International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research
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Public Policy in contemporary societies have assumed significant position in the performance of governmental functions and more importantly in driving societies towards development. However, in Nigeria and other third world nations the private interest of the policy makers appears to be the major determinant of government policy decisions. This study examines commercial agricultural policy of Kwara State Government with a view to identifying how the private interests of Government officials influenced the choice of white farmers at the expense of Nigerians.
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In this paper, we have used the idea of Onyango (2003) he used to develop a logistic equation used in natural science to develop a logistic geometric Brownian motion with a price of dividend yielding asset since in reality, assets do pay dividends to shareholders at regular intervals after a maturity period which normally after one year. We have first derived a deterministic Walrasian price-adjustment model with price of dividend yielding asset after which we have introduced the stochastic effect of noise to derive a logistic geometric Brownian motion with a unique volatility function such that the observed option price is consistent with the price of the dividend yielding asset model.
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The paper gives abroad overview of the poverty situation in Nigeria. Consequent upon this, the inauguration of the MDGs, which represents an attempt at combating poverty through global partnership for development, appears to constitute the key to Nigeria's escape from poverty trap. The paper examines evolving poverty profile and the challenges of actualizing the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria. It is a shocking paradox that a significant proportion of Nigeria's population is poor despite its enormous wealth. The paper therefore critically examines the problems and prospects of achieving a remarkable reduction in Nigeria's poverty profile within the framework of the MDGs.
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The principle prohibiting dual punishment is one of the most accepted and stable principles in most penal systems of the world. The laws governing calculation of punishments is one of the results of that principle, according to which a foreign national punished in the country where the crime was committed, will not face any criminal charges in his/her own country for the same crime. This article intends to review the position of the law governing in Iran, in relation to aforementioned principle, in order to prove whether or not it honors and accepts the criminal sentences of other countries.
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Based on the notion that different speech communities have different ways of organizing ideas in writing reflecting their cultural thought patterns, Contrastive Rhetoric Theory has argued that these differences might cause failure of communication for language learners. Since this theory has inserted a long-lasting influence on the language education, the present paper attempts to present an evaluative review of the theory. The review indicates that the Contrastive Rhetoric Theory still has a dominant role in EFL/ESL teaching.
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive model that combines brand awareness and brand image perspectives on current and future purchases. These researchers used structural equation modeling to test the significance of the overall model and the specified paths. Findings indicate that current purchases are affected by directly by brand awareness and indirectly by brand image. In contrast, future purchases are not affected by either dimension of brand knowledge directly. The present study did not examine feedback effects and only included consumer categories, no individual differences variables. As such, these researchers recommend that future research examine feedback effects and include additional consumer categories, B2B categories and individual-differences variables such as variety seeking and innovativeness.
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This study aims to display the views of the primary school supervisors who apply supervision and guidance activities in computer technology class. The study was conducted in Mersin, Turkey, with 69 primary school supervisors. Data collection tool developed by the researchers as a form consisting of open-ended questions. The obtained data were analyzed with descriptive analysis method. According to the findings, computer-aided education is beneficial especially in in science and technology lessons, social studies and life science courses. The presentations and projection images are reflected and thus computer technology is beneficial for teachers.
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All through history it is evident that man has constructed his settlement along the streams, rivers or coasts. Stream or river water has been a source for consumption, agriculture or industry. Small settlements are converted into big cities as population is fast increasing and at the same time constructions are also increasing which has reduced the percentage of available land. This has increased the tendency of encroachment in river flood plain areas. Countries having high population density are more sensitive to floods because of lack of flood control, lack of emergency response infrastructure and early warning systems.
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Culture has great impact on the organisation at large. It affects the pattern of work and work output, it affects the performance of the organisation in all aspect, but this effect exists not only on the organisational level. It also influences the team performance. Particularly, with the rapidly growing use of teams to achieve several kinds of organisational objectives (Fairfield-Sonn, 2001). Form Annex Associate management wants to improve the performance of its team so as to meet more future challenges that will emerge in nearest future, and will do everything possible so as to maximise its team's performance after careful appraiser of its team performance, the management decided to engage in overall assessment of its design team working performance.
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Fireworks industries are mostly prone to fire and explosion. The hazardous natures of chemicals are being used to produce the scintillating effects during the lighting of the fireworks crackers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the causes for fire & explosions in fireworks factories. Two hundred and sixteen fatal and sixty three are severely injured from 1994 to 2008. Data on age, sex, and incidence by month, causes of explosions were recorded. The majority of the fatal were male, with a mean age of 36.7 years. The result of the analysis shows that most accidents were caused by too much gunpowder put in at one time and accidents resulting from carelessness while making fireworks.
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The decision makers along with planners, policy makers and administrators feel helpless while planning the natural and social wealth of a region, in the absence of accurate information about all kinds of resources at village level. On the other hand planning is now widely accepted as a way to handle complex problems of resource allocation and decision making. For the purpose both spatial and non-spatial data is required. Remote sensing and GIS serves as a powerful tool for storage, handling, retrieving and analysis of spatially correlated data. A suitable information system is required at village level to serve all these requirements.
