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Nakshi Kantha is a traditional cloth most widely used in Bangladesh. User of this cloths feels a divine pleasure during use. If modern stitching technology can be used keeping the traditional value intact and variation in design can be introduced than this cloth type may be marketed around the globe. Local NGOs and Bangladesh Government is pursuing for a wide range of marketing. There are not much of researches carried out as to how best this product can be marketed around the globe. The researchers tried to identify the possibilities about how best the Nakshi Kantha can be produced using modern stitching technology, variation in the design and use of the concept in modern fashion. 

This study investigated the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for teaching and learning in TVET institutions in Tanzania. The study intended to fill in the knowledge gap, whether available ICT facilities in TVET institutions had positive or negative role in teaching and learning. The findings expected to lay the foundation for proper guidance to use ICTs in line with the national ICT policy on proper way and get their actual contribution in teaching and learning for the development of the nation in general. The background information indicated that availability of ICT facilities is essential in teaching and learning in all learning institutions worldwide. The study used a cross section research design with a total sample size 403 respondents and applied a mixed approach of research method for data collection. Questionnaires with open ended and closed ended questions were mainly used to collect quantitative data while observation checklist, documentary review checklist, interviews schedule, and focus group discussion guide, with semi-structured questions respectively, were used to collect qualitative data. Data were analyzed using content analysis and IBM Software Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 then presented in terms of percentage, Chi-square, mean, and frequencies. The study discovered that ICT facilities were not enough by 83(39.3%), however available ICT facilities were used by 85% in teaching and learning. Yet, about 48.82%, of the students had limited time to use computers in their laboratories as such 78.2% of the students used smart phones to access internet for various use anytime. In general insufficient ICT facilities and limited time for students to use the same affected negatively the teaching and learning in TVET institutions. It was recommended that stakeholders such as the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training as well as NACTE be responsible in delivery of sufficient ICT facilities and encourage its use in all TVET institutions. More specific, further studies should examine proper innovation ICT use in line with curriculum change in global perspectives.

In our paper , we have suggested a variant of the RSA public cryptosystem, it is more effecient than the traditional RSA algorithm which uses the Euler’s Totient Function .The discussed RSA variant is very much similar to the traditional RSA. It also is a block cipher like the traditional one but it uses a different Ø(n) function. In the suggested scheme the range of Ø(n) is so high that it increases the security manifold. This makes cryptanalysis very difficult. Methods like brute force attack will fail as the range is very high and such attacks consume a lot of time. We represent Ø(n) as f(n,h) where n can be a Positive Integer(Z). As the value of h keeps increasing the range of values of Ø (n) also keeps increasing exponentially which in turn increases the security exponentially. This is the reason why the proposed scheme can be assumed to be more efficient, reliable and scalable.

This paper focuses on 17 local governments in savannah Sahel of Yobe State Nigeria. The level of community participation, in afforestation programme development for rural communities is attributed to sense of community. A Sense of community and rule enforcement is a necessary condition for community afforestation programme development. This paper provides an approach for sense of community and rule enforcement in relations to community afforestation programme development. The main purpose of the study was to assess the sense of community and rule enforcement in community afforestation programme development in Yobe State, Nigeria. Sense of community and rule enforcement has been identified as bridge to effective community participation in afforestation programme development. The study used survey design in which questionnaire was used to collect the data from the selected communities and villages. The result shows that about 89 percent change in afforestation programme development was as a result of changes in rule enforcement and sense of community. It can be concluded that the use of this domain allows community leaders to scrutinize their achievements, address their constraints and measure their progress.

State Transport Undertakings (STUs) are established with the major objective of providing economic, coordinated, efficient and adequate bus services to the society. The STUs are also bound to carry on their operations on business principles due to the recent Government policy of self sustain in the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs). Due to this duality in its objectives the STUs are swinging on both sides (i.e.) social objectives on one side and the commercial objectives on the other side. In this process of conflicting goals the profitability and the public services were unsolved. In this paper an attempt has been made to simulate the profitability of STUs in terms of Total Cost/Bus (on Road)/Day and Total Revenue/Bus (Held)/Day using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). For this study as many as 29 performance indicators of 37 STUs with 11 years data were used to train the network. The results and statistical tests are very much encouraging. Therefore ANN is a better tool to map an unexplainable relationship between the input and the output variables. And this can also be used for future predictions and optimization.

