Archives-March 2017

Activated carbons were prepared by carbonization and activation of Coula eludies seed shells. This was done using ZnCl2 as the activating chemical and the activation was done using sample to activating chemical ratios of 1: 10 and 1:20 (g/v). The activated carbon obtained were characterized by determining the percentage yield, moisture content, ash content and percentage fixed carbon. The adsorption of methylene blue by the activated carbon was done using 100mg to 500mg of the activated carbon. The results revealed that the yield, moisture content, ash content and percentage fixed carbon of 1:10 impregnated activated carbon were 41.94%, 11.20%, 7.00% and 92.00% respectively while that of the 1:20 impregnated activated carbon were 38.76%, 18.56%, 5.50% and 96.50% respectively. These results show that the yield and the ash content of 1:10 impregnated activated carbon is higher than that of 1:20 impregnated activated carbon. While 1:20 impregnated activated carbon has higher moisture content and percentage fixed carbon. The adsorption study also revealed that 1:20 impregnated activated carbon had greater adsorption capacity. However adsorption efficient was increased with increase in adsorbent dosage.

Endangering the environment, depletion of natural resources Valvdh of basic resources), water, soil, air) to treat a condition that it should search way. Prevention, treatment considered low cost. In other areas, such as social environment, education is considered as a way to prevent disease. Encapsulation is measured them. Dez most cases, the objectives of the two documents overlap with each other in order to protect the environment, but in some cases together with a small Akhlafaty. The document of fundamental transformation goals too low and indirectly referred to the environmental parameters.

Senior team members reconcile conflicting demands and facilitate, encourage, motivate the managers to achieve organizational goals. This study investigated the role of the senior team shared vision, middle-level manager’s exploration and exploitation activities and behavior of transformational leadership as a moderator in resolving conflicting interests among senior team members and middle-level managers for achieving managerial ambidexterity. Pearson’s Correlation and Hierarichal Regression have been employed to find the results. Findings indicate that a senior team shared vision are related with manager’s ability to combine the activities of exploration and exploitation while the role of transformational leadership behavior does not increase the effectiveness of senior team shared vision.

The concept of paper begin with a review of the salient theory and available body of literature of SCM in terms of responsibility, manufacturing practices, competitive advantages, SCM practices and overall performance of company. As the study composed of surveys of 92 manufacturing companies nearby Bhopal and in-depth interviews is discussed and their findings shared. Various statistical tools are used for the analysis of collected data. Their reliability and content are checked using reliability analysis. The discussion of findings and their implications, and concluded with some suggestions for future research.

To test the model of stakeholder influence capacity mediator, with the reference to the textile sector, relating the corporate social responsibility independent variable with non- financial performance dependent variable. The sampling approach used was non-probability type convenience sampling. The data was collected from the registered textile mills in APTMA (All Pakistan Textile Mills Association) from Faisalabad region. The questionnaires were filled by the managers working in different divisions of textile mills including Sitara textile mill, AMTEX, Interloop, Masood textile mills, Itehad textile mill, Sarfraz textile mill, Five Star textile mill, Dawood Export (Pvt) Ltd, Nishat textile mill, National textile mill (Pvt) ltd. The questionnaire was based on five point Likert scale. An instrument was supported for internal consistency and reliability. The results concluded that there are significant and positive relationships between corporate social responsibility and stakeholder influence capacity directly, corporate social responsibility and non-financial performance and relationship between corporate social responsibility and non-financial performance with the mediating variable stakeholder influence capacity. Though initially, CSR dimensions are distinguished into philanthropic, economical, ethical, social and environmental. NFP can be measured with respect to customers, employees and suppliers. Stakeholder influence capacity can be evaluated with respect to social and environmental. The future research should apply the proposed model in this study and the results to other service sectors and geographic locations in order to develop its generalizability. In order to manage swift change and worldwide competition in business environments companies should center on the adopting strategies which strategy can affect the stakeholder influence capacity in array to improve the non-financial performance that marks the future indication of survival of the firm. The previous researches did not appraise the relationship of corporate social responsibility and non-financial performance with the mediating variable stakeholder influence capacity of the firms. The present study also demonstrates the different dimensions of the CSR and stakeholder influence capacity with the non-financial performance of the firms.

The article analyses the concept of motivation and features some facts on the importance of differentiation between the intrinsic-extrinsic constructs and integrative-instrumental orientation to motivation, as well as the necessity to study students’ actual motivational background to learning English. The article describes a recent study of motivational basis in Psychology students in terms of learning English. The research aims to find out and to assess the presence of a certain motivational type and orientation. The author examines and interprets the results of a written questionnaire concerning definite orientations to motivation in Psychology students of Cherkasy National University.

