International Journal of Multidisciplinary Approach & Studies

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Authors: HASHIMALI SAYED* & RICHA SHARMA**

In this paper whose argument has been extended from secondary sources, two Doctoral Scholars combine to put forth their view that India is a growing economy with a growing population. It is marked by unequal distribution of wealth, income and opportunities on one hand and uneven development of peoples, regions and sectors on the other. Whereas information and data on inflation is quite readily available, information on unemployment is difficult to find.

31-39

Authors: Kajal D. Bhojwani

India is a country with diverse traditions and customs. Unfortunately, since ages, the role of women was confined to household chores and limited to domestic issues. In the male-dominated Indian society, women suffered to extreme levels of exploitation. Some factors – like death of bread winner, sudden fall in family income or inadequate family income – forced women to seek employment in informal sector (small trader, artisan or field laborer on a family farm) but yet, that did not result in women empowerment.

48-58

Authors: Dr Manju Gera* & Ms Kamaljeet Kaur**

The present study was conducted to study the correlation between peer relationships and internet usage of adolescents. Descriptive survey method of research was employed to conduct the research. Results of the study revealed that Commitment dimension of peer relationships has significant correlation with time spent online and total internet usage scores. General internet usage scores were found to be significantly correlated with time spent online dimension of internet usage, purpose of using internet and total internet usage scores. Purpose of using internet has significant correlation with negative content viewed online, also with total internet usage scores. The study has useful implications that peer relationships of the adolescents are important guiding factor behind their internet usage.

69-77

Authors: Dr. Sachin Madhavrao Kanawade

The intensification of industrial activity and environmental stress greatly contributes to the significant rise of heavy metal pollution in water resources making threats on terrestrial and aquatic life. The toxicity of metal pollution is slow and interminable, as these metal ions are non bio-degradable. The most appropriate solution for controlling the biogeochemistry of metal contaminants is sorption technique, to produce high quality treated effluents from polluted wastewater. Prosopis spicegera, a readily available tree leaves was used as sorbent for the removal of Cr (VI) from aqueous media. Adsorption studies were performed by batch experiments as a function of process parameters such as sorption time,

105-111

Authors: Maj General Balwinder Singh,VSM(Retd)

E-Commerce is a new way of doing business. All business transactions right from placement of order to payment collections are carried out electronically. All the transactions are carried out at electronic speed; hence the flow of information is much faster as compared to the normal transactions. This helps in tracking real time movement of material in the entire supply chain system. Manufacturing companies in the Business to Business ( B2B ) domain require e-logistics solutions for their e-commerce transactions, which should be evolved to ensure better and sure service to their clients.

121-135

Authors: Vivek Pandey, Beena Tewari, Ashish Tewari and Jeet Ram

Increasing anthropogenic pressure and dependence on plant products have has let to widespread exploitation of natural forest in Uttarakhand Himalaya. The study area is located between 290 24’ and 290 26’ N latitude and 780 53’ and 780 59’ E longitude between 280 and 370 m elevation in Uttarakhand Himalaya. A total of 17 tree species were present in different forest, out of which 8 species existed in disturbed site and 11species in least disturbed site. Total tree density ranged from 250.3-340 trees/100 m2 and total basal area from 18.1-76.15 m2/ha across the disturbance,

147-159

Authors: *Dr. Ambrish

Microfinance refers to small savings, credit and insurance services extended to socially and economically disadvantaged segments of society. It is emerging as a powerful tool for poverty alleviation in India. This working paper tries to outline the prevailing condition of the Microfinance in India in the light of its emergence till now. The prospect ofMicro-Finance is dominated by SHGs (Self Help Groups) - Banks linkage Program. Its main aim is to provide a cost effective mechanism for providing financial services to the poor. Finally paper concludes with practicable suggestions to overcome the issues and challenges associated with microfinance in India.

171-180

Authors: Hemant Kumar Dhiman* & Mohit Gaba**

The increasing demand of electricity today can’t be completed only by the fossil fuel so it is very much remarkable to use renewable sources of energy such as biomass fuel for the production of the electricity. The biomass contains stored energy from the sun i.e. wood, crop, manure & some garbage so biomass is a renewable energy source because we can always grow more trees, crops, & waste will always exists.

192-216

Authors: Dr. Shubha Dube*; Ms. Deepika Bhargava **& Ms Pooja Sood***

The present work aims to investigate the mental health (depression and hopelessness) among suicide attempters and the control group (both male and female). Purposive random sampling technique was employed for collection of data. The sample comprised of n=100 suicide attempters (experimental group) and n=50 non-suicide attempter (control group) in the age group of 20 to 30 years. Experimental group (suicide attempters) was taken from medicine unit of Government hospital, Jaipur, India.

