International Journal of Multidisciplinary Approach & Studies

13-25

Authors: Neelam Nagraj Petkar*, Prof. Smita Patil**& Hemant Chore***

Industrial by products such as Blast furnace slag, flyash, silica fume & engineering materials metakolin have conventionally been used for concrete as supplementary cementitious materials primarily from the aspect of the effective utilization of industrial waste. Considering natural resources conservation and prevention of global warming, new tailor made material which does not generate extra CO2 emission should be urgently established in concrete-related industries. Concrete is an environmental friendly material and the overall impact on the environment per ton of concrete is limited. Concrete accounts for large percentages of both resources input and CO2 emission.

39-51

Authors: Ulhaskumar V. Patil* & Dr. H.S. Chore**

Concrete is the most widely used material of construction. Concrete gained the popularity as a construction material due to the easy availability of its component materials, the easy formability, strength and rigidity upon setting and curing. In construction industry, strength is a primary criterion in selecting a concrete for a particular application. Now a days, the substantial amount of waste materials, containing the properties of the Pozzolana, is being generated from the major industries; and disposal of such industrial wastes generated in abundance is also the serious problem from environmental and pollution point of view

71-78

Authors: Er. Puneet Arora*, & Er. Parimita**

Maintenance of optimal nutrition and positive health of Population through assumed nutrient intake continues to be a national priority. For a nation to be healthy, strong and productive, the nutritional status of people must be good. Soymilk and tofu production yields large quantities of agro waste (Okara).Okara is high in fiber making it a potential nutritious food ingredients. The shelf life of only a day makes its difficult to work with in large scale operations. in the new millennium we are witnessing the upward trend in nutritional and health awareness which has increased the consumer demand for functional foods.

92-99

Authors: Dr. M. Anandharaj

G.Nagarajan, a forerunner to all modernist Tamil writers was born in 1920s. He started writing fiction at the end of 1950s. The personality of G.Nagarajan as elaborately discussed today in the literary circles lead us to reread his writings and ponder over its effect on modern Tamil literature. The approach to him will raise certain questions regarding the role of narration that tries to decode the ethical values of a society in which he lived.

108-116

Authors: Dr. Prem Shankar Srivastava

The article is written to describe briefly the Human –being and Spiritual education and its beneficial effect to the betterment of the society as a whole. Human being is the supreme creature of God on this earth. Each and every human being is born with inherent quality; all spiritual or material knowledge is in his mind. Human being and other being differ on account of soul.

130-147

Authors: Dr (Ms) Mamta Vyas

Today, women are equal partners in household expenditure. If they are married, they provide their share in household expenditure due to price hikes. In olden day women save her money because as it is psychology of men that they do not touch salary of women & easily managed their life financially. Today, women start earning at the age of 21. She is aware about managing her budget and saving for the future. At the same time women life style has been changed and she loves to spend money on its look or beauty, clothes , property and on electronics items and comfort products and services.

167-184

Authors: Vivek Pandey*, Beena Tewari**, Ashish Tewari***& Jeet Ram****

Himalayan vegetation is subjected to various types of disturbances and most of them are either geological or anthropogenic or both. Biodiversity at all hierarchical levels is impacted upon by disturbance of an ecosystem in terms of maintenance and restoration. Protected Areas are forests that have as their primary function the protection of people or assets against the impacts of natural hazards.

195-206

Authors: Prof. Lissy. T. A* & Dr. J. Venkatesh**

A committed workforce is an asset to the organizations. Committed employees decide to stay with organization for a long term. Purpose of the present study is to examine the influence of factors - HR practices, Pay & Benefits and Employee engagement strategies on Organizational commitment of the paramedical staff in private hospitals in Bangalore, India. The study also examines the relationship of these three factors with organizational commitment of hospital employees.

224-232

Authors: Dr. Ambrish

Women are often considered as better economic stewards of capital than men. Women all over the world are challenged by a number of obstacles that restrict their ability to play significant roles in their communities and the broader society. For a long time they have lagged far behind men in key socio-economic indicators that place them at a huge disadvantage.

242-249

Authors: Dr. E. Ravi Kumar

Man believes in the same way like animals. He also eats, drinks, procreates and vegetates. But in addition to these, he does one more activity, and that is, he thinks, reflects. It is this power to think, to reflect, to rationalise that distinguishes him not only from animals but also from the other forms of creation.

269-283

Authors: Dr M. Rama Naik

In financial markets, Anomalies refer to situations when a security or group of securities performs different to the notion of efficient markets, where security prices are said to reflect all available information at any point in time. With the constant release and rapid dissemination of new information, sometimes efficient markets are hard to achieve and even more difficult to maintain. There are many market anomalies; some occur once and disappear, while others are continuously observed.

