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Businesses calculate the life time value of customers and extrapolate their future profits. Higher revenues are guaranteed only when the customer keeps a business relationship with the business for entire his or her life. Given the small sample population of micro businesses are keen to retain their customers for longevity of their profits as against a situation where a customer switches before his life time value ceases. This study indicates that micro businesses are keeping good customer relationship with its customers via word-of-mouth marketing which is considered as instrumental for success of majority of micro business as it serves as a credibility filter and is carried out independently by the customers. At the same time, this finding does not indicate any clear picture as to which form of marketing is doing better. Because our empirical analysis indicates that majority of micro business are dormant in the domain of social media marketing.

Indeed, elucidation of any ethical system depends on human cognition and untill the founder of moral system has no correct cognition about human it cannot distinguish value from its counter and cannot separate well-being propositions from the atrocious one,thus any act of moral is based on a particular ideology and any philosophical school, any heavenly and non- heavenly religion is based on its moral virtue and criterion and finally is to consolidate and defend it with its knowledge. The author of this paper attempts to examine the comparative study of the subject from the perspective of the ethitical realisms (Socratest, Plato, and Aristotle) and the Islam moral system through descriptive and analytical approach, and at the end after comparing these views, concludes that the virtue and Islamic moral criterion is a comprehensive criterion which includes objective good, subjective good and ultimate good which its infra-structure is "justice", but these criteria have been ethically and clearly explained and collected in none of moral schools.

The purposes of research were 1) to study the knowledge used by local folk healers, the condition of healing and services, the acceptance of the methods used by the folk healers in Loei Province, and 2) to develop the model for the promotion of the community health with the herbal wisdom of I-san folk healer participated by the related stakeholders. Mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative research were applied, the quantitative research was used in the survey, and the quantitative research was used in an in-depth interview, the participatory observation, and focus group discussion. The target groups in this study consisted of the registered folk healers from 14 districts of Loei who still perform the healing, the local people who get the services or used to get the services from the folk healers, the senior people in the areas, and Thai traditional medicine scholars. The findings were as follows. All folk healers treat the illness according to the systems of human body. The healing condition in which the folk healers used was related to the belief of local culture that the folk healers believe, including (1)the belief in the causes of illness, (2) 4 elements and 5 aggregates of life, (3) astrological belief on fate, (4) astrological belief on the causes of illness, (5) the belief on the 4 elements of life, (6) the belief in the rite of Thai traditional medicine, (7) the belief and the rite on the herbs, and (8) the belief on the village herbs and the elimination of illness.

Parenting plays a very important role in developing personalities of their children. It is like a long term investment in which parents should not force their children to do well in their own life. Parents should know that their children came into the beautiful life with their own temperaments and should recognize that they have their own interests. Parental pressure affects the personality and self esteem of the adolescents. Personality is the unique characteristic of the individual and due to differences in personalities the person is different from others in terms of temperament, coping strategies, emotions etc. Self esteem means the person’s faith on self. It is the feeling of an individual that one has about himself or herself. The aim of the present investigation is to study the perceived parental pressure in relation to personality and self esteem. Sample was randomly selected from different streams (arts, commerce and science) of 11th standard of various Government senior secondary schools of Chandigarh. The sample was then administered on perceived parental pressure inventory – PPPI (Thara Sebastain, 1997), NEO-FFI (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and self esteem scale (Rosenberg, 1965). For the analysis of data descriptive statistics, correlation, ANOVA and regression were used.The calculated value shows that there were significant gender differences in the perceived parental pressure, agreeableness, conscientiousness, overall personality and self esteem. It was also revealed that there was negative and significant relationship between perceived parental pressure and agreeableness, perceived parental pressure and conscientiousness and between perceived parental pressure and self esteem. Analysis of variance describes the significant interaction of gender and academic interest in perceived parental pressure, personality and self esteem.

Since its inception, Color Filter Arrays (CFA) image compression has proved to be the most popular approach for image storage in single sensor camera imaging. CFA plays a very important role in the single sensor Digital Still Cameras (DSCs) to record intensity information of one color component at each pixel location. The captured image data is then compressed with different compression methods. CFA image compression introduced several innovative schemes to perform both lossy and lossless compression. Number of studies is available in the literature with respect to the performance of CFA image compression and its mechanisms. In this paper, a systematic survey of the CFA image compression in both lossy and lossless mode from 1991 to 2011 is presented. The surveyed papers discuss the coding techniques used and the resulting observations about compression performance in terms of bit rate PSNR of the reconstructed image.

Mobile Adhoc Networks is a collection of wireless mobile nodes, which form temporary networks without relying on any existing infrastructure or centralized administration or standard support services regularly available in wide area networks to which the host may normally be connected. In this paper the simulation results has been compared between previous & current approach for the correction and detection of Gray Hole attack in MANETs and all the results are taken by NS2 Simulator.

This paper mainly focuses on computerization of ration shops providing Customer Card or Ration Card having the Biometric Identification. Currently the Ration shops are manually operated like billing, weighting systems which are inaccurate, makes a way for causes for mischiefs and cheating activities. To avoid these problems all the ration shops are to be computerized and all the customer’s cards are provided with a digital card with Biometric Identification. By means of implementing the computerized billing and the digital weighting machine to be interfaced to the computer system. The finger print of the customer is used as the biometric Identification, in order to avoid the unauthorized accessibility upon the ration shop. By implementing the system ration shop process become simple and stack details are accurate and easily calculated in terms of grams. The chance for cheating and inaccurate quantity of supply are rare, so the customers can get accurate amount of products. The stack and overall calculations of the ration shop is made fast and simple.

Single Phase Inverter Based Welding Machine employ resonant high frequency IGBT inverter technology. Due to soft switching scheme, these machines are very rugged and efficient. Currently 1-Phase 160A, 1-Phase 200A, All the TIG machines have built in high frequency igniter circuit for non - contact arc initiation. All these welding machines have Special feature to shut down the internal electronic circuit when machine is kept idle, This feature enhances the life time of machines. Due to such features, Single phase welding machine is having light and saves the electricity up to 60%. Having used for current 20 to 200 A. This machine is moisture free dc welding. The input characteristics are similar to AC, having features such as high max output voltage, stable against voltage fluctuations. Inner loop control for quick system respondence, Peak current control mode make the power devices and stable, against frequent short circuit shocks, Arc thrust function, improve the metal transfer Hot arc ignition function small light and energy saving.

This study assessed laboratory planning skills of selected Junior High School Students in selected integrated science topics. In all 225 students from six intact classes from Cape Coast Junior High Schools students were randomly selected for the study. The students participated in planning task. Three of the intact classes were from public schools and three from private schools. The students were assessed on 7 skills on planning task. Thus each student was expected to exhibit 7 skills in the planning task. The independent t-test, means and percentages were used to analyze data. The results of the study showed that students of JHS from the private schools performed better on the planning task as compared with students of JHS from the public schools. As a result of these findings, it was recommended that hands-on activities in the laboratory should be given a second look on our curriculum. Hands-on activities need to be encouraged more in Junior High Schools in Cape Coast Metropolis.