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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Role of Teachers in Career Counseling of Students at Higher Education Level
Authors: Ghulam Fatima  , Misbah Malik  , Rukhsana Bashir  , Noreen Rafiq
Published: November 2020

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a blessing for Pakistan and China. China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) appears as a major ‘Prosperity Tool’ which can help Pakistan to overcome its economic problems. CPEC has been researched up till now in various trade and commerce fields but its most important linkage with education was hard to find. This study was aimed to identify the role of university teachers in developing awareness and providing guidance and counseling to their students regarding career opportunities existing in the projects of CPEC. All the teachers of public and private universities of city Lahore were the population of the study. A sample of 150 teachers was selected randomly from different departments of two public and two private universities of city Lahore. A self-developed and validated instrument was used to identify the role of teachers. Reliability index (Chronbach Alpha) of the instrument was α= .82. Results showed that teachers were playing their role to make students aware of the CPEC projects. They were also providing counseling informally to their students at higher education level regarding the career opportunities existing in the CPEC projects. There was no significant difference found in the role of teachers in providing career counseling to their students at higher education level about CPEC projects with respect to their gender, residential area, type of university, designation and years of working experience. It was recommended that universities should arrange seminars, workshops, conferences, panel discussions and brainstorming sessions for the sensitization of their faculty members so that they could create awareness among their students regarding CPEC and take measures for their career counseling.
Assessing the Academic integrity among University Students in Pakistan
Authors: Anwar Ul Haq  , Sadaf Mahmood  , Muhammad Shabbir  , Zahira Batool
Published: November 2020

The principal objective of this research was to assess the academic integrity among Pakistani university students. Qualitative data were obtained from 3 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with students from different universities. Mixed Methods Research was applied at the individual and group level and data were analyzed with the help of content analysis. The analysis unveiled four key themes including teacher's behavior in the classroom, teacher’s evaluation method in Examinations, the influence of peer pressure, and the popularity of the memorization method among students. Students' level of satisfaction with teachers’ behavior in the classroom and at the time of assessment of examination remained low and they considered it as the main reason behind their low level of academic integrity. Rote learning, inconsistencies in the examination evaluation method, and the effect of peer pressure were also identified as the central reasons behind their academic misconduct behavior. It is concluded that in the coming few years, academic misconduct is going to become a popular culture in Pakistani universities and it is a dire need to stop this behavior. Suggestions to overcome this problem are to trained students as well as teachers. The teacher's professional and moral training can directly effect on the training and moral values of students. This study was conducted in Pakistan, but the findings can be observed and replicated in higher education systems in many developing nations.
Knowledge Management and Sustainable Firms Growth: An Evidence from SMEs Sector of Pakistan
Authors: Iftikhar Hussain  , Ghulam Mujtaba Chaudhary  , Adeel Arshad  , Sabahat Akram
Published: November 2020

The main drive for this research was to investigate the relationship between knowledge management (KM) and sustainable firms’ growth in SMEs sector of Pakistan. Moreover, the research examined the mediating role of product and process innovations on the association of knowledge management and sustainable firms’ growth. A self-administered survey was structured and employed to gather the data from 218 garments related SMEs. The study employed SEM to measure direct and indirect effects. Findings of the study indicates that knowledge management has a positive and significant influence over sustainable firms’ growth while both product and process innovations significantly mediated the knowledge management and sustainable firms growth relationship. Current research findings offer valuable implications concerning the importance of KM in enhancing and facilitating process and product innovations for sustainable firms’ growth. This is a pioneer study for employing a unified model that illustrates the relationships among multiple variables pertaining to KM.
Bank-Specific Attributes and Operational Efficiency: Evidence from Efficient-Structure Hypothesis
Authors: Onipe Adabenege Yahaya  , Iorsue Awen Benjamin
Published: November 2020

Corporate stakeholders are concerned about the operational efficiency of banks for obvious reasons. Banks play important intermediation role between the deficit and surplus sectors of the economy. Yet, there are limited empirical studies in Nigeria that examine the effects of bank attributes on their operational efficiency. This paper is an attempt to bridge this empirical gap in finance literature in Nigeria by examining the effects of bank-specific characteristics on operational efficiency. Data was extracted from the website of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The dependent variable is operational efficiency and the independent variables are bank-specific attributes. The regression models indicate that asset turnover is superior to operating expenses to sales ratio. The results further indicate that only profitability, leverage, intellectual capital and capital expenditure ratio show significant effects. In view of these results, we suggest that bank managers should pay greater attention to profit, total assets, debt structure, intellectual capital (human, structural, relational and capital employed), cash from operations and capital expenditures. This is one of the few empirical studies that examine the impact of bank-specific traits on bank operational efficiency in Nigeria. The paper considers that the influences of bank-specific features on their operational efficiency are worth studying.
Temporality: Living Through the Time While Doing Doctoral Studies
Authors: Waheed Syed Abdul , Nadia Gilani  , Mehwish Raza
Published: November 2020

