Archives-August 2012

This paper is focused on corporate strategy in man-power planning as a way out of economic melt-down. The aftermath of the global financial meltdown was devastating to the developed economies like Europe, America and Asia, Africa a developing economy was not an exception as corporate organizations struggle to get back on their feet or stabilize the quagmire. In order to achieve this, corporate organizations need effective corporate strategy in their manpower planning as to maximize optimum personnel utility in order to achieve the organizational set goals by overcoming the strains of the global economic meltdown. This paper strategically encapsulated corporate strategy in manpower planning as a panacea to the present economic challenge.

A simple, efficient and cost-effective method has been developed for the synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones/thiones by a one-pot three component cyclocondensation reaction of ethyl aceteoacetate, aromatic aldehydes, and urea/thiourea using sodium nitrate as catalyst. The significant advantages of the present protocol are simplicity, high yields, no chromatographic separation, eco-friendliness and recoverability of the catalyst.

In this paper an attempt has been made to study the efficiency of randomized block designs with two missing values. Consequently, we have obtained explicit expressions for the variances of the elementary treatment contrasts, average variance and the loss of efficiency in randomized block designs due to two missing values. Further we have also tabulated the loss of efficiency for various values of and where are respectively representing the number of treatments and the number of blocks in the randomized block designs.

A step-by-step analysis of means (ANOM) procedure has been extended to analyze the data from orthogonal array experiments. The procedure is also illustrated with the help of a numerical example.

Thirty six (36) cross combinations developed by crossing 2 CMS lines with 18 testers in line x tester mating design were evaluated for to find out best heterotic combinations in terms of yield and yield components. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among genotypes, crosses, lines, testers and line x tester interactions for all the traits studied. The SCA effects along with per se performance revealed that some of the crosses showing desirable SCA effects were also having superior per se performance for most of the traits thus indicating the selection of these crosses on the basis of per se performance will be effective. Assessment of heterosis based on standard checks (SR-1 and Jhelum) of effectively restored cross combinations showed that there was significant heterosis for all the traits except number of filled grains per panicle and the degree of heterosis varied from trait to trait. All combinations that showed superiority over standard checks for grain yield per plant also showed significant heterosis for majority of other traits. The average proportion of restorers, partial restorers, partial maintainers and maintainers were 16:22:33:27, respectively. The best cross combination in terms of grain yield was SKAU7A x K-08-61-2 and for early maturity SKAU11A x SR-2 over check SR-1 only. Cross combinations SKAU 7A x K-08-61-2, SKAU 7A x SR-2, SKAU 11A x K-08-60-2, SKAU 11A x K-08-59-3 and SKAU 11A x SKAU-389 were found to be good specific combinations for grain yield per plant and other desirable traits and needs to be tested on large scale for their commercialization under temperate conditions.

Biochemical studies of the individual plant parts is a necessary prerequisite in order to evaluate their importance in the over all metabolism of the plant. In the present study various plant parts of selected 15 medicinal plants were evaluated, separately for their metabolite content. Maximum amount of total soluble sugars and lipids were present in S.emarginatus, starch in D.indica, protein in P.niruri and phenols in A.squamosa. The seeds of all the experimental plants showed more content of metabolites as compared to the other plant parts.

The study area is a part of the Mid Ganga Basin that lies in Patna district, Bihar state. It is made up of thick (>300 m) pile of sediments comprising layered sequences of sand, silt and clay deposits. Within the layered sequences, medium to coarse sand beds are embedded which form aquifers. The annual normal rainfall of the area is 1200 mm, 86% of which takes place during monsoon period spanning between June and September. High Arsenic concentrations (> 50 ppb) have been reported from the several blocks of the Patna districts including Maner. The present work deals with the study of hydrogeological aspects arsenic contamination of the Maner Block of the Patna district. The present study is an attempt to decipher relationship between arsenic occurrences and its relation with other major elements present in the area. Relation between different elements is understood by preparing graphs. It is seen that Fe, HCO3 and Arsenic (As) generally indicates the increase of concentrations towards Ganga River. Higher concentrations of arsenic (> 50 ppb) were encountered mainly in the newer alluvium (T0), whereas the Older Alluvium appears to be arsenic free.

The underlined study aims to explore the level of job satisfaction of the head teachers at the elementary schools from the district of Sahiwal, the Punjab, Pakistan. The researchers also venture to draw a comparison between the criterion of the job satisfaction of male-female and urban-rural elementary head teachers. Since teaching is a highly prestigious profession and the most sensitive domain of all others. So, it is very important to provide teachers with all their peace of mind. It would be possible only if they find themselves satisfied with their job. Hence, this research may be taken a milestone for the provision of a flourishing ambience to the head teachers so that they may indulge themselves with the very idea of a professional teacher. In order to collect the required data for the study, the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) was used as a tool. The sample of 140 head teachers was taken randomly by the researchers; The SPSS-12 (evaluation version) was used to analyze the obtained data and t-test was applied for the sake of comparison. The overall response rate was 86%. This research has successfully got that the head teachers were slightly satisfied with the basic three dimensions of a job i.e. advancement, education policies and compensation. Thus, it is found exigent to overcome the problem in order to give them the maximum job satisfaction.

Scholars believe that the detection of DMs is a tricky task, which necessitates their disambiguation or the identification of their pragmatic occurrence. Among DMs, like is said to be one of the most difficult to detect owing to the fact that the word like functions as a DM, adjective, adverb, verb, noun, preposition, and conjunction, which all in all necessitates a high level of skill and proficiency for its identification and detection. Accordingly, this study aimed at investigating if learners’ proficiency can be indicative of their ability in detecting the word like when functioning as a DM. Therefore, two intact classes, 20 sophomores and 27 seniors representing novice and skilled learners respectively, of Iranian EFL majors studying at the University of Kashan participated in this study. From Collins COBUILD, 14 sentences including the word LIKE with its seven functions (2 sentences for each function) were chosen and the participants were asked to translate them into their mother tongue (Persian) and indicate the function of the word like within parentheses in front of each sentence. Using two-way ANOVA, the researcher investigated mean differences among function scores. The results indicated that the participants found detecting the word like when functioning as a DM the most difficult and that the level of proficiency can be indicative of the participants’ success in identifying the DM like

The objective of this study was to investigate the changes in in-vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) of plantain peel (PPL) after its biodegradation with Aspergillus niger and also to determine the effect of degraded PPL on the performance, nutrient digestibility, weights of internal organs , haematological and serum parameters of broiler finishers. A total of 165 unsexed broiler finishers were used. The design was Completely Randomized. Aspergillus niger was used for the biodegradation of PPL. There were five dietary treatments of 33 birds each. There were 0 % inclusion level of PPL, 7% inclusion level of undegraded PPL (UPPL) and 3,5 and 7% inclusion levels of degraded PPL (DPPL).Weight gained was significantly (P<0.05) higher with the birds fed degraded PPL. Feed conversion ratio was significantly (P<0.05) highest in birds placed on 7% UPPL (3.38). There were significant (P<0.05) differences in the digestibility of dry matter, crude protein and crude fibre. Crop, gizzard and abdominal fat were significantly (P<0.05) affected. The values of Packed Cell Volume (PCV), Total Protein, Cholesterol and Glucose were significantly (P<0.05) different in Haematological and serum biochemical parameters. Fungal biodegradation of PPL using A.niger has the potential of enhancing feed intake, nutrient digestibility and the body weight gain of broiler.