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The objective of this paper is to explore the role networking play in making small scale business activities more sustainable. Using a sample of 320 women small scale business operators from the Mfantsiman district of Ghana, the study adopts the multinomial logit as well as ordinary least square (OLS) estimation techniques to determine the effects of number of network on start-up capital and credit amount. The central focus of the paper is to discuss the role of networking in making women more innovative in sourcing for start-up and top-up capital for business activities. The paper establishes that belonging to more than three networks significantly reduces the quantum of credit that women business operators can access thus it is one network that significantly determines credit size for business expansion but at the start –up stage, more networks is vital in sourcing for start-up capital from other sources. The paper recommends that networking should be used by women not only at the start-up stage but also the later stages when financing needs becomes more crucial for business expansion, it is important for women to stay with an established network. Besides networking, the paper offers recommendations on ‘flexible’ repayment schedule as a way of increasing credit duration for greater access to loans. The paper offers policy recommendations to assist in building stronger entrepreneurial network in order to ensure sustainable entrepreneurship.

In this paper, quasi T-flat, the xi T- flat, and phi T-flat trans-Sasakian manifolds are studied. It is proved that quasi T-flat, the xi T- flat, and phi T-flat trans-Sasakian manifolds are Einstein under the condition

The partial substitution of the ureter using a pediculated double short segments of the ileum is a technique used to re-establish ureteral transit and preserve the renal unit, following the resection of extensive ureteral lesions. Standard surgical procedure for an ileoureteroplasty consists of isolating an ileal duct of equal or greater length than the ureteral defect and interposing it in the urinary tract in an isoperistaltic direction.Monti described a surgical technique that allows for the creation of catheterizable stomas in continent urinary diversions, using the Mitrofanoff principle. These passageways were created from one or several 2.5 cm long ileal sections by means of their detubulization and transverse retubulization.

Evidence from literature suggests that despite the fact that women are key players in entrepreneurial activities and make significant contributions in the economic development of many nations around the world, non-availability of long-term finance and long procedures to access financial help have been identified as major constraints faced by women entrepreneurs. Cooperatives societies has been identified as veritable instruments which provide business finance for the growth and development of women enterprises .Therefore this study evaluated the impact of cooperative societies on the performance of women entrepreneurs in Lagos State, Nigeria. Data were sought through structured questionnaires and analysed using tables, frequencies, percentages, charts while chi square was used to test the study hypothesis. The findings of the study revealed that though cooperatives are accessible to majority of the women entrepreneurs, the amount of loans obtainable from cooperatives were inadequate for the entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the chi square analysis showed that the ?2_ calculated value of 61.26 is greater than the ?2_ critical value of 13.28 at 0.01level of significance, implying that cooperative societies have significant effect on entrepreneurs. Therefore it is recommended that the federal government should consider developing policies that will create an enabling environment for the development and proper operation of cooperative thrift and credit societies and other group initiatives and the management of cooperative societies should be helped to have a new business orientation and also encouraged to attend and benefit from seminars, adult education and literacy programs.

Digital image processing is now increasingly being used in electron accelerators to characterize electron beam. Measurement of electron beam parameters like beam size, beam centroid with high accuracy is required to optimize accelerator performance. Measurement accuracy of these parameters using digital image processing is limited by the noise present in the images. Reduction of noise without altering the features present in the image is a desired goal of image processing. In this paper we evaluate the noise reduction capability of median, mean, gaussian and wiener filters from digital images of electron beam image. The images were collected from Transport Line-1 in Indus Accelerator Complex at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, India. We also evaluate the effect of these filters on the measurement accuracy of beam parameters like beam size and beam centroid. It has been observed that performance of median filter for noise reduction is better than mean, gaussian and wiener filter. Median filter also creates less distortion in beam size and centroid of the beam in comparison with other filters.

The present work deals with the results of experimental investigations on steel fiber reinforced self compacting concrete. Effects of these fibers on various strengths of concrete were studied with varied fiber content from 0.5 to 3% at a specific interval with weight of cement. Strengths considered for investigation were compressive strength, flexural strength, split tensile and bond strength and tests on fresh concrete were also conducted. Ductility of concrete is found to increase in the fiber reinforced self compacting concrete as observed from the load deflection study. The Poisson’s ratio is found to vary within the specified limits with static modulus of concrete relation between flexural shear strength and all other strengths are developed. A comparison result of steel fiber reinforced self compacting concrete and that of normal self compacting concrete shows the significant improvement in the results of various strengths.

The Phytochemical studies were carried out on the aqueous, chloroform and ethanol extract of the powdered specimen using standard procedures. In this investigation terpenoids, steroids, tannins, saponin, and cardiac glycosides showed positive results in the extracts whereas flavonoids and phlobatannins showed negative results in the aqueous extract. Soxhlet apparatus were used for extracting the antibacterial active compounds from the powered leaves of Mentha arvensis. The discs were prepared and immersed in various solvents. Obtained pathogenic bacteria pure cultures were inoculated nutrient broth respectively. The antibacterial activities against the Bacillus subtilis, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Serratia marcescens and Staphylococcus pyogenes. Ethanol extract was found to be most effective followed by other water and chloroform extracts. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumonia were more sensitive for ethanol extract. Aqueous extracts showed low inhibition against the tested organisms when compared to other test plant extracts. The present study provides an important basis for the use of chloroform and ethanol extracts from the leaves of Mentha arvensis L. for the treatment of skin diseases. The crude extract as well as the isolated compounds found to be active in this study which would be useful for the development of new antibacterial drugs.

To improve operational efficiency and to facilitate the emergence of globally competitive companies, there is a need of mergers and acquisitions. The increased participation of the Indian companies in the global corporate sector has further facilitated the merger and acquisition activities in India. Even though mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have been an important element of corporate strategy all over the globe for several decades, research on M& As has not been able to provide conclusive evidence on whether they enhance efficiency or destroy wealth. So this paper tries to analyse the effect of mergers and acquisition on the net profits of the company. It also tries to analyse the performance of the selected merged banks in terms of changes in growth of net sales, cost of production, market capitalisation, revenue earnings and revenue expenses in foreign exchange and Earning per share and also to know the most significant variable affecting the net profits in pharmaceutical company with respect to net sales, cost of production, market capitalisation, revenue earnings and revenue expenses in foreign exchange and Earning per share. The data has been colleted through Capitaline software. Further the result shows that different factors are responsible in different companies that are affecting the profitability of the companies.

The innovation of generic technology for the development of the manufacturing sector has an important basic role, and for the generic technology research and development, there is lack of effective attention. Especially in manufacturing industry, the development of generic technology still can't meet the national economy and the needs of the development of manufacturing industry. Especially compared with foreign countries generic technology innovation development and application there is a considerable gap. On the basis of introducing the classification and features of manufacturing generic technology, this paper analyzes the influence factors and main body of generic technology innovation in the manufacturing industry. Finally, it derived the process model of manufacturing generic technology innovation from the process model of manufacturing technology innovation

The potential of Mobola Plum seed to serve as raw material for industrial applications, domestic consumption was examined by this study. The moisture content, crude protein, crude fat, crude fibre, ash and carbohydrate were 5.11 %, 33.10 %, 5.15 %, 1.60 %, 2.65 % and 52.39 % respectively. The seed is a veritable source for Carbohydrate and protein, which enhance its potential usage for food and feed formulation. The fatty acids profile of the oil showed that it contains high level of unsaturated fatty acids. The Mobola Plum seed oil could be a good source of edible oil for human consumption.