International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research
Academy (IJMRA)

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Innovation activities contribute essentially to the regional dimension of growth. Technological infrastructure and innovation capabilities affect not only regional growth, but also the economy as a whole. Research and Development (R&D) and technical change are both directly related to industrial infrastructure conditions, modernization process, productivity levels, and regional socio-economic growth. In the last decades, new measures and indices have been introduced regarding R&D expenditure, innovation activities, patents etc., namely estimating innovation inputs and outputs. However, there are a lot of problems and questions regarding the measurement of innovation activities at regional level.
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Using a recently developed overall measure of environmental performance that considers a whole host of environmental dimensions, this paper employs cross country regression analysis on a large number of countries around the world in order to investigate whether improved national environmental performance adversely effects national economic growth. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that actions taken by countries to upgrade the environment come at a price of reduced economic growth.
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This article discussed a proposal for developing a career guidance and counseling program: Career Exploration Program (CEP) for Malaysian Secondary Schools (high school). The needs of career intervention or program have been discussed. The Planning of CEP in this research employed the Five-Stages Planning Model for Career Guidance and Counseling by Herr, Cramer, and Niles (1996). For the purpose of developing program rationale and program philosophy, needs assessment was also conducted.
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Development is related to technological change which is instrumental in improving the quality of the life of the common man. Resent and subsequent decades are apt to witness further advancement in every field. Home equipments developed from simple hand-operated tools for cooking, washing and cleaning into highly complicated electrical appliances, many of them automatically controlled. There were a number of reasons for this development, the main one being the near disappearance of the domestic servants. Equipments were therefore designed to save the people's time and energy.
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Efficient, effective and un-hindered, symmetric access to Governmental information is a fundamental goal of India's National E-governance Project (NeGP). The plans for this project recognize that citizens' Information needs are for both generic and specific purposes. Post-deployment research on earlier experiments with rural telecentres has shown that successful deployment of ICT platforms for development needs both dynamic updates to local data and knowledge that can aid decision-making process for personal and economic well-being of rural citizens.
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The general social science literature on media and disaster needs to focus on issues related to ethical concern that dominates the mass communication and journalism literature. To endeavor the benefits to the society a great deal about human and organizational behavior in crisis and disaster needs to be studied in order to reduce the dichotomy in the area of social sciences and mass communication and journalism.
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The study in general aims at making a study of the management performance relating to working capital in the selected units of the automobile industry in India. It covers seventeen major units in the automobile industry (five in commercial vehicles sector, three in passenger cars and multiutility vehicles sector and nine in two and three wheelers sector). For the purpose of the study, necessary data on working capital and other related variables were collected for the period 1992-93 to 2006-07. The financial statements used were mainly the Profit and Loss accounts and Balance Sheets published in the annual reports of the respective units. The study used a variety of financial ratios to accomplish the objectives. It employed discriminant analysis to examine adequacy of working capital.
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Mutual Funds have become a hot favorite of millions of people all over the world. The driving force of mutual fund is the 'safety of the principal' guaranteed, plus the added advantage of capital appreciation together with the income earned in the form of interest or dividend. A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools the money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, money market instruments and other types of securities. It works on the principle of 'small drops of water make a big ocean'. The owner of a mutual fund unit gets a proportional share of the fund's gains, losses, income and expenses.
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A business plan conveys the business goals, the strategies called biz plan. They will use to meet them, potential problems that may confront the business and ways to solve them, the organizational structure of the business (including titles and responsibilities), and finally, the amount of capital required to finance the venture and keep it going until it breaks even. This study deals with various meaning and importance, types of business plan along with its importance. Also deals with various essential components of a business plan and its easy norms with valuable valid reasons.
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This article is based on a sample study conducted among 300 cardamom planters in three states viz., Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. The study was conducted so as to understanding the cultivation practices of cardamom with a view to provide an understanding to help decision making of cardamom growers. As such the study has revealed the practices in cardamom cultivation in terms of the area under cultivation of cardamom, inter- cropping adopted, cardamom varieties chosen for cultivation, seasonality of cardamom cultivation, high yielding varieties, borrowing for cultivation, replantation, span of cardamom plant, irrigation, manuring, soil testing, application of pesticides and harvesting, and post-harvesting.
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Education has always been associated with providing a better quality of life for human beings. Education is the basic requirement for human development and survival of the society. There is many problems in Indian education system. School dropout is one of them. The present study was aimed at finding out causal factors of school dropouts. A total sample of 101 school dropouts was selected in Dhanipur block, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Data were selected from school dropouts through interview schedule. The study revealed some factors namely personal, family school and socio-economic factors are playing a significant role in life of school dropouts.
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This paper aims to identify the changing buying behavior of customers in organized retail sector. In addition it also assesses the influence of cultural, social, & personal factors on buying behavior of customers. A total of 400 personal surveys were conducted in selected area of Pune City in 2011. Simple percentage and Kolmogorov-Smirnov one sample test analysis was conducted. The results of the study indicate that there is a huge change in buying behavior of customers in organized retail sector in terms of their purchase decisions making, information collection decisions, preference while making purchase decisions, money spending, and loyalty.
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As the demand for Bt cotton has been increasing, it has invoked novel interest and exciting emotion among a large section of eminent Indian personalities like biotechnologists, plant breeders, social scientists, environmentalists and on the likely impact of Bt cotton. An in-depth and intensive analytical survey has been carried out through personal interaction and group conversation with the respondent farmers. Although none of the farmers reported cases of any health, food or environmentally negative effects of Bt cotton, some expressed concerns about the possible risks.
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In Today Scenario, new generation has brought new challenges for industries. Success in such times is demanding new perspectives on competitiveness. There is need of Analysis of competitiveness related problems of manufacturing firms in India which identifies weaknesses in understanding about the concept and its implementation. literature Review of competitiveness, by classifying it at three levels, clearly indicated the importance of the firm level. The focus of this work is on review of literature at the firm level and study of competitiveness-related frameworks and models.
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Tamil Nadu had an ancient and effective Gurukula system of education. It led to the origin of Monitorial System. "The system was in the nature of an informal approach to the problem of making available and adequate supply of teachers for the indigenous- educational institutions. It was based on the principle of 'mutual instruction', and was worked out in practice by splitting up a school or a class into a number of homogeneous groups and by placing each group under the charge of a promising and superior pupil called the 'monitor'. The duties of the monitor were fairly comprehensive, for he was not only expected to look after the routine organizational and disciplinary matters but had also impart individual as well as collective instruction to the pupils in his group and to keep the teacher informed of their day-to-day work and progress in studies.
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This study attempts to demonstrate that the spatial usage and physical attributes of Thinnai (house front sit-out) has the potential to promote prosocial behavior of the occupants. In pursuit of this, Darley and Latane's (1969) helping behavior model is applied and the findings revealed the potential of the physical setting in an objective manner. The research questions examined here are: 1) Does the spatial usage and physical attributes of Thinnai facilitate the occupants in providing help in way finding for a stranger. 2) Does the spatial usage and physical attributes of Thinnai facilitate the occupants to return the dropped wallet to the person 3) Does the spatial usage and physical attributes of Thinnai facilitate the occupants to return the dropped Voter's Identity card to the card holder.
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