Doctoral students’ experiences of stay and study abroad determine how they experience and understand time in relation to other existential themes of body, space, and relation. The present study aimed to understand what meanings doctoral students’ assign to time while doing their doctoral studies in different public universities of Austria. Thirteen participants were recruited purposively to understand how did they experience time and how did their experience of time determine the way they live and study in a university and complete their doctoral studies. The questions were explored through conducting and recording the interviews in a semi-structured form and subsequently transcribing and analyzing the transcripts. The participants experienced that time continuously shaped their life experiences with respect to the space they lived in, relationality, and corporeal experiences. The students experienced time as an agent of pressure, perceived as being slow or fast in their studies, feeling connected or disconnected with their family, work and study and a tool to gauge their work performance and completion of their studies. The study has a phenomenological significance of understanding of time as experienced by a group of doctoral students that led to the way they lived, stayed and studied abroad.
Financial Literacy among SMEs’ Owners in Sumatera, Indonesia: The Role of Parents’ Motivation and Experience
Authors: Desiyanti Rika , Aza Azlina Md Kassim
Published: November 2020

Financial literacy is the skill to conduct personal and also business finance. Financial literacy shows information and reasoned both for the economy and finance.  Financial literacy is able to apply and regulate financial literacy that affects wellbeing. In 2013, the financial services authority (OJK) has conducted a financial survey and the result indicated that only 21.8% of people understand finance and in 2016, the percentage has increased from about 8% to 29.66. Lacking strength of financial literacy gives low effect on financial decisions, including less saving,  opting for more leverage, and involved in unprofitable investments. This paper a particular goal to analyze the influence of parental motivation and experience on financial literacy. Research sample is SMEs' Owners in Sumatra, Indonesia, have been sent questionnaires.  Based on a sample of 60 respondents it can be concluded that parents' motivation affected their financial literacy. Nevertheless, financial experience by the parents does not affect financial literacy.
Impact of Perceived Social Support and Domestic Violence on Mental Health among Housewives
Authors: Umbreen Khizer  , Fatima Khurram Bukhari  , Samar Fahd
Published: November 2020

Given the noteworthy health impacts of social support and domestic violence against women, the current study was directed to research the effect of Perceived Social Support and Domestic Violence on Mental Health among house wives. Sample of the study was consisted of 250 females from Southern Punjab (n=250). Three scales were used to collect the data that included Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Jabeen & Khalid,2010), Domestic Violence Scale (Hussain, 1998) and Mental Health Inventory (Khan, Hanif & Tariq, 2015). Data collected from house wives was analyzed through IBM SPSS statistics 20 version. Correlation and Regression was imputed to investigate relationship among study variables. Results indicated that Perceived Social Support, Domestic Violence and Mental Health are significantly correlated with one another. Moreover, Perceived Social Support and Domestic Violence are found to have significant impact on house wives’ Mental Health. Furthermore, ANOVA revealed that among various types of violence, housewives are encountering massive degree of emotional abuse as compared to other types of violence.
Role of Cooperative Learning in Improving Language Proficiency and Academic Achievement in English of Elementary Students: An Experimental Study
Authors: Ghazal Khalid Siddique  , Tayyabba  Yasmin  , Mubashar Nadeem  , Saba Farooq
Published: November 2020

English language, as it is employed as a common medium used for communication with people, whom native language is not understandable. In this regard, Governments of developing countries paying attention to promoting English. That require upgradation in the curriculum, as well as, the shift of teaching methodology from teacher to student centered, are the basic requisites for making the change in the educational system possible. That provides opportunities for cooperative learning. Therefore the current experimental study was carried out to find the role of cooperative learning in promoting language proficiency and achievement with regards to English among 8th grade students, who are supposed to study in the private schools of Lahore. The 8th grade students enrolled in private schools of Lahore district implied the population of the study. Whereas, the two girls sections of the 8th class of The Educators School, Jinnah Campus, Lahore, were chosen as the sample and nominated as experimental and control groups. Before and after the intervention, English language proficiency tests (EPT) to measure the students' proficiency in English and English achievement test (EAT) to identify students’ achievement in English developed by the researchers were utilized. Findings highlighted that cooperative learning is an effective teaching methodology that proves beneficial in the improvement of 8th grade students' proficiency and achievement in English. It is recommended that our teachers may use such innovative teaching methodologies in their classroom that not only promote students' involvement for discussion on the relevant topic
Fear Destroys the Ability to Trust: Impact on Employee Engagement during Structural Change in Telecommunication Sector of Pakistan
Authors: Farzana Akmal Memon  , Sobia Shafaq Shah  , ImamUddin Khoso
Published: November 2020

