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The home is the site of violence for women not only in marital relationships but also in various other relationships. Brothers evicting sisters and widows facing violence in joint families are familiar stories. In some measure disempowerment of women arises from unequal social structures perpetuated by a legal system where women do not still enjoy adequate and equal property rights. Although the common law recognizes the right to reside in the matrimonial home through judicial decesions, the right was not codified.1 In India right to shelter has been recognised as a fundamental right in the broad sweep of Article 21 of the costitution of India 1950,in the case of Shantisar builders v.Narayan khimlal Totame

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An attempt has been made to determine land capability of Sonitpur District of Assam. Quantitative land evaluation procedures, namely USDA Land Capability Classification (LCC) have been used to assess the land capability of Sonitpur District of Assam. The database on land use/land cover has been generated from data derived from IRS P6 LISS III satellite imagery. Survey of India toposheet has been used to prepare a base map of the study area for soil survey and field work, and a contour map to derive slope map and DEM of the study area. In addition, a soil map has been transferred to the same geographic co-ordinates. The data input layers have been organized thematically. The overlay operation is performed to identify areas where a set of specified conditions occurs together.

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India is emerging as one of the world’s budding super-economies and at the same time its development is pulled back by poverty and illiteracy, the vicious cycle of which is very hard to break. Education can help to break this vicious cycle to a greater extent. But in India about 8.1 million children are out of formal education and they receive a single meal in a day. About 42 percent of the world's underweight children under age 5 are in India1. According to Jawaharlal Nehru “Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizen”. A country’s development depends upon the sound physical and mental growth of children. Without nutrition it is impossible to maintain a good health. Nutrition and physical absorption of food have several dimensions and depend upon a host of factors such as quality water, sanitation, health and quality of food itself. Public health services are inefficient and resource starved and private medical care is not affordable for the poorer sections of the population2. Chronic hunger can lead to malnutrition. Chronic hunger also delays or stops the physical and mental growth of children. Poor or insufficient nutrition over time means that children are too small for their age, and susceptible to diseases like measles or dysentery, which can kill malnourished children. Malnutrition adversely affects Universalization of Elementary Education particularly in rural areas.

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Pedagogy is the science (and an art) of teaching. There is a general perception that literature is particularly complex and in accessible for the second/foreign language learner and can even be detrimental to the process of language learning. Teachers usually use an array of teaching strategies to make their lecture effective and communicative. The strategies of the teacher vary according to the level of the learners along with the skill s/he wants to teach. They need variety in order to reach all the students in the class. At the end after using lots of strategies, the question remains the same i.e. how will the teachers know that students truly understands and apply knowledge in an meaningful way? No doubt, the pedagogy is the answer of all these questions. Through this paper I have tried to explore not only the “how” of teaching English literature but the “what” and the “why” also.

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The paper deals in credit risk management in which rating of credit risk is done in order to assess and control the overall loss within the limits sustainable by the capital of the bank which is very often referred to as the risk appetite of the bank. Effective credit risk management is a critical component of a bank’s overall risk management strategy and is essential to the long-term success of any banking organization. Having understood the broad parameters of the credit rating I have also learnt that there are various kinds of risks (both internal and external) involved in estimating the rating of a particular borrower or company which are the important factors which are to be taken into consideration to reduce the risk involved of default by borrower. The overall process of credit risk management includes four major functions risk identification, risk measurement, risk control and risk monitoring.

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Indian sub-continent is a vast landmass replete with diverse geographical regions with its distinct vegetation and climate, inhabited by various races with its own specific culture and occupation commensurate with the ecology of the region. Inhabitants of these different regions since time immemorial lived in harmony with nature. This incorporation of nature in their life is represented in various ritualistic forms of worship i.e. tree worship, etc, and celebration of seasonal festivals associated with agricultural cycle i.e. sowing, harvesting time, etc. People had exploited nature initially for subsistence purpose and as population grew and civilization developed the needs of people led to an increased exploitation of resources but the process was gradual and not adversarial. The real weight of exploitation was felt after the colonization of India by European powers and its integration to the world capitalist system.

