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There is a paradigm shift among the digital learners of 21st century due to the rapid increase in the usage of gadgets, such as computers, mobile phones, social networking sites, blogs and etc. Among International Baccalaureate teachers today, use of gadgets is widely used to engage their students and in the process, try to use technology tools such as Web 2.0 for collaborative projects, connecting participants beyond the traditional classrooms. This paper explores on digital literacy in the context of IB World School students learning engagement, using technology. As such, an implementation of Wikispaces Classroom for 6 weeks in an Information Technology Communication and Visual Arts lesson was used to capture their digital literacy in a Grade 5 classroom. The outcome of the research encapsulates the students’ perceptions towards their new learning experience through Web tools: Wikispaces Classroom for Visual Arts. As a result, student’s engagement in learning Visual Arts has increased and learning has generated knowledge in Visual Arts and other subject areas. This paper recommends digital literacy tools engage students in learning, which impact curriculum design and planning for future. 

Since the inception of knowledge research has been playing a pivotal role in the discovery of new vistas of knowledge. Therefore, the teachers, researchers, and theorists staunchly believe that educational research and teaching is essentially interlinked. Research is systematic and within a broad framework follows the steps known as scientific method. However, across different types of studies there is extensive flexibility in how the steps are implemented. a research should be systematic , empirical valid and reliable in its nature. Various kinds of research are used by researchers by the researchers in accordance to their needs of specific research design. The review of the literature revealed that research has played an important role in the development of theory, learning theories and curriculum. The use of these theories and curriculum helped the theorists to design teaching models which are now used by the teachers to impart knowledge effectively. The historical research method was used for this study because this study aimed at having a review of literature related to research-based teaching learning process. The study has revealed that effective teaching is possible only when teachers possess ample knowledge of philosophy, learning theories, curriculum and strategies of teaching. Having been acquainted with these fundamentals of research and knowledge a teacher would be professional and effective teacher who would disseminate knowledge in a professional manner.

A dusty plasma system containing non-thermal ion distributions, Boltzmann-distributed electrons and mobile charge fluctuating positive dust has been considered. The nonlinear propagation of the dust-acoustic (DA) waves in such dusty plasma has been investigated by employing the reductive perturbation method to derive the Burgers equation. The effect of non-thermal ions on the height and thickness of DA shock waves are also studied.

This article is concerned with the economic impacts of tourism industry, especially in developing countries. It initially reviews the concept and using a model, it deals with the factors affecting the economic impacts associated with tourism. The research findings indicated that with short-term and long-term strategic planning and using the specific abilities and tourism products of developing countries, which suffer from some indices as unemployment, limits in earning and currency flows, inflation and other problems, most of their economic problems can be solved.

Workforce diversity and employees commitment in the context of Globalization has attained significant attention of today’s Researchers. This paper endeavors to ascertain major factors of work-setting and its effects on organizational performance. Two independent variables i.e workforce diversity and committed workforce relations have been analyzed on employee’s organizational performance. Data was collected from 286 respondents from employee’s belonging to the corporate sector of Islamabad Pakistan. Middle level management tiers were segment of the study age ranging from 30 to 40 years. Questionnaire was administered using five point likert scale. Result reveals that there is 71% variation between committed work force and organizational performance: henceforth, that committed work force is an important factor of organizational growth with a t-value of (17.295). The p values indicates that the variables are significant as P<.05. Similarly, committed work force effects have variation on organizational performance by 20 %. The results further represent that the variables are significant with the p value of <.05). It is evident from the analysis that diverse workforce oncemanaged well on the work environment and employee’s are committed then organizational performance is with t-value of 6.679. It is therefore imperative for the organizations to accord due priority to the major work-setting like diversity and employee commitment in the organizations facilitating employees to yield befitting organizational loyalty.

In Indian textile industry, the number of factors affects on energy consumption. A detailed study was conducted for small the scale textile industry in depth for the various processes involved, chemicals required, operating parameters, mass to liquor ratio(MLR), energy requirements during processes including different losses etc. and to study effect of MLR on dyeing process in order to achieve acceptable good quality of cotton coloured products. The process temperature and time, water inlet temperature and liquor ratio were found to be the main parameters that affect energy destruction rates. In addition, some technical information’s has been included with schematics processes used for production as also machineries.

