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It is important for one to understand that every employee comes into the organization with a set of unique and distinct personality traits or characteristics. The study tries to investigate the relationship between the personality traits of 60 employee in Barry Callebaut Ghana Limited and their performance on the job. Personality trait was measured using the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Work performance on the other hand was measured using a structured appraisal questionnaire. The personality traits of the employees were then analyzed by mapping the links between the two major traits; Extraversion and Neuroticism. The study showed a weak inverse correlation between the two personality traits and performance. The correlation between Extraversion, Neuroticism and Performance is r =0.1 and r =0.2 respectively. This showed that Extraversion and Neuroticism have a weak negative relationship with performance but Extraversion has a good negative relationship with performance compared to Neuroticism or Neuroticism exhibited a stronger inverse relationship with performance compared to Extraversion. It is therefore recommended from this study to management of Barry Callebaut that they should employ more of extroverts than neurotics. Employers must factor personality assessment into their recruitment and selection criterion so as to examine how well potential employees will fit into a particular job vacancy.

Among all researches in the field of learners’ overall achievement, the effect of test anxiety of test takers’ has rarely been explored. And also, this present study is an effort to examine the anxiety of pupils in relation with overall achievement in the English course and the effect of their behavior on their performance on overall achievement test in the English course at the end of term. Data was collected by using the anxiety questionnaire developed by Richard Driscoll. A total of 200 participants were selected for this study. Accordingly, a standardized anxiety questionnaire was administered to 100 female and 100 male pupils in order to discover whether there is a relationship between test anxiety and learners’ overall achievement in the English course in the middle school in different genders. The findings have implications for testing, teaching, and syllabus design.

Most NGO’s in Kenya have shifted focus to budgetary control as a way of enhancing effectiveness in their services. Recognizing the role of budget and budgetary control has gained attention which has led some organizations to establish departments for implementation. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of budgetary control on the performance of NGO’s in Mombasa County. Specifically the study looked into the following objectives: effect of budget planning on the performance of Non-Governmental Organizations; effect of budget supervision on performance of Non-Governmental Organizations; effect of participative budgeting on performance of Non-Governmental Organizations; and effect of funds availability on performance of Non-Governmental Organizations. Chapter two gives theoretical review of the study by discussing capital budgeting theory, budgetary control theory and budget forecasting theoryand a conceptual study is introduced to inform and guide the study. Literature review and empirical review are also conducted. Chapter three discusses the study research methodology where descriptive survey study research design will be used. This study examined the role of budgetary control on the performance of Non-Governmental Organizations in Mombasa County. The research target population consisted of 115 Non-Governmental Organizations. Fifty two Non-Governmental Organizations were selected using stratified random sampling technique, both local and international organizations with operations in Mombasa County. A descriptive survey (questionnaires) was used in the data collection. The statistical package for social sciences version 21.0 was used to analyze the data using descriptive statistics, including means and standard deviation. The relationship between budgetary controls and performance of the NGOs was analyzed using correlation and regression analysis. The research findings established that there is a positive effect of budgetary control on performance of Non-Governmental Organizations in Kenya measured by R square at 0.776. Thus this study recommends other studies be undertaken that take into account other factors like the employee characteristics, NGO turnover and age of the organization on performance. It also recommends that a study should be carried out that underscores the contribution of these factors on financial performance since the current study limited to non-financial performance indicators only.

To identify aspects of tuberculosis location of the greater trochanter and the adjacent soft parts, we conducted a study of 5 cases of tuberculous trochanterite collected in the trauma orthopedics Avicenne RABAT. There are 2 males and 3 females, mean age 45 years; this is a very latent disease that involves pain and swelling and sometimes a fistula. The radiograph shows specific alterations. The diagnostic confirmation is always based on the biopsy results will be sent to the bacteriology and pathology, and highlights specific lesions. The medical treatment is essentially based on anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy, most often associated with a surgical resection of the abscess pocket curettage of necrotic bone, removal of a fistula. The evolution under well led treatment is usually favorable, except in cases of infringement secondary hip which is a serious complication and is now becoming increasingly rare.