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Feminism helps us understand and challenge the oppression of women. Feminist theories attempt to analyze women's oppression, its causes and consequences, and suggest strategies and directions for women's liberation. By the mid 1970s, feminist writers had raised the issues that patriarchal modes of thinking encouraged not only widespread inferiorizing and colonizing of women, but also discriminate against animals and nature. According to Sheila Collins sexism, racism, class exploitation, and ecological destruction are the four main factors which contribute to the ‘male dominated culture’.

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The most significant and longest social movement continuing is movement for emancipation of women. Though the primary goal for women empowerment is to improve the quality of life of women but it has also deep ramifications in social, economic and political scenario of body polity. The media through its reach to people at large has been instrumental though not to the extent desired in supporting the movement for women emancipation by focusing neglect and marginalization of the position of the women in society. It sounds intriguing how from a highly dignified position in India’s mythic history

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The most significant and longest social movement continuing is movement for emancipation of women. Though the primary goal for women empowerment is to improve the quality of life of women but it has also deep ramifications in social, economic and political scenario of body polity. The media through its reach to people at large has been instrumental though not to the extent desired in supporting the movement for women emancipation by focusing neglect and marginalization of the position of the women in society. It sounds intriguing how from a highly dignified position in India’s mythic history

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The purpose of the study was to know the mental health status of male kabaddi and kho – kho players of Indira Gandhi institute of physical education and sports science.The data was collected from 35 kabaddi and 35 kho-khoplyers of I.G.I.P.E.S.S. the questionnaire constructed and develop by arunkumarsingh and alpna san gupta in manual for mental (MHB) was employed to collect the data from the subject. There was no significant difference between the kabaddi and kho-kho players.

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What is ethics? Why it is essential for business to be ethical? Is company listed in Stock exchange is doing its business ethically? These are some of the burning question in today scenario and we heard about it more after the collapse of Satyam and Enron in the Market.

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The system demands new knowledge and skills from the teacher and head teachers. It also demands greater capability at the school level to respond to the emerging diversity in the student population and among those entering the teaching profession. In effect, changes in the characteristics of the system have made the role of the school teacher even more critical than what it was earlier. Has the State, which is the main provider of education in the country, responded to the changed reality? Has the teacher become more empowered? Have adequate efforts been made to equip the teacher to face the emerging challenges? What is the current reality with respect to status, roles and functions of the teacher and the head teachers in India?

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The paper examines the impact of perceptions of the employees and computer efficiency on readiness of the employees to adopt ERP systems in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In carrying out the study, random sampling technique was used to select 200 employees who have worked at least 3 years in an SME. Relevant data were collected using structured questionnaire. The correlation analysis was used to test the hypothesis. The findings showed that Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Personal Competence and Computer Efficiency have a positive influence on the employee’s readiness to adopt ERP systems. This paper suggests strategies which top management of SMEs can implement to encourage its employees in adopting ERP systems.

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Purpose: This paper attempts to gain an insight into the disaster preparedness and prevention in the schools of Delhi by focusing on the capacity and role of teachers & School Disaster Management Team.

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To a great extent this beautiful quote will help the readers to understand the real approach of this paper. Since a long time beauty has been a demanding subject for writing. Every person/society/culture has its own views on the concept of beauty. Sometimes it becomes the subject of debate for both; As Men are to football as women are to their looks; Men mostly attempt to have a desire to be in shape for athletics, while women do it for everyday life.

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The present experience of India with mixed or diversified classroom is not encouraging. The children from marginalized sections of society are discriminated in the classroom on the bases of gender, caste, and ethnicity. Despite Indian constitution strictly prohibits discrimination on the bases of caste and other social backgrounds and makes it a punishable act yet children from marginalized sections are discriminated in schools. How can discrimination of ‘weaker and disadvantaged sections are prevented?

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India has an impressive heritage in the production and use of ferrous and nonferrous metal like Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper, and Zinc. Silver was almost used throughout as the basic metal for the Indian currency after the appearance of the metallic money, presently termed punchmarked coins in the 6th century B.C. Egyptian name for the silver is white gold. In some Samhitas and Brahmans, it is called rajat a hiranya. There are three stages in the history of silver.The remains of ancient mines and smelting furnaces located in the vicinity of today’s mining centers as well as the evidence of common occurrences of slage and few metals-working places presented by the unearthed ancient sites reflect men’s earliest Endeavour to recover and utilize these metals in the process of the cultural development.