Due to economic downturns and structural pressures, the telecommunication sector have frequently had to go through structural change to remain competitive. This could distract telecommunication sector away from focusing on trusting relationships leading towards failure in managing change. Present research fill this gap and aims to examine the effect of trust in leadership on employee’s engagement during structural change. To provide additional insight, the present study used fear of change as a moderator between relationship of trust in leadership and employee engagement. Drawn from cross-sectional research design, a web-based survey was used to collect data from employees of telecommunication sector across all provinces of Pakistan that experienced structural change within their organization. A total of 447 responses were received. The study findings indicate that employee level of trust in leadership in change helped them to foster their engagement in change process. Additionally it was also supported that decrease in employee’s fear of change enhances the effect of trust in leadership on employee’s engagement during change.
The Game Changer’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Headlines about CPEC
Authors: Rehana Yasmin Anjum  , Faiza Manzoor
Published: November 2020

CPEC has become the centre of attention for the whole world as it has been entitled as “a game changer”, since Chine has been connected to the European and Gulf states through CPEC via Silk Road. Gawadar has become an important trade centre of the future. Due to these key reasons, this issue is being manipulated and portrayed in different colours at national and international forums. Keeping the present scenario in view, the present study has beeninvested to explore the hidden strategies of different local news papers that how this phenomenon is being portrayed and manipulated. It is an analytical research of media discourse that primarily studies how social power and inequality is manipulated and reproduced through text and talk in both social and political contexts.CDA of journalistic discourse tries to unveil the biased language to make the readers aware of manipulative strategies used in both printed and online news papers.The present study aims at making a comparative study of three daily English newspapers, The “Dawn News”, “The Express Tribune” and “The Business Recorder” about the news headlines on CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) to show the negotiation on the important issues like CPEC via news headlines. Through investing the Critical Discourse Analysis as method,the researchershavetried to investigate the manipulations invested by the editors to represent their own ideologies on the same issue. To meet the same goalthreeheadlines were collected from all these three news papers dealing with the same phenomenon. All those headlines were analysed on the modal of Van Dijk (2000) in terms of discursive strategies through discursive micro and macro strategies presented by Van Dijk. The nature of the study is qualitative. The results show a controversial approach towards the acceptance of this mega project and apprehensions of the stake holders and political figures.
Coexistence of five types of intracranial hemorrhagic lesions after brain injury in a young adult
Authors:   1Neurosurgery unit at the regional hospital center of Ziguinchor, Senegal. 2Radiology Department of the Ziguinchor regional hospital center, Senegal. 3Neurosurgery Department of the FANN Teaching Hospital Center, Senegal.
Published: November 2020

Posttraumatic intracranial hemorrhage is an entity frequently encountered in neurosurgical daily practice. These haemorrhagic lesions are classified according to their location as: extradural haematoma, acute subdural haematoma, intraparenchymal haemorrhage, subarachnoid haemorrhage and contusion. A brain scan is the key examination for the diagnosis. The simultaneous presence of these hemorrhagic lesions in a single traumatic brain injury is rare. We are reporting an unusual case of a 24-year-old who suffered from a brain injury due to road traffic accident, and whose brain CT scan showed five types of post-traumatic intracranial lesions. He benefitted from medical treatment and neurological surveillance. The evolution was favorable with a setback of the signs of intracranial hypertension. The follow-up brain CT scan performed one month after the trauma showed a complete resorption of the lesions.
ANNOTATING AND EXPLORING CODE-SWITCHING IN FOUR CORPORA OF MINORITY LANGUAGES OF RUSSIA
Authors:   Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Dyachkov V. V. , Khomchenkova I. A. ,   Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Pleshak P. S. ,   University of Maryland, College Park, USA, Stoynova N. M. ,   Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,   NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Published: November 2020

This paper describes code-switching with Russian in four spoken corpora of minority languages of Russia: two Uralic ones (Hill Mari and Moksha) and two Tungusic ones (Nanai and Ulch). All narrators are bilinguals, fluent both in the indigenous language (IL) and in Russian; all the corpora are comparable in size and genres (small field collections of spontaneous oral texts, produced under the instruction to speak IL); the languages are comparable in structural (dis)similarity with Russian. The only difference concerns language dominance and the degree of language shift across the communities. The aim of the paper is to capture how the degree of language shift influences the strategy of code-switching attested in each of the corpora using a minimal additional annotation of code-switching. We added to each corpus a uniform annotation of code-switching of two types: first, a simple semi-automatic word-by-word language annotation (IL vs. Russian), second, a manual annotation of structural code-switching types (for smaller sub-corpora). We compared several macro-parameters of code-switching by applying some existing simple measures of code-switching to the data of annotation 1. Then we compared the rates of different structural types of code-switching, basing on annotation 2. The results of the study, on the one hand, verify and enhance the existing generalizations on how language shift influences code-switching strategies, on the other hand, they show that even a very simple annotation of code-switching integrated to an existing field records collection appears to be very informative in code-switching studies.
THE RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTICON: A NEW LINGUISTIC RESOURCE, ITS DESIGN AND KEY CHARACTERISTICS
Authors:   UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Endresen A. A. , Zhukova V. A. ,   National Research University Higher School of Economics, Mordashova D. D. ,   Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences),   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Rakhilina E. V. ,   National Research University Higher School of Economics,   Vinogradov Institute for Russian language (Russian Academy of Sciences), Lyashevskaya O. N. ,   National Research University Higher School of Economics,   Vinogradov Institute for Russian language (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Published: November 2020

