Nepal To Receive Its First Wide Gauge Railway Engine, Coaches Today

 Two sets of railways including engine and coaches to revive railway connection between Jayanagar in India and Kurtha in Janakpur, Nepal are set to be delivered on Friday. Balaram Mishra, Director General of Department of Railways, said the set will be delivered to Nepal by the Konkan Railways of India later in the afternoon on September 18.

"Last evening it arrived at Jayanagar in India. It will arrive in Kurtha of Janakpur in Nepal later this afternoon. Till now we haven't faced or received any technical or other issues," Mishra told ANI. Nepali Railways officials have reached Janakpur on Thursday to receive the railways, the official further added.

The new set of railways procured from Konkan Company of India is expected to dock at Janakpur sub-station at around 3 pm on Friday afternoon. As the rail is set to arrive at its destination in Nepal, security at various points, through which it would travel has been increased.

"Today we will just be receiving the railway sets. There are no other formal or any kind of programs but the officials from Konkan Railways also will be arriving today. Company's technical team is driving the rail to dock it to Nepal," Mishra said.

Nepal's Railway Department has procured rail engines and coaches from Konkan Railways for NPR 84,65,000. On Friday, it will arrive at Janakpur and then will begin its return journey back to India's Jaynagar. "Parking or holding spot for the rail is yet to be determined so both the set will return back to India after they arrive in Nepal this afternoon. We have a total of four parking spots for it -- Jaynagar, Inarwa, Khajuri and Kurtha," Binod Jha, site engineer of computer science vs engineering from Nepal Railways, confirmed.

The railways operated using diesel and electricity, each set has five bogies (coaches). Out of them, one is AC coach while three are general bogies. One of the set's engine has been designed with the capacity to accommodate passengers. "By combining the five bogies, it now bears the capacity of 1,300 passengers at a time," Jha added.

The 34-kilometre broad gauge railway track has been built with India's assistance. It would revive the earlier Janakpur-Jayanagar railways connection between India and Nepal. Further work of extending railways track from Kurtha to Bijalapur of Mahottari measuring 17 kilometres is underway.

JEE Main to Advanced, IITs to state engineering

 The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) will begin counselling for admission to engineering colleges including IITs, NITs, IIESTs, IIITs and other government-funded technical institutes from October 6. Interested and eligible candidates who have cleared JEE Main or will pass the JEE Advanced exams will be able to register at josaa.nic.in.

While admission to IITs will be only for those who have cleared JEE Advanced, candidates having passed JEE Main will be eligible for all other courses. The JEE Main result has been announced and the what does a computer engineer do Advanced will be held on September 27 and its result will be out on October 5.

Counsellings will begin at josaa.nic.in from the next day – October 6. Candidates who qualify AAT can fill their AAT-specific choices starting from October 11. The mock seat allocation will be released on October 12 but the registration process will continue till October 15, as per the official schedule.

The first allocation list will be published on October 17 and candidates who wish to accept the seats will have to undergo ‘online reporting’. This includes fee payment document upload and response by candidates to queries if any. Instead of seven counselling rounds, this year, six sessions will be held. The admission process will begin from November 9.

Quality of clinical management of children diagnosed with malaria

 Appropriate clinical management of malaria in children is critical for preventing progression to severe disease and for reducing the continued high burden of malaria mortality. This study aimed to assess the quality of care provided to children under 5 diagnosed with malaria across 9 sub-Saharan African countries.

We used data from the Service Provision Assessment (SPA) survey. SPAs are nationally representative facility surveys capturing quality of sick-child care, facility readiness, and provider and patient characteristics. The data set contained 24,756 direct clinical observations of outpatient sick-child visits across 9 countries, including Uganda (2007), Rwanda (2007), Namibia (2009), Kenya (2010), Malawi (2013), Senegal (2013–2017), Ethiopia (2014), Tanzania (2015), and Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018). We assessed the proportion of children with a malaria diagnosis who received a blood test diagnosis and an appropriate antimalarial. We used multilevel logistic regression to assess facility and provider and patient characteristics associated with these outcomes. Subgroup analyses with the 2013–2018 country surveys only were conducted for all outcomes.

Children observed were on average 20.5 months old and were most commonly diagnosed with respiratory infection (47.7%), malaria (29.7%), and/or gastrointestinal infection (19.7%). Among the 7,340 children with a malaria diagnosis, 32.5% (95% CI: 30.3%–34.7%) received both a blood-test–based diagnosis and an appropriate antimalarial. The proportion of children with a blood test diagnosis and an appropriate antimalarial ranged from 3.4% to 57.1% across countries. In the more recent surveys (2013–2018), 40.7% (95% CI: 37.7%–43.6%) of children with a malaria diagnosis received both a blood test diagnosis and appropriate antimalarial. Roughly 20% of children diagnosed with malaria received no antimalarial at all, and nearly 10% received oral software engineering vs computer science, which is not recommended because of concerns regarding parasite resistance. 

