Archives-May 2011

The present study is an attempt to assess the influence of age and locality on coping strategies among Iranian women in Esfahan Province. A total of 880 Iranian women randomly selected from Esfahan province for the present study. They were administered coping checklist , which measured coping strategies in healthy cognitive, social support, spiritual related, physical activity related, problem solving, unhealthy coping, and high risk coping. The results were analyzed through One-way ANOVA. Results revealed that in unhealthy coping habits, respondents below 20 years, 21-35 years and 51-65 years found to use more of unhealthy coping habits compared to other age groups. Further, significant differences between women from rural and urban areas in physical activity related, problem solving, and unhealthy cognitive strategies. Social work measures to improve the conditions of women in general have been discussed.

The global volume of immigration is high in absolute terms, but low in relative terms. The International Integration and Refugee Association estimated 190 million international migrants in 2005, about 3 percent of The Middle East, some parts of Europe, small areas of South East Asia, and a few spots in the West Indies have the highest percentages of immigration population recorded by the UN Census 2005. The International Organization for Migration said there are more than 200 million migrants around the world today. Europe hosted the largest number of immigrants, with 70.6 million people in 2005, the latest year for which figures are available. North America, with over 45.1 million immigrants, is second, followed by Asia, which hosts nearly 25.3 million. Most of today's migrant workers come from Asia.[1].

The inhibitive effect of the extract of Solanum torvum leaves on the corrosion of aluminium in 1M NaOH solution was studied using at weight loss method at 30 - 60?C. The extract acts as an excellent corrosion inhibitor with 91% efficiency at the highest concentration in the alkaline environment and the inhibition efficiency increased with increasing concentration of the extract. The adsorption of the inhibitor on aluminium surface decreases with rise in temperature, suggesting physical adsorption of the organic matter on the metal surface. These results were supported by kinetic and thermodynamic parameters for corrosion and adsorption processes calculated from the experimental data at the various temperatures studied.

This paper presents views of customers towards the advertisements for televisions. It takes various factors of advertisements into consideration and the buying decision of customers. It is an attempt to present expectations of the customers towards the advertisements for televisions. And this paper concludes that there is no relationship between gender of the respondents and willingness to consider advertisements before buying a new television.

An efficient, rapid and large scale propagation of the elite exotic, zero calorie, medicinal plant, Stevia rebaudiana Bert. through in vitro axillary bud multiplication was obtained on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with different concentrations and combinations of BAP, Kn and Ascorbic acid. However, the high frequency of morphogenetic response from axillary meristem was optimized on MS medium supplemented with 5.5µm BAP along with 50 mg/l Ascorbic acid. On average 90-91 shoots were induced per-explant of the initial material. Non-rooted shoots were sub-cultured to ½ MS medium containing IBA (0.2-1.0µm) for rooting. However, shoots readily formed roots (100%) when sub-cultured to ½ MS basal medium containing IBA 0.5 µm. The rooted micro-shoots were carefully transferred to soil rite TC mix: garden soil: compost (1:1:1 v/v/v) and subsequently shifted to the field with a survival rate of 70±7%.

This paper is aimed to discuss cordial graphs in the context of middle graph of a graph. We present here cordial labeling for the middle graphs of path, crown, star and tadpole.

2-methoxy-1-naphthaldehyde (2MN) an intriguing new organic material for frequency conversion has been grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique at room temperature. Their structural, optical and physicochemical properties were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, FTIR and UV-Vis spectra. The crystal belongs to monoclinic system with point group m and space group Cs. The material has a wide transparency in the entire visible region. It is found that the cutoff wavelength lies in the UV region. The mechanical response of the crystal has been studied using Vickers microhardness technique. The SHG relative efficiency of 2MN crystal was found to be 12 times higher than that of KDP and 1.6 times higher than that of Urea.

We are very happy to announce that from 24 May 2011, Dr. Naser Jamil Al-Zaidiyeen has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Educational Studies. Dr. Naser Jamil Al-Zaidiyeen is currently working as Department of English Language, College of Science and Humanities, Rumaah-Majmaah University, KSA. The appointment of Dr. Naser Jamil Al-Zaidiyeen as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

We are very happy to announce that from 4th May 2011, Dr. Milind Baburao Ubale has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Chemistry. Dr. Milind Baburao Ubale is currently working at Postgraduate Department of Chemistry, Vasantrao Naik Mahavidyalaya, Aurangabad. The appointment of Dr. Milind Baburao Ubale as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to chiefeditor@elixirjournal.org. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

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