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Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations, It occurs because dry land ecosystems are extremely vulnerable to over exploitation and inappropriate use. Land degradation is a major obstacle militating sustainable use of land resources for agriculture. The relative role of climate, drought and human impact was discussed. This menace which manifested in the forms of soil erosion, desertification, salting of river and ponds, acidification and Stalinization, loss of soil fauna and flora e.t.c. is seriously militating productive parts of the soil, Poverty, political instability, deforestation over grazing and bad irrigation practices also undermine the land's fertility, thus, resulted in a negative effect on the socio-economic status of the inhabitants. These consequences can be properly addressed through the establishment of shelterbelts and woodlots, improvement of agricultural productivity, creation of awareness of the drought-hazard through provision of necessary resources for meteorological services in the area as well as legislation against indiscriminate felling of trees.

Students’ satisfaction has become an essence of success in today’s highly competitive world. In service industry specifically the education industry, communication is vital to determine students’ satisfaction. Past researches indicated that, most meaning of conversational messages comes from non-verbal communication. Evaluation on students’ perception on lecturers’ kinesics that would lead to their satisfaction to the services provided was examined. The results of the study illustrate that kinesics that is also known as body movements was shown to have the most impact on students’ satisfaction. Therefore, from this study, it can be inferred that students’ in Malaysian universities are mostly observant on the body movements used, facial expression and postures and gestures of the body of their lecturers when lectures are delivered to them. The present study caters for a wide spectrum of students and development professionals, especially those who are interested in non-verbal communication specifically kinesics-related issues. It is highly hoped that the information gleaned from the present study may assist all service employees specifically in understanding better, the importance of kinesics and its effects on students’ satisfaction.

The neurosarcoïdosis, is a rare granulomatosis, which causes serious neurological troubles. Until today, there is no consensus about its diagnosis. The stereotaxic biopsy appears to be the gold standard, for histological and definitivel diagnostic of this pathology. Our goal is to show through a case report the importance of the STB, in definitive diagnostic of cerebral granulomatosis; The case is about a young adult, who had clinical neurological disorders, going through an experimental therapeutic, and shows complications, and the STB corrects the diagnosis, so that without this gesture, the patient should have died.

Face recognition recently plays an important role in many application areas such as: commercel, politic, and security. That’s why recognition and high recognition rates of them is very important. features extraction ,decrease of extracted features dimentions and classify are three major and important in the face recognition systems, in the project, we apply third level of gabor wavelet transform for compress and features extraction, also, we apply principle component analyse(PCA)for dimention decrease of extracted features at extremity, we use radial basis function network(RBFN)for classify and recognition this proposal system performs on the ORL face database. This system results average correct recognition percent 97.75% on ORL database.

In recent decades, drought events caused many adverse effects on humans and environment, notably in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. This many worsen the desertification process and throw away many opportunities. Several droughts have been occurred in Sistan plain south eastern Iran, and the most recent one (1999-2006) said to be the worst drought in the past 600 years and has much negative environmental, economical and social effects. In this study, changes of vegetation cover was assessed using the pre and past drought data. After interpreting the results, it was found that quantity and quality of plants reduced by 100% and that much of changes occurred in abandoned lands. Moreover, it was discovered that the main causes of plant cover desertification are natural factors and human factor of mismanagement.

A quality teacher can control and make a realization of all the skills, knowledge and expertise in himself as a practical instrument for enhancing the effectiveness of teaching in the workshop. This research aims to identify the skills of teachers in school. Teachers need to show that they have skills in doing practical work, workshop management, teaching and conducting skills of the teaching aids. This means that teachers need to have high skills in the teaching practice. The problems faced by the teacher to teach life skills in school subjects to be dealt with, especially involving practical work in workshops. Study instrument used is Inquisition of which has 40 items. Sample studies that involved in this study consisted of 30 teachers of Muar Vocational High School. The data that is derived processed by using SPSS (Statistical package for Social Sciences) version 11.5 for Windows. The results of the analysis is stated in the form of statistics and the frequency, percent minimum value and show teachers Muar Vocational High School have the skills to do the works in the high skills, management skills workshop, teaching and also control teaching aids. This means that teachers need to have high skills in the teaching practice. From the data obtained as a whole found the teachers of Muar Vocational High School have high skills in practical teaching of Living Skills subject.

In this paper we developed new matrices (angle matrix ,connection matrix and connection angle matrix) in addition to a set of matrices (adjacent matrix, incidence matrix) that previously used to introduce the mathematical representation of high-resolution protein structures an accurate representatin that facilitate analysis of its structures.

Our paper is divided into two parts compression technique and block matching algorithms. Set Partitioning in Hierarchal Trees (SPIHT) and Spatial orientation tree Wavelet (STW ) are Compression technique and Adaptive Rood Pattern Search is a block matching algorithm. Usually medical images are generated from different –different image diagnostic centers. For fast transmission, reception and to reduce the storage capacities we do compression with better picture quality. SPIHT and STW are compared in terms of Compression ratio (CR) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) .For better Compression Ratio and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio we used STW and SPIHT respectively. ARPS consumed less Time among all other existing algorithms.

Ground nut seed beetle is a serious pest of ground nut in stored condition. Thirteen ground nut cultivars were selected to study their resistance and susceptibility to Caryedon serratus in the laboratory at 70% RH and 28 ? 1°C. The physical characters of ground nut pod like length and breadth of pod, pod colour, pod size, pod weight, pod texture, shell thickness were directly influencing intensity of the attack of ground nut beetle. Pod circumference of g.nut were varied from 3.44 to 4.38 cm. Variety having thicker shell are resistant to the pest.

The overview of the paper is to give an idea of prescription drug labeling in United States. Prescription drug labeling helps in making labels more user friendly and which is an immediate and important source of medication information for patients. Although patients may obtain useful information from prescription drug labeling, its main purpose is to give healthcare professionals the information they need to prescribe drugs appropriately to the patients. FDA focused its effort on making labeling more informative and easy-to-read and minimize patient confusion and promote patient awareness on how to use a prescribed medicine safely and effectively, thereby reducing risk of medication error. The new drug labeling requirements was initially applied to recently approved prescription drugs and the drugs that received approval for new use, and later it was applied in gradually to other drugs. As per the new format, the prescription information for newly approved products must meet specific graphical requirements, including the reorganization of critical information so that physicians can find the information quickly. It may conclude in outlining the new format, which is helpful to understand exactly what a prescription drug labeling is in U.S.