International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research
Academy (IJMRA)

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The mission statement of the University of Zimbabwe(UZ) makes a provision for the institution to make meaningful contributions to sustainable development in Zimbabwe through the provision of high quality education, training and advisory services. Guided by such principles, the study was motivated by the desire to establish the perceptions of students as regards the Student Industrial Attachment(SIA) Programme which was introduced in 2002 to augment the theoretical backgrounds of students with the realities and demands of the practical work environment.
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The potentiality of information processing with in the system has been a recognized problem area for the last five decades, consequently it as been ranked as a pivot concern for study in both management and academics. This paper introspect the firm evidence of compatible information model which support to alignment and comprehensive framework linked to organizational performance.
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The word "technique" is derived from Greek word "techniko techno" meaning an art. Technique in fiction includes almost everything that goes into making the novel. Simplistically speaking, technique includes everything that the novelist uses for narrating his story. On finer level it means imagery, symbolism, point of view, chronological order of events, stream of consciousness, schematization of chapter division or some other basis of division of the novel, etc.
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The aim of this study was to determine the genetic diversity and population structure of Malawi Zebu cattle using microsatellite DNA markers. Blood samples were collected in 5 administrative districts of Malawi and analysed at the DNA Laboratory, University of Malawi, Chancellor College, Zomba, Malawi. As a comparison base, samples were collected from a group of Brahman cattle performing at a commercial herd in Zomba district.
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Cooperatives as an institution in India are more than a century old. With more than a lakh grass root level cooperatives, their presence is formidable. Notwithstanding, impressive gains made by cooperatives in terms of their rural outreach and coverage of small and marginal farmers, their financial health has been a matter of concern. The study is an attempt made into the factors which impact financial health of cooperatives reflected through their recovery performance.
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This study focuses on mixed components, house upgrading in Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examines the spatial and socio-economic implications of wall components resulting from a combination of two or more structurally and physically dissimilar materials in a single residential building.
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Since the early 1980s, researchers have established that the foreign language learners' development of various aspects of pragmatic competence may be facilitated by the instruction of pragmatic routines and strategies in the foreign language classroom (Kasper & Rose, 2001). Consistent with this line of research, this study investigated the extent to which two instructional paradigms, explicit vs. implicit instruction, affect learners' ability to produce and recognize speech acts of request and invitation in English.
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Morphological characterisation of bananas has contributed considerably to the body of knowledge of present banana taxonomy. However, the influence of the environment on plant morphology necessitates the use of genetic characterisation to validate taxonomic classifications based on phenotypic traits.
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Much has been spoken about gender inequality in the society and also about exploitation of women being a weaker section. Among many types of exploitation against women sexual exploitation has been the most heinous and our Hon'ble Supreme Court has stated "Each incident of sexual harassment at the place of work results in violation of the fundamental right to gender equality and the right to life and liberty - the two most precious fundamental rights".
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Women constitute of nearly half of the nation's population. It is only from the Fifth Five Year Plan onwards that their role has been explicitly recognized with a marked shift in the approach from women welfare to women development and empowerment. Financial Inclusion can be described as the inability of individuals' households or groups to access necessary financial services in an appropriate form. Empowering women connotes to increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of women and their communities.
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Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, making the challenges of sustainable food security more difficult. For millions of people in the developing countries the major issue is how to face the threat to their food security and livelihood as climate change unfolds. Hence the developing countries have to face the dual challenges of climate change and food security.
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This study aimed at investigating the effects of L1 and L2 glosses and their effectiveness on reading comprehension and vocabulary recall with and without computer to explore whether providing glosses can facilitate reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. For this purpose, 180 students who were studying English as a Foreign language (EFL) at Shokouh Language Institute (Urmia Branch, Iran) and were homogeneous according to the results of the proficiency test and identified as intermediate-level learners were selected and randomly assigned to six equivalent groups of participants.
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A tremendous growth in the higher education sector had made the administration of higher education institutions complex. Many researches reveal that the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) helps to reduce the complexity and enhance the overall administration of higher education.