Rapid developments in curricular education in Malaysia have raised questions about curricular teacher education. Many institution has been developed many of curricular organization for students to increase the achievement of skills in curricular. However, the understanding role of a curricular teacher is not balanced towards the achievement of students in curricular. The achievement of curricular was not totally performed very good due to the preparing curricular teacher was not being more effective. Education and the challenges of preparing quality curricular teachers are important priorities in many developing and developed countries. This is because to achieve in curricular education depends on the quality of its teachers. Therefore, a framework of skills need to be built to achieve the target of participating involved in curricular programs. The success of curricular depends on the quality of its teachers. Effective curricular teachers help to build a strong system of curricular education. The desired attributes of a beginning curricular teacher were articulated and a skills framework was developed.

The study analyzed the socioeconomic determinants of farmers’ use of indigenous soil management practices of yam production in Nasarawa state, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique of six local government areas and three communities each was used to select 288 yam farmers for the study. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. It was discovered that most of the farmers (33.7%) and (31.6 %) were within the age ranges of 31-40 and 41-50 years respectively. Men (92.0) and married (88.2%) farmers dominated yam production in the study area. The literacy level of farmers in the study area was found to be low and majority (41.7%) of them had less than 10 years farming experience. It was discovered that the most prevalent indigenous soil management practices were tillage, crop rotation, mulching, green manuring, shifting cultivation, intercropping, organic manuring, bush fallowing and burning of crop residues in decreasing order of prevalence. The study revealed that Cost effectiveness (99.7%), Conservation of biodiversity (96.9%), user friendliness (94.8%) and Compatibility with the culture of the people (75.7%) were the advantages of using indigenous soil management practices. Use of indigenous soil management practices is significantly and positively affected by marital status, farm size, age and farming experience. The F-value at 5% level of probability confirmed that the joint effects of farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics significantly affected the use of indigenous soil management practices of yam production. The study recommends that research and extension must work closely with the rural farmers to consolidate on the identified indigenous soil management practices in the area to improve on them for a sustainable agricultural development. They must also strengthen the confidence of farmers by expressing faith in such local knowledge found to be economically viable and ecologically Sound. This will boost yam production and create opportunity for sustaining a growing population and food security in rural communities of the area.

In this paper the symmetry classification of third order quasi-linear PDE's containing arbitrary function have been studied with derailed examples.

We propose a systematic methodology in any experimental design using orthogonal approach technique, which maximizes the coverage by comparatively lesser number of test cases. In such technique we have to balance between the specified time and quality. In this paper we adopt multiple strategy of OATS (Orthogonal array testing Strategies) in diabetic people to asses and compare the practice to optimize the testing efforts and achieve the right balance between diet and medication in urban and rural areas. Here we introduce three case studies of this orthogonal approach to reduce the number of test cases under the given software and hence improve the efficiency of the testing.

A Lamotrigine (LMG) reagent, 6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1, 2,4-triazine-3,5-diamine. Its molecular formula and molecular weight are C9H7N5Cl2 and 256.09 respectively, was employed for the sensitive spectrophotometric determination of gold(III). The gold(III) ion forms a yellow-coloured complex with LMG in an aqueous solution at pH 3.0. The gold complex shows the absorption maximum at 400 nm, and Beer, s law obeyed in the range of 10-160 µg/ml. The molar absorptivity and sandell, s sensitivity were found to be 1.38 X 103 mol -1 cm-1 and 0.0184 µg cm-2 respectively. The complex shows 1:1 [Au(III) : LMG] stochiometry with a stability constant of 4.77X104. The interference effect of various diverse ions has been studied. In addition to zero- order, first derivative spectrophotometric methods was also developed for the determination of gold(III) in trace amount which was more sensitive than the zero-order method. The developed method has been used for the determination of gold(III) in various kinds of alloys. The results was in excellent agreement with certified values.