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The Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926 with minor modifications continues to be the main legal instrument for existence, continuance and functioning of trade union industry. The Act has given to Indian trade union movement legal sanctity, social status and organizational coherence hither to unknown. Legally trade unions could no more be regarded as conspiratiorial associations against the established law and order and good government. The code of discipline in Industry 1958 also tried to circumvent the defects of the Act by establishing new norms of human behavior for labour management towards each other to promote industrial democracy and industrial harmony.

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When considering a fund's volatility, an investor may find it difficult to decide which fund will provide the optimal risk-reward combination. Many websites provide various volatility measures for mutual funds free of charge; however, it can be hard to know not only what the figures mean but also how to analyze them. Furthermore, the relationship between these figures is not always obvious. NSE i.e. National stock Exchange Index is the indicator of the economic activity of the country’s top companies during the definite period of time, whereas the FII purchase is the investment made by the foreign body into the domestic institutions in order to gain optimum revenues. This paper will study the Volatility between these two figures and the effect it has on each other.

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This article aims to explore the importance of Work life balance for working women in India. The importance of Work life balance is more in Indian society as compare to other, as in Indian culture the prime function of women is to take care of family members and household chores while man is the bread earner. So a working woman has to play dual role. As a result she has to balance her work life and personal life. Realizing its importance companies have started some policies to help working woman. This article also explains strategies to tackle work life imbalance. Researches have shown that those employees who were more favourable toward their organization’s efforts to support work-life balance also indicated a much lower intent to leave the organization, greater pride in their organization, a willingness to recommend it as a place to work and higher overall job satisfaction.

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Balanced Scorecard (BSC) helps organizations to streamline vision and strategy with business activities and measures actual organizational performance against preset goals .The balanced scorecard is one of the most popular approaches developed in the field of performance measurement. Currently, there is a great interest in performance measurement with many companies attempting to implement the balanced scorecard.

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The teachers in 21st century will have to deal with a world quantitatively different from that of 20th century in respect of pedagogical and technological advancement. It is high time to introduce ICT based application and methodologies during the teacher training. Through ICT education it will help access online professional learning, analyze, plan and implement changes in their teaching approach. This article presents a quantitative study on gender differences in attitudes toward the usage of Information Technology (IT) related tools and applications. The study was conducted at with 50 student teachers. They were each presented with a questionnaire to relate their attitudes toward IT.

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Ethics is the basic concepts and fundamentalprinciples of right human conduct. It includes study of universal values such as the essential equality of all men and women, human or natural rights, obedience to the law of land, concern for health and safety and, increasingly, also for the natural environment.Excellence is “being all you can be” within the bounds of doing what is right for your organization. To reach excellence you must first be a leader of good character. You must do everything you are supposed to do. Both ethics and excellence are required in an educational system in order to succeed in life and lead life with values. This study explores the facts about the system that is followed in business education. An effort is made to understand whether the so called ethics is really being practiced by the propagators of education system, whether we are lying behind in achieving the excellence and so on. An effort is made to suggest some measures so that we can show a way to live principled and value based life along with excellence in life.

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Water is the key to life. Every living cell is water dependent and water sustained. There is no technological alternative for water. Rainwater harvesting is the simple and cost effective. The harvested water can be used as drinking, cooking, bathing, irrigation and other purpose. There are the two types of rainwater harvesting technique artificial and natural. The present work is assessing the water quality of the natural and artificial rain water shedding of different areas of Jaipur and its agglomerates. The parameters selected for the present study include pH, turbidity, temperature, colour, TDS, TH and EC. It is predicted that various parameters which are above permissible limit generate health hazards to human being.

