rare-earth doped scintillators, and organic-inorganic hybrid scintillators. The origin of scintillation is strongly correlated to the host material and dopants. Current models are presented describing the scintillation decay lifetime of inorganic materials, with the emphasis on the short-lived scintillation decay component. The whole charge generation and the de-excitation process are analyzed in general, and an essential role of the decay kinetics is the de-excitation process. We highlighted three decay mechanisms in cross luminescence emission, exitonic emission, and dopant-activated emission, respectively. Factors regulating the origin of different luminescence centers controlling the decay process are discussed.

High-quality alignment control of liquid crystals (LCs) for ultrahigh-definition large-sized display is a challenging task. A conventional rubbing method has obvious limitations for fabricating large-sized displays with a small pixel size and an uneven inner surface. To comply with the current trend, we propose a simple and reliable polyimide-less in situ photoalignment. It was achieved using a visible-light-sensitive azo-dye and a mesogenic acrylate, both doped to host LCs. Without using a pretreated alignment layer, mono- and multidomain uniaxial alignments of LC molecules were induced by linearly polarized visible light (LPVL) and subsequently stabilized by unpolarized UV-light irradiation. The stepwise process was monitored by adopting a fluorescent indicator. By loading the mixture into a confined cell, azo-dyes were spontaneously adsorbed at inner surfaces of the cell, whereas reactive mesogens (RMs) were homogeneously dissolved in an LC host. The molecular orientational anisotropy of dyes at the surface, induced by LPVL, aligned the LC director perpendicular to the polarization direction. Upon the second step, UV-irradiation, the RMs in an LC host were photopolymerized into thin interfacial layers, stabilizing the aligned LC director. The overlaid cross-linked RM layers secured a thermal and a radiative stability of LC alignment. The RM layers completely screened the effect of azo-dyes, which can be easily randomized by heat and irradiation. The interfacial RM layer functioned as a permanently stable alignment layer. It provided sufficient azimuthal anchoring strength together with heat and light stabilities, which are essential for practical applications. Such sequential interfacial modifications through dual-wavelength processes can completely avoid interference between forming alignment and stabilization layers, inevitable if the same wavelength light is used. The proposed method provides a simple fabrication process and reliable alignment characteristics by employing effective in situ photoalignment and without using a traditional alignment layer. Therefore, it meets a current trend in the display market toward ultrahigh-resolution and large-area displays.

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Plasmonic nanoparticles are excellent light absorbers for harvesting solar energy, resulting in hot electrons that can be utilized in photocatalytic hydrogen production. However, the hot electrons generated in a localized surface plasmon resonance process have a very short lifetime and are challenging to use efficiently. Herein, using near IR light irradiation, we show that by combining gold nanorods (AuNRs) with ferroelectric PbTiO3 particles that possess a large remanent electric dipole moment, hot charges generated on plasmonic particles can be injected into ferroelectric materials and drive the photocatalysis reaction. Compared to metallic Pt-end-capped AuNRs, the efficiency of using hot electrons for photocatalytic reactions is enhanced for the composite catalyst, which improves the light-to-chemical energy conversion efficiencies by about 1 order of magnitude for the same amount of plasmonic particles being used.