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Among the climatic elements, the rainfall is the first index, ever thought of by farmers and climatic analysers as it is the most important single factor, which determines the cropping pattern of an area in general, the type of crop to be cultivated and its success or failure in particular. Therefore, the present study deals the rainfall characteristics of the Ambuliyar watershed, which includes the spatial distribution and its variability through different seasons. The study was used 30 years (1984 to 2013) monthly rainfall data for 10 rain gauge stations.

The Indian railway is one of the largest and busiest rail network in the world, transporting sixteen million passengers and more than one million tons of freight daily. Its serves the passengers in a big way, therefore there is a need to integrate passenger concerns in the operation, planning and other processes that impact passenger services and its quality in bigger way and it effectively monitors the creation and maintenance of a good services. Hence in this study is made upon the satisfaction level and problems faced by the southern Indian passengers.

Budget is an essential controlling tool. It can help to plan, implement, execute and manage the strategic plan for the organization. There are behavioral issues relating to budgets such as dysfunctional behaviors of manager and budgetary slack. These behavioral issues become more obvious when their actual performance is to be compared with and evaluated against budget performance. The outcome of the comparison and evaluation can have a direct relation to the amount of incentives (monetary and non-monetary) they can receive.

The rapid development of science makes human life easier. Behind the ease that arises the real problems experiencing human life shifts such as: moral shift, normal and life view has occurred some people in Bali. This study aims to find out in depth efforts to prevent premarital sex relations of Hindu teenagers in Bali. The research method used in this research is social theory, conflict theory, functional structural theory and symbolic interactionism based on observation and respondents between 13 years old and 22 years old.

The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of teachers’ instructional monitoring for quality teaching and learning in public and private secondary schools in Ebonyi state. One research question and one null hypothesis guided the study. It was a descriptive survey and all the public and private secondary schools in the three education zones in the sate namely: Abakaliki Afikpo and Onueke were covered. The study population constituted a total of 10, 360 whereas the sample was made up of 1036 teachers selected through proportionate random sampling technique.

This study was designed to investigate the influence of gender, parenting style and peer pressure on the adolescents conflicts with parents in Ebonyi State. It is a descriptive survey guided by four research questions and four hypotheses all derived from the purpose of the study. The population of the study consists of all the Senior Secondary School SS2 adolescent students from all the 221 Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State. Using stratified sampling technique, nine (9) schools weredrawn from the entire population, three from each of the Education Zone.

This study examined the Effect of Board Characteristics on the performance of listed food and Beverages firms in Nigeria. The study adopted ex-post facto research design which relied on secondary data collected from the financial statements of thirteen (13) firms out of fourteen (14) listed food and Beverages firms in Nigeria for the period of 2009 to 2015. Correlation and Regression were used to analyse the data. The results indicated that Board Composition and Board size shows significant relationship with Return on Assets of the sampled firms at 10% and 1% respectively.

In this article the evolution of shamanistic changes under the influence of Islam was analyzed. Also, the attitude of Islamic religious people to shaman bakhshis was revealed on the basis of ethnographic materials.

Disasters disrupt education and can cause psychological trauma. This research examined disaster awareness and preparedness of secondary schools in Homa-Bay County, Kenya.

Introduction: The experience of professional choice is often marked by anguish caused by internal and social conflicts, so the adolescent at this stage needs to deal with the influences of family and friends, so the importance of self-knowledge as an essential internal resource and facilitator is emphasized. in the future planning process. Objective: The objective of the present study was to verify the position of adolescents in relation to their professional choices, investigate social influences, the importance of self - knowledge in deciding and articulating future plans.