We present a new open-access electronic resource named the Russian Constructicon that offers a searchable database of Russian constructions accompanied by descriptions of their properties and illustrated with corpus examples. The project was carried out over the period 2016–2020 and at present contains an inventory of over 2200 multi-word constructions of Contemporary Standard Russian. We prioritize “partially schematic” constructions that lie between the two extremes of fully compositional syntactic sequences on the one hand and fully idiomatic (phraseological) expressions on the other hand. Constructions of this type are difficult to account for in terms of either lexicon or grammar alone, and are often underrepresented in reference works of Russian. A typical construction in our database contains a fixed part (anchor words) and an open slot that can be filled with a restricted set of lexemes. In this paper we first focus on key characteristics of this resource that make it different from existing constructicons of other languages. Second, we describe how the new interface will be designed and how it will serve the needs of both linguists and L2 learners of Russian. In particular, we discuss various search possibilities relevant for different users and those parameters that are available for specifying the retrieval output. An example of an entry is given to show how the information about each construction is structured and presented. Third, we provide an overview of our multi-level semantic classification of constructions. We argue that our system of semantic and syntactic tags subdivides our items into meaningful classes and smaller groups and eventually facilitates the identification of constructional families and clusters. This methodology works well in turning the initial list of constructions as unrelated units into a structured network and makes it possible to refine and expand the collected inventory of constructions in a systematic way.
A QUANTITATIVE METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF CONNECTIVES: THE "PORTRAIT" OF THE RUSSIAN CONJUNCTION ILI (OR) IN THE SUPRACORPORA DATABASE OF CONNECTIVES
Authors:   Institute of Informatics Problems, FRC CSC RAS, Moscow, Russia, Inkova O. Yu. ,   University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Published: November 2020

The functional properties of the conjunction ili ‘or’ are quite well studied and discussed in grammars and number of specific studies. However, they were not subjected to multivariate quantitative analysis. The paper proposes this kind of analysis, carried out according to six parameters: i) logical-semantic relation expressed by the conjunction, ii) syntactic structure of the text fragment introduced by it, iii) position of the conjunction in this text fragment, iv) order of the text fragments connected by it, v) status of ili in the context (cf. its use as a particle mentioned in MAS), vi) disposition of the elements that make up the multiword connectives (cf. ili ... ili prosto ‘or ... or just’). The analysis of the formal variants of ili, carried out using the Supracorpora database of connectives, made it possible to formulate the conclusions that follow and to confirm them with quantitative data. i) Always occupying the initial position in the text fragment introduced by him, ili is used mainly as a connective. ii) The most typical order of text fragments for formal variants with ili is the p CNT q scheme. iii) By its syntactic characteristics ili is directly opposite to i ‘and’: ili is used in written texts in most cases for a non-predicative coordination. iv) Formal variants with ili express the relation of alternative at all three semantic levels (propositional, illocutive, metalinguistic), as well as the relations of substitution, correction, and negative alternative, but with a clear predominance of propositional alternative. v) Ili forms multiword and two- and multicomponent connectives; their composition varies depending on the relation expressed by them.
EXPLORING THE BERT CROSS-LINGUAL TRANSFER FOR READING COMPREHENSION
Authors:   Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia, Konovalov V. P. , Gulyaev P. A. ,   Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia, Sorokin A. A. ,   Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia,   Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Kuratov Y. M. ,   Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia, Burtsev M. S. ,   Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
Published: November 2020

Multilingual BERT has been shown to generalize well in a zero-shot crosslingual setting. This generalization was measured on POS and NER tasks. We explore the multilingual BERT cross-language transferability on the reading comprehension task. We compare different modes of training of question-answering model for a non-English language using both English and language-specific data. We demonstrate that the model based on multilingual BERT is slightly behind the monolingual BERT-based on Russian data, however, it achieves comparable results with the language-specific variant on Chinese. We also show that training jointly on English data and additional 10,000 monolingual samples allows it to reach the performance comparable to the one trained on monolingual data only.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT THROUGH ROBO ADVISORY
Authors: Singh Ishmeet , Kaur Navjot
Published: November 2020

Use of artificial intelligence is changing the working styles of human beings in almost every sphere. From Travel, health, education, communication and other related fields, it has now entered wealth management. A number of wealth management firms have adopted the artificial intelligence based services to the clients so that they are able to get investment advice any time as per their convenience. These services are quickly accessible, cheaper, transparent and unbiased. Since the advisory services are being provided by the machines just like robots, they have been called “robo – advisors”.

