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European tourist markets have continuously played a significant role in generating revenue for the Thai economy. However, the penetration of this tourism market segment is not so easy because Thailand has faced both direct and indirect rivals and neighboring and overseas rivals. Tourism market segmentation is considered an effective and important marketing tool to promote marketing strategies to meet the more specific needs of tourists. The objectives of this study were to segment European tourists visiting Phuket Province, and to compare these segments according to demographic variables and the level of destination satisfaction and loyalty. The hierarchical cluster analysis was utilized to segment tourists based on activities and clusters/segments and was compared in terms of demographic characteristics using Ch-Square statistic and destination satisfaction and loyalty using one-way ANOVA. The findings revealed that five segments of tourists were identified: ‘recreational tourist?, „fuzzy tourist?, „sports tourist?, „cultural tourist? and „leisure tourist?. According to the Chi-Square statistic, no significant differences in terms of demographic variables were found across the five segments. In addition, the result of ANOVA revealed that no statistical differences were found among segments across all items of destination satisfaction except for worthwhile experiences.For destination loyalty, significant differences in the intention and willingness to pay to revisit Phuket were found among these segments.

Dandy-walker syndrome is a rare disorder characterizsed by complete or partial agenesis of the vermis, cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricule and an enlarged posterior fossa. The precise aetiology is unknown, although there have been reports of associations with risk factors like maternal virus infections (rubella, toxoplasma and cytomegalovirus) and alcohol consumtion [1]. It describe a rare case of five months old boy with acute respiratory distress with the exploration objective a Dandy-walker syndrome.A five months old boy with no medical history was admitted to the intensive unity care fot an acute rispiratory distress, the exploration of the respiratory distress lead as to realising a cerebral CT scan which objictived dilatation of the ventricular system and enlargement of the fourth ventricular and vermin hypoplasia related to Dandy-walker syndrome.A dandy walker is a rare condition and the image found may not be the cause of the acute respiratory distress. Clinical presentation and prognosis depends on the prenatal and early diagnostic dering the first year of live and the treatement is surgical

The raising of environmental issues has drawn attentions of businesses to participate in green practices. The conceptual framework of this paper underpinned the theory of Resources Based View (RBV) by identifying four firms’ key resources namely physical capital resources, human capital resources, organisational capital resources and financial resources. In this article, these four resources were proposed to be positively influence fast food restaurants to adopt green practices. This is in line with the literature whereby resources played as productive assets role in helping firm to accomplish activities. Activities that will be discussed in this study are adoption of green practices. If this is true, then the conceptual framework is expected to show positive results, indicating that firm resources determine the adoption of green practices among fast food restaurants. Hence, fast food restaurants should manage and utilise resources to adopt green practices in their daily business operations.

Uniformity trials are needed to determine suitable shape and size of the plot for fertility variation in land. The suggested model is more adequate model over well known Fairfield Smith variance law and also removes all the objections by Cochran (1977) for Fairfield Smith variance law model. The adequacy of suggested model has been examined by the given data in Haque et al. (1988). Key words: Fairfield Smith’s Variance Law, nonlinear model, uniformity trial experiments.

Diabetes mellitus is the most prevalent endocrine disease result in blood glucose increment, carbohydrate, lipids and protein metabolism disorders. Primary and effective cure for diabetes is insulin and hypoglycemic drugs usage, but these compositions have some undesirable side effects. Herbal medicine is the oldest kind of diseases cure has recognized. However, rational prescription of effective medicinal plants for diabetes cure requires precise information of action mechanism of these plants. In present study, diabetes induced in rats, and then hypoglycemic effect of walnut husk hydroalcoholic extract and blood lipoproteins (LDL, HDL, VLDL), triglyceride and total cholesterol changes were evaluated by enzymatic kits. The results showed significant reduction of glucose, triglyceride, VLDL and LDL levels in extract group in comparison with diabetic control(P=0.001). Glucose and LDL reduction by walnut shell are similar to glibenclamide effect. And TG, VLDL reduction by walnut are more than glibenclamide effect. Walnut also could increase HDL levels significantly in comparison with diabetic control (P=0.001) that this effect is similar to glibenclamide effect on HDL. In summary, the positive effects of walnut green husk suggest a possible role of this plant in improving glucose and lipid metabolism in diabetics.

