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The study entitled “Renaissance and Women Empowerment in India” aims to investigate the contributions of renaissance movements in Indian Society. This work gives a brief account of the position of women in early Indian society and the role played by social reformers for socio- economic development of women through various movements. The work highlights the particular efforts of Brahmasamaj, Arya Samaj, Theosophical Society, Ramakrishna Mission and Prarthana Samaj in bringing up women into the vanguard of Indian society. 
 

Several studies have demonstrated the impact that the quality of teacher education has on teaching and student performance. The assessment of the competences of higher education teachers by students is one way of assessing the quality of teachers and, therefore, the quality of public higher education itself. It is therefore pertinent to carry out empirical studies that make it possible to understand how students evaluate teachers' competences.

The study analyses the pattern of socio-economic development of Dakshin Dinajpur using factor analysis method. Total 30 socio-economic variables are considered for the present investigation. The factor analysis of 30 variables related to socio-economic development of Dakshin Dinajpur yielded five factors which together account for 91.33% of total variance. The first component explains 27.19 percent of the total variance whereas second, third, fourth and fifth factors explain 21.62 %, 20.75%, 11.89%, 8.85 % respectively.

The population of international students in Taiwan has increased significantly in recent years. The current study adopted Cramer’s (1999) model of help-seeking behaviour, which explains the relationships between self-concealment, social support, distress levels, attitudes toward counselling, and intention to seek counselling. The study used cross-cultural samples for the linkage of Cramer’s model.

Occupational health and safety, especially with the legal arrangements enforced recently, has become a subject coming to the forefront more and more. Negligence in this regard may lead to serious material and moral results. Therefore, the fulfillment of necessary applications on the subject and the effectiveness of such applications are of great importance. In this study, the current occupational health and safety practices in the hospitality industry were examined with regards to their level of effectiveness.

In the economic scenario that prevailed in 2012-13, when automobile manufacturing units all over India were facing a decline, it became important to reduce operational costs and find out various alternatives. This paper presents the 5 days working model that was undertaken at Tata Motors Limited, Medium & Heavy Commercial Vehicle Plant situated at Lucknow after evaluating various options. This manufacturing plant started 5-days a week working model (with extended 1.5 hours from Mon to Fri). In the month of August 2016 this model successfully completed its 3rd year of working.

Employees do recognize the importance of safety training and think of it as necessary in a holistic atmosphere where the Organization focusses on Safety management led by Visible Safety Leadership. Systematic and periodic safety training is important for employees to understand the purpose of the training sessions, why it will be useful to them, and how incidents can be reduced at workplace. Also the Safety Observations made by Leadership team at various level of organization during shop floor rounds and following up these points for closure shows their concern for safety.

Cities are defined predominantly as physical structures. These physical structures are mainly characterized by residential facilities and buildings. Housing in many studies is considered as a significant determiner and tool for socio-economic development. Housing, particularly,quality housing for many households in developing economies is highly complex and capital intensive. Many households are constrained with several factors in the quest for housing developments. The results of these are uncompleted houses.

A search for an environmentally safe and economically viable strategy for control of plant diseases has led to an increased use of plant based products in agriculture. To control the plant diseases, use of fungicides can impact the environment and human health. One method to eliminate these drawbacks is promoting induced protection. This study investigated the use of plants extracts and antagonistic fungi as a biological control of Drechslera graminea or as an inducer of protection in barley plant against the pathogen and also evaluated the possible mechanisms.

The experiment was conducted in plot No. 126 of E block, Main Agricultural Research Station (MARS), University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad during kharif, 2011. The geographical co-ordinates of the experimental site are 15026' N latitude and 75007'E longitude and an altitude of 678 m above mean sea level (MSL).The uptake of nutrients by maize increased significantly with incorporation of organic manures with RDF and the highest uptake was recorded in the treatment with PM.