This study is focussed on evolution of robo advisory model, its needs and potential in wealth management. The information gathered for this paper is based on the secondary data collected from various newspapers, magazines, journals and reports.

At present the use of robo – advisors is quite small but it does have a bright future. Though a bit expensive at the initial stage, they prove to be cost effective later as they save the cost of human advisors. It also offers good decision making since it is based on systematic and quantitative research. This paper tries to highlight the potential of robo advisors in wealth management and also discusses its present status and future prospects.
PROJECT AGRO
Authors: Gowda S Abhishek , S Chirag , C R Manjunath
Published: November 2020

Agricultural is the backbone of Indian economy. India is the second largest country in the production of agricultural product. Farmers cultivate their crops against problems like monsoon failure, lack of water availability, etc. But even after they harvest their crop they are not getting proper marketing facility for their crop. We are proposing a system which reduces the gap between farmers and the consumers, which increases economic status of farmers and also provide the necessary knowledge required by the farmers for further crop production. In the survey the following details are gathered from the farmers, farmer’s details, past crops grown by them, area of agriculture land owned by them, past crop selling price, location of agriculture land, water availability etc. On the above details artificial neural nets machine learning models and Bayes data mining concepts are applied thorough which we can predict the current market for farmers along with that we can also provide the information about the type of crop they can grow to increase the crop production in future.
IMPACT OF CAREER GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING ON STUDENT’S CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Jain Paras
Published: November 2020

Face to face career guidance and counseling is effective and important aspect of life. It can make or break career. Career counseling represents an important variable to better understand career intervention underlying mechanisms. The trend of career guidance in India is not satisfactory. Present study is focused on finding of impacts of career guidance and counseling on students regarding career development.
OCTIC B-SPLINE COLLOCATION SOLUTION WITH NON-UNIFORM LENGTH FOR EIGHTH ORDER LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION
Authors: Reddy Y.Rajashekhar
Published: November 2020

Presentation of Numerical solution for eighth order linear boundary value problem using Octic B-spline collocation method with non-uniform length is the subject of this paper. In this approach recursive form of B-spline function is used as basis in collocation method. Numerical examples are considered to show the advantage of recursive of B-spline function particularly in non-fixing the length of subintervals.
ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL QUALITY OF THE POLLUTING LOAD OF LEACHATES FROM THE WILD DUMP OF EL HAJEB CITY (MOROCCO)
Authors: Gamar Abderrahmane , Khiya Zakaria , Zair Touria , Kabriti Mohammed El , Bouhlal Abdelaziz , Hilali Fatima El
Published: November 2020

The dump in the town of El Hajeb (Morocco) is devoid of a collection and treatment system of the generated brownish effluents known as leachates. In a permeable soil and of a water table circulating in shallow depth, these percolate, after their generation, accumulate at the bottom of the waste and can infiltrate through the ground to reach the underlying water table, thus causing its contamination. Leachate would require, therefore, a specific treatment before their rejection in the receiving environment. This study aims to make a physicochemical characterization of these leachates. To do this, we conducted a series of sampling, from May 2015 to January 2017. During this period, the physicochemical analysis revealed, on the one hand, that it is discharge juice in the acidogenesis phase, conveying a significant  pollutant load rich in organic and inorganic matter (COD = 23597.5 ± 595.61 mgO2 L-1), in mineral salts (EC = 17.55 ± 0.72 mS cm-1) and in nutrient salts (TKN = 888.54 ± 13.53 mg-N L-1 and TP = 139.65 ± 48.89 mg-P L-1), concentrations exceed the values allowed by Moroccan and international standards, what makes these effluents toxic to the surrounding environment. By the present study, we incite decision-makers to manage well effectively the discharges taking into account the risks of the leachates generated.
RESEARCH ON GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS "HEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY MOVEMENT" (GERMAS) IN BALI USING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Authors: Karso Olih Solihat , Wibawa Arya Pageh
Published: November 2020

