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Faecal sludge treatment is necessary for waste water reuse. Among the natural biological treatment systems available, stabilization ponds have been used widely around the world with a considerable success. This research was conducted to assess the levels of faecal sludge solids concentration in waste stabilisation ponds, which consist of twin anaerobic pond, primary and secondary facultative pond and a single maturation pond at the Tamale Metropolis landfill site in Northern Ghana. The results revealed TSS concentration range of 4122.22 to 8760.37 mg/l, TDS range of 1970.20 to 9744.11 mg/l and TS range of 6092.4 to 18504.48 mg/l. Variation of faecal sludge solids concentration among different stabilisation ponds were statistically, highly significant by analysis of variances. However, variations of solids concentration within individual ponds were statistically insignificant. The anaerobic pond recorded the highest faecal sludge solid concentration relative to the other ponds as expected. The faecal sludge solids levels were observed to be higher than the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency recommended standard for the discharge of effluent into the environment. This may impede the faecal sludge treatment processes and make the entire system function below required safety levels.

Lately in educational organization, voluminous studies accentuate the momentous of leadership in mobilizing creativity. Creativity skill is seen as one of the important skills required for the 21st century leadership, which is also known as the tool for creative leader’s mind in engaging and stimulating ideas to execute outcomes. Hence, leaders should create an opportunity by involving every employee and stakeholders in schools to contribute their ideas towards developing creative solutions to enhance school productivity. The focal point of this article is to offer a conceptual framework on creative leadership practices among school leaders towards collaborative school culture. Intensive reviews of literature will be used in the fields of creative leadership and school culture with the aim to nurture leaders into better leaders and encourage collaborative school culture. The framework contributes a new shed on the implication of creative leadership practices and collaborative school culture. It also will contribute a new theory development and offered suggestions for follow up research.

This article presents information about Consumers International (Global Association of Consumer Unions) and its offices at various regions. It is also discussed about the role of Consume Voluntary Organisation in the society, benefits in having a Consumer Voluntary organization.

Bipolar Disorder is a psychiatric disorder in which the core feature is pathological disturbance in mood rearranging from extreme mania to severe depression. Research analysis shows there is no specific genes are analyze which is directly associated with Bipolar Disorder. Diverse data mining technique is used to find out genes responsible for BD. It is found that genes present in orbit frontal cortex are differentially expressed in disease and control subjects. Gene Expression analyses of thousands of genes are studied from the orbit frontal cortex region of brain. Microarray technology is used to study approximately 22,283 mRNA transcripts from Orbit frontal cortex in brain region. Statistical t-tests are applied and 1,172 genes have obtained as significant genes. Correlation based feature selection is used to reduce the large dataset into small dataset.

In this study, the role of meaning in the process of formation of a sense of place and it,s tremendous affected on the feeling morphology of sense of place examined. For this reason, this paper, By finding root of the theoretical and empirical literature in the sense of place and sence of meaning, investigated by studying quantitative and qualitative indicators in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship meaningful role in shaping the dealt sense of place. The aim of this paper was to receive and review of the role of meaning in the process of making sense of place on the way human perception and its role in architecture and its audiences. The findings of this research means if we understand and use morphology of sense of place in the role of meaning factor used, the Residents feel happy more than belonging to the past and to have a sense of place.

This study investigated the impact of some demographic factors and emotional intelligence as correlates of perceived job stress. Emotional intelligence (EI) is seen as an individual’s capacity to appropriately regulate his/her emotions, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and action. The workplace had become a high stress environment. Employees experience high level of stress due to various factors such as high workload, tight deadlines, high targets, type of work, among others.Stress in the workplace reduces productivity, increases management pressures, and makes people ill in many ways. Workplace stress affects the performance of the brain, including functions of work performance; memory, concentration, and learning. The study examined if there will be a significant positive correlation between EI, gender and ageon perceived job stress. The study employed the use of a survey design by gathering data from a sample of two hundred and thirty-nine (239) respondents. Questionnaires were used to gather information. Three hypotheses were tested and the results showed that there was a significant relationship between EI and perceived job stress(r = .743**, N= 239, P < .01). Also, the t-test analysis revealed that there was a significant effect of gender on perceived job stress (Crit-t = 1.96, Cal.t = .441, df = 237, P < .05).T-test findings also revealed that there was no significant effect of age on perceived job stress(Crit-t = 1.96, Cal.t = -0.60,df = 237; p > .05).It was recommended among others that employers should take a serious effort to ensure that their employees are well trained on EI constructs, encourage a good team-working ability and cooperation, and involvement in task by every employee should be emphasised which will invariably reduce stress at work.

