Social Sciences and Humanities

Ever since the dawn of the cultural history of mankind, the question of acquiring knowledge has become a problem. Time passed. Man advanced very much in procuring knowledge in various fields of his existence such arts and literature, science and technology, economics, commerce etc. Nations and countries emerged. They began giving more importance to the methods being employed for educating the masses in various fields of knowledge. Modern nations give stress on scientific advancement through the application of many theories and methods found out by famous educationists and scientists.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been transformed from an irrelevant and often frowned-upon idea to one of the most popular and widely accepted concepts in the business world today. As globalization accelerates and large corporations serve as global providers, these corporations have progressively recognized the benefits of providing CSR programs in their various locations. CSR activities are now being undertaken throughout the globe. CSR has become not only the 'right thing to do', but it has also become the 'competitive' thing to do.

This article aims to conduct a survey and analysis of the scientific production about the psychological attention in the indigenous health in the state of Rondônia, federative unit of Brazil. We have as a working methodology bibliometrics directed to the use of social, human and health sciences, focusing on the qualitative aspects of the works listed. Thus, our procedures are based on the survey of articles, dissertations and theses on the subject published in Rondônia and in the Rondonian context, and afterwards an analysis of their objectives, methods and conclusions.

The aim of the study was to determine the pattern of geophagy among inhabitants of Owerri senatorial zone of Imo State, Nigeria. The study which adopted a descriptive survey design was guided by three specific objectives, three research questions and four null hypotheses. Multi-stage sampling procedure was utilized to draw a sample of 1,200 respondents from the population. A self-structured and validated questionnaire with a reliability index of 0.89 was used to collect data for the study.

This research aimed to discuss the meanings and effects of work gymnastics on the life of the employees of a company in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The methodology followed a qualitative-quantitative approach, raising the perception of 114 participants through a questionnaire with closed and open questions. The sample involved employees from all sectors of the company present in the class in which data collection was performed.

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.