On 12 November 2016, the Indonesian government launched a program to improve public health called Healthy Living Community Movement (GERMAS). GERMAS aims to raise awareness, willingness, and ability to live healthy for everyone to realize the highest degree of public health. Specifically, GERMAS's objectives are (1) increasing community participation for healthy living; (2) Increase community productivity; and (3) Reducing the burden of health care costs. According to the Governor of Bali, GERMAS activity is a step that must be implemented in an effort to provide understanding and socialization to the public about the importance of health so keep themselves healthy become living culture in society. In this research using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) proposed by Norman Fairclough. Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis using three approaches method of text analysis, discourse practice analysis, sociocultural practice analysis. The results show that government efforts to improve public health in Bali will be well received. The community considers the government's movement to adopt a healthy lifestyle in accordance with the religion of most Balinese people. In addition, considering the impact of non-infectious diseases (PTM) which is socio economically very detrimental to society will certainly get good reception for the community. The mass media design used is quite attractive and informative and it is expected that the public will get a clear picture of GERMAS.
IMMEDIATE/BATCH MODE SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS FOR GRID COMPUTING: A REVIEW
Authors: Maipan-uku J.Y , Rabiu I , Mishra Amit
Published: November 2020

Immediate/on-line and Batch mode heuristics are two methods used for scheduling in the computational grid environment. In the former, task is mapped onto a resource as soon as it arrives at the scheduler, while the later, tasks are not mapped onto resource as they arrive, instead they are collected into a set that is examined for mapping at prescheduled times called mapping events. This paper reviews the literature concerning Minimum Execution Time (MET) along with Minimum Completion Time (MCT) algorithms of online mode heuristics and more emphasis on Min-Min along with Max-Min algorithms of batch mode heuristics, while focusing on the details of their basic concepts, approaches, techniques, and open problems.
Effectiveness of television news channels in India (comparative study of selected channels)
Authors: Kumar Gupta Yogesh
Published: November 2020

Even today, news channels in India remain credible to the public. Through this research, the style of presentation of news channels is revealed. Which news channel is at the forefront of the fierce competition between news channels, has also been explored. This research can play an effective role in the prevention of ignorance of aspects related to television media. Today, television is the most effective medium of communication. Television media can help people in getting justice, removing the veil from various untouched aspects. At the same time, there have been some limitations of this research, like - only Jaipur city has been selected for this research. So that the quality of work remains. In this research only four Hindi news channels have been selected for study. In this, only voters have been taken from the electoral rolls of Jaipur city and only 1000 respondents have been taken for the study. Questionnaire is the main means of collecting data in this research. At the same time, the schedule is a method of collecting such facts in which observation, interview and questionnaire are the co-ordinates of the three features. Through interviews, data has been compiled in two ways, one from people connected to TV news channels and the other to students of media.

भारत में आज भी समाचार चैनलों की जनता मंे विश्वसनीयता बनी हुई है। इस शोध के माध्यम से समाचार चैनलों के प्रस्तुतिकरण के अंदाज का पता चलता है। समाचार चैनलों के बीच चल रही घमासान प्रतिस्पर्धा में सबसे आगे कौनसा समाचार चैनल है, का भी पता किया गया है। यह शोध टेलीविजन मीडिया से संबंधित पहलुओं की अज्ञानता के निवारण में प्रभावी भूमिका निभा सकता है। आज टेलीविजन ही संचार का सबसे प्रभावी माध्यम है। टेलीविजन मीडिया लोगों को न्याय दिलाने में, विभिन्न अनछुए पहलुओं से पर्दा हटाने में सहायक सिद्ध हो सकता है। वहीं इस शोध की कुछ सीमाएं भी रही हैं जैसे- इस शोध में केवल जयपुर शहर को ही अध्ययन के लिए चुना गया है। जिससे कार्य की गुणवत्ता बनी रहे। इस शोध में केवल चार हिन्दी के समाचार चैनलों को अध्ययन के लिए चुना गया है। इसमें जयपुर शहर की निर्वाचक नामावली में से मतदाताओं को ही लिया गया है तथा अध्ययन के लिए केवल 1000 रेस्पोंडेंट्स को ही लिया गया है। इस शोध में आंकडे एकत्र करने का मुख्य साधन प्रश्नावली ही है। वहीं अनुसूची एक ऐसी तथ्य संकलन की प्रविधि है जिसमें अवलोकन, साक्षात्कार तथा प्रश्नावली तीनों विशेषताओं का समन्वय है। साक्षात्कार के माध्यम से दो तरह से आंकडों का संकलन किया हैं जिनमें एक टीवी के समाचार चैनलों से जुड़े लोगों का एवं दूसरा मीडिया के विद्यार्थियों से।
THE CONTRIBUTION OF BIOETHICAL EDUCATION PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Authors: Rejimon P.K.
Published: November 2020