By the year 2020 depression would be the second major cause of disability-adjusted life years lost, as reported by the World Health Organization. Depression is a mental illness which causes persistent low mood, a sense of despair, and has multiple risk factors. Its prevalence in primary care varies between 15.3-22%, with global prevalence up to 13% and between 17-46% in Saudi Arabia. Despite several studies that have shown the benefit of early diagnosis and cost-savings of up to 80%, physicians in primary care setting continue to miss out on 30-50% of depressed patients in their practices. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Jazan region, Saudi Arabia aiming at estimating the point prevalence of depression among healthy adults, data was collected by using standardized of the PHQ-9 questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS ver. 20. About 347 subject adults of age 20 up to 60 years old participated in this study, 49% were male and 51% were female, About 347 subject adults of age 20 up to 60 years old participated in this study, 49% were male and 51% were female, majority (70%) within the age group from 30 - 40 years old, 65 % were single and 62% were students. The study indicated that about only 15% of subjects had no symptoms of depression while 85% of subjects had symptoms of depression varies from minimal symptoms to moderate major depression, where 30% had Minimal symptoms, 27% had mild major depression and 28% had moderate major depression. 

Considering to Importance of Food Industries related to generate employment, more so than many other manufacturing sector and also it’s vital role in Iran’s economy. This paper examines the determinants of labour productivity in food industries of Iran over the 1995-2006 period. The study applied the Cobb–Douglas production function of industry. The results showed that total factor productivity is 17.8 percent. The determinants like education, skilled, specialist, capital per worker and wages have affected on productivity’s differences in Iranian food industries. The most important factor was employee’s specialization in this industry.

The antidiabetic drug pioglitazone is hydrophobic and having dissolution rate limited bioavailability. Several attempts were made to enhance its dissolution rate. In this investigation the two well known techniques viz., microcapsules and compression coating originally designed for sustained drug delivery were used for enhancing the dissolution rate of Pioglitazone. The polymer eudragit E100 was reported as a taste masking material for bitter drugs. However this research work is aimed to exploit eudragit E100 as dissolution enhancer by virtue of its acid solubility. The polymer was incorporated as a carrier for preparation of solid dispersion, coating material in microcapsules and compression coated tablets. The prepared formulations were evaluated for various parameters including the compatibility studies with IR spectra and drug dissolution studies. The drug Pioglitazone was found to be compatible with eudragit and dissolution rate was also increased in presence of the polymer. The dissolution rate was increased in presence of the polymer and dependent on the technique employed. High dissolution rate of Pioglitazone was observed from the tablets coated with the polymer eudragit E100.

The N2- fixing cyanobacteria are important agents in crop fields contributing to the primary productivity and nitrogen economy of the soil. In the present study, diversity and abundance of N2- fixing cyanobacterial population were investigated in the rice ecosystems of the Brahmaputra floodplain in response to the soil physico chemical properties in four different seasons. Altogether 51 species of N2- fixing cyanobacteria belonging to 15 genera under 7 families were recorded in two common rice cropping systems - double rice cultivation (RR) and rice rotated with mustard (RMR). Among the isolated genera, 10 were heterocystous and 6 were non heterocystous. The genera Anabaena (25%) and Nostoc (19%) comprised of the highest number of species followed by Calothrix (8%) and Phormidium (8%). Results of relative abundance also revealed the dominance of Anabaena and Nostoc in the rice ecosystems of the valley. Pearson’s correlation analysis showed significant correlation between population number of N2- fixing cyanobacteria and soil physico-chemical properties. Canonical component analysis (CCA) justified the seasonal pattern of population abundance along with the concomitant change of soil parameters like temperature, moisture, pH and available phosphate in the rice field soil of the valley.