IOSR-JHSS   Volume-22 ~ Issue-9 ~ September-2017

Abstract: This paper aims to provide an overview of the firing debate of protectionism vs environmentalism and its serious effect on the developing countries.The research objective of this research paper is to understand the relationship between trade and environment in general and then closely analyzing the current scenario of using the environmental concerns for trade distortion and discrimination to the various emerging, developing and least developed nations in the form of non-tariff barriers. The objective of this paper is also to understand whether the unilateral agreements of various developed countries are acting as a nuisance or catalyst for the cross border trades which are supported by case studies. The research is completely based on authenticated secondary data and case study method and the conclusion is completely based on the interpretations of the literature review of the authors.

Key terms: Discrimination, Environmentalism, Green-Protectionism, Trade-distortion, Unilateral agreement,

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Abstract: The goal of this paper is to focus on the implementation and the effect of various legislation that has been passed by the Indian Government. Most of the Acts discussed were originally implanted in the mid-to- late 1900s but because of poor implementation, they did not make a difference. These acts have gone through scrutiny, and thus in recent years have had amendments added to this or new acts written all together so that real progress can be made. The acts that are discussed in this paper include the Equal Remuneration Act, the Dowry Prohibition Act, the Maternity Benefit Act, the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act. All the acts have made significant progress in the progress of society, but the most significant was the Equal Remuneration Act. However, more.........

Keywords:Women Empowerment, Women Education, Gender Equality, Gender-based Legislation, Social Justice

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Abstract: This study explores the Attitude of senior secondary school students towards Continuous& Comprehensive Evaluation in relation to Scholastic achievement. The simple random sampling technique was used to draw the sample of 200 students of Allahabad city. The researcher used self prepared tool for the study and calculated its reliability and validity. The major findings of the study are: The attitude of senior secondary school students of different schools of CBSE does not differ significantly towards CCE pattern.Most favourable and least favourable group of attitude towards Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation of students differ significantly on the measure of scholastic achievement and Attitude of girls and boys do not differ significantly towards CCE............

KEYWORDS:Attitude of senior secondary school students towards Continuous& Comprehensive Evaluation, Scholastic Achievement

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Abstract: Generally one's hair makes a statement about how they see themselves both internally and externally. Through the ages, styles and trends have changed especially among women most of whom perceive that, a bad hair equals a bad day. Hair and beauty is a booming industry. In Kenya, the average woman spends Ksh. 500 and almost two hours a month washing and styling her hair. This is not only because many of us believe that appearances are important, but also because our hair represents our personality, thoughts and beliefs. Head hair is similar to style of dress because it too, is easily manipulated, changed and given meaning. There are few things that hair has symbolized for women throughout...........

[1]. Adiji, E "Visual Documentation of Traditional Nigerian Hairstyles and Designs as a means of Expressing Social & Cultural Heritage through Photography" Global Journal of Arts, Humanities& Social Sciences, Vol.3, No.6, 2015.
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Abstract: The indication of academic performance evaluation in state universities and colleges have been a constant practice in the Philippines. Performance is the completion of a known job and undertaking that is evaluated and measured against preset known standards of correctness, exactness, completeness, speed, and efficiency.Assessment of specific practices of each and every faculty help determine if it commensurate expectations from students, academic stand point, in relation to program's objectives.This study utilized descriptive research design to describe the phenomenon quantitatively and conducted during the Second Semester of School Year 2016-2017 at Leyte Normal University, BS Information Technology program. A total of 84% from the 392 expected respondents participated............

Keywords: Faculty Performance Evaluation, Student Rating, Information Technology, Professionalism, Commitment, Knowledge of the Subject, Teaching for Independent Learning, Management of Learning, Quantitative

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Abstract: The paper presents religious minorities especially Pasis, Muslims and Christians who feel sense of insecurity, anxiety and threat in a dominated culture through different time periods and crisis as presently felt by Muslims and Dalits. Rohinton Mistry has written three novels like Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1996) and Family Matters (2002). He has portrayed India in his works. Although he left his homeland India, and is immigrant writer ,but his novels are true picture of India in its social, political and cultural sense. His novels often deals with the life of Indians who suffer from communal disharmony, religious and caste discriminations, religious Chauvinism, ethnicity and cultural diversities. His novels mainly presents realistic picture of the minority community of the Parsi people, its fears...........