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The present age has been called the age of stress and strain. Every individual is stress prone today, from small children to aged people. It was assumed thatwill be no significant difference between Govt. school teachers and private school teachers, when family stress is taken as a dependent variable and no significant difference in family stress between male and female working parents and non-working parents separately. 200 parents, 100 working and 100 non-working parents were the samples for the investigation. Family stress inventory, by Dr. Abha Rani Bisht (Hindi) was used.
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The ethical values of social work profession have long been given scant attention ethical foundation and ethical research is as important knowledge and theory in social work practice Ethical Theory building will strengthen the moral fibre of the profession and it will contribute to the current knowledge relating to social work practice. There is need for greater attention to value and ethics in the present context of technological and scientific advancements and the consequent decadence and degradation of the values of life.
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Based on twenty one indicators, the present study investigates the levels of social and economic deprivation among the twenty-eight states and seven union territories of India. The entire research work is based on secondary sources of data. The overall analysis of the study reveals that the level of economic deprivation is high in the western, central and eastern parts and it is moderate to low in the states situated in the northern and north-eastern parts of India. The high level of social deprivation is in the north-central states and it is low in the north-eastern and southern most states of India.
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The NREGA programmers typically provide unskilled manual workers with short-term employment on public works such as irrigation infrastructure, deforestation, soil conservation and road construction. The programmers provide income transfers to poor households during critical times and therefore enable consumption smoothing specially during slack agricultural seasons or years. The Act guarantees 100 days of employment in a financial year to any rural household whose adult members are willing to do unskilled manual work. This work guarantee can also serve other objectives like generating productive assets, protecting the environment, increased standard of living, and increased purchasing power of the rural people.
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One of the national carrier for women employees as airhostess or flight attendants ever since the inception of Airline Industry in India. When this business cycle becomes a cause of a concern, changes in performance attributes is giving rise to problems of employees in this sector. Hence the study focuses on airhostess perception towards performance expected by the employer in the latest changes coming to the airline industry. A total of 40 respondents were covered in this study. A major contribution of this study is the provision of an approach for the management of these organizations to assess the awareness of performance metrics and measure their perceived importance.
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Stress at work is a relatively new phenomenon of modern life style. The nature of work has gone through drastic changes over the last century as it is still changing at whirlwind speed. Stress has touched almost all professions. Stress poses a threat to physical health of the individual. Work related stress in the life of organized workers, consequently affects the health of organizations. Stress is high in software profession because of their nature of work, target, achievements, night shift, over work load. Very few though have looked at IT employees, in particular women and their quality of life. Thus, the present study focuses on the job stress and quality of women software employees.
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The process of slum demolition in order to marginalize the poor has resulted in the eviction of India's largest urban population. Many poor families have been shipped out of the city's leading to increase in the hardships of urban poor. They face the brunt of lack of proper water and sanitation facilities. In urban areas people belonging to rich sections of the society can always access water and sanitation facilities, however it's the poor who are suffering due to the lack of these basic amenities. They spend quality time and a large portion of their monthly income in accessing them. The women are the main sufferers as their physical hardship, vulnerability to problems increases with the absence of water and sanitation. Although, various initiatives in the form of policies and programmes have been taken to provide these basic amenities, which however fail to achieve the desired goal.
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The purpose of this paper is to present a survey of customer preferences of entertainment in different malls of NCR and analysis of space allocated to these malls. The objective is to assess the preferences of the customer and retail mall manager, its space analysis, problems and opportunities for growth.
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The article traces the coming and growth of Indian call centre industry in the contemporary era of globalization. The major argument posed is that whether the growth of this industry should be seen as a boon for the Indian service industry and its young urban workforce or it has become bane for its employees who are often called as 'Cyber Coolies' owing to its stressful working conditions with a limited career growth.
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Kumbakonam is the headquarters of a taluk of the same name in the district of Tanjavur and is on the main line of the Southern Railway. It is celebrated city of temples, both Siva and Vishnu. This city has a very long and eventful history. It was known in the past as Tiruk, Kudamukku or Tiru-Kudandai. According to local legends there was a deluge after the Dvaparayuga. The Almighty placed I change of Brahma a pot of nectar and the seeds of creation, and left is adrift in the deluge. The drifting sacred pot finally got stranded at this place. Siva as Kiratamurti, appeared on the scene; and with his arrow pierced the pot and spilt the nectar, which flowed all over.
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Financial problems have clear negative consequences on worker health and job performance. Many researches have found that financially troubled employees do bring their financial related stress to work, and hence effecting the productivity, organization's overall profit figure and also the work culture in the long run. Hence this paper will bring forward the repercussions of the workers who face financial stress based on a number of studies conducted among workers. Results showed that employees who faced financial stress demonstrate poor financial management and the stress they suffered do effect their work performance, health and their workplace behavior.