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Road construction or repair is a troublesome and hard working job in India; like other developed western countries India doesn't have all the necessary equipment facilities in this area due to very high cost, only Crain and the Road rollers are available as automatic machines; most of the works are done manually. As ours is a tropical country, at this weather to do hard work on open roads need much physical strength. The male and female laborers suffer a lot, but as the men are stronger physically than the females, they manage somehow.
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The Family System is the supreme social institution of the Indian Society. The traditional Indian Family System subdued the women, to execute only the household activities thereby restricting their mobility. Female members were deprived of many other facilities and opportunities enjoyed by the male members. The male family members were responsible for the economic wealth of the family and enjoyed decision making powers in the society. This biased practice denied many Indian women the much needed empowerment for effectively participating in their own self being, family up-lift and society welfare.
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development defines Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as "The continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large." CSR, not only implies fulfillment of legal expectations, but also going beyond compliance and investing more into human capital, the environment and relations with stakeholders.
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Purpose - This paper seeks to describe the theory of connectivism as a learning foundation to provides a useful framework for understanding how students learn in digital age. Design/methodology/approach - The paper explores the theory of connectivism and reviews established learning theories including the design of teaching-learning in the clasroom. The authors discuss new learning landscapes in digital age that is in parallel with the principles of connectivism.
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Since the early 1990s, the growth process in India has been marked by a remarkable performance by the services sector. The experience of developed countries suggests that growth in the services sector followed the growth of the industrial sector. However, India's experience in this regard is somewhat different. The sectoral shift in favor of the services sector over the last two decades has taken place in the face of an almost stagnant share of industry and a reduced share of agriculture in GDP. In fact, it was the growth performance of the services sector during the 1990s which sustained the overall growth of the Indian economy, particularly in times of adverse agricultural shocks and industrial slowdown.
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In the Present study investigator attempt to find out the significance difference of various groups of sex, student residents, type and nature of School in awareness on Biodiversity among Higher Secondary students in Vilathikulam area. The investigator himself developed a questionnaire on identifying awareness on Biodiversity.
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Teachers, learners and Physics inspectors are concerned by the poor performance of learners in mechanics in class context and in their year-end results. The year-end results show 35.9% in 2010 and 46.6% in 2011 as percentage of success in physics due to their poor performance in mechanics. Based on these observations, our research question can be expressed: Why after several years of teaching and learning mechanics, scientific senior learners of Burkina Faso secondary schools are uncomfortable in mechanics?
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Pakistan is ranked among the top five world milk production countries in the world. However the average milk production from a single dairy animal is seven times lower than the other developed countries. Despite the genetic differences, management and technologies are the major reasons for low milk production in the country. The better management and installing the latest technologies in the shed can provide the environment which can enhance the milk production.
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In this paper, realistic multi-item inventory models without shortages for deteriorating items with stock dependent demand have been formulated in Intuitionistic fuzzy environment. Here, total average cost, warehouse space are assumed to be imprecise in nature. The objectives of maximizing the average profit and minimizing the average deterioration cost are also intuitionistic fuzzy in nature.
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Golding in his novels is obsessed with the Christian idea of original sin. Yet, he has firm faith in man's mental power. Like a true prophet he believes that a true man indulges in evil no doubt, and gets attracted quite easily towards vice and negative value of life, nevertheless he repents and rises like a beautiful lotus out of the stagnant, dirty and puerile water of decadence and spiritual sterility.
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Women community equals men in population. But it is a subject of concern to note that, women are treated as second citizens, subordinate to men. According to World Labour Report (1992), in advanced countries, in organized sector, women's pay has been around 50% of the men's pay. Similar views were highlighted in the United Nation's Report (1995) which stated that the returns on her labour are lower than that of men, partly because of over discrimination, partly because she has acquired fewer marketable skills and partly because of imperfections in the market forces.