Keywords: Religious Minorities, Sense of Insecurity, Anxieties, Religious Chauvinism, Threat of Decline.

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Abstract: People around Limboto Lake are generally dependent on the activity of agriculture and fisheries as a source of life. The lake's environmental changes caused the residents to lose their livelihoods and further decline their revenues. Ultimately, the residents should be able to manage their resources in order to come up with various livelihood strategies to meet the needs of the household. The purpose of this research is to analyze the livelihood strategies around Limboto Lake. The study employs a survey research method which combines quantitative and qualitative approaches. The research takes place..........

Keywords: livelihood strategies

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Abstract: Indian agriculture is producing very large quantity, approximately 500 million tonnes of crop residues every year (MNRE, 2016) which may either burnt in the field that produces green house gases ultimately or left in the field unutilized. Here, a review work has been done to get an eco-friendly fiber which would be the product of extraction of all possible agriculture based bio-waste, crop residues, stalks, straw etc of rice, wheat, maize, sunflower and mach more. Here all possible methods of fiber extraction like different retting processes, namely, dew, water, enzymatic, mechanical, and chemical retting, mechanical and alkali methods were comprehensively reviewed to find out suitable methodology...........

Keywords: Agriculture Based Bio-Waste, Crop Residues, Fiber Extraction Methods, Eco-Friendly

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Abstract: This research is motivated by the empirical fact that there are still many people of Orang Rimba Tribe community in Jambi Province, both school children and adults who have not got their right to get a decent education, even in basic reading and writing. The purposes of this reserach is to develop environmentally friendly reading and writing materials to be used at the Orang Rimba Orangutan Community School in Jambi Province that are valid, practical and effective. The availability of teaching materials is expected to meet the needs of teachers and learners to facilitate and streamline the learning process. This research includes research and development (R & D) in 4-D model (define, design, develop, and disseminate). The subjects of limited product trial were conducted in six schools of............

Keywords: Teaching materials for basic reading and writing, environment-based, forest schools

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Abstract: The paper attempted to review trends and gaps which had existed with respect to gender dimension of education in India. For such a purpose, authors extracted relevant statistics with respect to various significant aspects of education at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Institute for Statistics' (UIS) depository. Extracted statistics followed a conceptual statistical framework designed by the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) in order to arrange statistical and quantitative information on education. After tabulating and analysing statistics, these trends and gaps became apparent. It turned out to be certain..........

Keywords: Trends, Gaps, Gender, Education, UIS, ISCED.

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Abstract: The purpose of the study was to establish the influence of Right Based planning Approach on performance of NGOs in Kisumu County, Kenya. NGO projects have important activities in the world over. In Kenya, they contribute significantly to livelihoods. In this regard, the following objective guides the study; to determine the extent to which right based planning approach influence performance of NGOs in Kisumu County and to investigate the moderating influence of organizational culture on the performance of NGOs activities. From these, two null hypotheses were developed; : There is no significant relationship between right based planning approach and performance of NGOs in Kisumu County and : There is no significant relationship between organizational culture and performance of..........

Keywords: Project Planning, Right Based Approach, Organizational Culture, Performance, NGOs

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Abstract: Condominium-Hotel (condotel) is a type of property that is thriving today, and will grow more rapidly in the future. Condotel is a relatively new property compared to the property business in general and bythe orientation of the private property entrepreneur profit or profit. Units condotel is increasingly attractive to the community along with the more expensive and limited land and the level of congestion in big cities where many communities that have high activity, poured in a document and/or a binding agreement and must be filled by the consumer. The purpose of establishing the standard agreement is to provide convenience and practicality for the parties concerned, but considering that make the developer PPJB, surely there is a tendency of subjektifitas the interests of developers..............

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