IOSR-JHSS   Volume-21 ~ Issue-2 ~ Feb-2016

Abstract: Geography and health are closely linked. Where we are born, live, study and work directly influences our health. The natural and built environments affect our health and well being in ways that are directly relevant to health policy. Spatial location (the geographic context of places and the connectedness between places) plays a major role in shaping environmental risks as well as many other health effects. For example, locating health care facilities, targeting public health strategies or monitoring disease outbreaks all have a geographic context.

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Abstract: Adolescence is the most important period of human life. It is considered to be the very special period of human life cycle. It is a period of rapid development which is important for the impact on the total development of human personality. The rapid physical development cause undue worries in both boys and girls. The present study was conducted to assess the problems of adolescent girls in the area of physical, social and emotional adjustments. A sample consisting of 300 adolescent girls 150 from co-educational Assamese medium schooland 150 from co-educational English medium schools of Kamrup district (R) of Assam was taken for the study. R.K.Ojha Bells Adjustment Inventory and a self-devised questionnaire were used to collect data from the sample. The statistical measures adopted were: Mean, standard Deviation and t-test. The results revealed that there is no significant difference of problems of adjustment between the adolescent girls studying in English medium and Assamese medium schools.

Key Words: Adolescence, Adjustment, Emotional, Personality, Physical, Social

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Abstract: Capacity building has gathered growing recognition from policymakers, grant-making bodies and international development agencies in recent years. It rests on the principle that investing in the human and social capital of marginalised individuals and groups enables them to develop the capacities needed to thrive, and to play an autonomous role in developing and renewing their communities. Both concept and practice have evolved in the development communities, ranging from the institution-building approach in the 1950s, to the human resource development approach in the 1970s and 1980s, to the capacity development/knowledge networks in the 2000s.

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Abstract: Objectives are the foundations upon which any system rests. They not only form the base of any system but also provide direction to specific and controlled movements. In the present time when the world has been perceived as a global village, people are thinking about global objectives so as to give global dimension to education. DFID (Department for International Development) an international body, in its goals of millennium development has laid a great emphasis on education. It is working closely with the governments of poor countries to improve both the access to and the quality of schooling. It recognizes the need to work with partner governments and the international community. Targeting to attain universal primary education and gender parity, it also aims at sustaining the achievement of these goals as the basis for expanding and developing all levels of education system and contributing to economic growth.

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Abstract: In Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe saves a cannibal and names him Friday, and thereby gives him his identity. Along with this he transmits his ideology into Friday. This article seeks to introduce Friday as an alter ego of Robinson Crusoe in the light of the activities, attitudes, and instincts of the former. Crusoe makes Friday his disciple after his arrival in the island and Friday accepts Crusoe as his ideological father. He, in fact, is a harbinger of Crusoean ideology. The article, thus, aims at deconstructing the notion that Friday is only a slave−a mere representative of the Colonized. Considering the variegated events between the two, this study will add a new dimension to the existing criticism on the relation between Friday and Crusoe and motivate readers to reconsider Friday from a new perspective.

Keywords: adaptation, alter ego, ideology, instinct, relation

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Abstract: Despite the absolute prohibition of torture in international law, it continues to be practiced in more than 100 countries, from totalitarian regimes to democracies. Countries frequently justify the use of torture as a necessary means to extract confessions, identify terrorists, and obtain intelligence critical to preventing future violence1. The practice of torture has been widespread and predominant in India since time immemorial. Unchallenged and unopposed, it has become a "normal‟ and "legitimate‟ practice all over. In the name of investigating crimes, extracting confessions and punishing individuals by the law enforcement agencies, torture is inflicted not upon the accused, but also on bona fide petitioners, complainants or informants amounting to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, grossly derogatory to the dignity of the human person.

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Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess perceptions of academic staff on the internal quality management practices of the Ethiopian higher education. Descriptive survey research method was used. Data were collected from three universities using questionnaire. The mean scores per item and per scale as well as, the standard error and the standard deviation per scale were computed. In addition, the data were analysed, by using a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Importance-performance analysis. The findings indicate that academic staff of the universities perceived the internal quality management practice as poor. Thus, to improve the internal quality management practice of the universities, it was recommended that the universities management should focus on areas considered by the academic staff as top priority and required immediate attention

Key words: perception, academic staff, internal quality management, higher education

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Abstract:Urbanization is considered as one of the most influential drivers of land use and land cover change and has been shaping societies all over the world. Kashmir Valley is the most urbanized region in the Himalayas and during the last few decades, it has experienced excessive population growth and economic development which has resulted in large scale unplanned urbanization and urban sprawl. The present paper attempts to analyze the demographic and land use/land cover changes in a few selected medium sized towns of Kashmir Valley (Bandipora, Baramulla, Sopore, Kupwara and Ganderbal) to assess the impact of urbanization on land resources. The analysis reveals that the urban growth has mostly occurred at the cost of agricultural land, wetlands and vacant/barren land.

[1]. Balogun, I.A., Adeyewa, D.Z., Balogun, A.A. And Morakinyo, T.E.; (2011); Analysis Of Urban Expansion And Land Use Changes
In Akure, Nigeria, Using Remote Sensing And Geographic Information System (GIS) Techniques; Journal Of Geography And
Regional Planning, Vol. 4; pp. 533-541.
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Abstract: An Enemy of the People, though is read as one of Ibsen's plays that express freedom of speech, can be read from a new approach—ecocriticism. Ecocriticism studies the prevalent relationship between literature and environment and responses different attitudes of human beings towards nature. An Enemy of the People displays how human beings exploit nature for their own interest and forget their inescapable position—human beings are an inseparable part of nature, and they are not superior to and/or different from nature. Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the eco-friendly man in the play, discovers a latent threat in the baths water, which is polluted because of the commercial waste; he suggests its immediate recovery.

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Abstract: This paper explores the socio –economic profile of the women and further investigates the perception about the healthy food, the discrimination in serving the food and belief and privacy about food. In this paper, the researcher investigated the phenomenon by using interview and observation technique at a village of Bulandshahr District, U.P. (India). The results revealed that majority of the women are Hindu who belonged to the early age group (25-45) and OBC castes, educated up to secondary and higher secondary level belonged to lower income group, were housewives, lived in middle size houses and in nuclear families. During the field observation it is found that people are vegetarian considered milk and milk products, ghee, butter, green, vegetables and pulses as more essential for the health of the people.

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