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Employee engagement means employees are not just satisfied with their jobs’ Employee engagement is a business concept referring to the level of interest that an employee feels about her job. An engaged employee feels deeply committed to his/her company, bringing a positive attitude and, accordingly, greater productivity to his/her work. Research shows that engaged employees are more profitable, more customer-focused and more likely to stay. Indeed, employee engagement is directly tied to employee retention, and an engaged workforce also helps with employee recruitment. The best-performing companies know that it pays to focus on improving employee engagement.

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Socio-Economic sustainability of our Indian villages has been a question always. Concentrated and sustained efforts are required to meet the challenges in these villages. Policies won’t turn in to results until the local government take initiatives. A case study will be made in this regard to study how the grama panchayat and NGOs can work for the socio-economic sustainability of the villages.

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This article provides a review of Financial Inclusion Programme - an initiative to provide financial services to the rural Indians. How Financial Inclusion pulls millions of rural Indians out of the clutches of poverty is also explained in detail. RBI has taken several initiatives such as providing No-Frills Account, started Financial Literacy Centre’s, simplified KYC norms and branch authorization policy, deployed Business Correspondents, issued Kisan Credit Cards and General Credit Cards etc. How far India reached in achieving the financial Inclusion path is analysed through CRISIL Inclusix, RBI Working Paper Study And World Bank Access Survey. Most of the South Indian states achieved high Financial Inclusion but still its proper and speedy implementation is required in other states in India.

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इस शोध अध्ययन के अवधान, संवेग एवम् अनासक्ति का अध्यापक-अध्यापिकाओं के बीच एक तुलनात्मक अध्ययन करने का प्रयास किया गया है। यह अध्ययन अयोध्या, फैजाबाद तथा सुल्तानपुर शहर उत्तर प्रदेश के पूर्व माध्यमिक एवं माध्यमिक स्तर के विद्यालयों का चयन किया गया है, जिसमें कुल 300 अध्यापक-अध्यापिकाओं को यादृच्छिक रूप से चयनित किया गया। अवधान एक ऐसा सम्प्रत्यय है जिसका प्रयोग साधारण बोलचाल की भाषा में होता रहता है। किसी वस्तु पर ध्यान की प्रक्रिया ही वस्तुतः अवधान है। इसी प्रक्रिया द्वारा किसी वस्तु पर हमारा ध्यान जाता है तो कोई ओझल (छिप) भी हो जाता है और कभी-कभी हमारा ध्यान भंग भी हो जाता है। इस प्रकार अवधान भी एक संज्ञानात्मक मानसिक प्रक्रिया है। अवधान ऐसी प्रवृत्ति है, जिसके कारण हमारा मन किसी वस्तु पर केन्द्रित होता है अर्थात् किसी वस्तु के प्रति उन्मुख होना या उस पर ध्यान केन्द्रित करना अवधान कहलाता है। इसी प्रक्रिया के कारण वस्तुओं का चयनात्मक प्रत्यक्षीकरण किया जाता है। इस प्रकार अवधान के सम्बन्ध में कुछ मनोवैज्ञानिकों ने इसे विधिवत् ढंग से परिभाषित किया है:-

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Spirituality is built on detailed knowledge about this conscient entity, the soul, about its various states and levels and also of various forms of its manifestations such as thought, judgement, memory, belief, learning, outlook, attitudes, sanskaras, etc. Spirituality gives us purity and harmonious personality. The awareness of being a soul gives one the consciousness of a new (spiritual) relationship with others. It gives one new understanding of the law of karma and results in changing of attitudes and sanskaras. The nature and meaning of work are undergoing a profound evolution. The new management function will be helping people unleash and express their full creative spirit. The article looks at organizations in which emphasis is on spiritual awareness training and its impact on work productivity.

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Cloud computing environment is facing a lot of issues in storage management. Storage is the process of storing data in Cloud Server. This paper proposes VMware Cloud Hybrid Service is available in two service options, giving the user flexibility and scalability that is needed to meet organization’s requirements. A dedicated cloud provides the organization with a physically isolated infrastructure with RAID-5 facility, giving them their own private cloud instance running by RAID-5 strategy physically and the most control over their resources. A virtual private cloud provides the organization with logically isolated infrastructure, with fully private networking and resource pools.

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As consumers, Generally Indian women attach great importance to cosmetics and fashion. Women of South Delhi are focused on personal appearance in society. The main purpose of this paper is to study South Delhi women’s buying behaviour as regards to cosmetics products in the context of increasing consumption of such products. During survey it is found that Women have to low brand loyalty for cosmetics brands. Many brand managers are, consequently, competing aggressively for market share in this emerging sector.

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The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of cold war changed the global Scenario. What could be now being the future International system? With national sovereignty weakened and super national international organizations gaining strength this process should at its extreme, end in a world government with a unipolar system. Slowly the changes towards the concept of a global village gained momentum. A unipolar world in the foreseeable future still seems improbable. Another kind of unipolar system envisaged is of a universal empire wherein one super power controls global hegemony, like the United States assuming global hegemony became apparent when President Bush proclaimed during the Persian gulf crisis (1990-1991) of a new world order based on American- soviet cooperation and greater reliance on international law and organization but the Unipolar world order poses such vital questions. Does it intend to be the only super power? Is it to be a newer world order one in which the Americans are the only super powers and if so what would be the responsibilities of United States.

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Abstract Street children may be considered as the children in the worst condition. They live in the streets or at least, spend a larger part of their lives in the streets. They may even earn and live off the streets. Often bereft of their families and home, lacking access to basic needs and comforts of life, these are the most marginalized lot of all the children in the urban areas. Hence, it was deemed necessary to make an assessment of the condition of such children in Bikaner city. A purposive sample of sixty eight street children was taken for the study. The results have been presented under various heads like attributes, pattern of street living, family connections, and attitudes and perceptions.

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The study was conducted in the rural areas of Ranga Reddy District of Andhra Pradesh. The sample selected comprised of 60 girls and 60 boys in the age range of 9-12 years. The criteria for the sample was to select the working children from rural areas. The tools used in the investigation included anthropometric tools. The means of the height and the means of the weights of the obtained data were compared with NCHS and ICMR standards. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is also calculated. A detailed interview schedule including the self and family related factors is used. Both girl and boy child labourers were found poor in their physical development with severe chronic energy deficiency. Moreover the girl child laborers in pre adolescent age are about to attain menarche are more susceptible to suffer from anemia. Family related factors and work related factors found to be significant determinants of physical development of both girls and boy child labourers. Sensitizing parents on importance of nutrition and impact of child’s work on his poor growth and development is the need of the hour. Motivation of the parents to send the children to school is the only recommendation.

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Existentialism is a study of human existence. It is a doctrine of action. Life is nothing until it is lived; it is a man that gives meaning to it. Existentialism is concerned with the individual search for the meaning of his/her life through free will, choice and personal responsibility in the world. It is a philosophy which asserts that we are thrown into this world in order to make our meaning of life and our own value. This research paper focuses on the reflection of “existentialism” in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea. The concept of hero whose triumph consists of stretching his own powers to their absolute limits regardless of their physical results gives The Old man and the Sea an existential approach. It confronts us with the man who is not capable of making an ultimate effort but makes it successfully and continuously.

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Politics concerns questions of who controls and who benefits. The focus is on the Distribution of power and of rewards and penalties with in a political system. The political system comprises all of the actors, processors and institutions involved in making and carrying out public policy and in pursuing collective goals. After the Second World War, Several Countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America attained freedom from the Western imperialism. These countries are collectively called the Third World. The Third World countries decided to rapidly industrialize themselves. They had numerous social, political and economic problems. In most of them democracy as a form of government did not succeed. Modern political scientists tried to evolve a new approach to the study of politics of these developing countries.

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Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) can provide scalable and cost-effective solutions for applications such as traffic safety, dynamic route planning, and context-aware advertisement using short-range wireless communication. To function properly, these applications require efficient routing protocols. However, existing mobile ad hoc network routing and forwarding approaches have limited performance in VANETs. This dissertation shows that routing protocols which account for VANET-specific characteristics in their designs, such as position and mobility of Vehicle, can provide good performance for a large spectrum of applications. Increased vehicular traffic demands smart vehicles which can interact with each other and roadside infrastructure to prevent accidents. Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) provides this flexibility to the vehicles. In this desertion we initially analyze the performance of AODV and OLSR, and further we improve the performance of AODV by selecting the node on the basis of trust value of the successive nodes, we also reduce the neighbor hood expiry time and correspondingly update the route table of AODV, with this purposed approach we would be able to reduce the end-to-end delay of AODV sufficiently also the performance of AODV increase in terms of Throughput and packet delivery ratio.

