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A study was conducted on relative pollination efficiency of Apis species on hybrid seed production plots of Brassica napus. Observations on foraging behaviour of four honey bee species (Apis mellifera, A.dorsata, A.cerana and A.florea) visiting parental lines of B. napus, revealed that all foragers (100 per cent) of A.mellifera and A.dorsata were top workers  and came in contact with reproductive parts of flowers of both lines. Percentage of such bees was lower in case of A. cerana and the lowermost as far as A.florea was concerned.

Sodium chloride (salt) is manufactured in solar saltpans.  Salt, an inexpensive and abundant commodity, plays a prominent role in the development of man’s activities.  The most abundant source of common salt is sea water.  It is manufactured by various methods, of which the solar evaporation of sea brine, backwater and sub-soil brine water is predominant.  The physico-chemical features and biological systems are essential for the proper functioning of saltpans.  This paper explains the physico-chemical parameters of brine at various stages i.e., (1) reservoir, (2) condenser and (3) crystall

A benzoyl hydrazine derivative was successfully characterized as Cu2+-selective fluorescent probe. Complexing with Cu2+ triggers a prominent fluorescence enhancement at 408 nm, accompanied by the change in the absorption spectrum in ethanol phase. With the optimized experimental conditions, the probe exhibited a dynamic response range for Cu2+ from 0.7 μM to 10 μM with a detection limit of 0.21 μM.

This study sought to find out the challenges in achieving effective mentoring during teaching practice in the teacher education institutions in Zimbabwe. The multiple case study design was used and five teacher colleges participated in this study.  The purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants.  The participants included student teachers and mentors. Data were generated through focus group discussions for both student teachers and lecturers. Data were analysed through interpretive study analysis.

A state with its socio economic and political institutions is undeniably the most important socio economic and political institution in a society. But states have exhibited varying ability in fostering socio economic development across the world which partially could be explained by the difference in the ability of states to mobilize natural and non-natural resources towards developmental goals.

In every religion education is considered as a most powerful medium for preserving and transferring the ideas, ethics and values among the member of its future citizens. For this purpose every religion has developed its own education system. In Islam Madarsa education system generally cater the need of education of their future citizens. The history of the arrival of Islam in India and its contributions in the field of knowledge and culture, are well documented, which enrich its cultural and religious multiplicity, for which India is well known in the world.

The purpose of this document is to provide data management standards and practices as they apply to manage, monitor and control the data. The majority of text was taken directly from the information resources listed under the references. In some instances, text from these resources was modified to facilitate the document’s ease of reading or to reflect the compilers’ understanding of current data management practices.

The present paper aims to investigate the socio-economic status of scheduled tribes in Khandesh region of Maharashtra state. The primary data was used with the help of structured questionnaire for 439 Scheduled Tribe UG and PG student respondents during the year 2014; further the results were interpreted with help of tabular analysis. The results reveal that, the majority of the sample respondents are the tribe of bhill community (more than 51%), more than 94 per cent of the sample households are male headed and more than 62% family heads are illiterate.

Concern with women’s access to credit and contributions to women empowerment are not new. In India, the trickle down effects of macroeconomic policies have failed to resolve the problem of gender inequality. The empowerment of women and improvement of their status and economic role need to be integrated into development programs, as the development of any country is inseparably linked with status and development of women. One of the powerful tools of women empowerment and rural entrepreneurship is micro finance.