Education is universally recognized as an inviolable human right in the universal declaration of human rights. It is a chance for people to satisfy their innate desire to learn, and to prepare for future, and to enable them to make contributions to the future of the society. Therefore, bioethics education means education about, for and within democracy, based on full participation of the people within social, political and cultural affairs at all levels of government, concerning them as citizens.  In the present era of high tech revolution, the great task of ethically based education is to reform the human mind. The way of life of human being may change during the 21st century. However bioethical issues impact upon all the people, the public should actively join the discussion. People have a right to reflect on their opinions in policy making; it could be argued that all have a duty to make responsible decision for the range of bioethical issues. Bioethics should be made a compulsory course with requisite attendance for the award of professional degrees. Studies have shown that making ethics an optional course in medical or professional colleges even school levels does not serve its purpose. Education and awareness are solutions to these bioethical issues.  A structured curriculum is necessary for teaching of bioethics. Our decisions affect not only our individual life, but also our family, society, future generations and other living organisms. We all have a chance to study bioethics sometimes in our life.
TREATMENT OF SERVICE STATION WASTEWATER USING ELECTROCOAGULATION PROCESS
Authors: M. K Krishna , H.N Manjunath , Siddiqa Ayesha
Published: November 2020

The various electrodes such as iron, aluminium, stainless steel and graphite are used in this study. Main objectives of the present paper is to evaluate the removal of COD, pH, TDS and oil and grease from the automobile wastewater by Electro coagulation using iron as Monopolar configuration at different voltages and electrolysis time. To study the effect of inter electrode spacing and effect of different initial pH for the removal of selected parameter at constant voltage for the iron electrode. The removal efficiency decreases with increase in electrode spacing as 71.2% of COD, 96.5% of TDS and 88.76% of oil and grease removal was achieved with iron electrode.
MHD DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE AND CHEMICALLY REACTIVE FLUID FLOW THROUGH A ROTATING POROUS PLATE
Authors: Umamaheswar M. , Raju  , Varma S.V. K. , Sucharitha C.
Published: November 2020

In this paper MHD rotating double diffusive and chemically reactive fluid flow past a vertical porous plate with thermal radiation and heat absorption/generation is studied. The non-dimensional governing equations involved in the present analysis are solved by using finite difference technique. The effects of various physical parameters on velocity, temperature and concentration along with skin friction, the rate of heat transfer in the form of Nusselt number and the rate of mass transfer in the form of Sherwood number are studied through the graphs and tables.
PERSONAL FACTORS AND THEIR PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
Authors: Seger Wolfgang , Grotkamp Sabine , Cibis Wolfgang
Published: November 2020

Motivation / Background: A broad and common understanding of the nature of Personal Factors is deemed to be necessary to gain and assess a comprehensive perspective regarding an individual’s health condition and accurately allocate social and medical benefits and interventions. Personal Factors have an impact on the functioning of individuals as facilitators or barriers. They play an essential role in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). To date, the World Health Organisation has not classified Personal Factors for global use.

Method: A consensus group representing a broad spectrum of medical and social security professionals, research societies together with representatives of self-help organisations developed and published a proposal to classify relevant Personal Factors.

Results: To face ongoing discussions misunderstandings are addressed, critics and suggestions balanced and positions created with pointed explanations and supplemented literature. Core messages summarise each position in a condensed form.

Conclusions: Personal Factors may exert a powerful influence on the goal definition, goal achievement and type, complexity and length of necessary medical, social or rehabilitation benefits. Transparency, explicitness, fairness (standardisation) and the possibility for well-founded claims comprise additional arguments for reporting Personal Factors. They may be crucial to reach the goal of the highest degree of participation considering individual resources.
INDO-US STRATEGIC RELATIONS IN 21ST CENTURY
Authors: Singh Balwinder
Published: November 2020

The disintegration of Soviet Union had positively impacted Indo-US relations in post Cold-War era. The post Cold-War strategic scenario provided a chance to both countries to redefine their bilateral priorities. The US was always keen to improve bilateral relationship with India and therefore India initiated Defence cooperation with the US in changing strategic environment. India’s nuclear explosion [1998] had posed some divergences in Indo-US relationship. India and the US signed strategic partnership in 2000 and therefore the US set-aside its sanctions against India. India signed ‘Next Steps in Strategic Partnership’ [NSSP] with the US in 2004 and both countries started strategic dialogue in 2009. Both the nations signed a ‘New Framework for Defence Relationship’ in 2005 and ‘123 Civil Nuclear Agreement’ in 2008.  India has always supported US’s ‘pivot-aria’ policy and played a meaningful role in counter China strategy. India and the US renewed their ‘New Framework for Defence Relationship’ in 2015 and signed ‘Logistic Support Agreement’ in 2016. Indo-US strategic relations were touched new heights when the Obama administration had declared India as a major Defence partner in 2016. The new US President Trump also showed its softness towards India and called Indian Prime Minister Modi as a ‘True Friend of US’. The decline of US-Pakistan strategic relations has positively affected Indo-US relations. The Pakistan factor has always affected Indo-US relations. The US administration considers that India would play a meaningful role in counter China planning. The study explores the raison d’être of Indo-US strategic partnership. The present paper intends to look into the Indo-US strategic cooperation and points out the improvement in Indo-US strategic relations in 21st century.
MEASUREMENT OF TRENDS OF SOME INFLUENTIAL VARIABLES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BRAC BANK LTD. AND ISLAMI BANK BANGLADESH LTD.
Authors: Sina Md. Abu , Sabur Md. Abdus
Published: November 2020

