International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research
Academy (IJMRA)

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Bananas and plantains are important for food security and income, but they are beset with numerous abiotic and biotic challenges that drastically reduce yield. Consequently, a range of technologies have been developed to tackle the various constraints. This study was carried out to determine the adoption potential of improved banana cultivars by smallholder farmers in Malawi. The study was carried out in five major banana production districts of Mulanje, Thyolo, Nkhata Bay, Karonga and Chitipa. Structured questionnaires were administered to 118 farmers in order to obtain data on several variables including; education level, experience in banana farming, income from bananas, proportion of land given to bananas, names and number of cultivars grown, preferred cultivars, and willingness to adopt new cultivars.
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This article is based on the study carried out to establish the suitability of Zviyambe homesteads for Village tourism. The variables in the study addressed research questions that uncovered the number of people at each homestead, the way people in each homestead in Zviyambe small scale farming area use their land, the composition of the area's natural environment, the extent to which human activity in this area is in line with ecological principles, ways in which village tourism can be integrated to the present human activities in the area under study, the way in which Village Tourism would benefit the local communities and the possible challenges Village Tourism is likely to bring to the people in the communities that were studied.
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The present study is an experimental study in which the researches hypothesize that Non-native literature can improve intrapersonal communication skills of language learners. The experimental group was given treatment through independent variable that is Non-native literature whereas the other group was taken as controlled group and was given a usual type of training. After six weeks training both of the groups were given post tests and it was found that experimental group out performed the control group.
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The purpose of this study was to examine whether racial differences existed in the mate selection criteria of undergraduate students in a public university. The participants recruited in this study were 132 undergraduate students between the ages of 20 to 28 years comprising different races, religions and cultures from the various faculties. The participants were given identification numbers which were purposively, randomly sampled. The test instrument used was a mate selection inventory made up of Sternberg's love components, Mc Crae's personality traits, David Buss's physical traits and mate selection traits from the work of Sprecher.
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The evaluation of collaborated research between university and industry has created the greatest interest amongst the collaborational researchers as it can determine the feasibility and value of the collaboration. Collaborated research of university and industry can enhance the ability of scientist to make significant advances in their fields. A successful Collaboration of university and industry is not dependent on any single parameter but instead on the confluence of multiple parameters from the growth of basic research to commercialisation.
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This research paper aims to address income poverty and inequality in service sector of Sudan. Poverty and inequality indicators were computed using both primary and secondary data sources. P-alpha equation, Povstat and Simsip models were used for poverty measurement and simulation. Results showed that more than 82 percent of employees in services sector living with poverty. Employees in health, education, transportation and security and justice were the most poor followed by public sector, communication and commerce respectively. The inequality measured Gini index was 43 percent with large inequality among commerce employees.
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There are many factors attributed to the poor performance of mathematics at high school level, for example, students' attitude to mathematics, low cognitive abilities, poor teacher- student relationships, poor study environments, poor usage of mathematical language as a tool for communication among others. This paper sets to investigate the use of mathematical language as a means of communicating mathematics being a core subject and the influence it has on academic achievement at the secondary school level in Rachuonyo region of Homabay County. In particular, the study investigates the intricacies involved in teaching mathematics.
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Nigeria's democratic project has been under perpetual threat since 1999 when the country returned to democratic governance especially as a result of high prevalence of corruption. There is no doubt that crime of corruption in government threatens the moral integrity of a nation and hampered development, this thus make the topic of discourse very interesting especially looking at the global effect of corruption on democracy and development generally. This study shows that political and bureaucratic corruptions have grave implications for democratic stability and sustainable development in Nigeria.
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A few surveys in the past have revealed that 'being a team player' was one of the most important factors in getting ahead in the workplace. Successful teamwork is urgently important in any organizations; especially design and construction company where the whole idea of project is based on team and common goal achievement. This journal deals with description of the Structure and Culture of the chosen organization. It talks about basic structure and hierarchy of Firm X with also focuses on the firm being a Prospector following Adhocracy as generic structure focusing completely on innovation and creativity. Besides that being a project based organizations, it briefly describes the organization capability.
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Empowerment refers to the well being of a person which reflects on the freedom to lead different types of life showing the person's capability. Empowerment of women has emerged as an important tool to measure the progress of the country. Thus, this concept has gained paramount importance to political thinkers, social scientists and reformers. Empowerment is seen as a process by which power to control over their lives will be increasing. This involves ability to get what one wants and to influence others on our concerns. Economic Empowerment results in the women's ability to influence or take decision, increased self-confidence, better status and role in household etc. In India, Microfinance has emerged as a powerful instrument with the SHG-Bank Linkage Program for the upliftment of women.
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Today the women is performing multitask and versatile roles which leads sometimes to Role conflict. Role Expectations, Role ambiguity, Personal Inadequacy due to this role stressors she is going through many of psychological, social and emotional problems and this is again producing the vicious circle of stress leading to personality disorders then these personality disorders leading to have more stress In the present study, an attempt has been made to find whether there is any effect of personality on the organisational role stress. The results of the study revealed that on the four factors of personality has negligible effect on role stressors as Inter Role Distance, Role ambiguity, Personal Inadequacy, Resource Inadequacy.
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The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the prevalence and determinants of respiratory symptoms and their association with occupational dust exposure among the brick kiln workers. Brick kiln workers are exposed to dust particles and are susceptible to multiple pulmonary complications. Problems like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary symptoms, and silicosis are more common among them. As brick kiln industry is an unorganized sector, so it was decided to evaluate the respiratory symptoms and lung capacities in these workers and compare them with controls. This study included 120 brick kiln factory workers occupationally exposed to dust and 80 unexposed workers as controls.
