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The purpose of this study was to investigate the practice of teachers’ Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme in Dire-Dawa Administrative Region, Ethiopia. The specific objectives of the research were to explore the status of schools’ CPD implementation as per the national framework, identify the success areas of the schools in implementing the CPD, identify the gaps of schools in implementing the CPD, explore the challenges the schools face in implementing CPD and to suggest some possible solutions/strategies for effective implementation of the programme. The study design used was descriptive survey. A total of 20 schools (18 primary and 2secondary) and 213 teachers (144 urban and 99 rural) were taken as participants of the study using questionnaire. For observation three schools which are serving as cluster resource centers were used. Regional education bureau CPD focal person was used as interviewees. The data were analyzed using number, percentage, and mean for quantitative ones and narration for qualitative ones. The data witness that many efforts have been made by the different stakeholders of teachers’ CPD such as Ministry of Education, Regional Education Bureaus, School principals and teachers themselves. On the other hand, the efforts made were not consistent, specific CPD budget was not there. Cluster Resource Centers were not functional, CPD practices were tried in both primary and secondary schools but the practice by the secondary school teachers is very minimal, principals and supervisors were not practicing their own CPD. The major challenges or gaps identified include low commitment of teachers to perform CPD activities, lack of commitment of mentors to support teachers, failure of Cluster Resource Centers to function, lack of commitment of supervisors and principals to do their CPD and become models for their teachers, lack of ownership of CPD to follow up regularly and assess its status. finally, to implement teachers’ CPD as per Ministry of Education (MoE) guideline, there should be ownership at the different level of the Education system, the Regional Education Bureaus should organize the Cluster Resource Centers and make them functional and should have regular communication and support for the schools, supervisors and principals shall be models to their teachers in doing their own CPD were recommended.

The present study investigated the moderating role of adolescent’s intrinsic motivation to know on the relationships between novelty seeking and video game playing among 400 Iranian adolescents. Results showed that novelty seeking was significantly related to video game for adolescents who have high level on intrinsic motivation to know. The Current findings highlight the importance the motivation of game on personality traits and video game.

John Bunyan's The Pilgrim’s Progress, is one of the most important religious texts ever written in English. There are several important factors that have made for the perfect and excellent structure of this seventeenth century work of English literature. What follows is an attempt to analyze these elements in detail in order to find how such a masterpiece has been created and why it has gained such importance in realm of religious writings that has been given the title of Second Bible.

The present paper intends to overview some basic concerns and developments in the educational systems of the current century highlighting how remarkable role information communication technology (ICT) plays in today’s education and finally comes up with some justifications for the integration of ICT into the teaching and learning process.

The purpose of this study is the review of the relationship between organizational trust and knowledge management in the national company of refining and distribution of the oil production in Kermanshah – Iran. This research is on the basis of the descriptive type, and the questionnaires are used in it. Aloonen et al., (2008). Questionnaires are used for organizational trust and for knowledge management evaluation is the questionnaires of Proset et al., Capacity of statistical society consist of 270 employee of the national company on the basis of the class accidental sampling among them, some of them have selected as a statistical sample and finally, 134 questioners have collected. Kolmogorov -Simonov test was used for the determining of the normality collected data, and to confirm the results of it. Hypothesis of the research were put in test container with spearman conjunction test. Results show meaning full and positive conjunction between trust and knowledge management. That is as trust of employees about their organization, increases; they should show much knowledge management.

The geometries of various rotamers, tautomers and isomers of N-(pyridine -2yl)acetamide have been studied using the density functional theory (DFT) method at the level of B3LYP employing 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. We report the enthalpies, Gibbs free energy, entropy, relative stability and tautomeric equilibrium constants for the title compound isomers at 298.15 K in gas phase. The most stable A4 is taken as reference to obtain the relative energetic stability of other rotamers. Calculated values for the equilibrium between these some tautomers show that pKT value is negative values. If the pKT was positive, equilibrium moved from right towards the lift and when it was negative, equilibrium moved from left towards the right.

