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The coastal systems of the world are crucially important to humankind and are under ever-increasing threat from activities within and outside the coastal zone. While human dependence on coastal systems has greatly increased in the last centuries, the impacts on the ecology of these habitats have become so severe that their productivity and functioning have been altered, mostly in the last few decades. Kannur district is one of the rapid urbanising districts in Kerala according to the 2011 census.

This paper projects the prominent social living of the villagers has been spotlighted by Raja Rao in Kanthapura which can rightly be called a social document where the whole novel bristles with the social problems like untouchability labour exploitation, widowhood, drinking and enervating superstitions misconceived as religion. It also portrays how Gandhiji aimed for a complete transformation of society and how he strongly and forcefully condemned untouchability.

Education is the basis upon which economic, social and political development of any nation is founded. Thus despite its high cost, goverments and households invest heavily in all forms of education. However, little is known about educational policies that promote equity in schooling across age and gender. This paper sheds light on the associations between gender, age, enrolment and the cost of secondary education using data from one county in Eastern Kenya.

Kerala stands as a model in the implementation of Land Reforms in India. In recent times, there is a growing discussion in the disparity between land reforms and equity in land ownership. The present paper tries to argue that even though land reforms become successful in Kerala by providing land to a minor proportion of people, it failed to give them economic independence. Because, through Land Reforms Act, it was given only a small piece of land for their shelter and it was quite impossible for them to depend completely on this plot of land for their livelihood.

Education is to change the behavior pattern of the learners to a positive direction. In this connection, teaching aptitude plays a significant role and therefore the present study attempted to investigate teaching aptitude among the school teachers. Based on the requirement, a sample of 15 Primary School teachers (Assistant teacher) and 24 Secondary school teachers (Junior teachers) of Upper Siang district were selected and the Tool used was designed and developed by 1). Dr. S.C. Gakhar (Chandigarh) and Dr. Rajnish (Fazilka) for investigation of Teaching aptitude.

Women in the world have a huge contribution for the economic, political and social development of nations. Teaching is one of the social aspect wherein women are involved. In the Ethiopian context, the participation of women in teaching, especially in higher education has been growing from time to time. However, information about how to cope up their challenges is not well studied. Acquainted of this gap, this study attempted to explore the coping mechanisms of new graduate female instructors for their challenges by taking Bahir Dar University as a case in point.

Northeast of Brazil stands out in fruit production, where passion fruit is regarded as one of the major cultures with significant productivity nowadays. The great interests of agribusiness focus on production of various products such as pulp, juice and fresh consumption. However, fruit processing generates a large amount of waste, as the peel of passion fruit. Peels usually have high nutritional value and great potential of industrialization, but most of the time it is thrown away, causing environmental problems.

Employment is a locomotive of a natioal economy. Through the years the question how to employ extensive labour force was the greatest issue of the state and particulary of each government of Kyrgyzstan. The answer is a trivial but not so easy to accomplish. Hundred thousands of labour migrants are abroad and they are not always safe and protected due to their status has been “left hanging up in the air” while they could be employed legally.

Entrepreneurs are driven to achieve success in their business along with the qualities of a Leader, Manager, Dreamer, Innovator, risk taker, continues learner, decision maker & most important is to implement all these qualities into the work. There are a lot of examples of the entrepreneurs in South India who are now called synonymous of ‘Success”. They saw the bigger picture but wisely started their business as a very small unit. Entrepreneurs set the example of turning their dream into reality.

The people living in one area of the world basically move towards the other part of the world for the purpose of taking temporary or permanent residence. People go to other part of the country and as well as overseas with the intention of improving their living conditions and leave the place of their origins in search of work but unfortunately it implicit adverse effect on their families who are left behind. The researcher attempts to determine and explore the impacts of husband absence due to the mobility on their family.