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The research is an attempt to analyse the emerging dynamism in Indian foreign policy perception in changing global economic and political landscape. The emergence of India as a stable and successful democracy, twisting just around double digit economic growth rate, a de facto nuclear power status, increased expertise in science and technology have all contributed to redefine the role, identity and interests of the Country in 21st century international affairs. The Indo-US nuclear deal and the voting in IAEA on the issue of Iran clearly demonstrate the fact that New Delhi desires high visibility in systemic regulation and transformation in contemporary world affairs. India, along with People Republic of China (PRC) could emerge as the real incubator to galvanize the world economy from the post global financial recession and ongoing Euro Zone crisis.
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Wole Soyinka is a renowned Nigerian dramatist, who was awarded Nobel Prize in 1986, for his accomplishment in the field of literature. He is a prolific writer and versatile genius of African continent. His works are based on Yoruban society, culture, tradition and politics of Africa. The dramatic environment that Soyinka creates has been enriched with variegated realistic scenes portraying African life very exactly and fashions and characters holding a mirror up to nature and presenting life as it is.
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The purpose of this paper is to show empowerment of women through SHGs. India has great entrepreneurial potential. Entrepreneurships enhances financial independence and self esteem of women. Among the states Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka have more women entrepreneurs. Malhotra (2004) in her book has examined how women entrepreneurs affect the global economy, why women start business, how women's business associations promote entrepreneurs, and to what extent women contribute to international trade. It explores potential of micro-finance programmes for empowering and employing women and also discusses the opportunities and challenges of using micro-finance to tackle the feminization of poverty. According to her, the micro-finance programmes are aimed to increase women's income levels and control over income leading to greater levels of economics independence.
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It involves the equitable sharing of the benefits of economic activity across all sections of society, to enhance the well-being of humans, protect health and alleviate poverty. If sustainable development is to be successful, the attitudes of individuals as well as governments with regard to our current lifestyles and the impact they have on the environment will need to change.
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This paper presents an algorithm to find optimum cost - time trade off pairs in a fractional capacitated transportation problem with bounds on total availabilities at sources and total destination requirements. The objective function is a ratio of two linear functions consisting of variable costs and profits respectively. Sometimes, situations arise where either reserve stocks have to be kept at the supply points say, for emergencies or there is a shortfall in the production level. In such situations, the total flow needs to be curtailed. In this paper, a special class of transportation problems is studied where in the total transportation flow is restricted to a known specified level.
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Asia continent as the largest and the most populous continent and the cradle of a developed civilization has different peoples with various races and with their special physical characteristics. The Iranian Plateau as a special geographical place in Asia continent has had different nations with various races. Azerbaijan (Atropatgan) is one of the main and ancient places of Iran where it has Aryan residents. In this paper, attempt is made to study the race and people living there from the perspective of anthropology and ethnology.
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Fear of crime is one of the prime concerns for people apart from traffic related safety and comfort while waiting at the bus stops. The major determinants of fear of crime include socio- demographic variables, direct and indirect victimisation, physical and social incivilities, and the physical environmental cues. The environmental cues that influence the fear of crime are created mainly by the planning, design and detailing of built environment and landscape features. In bus stop environments the features of the street segment in which the bus stop is located contribute to the environmental cues in addition to the features of the bus shelter and the surrounding built environment. The association between fear of crime of people at bus stops during night hours and features of street segments such as width of the road, street lighting, landscape elements such as trees and street hardware, on-street parking and pedestrian traffic were investigated in this study. Street characteristics of selected bus stops in Tiruchirappalli were recorded and the people waiting at the bus stops were interviewed to assess the fear of crime.
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The Self Help Groups (SHGs) under Indian micro finance programme have become a vehicle to pursue diverse developmental agendas and even for the profit motive. Removal regional disparity in the implementation of the programme leads to target oriented approach which again considered as hindrance the qualitative growth of the movement. Several rating systems for micro-finance interventions and Self-Help Groups (SHGs) have been developed in the past which lacks uniformity.
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‘Education is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, preparing him/her for later professional life and to adjust in their social life’. Education is a process that inculcates the social and cultural values in the child.
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There are many factors which have impacted the human civilization like fire, wheel, stone implements, steam engine etc. These examples highlight the role of innovation and technology before us for the society. Knowledge , Innovation , technique are the basis for economic development for any economy .India has attained very significant position in every field like engineering ,medical research, IT Services and many other knowledge oriented sector, but the world is changing rapidly. As India embarks on its ambitious journey in the new era of interconnected world. It needs to build an environment where each individual is a source of creativity. In the following paper, we will find out the role of innovation in economic development briefly.
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Many peasant movements occurred in India which were based on GandhianPhilosophy. We can take examples of few peasant movements such as peasant movement in United Province. United Province was one of the most important province of British government. Peasant movements occurred in various parts of United Province, especially in Awadh, after the emergence of Gandhi in Indian politics. In 1921 the peasants of Awadh started movements against colonial government with the help of Indian National Congress and Kisan Sabha. The peasants of Faizabad district, Rae Bareli district and Sultanpur district, started movement. Earlier, these peasants adopted violent method and looted bazars, shops, attacked on the houses of landlords and they also opposed police. The same situation occurred in Agra province also.
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