Mean Monthly, seasonal and zonal percentages of thunderstorms (TS) and rainfall (RF) frequency obtained, analyzed and depicted using fifty years (1961–2010) data of 54 Pakistani observatories spread uniformly over the country. The study has revealed that there is a significant correlation between the frequencies of said parameters, while there is a one month time lag found in the occurrence of peak activity of TS and RF. Seasonal analysis of these two parameters suggests that rainfall yield associated with post-monsoon season is marginally more than TS activity and significantly more in winter season. Considering zones of the country during winter, apart form Sindh RF activity is significantly more than TS but during May to September (most of premonsoon and monsoon) TS activity is found more than RF in all zones. This behavior is consistent with the overall seasonal behavior of the country. The monthly study has revealed two marked peaks of TS and RF while rainfall activity in end of winter and start of premonsoon is greater than in peak monsoonal months. Overall seasonal analysis of these two parameters suggests that rainfall yield associated with post-monsoon season TS seems to be higher than the pre-monsoon season. Station wise seasonal analysis of winter suggested that all stations acquire much more RF accompanied with very little TS activity. The situation is reverse for premonsoon and monsoon while in postmonsoon, situation is rather complex. All data is also demoed in graphical representations and tabulated with characterized statistical and analytical values. The aim of this paper is to promote various components of TS and RF activity over Pakistan and to help the weather forecasters, aircraft pilots, agriculturists and planners in this respect. The study also emphasizes the need for more studies in this direction.

The present study will serve as guide to Understanding the behaviour of consumers while they shop, it will help the marketers to develop market strategies so that they can understand the need of consumers better and give them exactly what they need. The present study focuses on exploring the hedonic or utilitarian consumer behaviour of males. The study was conducted in Jaipur city. The sample size used was 25 samples from two age group i.e. 25-29 and 30-35 years. Out of these 12 males were from age 25-29 years and 13 were from age 30-35 years. The data was gathered from respondents through questionnaire. Respondents were selected using random sample selection method. The study revealed that the respondent’s age is inversely proportional to the hedonic behaviour of the respondent; with the increase in age the hedonic behaviour/trait decreases and utilitarian nature increases. The study reveals that working male are more utilitarian in nature where as non-working are more hedonic in nature. The study further indicates those un-married males are more hedonic as compared to married male.

A novel depicts a wide range of imaginary characters concerning the behaviour of human beings in real life. An individual who takes delight in interpreting novels can gain knowledge and obtain worldly wisdom. Also, since the reader is exposed to several situations, most of them being real-life circumstances, he/she gets an opportunity to acquire and enhance the soft skill sets required for both personal and professional lives. What is resolutely believed by the employers and colleges these days is that a student of technology must possess few most important identities of soft skills which cannot be overlooked, especially the soft skills like communication skills, leadership qualities, time management, interpersonal skills and presentation skills. Offering training in soft skills through children’s literature facilitates the students in putting up their behavioural skills in a superior style.

Weight-Length relationships (WLRs) and Relative condition factors (Kn) were estimated for 9 freshwater fish species namely Brycinus leuciscus (Günther, 1867), Hydrocynus forskali (Cuvier, 1819 ), Odaxothrissa mento (Regan, 1917), Labeo coubie (Rüppell, 1832), Labeo parvus (Boulenger, 1902), Labeo senegalensis (Valenciennes, 1842), Distichodus engycephalus (Günther, 1864), Parailia pellucida (Boulenger, 1901)and Schilbe mystus(Linnaeus, 1758)from the lower reaches of the White Volta. Samples were collected from the catches of the artisanal fishermen from October 2011 to March 2012. Using W=aTLb, the weight-length relationships of the species were calculated. Relative condition factors of the species were obtained using the formula: Wo/Wc. The WLRs of all the 9 fish species were highly significant (P<0.001). The determination coefficients (r2) ranged between 0.5764 for Parailia pellucida to 0.9784 for Hydrocynus forskali. The slopes(bvalues) of the WLR regression models of the nine (9) species ranged from 2.0045 to 3.1614 with 95% confidence interval of b for all the nine fish species within 1.386 to 3.352. In terms of growth pattern, 4 out of the 9 species exhibited isometric growth (b=3). Three (3) were observed to have negative allometric growth (b<3) and 2 fish species had positive allometric growth (b>3) patterns. Mean relative condition factors of the species ranged from 1. 00 to 1.09. A T-test of the observed weight (Wo) versus the calculated (Wc) on all the nine (9) species produced no significant difference (P>0.05) between the observed weight and the calculated weight. The models are thus good proxies for approximating the weights of the species.Even though, not all the species exhibited isometric growth, the general wellbeing of the fish specieswas suitable during the study period as inferred from relative condition factors (Kn). This is a contribution of information to support researchers in future and fishery managers for reliable growth estimation and health status of freshwater fishes.