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The purpose of this paper is to explore the interrelationships between morale and job performance of secondary school teachers. This is a questionnaire survey involving secondary school teachers from four schools in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. The information gathered was used to develop a statistical model to explain how teachers’ morale affects their job performance. A total number of 92 respondents were involved in this study. The findings showed that there was a significant difference in the morale status between the male and female teachers; the male teachers registered a moderately higher score as compared to the females. It was also found that there is no significant difference in the job performance between male and female teachers. Apart from that, this study also revealed that all the five factors: leadership, belongingness, environment, personal development and collegiality contributed significantly to teachers’ morale. The working environment was rated as the most important factor among the five. A structural equation model was developed to determine the relationships between the various morale determinants, morale status, and job performance of the teachers. The results indicate that the ‘environment’, ‘personal development’ and ‘collegiality’ factors affect the feeling of ‘personal reward’ of the teachers while ‘leadership’, ‘belongingness’, ‘environment’ and ‘personal development’ influenced their ‘cohesive pride’. It was also found that only the ‘leadership’ factor had a direct impact on ‘job performance’. The other morale determinants affect the ‘job performance’ of the teachers indirectly either by affecting ‘personal reward’ or ‘cohesive pride’.

This article intends to explore the rise of cultural nationalism in Contemporary China. For most of the previous century, traditional culture had been widely condemned as “impediments to China’s development” and therefore needed to be uprooted. However, since the 1990s, the traditional culture has experienced an unprecedented resurgence and the cultural nostalgia (later defined as cultural nationalism) quickly ascended as one of the most powerful ideological trends among the contemporary Chinese society. This article seeks to discover what caused such a dramatic shift. It starts with a brief historical background for the emergence of the current cultural nationalism, and then moves on to explain its two main ideological themes: “anti-Marxism” and “anti-Western” by examining representative works. It explores the economic, social cultural and political causes for the rise of cultural nationalism by drawing Primordialism, Modernism and Huntington’s theory concerning “modernization and cultural resurgence” in non-Western societies.

Considering the fact that approximately 80% of problems of organizational security have to do with negligence or lack of users’ awareness of knowledge management (KM) , the users’ knowledge about information security has been identified to be one of the most fundamental issues in information security management. Accordingly, in the present study we analyzed different factors of knowledge management for recording, storage, sharing and dissemination of information security. The current paper is a type of descriptive-correlative in terms of collecting data and pragmatic in goal. The findings come from a field study on knowledge management experts at Iranian universities. Also, a questionnaire was the means for collecting the data. Finally, the data were analyzed using the partial least square and path analysis methods. The findings suggest that the information system users remarkably apply security factors of knowledge management. Furthermore, the authors realized that it is possible to use security factors of knowledge management by increasing the users’ awareness in order to enhance informational security.

The following paper gives us a meaningful example of how in many cases the teacher sets the task to realize the objectives of the wrong and impossibles with students. So it shows how as is achieve in incorrect definition of determination of objectives without achieved basic purpose of the text on the teaching theme in question. Based in this it is achieved to give suggestions on how to analyze the scientific material given to us in the text of the Knowledge of Nature of the elementary school in order to define the objectives required on request of the process of the stable assimilation of the teaching material by the students. For this , on the basis of many teaching experiments and concrete didactic treatments in this field with students and teachers, the article argues on how , in this direction, we constantly encounter incorrect determinations which leads in a non-well treated teaching process. This article indicates that, rather than identifying the essence of the thing, they focus on some completely different findings that cant be reached not only by the students but also from the best specialists of the actual field worldwide. This paper shows how much concetrated and logical must be the teachers while compiling the teaching-plan of their classes in order to make the lesson easier for the students and not to face , either them or themselves, off with “ the impossible”.

Today, Literacy is one of the most important parameters to evaluate an area or region’s development phase. Literacy accelerates the social, cultural, economic, political condition and that it has a strong relationship with regional development. Banaras has ever remained the great centre of Hindu culture and civilization. The two religions, Buddhism and Hinduism, which still influence the thought of almost half the world, received their impulse and strength from this city (cf.Singh, R.L.1955). This city records a settlement history since ca. 1000 BCE. However, the present city has grown during the early 18th century. Since ancient period, Varanasi has become the great centre of learning, education and research and presently the city is the chair of ancient oriental and modern learning. It has vast scope of the education for the people of the country and abroad. Despite of these educational institutions and facilities the overall literacy in Varanasi is very poor. The present paper is an attempt to Study the trend and pattern of literacy in Varanasi City on the ward level and to highlight the problems, impact, and suggestions for the improvement of literacy in the City. The results are presented through various maps and tables generated in ArcGIS. Tables and data is calculated on the basis of 2001 census.

