International Journals of Multidisciplinary
Research Academy (IJMRA)

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The study evaluates sustainability of rural water supply schemes in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The objectives of the study covers examination of socio-economic characteristics of residents, identification of different types of water supply schemes, assessment of water supply schemes, evaluation of sustainability of water schemes, and factors affecting water scheme in the study area. Data were generated through random administration of questionnaires among 1,193 residents. It was further analyzed using descriptive method and sustainability index.
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This study is to identify happiness quotient among upper secondary school (high school) students. The study seeks to determine the factors contributing to the upper secondary students happiness based on their gender, ethnic, religion, academic stream, good friends and hobbies. A total of 1000 students in Serembanwere involved in the study. The instruments used were the research questionnaires regarding happiness of the students and OHQ. The Cronbach's alpha value for this inventory was .75. The results showed that most of the students had a moderate level of happiness. There were significant differences in happiness quotient mean with ethnic, religion, good friends and hobbies. However, there was no significant difference between happiness quotient mean with gender and academic stream.
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Understanding, predicting, and improving employee behaviors are major aspects of a manager's job. Managers often try to influence work-related attitudes in order to create behavioral changes, relying on moderating variables such as the importance of the attitude, its specificity, its accessibility, whether social pressures exist between attitudes, and whether employees have direct experience with the attitude to impact what employees behaviorally do. This attitude-behavior relationship asserts that attitudes significantly predict future behavior by taking the previously mentioned moderating variables into account (Ajzen, 2001, 1996; Kraus, 1995; Sutton, 1998). To actually implement their decisions to influence employee attitudes, managers often enact various organizational and personal influence tactics.
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In rural economy, Punjab is dominating as two third of its total population and 65% of its total workers live in villages. Further 42.2% of the total workers in Punjab are engaged in agriculture (cultivators and agricultural labours). Their share in total rural workers, as per reliable sources is 57.2%. Since the early 2007-08, the yield of major agricultural crops has been experiencing stagnation. The additional increments in yield are rising at a very high marginal cost. As a consequence, per hectare net return is declining and this is the real crisis of Punjab agriculture. The annual trend growth rate of per hectare return, over variable costs from wheat and paddy (combined) was -2.18% during this period. In this case of cotton, it was -14.24% per annum during the same period [Ghuman 2001].
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To our parents, children and grandchildren-
The roots that give us strength
And the fruits that bring us joy;
And to all
Who sincerely believe?
That "life matters!"
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Among the different forms of capital flows, academics and policymakers, talk about foreign direct investment (FDI) the most. This is because of several benefits of FDI and its importance in the world economy vis-a-vis other forms of capital flows. In the past fifteen years, FDI has been the dominant form of capital flow in the global economy, even for developing countries. FDI now have turned up their route towards emerging economies. Emerging markets are clearly outperformed by developed countries, and the disparities among countries are stark. While the world average was $115, it was $505 for developed countries and $49 for emerging markets .The paper studies the changes in the pattern of FDI and which have been diverted towards emerging economies.
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Nowadays, tourism is always regarded as an important means to benefit local communities. The success of the developed countries in expanding tourism industry has inspired many developing countries Based this article attempts to track the progress of tourism and hospitality development. The Government and private sector had invested a lot of money in providing public infrastructure and facilities to boost the the industry. Despite the massive amount of money spent on tourism and hotel industry development, no study had been conducted to relate industry spending with the impact of these developments towards the local economy and socio-culture.
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This paper presents a new voltage regulation system multi converter dynamic voltage restorer (MC-DVR), capable of simultaneous compensation for voltage in Multibus/multifeeder systems. In this configuration two voltage-source converters (VSC) exist. The system can be applied to adjacent feeders to compensate for supply-voltage on the main feeder and full compensation of supply- voltage imperfections on the other feeders. In the proposed configuration, all converters are connected back to back on the dc side and share a common dc-link capacitor. Therefore, power can be transferred from one feeder to adjacent feeders to compensate for sag. The performance of the MC-DVR as well as the adopted control algorithm is illustrated by simulation.
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India has widely been recognized as a success story of globalization. Over the past two decades, it has moved to be one of the major drivers of the world economic growth; emerging middle class consumers, high technology exports and impressive growth rate of real GDP(Gross Domestic Product) have been instrumental for attracting foreign investors. However, the impressive growth of India has not been successful in bringing enough progress in the major weaknesses of the economy. As per the data of 2004-05, still 28% of the population lie below the poverty line, there is only marginal reduction in the absolute number of this poverty parameter; from 320 million of1993-94 to 302 million in 2004-05.The failure of stupendous economic growth of India in including economically and socially deprived section is reflected in its marginal achievement in Human Development.
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Indian economy has grown encouragingly in the last few decades. The growth was undoubtedly encouraging and eminent. All the sectors of the economy have witnessed a remarkable growth barring the agriculture sector. During the last six decades of planning, the economy has seen many ups and downs. The economy has shown resilience amid the different scenarios and has performed exuberantly. Indian GDP growth has recently touched a peak of 9.6 percent and has illustrated its resilience in the midst of the world financial crisis and is again on the path of growth after a moderation in its performance. To sustain and further accelerate this growth requires attention to some bottlenecks in the economy. One such factor is the social sector. The sector is at a concerning level and needs attention not only for further economic growth but also for inclusive growth.
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A Purchasing decisions are often strongly influenced by people who the consumer knows and trusts. Moreover, many online shoppers tend to wait for the opinions of early adopters before making a purchase decision to reduce the risk of buying a new product. Web-based social communities, actively fostered by E-commerce companies, allow consumers to share their personal experiences by writing reviews, rating reviews, and chatting among trusting members. E-commerce companies have recently started to capture data on the social interaction between consumers in their websites, with the potential objective of understanding and leveraging social influence in customers' purchase decision making to improve customer relationship management and increase sales.
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In this dynamic world, Strategies enable a firm to fix his position in the industry. Strategies are the real warriors who counter act the prevailing challenges. The strategically inspired goals, followed by Micro financial institutions [MFIs] are poverty alleviation & financial inclusion, which is also one of the millennium development goals and present global slogan for inclusive growth.
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In the past few years, service sector has become the most important and dynamic sectors in most of the countries. The basic nature of services has changed with time. Once considered untradeable, technology has made the services tradable. This paper is an attempt to get an overview of the growth of service sector and trade in services globally with special reference to India. Regional distribution of trade is also looked into. All the data point to the fact that India is positioned to grow in this sector but for that she will have to identify strategies to create, develop and strengthen India's comparative advantage in specific services in the light of current WTO provisions.
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In this study we aim to evaluate the effects of globalization with the precision and non-precision factors on non-oil export of Iran .The underlying objective of the paper is to provide support for a model that predicts these effects with the GMDH-neural network method as an instrument for complicated non- linear trends especially with the limited observations. We used International Trade Integration of Industry (IIT) as an index of globalization. The results indicate the globalization variables have much more effects on non-oil export in globalization process.
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