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In this paper, we proposed an offline Arabic handwriting character recognition system for isolated characters obtained by camera phone. Initially doing some pretreatments on the picture, the text is segmented into lines and then into characters. In a second phase, we have employed a several methods for extracting the features form the handwriting Arabic character, these methods are: Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Gabor Filters, Zoning, Projection Histogram, and Distance Profile. In addition, we have also tested the various combinations of Gabor Filters and Zoning.

The present research has as objective to build a panorama of Brazilian researches about self-efficacy of teachers in Basic Education, considering the period from 2006 to 2016, in order to identify the findings referring this construct, and concomitantly identifying possible gaps. The research is characterized as a systematic review, in which the method consists on data analysis with a mixed approach (quanti-quali).

Increasing population generates a number of challenges for today and in the future world. According to the results of World Population Prospect 2015, world population reached 7.3 billion as of mid-2015 and continually increasing to 11.2 billion in 21001.

This paper examines the impact of supporting pre-service teachers to use cooperative learning in one initial teacher education institution in England. In a context where the government requires all teacher education to be ‘schoolled’ and where school partners do not commonly use cooperative learning (Baines, Rubie-Davies, and Blatchford 2009), this presents challenges. Ensuring that government priority areas are fully addressed also squeezes the time available for pre-service teachers to develop the necessary depth of understanding of cooperative learning.

The study has been conducted in Viman Nagar, Pune in order to analyze the Kirana stores and the problems they are facing presently which is restricting them to convert into the organized stores. The study also covers the aspect that how developed the Kirana stores are in Viman Nagar. The study has been conducted by considering the no. of employees, sex ratio of the employees, nearness of the stores to each other, no.

The purpose of this research is to find out the significant effect of using CLT through Small Group Discussion on students’ reading and writing skills for Senior High School level in Kampar regency of Riau province..It was carried out by using a quasi-experimental design. The research participants were the tenth-grade students that consisted of 72 students divided into two classes, namely an experimental group and a control group. In the process of data collection, pre-test, post-test and observation were used.

Beta thalassaemia is what is called an inherited disease due to abnormal hemoglobin production. It’s not an infectious disease. Near to 3,500 patients with beta thalassaemia lives in Sri Lanka. The survival measures and factors that affect to survival thalassaemia patients in Sri Lanka is unclear. Therefore, this study was mainly performed to determine the statistical analyze on survival of the beta thalassaemia patients in Sri Lanka. Relevant data were collected from Hemals thalassaemia care unit in Ragama hospital during the time period between 2000 and 2017.

This research paper compares the performance of two competitive financial instrument available to indian investors namely ETFs and Index fund, with the perspective different parameters like return, performance effectiveness, expense ratio, tracting ability etc and investment behaviour of investor. This analysis demonstrate better performance of ETFs in terms of their expense ratio and performance effectiveness over long term investment horizon.

Entry strategies are one of the important decisions in the process of internationalization. Decision on entry mode is one of the most critical decisions having significant and far-reaching consequences on a firm's performance and survival in the target foreign market. This study focuses on the path of internationalization of Indian Pharmaceutical industry and makes an attempt to identify the major determinants influencing entry mode decision.

Play has found little, if any acceptance in most of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) centers in Homa Bay Sub -County. The purpose of this study therefore was to determine the influence of pretend play on pre-school children’s holistic development. The study employed correlation research design. Two sets of questionnaires were used to gather information from the Managers/Head teachers and Pre-School teachers while an observation checklist was used to establish the presence of pretend play materials and their use in learning.