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Consumer Behavior refers to the behavior that consumer display in searching for purchasing, using, evaluating and disposing of the products and services that they expect will satisfy their needs. The study of the consumer behavior is that of how individuals make decisions to spend their available resources (time, money, effort) on consumption related items. It includes the study of what they buy, why they buy, when they buy, where they buy, how often they buy and how often they use. Marketing starts with the needs of the customer and ends with his satisfaction. When everything revolves round the customer, then the study of consumer behavior becomes a necessity. It starts with the buying of goods. Goods can be bought individually, or in groups. Goods can be bought under stress (to satisfy an immediate need), for comfort and luxury in small quantities or in bulk. For all this, exchange is required. For this study the researcher will use convenience sampling technique for collection of data from the respondents of Guwahati City.

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Agriculture sector alone is not capable enough to provide employment opportunities. Therefore, there arose the need to explore new areas of employment generation. The solution to employment generation activity lies in leather industry development. India has the largest livestock population in the world. This livestock can be utilized as a development potential by India. After animal dies its skin can be stripped and is later converted into finished leather by tanning process. The exports of raw hides and skin will not only provide employment to both rural and urban youth but also help in earning huge foreign exchange. The present paper has tried to analyze the market power or share of various importing countries of raw hide and skin from India. The paper has further tried to study the Export Concentration Ratio of fifty five major countries of the world. If market power and export concentration are known then it will help in framing trade policies or Export import policies by government of India.

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Employees act as the fuel pumping tool in any business organization who wants to growing, going and glowing. Every employee has a key function in the organization which is vital to attain its goals to achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, it is essential to remain the employees content and motivated so that employees continue their stay in the organization for a longer run. Well framed retention strategies plays a significant role in retaining the employees by enhancing their belongingness and contentment and in result making them more trustworthy and loyal.

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Poetry has the peculiar ability to manifest the complexity and divergence of a culture that has been subjected to regal colonialism (O'Reilly & Christopher 325). Decolonization has been an imperative paradigm for the conceptualization of postcolonial poetry. Decolonization movements spanned across Asian, African, and Caribbean regions, among many others particularly, during the Pakistan and Indian independence that was witnessed between 1947 and 1970s. Upon decolonization, diverse aspects of the imperial culture were ‘left behind’ in the imperial colonies (O'Reilly & Christopher 535). The native people did not do away with certain aspects of the imperial culture. For instance, they maintained and incorporated various mannerisms, and linguistic aspects that were introduced by the imperial colonizers prior to decolonization. Imperial culture inherited after decolonization affected crucial societal spectrumsin the former colonies. The economic, social, and political spectrums were subjected to tremendous changes.

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Supervised learning is the machine learning task of inferring a function from labeled training data[1]A supervised learning algorithm examines the set of data and produces a surmise function, which further can be used for mapping new examples.In this paper we are explaining Artificial Neural Network (ANNs) are non-linear mapping structures based on the function of the human brain. They are inspired by bio-logical network(the central nervous system of human beings in particular the brain) These make powerful tools for models, especially when the underlying data relationships are unknown.This paper presents genral introduction of recent application of the multilayer perceptron.

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There are always a question arises in everyone’s mind that whatever is going on or what action is doing by us is pre determine or result of free will. This problem became more crucial and important when the objects are related to moral judgment. In this article Buddhist view on free will and determinism are taken for analysis.

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Life expectancy has increased dramatically in the twentieth century. The world has witnessed an increase in longevity over a substantially long period of time. This increased life expectancy rate has brought with it new challenges in this millennium. We now have a large elderly population, resulting in more dependants as the population gets older. Due to the current living conditions, the number of institutionalized elderly persons has been growing considerably. The opportunities of an active life offered by institutions are very restrictive. The lack of physical stimulation in institutional care systems increases the probability of health and functional disorders in elderly population especially for elderly women, thus affecting their health related quality of life.