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The major challenges faced by the managing leaders in FMCG industry include fostering organizational commitment, enhancing creativity, effective team work, managing intense distribution network and tough competition, introducing change, exercising an appropriate leadership style at the team level and using appropriate managerial skills to get the work done through team working under him. This research analyzes various dimensions of managerial skills and comparing the managers of ITC and HUL in terms of various dimensions of managerial skills and suggests the adoption of the most appropriate skills through which the subordinates would be able to identify the process, analyze and develop organizational commitment, creativity and team work among the team members.
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Caterpillar being a transnational corporation is the renowned leader having unmatched know-how and venture in diverse fields. Delivering better-quality results and budding preeminent team of people adds to the term a global leader. Caterpillar's vertical integration enables efficient and robust validation across components, systems and machines ensuing in products with higher overall quality. Aiming at the criteria to attract motivate retain and reward the firm thrives well. Sharing facts and skills with customers and by developing elevated levels of expertise enable them to be acquainted with significance of their equipment inculcating them to optimize product selection and feat, improves the overall eminence and reach of affairs with clientele.
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The debate of farm size and productivity relationship is one of the most important debates in the Indian agricultural economic literature and continues to attract the attention of the scholars even today. The controversy is important for it provides information on the existence of economies of scale in agriculture and on the choice of the optimal farm size. The genesis of the problem can be traced to the chronic food shortages, which India has been facing ever since the separation of Burma. The situation, aggravated by the Second World War set in motion thinking about the need for a policy for agricultural development.
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Libraries at colleges and universities provide a challenging environment for the practice of human resource (HR) Management. The dynamics and structure of the academic library within the higher education community create complex environments for the library Management attempting to navigate the myriad rules and regulations (state, federal, and institutional) that affect staff recruiting, hiring, processing, compensating, and related functions for library personnel. Depending upon the complexities of the HR function in any academic library, the organization may be best served by designating an HR expert as a member of the library's Management team.
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The term Quality of Work Life (QWL) aims at changing entire organizational climate by humanizing work, individualizing the organization and changing the structural and managerial system. It seeks to create culture of work commitment in the organization which will ensure higher productivity for the company and greater job satisfaction for the employees. The term 'Quality of Work Life' has different meanings for different people. According to J.L.loyd Suttle, "Quality of Work Life is the degree to which members of a work organization are able to satisfy important personal needs through their experiences in the organization".
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The growing urbanization in developing economies, especially in India, have the potential to change existing land use patterns with the urban fabric as well consume vast open lands surrounding the existing urban islands. Planning practice in India is directed by regulations and norms established at the national and state level. Within this directive is the creation of master plans for town development, the creation of which is closely directed by the collaboration of the governmental planner and the consultant planner. This paper examines how using cartographic modelling, the ability to make representative geospatial representations or maps that help with modelling and studying complex geo-spatial inter-relationships we can create a more responsive urban growth strategy.
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Fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity as oil resources are fast depleting over the entire world, and the increasing emphasis on reducing emissions and increasing efficiency, there is a need to develop and adopt non-conservative fuel systems for the fast moving world. This alternative fuel cells are used as fuels in automobiles Use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel to these problems would cut down India's shortfalls by a significant measure. A fuel cell generates electricity from a chemical reaction usually involving hydrocarbon fuels which produce hydrogen and an oxidizing agent. Fuel cells differ from batteries in that batteries store the reactants, and must be recharged or discarded once consumed.
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Analysis of survey data requires the use of specialized software that incorporates most of the available survey designs. Although, a large number of software are available for the analysis of survey data with extensive features and provide good estimation, but at the same time they have been found to be costly, requires extensive coding and domain expertise to get the results. Therefore, a low cost, less complex and user friendly windows based software has been developed for the analysis of survey data. In this paper, Software for Survey Data Analysis (SSDA) has been described. SSDA provides the estimates of population mean and variance for data collected using stratified multistage sampling design and the descriptive statistics.
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The faculty in any educational institute is the swivel around which the whole teaching learning process revolve. In technical education institutions the faculty performs multiple activities. In this paper along with the importance of competent faculty, the problem and causes of demand- supply gap of competent faculty in Technical Education Institute of North India has been discussed. The trends are noticed in the institutions since session of 2010.
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The problem of child labour has become an issue of great concern in recent times all over the world. The alarming growth of child labour, particularly in under developing countries, has attracted the attention of governments, national and international social organizations and social scientists. A global public awaking is being created today about the plight of child labour and the needed to eliminate it.
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is pandemic is a major challenge to development. It is recognized worldwide as one of biggest fatal diseases. It has serious direct and indirect adverse effects on communities. The HIV/AIDS pandemic leads to loss of human capacity. It reduces productive time when caring for family and attending funerals. It also leads to poverty due to diversion of funds for medical expenses, sick leaves, and funeral costs.
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The purpose of this study is to explore and study the purchasing attitude towards Ready-to-eat/cook products by health conscious consumers in Southern India. To find out what are all the major factors influences consumers in terms of awareness creation and decision making stages. Many hidden factors influence the consumer to go for healthy Ready-to-eat products based on their accumulated knowledge. These health conscious consumers are all literate and accessing various sources before taking any decision.
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It is a clear fact that nowadays knowledge is growing faster and with the spreading of information and communication technology, the dream of network learning has become a reality, at least technically, and now a vast amount of spontaneous knowledge exchange is possible. Younger and older learners need to generate new ideas and new products that are to be innovative. In this context, this study aims to explore the nature of Connectivism (Siemens, 2004) using available literature as a traditional qualitative method. The second issue is the advantages and disadvantages of Connectivism as it is concieved by the educationalists. For this, a focus group discussion was used to obtain data.
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