In this paper, author attempts to establish relationship among output, employment, average productivity of labour and export of SSI sector in India and GDP in India during 1980-81-2014-15 through Simple regression analysis, causality test, cointegration and vector error correction models. The paper concludes that output of SSI sector has been increasing at the rate of 10.12% per year and exponentially at the rate of 0.554% per year during 1980-81-2014-15.The series is stationary, stable and divergent as indicated by ARIMA and AR models. Average productivity, employment and export of SSI sector have been rising at the rates of 1.68%, 8.43%,and 13.34% per year respectively during the same period. One per cent increase in export led to 0.48% increase in GDP per year during the specified period. Production, employment, average productivity and export of SSI showed two cointegrating vectors whose vector error correction model is stable, divergent and insignificant error correction process. India’s GDP,SSI sector’s output, employment, average productivity and export have two cointegrating vectors but its vector error correction model is stable, divergent and insignificant error correction having problem of autocorrelations. New policy recommendations of RBI and new government policy on MSME are likely to accelerate the performance of SSI and its contribution to the national economy.

Awqaf, guilds, madrasas, and Sufi orders were significant in the creation of civil societies in Islam since the first century A.H. Awqaf in particular, fostered bonds of social connection among members of different backgrounds giving rise to autonomous groups that political authorities always viewed with mistrust leading to protracted tussles between them. This paper contextualizes the ambiguities between the civil society and the political authorities through the prism of awqaf in Kenya. The change to other forms of charities illustrates the dynamics of endowments in Islam and the urge to guard the autonomy of civil groups in the public sphere.

Not all soils are susceptible to liquefaction, there are many works that have aimed to classify the soils based on their susceptibility to liquefaction, and among them the notable ones are : Youd’s criteria of liquefaction, Boulanger and Idriss’ criteria for liquefaction and there are Chinese criteria that are widely used. Because liquefaction has frequently been observed to occur at the same location when site conditions are unchanged (Youd, 1984), evidence of the historical occurrence of liquefaction, either observed or in the form of paleoliquefaction, can be taken as evidence of liquefaction susceptibility. Geologic conditions can also indicate susceptibility to liquefaction; soils deposited in fluvial deposits, and colluvial and aeolian deposits when saturated, are likely to be susceptible to liquefaction. Liquefaction is also observed in alluvial-fan, alluvial-plain, beach, terrace, playa and estuarine deposits, but not as consistently as in those listed previously. Younger soil deposits are generally more susceptible to liquefaction than older deposits. The physical composition of a soil deposit will play a strong role in determining its liquefaction susceptibility (Kramer, 1996). Uniformly graded clean sands composed of rounded particles are inherently most susceptible to liquefaction. Well-graded soils and soils with angular particles are less susceptible. The presence of fines, particularly plastic fines (PI>10) tends to decrease liquefaction susceptibility. The liquefaction potential of a soil deposit can be studied via the mechanical properties of the deposit too. It is done by defining two parameters which govern the behaviour of the deposit during dynamic earthquake loading. The first being the CRR called the cyclic resistance ratio and CSR called the cyclic stress ratio, the CRR tells the total stress ratio required to cause the liquefaction, and the CSR is the stress ratio that is acting on the soil during earthquake loading. Quite obvious is the fact that if the ratio CRR/CSR is less than unity it will mean that the soil can take less stress than what is acting on it and will liquefy. The present study aims at studying the susceptibility of the site to liquefaction and then arrive at the most important site parameter that determines the susceptibility of a soil deposit to liquefaction. The site under study is located in a severe earthquake prone region of the world, "THE KASHMIR VALLEY, INDIA J&K".

Mithi River is one of the polluted rivers in Mumbai. It is most vulnerable to pollution from discharge of sewage through municipal outlets as well as improper outlet channels connected through slums and further by industrial effluent discharges containing heavy metals. Isolation and narrowing down of copper resistant bacteria were carried out from samples collected from different locations on the river. It was screened for resistance at different concentrations of Copper, i.e. 50ppm, 100ppm, 500 ppm and 1000ppm. The resistant bacteria revealed that it belonged to the staphylococcus genus. Bioremediation studies were carried for a period of 120 hours in the medium. The decrease in metal was analysed at 24 hours and 120 hours. The approximate removal capacity of copper in the medium was observed to be 32% and 84% respectively.