233-244

Authors: Sunil Kalai

As teacher educators, we often believe that our classes are changing the way students think and act regarding important social issues. While films may increase students’ knowledge on a subject, we may be incorrectly assuming that their attitudes and actions are changing as well. While some researchers have found evidence of changes in attitude and actions after viewing a film we challenge that there are probably many factors that need to be examined before assuming that this will generally occur in a classroom setting.

252-259

Authors: Debabrata Nandi

Geo resistivity of sounding of Sukuruli block was conducted to delineating the ground water potential of the areas. Ten (10) Schlumberger vertical electrical resistivity soundings were acquired with Geo Resistivity Meter. The electrode spacing AB/2 was varied from 1.5 to 65 m with maximum spread length of 100 m. The interpretation of resistivity curve is done by JSIX soft ware. Four to five distinct subsurface geologic layers were identified from the geoelectric layers, aided by borehole lithological logs.

268-279

Authors: Aman Parkash Singh * & Mr. Sandeep Kaushal **

Information spotting in scanned document images is a very challenging task. Character recognition has been studied from the past several decades and is still a demanding research topic in the field of pattern recognition and image processing, however their performance will be significantly impaired when the image of the character is partially blocked or smudged. Such missing information does not hinder the human perception because we predict the missing part based on the word level and sentence level context of the character. This paper provides a comprehensive review of existing works in character retrieval based on different methodology.

288-295

Authors: * Dr. Pratibha J Mishra

The field of social work is concerned with the welfare of others and with social change that promotes social justice. Taking a client-oriented and solution-focused approach, social workers improve individuals’ and families’ social functioning. This approach requires social workers to remain aware of the connections between the individual and societal structures, of the importance of practicing at multiple levels, and of the ways in which theory and practice inform one another.

308-317

Authors: Dr. Ng. Ngalengnam

The Tangkhul Naga tribe is one of the biggest tribes in Manipur. There are more than 260 Tangkhul villages in Ukhrul District, Manipur. The total population of the Tangkhul in Ukhrul district alone as per 2011 census is1,83,115. Out of which 94,013 are male 89, 102 are female. The existing literacy rate of the district stands at 81.87%. The name of the community Tangkhul have been pronounced and interpreted in different ways and meanings.

323-328

Authors: *Puneet Arora & **Ramesh Chandra

A study was conducted on preparation of sandesh, containing different fat ratios of milk. Three ratios 3%, 3.5%,and 4% &4.5% containing same level of solid not fat (SNF% ) taken and coded as T1, T2, T3,& T4 respectively freshly made chhana and mixed with cane-sugar sweeteners heated on a slow fire only for 10 mins. Poured it into a tray and left it to cool and set. Thus experimental sandesh was ready. Experimental sandesh (T4) having 20% levels of high nutrients were most acceptable,

339-351

Authors: Prajakta J. Nande

This study deals with assessment of anthropometric characteristics and dietary intake of boys undergoing military training. 90 boys aged 13-16 yrs were purposively chosen. Body fat was calculated based on skinfolds at biceps, triceps, subscapular and suprailiac. 24 hour’s food intake data was collected for consecutive 3 days and energy and energy yielding nutrients were computed. Comparisons were done using ‘t’ test. Correlations were derived using Pearson’s Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation.

360-365

Authors: Dr. Manju Gera* & Jasjit Kaur**

Abacus is an external agent extensively practiced to teach learn mathematics for children. Studies have shown that abacus not only increases the ability of children in performing mathematics calculation, but also develops memory consistently (Bhaskaran , Sengothiyan , Madhu, Ranganahtan 2006). With the help of abacus simple arithmetical functions are easy to learn especially multiplication which may seem easier to an adult to perform but are very difficult for the juvenile to understand (www.abacuslessons.com).

407-421

Authors: Dr. Abha Mohan * & Dr. Vinay Mohan**

The present study differs from general Corporate Failure studies surmising that organizations fail, due their inability to repay their debt and interest obligations, i.e. lack of sufficient cash flows from operating activities. Empirical studies are based on Balance Sheet data which is historical in nature, reflecting the position that has already occurred. These reflect the “effect”, not the “cause”. In fact, managerial actions can precipitate/ obviate corporate failure. A corporate can falter, or ultimately fail, due to Internal and/or External reasons. Internal causes arise due to disorder in the corporate's various areas like production, planning, marketing, finance and personnel. These can be controlled provided the corporate management is efficient and effective.

434-441

Authors: Prof. H.M.Padalikar

This paper was born out of a seminar on linking music with science conducted in AKIMSS Solapur in 2007. The purpose of this short piece is to lay down the foundation for creating an algorithm and a computer based system to decipher table music. Being a principal musical instrument in the repertoire of Hindustani Classical Music good table players are hard to find. Hence if a system for table is developed, the author (himself an amateur table player) argues a lot of musical accompaniment will be facilitated).