Social Sciences and Humanities

The role of frontline health functionaries in the community is important in achieving the goal of reduction in infant mortality. This study focuses on the significant work of the front line health workers-ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists). It is reflected that how an ASHA works as a link worker in disseminating health awareness with special focus on healthy new born practices. The study has been conducted in the Khair block of Aligarh district keeping in view the impact of support and capacity building of ASHAs in order to improve their skills and competency.

Ninety boys in the age group of 15 to 18 years of Kunhali Marakkar Higher Secondary School, Coastal-Calicut were selected at random and were divided randomly into three equal groups namely Progressive training group –A with weights, Progressive training group –B without weights and control group -C. The experimental groups participated in the training programme for a period of 15 weeks. During this period, the control group was let off without any training.

Women empowerment is able to control over material assets, intellectual resources and ideology in the society. It involves power to power with and power within among women. Empowerment involves ability to get what one wants and to influence others in the society. The present study concentrates to find various indicators for assessing women empowerment.

Nor the capitalism nor the communism didn’t proved to be the ideal systems. The second has imploded, while the first is transformed under the impact of the strong forces of globalization, crisis, technology, demography and ongoing ideas. It is looking for some kind of mixtum compozitum, which often prove just pure illusions. The crisis is proving to be a structural one, even a systemic one, not as cyclical as it was thought.

Globalization provide a fascinating field of study. Globalization is viewed as an agent of change. The term globalization was first used by Theodore Levitt in 1983 (in an article he wrote in the Harvard Business Review) till the early 1990s.

This study found that the main component of the money supply before 2003 was banknotes in circulation. From 2003 to 2012, demand and term deposits are the main components of the money stock. An econometric analysis, through an error correction model, revealed that all the variables, namely, the monetary supply, the monetary base, the credits to the economy, net foreign assets and the interest rate are integrated of the order 1 and the residuals of the order 0. Therefore, there is a co-integrating relationship between them. Monthly data over the period 2001-2012 were used.

Climate change, an alteration in the state of the climate can be identified by changes in the mean state and/or the variability of its properties and it persists for an extended period of time. Climate change occurs may be due to natural internal processes or external forces. Specifically, local outcomes of climate change are uncertain in the form of frequency, intensity, spatial extent or duration of weather.

This study examined institutional constraints and agribusiness capacity of key institutions involved in dairy development in Western Kenya. Using checklists and interview guides, data was collected from Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), farmer groups, credit institutions, agro dealer feed stockists, Inseminators, County livestock department and dairy cooperatives. The results showed that despite developing many feed technologies, KARI lacked agribusiness orientation which limited the scaling up and dissemination of improved technologies to target users.

Uluberia is a small sub-divisional town in Haora district, situated at the west bank of Hooghly River. Nine Bone Mills are located in the southern part of the town. They are engaged in crashing up the dry animal bones and producing ‘bone dusts’ for various industrial usages. Ministry of Environment, Government of India, has categorized this kind of factories as ‘ordinary red’. They can potentially harm public health and thus are ‘officially’ not allowed to operate in the vicinity of a residential area.

Following recent decline for performance of Ghana in rubber exports, failure of the banana sub-sector to achieve competitiveness in exports in spite of the prospects reflected so far, and a generally weak performance reflected by the coffee sub-sector in its export dimension since 1986, the present study sourced identification of the magnitude and effects of relevant export drivers on the country’s performance in exports of the respective commodities.