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The main aim of science and technology is to better man’s life and his environment. Every learning situation in science based courses, subjects or areas requires a repertoire of essentials skills to achieve success. Success is built in every learning and learner but demands the right skills. Since no learner is perfect, such skills in learning make the learner more proficient as he continues to study and practice. One of such skills is the rightful and positive attitudes. Attitude can distort the perception of information and affect the degree of their retention. This paper examines what constitutes students’ positive learning attitudes, habits, behaviours and qualities that are predictors to positive attitudes which in turn beget positive results in science learning. Factors which beget negative learning attitudes and their implications to learning are also considered.

Background and objectives Length of the ring finger is more as compared to the index finger in males and they are almost equal in females. The ratio between 2D:4D is less in males (<1) but in females it is more (>1). This is directly related to exposure of more testosterone during intrauterine life of the fetus. The persons who are having 2D:4D ratio less than one are more aggressive and masculine characters. The present study is to find out the aggressive behavior of the persons and its relation to ratio of index finger length and ring finger length. (2D:4D). Methodology Fifty male and fifty female medical students in the age group ranging from 19 to 25 years studying in first year M.B.B.S. were selected. The students were selected randomly. The 2D and 4D length were taken and the ratio between them is calculated. The aggressive questionnaire was administered according to Aggression Questionnaire. Results Of the four types of aggression physical, anger and verbal was more seen in males (Scale T-score >55) as compared to hostility that was more in females (>55) but statistically not significant (p=0.422). Conclusion The co-relation between 2D:4D length ratio and aggressive behavior of the subjects was not significant statistically (P = 0.217).

Dislocation of the knee represents a severe injury as a result of high velocity traumatism, multi-ligamentous injuries are usual. Clinical exam must be attentive in searching any vascular or nervous disruption. Closed reduction must be performed promptly. Primary reconstruction of the ligamentous lesions is controversial in literature. Stabilizing the knee limits neurovascular and cartilaginous damages. We report a case report of a patient who has sustained a posterolateral left knee dislocation after a road-traffic accident. Reduction was realized in care unit, followed by early reconstruction of both posterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments using gracilis, semitendinosus and quadriceps tendon grafts. After six month, the Lysholm score was at 81 points.

A series of linear microporous polymers were successfully prepared by conventional nucleophilic substitution reaction of several newly synthesized tetrachloro-monomers with commercially available 5,5’,6,6’-tetrahydroxy-3,3,3’,3’-tetramethylspirobisindane. From the porosity analysis it is clear that the prepared polymers are analogous to polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) with high surface area (350-800 m2/g). The t-plot analysis shown that the major contribution to the specific surface area is arising from the micropore surface area with narrow size distribution of ultramicropores as confirmed by the Horvath-Kawazoe (H-K) analysis. The hydrogen storage capacity of the prepared PIM-SI-(1-7)s were promising (up to 1.26 wt%, 77 K, at 1.13 bar) with high isoteric heats of H2 adsorption (8.5 kJ/mol). The results of this study demonstrate that we can use cheaper chlorinated monomers (instead of fluoro-monomers ) provide a uniform intrinsic microporous in the target polymers.

As Ellis (1997) underscores, it is mandatory that we evaluate every single textbook used to teach a language. The present study aimedto evaluate Learning to Read English for Pre-University Students (Birjandi et. al), currently taught at Iranian high schools. To this purpose, 75 high school EFL teachers were given Litz (2000)textbook evaluation questionaire. Their answers were analyzed based on a Likert scale. The results of the study showed that the textbook mostly did not live up to the teachers standards, mainly because it has ignored listening, and writing skills and does not follow a communicative approach in teaching different skills and components of language. Results of this study have implications both for teaching and material development.

Mobile Internet has become a convenient tool for information exchange, the new 4C business rules in the mobile commerce are co-creation, commodity, community and connecting. In today's mobile commerce, enterprises should pursue the following competitive strategies, which are strategic planning period is shortened?adjusting to changing circumstances is crucial, organizational structure will be more flat, flexible, and adapted to the environment, enterprises become customer operators, remove intermediaries, reduce distribution channels or service networks etc.

The study focused on the need to evolve design criteria for designing and optimal utilization of recreational open spaces in relation to the appropriate percentage of indoor to outdoor facilities. The amount of time available for leisure, available facilities, accessibility to recreational areas, architectural planning, marketing and publicity, contribute significantly to people’s participation and utilization quality in open space recreation. It is therefore necessary to collect and analyze primary social data to form the basis of architectural planning and design of recreational facilities for people in Owerri. The paper explored the constituents of existing recreational open spaces in the study area and using a well structured questionnaire, social data of preference the indoor and outdoor facilities data were derived to constitute the guideline to issue recommendations for the improvement and revitalization of the free and recreational spaces that will enhance quality of utilization.

The present study aims to investigate the relationship of oil, non-oil exports, capital formation and economic growth in Iran. Empirical results show that there is positive significant relationship between these variables and economic growth. Thus, findings of this study recommend that government should create an enabling environment that would facilitate non-oil exports and augment capital formation.

A field experiment was carried out in the mashkhab rice research station of the Agricultural Foundation of Researches at the Ministry of Agriculture, during the growing season of summer 2015. Two rice cultivars included amber 33 and Jasmine, which represented main plots, and three levels of transplanting methods included mechanical transplanting by riding transplanter, mechanical transplanting by walking transplanter and manual transplanting, which represent sub plots were used in the experiment. Fuel consumption, actual field capacity, ratio of hill missing, Percentage of hill damage and grains yield were measured in this study. Split plot design under randomized complete block design with four replications was used in this study. Least significant differences (LSD) at 5% level was used to compare the mean of treatments. The results were showed: The superiority of walking transplanter consumes less amount of fuel amounted 8.56 liters / hect. compared with riding transplanter which consume 11.20 liters / hect.. The riding transplanter Achieved field capacity amounted 0.2380 hect / h which significant superior than manual transplanting and walking transplanter, which achieved a capacity stood 0.0038 and 0.1370 hectares / h respectively. Hand transplanting recorded less ratio of hill missing stood 5.93% comparing with riding transplanter which recorded ratio of hill missing and walking transplanter which recorded a rate of 8.14%. 5.42% percentage of hill damage for riding transplanter comparing with 7.77% for manual transplanting. There was not significant differences appear in the grains product for used transplanting. It appears from the research results that the mechanical transplanting achieves more field capacity compared with manual transplanting. Demonstrating the success of using rice mechanic transplanting in Iraq.

The rate at which oil is moved from the reservoir to the wellbore is directly proportional to the pressure draw down with other parameters kept constant, hence inflow performance relationship provides a direct relationship between the flowing bottom hole pressure and flow rate. Since the reservoir fluids are usually not single phase but are often accompanied by bottom water aquifers, oil well drilled in such reservoir may produce some water depending on the production practice, hence determining the flow rate of the individual fluids is often difficult, and in this work we have determined the real flow rate of oil in the presence of other fluids for real case in Niger Delta and also determining its IPR using IHS WellTest Simulator 2014 V2 which made use of multirate test data from a Niger Delta well. From this research it can be clearly said that if other constraints in the production tubing are kept constant, the higher the difference between the static reservoir pressure and the flowing bottom hole pressure, the higher the production rate. The idea of this pressure rate behavior will enable the Production Engineers to evaluate various operating scenarios to ascertain the optimum production. Understanding and measuring the variables that control the relationship that exist between oil and other fluids and their effect on inflow rate is the focus of this work. These issues is looked into by modeling the present conditions with the use of a simulator called FAST WELL TEST using production data from a Niger Delta well in Nigeria.