Banking sector is a fundamental element of a financial system of a country. Bangladesh is a developing country and its financial system is good and upward trend oriented. Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) and BRAC Bank Limited (BBL) are the two prospective banks in Bangladesh. The paper attempts to measure trends of some influential variables. Through Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett’s test of Sphericity five influential variables are identified like net profit, investment/loans and advances, fixed assets, other assets and cash. All the variables show better position in IBBL than BBL. The researchers also have identified some problems in IBBL and BBL and recommended some suggestions for overcoming the problems.
ADAPTABILITY STUDY OF IMPROVED ONION (ALLIUM CEPA L.) VARIETIES AT SOUTH ARI WOREDA OF SOUTH OMO ZONE, ETHIOPIA
Authors: Mitiku Misgana , Tadesse Awoke
Published: November 2020

Onion varieties were evaluated for adaptability to the climatic conditions in South Ari woreda. Three varieties of onion were planted under a complete randomized block design experiment with three replications at research field in Jinka Agricultural research Center (South Ari woreda of South Omo zone SNNPRS of Ethiopia). The quantitative data on bulb yield, plant height, bulb size and number of leaves of onion varieties were collected. All the varieties were harvested at their maturity (90% tops down) and then weighed. Statistical methods were used for data analysis where by analysis of variance was applied. It was concluded that the three varieties (treatment) combinations, namely Adama red, Nasick red and contribute similarly to the total yield, plant height, number of leaves and bulb size. The variety local was the best onion variety as it produced the highest bulb yield of 3.3167 kg/plot numerically. Based on varietal characteristics of relative bulb size, good yield, easy availability of seeds and cheaper price of seeds in the local market, we recommend farmers to use local variety followed by Nasick red and Adama red therefore, government should promote these onion varieties for cultivation in South Ari especially for jinka and its vicinity. Government can import to ensure the availability of Local and Nasick red varieties so that farmers can be motivated for adoption of these varieties for commercial production. The effects of different planting dates on the yield of onion varieties can be considered for future research.
CHILD LABOUR FROM SCHOOL COOPERATIVES IN THE PORO REGION: A CASE STUDY OF SCHOOL COOPERATIVES IN SINEMATIALY (CÔTE D'IVOIRE)
Authors: Anne-Marie TTIEN Ablan
Published: November 2020

For more than two decades, we have believed that coffee and cocoa plantations were considered as the best places for children labour in rural work. However, the schools which are supposed to educate them have become places where children labour is manifested through school cooperatives. In fact, the older children whose ages range from 10 to 15 are employed on the cashew and cotton plantations on behalf of these cooperatives which must teach them the spirit of cooperation and associative life. School cooperatives in Sinematialy (northern Côte d’Ivoire) are the examples. Thus, the present study aims to understand the social logics underlying the attitude of the various actors involved in this phenomenon of child labour through school cooperatives, in spite of the national context of fight against child labour. On the methodological level, the study is based on a qualitative approach including interviews with the different categories of actors involved.
PROMOTION OF STUDENTS FOR ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY TREE PLANTATION
Authors: Jain Paras , Malaiya Soman
Published: November 2020

Plantation is best way to save environment. Awareness in this connection is important and efforts required creating in mass. Focus of students for promotion of plantation is needed to make regular activity of school. Present study is focused on finding of ways to promote tree plantation and impact of such way on students.
ADJUSTMENT PROBLEM AND ITS IMPACT ON ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Authors: Surya P. , Mahendran S.
Published: November 2020

Adjustment problem has impacted on student activities, behavior, health and education in general. The study aimed to examine the adjustment problem and its impact on achievement in mathematics among secondary school students. The investigator adopted survey method to study the impact of adjustment problem and its impact on achievement in mathematics among secondary school students. For this study a sample of 300 secondary school students from four Govt and Private schools which are situated in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu were selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings reveal that there is significant mean score difference in adjustment problems and its impact on academic achievement in mathematics among secondary school students.
COVID-19. WHO CAN HELP US?
Authors: Klepikov Igor
Published: November 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the usual rhythm of our lives, becoming a surprise, a serious problem and a great challenge for all segments of society, but the prospects for overcoming this situation and returning to previous social standards remain unclear. Cautious and uncertain forecasts of specialists even for the near future and daily updates in the media of the number of infected and dead sow a sense of anxiety, and medical confessions about the lack of effective treatment create a sense of insecurity.