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Diabetes mellitus is one of the common metabolic disorders acquiring around 2.8% of the world's population and is anticipated to cross 5.4% by the year 2025 (Patel et al, 2012).Patients with non-insulin diabetes have been treated orally in folk medicine with a variety of plant extracts since time immemorial (Ivorra et al, 1989). A large number of plant products with potential hypoglycemic activity have been cited in the available literature. In few of these plant products hypoglycemic activity has been clearly demonstrated in animal experiments and human trials. The chemical constituents have been isolated in a few instances whereas in most plants the active constituent is yet to be identified. The present paper attempts to review some of the Indian plants with potential hypoglycemic effects.

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The present study is an attempt to examine the gender differences in stress and coping behavior among school (Govt and Public) teachers both males and females (n=200) at Primary as well as Secondary level. To measure stress, level Teacher Stress Survey (Malik, 1993) was used and coping behavior was observed by using Cope inventory (Carver, Scheier and weintraub in 1989).Coping behavior was assessed at two levels 1) Problem focused coping and 2) Emotion Focused Coping behavior. The results indicated that job related stress is significantly and positively related to problems with regard to students, parents, administration and to other teachers for the total sample as well as for both males and females. Overall, female teachers have been found to experience more stress than their male counterparts. However, male teachers have been found to e using more Problem Focused Coping Strategies and females have been found to be using more Emotion Focused Coping Strategies.

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Language is generally perceived as the method of communication. It is essentially a social phenomenon, through which, we share our thoughts, experiences, emotions, commands, wishes, statements of facts etc. Thus, the basic function of language is 'communication'. Ancient scholars in India inquired into this concept and went beyond its mere communicative perspective.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important feature of every business organization. Likewise economic aspects of an organization ethical, social and moral aspect are also very important. Social responsibility calls for improving welfare of society and improving, developing and advocating Socially Responsible Business Model and solve a broad range of social problems. This will help corporate in their brand building and also contribute towards faster and more balanced and Sustainable growth of our society. A business firm operates as it is allowed by the society, and in return, business is expected not to undertake such activities that are detrimental to the interest of society. It is all about creating a harmonious relationship with the society. The role of CSR in success and failure of any organization has been a subject of debate world over. It has attracted attention of business and academics affiliation. The size of organization should not matter for CSR. There are various factors that have given rise to CSR. In India, CSR has changed its form from voluntary to mandatory due to statutory obligations. The basic purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the advantages and challenges faced by the corporate in promoting CSR .This paper also studies the concepts of companies’ benefits from the corporate social responsibility activities.

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Cosmetic products are any substances that are intended to be placed in contact with the various external parts of the human body or with the tetch and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity with a view exclusively to cleaning them, perfuming them, changing their appearance, correcting body odours protecting them or keeping them in good condition. Patanjali is one of the most preferable cosmetic brands today. In this study a survey has under taken to identify influence of Patanjali Cosmetic products among youth in Kannur city. It was found that most of the youth are satisfied with Patanjali Cosmetic products and further it was concluded that quality and its Ayurvedic ingredients are the influencing factors to the youth.

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Kudumbashree is the women empowerment and poverty eradication programme framed and enforced by the State Poverty Eradication Mission (SPEM) of the Government of Kerala. Financial inclusion is the delivery of financial service at affordable cost to sections of the disadvantaged and low income segments of society. Kudumbashree acts as an aid for the economic development of women, economic security and the financial betterment of women of a specific region. Microfinance is the primary activity of kudumbashree which is the binding force of neighborhood groups. The main objective of the study is to analyze the impact of kudumbashree units on financial inclusion and the usage of modern banking services by the kudumbashree members. The result shows that after joining kudumbashree their access to banking service has increased. Most of the members feel that their financial status has improved after becoming a kudumbashree member. Kudumbashree plays an important role in financial inclusion since the management of kudumbashree is a professional one and it is acclaimed as a model scheme.