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The writing assessment has long been considered a problematic area for educational assessment professionals and TEFL practitioners in particular. Due to a significant growth in the number of language learners in the past two decades, fairness issues in ESL writing assessments have been of growing interest and importance and have given birth to a great deal of theoretical and empirical research which have been examining the effect of various factors on the evaluation of students’ writing. The result of such studies leads us to question the accuracy and the raters’ fairness in rating learners’ written works. Hence, the rater variable, affected by various factors, has always been an important issue in the literature of writing assessment. This paper aims at investigating the impact of raters’ personality traits on the analytic evaluation of the students’ writings, encapsulating the probable effect of the genre too. In order to measure the personality traits of raters, NEO FFI developed by Costa and McCrae has been applied. A group of language instructors rated an expository essay and an argumentative one based on Jacobs’ rating scale. The results of the study indicate that there is a relationship between the raters’ personalities and the score they have assigned to the students’ writing. The genre of the essay has also been significant in the process of rating.

We report in this study the cases of epilepsy observed in the onchocerciasis focus of the city of Inga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The aim of this study is to contribute to the search for a possible epilepsy-onchocerciasis relationship in the city of Inga. The average age of our patients is 39, 12 ± 15.71 years with a male predominance (sex ratio = 2, 62). Fishermen are the most affected by onchocerciasis with 44.85%. The length of stay of patients in the city of Inga is 24, 71 ± 9.5 years. The exsangual cutaneous biopsy was positive in 58 people out of 100, ie 58%. The mean parasitic load is 4.65 ± 2.6 microfilariae per biopsy. The presence of onchocerciasis in the city of Inga does not seem to be a determining factor in the occurrence of epilepsy: in our study the association of epilepsy and onchocerciasis has not been demonstrated (p = 0.075). Onchocerciasis could be, due to insomnia and the state of hyperexcitability that it causes, a factor favoring the onset of epileptic seizures and not a cause of epilepsy.

The Local Governments (LG) in Malaysia has certainly been accountable to implement, and subsequently achieve, the ISO 9000 accreditation. However, to date, most of the PBT organizations have still failed to accomplish this target. The purpose of this study is to identify the barriers of the main organizational behavior of ISO 9000 implementation in LG organizations. This study also seeks to determine whether or not these barriers are different between the types of LG organizations. The related data had been gathered through the questionnaire survey and was analysed using quantitative methods. As an output, the descriptive statistical analysis shows that there are three main barriers that have been faced by the LG organizations in implementing ISO 9000, those of which are the negative perception or attitude towards quality among employees, employees’ culture towards quality programmes and the lack of cooperation among internal departments. This study has also found two additional organizational behavior barriers that have never been discussed previously, known as the change of the Yang Dipertua/Mayor and the non-existence of proper quality management department, division or unit.

The granites of part of Nalgonda district is a metaluminous, high K-calc alkaline,I-type granite emplaced into the gneissic rock of the Peninsular Gneissic Complex of the Eastern Dharwar Craton. The thin section study clearly evidence that the granite is of pure magmatic origin. The deformation signatures were also noticed of brittle-ductile shear both in field and thin section studies in laboratory. Geochemically, the granite is rich in K2O+Na2O, suggesting it is an alkali granite with calc-alkaline magma. On a Yb vs Ta discrimination plot, the granites are falling mostly in the volcanic arc granite field. The REE pattern shows strong Eu negative anomaly, suggesting early separation of plagioclase. The enhance level of LL element relative to HFS element point to the subduction zone enrichment and/or crustal comtamination of the source region.

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the ovicidal and larvicidal activity of Clerodendron phlomides on Aedes aegypti. Maximum ovicidal and larvicidal activities were recorded in chloroform extract, followed by hexane and ethanol extracts of C. phlomides. The chloroform extract of C. phlomides at 1000 ppm showed an ovicidal effect of 15.6±1.30, 33.2±3.64 and 45.6±5.49 % on 0-6, 6-12 and 12-18 hr old eggs. The LC50 values for this extract were 10.21, 45.30, 235.06 and 335.51 ppm against the first, second, third and forth instar larvae of Ae. aegypti in 24hr. An increase in the concentration of the test extracts resulted in an increase in the ovicidal and larvicidal effects.

