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Peace education is about empowering and equipping students with knowledge, skills and attitudes in relation to positive social change. West Pokot County in Kenya is prone to community conflicts and wars between its inhabitants and communities in neighbouring counties and northern Uganda region. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teachers capacity building in promotion of peace education in public secondary schools in West Pokot County, Kenya. The study objective was to determine how teachers’ capacity building in promotes implementation of peace education in public secondary schools in West Pokot county. The study adopted a pragmatist research paradigm and a descriptive survey research design. The sample size of 30% of principals and teachers constituted 24 and 198 respectively from a total population of 81 principals and 661 teachers in the County. Based on Yamane formula for sample size calculation, 385 students were sampled from a total of 10,035 students in West Pokot County. The schools were selected using stratified random sampling technique and purposive sampling. Simple random sampling was used to select students and teachers. Data was collected using questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi square test while Qualitative data was analyzed thematically based on the emerging themes. The study established that schools had put in place measures within their plans and regulations to promote the implementation of peace education in the county. It is recommended that there should be enhancement of: parental involvement in the formulation of school plans and regulations within the county. 

Modern wastewater treatment technique is effective in removing inherent contaminants in influent, which leaves the effluent with permissible minimum regulatory standards that would support the demand for water economy, recycling and re-use. Most industrial wastewater (untreated) entering a water body represents a heavy source of environmental pollution. It affects the water quality as well as microbial flora and aquatic lives. With competing demands on limited water resources, awareness of issues involved in water pollution, has led to considerable evaluations concerning environmental effects of industrial effluents discharged into aquatic environments. Effluents rich in decomposable organic matter constitute high level of organic pollution that promotes growth of significantly high coliforms and other microbial forms leading to eutrophication. Finally, this could pose serious health issues to users especially when discharge into water bodies, but could be remedied in the recent times with the advent of modern wastewater treatment techniques.

Co-curricular is a group activity which is the activities that extension plan of the process of teaching and learning in classrooms that provide an opportunity to add, consolidate and practice the knowledge, skills and values learned in the classroom (Fadzil & Ahmad, 2010). It is a platform to develop physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual in line with the goals of the National Education Philosophy. Co-curricular plays an important role in education like fertilize of personality and unity. Participation of students as young people and folk in the country in co-curricular activities can cultivate goodwill, unity, national integration and inculcating good values indirectly and directly participating in such activities. This is in line with the second core in the Education Development Master Plan (PIPP) that is Developing Human Capital. Quality human capital is the main asset of the State to determine the future of the country and nation. It is also important in the formation of the concept of "One Malaysia" for unity among Malaysians of all races.

We report the case of spinal cord compression from pathological fractures of the vertebral bodies with Gammapathy monoclonal in conjunction with multiple myeloma in a 52-year-old man who had recently been examined for paraplegia after two weeks of full pain. In our kwnoledge we thing that is a rare condition and must mainly been reported as a case presentation in the literature.

Hafez was a Persian mystic and poet who is well-regarded and remembered for his lyrical poetry written in ‘Ghazals’, a complex and exclusively Persian verse-form. Like other Sufi poets, Hafiz merged themes of ambiguity into his poems which has become an inseparable feature of his poetry. An important source of ambiguity in natural languages, and particularly in poetry, is the polysemy of lexical elements. The purpose of this study is the identification of the lexical items which have been ambiguous and consequently seems to have been problematic for translators in rendering them into English. In addition, the study aims at recognizing the strategies at translators’ hand in dealing with these lexical elements. In order to extract the data, eight poems of Hafez have been randomly selected. Nine couplets of the poems that have been found to contain lexical ambiguities are randomly selected. Following the identification of the ambiguities, the translations of them by two to five translators have been analyzed to find out the strategies used by the translators in the translation of ambiguous items. The result of the study shows that while in many cases translators have attempted to use the context as a source of disambiguation and consequently transfer one of the meanings of the ambiguous item, in other cases they have used other strategies such as clarifications in the forms of parenthesis and footnotes.

U.S climate change policy has evolved under various administrations. It has passed through two environmental eras. In the first environmental era which started in 1960’s and ended in 1990’s main focus was on addressing environmental issues domestically by passing a number of environmental legislations. However by the end of 1990’s U.S. realized that climate change issues are beyond the control of sovereign states and only through international cooperation it can be tackled. However U.S was not willing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the only existing international emission reduction treaty, pointing out that it excludes developing countries from committing to binding emission reduction targets. Though Clinton administration had signed Kyoto Protocol in 1997, in 2001 George W Bush administration rejected the treaty completely. In the context of framing a new climate change treaty replacing Kyoto Protocol by world nations, if it has to be successful, at first it should ensure the participation of United States, the second largest greenhouse gas emitter. Apart from that, participation of key developing countries is also important; however their emission targets must be set up after considering their population size and per capita income.

Seven species of marine macro algae belonging to Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta and Rhodophyta were surveyed, collected from Coromandal coast, India and studied for their lipid composition and its accumulation for the future biodiesel production. Variability of chemical components and production of lipid granules are specific in macro algae and there is also an evidence for temporal variability in macro algal lipid composition. The lipids of algae have wide application in production of fuel. It was observed that lipid composition of macro algae in the sequence of members belonged to Phaeophyta > Chlorophyta > Rhodophyta. In this study we successfully localized the lipid bodies of seven macro algal strain by their ultra structural studies and Nile blue stain method. However, further research work should be carried out from different marine macro algae species for biofuel production to meet out the energy crisis globally in future.

Wavelet analysis is one of the most powerful and latest tool in the field of signal processing. It provides the better resolution in time and frequency domain simultaneously. Because of these properties of the wavelet it can be effectively used in EMG signal processing in order to determine the certain changes in amplitude at certain frequencies. At different levels of various mother wavelets we can get the useful resolution component from the EMG signal. In this paper, a single-channel electromyogram acquisition system Biopac MP36 was used to obtain the surface electromyogram signal. Single pair of surface electrodes was used to measure and record the EMG signal on forearm muscles. Then different levels of Daubechies Wavelet family were performed to analyze the EMG signal. We have used root mean square (rms) value of the EMG signal at different level of wavelet coefficients and reconstructed wave. The experimental results shows that rms feature vector provides very good performance for the classification of patterns.

The purpose of this study is to address the gaps in the literature and to examine the predictors of job satisfaction. In this study, the hypothesized predictors influencing one’s job satisfaction are a) gender, b) age, c) level of education, d) salary, e) role in the job, and f) years of working in the organization. This study used Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) as a data gathering tool. The questionnaires were administered to 89 male respondents, and 121 female respondents. For data analysis, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was employed. In addition to conducting a multiple regression analysis (MRA), descriptive statistical analysis was also carried out as part of the data analysis. Of all the predictors studied, results indicated gender as the only significant predictor of one’s job satisfaction. Several recommendations for future studies were also listed.

Anorectal malformations (ARM) comprises, a wide spectrum of diseases, which can affect girls and boys, and involve the rectum and distal anus as well as the genital and urinary tracts. ARM occurs in around 1 in 5000 live births. Defects range varies from the very minor or “low” which are easily treated with an excellent functional prognosis, to those that are difficult to manage, complex, are often associated with other anomalies known as “high”, and have a poor functional prognosis. The surgical approach to repairing these defects changed intensely in 1980 with the introduction of the posterior sagittal approach, Better imaging techniques, and a improved knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the pelvic structures at the time of birth.