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Tactics to lessen fear of flying (Aerophobia)

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Fear of flying is a specific type of phobia. In aerophobia, person has persistent and extreme fear caused by flying or the thought of flying. Characteristically, flying is evaded or endured with penetrating anxiety, which may take the form of a fright attack. Statistical reports indicate that Aerophobia affect as many as one in three people. Symptoms of Fear of Flying : The symptoms of aerophobia are same as other specific phobia. Physical symptoms of the fear of flying are as under: Shaking Sweating Gastrointestinal distress Heart palpitations Flushed skin Feeling disoriented Clouded thinking Irritability Causes of Aerophobia : There are number of causes that trigger fear of flying such as: -Feeling of a traumatic flight or plane crash. Even watching excessive news coverage of airline disasters, it can trigger a fear of flying. -Other factor that cause Aerophobia is environment. If parents of children suffered from a fear of flying, ...

Impact of flexible working hours on employee performance

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Employees are the asset of any company and help to thrive business in global platform. Therefore, employee satisfaction, talent retention and their management are prime responsibilities of firms to stay competitive in marketplace. Flexible working is recognized as a successful factor to accomplish a better work-life balance. Huge number of employees conveyed that flexible working help them in lessening and managing stress levels. There is strong correlation between the flexible working and performance benefits. In flexible working environment, employees give their best and it enhances productivity of organization. There are numerous ways by which employees can do work in flexibly such as part time working, term time working, job-shares, home-working, compressed hours and flexitime. There are many benefits of flexible working hours: The advantages of flexible working hours to businesses include being able to hold onto valuable staff, retain great talent pool, decreas...

online income generation with smart mind

Whether it is industrialized nation or developing country, joblessness is omnipresent. Candidates, professionals, freelancers or housewives all are looking some ways to generate money to meet the growing demand of family. In troubled global climate, advanced digital technology has simplified the job search and candidates can easily search employment according to their soft skills, work experiences and educational backgrounds. Countless multinational companies post their requirement in various job portals like nuakri.com, timesjob.com, indeed.com etc. Jobs are also found in many social sites. Great efforts is needed to make rigorous search to get desired job. Besides traditional jobs, today many people want work from home or look for freelancer job. Internet is a marvellous ground where anyone can explore projects of his/her choice and make money online. There are numerous ways to generate revenue through online portals : -Candidates who want to make online mon...

Stress accelerates on aging process

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Stress and aging process has strong relations. We as a human are breathing in highly intricate cosmos. Stress has entrenched in the human like blood in body. Chronic stresses have deleterious health impacts on humans. It ranges from insomnia to weight gain and people are at greater risk of heart disease. Stress has two basic elements that include physical and emotional.  Both can be challenging aging process. Physical stress leads to many health disorders that recover slowly at elderly age.  Consequences of emotional stress can also be harmful and it speeds up aging. Numerous studies have revealed that the stress is triggered by several conditions such as untreated depression, social isolation, and long-term joblessness. Anxiety attacks may accelerate the aging process. This actuates by restricting the length of each DNA strand. With reference to aging, stressful condition generates wrinkles in body. Detrimental impact stress on aging process : When pe...

Causes of Premature death

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Premature death is elaborated as death that occurs before the stage where it is recognized by society as part of the natural, expected order of life. Death of human at early stage is matter of serious concern. According to The World Health Organization (WHO), a premature death as a death that occurs before the age of 50. The WHO indicates that the age of 50 reflects the global average life expectancy in 1948. Medical researchers are deeply involved to explore the root causes of premature deaths in humans. It is found in medical studies that premature death of people is mainly due to diseases caused by smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, alcohol misuse, physical inactivity and obesity and physical inactivity. Several risk factors, such as age, gender and family history, are not under control of people. Nevertheless, many lifestyle-related risk factors can be controlled by people. In the perspective of physical activity, when it is stated “a higher r...

Employee management at work

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Employee management in fluctuating business climate is a complicated phenomenon. Since last many decades, there is a fast growth in the workforce which has created new developments to deal with employee relations. It poses great challenges to management team in organization. In global business environment, management has to tackle numerous employment issues and preserve talented employees to meet the giant targets of company. Hitherto, management role was restricted to maintain relationship between a boss and followers who worked on given instructions of management without objections. Currently, the concept of management has been changed because of constant changes around the world and in the business environment. Therefore, it is a challenging task to manage employer-employee relations. To cope up these challenges in external business environment, human resource managers need to enhance skills such as active listening, flexibility and make changes in decision-making proc...

Luxury Consumer Goods Market in India

The notion of luxury has been available in market in numerous forms since the inception of civilization. It has vital role in primeval western and eastern realms as it is in contemporary cultures. There is clear differences between social classes in earlier civilizations, the consumption of luxury. It was basically used by people of high socio economic status. In fundamental term, a luxury brand or status brand is a brand for which a majority of its products are luxury goods. It consists of certain brands which are linked with luxury, high cost, or premium quality.     India has experienced a persistent flow in consumer purchasing power since last few decades. The Indian customer has become richer and eager to accept western luxury products. Therefore Indian market is flooded with international supermarkets chains, department stores and mass retailer. Luxury is a continually evolving and subject. Brand is a influential tool to entice more consumers to buy specific pro...

Causes of developing fear of Height: (Acrophobia)

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People are frightened in many dreaded situations. Acrophobia is a phrase derived from Greek word “acron” which means height. Person who experience extreme fear and nervousness with heights may develop mental disease known as acrophobia. It is one of the persistent types of phobia. Individual who suffer from this fear may experience intense terror simple climbing the stairs. Major causes of developing acrophobia : It is commonly observed that phobia occurs due to a shocking incident related with falling from a great height or such accidents. In such cases, fear of person magnified and he may develop acrophobia. Symptoms of Acrophobia : Person suffer from acrophobia may exhibit following symptoms: The onset of panic attacks and vertigo. Vertigo is the abnormal mental condition in which the person fears of developing faintness. -Intensely fearful of climbing, going down or being at a height -Anxiety upon expectation of great heights -Immediate rea...

Proteinuria (Bubbles in urine): knocking serious disease

  Some medical conditions give birth to life-threatening diseases if not treated timely. Foams or bubbles in urine should not be taken lightly. It may knock serious health problems. Generally, waste products of metabolism are expelled from the body by the kidneys through the urine. The urine contains wastes that have been filtered from the blood by the kidneys, and it is a pale, straw yellow, or amber-coloured liquid that excreted from the body through the urethra. Urine contains water, uric acid, urea, inorganic salts, ammonia, and blood pigments that have been broken down. In normal course, urine is not foamy.   Foamy urine may be linked with an abnormal medical condition. If a person passes foamy urine regularly, it may be indication of some disease which must be checked by doctors. Major causes of foamy urine :   Fast urination may lead to foaming in the urine. Some people ignore going to the bathroom and their bladder is full. This can cause forceful uri...

Finger bowl- how hygienic for diners

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There are some etiquettes of restaurant dining that must be followed by guests or diners. One of the last serving in restaurant to finish the lunch or dinner is finger bowl. A finger bowl is a dish with half-filled water used for rinsing fingers between courses during formal, multiple course meals. It is normally served before the dessert sequence. In finger bowl, a glass ornament, flower petals, lemon slice, sprig of mint or other beautification is often floated to attract guests in restaurant. It is particularly suitable when the main course involves food which cannot be eaten completely with silverware. Finger bowls were used after the fruit course to elude staining napkins.   Finger bowl etiquette:   In a restaurant, when diners must follow etiquette in using the finger bowl. After meals when finger bowl is served to them, they dip only the fingertips of the hands into the bowl. Wipe fingertips dry with napkin while napkin remains on their lap. They must...

Which item to be recycled and how

Humans use range of material for personal purposes and throw it as a waste after utilizing. Researchers realized that some of the items can be recycled. In poverty driven societies such as in third world countries, there is a huge significance of recycled products as these are cost effective and within reach of lower middle class people. Put it in another way, recycled products are beneficial for many people and they can use these items to fulfil their requirements. It is imperative to know the type of items which can be recycled. At first, people must understand the concept of recycling. Recycling is a process in which used and discarded materials are collected and processed and produced as new items. The main objective of recycling of waste products is to lessen the amount of waste that is discarded by people in to dustbins and in turn create a healthy and biodegradable atmosphere. This will help inhabitant to breathe fresh air. Simply elaborated, recycling is the procedure to ...