With the rapid technological growth in the computer industry over the last decades, spatial related problems and issues have found their way into computer-based systems used to store and manipulate geographically referenced data, these systems which are commonly referred as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have become widely established in many disciplines. GIS is a powerful software tool, by using this technology it is very convenient to assemble maps quickly from predefined layers, add data from coverage, shape files, geo databases, preparation of models etc. The GIS can be used for identifying suitable locations for buffers. The use of technologies such as GIS can also be very effectively used for fixing the canal alignment. A buffer analysis tool in GIS is a proximity analysis used to create polygons based on a specified distance from the original geometric feature and the output is a large zone or region that surrounds and encompasses the feature. The Buffer output is often used to determine any feature that are within a specified distance of a point, line or polygon. Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools is an intelligent model based process which is very helpful for planning and designing purpose. The aim of this study is to present the applications of buffer analysis which is basically a GIS software tool along with BIM tools for comparing the proposed canal alignments in Somnala Minor Irrigation Scheme of Gosikhurd Indira Sagar Project.

Most of the interstellar protonated molecules that have been shown to be astronomically detectable based on recent studies could be termed as 'non-terrestrial' species as a number of them are yet to be probed in the terrestrial laboratory, thus, the rotational transitions required for their astronomical searches are not available. In this study, the coupled cluster variant CCSD(T) together with the aug-cc-pVTZ basis set has been used to predict the spectroscopic parameters of four known neutral interstellar molecules and their corresponding protonated analogues of which two; H2NCO+ and H2COH+ have been astronomically detected. The protonated analogues of H2NCN and H2CS are potential interstellar species from recent studies. The predicted rotational constants/transitions are in good agreement for those with known experimental data, thus, these spectroscopic parameters could guide the astronomical searches and laboratory measurement of these species without experimentally determined spectroscopic constants.

We have synthesis manganese sulfide nano-crystalline (n-MnS) powder using manganese acetate and thiourea, trisodium citrate, from chemical route at different pH. The formation of MnS has been confirmed with help of infrared (IR) spectroscopy by observing bands corresponding to the multi phonon absorption. We have also observed the IR bands at 1403 and 1560 cm-1 due to symmetric and asymmetric stretching of COO of the capped sodium citrate at MnS nano-crystalline particles. The Size of crystal is determined as 3-5 nm with the help of X-ray diffraction. We also deposited the thin film of MnS on glass substrate from the solution using self- aggregation approach. The film thickness is measured as 366 nm with profile meter. The optical band gap is calculated as 3.1-3.5 eV. Its value is found to depend on pH. We also measured dark and photo- conductivity at different temperatures.

Match analysis is a major subject among coaches, team managers and sport scientists and it is gaining an increasing relevance day by day. Information and the relevant data processing are the key factors while referring to this aspect of the sports training methodology. In India Kabaddi is a major sport, which is played all over the India. The present study attempts to design and develop a digital match analysis system for Kabaddi matches. The data were collected during South Zone Inter-University Kabaddi tournament for men 2010-2011 held at Karnataka University, Dharward was used for analysis. After getting various inputs from experts and literature, the investigators had designed and developed a digital match analysis system. A survey was conducted among 15 Coaches, Physical Educators, Players and officials which revealed that the 16 factors which are essential for analysing the performance of the team & individual. This study was a preliminary work and needs testing at all levels. It was also concluded that the result of the study may be very much helpful to the Physical Educationists and Coaches in enhancing the performance level of the Kabaddi players. The outcome of the study may act as a tool to analyse the team & individual performance in the game of Kabaddi.

A simple, precise, accurate and rapid high-performance thin-layer chromatographic method has been developed and validated for the estimation of Montelukast sodium and Levocetrizine Hydrochloride simultaneously in combined dosage forms. The stationary phase used was precoated silica gel 60F 254. The mobile phase used was a mixture of Chloroform: Benzene: Methanol: Toluene (5:7.2:1:0.2 v/v/v/v). The detection of spots was carried out at 286 nm. The method was validated in terms of linearity, accuracy, precision and specificity. The calibration curve was found to be linear between 500-1500 ng spot-1 for Montelukast sodium 1000-5000 ng spot-1 for Levocetrizine Hydrochloride. The limit of detection and the limit of quantification for Montelukast sodium were found to be 170 ng/spot and 570 ng/spot respectively, for Levocetrizine Hydrochloride and Levocetrizine Hydrochloride, 20 ng/spot and 70 ng/spot respectively. The proposed method can be successfully used to determine the drug content of marketed formulation.