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At the heart of a human being are emotions, feelings, and the behavioral manifestations that come from those inner stirrings. Emotional information plays a critical role in our working lives since the relationships we form are governed by rules of behavior – of cooperation and dominance, among others – that are triggered by our emotions. Before the 1990s, EI had been an overlooked part of human nature – recognized intuitively sometimes, but not examined according to rigorous, scientific criteria. The new scientific idea behind EI is that human beings process emotional information; they comprehend and utilize emotional information about social relationships. This idea was launched in two 1990 scientific articles by Peter Salovey and myself. Daniel Goleman’s successful popularization of those early articles on emotional intelligence, and the related work of many other scientists, led to a great deal of popular discussion of the idea. This popular notion of EI as anything but IQ has created a new management fad. Unfortunately, the faddish appeal of emotional intelligence has encouraged many people engaged in otherwise legitimate business consultation to include a wide variety of approaches and concepts under the umbrella emotional intelligence. Emotional Intelligence is increasingly relevant to organizational development and developing people, because the EQ principles provide a new way to understand and assess people's behaviors, management styles, attitudes, interpersonal skills, and potential. Emotional Intelligence is an important consideration in human resources planning, job profiling, recruitment interviewing and selection, management development, customer relations and customer service, and more. Emotional Intelligence links strongly with concepts of love and spirituality: bringing compassion and humanity to work, and also to 'Multiple Intelligence' theory which illustrates and measures the range of capabilities people possess, and the fact that everybody has a value. The EQ concept argues that IQ, or conventional intelligence, is too narrow; that there are wider areas of Emotional Intelligence that dictate and enable how successful we are. Success requires more than IQ (Intelligence Quotient), which has tended to be the traditional measure of intelligence, ignoring essentials behavioral and character elements. We've all met people who are academically brilliant and yet are socially and inter-personally inept. And we know that despite possessing a high IQ rating, success does not automatically follow.

Amit Chaudhuri's first Novel A Strange and Sublime Address won the Betty Trask Award (1991) and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (1992) and was short-listed for the-Guardian Fiction prize (1991). In 1993, Afternoon Raag won the Southern Arts Literature Prize and won the Encore Award for Best Second Novel. Freedom Song was published in 1998 and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction (2000). His recent novel, A New World was published to great acclaim in the year 2000. His latest Book Real Time (2002), includes a number of short stories set in Bombay and Calcutta, some of which have been published in The London Review of Books, The Time Literary Supplement and The New Yorker. He is also the editor of the Picador Book of Modem Indian Literature published by Picador in 2001. He lives in Calcutta with his wife and daughter. The theme of the novel A Strange and Sublime Address deals with myriad impressions of life etched vividly in the consciousness of Sandeep, a Bombay based ten year old Bengali boy during the summer vacations he spends in the house of his youngest maternal uncle Chottamama in Calcutta. The random and banal occurrences of his day to day life such as baths, meals, outing, shopping, games, watching the adult routine, rituals, household chores and so on form the subject of the novel. Afternoon Raag tells the story of a young English Literature student at Oxford University, whose obsession with music is matched only by his equally obsessive memories and hallucinations. The ‘raag’ is not only an allusion to the musical tastes, but also a reference to the substance of the novel and its poetic and musical prose. The book might have got its title from an experience of an afternoon, when the narrator bought his first tanpura and tuned it with his Guru. The theme of his third novel A New World deals with the ordinary family life of Jayojit Chatterjee. The central character of the novel is Jayojit Chatteijee. He is a successful economist, a writer and university lecturer. He travels with his son Vikram to Calcutta from the United States to visit Jayojit’s parents for two months in the sweltering premonsoon season. Jayojit had recently finalized a divorce between himself and Vikram’s mother Amala. The divorce was stressful, but Jayojit and his exwife were able to reach a reasonable agreement concerning the joint custody of their son. Jayojit’s father a retired Admiral, has kept English as his language to perpetuate his membership of a ruling class. His mother busies herself with tasks done by servants in the days of plenty. Chaudhuri’s beautiful novels offer delicate tableaux of these characters. They whisper their visions to the readers with an eerie intimacy and power.

Mobile computing is an innovative technology, Born as a result of remarkable advances in computer hardware and wireless communication have made mobile computing possible that tens millions of users uses a portable computer device with wireless connection. This technology introduces a term called as mobile database which increasingly uses day by day. Using mobile database technology, mobile user can read and update the database while they are disconnected from the network. In this technology, data is being moved closer to the applications in order to improve the performance and autonomy. But it is having some problems which we will discuss here. As a solution we proposed a module to handle co-ordination between Mobile Host and Server.