295-304

Authors: J. G. Ravi Kumar

Paula Gunn Allen attempts to educate mainstream audiences about Native American themes, issues, and concerns by promoting Native American literature as a variable and rich source of study. Allen’s work is preoccupied with her identity as a woman, mixed blood and lesbian in Laguna and white society. Focusing on the themes of assimilation, self-identity, and remembrance, she frequently examines the quest for spiritual wholeness. Allen’s works have generally received positive acclaim.

329-342

Authors: Dr. Payel Banarjee * & Kamlesh Kumar**

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is recognized as an important predictor of student Academic motivation and achievement. It is a pivotal construct in contemporary accounts of effective academic learning. Self-regulation is essential to the learning process by which students direct their acquisition of academic knowledge. SRL creates opportunities for students to manage their own resources and to perform better in all learning processes.

354-361

Authors: Shruti Mallick

The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, hosts 9th Annual International Conference from August 11-13, 2014 on Public Policy. Present article originates with the interest of financial policy of Indian Government. Dr. Arvind Mayaram, Arun Maira and Harun R Khan were among plethora of experts at 3-day meet at IIM.

377-386

Authors: Dr. Sunil Sharma* & Mrs. Urmila Pushkar**

Food security addresses one of human kinds most fundamental needs-access to a nutritious and adequate diet. Food security defines as a state-whereby all people, at all times, have physical access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and a healthy life. National food security act (NAFSA) is an important effort to ensure that the majority of India’s population has access to an adequate quantity of food at affordable prices.

400-414

Authors: Sachin D Bhandare* & Dr S G Bhanegaonkar**

Application of theories from pragmatics to literature is one of the recently developed methods of studying literature. Pragmatics is basically interested in utterances. Among the various genres of literature, drama makes profound use of utterances. The dramatist creates men and women who speak to each other and from this communication we gather the story of their life. In drama there is no narration.

425-431

Authors: S.K. Bansal*, Dilbag Singh**, Anurag***, Vipin Kumar****,

The land use information collected for Hisar-Bhiwani watershed in Haryana from the analysis of the IRS-P6/1D LISS – III data for the year 2004-2005 and NRDMS Resource Atlas of Haryana data for the year 1999-2000 revealed a large change in the area of different land use categories during the period from 1999- 2005. The total geographical areas the present watershed is 3531.05 km2.

445-453

Authors: Er. Puneet Arora* & Er. Parimita**

Sandesh is a very popular heat-desiccated product of coagulated milk protein mass called chhana (a heat- and acid-coagulated product of milk that is analogous to cottage cheese) of West Bengal, India. Sen and Rajorhia (1990) mentioned that sandesh was also gaining popularity in other regions of India. Sandesh is prepared by continuous stirring of chhana with sugar over medium heat.

462-476

Authors: Pierre Sindambiwe* & Donah Mbabazi**,

Based on previous research investigated, we identified various factors affecting youth entrepreneurship like instance lack of access to finance, lack of business skills, psychological orientation, lack of market opportunity and others and measured their importance on unemployed youth. As unemployed youth can be categorized in three: unemployed uneducated ones, those in schools and unemployed educated ones, our study focused on those still in university.

484-488

Authors: Vidya Dass*

Till the Day I Die is based on the rise of communism in Germany when Hitler was in power. It concentrates on the plight of the German communists who were continuously arrested and tortured by the Nazis. Once arrested the communists do not accept them again in their camps. Ernst Tausig, the protagonist of the play is arrested and undergoes such suppressions but still foresee a promising new world. He is persuaded to commit suicide by one of the Nazi authorities who heart of hearts support the communists.

510-522

Authors: Shweta Upamanyu,

Hotel industry is facing a downfall in the rate of employees. Attrition in hotel industry is a matter of concern and its peak in current scenario. Reasons behind leaving of employees are many and moreover common in nature throughout the world. Among these reasons, one of the important reasons is the poor and improper HR policies adopted by the hotels. The study focuses on the HR policies adopted and benefits offered by the hotels to their employees as a reason of attrition.

534-543

Authors: Dr. Satish Modi *

In recent years, rural markets have acquired significance, as the overall growth of the economy has resulted into substantial increase in the purchasing power of the rural communities. On account of green revolution, the rural areas are consuming a large quantity of industrial and urban manufactured products. In this context, a special marketing strategy, namely, rural marketing has emerged.