Social Sciences and Humanities

The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts on financial stability, an example of the sub-prime crisis in the United States. International financial standards and national regulators’ response have been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter regulations, it is crucial to avoid a backlash against expanding the financial access frontier with a compromise on the effectiveness of lending standards.

The present study was aimed at studying in vitro anti-cervical cancer effect of proteoglycans (PGs) isolated from deep sea shark. Anti-proliferative activity and apoptotic involvement were confirmed by following assays viz, the cell viability assay by MTT assay, morphological analysis and colony formation assay. The sample showed a significant cytotoxic activity for HeLa cells and results showed that the PGs at a concentration of 250µg/mL inhibit the colony formation capacity. Apoptosis induction was confirmed by the chromatin condensation assay by Hoechst 33342 nuclear staining.

India is a large country with vast economic and soci-cultural diversity in its varied regions. The development issues related to women in a large country like India will not only be inappropriate but sometimes even misleading. Entrepreneurship can be used as one of the key factors of economic development by involving women in entrepreneurial activities. Women can benefit from available opportunities worldwide by increasing their empowerment.

The study was on the use of information and communication technologies in entrepreneurial skills development of faculty students in the University of Uyo – Nigeria. After due observation on passive and inactive graduates doled out of the universities in Nigeria, the study was conceived to adopt the expost-facto-survey design and the Vrooms’s 1968 expectancy theory to develop one hypothesis to guide the process.

The aim of this study is to determine the guidance needs of the secondary school students of Delhi according to their own perspective. The researcher used the self-made questionnaire titled as “Discover Yourself” and applied that on randomly selected school students at secondary level. The percentage analysis was done on the basis of the frequency of the response of the students.

Women education has always been a priority area and NEE envisages the entire educational system to work for women’s education and empowerment. It has been emphasized that gender concerns must be built into all educational processes. Emphasis has been laid on enrolment and retention of the girl child in formal and non-formal schooling, recruitment of rural women as teachers and removal of gender bias in the curriculum.

Identifying and characterising the pigments forming part of a work of art is particularly relevant for the chronological authentication of a painting, as well as knowledge of the great masters artistic resources, which could result in the work being catalogued. The aim of this research is to morphologically characterise and differentiate two black pigments of an organic nature, which are intrinsically mixed together and compacted by a binder. These pigments are part of a black monochrome painting on alabaster by Francisco de Goya.

Today, in this era we want to produce more energy from various types of energy sources. Bifacial solar panel can be the best alternative to produce more energy because both sides as front and rear will absorb more energy. To make rear surface more absorptive as it is not in direct contact with sunlight we have to use more reflective surface. If we compare mono-facial and bi-facial solar panel, bi-facial solar panel 5% to 20% more output. We need a cheap and useful reflective surface such as plane mirror which will effectively boost up our output.

At this present time, Malay culture in Riau Province faces three conditions affecting its existence. Firstly, the coming and domination of contemporary culture that influenced by the globalization. Secondly, Indonesian culture is always side by side with local cultures. Thirdly, primordialism still exists in several Riau Malay people who refuse any mixing and changing. Among of those three conditions, the changing brought by the globalization seems unavoidable.

Development Induced Displacement is a subject of much debate around the world. In India the development projects starting from construction of Dams, Industrial units, mining’s etc. Displacement due to these projects are numerous and vast. People have left their houses and hearth. They have lost their source of livelihood such as agricultural land, fishing sources and other earning properties like, Common properties recourses (CPR). Women have comforted a lot many problems due to displacement. Displacement for men and women are different.