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Background:Internet use has revolutionized the pattern of working style at the workplace. It led to an increased use for nonprofessional activities at the workplace. It has been shown to affect productivity at the workplace. There is a dearth of literature from the Indian context in this area.Aim:This study was conducted to explore the pattern of Internet use at the workplace and its dysfunctions.Setting and Design:The present study was a cross-sectional prospective study.Materials and Methods:The objective of the study was to assess the pattern of technology use at the workplace. Two hundred and fifty employees having experience of Internet use for more than a year of various Government/Private sector organizations in Bengaluru were assessed using background data sheet. Users who were unwilling to participate were excluded from the study.Results:29.6% of the participants used mobile phone exclusively. 58.8% of the participants used mobile along with other devices such as desktop, laptop, and tablet at home as well as at work. 64% of the participants reported change in their productivity due to nonwork-related Internet use at the workplace. 42% of the participants acknowledgemed postponement of their work due to Internet activities. 3–5% reported preference for Internet to work, meals, personal hygiene, sleep, and interaction with family members. WhatsApp was the most used application followed by Facebook and Gmail. Gaming applications and messenger applications such as hike and hangouts were used less frequently. Overall, delay in going to sleep was 1.6 hours and early morning awakening was 1.5 hours due to Internet use.Conclusions:The present study has implications for evolving psychoeducational modules for the promotion of healthy use of technology.

Background:There is an increased demand in the Nutrition and Dietetics field which has fostered credentialing to ensure competent graduates. The objective of this study is to conduct an exploratory analysis to identify nutrition/dietetics workforce needs, skills and expertise in the New York metropolitan area as exemplified in position announcements over a 4 year period.Methods:We recorded position announcements for jobs in nutrition and dietetics from the New York State Registered Dietitian Yahoo group, and the Hunter College Nutrition and Food Sciences student and alumni listserv (NFS-L) over a 4 year period. Keywords were identified using job categories defined by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) compensation and benefits survey. This served as a starting point to enumerate the types of positions that have been posted for the New York metropolitan area in recent years.Results:Four hundred and twelve (412) unique job postings were recorded. Various educational levels, credentials, and skills desired by these employers were identified, assessed, and compared with similar data from the “supply side” reports from AND.Conclusions:The credentials and skills most desired by employers are similar to some of the learning objectives set forth for DPD and DI programs by ACEND, but not entirely congruent. The need for both client/customer focus and computer literacy may be implicit in the standards, but a more overt inclusion of these skills would likely be of benefit to ensure these are inculcated into every program and student.

In this article, a decagon shaped universal compact broadband printed monopole antenna has been described which consists of a decagon shaped patch and a valley shaped notch in the partial ground plane for multiple applications, operating at frequency ranges from 3.5 GHz to greater than 100 GHz. The overall dimension of the proposed antenna is 15*20*1.5 cubic millimeter and is fabricated on commercially available low cost FR4 substrate having electrical permittivity (εr) of 4.3 and loss tangent of 0.025. The proposed antenna has some of the range for ultra‐wide band applications, Wi‐Fi, 3.5/5.5GHz WiMAX band, 5.2/5.8GHz WLAN band, 60/90 GHz E‐band military applications, 8/12 GHz X‐band, 12/18 GHz Ku ‐band, 26.5/40 GHz Ka‐band, 40/60 GHz U‐band, 50/75 GHz V‐band, 75/110 GHz W‐band,space and satellite communications etc. The impedance bandwidth (S‐parameter < 10 dB) is more than 188%, radiation efficiency is 78% and the peak gain is 7.6 dB. The simulated return losses, impedance curves, radiation efficiency, gain, surface current and radiation patterns of the proposed antenna are elaborated in this paper.© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 58:2760–2764, 2016

Epitope imprinting is a promising method for creating specialized recognition sites that resemble natural biorecognition elements. Epitope-imprinted materials have gained a lot of attention recently in a variety of fields,...