Seeds bags of Moringa oleifera were transplanted into a field on the Teaching and Research Farm of Ekiti State University, Ado- Ekiti, Nigeria at 30 x 40cm (81,833 plants ha-1), 40 x 60cm (41,667 plant ha-1), 60 x 80cm (20, 833 plant ha-1) and 100 x 100cm (10,000 plants ha-1). Cured poultry manure was applied at 3MT.ha-1 one week before transplanting and thereafter at two month interval. No fertilizer or irrigation was applied throughout the duration of the experiment. Fodder was harvested from the top to tender stems at 60 days after transplanting and fresh and dry weights were measured. Regrowths were harvested at 30-day intervals during the wet (60, 90, 120 and 150 days after transplanting) and dry (210, 240, 270 and 300 days after transplanting) season. Regrowth height was measured at each cutting day and harvesting involved the tender portion of stem. The 30 x 40cm spacing produced the highest fodder yield (14.89 ton ha-1) which was significantly higher than other spacings. Fodder yield in the wet season (7.6MT.ha-1) was significantly higher than that of dry season (2.79MT.ha-1). Also, there was a positive correlation between the fodder yield and the amount of precipitation in all the months under study. However, plant spacing did not significantly affect regrowth height (p> 0.05) of Moringa oleifera in this area. It was therefore concluded that the agronomic potentials of Moringa oleifera is implicated for its use as an alternative feed resource for small ruminants in South Western Nigeria.

The Government reform agenda, was to try and address how GoEs can attain self-sufficiency to ease the burden of overreliance on subsidies, through introduction of new government guidelines, policies and strategies designed at improving their financial sustainability. However reviews have shown that despites all these improvements, the GoEs often do not operate optimally for sustainability, attributing to either internal or external factors. Even though various studies have been done on financial sustainability, limited research have been carried out on financial sustainability of GoEs hence there is limited information on GoEs in the MOALF. This study sought to identify financial sustainability basics. The study focused on resource utilization as a determinant. A causal research design was adopted and with 27 organizations responding positively, giving a sample size of 134. The study used both primary and secondary sources of data. Primary data was collected using structured questionnaires and interview guides. The secondary data involved review of published information on Financial Statements of GoEs in MOALF. Data was obtained for a period of 7 years from 2009/2010 to 2014/15 financial years and analyzed using SPPS version 21 statistical software, fitted into a multi linear regression model and t-statistic. From the study it was evident that, management of working capital was key factor that influenced financial sustainability of the GoEs. Working capital had a positive correlated to financial sustainability with investment opportunities being inversely related to financial suitability hence lack of proper policies on Investment and strategies affects financial sustainability. The study recommends that prioritized resource utilization should be given more emphasis as a means to ensure that institutional goals are set in line with the availability of funds. There should be proper projects evaluation and prioritization before allocation of resources is done to the most profitable project, bottom up resource management should be adopted, thereby keeping expenditure within the approved levels is also key. GoEs should endeavour to adopt hybrid model of management that incorporates both public and private interface. Policies on investment should be developed, Investment in green finance and adoption of climatic finance that significantly reduce effects on the environment enhancing sustainability. They should also adopt a holistic evaluation model not limited to financial evaluation through innovative accounting that encompassing the key goals and objectives of their existence and adoption of risk assessment framework. The Ministry should set limits with the set frameworks for the Key ratios used to measure Financial Sustainability.

The effect of grinding MgTiO3 on the particle size and electrical properties was studied. Initially, good dispersion conditions were optimized via rheological characterizations of the aqueous slurry in variant dispersant amounts. Then, 50% MgTiO3 slurry was grinded using balls of different diameter sizes (0.8 and 0.4 mm) for two consecutive cycles. The milled powder was characterized using laser granulometry, BET method, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy techniques. The crystallite size was calculated using Halder-Wagner methods. The electrical and dielectrical properties were also monitored for different particle size. These results revealed impurities from the zirconium balls, however, without affecting the particle size even if prepared with different grinding operations.

In this study, the entropy generation of a fully developed laminar flow in circular segment ducts with constant wall heat flux is investigated. Entropy generation is obtained for various segment angels (2?), various wall heat flux and various Reynolds number. It is concluded that segment angel and wall heat flux have considerable effect on entropy generation. For the increasing value of these parameters, both entropy generation and pumping power ratio are increased at fixed Reynolds number.