Social Sciences and Humanities

The fact that the Nigerian child is faced with psychopathological problems cannot be an overstatement. The paper focuses on depression as one of the psychopathological problems which the Nigerian child has to grapple with. A lot of factors combine to aggravate depression amongst the Nigerian children. Such factors as poverty, unemployment, divorce, diseases, et cetera, are causes of depression in the Nigerian child. Effects of depression on the effective education on the Nigerian child were discussed.

Women’s Development is directly related with national development. Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country, hence the issue of economic development of women is of paramount important to political thinkers, social scientists and reformers.

The relationship between ethnicity and development needs to be scrutinized at this juncture when a number of rising demands come from a basis fully engraved of ethnic realities. This is more observed when there is an insertion of nation- state model of political institution to a society highly knit by primordial realities. The paper tries to look at the circular relationship between ethnicity and development in a specific context of multi ethnic society of north east India.

Discriminating indicator species in mountainous rangelands is critical for better understanding the condition of the rangeland and their levels of degradation. The objective of this study was to compare whether canopy reflectance spectra, resampled to WorldView-2 and HyMap resolution could discriminate four increaser species representing different levels of rangeland degradation. Canopy spectral measurements were taken from the four indicator species: Hyparrhenia hirta, Eragrostis curvula, Sporobolus africanus, and Aristida diffusa.

Diaspora and counter discourse become a mark of Palestinian Diasporas to express their sufferings and sacrifices for their country.  This paper examines how Palestinian writers reveal diasporas and counter discourse in their literary works. Diaspora has detached them from their families and friends, from their people and place.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the perception of the act that most constitutes violence against women among adult residents of Onitsha using a sample of 1,165 respondents that are 18 years and above. Data was collected using questionnaire and focus group discussion. Results indicate that 42.2% of the respondents regarded beating as the act that most constitute violence against women while 59.6% felt beating was the most prevalent in Onitsha. Males and females do not differ in their views about act that most constitute violence against women.

Contract means a legal status and obligations are Although the sovereign will of the parties to the contract are applicable only to those who have the will to commit But it is not always the most contractual obligations of the parties to the contract beyond what is One of the very important issues that are not usually mentioned in the contract and the parties do not agree to discuss the functions  In fact, the sub-functions and therefore is looking for the real deal is It is not a problem, and the parties agreed on the deal can be a function of what the contract agreement.

People pay money under a contract of insurance is that the premiums, the insurance issue has concluded that the risk falls as the ways of the insurance company handle claims. Insurance is included: life insurance, body insurance, fire insurance, burglary insurance, etc. "Insurance In its simplest definition, is a way to transfer risk.

HRD aims at assessing employee competency requirements to perform the jobs assigned to them effectively. Liberalization and globalization has brought in new challenges for the development of human resources. HRD has now been looked upon as need of the hour. The emphasis has now shifted towards developing employee competencies and helping them to develop their potentials so as to prepare for future roles for consistent growth and development of the organization. The organizations are also required to create developmental climate which enables them to grow.

In India the condition of women was appalling during independence. The deprivation of women in getting the similar level of opportunities relating to education, health, decision making as men due to prevalence of patriarchal society and socioeconomic backwardness in India put women at a backstage. After independence Indian planners and policy makers recognized the problem and framed variety of policies and programmes to provide women equal status as men.