Ultrasonic velocities and densities of the binary liquid mixtures of o-chlorophenol with o-xylene, p-xylene and o-chlorotoulene have been measured over the entire composition range of mole fractions at a temperature range from 303.15 to 318.15 K with an interval of 5 K. The theoretical values of ultrasonic velocity were evaluated by using Nomoto (NOM), Impedance (IMP), Van Deal and Vangeel (VDV), Junjie (JUN), Rao’s specific velocity (RAO) models. The results were discussed in terms of non-ideality in the mixtures, molecular interaction parameter, Relative deviation ? and Chi-square (?2) test for the goodness of the fit is applied to understand the applicability of these theories to the present systems.

In the present student, Sudan Orange G (SOG) [4-(Phenylazo)resorcinol] derivatives have been studied at Density Functional theory (TD-DFT) at B3LYP level of theory with 6-31G(d) basis set. Different substituent groups were introduced in different position to investigate their effects on the electronic and optical properties. The HOMO and LUMO energies and the energy gap (Egap) between HOMO and LUMO of the studied dyes were calculated. The light harvesting efficiency (LHE), the open-circuit voltage (Voc) and injection driving force (?Ginject) which are the key parameters related to the solar cell efficiency (?) were computed. The LHE values for the dyes are in different ranges and that all the dyes will give different photocurrent. The D6 dye has highest oscillator strength value 1.1263 and the LHE value is 0.925235. So the D6 dye has more efficiency than other studied dyes. Based on the values, the meta substituent dyes are better sensitizers compare to other dyes.

Liver hydatidosis is a considerable health problem in the developing countries, such as Iran. There are different therapeutic approaches for the treatment of this disease including; laparoscopy, open surgery, as well as puncture, aspiration, injection, and re-aspiration (PAIR) technique. Herein, we presented the case of two pediatric patients with multiple hydatid cysts in the liver, who were treated through the PAIR technique with no complication or relapse in the follow-up.

In the present study, the FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of 2,4,6-Trimethylbenzaldehyde have been recorded in the region 4000–400 cm_1 and 3500–50 cm_1, respectively. The fundamental modes of vibrational frequencies of (TMB) are assigned. Theoretical information on the optimized geometry, harmonic vibrational frequencies, infrared and Raman intensities were obtained by means of ab initio Hartree–Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) gradient calculations with complete relaxation in the potential energy surface using 6-31+G(d,p)) basis set. The vibrational frequencies which were determined experimentally from the spectral data are compared with those obtained theoretically from ab initio and DFT calculations. A close agreement was achieved between the observed and calculated frequencies by refinement of the scale factors. The infrared and Raman spectra were also predicted from the calculated intensities. Thermodynamic properties like entropy, heat capacity, zero point energy, have been calculated for the molecule. The calculated HOMO–LUMO energy gap reveals that charge transfer occurs within the molecule. Unambiguous vibrational assignment of all the fundamentals was made using the total energy distribution (TED).

Since the inception industrial revolution, a continuous attempt is being made to recover and minimize the waste heat. With the time various waste heat recovery system is developed. In the present research paper an exhaustive review on heat pipe is done. Various aspects and application is described and the view of authors is presented here. Further, the wide application of heat pipe to recover waste heat from the exhaust of IC engine id discussed and salient conclusion is drawn which indicates that, a wide scope is available for further research on heat pipe and especially in the relation of IC engine exhaust heat recovery system.

Jamming is defined as the act of intentionally directing electromagnetic energy towards a communication system to disrupt or prevent signal transmission. A jamming attacker launches jamming attacks easily by transmitting high-power signals and all legitimate sensor nodes interfered by jamming signals suffer corrupted packet transmissions. In this paper, model the interaction between the sensor network model and the attacker model as a non-cooperative non-zero-sum static game. In such a game, the sensor network has a set of strategies of controlling its probability of accessing the wireless channel and the attacker manipulates its jamming by controlling its jamming probability after sensing a transmission activity. The jammer action ceases when it is found by a monitoring node in the network, and an intimation of jamming message is transferred out of the jamming region. In this paper implements, algorithm for computing jamming attack and network defense. A critical issue is that there may exist a number of possible strategy profiles of Nash equilibria and its solve by applying Pareto-dominance and risk dominance.Results provide valuable insights about the structure of the jamming attack problem and associated defense policies and the adoption of sophisticated strategies on achieving desirable performance.