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Capital structure is combination of debt and equity that is used by firms as the financial sources. The capital structure has correlation with financial distress and bankruptcy, so it is important for firms to decide the capital structure on a safe level. The studies on determinants of capital structure have been developing and the new evidences had shown that capital structure is affected by not only firms’ internal factors, but also external factors.

Indigenous fruits (IFs) areamong the best nutritional food materials in the world. Such fruits, available in Tanzania, include Uapaca kirkiana (Masuku), Parinari curatelifolia (Mbula), Strychnos cocculoides (Madonga), Tamarindus indica (Ukwaju) and many others. Despite their role in ensuring rural livelihood and enhancement of household income, Indigenous fruit trees (IFTs) are at the risk of vanishing due to anthropogenic factors that culminate into deforestation. The paper investigates whether the actors in IFs sector, i.e.

India is not only the largest producer, but also, the main consumer of coir and coir products in the world.  The Indian market constitutes around 45 percent of the world market for coir and coir products. Over 55 percent of the coir produced in India is consumed internally. The present study is focused on internal marketing of coir fibre, the information collected from 10 coir fibre extraction units, 20 local traders, 15 market traders, 10 wholesalers and 10 retailers from East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh in the financial year 2013-14.

Inbound Management Programmes are a training method for enhancing organizational performance through experiential learning. Such programs are often also referred to as corporate adventure training and indoor management development. These programmes generally revolve around activities designed to improve leadership, communication skills, planning, change management, delegation, teamwork, and motivation. Participants are divided into teams and assigned tasks or activities for completion in a specified time.

The article analyzes the process of radicalization of religious, ethnic and sectarian conflicts in the Middle East region. Especially discusses the deepening socio-political changes in the region as an example of ethnic and religious conflicts in Iraq and Syria, after the "Arab Spring".

Introduction: Despite prevention and control activities, malaria ranked first among the top ten rampant diseases in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia The focus of this article was hence to investigate the communication strategies and approaches of health promotion initiatives.

The object of this study is to examine the relation between the general self – sufficiency levels and self – directed learning readiness levels of physical education teachers. In line with this object, randomly selected 120 physical education teachers working in Kayseri voluntarily participated in this study.

The ultimate goal of teaching, from the author’s point of view, is reaching all students and promoting learning to every one of them. This is done through accommodating various learning styles and creating an adequate setting that is conducive to learning. The present article presents and describes an applied, practical model for reaching and teaching all students despite their diverse learning styles. 

Urban development, expansion, and Land use changes in the urban environments are a global phenomenon, by 2050, urban population in the world will increase to be more than 6.6 billion inhabitants and they will live with less than 1% of the world land surfaces. Political instability is one of most important drivers that effecting on the land cover/land use change and urban expansion, especially in the areas that faced the political problems and wars.

This paper examines the differing ways in which the one-party dictatorial state, which reigned in Malawi during 1966-1991, and the multiparty democratic state (from 1992) dealt with economic development objectives and labour rights. While the two state formations handled labour relations differently, their anti-union attitude remains largely similar. Although the democratic state has, in principle been positive to unionism, at the level of practice, a wider discrepancy exists between law provision ad practices.