IOSR-JHSS   Volume-20 ~ Issue-6 ~ June-2015

Abstract: The satellite TV revolution and the overpowering presence of Japanese cartoons in Indian market cannot be ignored. Cartoon channels have wide viewership among children in India and there is no denying of the fact that Japanese cartoons enjoy an appreciably high position in our children's list of favorites. This study will present the impact of Japanese cartoons on Indian children. The paper focuses on children's understanding of these programmes they watch and the cause for being fanatically attached to their favourite cartoons or their characters.

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ABSTRACT: The prime objective of the study is to examine the economic, social and demographic determinants and their impacts on household rural poverty among the Mishing tribe in Dhemaji and Sivasagar districts of Assam in North East India, and recommend remedial measures to the policy makers to reduce poverty. It is based on primary data collected through household level questionnaire from select twelve villages of the two districts. It was found that the prime determinants of poverty among the Mishing tribe are size of the household, dependency ratio, sex ratio, education, health, occupation as agriculture and allied, distance from town to the village, flood and erosion.

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ABSTRACT: Irrespective of the vast fund of information in the e –world, textbooks in schools still have a significant role in educating children as sources of knowledge and information for students and as a term of reference for teachers. At the same time text books promote gender stereotypism through their content, language and pictorial representations. Despite the several interventions taken to remove the sexist bias in educational system, it still exists as a formidable challenge to the development of egalitarian gender relations in the growing minds. A content analysis of the pictures portrayed in the English and Malayalam language text books of primary classes was undertaken to assess the extent of gender bias and stereotypism projected in them.

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ABSTRACT: Reality and illusion are often mixed in human life and this is not an alien subject in literature. Edward Albee is the most popular playwright and director of America who identifies the dangers of illusion. In Malayalam literature G. Sankarapillai was one of the eminent dramatist who daringly portrayed the illusion in human life on the stages of the Malayalam Theatre world. Albee portrays the disillusioned American people and their struggles to confront with reality.

[1]. Gupta, P. C. "Literature and Society." Literature and Society - Selected Essays. New Delhi: People's House, 1983. 33-49. Print.
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ABSTRACT: Location of petrol stations particularly in the urban center most at times subject the nearby settlements to high risk of hazards especially when environmental guidelines designed for their locations are not properly followed. With respect to this, the paper therefore examined the suitability of petrol stations sites at close proximities to residential houses in Maiduguri urban keeping in mind their: absolute locations; relief sites (elevations) of locations; how some plots of land were acquired for location of petrol stations and the implications of such location on Maiduguri urban settlements. As at 2010, there were 122 functional petrol stations located across 9 designated routes in Maiduguri urban with Airport/Kano route having the highest percent (19.67%) and Ali Kotoko-Gwange axis with the least (3.28%). Data for the study were sourced from field survey which ascertained the spatial location of the petrol stations, their elevations and co-ordinates using GPS (Garmin 76 CSX) devise.

[1]. Belson, K. (2008). "A Shortage At The Pump: Not of Gas, But of 4s." The New York Times. r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
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[4]. Department of Petroleum Resource (DPR, 2011). Maiduguri Zonal Office, Borno State.
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ABSTRACT: In recent years, the importance of sound public financial management (PFM) system is growing in developing countries especially in the high aid recipient countries of the sub-Saharan Africa and south and south-east Asia because the efficient use of funds from foreign assistance highly depends on the public financial management system of the recipient country. As a developing country with moderate degree of dependency on foreign assistance, Bangladesh also needs a sound PFM system which will ultimately support better governance to achieve the pro-poor developmental objectives of the government. This study mainly tries to measure the quality of PFM system in Bangladesh on the basis of Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment done by the World Bank in 2006 and Government of Bangladesh (GoB) in 2010.

[1]. P. de Renzio, and W. Dorotinsky, Tracking Progress in the Quality of PFM Systems in HIPCs., Washington, DC: PEFA Secretariat, 2007. (http://www.pefa.org/report_studies_file/HIPC-PEFA%20Tracking%20Progress%20Paper%20FINAL_1207944117.pdf)
[2]. World Bank, "Bangladesh Country Assistance Strategy 2006-2009",Washington DC, USA, 2006. (http://siteresources.worldbank.org/BANGLADESHEXTN/Resources/CAS_MAIN_BOOK_FINAL.pdf)
[3]. OECD-DAC, 2006 Survey on Monitoring the Paris declaration: Country Chapter- Bangladesh, Paris, France, 2007.
[4]. GoB, Bangladesh: Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment, Government of Bangladesh and SPEMP, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (2010). (http://www.pefa.org/en/assessment/bd-dec10-pfmpr-public-en), Last consulted: June 02, 2015.
[5]. P. de Renzio, Taking Stock: What do PEFA Assessments tell us about PFM systems across countries?, Working Paper No. 302, ODI, London, UK, 2009.

ABSTRACT: On the basis of the initial definition of ideophone as vivid representation of an idea in sound which may be described as predicate, qualificative or adverbial in respect to manner, colour, smell, action, state or intensity (Doke, 1935:118), the paper is aimed at exploring some of these features in Etulo language which is an endangered minority language spoken in Benue State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from native speakers of Etulo language resident in Adi, Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State through the use of digital recorders. The paper examines the identified ideophones along the line of the features of ideophones that have been identified cross-linguistically in the literature. The following findings could be confirmed for ideophones in Etulo. First, ideophones perform both adverbial and adjectival functions in the language. Secondly, tonally, there is preponderance of low tone than high tone. Thirdly, in terms of their syllabic structure, Etulo ideophones adhere to the syllable structure of the language, and partial and full reduplication can also be confirmed.

