IOSR-JHSS   Volume-22 ~ Issue-1 ~ January-2017

Abstract: The issue of good governance though has always remained in the forefront in journey of modernisation, at least at the theoretical level, yet the unequal distribution of resources and consequently, elimination of the people living in the peripheral regions, very often create violent and bizarre conditions having disastrous implications for poor and weaker sections of the society of which the women become the first victim. In any society, no matter how developed it is, the main targets of these violent changes are women, children and the aged, particularly those belonging to lower sections of society.......

Keywords: De-cultured, Deity System, Hegemonic Masculinity, Panchayti Raj Institutions, Subordination, MNREGA.

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Abstract: Acquiring techno-pedagogical proficiencies will make teaching and learning a pleasurable exercise as it would minimize the pressure on the teachers and enable the students to delve deeper into domain of knowledge. Teacher education curriculum is responsible for imparting such abilities to modern teachers. This paper is an effort to review newly revised and restructured elementary teacher education curriculum of Kerala for contents to improve techno pedagogical skills of student teachers. And the paper will try to perform analysis on the effectiveness of the current contents enabling techno pedagogical skills, in the teacher education curriculum of Kerala and also, it will try to identify the challenges in transaction of technological contents in current syllabus. Despite the existing contents for enabling techno pedagogical skills, there are still many areas need improvement, the paper will also provide suggestions for further development in those sections.

Keywords: Infusion, techno pedagogy, elementary teacher education curriculum

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Abstract: Globalization has shaped every facet of human life, and its inevitability has also impacted the culture and creative industries. Driven largely by economic benefits and advances in cross-border communication technologies, globalization of cultural goods and services has been hailed as a welcome development. Many societies are taking advantage of this as an opportunity to export their culture, increase their global soft power, and establish their presence and relevance in the global space. In this regard, Nigeria competes with many other countries. Her cultural output as a nation has been recognized and acknowledged globally, placing her on a pedestal far above her African contemporaries...........

Keywords: Creative and culture industries, fashion, globalization, music

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Abstract: Human effort is a critical major factor in the performance and growth of organisations. Tools such as machines, materials and money cannot be meaningful without being driven by human. Human elements however, are not documented in balance sheets of organisations like physical and intangible assets, which would lead to the understatement of true organisations' performances. This study therefore examined the mediating role of human asset accounting on organizational performance and growth in Nigeria banking industry. Survey and ex-post facto research designs were adopted. The population consisted of the management staff of eighteen quoted banks in Nigeria........

Keywords – Human Asset-Accounting, Nigerian Banks, Performance, Growth

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Abstract: The study reiterates the challenges of tax revenue generation in developing countries. While the advanced countries have traditionally performed well in tax revenue generation, developing countries continue to perform poorly. This accounts for the economic development challenges faced by these countries. The study identifies tax noncompliance as a key factor for the current underperformance of tax revenue in developing countries. However, there are over sixty variables associated with tax noncompliance in existing literature and this could lead to confusion in the effort to tackle noncompliance. There is need to streamline existing variables by identifying the key ones in the context of developing countries........

Key words :- Audit and sanction ,Carrot and stick, Developing countries, Socioeconomic condition,Tax compliance

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Abstract: The term 'wetland' is used broadly and covers a wide range of environmental units including swamps, bogs, salt marshes, lakes and some river edges. Wetlands have simultaneously been described as the "Kidneys of Landscape" and as "Biological Supermarkets" because they act as stock of natural resources, have potential to provide diverse flows of various socio-economic services. But unfortunately, countrywise wetland loss over the last 150 years is calculated at a staggering 90% due human need and greed. Labpur block in Birbhum district is a wetland dominated block. About 12.64% area out of total block area is under wetlands. There are 10 major seasonal...........

Keywords: Barrage Construction, Embankment construction, Ground water draft, Irrigation, Road construction

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Abstract: One of emerging central claims in the field of International Cooperation as regards to Chinese engagement with ASEAN countries is that China has conceptualized and developed the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (NMSR) as a strategy of strategic shift from the total use of hard power tools to deployment of a combination of both hard and soft power tools as new mechanisms of engagement with ASEAN with the aim of consolidating Chinese influence over ASEAN so as to reduce serious tensions over territorial disputes in South China Sea.Drawing on the significance of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the theoretical perspectives of hard power and soft power...........

Keywords: 21st Century New Maritime Silk Road, Hard and Soft Power, Strategic Smart Power, Territorial Disputes and Joint Economic Development and Prosperity

[1] Attayanake, C (2016). China's MSR and ASEAN: Extension of Peaceful Development or Furthering Influence?
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Abstract: Background: The Vedas, Agamas, Upanishads, Vayu Purana, Brihaddharma Purana, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata, Shiksha granthas, and other ancient writings of our country offer invaluable references to the essential concepts of law. seven swaras, three gramas, twenty one murchanas, three swaras, three gramas, three gramas, three gramas, three gramas, three gramas, three grama. There are nine rasas, three sthayis (octaves), layas (speeds), srutis, and so on............

Keywords: Indian Music, Information, Musical Instruments, Improvisation

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Abstract: In common parlance salt is a white substance obtained from mines, present in sea water whence obtained from by evaporation, salt is used especially for flavouring & preserving food. Sodium Cloride (NaCl) i.e. salt is a Chemical Compound of a metal and an acid. Salt may be put to enumerable uses. Its essence may be assigned various applellations and different cannotions. Many maxims are based on salt e.g. springling salt on wounds, salt treaties-salt tetre etc. Saltage connotes anything that makes things more interesting and living. "If salt looses its saltage, where......

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Abstract: The basic themes that Narayan mainly focuses in his novels are : the study of feminist sensibility, myth and reality, family and various family relationships, the renunciation, and the conflict between tradition and modernity etc. Narayan's method is to treat his themes, not in abstract or didactic terms but in terms of individuals in flesh and blood and their experience. The themes of Narayan are all inter-related and interdependent. The present paper will deal with the thematic study in R.K. Narayan's works and to show how the essence of Narayan's fiction is to present the traditional Indian value & the social consciousness in its totality......

Keywords: Feminist sensibility, Tradition and modernity, Indian Values and Social consciousness

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Abstract: Organizational productivity in all consequences is an essential concentration for each association as it estimates their determinant part as well as decides their accomplishment of profit and attainment of organizational goal. According to Shaout and Yousif (2014), productivity is defined as the rate at which an employer, organization, or country produces items and the amount produced in relation to the amount of time, effort, and money required to generate them. Productivity is concerned with how well individuals combine resources like raw materials, labor, abilities, capital, hardware, land, protected innovation, administrative skill, and monetary funding to deliver goods and services. moonlight tend to have higher standards of life, and they frequently try out other jobs to see how their talents fare. Job......

Keywords: organizational productivity, moonlighting organizational goals, employee, individual, capability

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