Past Issue

State of forest in India

There is an increase in the forest cover to the tune of 3,775 sq km compared to the assessment done by FSI, Government of India and on its outset it looks as if India is doing very well on this frontier but the scenario is other way round, the country is doing well on the plantation forest but the country looks loosing on the natural forest front.

Women as factor in peacemaking and peacebuilding in the Niger delta region

The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been rocked by conflicts since the 1960s, unfortunately women and children suffer the most from the consequences occasioned by activities of oil exploration and vandalization. Very few studies though have paid attention to the role and concerns of women in the peacemaking and peace building processes in the region. It is against this background that this study seeks to locate the role of women in attempt to solving the imbroglio. Four research questions were generated for this study.

Research on the combination of sustainability and ergonomics in product design

This paper aimed to give suggestions for the product design industry on making products more sustainable and ergonomic in terms of material selection and product development. In the context, Evaluation principles for sustainable design such as the ‘Sustainable Product and Service Development’ pyramid, the ‘Bournemouth Evaluation Model’ and the ‘Life Cycle Assessment’ is analyzed separately. Discussions are made on principles of ‘Ergonomics’ and their applications.

Trade dispute settlement in wto: in special reference to the India

As a part of the Bretton Woods System, International Trade Organization (ITO) wassupposed to formulate and implement the rules of ‘free and fair’ trade in ‘goods’. As it turned outto be a blue-baby, in 1948 GATT emerged as an ‘agreement’ with 23 contracting parties. It wasonly in January 1995 that a full-fledged institution, i.e., WTO was established withresponsibilities akin to those conceived in ITO Charter. However, the agenda of WTO is muchwider in scope as compared to the ITO. A unique feature of WTO is its dispute settlementprocedure (DSP).

Tbtees_dp: a tool used to build a tree (data structure) for evaluation of educational system using early data preprocessing

This is an automated tool to be developed, which asks requirements of any kind of educational system irrespective of conceptual, Olympiad, private institute, autonomous, and university. From the entered data, data preprocessing is applied initially to correct the mistakes in the given data. The quality data is taken as input to TBTEES_DP, which then draws a tree that depicts the functioning or evaluation of results. The output of the TBTEES_DP is a tree which gives more meaningful information to all about the evaluation of education system.

Presidential and parliamentary system

A modern research shows that, both presidential and parliamentary systems are applied in democracy countries. They have advantages and disadvantages, for instance presidential system establishes the presidency and the legislature as two parallel structures. Furthermore, Presidential system provides more stability than a prime minister who can be dismissed at any time. However, other researchers observed that, Presidential system is tendency towards authoritarianism.

The new muhammadiyah values for the postmodern muslim world

Thereby, generation of Postmodernism Muhammadiyah, has a rights and historical moral responsibility to expand meanings which influence to the born of new values of Muhammadiyah, that may be in some certain term will be different with generation of traditional and modern Muhammadiyah era. This paper will be reached by some theories such as: Fazlur Rahman (Pre-Modernism Revivalism, Classical Modernism); M.

Quality of life in the macedonia

The text refers to the study of certain elements having an impact on the quality of life, that is, the dynamics of the employment and unemployment rate, the rate of poverty, the structure of consumer spending and attitudes of the citizens about the problems in the household. Quality of life as a sociological concept refers to a certain level of satisfaction with the basic and other needs of the population, living conditions, that is, the standard of life.

Prevalence of sexual violence and associated factors among female students of adigrat universtiy, adigrat, Ethiopia

Background: Sexual violence is prevalent and a major public health and human rights problem worldwide. It has posed a tremendous challenge to women both in the workplace and educational setting, and this problem has impacted women's self-esteem as well as their academic, social, and psychological wellbeing. One in five college women are victims of acquaintance rape during their academic career and less than 5% of college women who are victims of sexual assault report their victimization.

Knowledge, attitude and associated factors to liberalized safe abortion services among female students in university of adigrat town, Ethiopia

Background: World Health Organization (WHO) defines unsafe abortion as a procedure for terminating an unintended pregnancy carried out either by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment that does not conform to minimal medical standards, or both. Unsafe abortion is the cause of serious complications and disability for millions of women each year and is a prominent cause of maternal death. Globally, unsafe abortions claim the lives of 68,000 women each year; 43% of these women are African.