International Journal for Research in Emerging Science and Technology

6-9

Authors: Dr. Niteen Vinay Phirke

ABSTRACT Alterations in the rainfall pattern, temperature and other weather conditions etc; are witnessed in the Varhad region, that has been accelerated during last 2-3 decades resulting into a dramatic paradigm shift in its climate. This has affected the cropping pattern and its adaptability, resulted into extinction of the few animal species, weather vulnerability and reform in microbial communities. As its consequence, there have been several losses in the few of local crop varieties, fauna and flora. The possible reasons for such unawareness about the climatic change in this particular region have been suggested. Overall, in this free lance commentary, few visual experiences and recordable observations of Varhadi flora and fauna against changing regional climate have been discussed. Keywords: Climate change, Varhad, weather vulnerability

16-20

Authors: Arun Kumar

ABSTRACT After going through literature of Horney’s tripartite neurotic trends, the items for the Self Orientation Scale were selected. The scale was developed with 15 items. Each item begins with a situation which has three alternative behavioral responses. One depicting moving towards people, second depicting moving away and the third depicting moving against people. The scale was administered to 100 students. For item analysis of the test the median split was applied to the scores of moving towards people, away from people and against people and two groups for each neurotic trend were obtained. The frequencies of the responses to each alternative were tabulated for the high and the low groups. Chi-square test was applied on these frequencies to test whether the particular response differentiated between the high and the low groups pertaining to the concerned tendency. Those items where a significant chi square value has been obtained have high discriminative validity and thus are quite appropriate for distinguishing people who are high or low on the respective trends. Key words: Neurotic Trends, Moving toward people, moving away from people, moving against people, Self Orientation Scale, Karen Horney.