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Writing through an organized model and using the most frequent structural patterns as the proficient writers in different sorts of writings has always been worthy of attention. It can be said that narratives are nearly the most common and prevalent sort of writing in Iran. From the primary school, students are being asked to jot down their experiences of a specific occasion or holiday (e.g. Norouz holiday, summer holiday); however, little attention has been paid to the way students have to organize their writings and the kind of referencing has been taken for granted. The connectedness and cohesion of any text in all languages is granted, not mention the fact that coherence is the prerequisite to that. Using cohesive devices, which referencing is one of them, helps the writer to keep the cohesion. Looking for the differences in the commonality of the existence of cataphora and anaphora, we are going to come up with the most prevalent type of referencing, in order to help students to write in the most common way. Cataphora is usually defined as the referential relation in which the element referred to is anticipated by the referring element, usually a pronoun, and anaphora is a linguistic relation between two textual entities which is defined when a textual entity (the anaphor) refers to another entity of the text which usually occurs before (the antecedent). Two English and Persian contemporary short stories have been waded through to discover the most common pattern in terms of using anaphora and cataphora referencing in English writing. Ten English narrative essays and ten Persian narrative essays have been analyzed too for the same purpose. In the end, the results tend to show that anaphoric referencing comparing to cataphoric one is more prevalent in Persian narratives comparing to English ones. Of course, if we consider the frequency of anaphoric and cataphoric referencing, anaphora is more common in both languages; however, it is more common in Persian, as we see rare samples of cataphoric referencing in Persian, while there are more samples of cataphoric referencing in English narratives.

In the present paper, we have generalized Shannon inequality for Aczel and Daroczy entropy and give its application in coding theory. We define mean codeword length and their bounds have been defined and a coding theorem on a lower and upper bounds of a generalized mean codeword length in terms of Aczel and Daroczy entropy has been proved.

Prior researches found several methods to construct 1- factorization using Steiner triple systems [1], the staircase method of Bileski [2], and etc. But not given any method of constructing 1- factors in complete graphs. In our previous work, we briefly explained this construction and published in an Abstract form in the iPURSE 2017. Generalization of that work is given in this paper. For complete graphs whose number of vertices is a multiple of 2, we implement our finding using Java program

Over a period of time India has emerged as a global attraction for retail industry. Unfortunately due to rising employee costs and alarming attrition rates, the retail companies are now worried about losing business to upcoming countries like Philippines, China and South Africa. The Indian retail professionals are now days have become known for their job hopping habits. Employee turnover has always been a matter of concern for organizations. A large degree of employee turnover is highly detrimental to both the organization as well as the employees. How to reduce employee’s turnover intention is a very pivotal challenge for today’s HR managers. Pay better incentives and employee’s motivational techniques have been useless and old practices of the human resource management. To analyze employee’s turnover intention and its impact on organizational outcomes 50 questionnaires were distributed to the first and middle line employees in selected organized retail outlets in Bangalore. This is a qualitative research. The study was done through questionnaire. From the econometric analysis, it is found out that turnover intention has influence on attrition factors such as working environment, career growth, working hours, personal/family reasons, and relation with internal co – worker, welfare, working condition, and salary.

The main objective of the study is to examine the directional causality between spot and futures market in Indian scenario. For this purpose, the study has used pair wise Granger Causality test. The study has used daily prices series in both spot market and futures market for the 40 sample individual stocks drawn from six leading sectors namely Automobiles, Banking, Cement, Gas, Oil & Refineries, Information Technology and Pharmaceutical. The period of study is from 1st January 1997 to 31st May 2009. The study finds that with the exception of Tata Motors, all the remaining Automobile companies showed bi-directional causality between spot and futures prices. Seven (out of selected nine) Banks showed bi-directional causality between spot and futures prices. In the Gas, Oil & Refineries sector, BPCL, HPCL, IOC and Reliance Industries showed bi-directional causality between spot and futures prices. Out of the seven IT firms, four companies did not show any causality between spot and futures prices. All the six selected Pharmaceutical companies witnessed bi-directional causality between spot and futures prices.

The study is conducted mainly to find out the methods and effectiveness of training practices of select Information Technology companies in Chennai.This is mainly to assess the present status of the employee’s effectiveness in discharging the roles and responsibilities in tune with the objectives of the Information Technology Companies.

This study examines a novel written by John Steinbeck and correspondingly its translation into Persian by Valiallah Ebrahimi (1990). Gideon Toury’s Acceptability, Adequacy and Cultural Norms (1995) have been applied in this study. The researcher gathered some information about Toury and his theory of “cultural norms”, and also the two types of translation, namely “adequate” and “acceptable” defined by the same scholar. The translated text was analyzed against the original work to determine if it is source-oriented (adequate) or receptor-oriented (acceptable). The impact of the ideology of the translator on adequacy and acceptability in translation has also been considered as the most important case in the study. The findings of the study revealed that Ebrahimi’s translation was acceptable.

The issue of poverty and strategies to deal with it has occupied the ‘minds’ of various Governments in Nigeria before and after independence in 1960. Indeed the scourge of poverty has been the bane of the Countries of sub Saharan Africa for decades. Each country has tried to devise strategies and methods of dealing with the problem. Poverty is actually a world wide phenomenon hence; it has always attracted the attention of International Organizations like the United Nations and its subsidiary Organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a host of others. The concern over poverty and the need to alleviate it, is predicated on the fact that it is a social phenomenon with multifarious negative consequences on the health of the people, the socio economic dimensions of the country and the totality of the productive capability and capacity of any country.

In present study oilseeds were collected from different parts of Marathwada region and screened on different media for the incidence of different fungal species. Thirty fungal species were found to be associated with oilseeds. A study was also conducted to determine the antifungal activity of essential oils and gums of some medicinal plants against storage fungi. Eucalyptus oil and gum of Terminalia arjuna, Acacia Arabica and Butea monosperma inhibited the growth of storage fungi.

In today’s competitive business world understanding and developing Employee Competencies remains the key to Organisational success. Understanding employee competencies requires a focused approach to study the key competencies possessed by the employees and hence the study was carried out. The purpose of the study is to investigate the level of employee competencies and to analyse the most and least possessed competencies among employees of manufacturing units across the automobile corridor in Chennai, TamilNadu, India. A structured questionnaire was framed and circulated among the respondents to collect the primary data used for research. The respondents were selected through convenient random sampling method. Data collected from 227 respondents were tabled in SPSS and was anlaysed using statistical tools like factor analysis, reliability analysis and Correlation. The study intends to provide a pragmatic view on the level of competency among the employees and provides insights to the administrators, policy makers and practitioners in the field of human resource management for implementing the findings in developing the competency of employees for the development of the individual and the organisation.