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In this article the elements of crisis of a sociology are described, which deserves the emergent possibilities of new logics to understand the complexities through the concepts and categories different to the own nature of the social discipline, it means,

Academic achievement refers to a student's success in meeting short- or long-term goals in education.  In the present study for comparing the academic achievement of secondary school students of single-sex schools and co-educational schools a sample of 160 students was selected from different school of Hisar district. In the study academic achievement was dependent variable and school type was independent variable. Previous year result from the school record was used to assess the academic achievement.

The effects of single-sex and co-educational schooling on children’s personality in Haryana

Personality is a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences their environment, cognitions, emotions, motivations, and behavioral science in various situations. The word "personality" originates from the Latin persona, which means mask. In the present study for comparing the personality traits of secondary school students of single-sex schools and co-educational schools a sample of 160 students was selected from different school of Hisar district. In the study personality was dependent variable and school type was independent variable.

Structures of epithelia found in martian lafayette meteorite

Structures of epithelia were found in two electron images of the Mars meteorite Lafayette. One image shows structures of pseudo stratified columnar epithelium, and the other image shows structures of simple cuboidal epithelium. These structures may not be biotic in origin if they are separately considered on the cellular level. However, inorganic material has not been reported to match these structures when integrated at the tissue level. No terrestrial minerals have been found in this meteorite.

Nonlinear sem: Comparison between endogenous and exogenous interaction

In many fields of research to study particular phenomena the analysis of model with interaction is very important. The interaction occurs when the effect of a variable on another variable varies with the varying of a third variable and vice versa. In the SEM analysis the interaction can create problems if the two cause-variables are endogenous, i.e. linked causally to other variables. In literature, only few authors examined the model with the interaction between endogenous variables but without a true analysis of the causal effects.

Valuation of direct consumptive benefits of forests of Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh is a hill state which comprised about 90 per cent of its total population depending on forest resources for the subsistence needs of fuel wood, fodder, grazing, construction timber and other non-timber forest products for some of which there is no available substitutes. Such contributions of forests in the form of goods and services used for subsistence needs are termed as direct consumptive benefits or contributions of forests which often go unnoticed and unaccounted as the products do not enter the market.

Inconsistency of merit system application in implementation of policies of civil servants placement to the structural positions in muna regency

This study aims to analyze and describe the implementation of policies of civil servants placement to the structural positions. The study uses qualitative method, a procedure that emphasizes research on the characteristics of natural background, the researcher as an instrument, using in-depth interviews, observation and documentation as data collection techniques. The focus of research produces descriptive data in the form of written and spoken words and analyzed inductively.

Effective leadership in school

Leadership in school is one topic that is always interesting to be studied and researched, because most observed and at the same time the least understood phenomena. The objective of this paper is to describe principal roles in prcaticing an effective leadership in school. The result shows a pricipals's leadership role as a driving force in the process of cooperation between people in the schools. An effective school leadership is a leader who has the intellectual capability, maximizing all its potential and continue to fix the potential to continue to learn.

The role of “positive action” in countering terrorism

The issue of terrorism as a global problem occupies a large space in everybody’s lives nowadays. Thus, many researchers from different disciplines try to understand its origins, causes, objectives, effects and means of countering it. In countering terrorism, initially hard power has been used by countries all over the world as the main strategy for a long time. Turkey also has tried this strategy and it is found to be ineffective. Then, the countries decided to try soft power as an alternative approach for countering terrorism.

The ethics of the media today in kafka’s metaphorical description of the “penal machine” one hundred years after he wrote“in the penal colony”

Fish In this article I present a techno-ethical perspective of Kafka’s story “In the Penal Colony”. It is well known that Kafka was endowed with a penetrating perspective on reality as well as an aptitude for self-reflection. The combination of these two personality traits, together with his skill of metaphoric writing, created enigmatic multi-layered literature. Using absurd and extreme metaphors Kafka criticizes the various central power-wielding entities such as the regime, bureaucrats, judges, etc.