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Within the last few year considerable progresses has been made in three closely related areas-the theory of portfolio selection, the theory of the pricing of capital asset under the condition of risk, and the general behaviour of stock market prices. Result obtained in all three areas is relevant for evaluating mutual fund performance. However with this reference, i want to analyse the performance of mutual fund with the help of Sharpe ratios which are used for the portfolio evaluation.

Strategy Implementation is the process that turns strategies and plans into actions in order to accomplish strategic objectives and goals. It involves organization of the firm’s resources and motivation of the staff with a view of attaining its objectives. Organizational performance is the organization’s ability to attain its goals by using resources in an efficient and effective manner. The objective of the study was to assess the influence of strategy implementation on performance of Cisco Academy Support Center in Kenya.

With globalization and large scale internet brand names, usage trade, trade names, etc. have immense importance that require standardized minimum standards of protection and proficient procedures for enforcement which were recognized under the TRIPS agreement. The recent legal doctrines of ‘initial interest confusion’ and ‘nominative fair use’ have become very common phrases to define the scope of acceptable trademark usage on the internet. After extensive review and subsequent amendment of the old Indian Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958, the new Trade Marks Act, 1999 was enacted.

Playing is universal and it is not a matter of luxury but is claimed to be a fundamental human need just like food and shelter. Thereby the UN Convention on Rights of the Child declared that playing is a basic right for all children. By exploring the history kids of all cultures across the globe have played with toys and games and also are considered to be critical element in growing up. It is also believed through researches that playing with toys and games improves the child’s physical, mental and social development as well as its emotional health and well-being.

There is an increase in the forest cover to the tune of 3,775 sq km compared to the assessment done by FSI, Government of India and on its outset it looks as if India is doing very well on this frontier but the scenario is other way round, the country is doing well on the plantation forest but the country looks loosing on the natural forest front.

The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been rocked by conflicts since the 1960s, unfortunately women and children suffer the most from the consequences occasioned by activities of oil exploration and vandalization. Very few studies though have paid attention to the role and concerns of women in the peacemaking and peace building processes in the region. It is against this background that this study seeks to locate the role of women in attempt to solving the imbroglio. Four research questions were generated for this study.

This paper aimed to give suggestions for the product design industry on making products more sustainable and ergonomic in terms of material selection and product development. In the context, Evaluation principles for sustainable design such as the ‘Sustainable Product and Service Development’ pyramid, the ‘Bournemouth Evaluation Model’ and the ‘Life Cycle Assessment’ is analyzed separately. Discussions are made on principles of ‘Ergonomics’ and their applications.

As a part of the Bretton Woods System, International Trade Organization (ITO) wassupposed to formulate and implement the rules of ‘free and fair’ trade in ‘goods’. As it turned outto be a blue-baby, in 1948 GATT emerged as an ‘agreement’ with 23 contracting parties. It wasonly in January 1995 that a full-fledged institution, i.e., WTO was established withresponsibilities akin to those conceived in ITO Charter. However, the agenda of WTO is muchwider in scope as compared to the ITO. A unique feature of WTO is its dispute settlementprocedure (DSP).

This is an automated tool to be developed, which asks requirements of any kind of educational system irrespective of conceptual, Olympiad, private institute, autonomous, and university. From the entered data, data preprocessing is applied initially to correct the mistakes in the given data. The quality data is taken as input to TBTEES_DP, which then draws a tree that depicts the functioning or evaluation of results. The output of the TBTEES_DP is a tree which gives more meaningful information to all about the evaluation of education system.

A modern research shows that, both presidential and parliamentary systems are applied in democracy countries. They have advantages and disadvantages, for instance presidential system establishes the presidency and the legislature as two parallel structures. Furthermore, Presidential system provides more stability than a prime minister who can be dismissed at any time. However, other researchers observed that, Presidential system is tendency towards authoritarianism.