Abstract Tribal communities have rich knowledge about medicinal plants and its uses. The traditional livelihood system of tribal people (also known as adivasis) has been based on shifting cultivation and collection of edible forest produce. The area is hilly and has dam and innumerable number of streams which swell up during rainy season. An ethnobotanical survey particularly the uncultivated plant used by them other than medicinal purposes was carried out among the Kaani tribes in various tribal villages of Kanyakumari district, South Western Ghats of Tamilnadu. Forests in the study area hold thousands of medicinal plants which are used by the tribal people for primary healthcare needs. The medicinal plants were mostly used to cure asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, cold, cough, fever, headache, stomachache, diarrhoea, dysentery, skin diseases, poison bites, cut/ wounds, diabetes. Medicinal plants used by Kaani have been listed along with plant parts used with its ethnomedicinal significance.

The embryologic growth of the vagina is still uncertain. The urogenital sinus and the mesonephric (wolffian) and paramesonephric ducts possibly all play a part in the development of the vagina. Duplication, agenesis, mesonephric duct remnants, and hymen abnormalities are amongst the more common congenital anomalies of the vagina. Due to close developmental correlation between the genital and the urinary tracts, relations of anomalies in both systems are common. Mullerian malformations are normally associated with abnormalities of the renal and axial skeletal systems, and they are frequently the first encountered when patients are originally inspected for related conditions.

Rapid growth of internet and market globalization, have led the organizations to try on attracting customers in such competitive electronic market. In this battle, the only way to gain competitive advantage and becoming market’ leader, is providing highly qualified electronic services. In this research, the quality of Tejarat Bank’ e-services in Iran and its relation with customer satisfaction have been evaluated. The research is an applied descriptive survey. The dimensions of e-banking services’ quality include Efficiency, Reliability, Security, Privacy, Trust, Responsiveness, Contact, Website Design, Service Variety. The population contains all of Internet banking customers of Tehran. Sample volume was calculated by Cochran method and was 270. Then, a questionnaire was designed based on SERVPERF questionnaire framework and was distributed among the respondents. The calculated data were analyzed through SPSS. The results for first hypothesis showed that e-banking services of Tejarat Bank had an optimum quality of the customers’ viewpoint with 95% significance. The results of second hypothesis showed that, with 95% of significance, there was a positive relation between service quality and customer satisfaction. Also, the dimensions of Efficiency, Reliability, Service Variety, Responsiveness, Website design and Privacy had the most relation with customer satisfaction, respectively

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is regarded as one of the most outstanding multicarrier modulation technique in fourth generation (4G) wireless networks, which makes it possible to transfer very high bit rates despite extensive multipath radio propagation (echoes). The use of smart antenna arrays both at transmitter and receiver further increases the bit rate and enhance the system diversity on time variant and frequency selective channels resulting in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration. However one of the main disadvantages associated with MIMO-OFDM is the high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the transmitter’s output signal on different antennas. High Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) for MIMO-OFDM system is still a demanding area and difficult issue. So far numerous techniques based on PAPR reduction have been proposed. In this paper a new method based on the combination of OSTBC Encoder andSpreading code sequence have been implemented and simulated. The results obtained are compared with earlier results based on transformtechniques.Simulations show that better results are obtained in proposed technique.

Ferrous, non-ferrous metals and alloys are melts and reshape them into finished shape through pouring molten metal into a mold cavity through solidification. The present review confines itself to the literature on the understanding of necessary conditions that are affect the casting properties i.e.grain nucleation, grain growth and other properties of solidified finished shape. After completion of nucleation, solidification process will continue with the growth of nuclei. The number of nucleation sites in casting nucleation and growth of grain refinement can be achieved by increasing the grain refinement is important. In general, finer grain size leads to high mechanical properties such as tensile strength, hardness, toughness, fatigue strength and yield. Mechanical properties and grain refinement can be achieved by the mold rotation, mechanical vibration and electromagnetic stirring. In this paper also review the cooling rate, nucleation presents, grain size, grain growth and solidification behavior change under static and oscillatory casting conditions.