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Third generation wireless system is based on the WCDMA access technique. In this technique, all users share the same bandwidth simultaneously but with different codes. So in Soft Handoff (WCDMA) new user will demand new OVSF codes. This behavior effectively reduces the total number of available OVSF codes in each cell. The effective available OVSF codes in each cell decreases as the percentage of calls in soft handover increases.
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Inconsistency of Clients Service Charter (CSC) effects and lack of literature on CSC influenced this study to be conducted by examining the utilization of CSC in Local Authorities (LAs) with particular reference to Dodoma Municipal Council. This study employed a case study design. A sample size of 118 clients was purposively selected. The sample comprised 60 internal customers' and 58 external customers.
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The study examines the effects of urbanization and land use changes on climatic environment of Visakhapatnam city. A detailed study was carried out with regard to urban heat islands and to examine the nature and intensity of heat islands in the city. This study is very important in city planning for the avoidance of air pollution hazards. Trend analysis of the temperatures has been carried out in order to assess the effects of urbanization on thermal climate.
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The research analyzes the dynamic forces of competition and demonstrates that competition embodies the fact that it can appropriate value, and that management of the competitive tensions is central to strategy. The paper also demonstrates that the level of intensity in the industry is determined by basic competitive forces and through the organization's choice of strategy it can alter the impact of these forces to its advantage.
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The Eleventh Five year plan makes specific focus on the inclusive growth of the economy. It implies that the growth process that experienced over the years were not sufficiently inclusive of all. Although there had been substantial reduction of poverty over past few decades during the five year plans, the core content of the rural poverty remained intractable.
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The Government of India introduced economic reforms in various sectors of the economy in July, 1991. The economic reforms were expected to influence the national income and the standard of living of the people. There by the consumption expenditure was expected to change after the reform. The share of expenditure on food items in total aggregate consumption expenditure had declined from 53.7 per cent in 1970-71 to 48.4 per cent at the end of the pre reform period.
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The approach used by concept discovery and information re-engineering is flexible and dynamic in that the conceptual integration process can be frequent activity. As usage patterns are utilized to discover concepts further. The information re-engineering approach presented here addresses the uniqueness of each user group and allows contextual interpretation of information using terminology that is initiated and preferred by different user groups.
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Giftedness is traditionally defined as having an intelligent Quotient higher than 130. Gifted adolescents experience stress of both their transitional stage as well as problem of being intellectually different from others. Coping strategies are usually adopted by us while facing various stressors. Emotional intelligence is a newly developed concept which is very essential for an individual to lead a successful life.
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The aim of this study was to document sensationalism in news and current affair programs in Pakistani private Urdu news channels. For the purpose, three independent variables-dramatic subject, breaking news and soft news were examined to measure frequency of sensationalism on these channels. Six leading news channels Geo, Dunyya, Express, Aaj, Ary and Sama news were selected.
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Bayesian classifier has gained wide popularity as a probability-based classification method despite its assumption that attributes are conditionally mutually independent given the class label. This paper makes a study into various algorithms to improve the classification accuracy of Bayesian methods with respect to real estate datasets.
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The theme of marriage in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's plays depends more on the value of money than on the value of love. In his play The Rivals, value of money becomes a salient theme and surpasses the theme of love even if Sheridan tries frequently to show love. Money plays an essential part in this play and its importance lies in determining the marriage whether positively or negatively. However, the play reflects the importance of money in the eighteenth century society where people were divided into three primary classes: the aristocrats, the bourgeoisie and the peasants.
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The study focused on groundwater type identification and groundwater recharge estimation through hydro chemical analysis in Aynalem well field Northern Ethiopia. Aynalem wellfield is the main source of water for domestic water supply of Mekele town, capital of Tigray regional state. From the hydro chemical data analysis, there exist at least two classes of water types in Aynalem catchment.
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Man constantly lives under the fear of uncertainty that one or more of the hazards of everyday living will sooner or later befall him and cause some financial losses. According to every one's position in the community, the loss may be small or very large. There is no doubt that majority of Nigerians are timid and lukewarm about taking insurance policies. Only policies which must be obtain as enshrine by government regulations are common.
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