Driven by the desire to probe into the craze for Nigerian video films among youths, this study sets out to investigate the uses to which youths in the conflict-ridden Port Harcourt city put the social and environmental elements that are transmitted by Nigerian video films and the differential levels of gratifications that they derive from these film portrayals. To accomplish this objective, the thrust was on determining the influence of the environment, conflicts, time, setting and the ambience of a youth’s habitation, on video film usage and gratifications. Using the cluster sampling technique, a sample of 500 subjects was drawn from the population of youths across public Senior Secondary Schools and tertiary institutions in Port Harcourt city and Obio-Akpor LGAs of Port Harcourt metropolis, estimated to be over 40, 000, to participate in the study.The data gathered were analyzed with frequency tables and percentages, pie and bar charts, histogram and frequency polygon as well as chi-square. The findings show, among other things, that certain conflict situations in Port Harcourt were expected by the youths to be reflected in home video films; some social and environmental factors informed the preferences of youths in viewing home video films; the most important use and gratification of home video among Port Harcourt youths was entertainment and relaxation; Port Harcourt youths’ most preferred setting and time for watching films were the family and in the evening respectively; the youths’ places of residence determined their views on home video uses and gratifications; and that the setting of the youth’s exposure to films influenced their choice of films. The study concluded that the social milieu, conflict situations and the ambience of the youths’ habitation influenced their exposure to films. It was, therefore, recommended that since youths prefer watching films in the evenings with members of their family, parents and guardians should see these periods of watching films together as an auspicious avenue to propagate socially sanctioned values and proffer strong reasons against their exposing themselves to immoral and criminal transmissions. Key Words: Analysis, Nigerian youths, Social and environmental factors, Differential gratifications, Nigerian video films

Energy represent requirement of human being base, what increasing in line with its life storey;level. Oil fuel / fossil energy represent one of the source energy having the character of do not newly ( non sources energy renewable) which during the time representing pledge to fulfill requirement of energy in all activity sector. Properties of resource of energy in Indonesia, that is Hydropower, hot earth, earth gas, coal, peat, biomassa, biogas, wind, sea energy, sun and other can be exploited as alternative energy, replacing depended to oil fuel, what limited progressively goodness sum up and its reserve. Oil fuel hold very dominant position in accomplishment requirement of energy in country. Have to realize in this time Indonesia have imported crude oil and also oil fuel to ful fill requirement. crisis of Energy which knock over world affect, world crude oil price height, having an effect on direct to activity of economics. Properties of resource energy, specially the source of new and new energy which we have, require to difikirkan to be exploited as alternative energy, replacing and lessening role of oil fuel in consumption of energi in Indonesia. On that pattern, Body Research and Development of University of wijaya Putra doing research with activity of Analysis Exploiting Of Resource of Energy Alternative Is Ready of Energy Society in Indonesia, upon which policy of management of exploiting of resource of energy existing. Renewable energy To support BBM subtitute.

Moth species were collected from three different locations of Rajmahal hills in Jharkhand State of India from March 2011 to May 2013. Month-wise collection of moths was done using light trap and sweeping net. Totally 222 species of moths belonging to 18 different families were recorded. Family Erebidae contained higher number of subfamilies (11), genera (37) and species (74) and was the dominant family in the study area. Noctuidae, was the second largest family represented by 44 species. Moth population was very high during monsoon season. The diversity analysis clearly indicated that species evenness was closer to the maximum level during monsoon and winter periods. The present study clearly shows that Rajmahal hills are a suitable ecosystem for moth fauna in all seasons.

The present environmental concerns over fly ash disposal have sparked interest in its conversion to value added product such as adsorbent. Fly ash derived from coal residues has a potential for conversion to adsorbent. Still more remarkable is the subsequent utilization of theses adsorbent synthesized from fly ash as adsorbent for removal of dye and heavy metals in the industry. In the present study the coal based fly ash was used to synthesis adsorbent by alkali fusion, followed by hydrothermal treatment. The synthesis is carried out by thermal method with a temperature of 5500C. Based on adsorption batch studies it can be concluded that the adsorbent developed in the present study is fairly effectieve in the removal of Methyl Red and K2Cr2O7 solution.

Balanced Scorecard is considered as the world widely used Performance Management System by organizations. Around 57% organizations of the world are using the Balanced Scorecard tool for improving their Organizational Performance. This technique of performance evaluation and management was coined by the Kaplan and Norton in 1992. From that date to now a lot of work has been done by the academicians and practitioner on the Balanced Scorecard. This study is summarizing the major studies conducted on Balanced Scorecard from 1992 to the present. Summing up all the criticism and appreciations on Balanced Scorecard, the study is suggesting some guidelines for improving the Balanced Scorecard in the light of previous researches conducted on Balanced Scorecard.

We are very happy to announce that from 17th April 2015, Dr. Akinrotimi Ojo Andrew has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Aquaculture and Fisheries. Dr. Akinrotimi Ojo Andrew currently working as Principal Research Officer, Department of Aquaculture, African Regional Aquaculture Centre, Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research Centre, P.M.B. 5122 Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The appointment of Dr. Akinrotimi Ojo Andrew as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

We are very happy to announce that from 17th September 2013, Dr. Ali Hmood Al-Saadi has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Science. Dr. Ali Hmood Al-Saadi is currently working as Chairman of Biology Department, College of Science, Babylon University, Babylon, Iraq. The appointment of Dr. Ali Hmood Al-Saadi as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief