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With the influential and remarkable progress through promoting local currency (for de-dollarization), regional foreign direct investment, and regional trade, BRICS economies have emerged, and took a new space in the 21st century. In this paper, the main objective/purpose was to focus on the influence of trade and investment on their economic growth and prosperous development; based on comparative analysis. Moreover, the identification of three steps of upward evolution shows that BRICS role is growing both in trade, investment and service, but replacing also the G-7. For empirical investigation, this study used panel data approach, where the empirical results reveal that the impacts of investment and trade on economic growth in BRICS are positive and statistically significant.

One of the main tasks that Nigeria set for herself at independence in October 1960, in the area of foreign policy was the vigorous pursuit of the total decolonization of Africa and the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa. Nigeria firmly pursued and won these battles through finances, alliances, meetings and aid. The confidence which the African countries reposed in Nigeria resulted in conferring on her, the status of the continent’s mouthpiece. Indeed, the application of vibrant diplomatic skills in the pursuit of the task of decolonization by the Nigerian government could be aptly viewed from the efforts of the activist regime of General Murtala Mohammed between July 1975, and February 1976, which resulted in liberation of Angola from the claws of the Portuguese colonialism. Although the diplomatic engagements did not result in immediate economic gains for Nigeria, it strengthened Nigeria’s image as the “giant of Africa”. This paper assesses Nigeria’s diplomatic engagements toward Angola’s liberation and suggests that Nigeria should mainstream economic dimension in her diplomatic relations with Angola on the basis of national interest still focusing on her Afrocentric foreign policy posture for the good of the continent. The paper adopts a historical descriptive methodology.

Analytical solutions are obtained for advection-dispersion equation in one-dimension longitudinal finite domain. The solute dispersion parameter is assumed temporally dependent along uniform flow. The retardation coefficient and first order decay term which inversely proportional to the dispersion coefficient is also considered. Initially the space domain is solute free. Solution are obtained for two cases, first one for uniform input and second one for increasing input condition.

In order to increase the strength of subgrade soil and to reduce the construction cost of road and airfield pavement by making best use of the locally available materials, mechanical stabilization technique is one of the vital solution. But, in the past few years, utilization of stone quarry dust has been the focus of few researches. Therefore, in this investigation an attempt is made to stabilize clayey soil using stone quarry dust to analyze the index properties and subgrade strength properties of soil, which includes Atterberg's limits, Compaction Characteristics, California Bearing Ratio and Consolidated Undrained Tri-Axial Compression tests. It was concluded that addition of 30% stone quarry dust had increased maximum dry density, California bearing ratio value, angle of internal friction and decreased the optimum moisture content which made the soil-quarry dust mixes durable.

The present paper aims at discovering and analysing risk in the emerging security in the stock market i.e Gold ETFs. The basic aim of the study is to study the financial performance, variations and analyse the risk behaviour of the selected Gold ETFs in comparison of NSE. The data for this has been taken from the NSE website. The period taken for the study is March 2008 to November 2010. Analysis is made by using financial tools like Sharpe’s index, Treynor’s ratio by calculating alpha, beta and standard deviation of the selected funds. The study will be beneficial for the investigators and investors who seek the best opportunities in the Gold ETFs.

This paper examine the important part philosophy play in theology. Theology depends to a large extent on the philosophy of the people. It looks at the concept of philosophy, the concept of theology and the implication of philosophy in the development of theology. It therefore proposes that philosophy and theology are twin brotherhood – one cannot exist in isolation; each enables the other, taken together it makes a whole word of sense.

We discuss the band gap tunability of ZnO by mixing ZnO with CdO. Nanoparticles of ZnO/CdO and ZnO are prepared by decomposition of their respective metal acetates, ammonium carbonate and ethylene diamene tetra accetic acid, by chemical co precipitation method. The heat treatment of the precursor powders at their decomposition temperature and beyond, results in the evolution of heat from the combustion of carbonaceous material. This facilitates the reaction among the constituent metal ions and the desired oxide phase is formed at low temperature. The particle size is determined by X-ray diffraction and the diffractogram is compared with JCPDS data to identify the crystallographic phase. The shift in the‘d’ value and elastic micro strain was calculated .The FTIR studies are used to confirm the formation of metal oxide. The characteristic stretching and bending frequencies of the samples were also analysed. The absorption spectra and luminescence spectra are recorded. To study the effect of calcination on crystal lattice, phase, band gap and luminescence the prepared samplewas heated at 9000C. A colour change from saffron to dark brown is observed without any phase change. We also studied the dependence of excitation wavelength on the fluorescent emission of this Nano composite.

Solanaceae and Araceae are the important hosts of Phytophathora. Phytophthora infestans is a common facultative saprophytes as well as facultative parasites, one of the most common species of Phytophthora is P. infestans , causing the disease called late blight of Potato or Potato blight. Cool- temperature between 22-23Oc and excess of water favours the growth of this fungus, In Nepal as well as in India, P. infestans is found in the plain and the hilly area. Erwin (1983,1996), Trout et.al. (1997) Gupta (2000) & Gopalan et.al.(2019) studied well P.infestans, while Sharma et.al.(2019) mentioned inter- relationship of Pohyploids of P.infestans with temperature

A cross-sectional study was carried out from April 2018- May 2018 to determine the prevalence of Haemonchus contortus in sheep slaughtered at Shambu municipal abattoir, south west Ethiopia. Appropriate procedure was applied for postmortem examination and sample collection. A total of 384 sheep abomasums, collected from randomly selected sheep, were examined on postmortem. The overall prevalence of H. contortus was found to be 29.9%. It was noticed that high prevalence was recorded in animals with poor body condition (37.6%), followed by good body condition (23.07%) and the lowest was recorded in animals with medium body condition (22.6%). The occurrence of haemonchosis was more frequently recorded in youngest (less than one year) (28.5%) than in older (above one year) sheep (25.9%) but there was a statistically significant difference (P<0.05) observed with the risk factor (age) in relation to the prevalence of H. contortus. However, there was no statistically significant difference (P>0.05) observed among the risk factor (body condition) in relation to the prevalence of H. contortus.

In the modern cryptography, the problem of the generation of large primes is considered as an important issue to implement public key crypto-scheme such as RSA and so on. Since a great amount of computational resources is generally required to generate a large prime number, it takes considerable amount of resource especially in embedded systems. In general, the prime number generation is started from the random number generation. If the generated random number is passed a specified probabilistic primality test, the random number is tentatively considered as a prime number and applied to a public key crypto-system. In many primality tests, a number of modular exponentiations are usually required. Hence these algorithms are considerably slow. Here we are introducing a new prime generation technique using GA which can be used to generate large primes in more efficient way.