We are very happy to announce that from 28th June 2019, Prof. Dr. C.P. Abdolrasoul Aleezaadeh has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Medicine. Prof. Dr. C.P. Abdolrasoul Aleezaadeh is working as Associate Professor, Pacific Albion University – the U.S.A. The appointment of Prof. Dr. C.P. Abdolrasoul Aleezaadeh as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

The implementation of QR code based smart card has been becoming an ever increasing popularity in the traceability of products. This QR code smart card contains the Passport details, Pan card details, Aadhar card details.QR code helpful to store and process the information through black and white dots on the QR scanner which transmit by the reader. The QR reader reads the data present in the passport and sends the data by using QR Scanner through wireless network. As soon as the card shown, using QR reader, the details of the person appear on the computer screen and verify it using the data present in the system and if it matches then the details of the passport holder is displayed. It reduces the burden of documentation which thereby reduces the time consumption. This makes the system centralized by increasing the security.

This research paper suggests a load balancing algorithm using fuzzy logic methodology so that maximum Quality of Service can be attained. Avoidance of jamming of packets is one of the key performance objectives of traffic management in MPLS networks. Load balancing can avoid the congestion caused due to inefficient allocation of network resources. Another feature of the network performance is Quality of Service (QOS). QOS in telecommunications jargon, is a measurement used to determine how well that network is satisfying the end user's requirements. The Mean Opinion Score (MOS) is an important feature in determining the QOS. MOS is a measurement of the quality delivered by the network based on human observation at the destination end. Precisely we can tell average opinion score (MOS) provides a numerical indication of the perceived quality of received media after compression and transmission.

The present study is conducted to analyze the relationship between organizational justice and staff happiness in the Institutes of Standard & Industrial Research of Qom province and Jihad Agricultural Management in Qom city. This research is classified among descriptive surveys and was a correlation type. Research sample was selected simple random from 30 members of The Institute of Standards & Industrial Research and 52 members of Jihad Agricultural Management in 1390. The tool to gather the data was Questionnaire and SPSS software has been used to analyze the descriptive and analytical data. Organizational Justice Questionnaire (Newhof and Mormon 1993) was used to evaluate organizational justice and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (localized by elites) to evaluate staff happiness. In order to analyze the data, a relational approach (correlation and regression) was used. The results show a positive and significant relation between organizational justice and staff happiness in both Institutes; so the research hypothesis was approved. In the meantime, factor analysis is used to identify happiness factors and to confirm organizational justice classifications.Since the relationship between Organizational Justice and Staff happiness has been well-recognized in this research, it is necessary to apply organizational justice and the ways of applying them to increase the staff happiness. In this line, some recommendation for managers and organization authorities are provided.

In India maize ranks fifth position in area and fourth in production among the major cereals grown. Being a C4 plant and having very high yield potential, it is called queen of cereals. One of the main deterrents to high grain yield in maize is its susceptibility to several diseases. Of 112 diseases of maize reported so far from different parts of the globe, 65 are known to occur in India. Banded leaf and Sheath blight (BLSB) is one of them caused by most widespread, destructive and versatile pathogen Rhizoctonia solani f. sp Sasakii (teleomorph: Corticium sasakii, syn Thanatephorus cucumeris) which claims significant yield loss (Saxena, 2002). It was first reported by Bertus (1927) in Sri Lanka under the name Sclerotial disease. The epidemics of this disease were first reported in the warm and humid foot hills of Himachal Pradesh by Thakur et al. (1995). Singh and Sharma (1976) recorded a loss in grain yield in the range of 11 to 40 per cent due to this disease while Lal et al. (1985) reported a reduction to the extent of 97.4 per cent in severe condition. A range of 25 to 30°C (Ahuja and Payak, 1981) coupled with an average relative humidity of 90-100% (Ahuja and Payak, 1981) is most suitable for development of this disease. These conditions prevail in the plains of N.E. region of India during the months of July-August, a time when the crop is in vulnerable growth stage. In India the disease was first recorded in the Tarai (foot hill plain areas) region of Uttar Pradesh (Payak and Renfro, 1966). Maize plant is affected by as many as 61 diseases, out of which 16 have been identified a major ones which occur both in tropical and temperate regions of India (Sharma and Payak, 1986). Among these, banded leaf and sheath blight (BLSB) incited by Rhizoctonia solani is gaining economic importance. Grain yield loss, depending on severity varies between 11 to 40 per cent (Singh and Sharma, 1976). Now banded leaf and sheath blight is considered as one of the major diseases of Maize (Payak and Sharma, 1985).