[1]. Ayowale, Y. (1983). On the semantic field of Yoruba ideophones. Journal of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria. 2: 11-22.
[2]. Ayowale, Y. (1984). Nominal Compound formation in Yoruba ideophones. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. Vol. 34: 139-157
[3]. Ayowale, Y. (1988). On the semantic field ideophones. Paper read at the 4th LAN Conference, University of Benin, July 20-23; published in JOLAN N0. 2, 11-12.
[4]. Ayowale, Y. (1989). Reduplication in Ideophones: A case of Yoruba Ideophone. Journal of West African Languages, XIX: (1) 15-34.
[5]. Bodomo Adams. (2006). The structure of Ideophones in African and Asian languages: the case of Dagaare and Cantonese. Retrieved from www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/paperr/310.pdf on 14/06/2013.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the relationship between social capital with empowering the librarians in the central libraries of Tehran public universities. The present study is a practical, descriptive, correlative one. The participants include 181 librarians of 24 central libraries of public universities in Tehran. The data collection tools are Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) social capital questionnaire and Ivancevish, Konopaske and Matson(2005) empowerment questionnaire. To analyze data, Pearson's correlation coefficient and sample t-test were used. The results indicated that there exists a meaningful relationship between these twocomponents social capital and empowering librarians of central libraries in Tehran public universities, and the level of meaningfulness is 1% and this relationship is weak, positive and direct. Therefore, to improve the performance of the staff and empowering this human capital based on social capital, the authorities should provide appropriate structures in organizational management strategy.

Keywords: social capital, empowerment, the librarians of central libraries in public universities of Tehran.

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ABSTRACT: This study was carried out to investigate Utilisation of ICT Facilities in Sabon-Gari Private Secondary Kaduna State. To do this, four research questions were formulated. The literature was review according to the research question pattern. A survey method was employed in the conduct of this study. The total number of 10 (100%) Ten Private School in Sabon-Gari were used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire; the data collected for the study were presented and analyzed using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

[1]. Agbonlahor Rosemary O. (2006). Motivation for Use of Information Technology by University Faculty: A developing country perspective Information Development, SAGE Publications. Vol. 22, No. 4
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[3]. Bonk J. Graham R. (2012): The Handbook of Blended Learning; Global Perspectives, Local Designs. San Francisco: Pfeiffer
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[5]. Birch Dawn and Burnett Bruce (2009). "Bringing Academics on Board: Encouraging Institution-wide Diffusion of e-learning Environment". Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2009, 25(1), 117-134s

ABSTRACT: This study aims at exploring teachers' views on the use of L1 in the classroom and possible reasons for the use of L1 while learning FL. To achieve the set objectives, questionnaires, and classroom observations were used to address the research questions and objectives.100 Secondary School teachers completed questionnaires, and 7 EFL classes were observed by the researcher. The study found out that teachers use Arabic language for purposes though their uses of Arabic within English classes ranged from "rarely" to "always". It is also showed that teachers demonstrated positive attitude towards the use of L1 within English classes. Finally, based on the findings, the study recommends a limited use of L1 in: explaining vocabularies, grammar, and concepts when necessary.

Key word: Arabic language, Second language, First language

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ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the fundamental causes of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It defines poverty and types of poverty, distinguishes between the proximate and fundamental causes of poverty, describes the vicious circle of poverty, reports poverty statistics in developing world,explains the role of government, and discusses the developmental state and growth-enhancing governance. The paper argues that pro-poorflawed policies, weak economic and political institutions, and culture may be the fundamental causes of poverty in the region.Transforming or building economic policies and institutions that aim at stimulating growth of labor income and inclusive economic growth in taking the human factors into account may improve welfare where extreme poverty is pervasive.

Keywords: Developmental state, governance, institutions, pro-poor policy,poverty, sub-Saharan Africa

[1]. United Nations Commission Economic for Africa (UNECA), Economic Report on Africa, 2014
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[4]. Boris and de Leon, The State of Society: Economic Success and Human Well-Being, Centre on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute, USA, 2010
[5]. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),The State of Food Security in the World, 2010

ABSTRACT: The creation of the state Meghalaya as an independent state of Indian union explained mostly to fulfil the aspirations of the indigenous tribal people of the region. Through the creation of the state the political rights of the people are being exercised with a goal to bring development in the state as a separate unit of Indian union but not as a part of Assam. On the eve of its formation as a full- fledged state Meghalaya was allotted 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In Meghalaya the first general election to the newly created sixty members Legislative Assembly was held on March 9th 19721. In the present paper a sincere attempt has been made by the scholar to shed some light on the electoral history of assembly elections to Meghalaya legislative assembly since its very first election till the recent one.

[1]. Information Book On Meghalaya Elections, Office Of The Chief Electoral Officer, (1972-2009) Shillong,2010, P. 11
[2]. R.P. Bhalla, Elections In India, 1952 To 1993, New Delhi: S.Chand And Co., 1973 P 1
[3]. Ganguly And Ganguly, Voting Behaviour In A Developing Society, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1975, P 1.
[4]. S.K.Caube, Electoral Politics In Northeast India, Madrass : University Press,1985, P. 135
[5]. Ibid
[6]. Ibid, P. 145

ABSTRACT: The importance of Migrant workers in the recent globalized world cannot be overemphasized. There are about 150 million people living outside their country of birth. Out of these, 12 million are refugees and 97 million migrant workers. But it is unfortunate that Migrant workers have fallen victims of different levels of degrading and inhuman treatments in their countries in recent time. The United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW)in December 1990.OnJuly, 1 2003; thetwenty firststatesratifiedtheConvention.

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[5]. Law and Justice in Korea, by Chongkochoi, Seoul National University press, Seoul, Republic of Korea.