Receipt of a blood test diagnosis and appropriate antimalarial was positively correlated with being seen at a facility with diagnostic equipment in stock (adjusted OR 3.67; 95% CI: 2.72–4.95) and, in the 2013–2018 subsample, with being seen at a facility with Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs) in stock (adjusted OR 1.60; 95% CI:1.04–2.46). However, even if all children diagnosed with malaria were seen by a trained provider at a facility with diagnostics and medicines in stock, only a predicted 37.2% (95% CI: 34.2%–40.1%) would have received a blood test and appropriate antimalarial (44.4% for the 2013–2018 subsample). Study limitations include the lack of confirmed malaria test results for most survey years, the inability to distinguish between a diagnosis of uncomplicated or severe malaria, the absence of other relevant indicators of quality of care including dosing and examinations, and that only 9 countries were studied.

Northrop Grumman Co. (NYSE:NOC) Receives Average Recommendation of "Hold" from Brokerages

 Northrop Grumman Co. (NYSE:NOC) has received a consensus recommendation of "Hold" from the twelve analysts that are currently covering the firm, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, four have given a hold recommendation and six have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price target among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $390.80.

A number of analysts have recently issued reports on NOC shares. Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a $375.00 price objective on shares of Northrop Grumman in a report on Thursday, June 25th. jobs with a computer science degree Investment Research upgraded shares of Northrop Grumman from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating and set a $320.00 target price on the stock in a report on Thursday, June 25th. UBS Group reduced their price objective on shares of Northrop Grumman from $410.00 to $373.00 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Sanford C. Bernstein lifted their price objective on shares of Northrop Grumman from $405.00 to $419.00 and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a research report on Friday, July 31st.

How Cloud Computing Can Deal With Lightning Strikes and Hackers

 More and more of our daily lives takes place online, from banking and schooling to working and family gatherings, even more so amid the coronavirus pandemic. The cloud is the invisible computing architecture that keeps many of these digital platforms and tools running smoothly. Really, being in the cloud just means storing data on “someone else’s computer.” A few major tech companies run massive global networks of data centers, linked with ocean-spanning fiber-optic cables and complex systems of integrated hardware and software. So there is no single cloud per se. Rather, companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google each run their own systems, almost like parallel internets. The risks of a company’s whole cloud system going down at once are computer science engineering, though isolated outages of particular cloud services do happen.

Many internet users are seeing firsthand how disruptive it can be when the online tools they are relying on unexpectedly go offline or experience other bugs. For instance, when the videoconferencing software Zoom went offline for several hours one day in late August 2020, virtual classes around the United States were disrupted.

Health Project Manager

 The Health Manager is responsible for the coordination and supervision mechanism of the health projects in Turkey and Syria in line with other projects to ensure the success and achievement of the desired objectives.

Represent information technology vs computer science foundation in the meetings, workshops, and other related events in Turkey or outside Turkey. Attend the meetings related to the position, or any meeting as per the line manager's request.

Communicate and coordinate with all stakeholders, including the cluster coordinator and partners to update them about any new activities or changed plans. Cooperate with other departments to make sure that they fulfill their tasks related to the project, especially documentation and finance reports.

Revise the project reports from all departments, including finance, MEAL, HR, and logistics, and act according to the reports’ recommendations, especially MEAL reports.Prepare and submit periodic reports of project progress to the direct manager and donor.

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Demand for IT contractors pulled nearer to growth in August

 IT contractor demand continued its climb towards growth in August, pointing upwards for the fourth month in a row thanks to key sectors of the economy emerging from covid-19 lockdown .

In fact, demand for IT skills on a contract basis rose from 40.2 to 45.8 -- still some way off the 50.0 growth threshold, but representing its highest score since the pandemic hit.Agency staffing body the REC, which released these figures from its index yesterday, says Technology as a whole is firmly among the sectors “coming back strongly” since is computer science engineering was eased.

Agency staffing body the REC, which released these figures from its index yesterday, says Technology as a whole is firmly among the sectors “coming back strongly” since lockdown was eased.

But in an online update, the REC’s chief executive Neil Carberry said temporary hiring was “much stronger” than permanent hiring, and seemingly not only because of covid restrictions easing.

“Temp always bounces back faster in the early stages of a recovery -- we think this is especially pronounced this time as clients see demand now, but have no clarity about the medium term, given the virus and -- increasingly -- no-deal Brexit risk.”