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We are very happy to announce that from 27th June 2013, Mr. S.P. Anandaraj has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Computer Science and Engineering. Mr. S.P. Anandaraj is currently working as Sr. Asst. Professor in SR Engineering College, Warangal. The appointment of Mr. S.P. Anandaraj 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. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

41 (31 females and 10 males) 50% Boer and 50% Abergelle crossbred goats were distributed to evaluate and compare their kids growth performance, farmers' perception and their survivable rate under farm management system. Housing, feeding and health care were thoroughly attended. The average BW, WW, SMW and NMW of the crossbred (25% Boer and 75% Abergelle) male and female kids were (2.68 kg, 2.62 kg),(12.17 kg, 11.95 kg)and (18.25 kg, 17.38 kg) respectively. While, the local kids average BW, WW, and SMW were (2.30kg, 2.23kg), (10.5kg,10.5kg) and (14.17kg,13.38kg) for male and female respectively. The result indicated that crossbred body weight increment at different growth stage was better than the local breed. Farmers were also perceive the crossbred goat have docile behavior which easily adopt for zero grazing, non selective and voracious in feeding and high growth rate, even though they criticize as short in body length and lowest disease resistant. The survivable rate of the crossbred kids at pre weaning and post weaning were 90.7% and 97.4% respectively which more related to low disease resistance. So that with applying of good management practice scaling up activities has to be strengthened to make farmers better benefited from Abergelle cross Boer goat breed.

In this paper general process design procedure and simulation strategies for reactive distillation (RD) are presented on results are presented. The experimental results obtained from continuous RD column from our previous work are compared with simulation results predicted by three equilibrium stage models of different depths using Aspen plus software. Three types of equilibrium stage models with different complexity are developed, parameterized and compared in simulations in this work. These models are based on the stage concept and use the assumption of vapor–liquid equilibrium on each stage model. Reaction rates for Pseudohomogenous model calculated by our laboratory batch reactor are used for simulation to yield a steady state solution. Finally the VLE data from the databank of Aspen plus is also used to simulate the RD column separately to observe how the results vary with the experimental data and the Aspen plus databank data. It is observed that there is a very good agreement between the results from the Aspen plus databank and the actual column.

Corrosion from long time ago was one of the biggest problems of gas and oil industry. Corrosion not only cause to high costs of repairs ,but stopping production during repairing and safety matters cause to enormous loss .The importance of covering of underground pipes with plastic material in decade of 1970 continuously has been increased .So that in many cases ,replaced to traditional protector on the base of natural pitch and coal tar .In 1980 more progress was in the field of covering pipes with plastic materials that cause to decisively stabilization of polyethylene and molten connected epoxy as new protector for underground and sea pipe lines .So the aim of continuous extension of plastic materials and covering systems was in direction of making protection tools that are flexible for transferring and resting on extension slope from environment temperature and even preserve their integration in extension range of applied temperature .In this paper we try to study the act of corrosion in external metal pipe lines and even different ways of protection and ways of contrast against mechanical injury and chemical corrosion under soil , by attention to the type of soil.

Trials were carried out using five composite maize varieties in a Striga lutea (Lour) endemic soil of Temidire-Eruwa, Oyo State, Nigeria, in 2004 and 2005. The composite maize varieties were tested under varied fertilizer types, Nitrogen (N) concentrations and artificial striga infestation. The objective was to test these striga resistant maize varieties for yield and agronomic performance under the above conditions. The result showed that, variety and year of evaluation differed significantly (P<0.01) for almost all agronomic characters such as plant stand, days to anthesis (silking and tasselling), plant and ear heights as well as root and stalk lodging resistance at both 100kgN and 200kgN/ha. Variety x Year interaction were also significantly different (P<0.01) for all agronomic characters except root lodging and husk tip cover. Fertilizer type differed only for days to silking, plant height and plant aspect, while Year x Nitrogen source and Variety x Nitrogen source was highly significant (P<0.01) for field weight. Plant stands were better in 2004 than 2005 for all varieties except Acr 97syn-W and DMR-LSR-W. The composite maize varieties tolerated high N-concentration except DMR-LSR-Y which do not utilize excess Nitrogen above 100kgN/ha. Use of striga resistant maize varieties concomitantly with Nitrogen fertilizer is recommended for farmers in Striga lutea endemic ecology, for higher grain yield.

Abstract After the corporate default of major corporations in the past years such as Enron Lehman Brothers etc the study has been a major area for research the default of US based giants has act as a distress and alarming situation for emerging economies with different areas of research regarding corporate defaults this paper focuses on examining the relationship of ownership structure with the performance of a firm through market performance ratios and firms volume of publically listed companies on Malaysian stock exchanges. Results suggested defaulted firms ownership concentration is unable to show significant relationship with the performance of these firms except for the major shareholder. Keywords: concentration of shares, corporate default, firm performance

The exchange rate or Inter Bank Rate of Indian Rupee (INR) is considered as one of the major economic factor to determine Indian economic position. There are various Economic factors and parameters which influence the Inter Bank Rates (IBR) and alter its parity with different currencies. This study is done to analyse the various Economic factors and Parameters that influencing the IBR. This study involves analysis of 4 major Economic factors and parameters which are related to IBR. All the parameters taken under study are analysed using suitable analyzing tools and the influence over the IBR is studied. This study is done to understand the fluctuations in USD/INR IBR rates on Quarterly basis for 5years from 2007 to 2011. The four parameters taken under study is analyzed using Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation and Regression Analysis with IBR rates collected during respective years.

The extent of departure of a set of data from the fundamental assumptions required by a test is often very important in the determination of the appropriate statistical test to be applied. Some test statistics are more robust to the departure from certain underlying assumptions than others. Hence, the study was aimed at examining the robustness or non-robustness of the F-test statistic in the two-way Interactive Balanced Design. The data used for the study were tested against the three basic assumptions of analysis of variance which include normality, independence and homogeneity of variance assumptions. The results show that even when the normality and homogeneity of variance assumptions were violated, the F-test still yields good results. Hence, it was concluded that the F-test is robust to the normality and homogeneity of variance assumptions. Based on the results of the study, it was recommended that large sample size should always be used in carrying out any experiment involving the applications of analysis of variance. It was also recommended that the rank transformation is a step in the right direction whenever our data fail to conform with the assumptions of ANOVA prior to the conventional ANOVA test since it yields result in test which are more robust to the non-normal and resistance to outliers and non-homogeneity of variance.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the school inputs in private primary schools in determining pupils’ examination performance. This was in relation to general lack of literature on school inputs in relation to performance in private primary schools in Kenya. The findings of this study showed that the quality of education and performance of pupils in examinations are determined by teacher experience, teacher qualification, the school environment, the head teacher and educational resources. The study provides a base for an evaluation of cost-effectiveness of different policies associated with school inputs aimed at improving the quality of education at primary school level. Parents and the public in general can also gain from the study; by gaining confidence in the private schools and the quality of education they provide.