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The study was carried out selecting a random sample of 120 postgraduate scholars studying in first and second year M.Sc. (Agri.) at B.A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand. The study reveals that a great majority (89.17 per cent) of the postgraduate scholars studying in higher agriculture education had above average level of overall employability. The level of employability was observed significantly higher among those postgraduate scholars, who had better academic performance, highly educated father and mother, higher degree of library exposure and increased level of job preference.

Small-scale industries occupy a place of strategic importance in Indian economy in view of its considerable contribution to employment, production and exports. However, since 1991, small-scale industries in India find themselves in an intensely competitive environment due to globalization, domestic economic liberalization and dilution of sector specific protective measures. Therefore, the present study analyzes the impact of globalization on Indian Small Scale Industries. The main theme of the paper is to evaluate the performance in terms of units, employment, output and exports of SSI, before and after liberalization and to know the impact of Globalization on the performance of SSI. The period of the study is 1973-2010 and based on secondary information.

Sustainable development is the major discussion on the world center stage today. For instance, UNESCO declared 2005-2015 as the world decade of education for sustainable development.  In addition, an intrinsic part of the United Nations millennium goals is to ensure environmental sustainability and one of the targets is integrate the principles of sustainable development into the policy of every country around the world. Nigeria as a country is not left out in the comity of nations in various use and applications of chemicals in almost all facet of life which usually have health and safety implications. The chemical and its ancillary industries contribute up to 80% of the waste released into the air water and land every day.  The practice of sustainable chemistry also known as green chemistry is the only antidote to address the myriads of problems threatening the future shape of our environment. The effect of greenhouse emissions of CO₂ arising from the intensive burning of fuels in the various automobiles on the roads, the accumulation and non biodegradable nature of the various fertilizers and pesticide in use for agriculture, the direct discharge, dumping of toxic chemicals and wastes into the ecosystem and the food chain, and the non regulatory nature on the use of the various chemicals in our research, teaching and industrial laboratories.

Indian medicinal plants used in the Ayurveda traditional system to treat diabetes are a valuable source of novel anti diabetic agents. Alpha amylase inhibitors offer an effective strategy to lower the level of postprandial hyperglycemia via control of starch breakdown. Aloe vera has been considered as hypoglycemic agent. In the study, we compared the alpha amylase inhibitory activity of flavonoids and alkaloids extracted from Aloe vera leaves in two districts of Rajasthan- Jaipur and Bharatpur which sears approximately similar climatic conditions. Alpha amylase inhibitory activities were evaluated by both qualitative and quantitative assays. Results showed that Flavonoids have very high anti diabetic potential in both districts than alkaloid extracts. IC50 value of flavonoids in Bharatpur district is the lowest value i.e. 0.003 mg/ml while it is the highest value of alkaloids in Bharatpur district. In both districts results showed few variations due to climatic and some other effects.

Ferroresonance is a nonlinear oscillatory phenomenon that occurs under certain conditions. This investigation use an indicator of ferroresonance based on voltage for damping of dangerous overvoltages in coupling capacitor voltage transformers (CCVT). This paper investigates ferroresonance voltage for determination technical requirements of the ferroresonance suppression circuit (FSC) for detection and suppression of ferroresonance. In this technique, by using a back-to-back gated thyristor circuit, a damping resistance is switched to secondary side of the system transformer during dangerous oscillations. The control technique proposed in this paper is a “novel but classic” technique. The prediction of ferroresonance is achieved by detailed modeling using a digital computer transient analysis program such as the EMTP.

This work highlights the interactions between fungus-growing termites (Isoptera, Termitidae), and mound building components. As major eco-engineers in tropical ecosystems, termites create biogenic structures with galleries, sheeting’s, fungus-comb chambers where the exosymbiotic interaction between termites and the fungus is well documented. Odontotermes spp. a fungus cultivator build mounds of different dimension that strongly influence the physical and chemical properties of soils there by clay mineralogy and SOM gets altered. In dry land ecosystems, termite mounds are often hotspots of primary production.

