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Over the last three decades, employee training both formal and informal has contributed to high organizational commitment, job satisfaction and job performance, many employers and employees have struck out an agreement on how better to train employees despite the hard economic times and scarce resources that organization posses and this is normally done through organization sponsoring employee training or the employee self initiating the training. The popularity of the training concept has stemmed from its relationship with several important employee behaviours. For instance, literature has shown that employee training contributes to organizational commitment and job satisfaction may have positive impact on job performance and negative relationships with turnover, intent to leave and tardiness. Therefore, training helps in predicting employee satisfaction, commitment and turnover is important because employees have become the only source of sustainable competitive advantage to organizations. The researcher used a descriptive research design basing on the use of qualitative and quantitative approaches. The target population for this study was selected employees from the Public service in Kisii Central sub County. The researcher used self administered questionnaire as research tool to collect data from the respondents. The collected data was thoroughly examined and checked for completeness and comprehensibility. The study used regression analysis both simple and multiple to study the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable. From the values of the coefficients, we conclude that the independent variables Induction training affect organizational commitment and job performance significantly, (?=2.740; p-value =0.0183); followed by attending conferences, workshop & seminars (?=2.012; p-value=0.0052), then Government Sponsored Training (?=0.772; p-value=0.0299) and Self Initiated Training (?=0.302; p-value=0.0011). The study concluded that self initiated training influence employee commitment to the organization and job performance.

In this Paper numerical study with swept ramp injection in supersonic combustion of hydrogen has been presented. Coupled implicit scheme with finite rate chemistry model and K-? Turbulence model have been used for modeling of supersonic combustion. The main issue in supersonic combustion is proper mixing within short burst of time. Because of the step on the top wall of the combustor, there exists an expansion fan generated just on the top wall at the entrance of the combustor, which is interacts with the oblique shock wave formed upstream of the combustor due to the shear layer deflecting into the core flow. The static pressures along the walls are normalized by the static pressure of the core flow. The present result is very promising and demonstrates that flamelet approach seems to be feasible to high-speed flows. The stagnation temperature in the combustion reaches up to 2830 k. Fluctuation in pressure and Mach number was due to shock train.

We are very happy to announce that from 13th November 2014, Dr. Sachin Balbhimrao has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Commerce. Dr. Sachin Balbhimrao currently working as Full time Faculty in Central University of Karnataka, Department of Commerce, School of Business Studies, Gulbarga. The appointment of Dr. Sachin Balbhimrao 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 elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

We are very happy to announce that from 22nd March 2014, Dr.G.V.Satya Sekhar has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Financial Management and Financial Accounting. Dr.G.V.Satya Sekhar is currently working as Programme Coordinator-MBA, Centre for Distance Learning, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam. The appointment of Dr.G.V.Satya Sekhar 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 elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

We are very happy to announce that from 14th January 2015, Dr.V.P.T.Dhevika has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Marketing Management. Dr.V.P.T.Dhevika currently working as Assistant Professor in Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. The appointment of Dr.V.P.T.Dhevika 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 elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

We are very happy to announce that from 22nd September 2014, Dr.Zahra Noori Tupkanloo has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Agriculture. Dr.Zahra Noori Tupkanloo currently working as Department of Agriculture, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran. The appointment of Dr.Zahra Noori Tupkanloo 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 elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

This paper investigates the role of good governance in the development of rural areas and in arresting social insecurity. It assesses the general characteristic of good governance in the world especially as it relates to rural areas of Nigeria. It examines the causes of social insecurity and advocates that the various actors at the rural areas must contribute to good governance if social security must be achieved. It opines that in a situation of crisis, hunger and want, social security challenges exist. Insecurity of life, war, famine can lead to displacement and the extinction of a civilization. The paper concludes by examining how social security can be achieved and the link between social security and the continuity of culture.

We are very happy to announce that from 20th December 2014, Mr. Tanupriya Choudhury has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Image Compression and Software Engineering. Mr. Tanupriya Choudhury currently working as Assistant Professor, Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon, India. The appointment of Mr. Tanupriya Choudhury as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. 

Central focus of the study was to check perception of students concerning importance of teamwork. Students belong to Pakistani and English origin were unit of analysis in our study who were approached to make their opinion regarding teamwork. A questionnaire was prepared with likert scale from 1 strongly agree to 5 strongly disagree for the sake of collecting data. Later on normality, reliability and t test were applied to check perceive importance of teamwork. Findings revealed that both societies are agreed on common benefits of teamwork and null hypothesis were partially accepted.

We are very happy to announce that from 7th April 2014, Prof. Ibrahim Ramadhan Agool has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Semiconductors. Prof. Ibrahim Ramadhan Agool is currently working as Department of Physics, College of Science, Al-Mustansiriyah University, Iraq. The appointment of Prof. Ibrahim Ramadhan Agool 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 elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief