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This paper gives a non-invasive approach for the measurement of blood glucose concentration in the blood, with the use of fluorescence radiation. By directing the fluorescence radiation at the target trytophan, the reflected radiation from tryptophan is detected at the detector and converted into a measurable signal. This value will correlate with the blood glucose concentration.

The study discusses improving safe blood donation in Nigeria and the roles of the mass media in achieving same in Nigerian hospitals. In this regard, it answers the questions: What is blood? What is blood donation? And is safe blood donation adequate in Nigeria? Beyond the relevant answers given on the above questions, it also explains the roles of mass media in improving safe blood donations among Nigerians. Besides this, it recommends among others that the federal government, state government, private hospitals and concerned Nigerians should encourage mass media campaigns continuously on the need for safe blood donations to save lives. It also upholds that the federal and state governments should establish more blood banks in their health facilities, in order to spur the people, who would become aware through the mass media, to access same for safe blood donations. Keywords: Improvement, Safe Blood, Donation, Roles, the Mass Media

This article analyses the market reaction to stock splits announcements, using a unique Indian sample over the period 2001 to 2010. Our event study finds a significantly positive Cumulative Average Abnormal Return (CAAR) around the announcement date. Liquidity increases lead to higher stock price changes, which supports the liquidity improvement hypothesis. Further, firm size and abnormal returns are inversely related, which is in line with the attention hypothesis.

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between assertiveness and early maladaptive schemas .The statistical population include all of AL Zahra university students in the year 2013-2014, in which, by using random sampling,150 students were selected. To gather data, two questionnaires of Young’s maladaptive schemas (75 items) and assertive questionnaire (40 items) of Gambril&Richi was used. Data analysis performed by using Pearson correlation test andmultiple Regressions. Results showed that there is positive significant relationship betweenmaladaptive schemas of emotional deprivation, subjugation, self-sacrifice, emotional inhibition and defectiveness / shame and assertiveness and there is an inversion relationship between Entitlement schemas and assertiveness.

The researcher has presented a brief review of related studies done in the field of teacher. This chapter deals with analysis and interpretation. The collected data on job anxiety and personality adjustment of secondary school teachers were analyzed by busing suitable statistical techniques in accordance with the objective of the present study. The objectives of the present study were. The researcher found out job anxiety of secondary school teachers by administering job anxiety scale. Then the researcher categorized these 60 sampled teachers into four categorizes. On the basis of the score obtained by teachers on job anxiety scale, the researcher also calculated the percentage of secondary school teachers in different category of job anxiety. The table no.4 rains category of job anxiety and number and percentage of secondary school teachers belong to different categories.

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We are very happy to announce that from 20th November 2015, Mr. Aseel Hadi Hamzah has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Engineering Materials. Mr. Aseel Hadi Hamzah  working as Babylon University/Material Engineering College /Ceramic and Building Materials Department. The appointment of Mr. Aseel Hadi Hamzah 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 23rd April 2016, Mr. S.Jagadeesan has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Computer Science. Mr. S.Jagadeesan working as Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications in Nandha Engineering College, Tamilnadu, India. The appointment of Mr. S.Jagadeesan 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.

Architecture reflects the spirit of time and through the study of its various characteristics in different historical periods, the age dominant social policies are detectable. The concentration on such a correlation has got the more significance in the recent years, especially in evolving or developing countries like Iran. This essay, through the analysis of Iran condition during the five post Revolution governments and through the extraction of the statesmen’s various mottos is to identify the fundamental political orientations in different presidencies. Then, through the analysis of fifty architectural works as the case-study in each presidency (four hundred and fifty cases in total), referring to the texts that expressed the architects’ comments about their own works, is to determine the architects’ professional approaches in each period. The adaptive comparison of the architects’ approaches and the political orientations in each presidency through the Comparative Analysis can determine the kind and quality of the interaction between architecture and politics or city and social evolutions in each presidency. According to the accomplished studies, a kind of meaningful correlation between the political mottos of different governments and the architects’ professional orientations is definable; but the research most significant achievement suggests the emergence of a new generation of the Iranian contemporary architects in the Justice Government who, indifferent to the current policies, peruse their own determined principles and ideals, the principles like democracy, tolerance or discourse which correspond to the Reform Government orientations.

The long shadows of two world wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 lay across the 20th Century. The political consequences of the I World war were Communism in Russia and as a reaction against this, Totalitarianism in Germany and Italy. The Second World war split the world into two blocks- the East dominated by Russia and the West by America.