Currently, Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology in Thailand has focused on information and communication technology (ICT) to provide innovation solutions for socio-economic growth. The best concept for ICT Reform is that the Thai government should not dominate the role of providing ICT services, but they should be run more efficiently by private companies. Rather, the role of the government should be to be responsible for planning, structuring and regulation, whilst the private sector may be responsible for management, investment, construction and finance. The transfer of responsibility to the private sector and the introduction of competition should be accomplished through some transparent arrangements including management contracts, capital leases, concessions, sale of assets and rights to operate (Best Practices for Telecommunications Reform, 2002). However, there exist difficulties when the government has to formulate the ICT policy. The policymakers are often unfamiliar with the technologies that they are harnessing for the national development. This article explores the national ICT development models employed in different countries which exhibit some similarities and differences. In overall, the ICT policy is not only the direction about developing the ICT industry or sector of the economy but also encompasses the use of ICTs to engender economic, social, and political growth.

This paper discusses public policy making in Tanzania. Using documentary analysis, it attempts to find out whether the problems that were observed by Goran Hyden in1984 have so far been solved by policy makers. A point of reference is made to the fact that Hyden’s observation was made during the time in which Tanzania was under state controlled economy. With the country’s adoption of liberalization policies which Ndumbaro (1994) describes as the era of power shift in policy making from the state to donors, it is imperative to see whether this has affected policy making in the country. The paper concludes that although donors’ influence in policy making has continued to increase, there is no significant improvement in addressing policy-making problems that were noted by Hyden. Most of the policies continue to be made without adequate information, in which also the past does not seem to be of great use in shaping new policies. As a result, policy makers continue to be driven by a desire to do everything at the same time, which in turn increases the burden to policy implementers.

The freeze drying behaviour of local cheese was modeled using conservation laws of mass and energy balances such as Fick’s law of mass transfer, Fourier’s law of heat conduction and the Ideal gas equation. The three models developed and simulated are the drying rate, the moisture content and the energy balance models. Three different samples of cheese labeled A, B and C obtained from Bida, Suleja and Kontagora respectively all in Niger State of Nigeria were used to investigate the drying characteristics of local cheese. The analysis of the moisture contents showed that the moisture contents decreased with drying time and that the final moisture content at any time depends on the initial moisture content. Sample A with initial moisture content of 0.0124 kg has a final moisture content of 0.00097kg after 5 hours of drying, while samples B and C with initial moisture contents of 0.009kg and 0.0104kghave their final moisture contents of 0.00001kg and 0.00010kg respectively at the end of 5 hours. When the effect of temperature on moisture loss was studied, it was observed that the moisture loss increased as the freeze drying temperature was increased from 278 to 298K. Results also revealed that moisture loss depends on the initial moisture contents of samples. For this investigation, Samples A, Band C with initial moisture contents of 0.0124kg, 0.0138kg and 0.0104kg have moisture losses of 0.00420kg, 0.00440kg and 0.00363kg respectively at the highest freeze drying temperature of 298K. When the drying rates of samples was investigated, it was found that the drying rates decreased as the moisture contents decreased and which is also a function of the initial moisture contents of samples. The validation of the model was done by carrying out statistical precision analysis which compared the experimental results with those of the output of the models. From the results, the drying rate model showed 75 % agreement with the experimental results (i.e R2 value of 0.75), with a standard error of 3.27X10-5 and a variance of 5.37X10-8, the moisture content model interprets about 98.44 % of the experimental results with a standard error of 7.04X10-4 and the variance of 2.79X10-6, while the energy balance model showed about 99.0 % agreement with the experimental results with a standard error of 2.16X10-5 and a variance of 3.32X10-7.

Many researchers have carried out research on students’ academic performances in the University system, but there is dearth of information about models which focus on the relationship between students pre and post admission performances. This paper was therefore designed to model relationship between students’ pre and post admission performances. Information on pre admission performances (Olevel, Jamb and Post-Jamb results) and post-admission performances (100L – 400L results) of students’ in Statistics Department, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria was collected from students’ file. Correlation matrix and Canonical Correlation analysis were used to know the degree of relationship that exists between the pre and post admission performances. The principal component analysis was employed to reduce the multidimensional data. Scree plot was used to determine the spread of the trend of the components and bi plot was used to determine the degree of closeness of the students’ pre and post admission performances. There is no relationship between pre and post admission performances. Also, no strong relationship among pre admission performances, while the relationship among post admission performances is very high. Post admission performances are highly related to students’ CGPA. The proportion of variance accounted for by the first, second and third principal Components are 50.7542%, 16.5712% and 15.6224% respectively with cumulative proportion of 82.95%. The first, second and third components are chosen. The seven components were reduced to three. Post admission performances are closely related and stand as the determinant of students’ class of degree.