Archives-June 2015

This article examines the effectiveness of experiential learning method in the educational environment. While training is often viewed as a means toward self-awareness and acquisition of knowledge and skills, its overriding goal is change. It is argued that experiential learning activities are critical to the mission of bringing in change in communicative capabilities of learners. It contains five-step model and illustrates how experiential learning activities contribute to each step. Conventional teaching and training are based mainly on knowledge acquisition and skills transfer, but this does not address specific issues related to individual growth. Experiential learning is a powerful way to address individual growth and potential. The present study proved that the use of experiential learning techniques helped students to gain exposure in a stimulating and interactive environment. It also provided students opportunities to talk and listen to each other’s responses to questions, and to the teachers.

This paper presents a study on the works of Derek J. De Solla Price who is reputed to be the founding father of the field of scientometric. A brief overview of the scientific exploits of de Solla Price was made with a focus on his advanced study on bibliometric and information science. The error introduced by the trivial modification of the contagion success model was identified and discussed with elucidatory expositions. The implication of resulting prizing system which is a derivative of De Solla Price’s works are also identified and discussed. This study provides the rationale for gathering knowledge to learn and improve future designs and implementation in citation analytics.

To supply blood, arties and veins plays the important role in the body similarly, road networks plays a vital role in transportation system. Transportation system has geared up its performance level by constructing expressways, national highways, state highways etc. in consideration of increasing traffic. “Black spot is the place where accidents are historically occurred” This paper emphasis the study of some local city roads (Khadi Machine Chowk-Kondhwa, KMC-Undri and KMC-Katraj) of Pune. From the present traffic accident statistics the identification of accidental black spots is done in present study by using ranking method with the help of severity index.

Schiff bases are typically synthesized by the condensation of amines and a carbonyl bearing compounds. Schiff bases are important intermediates for the synthesis of various bioactive compounds.These compounds and their metal complexes are very important as catalysts in various biological systems, polymers, dyes and medicinal and pharmaceutical fields. Furthermore, they are reported to show a variety of biological activities including antibacterial and antifungal activities.

The paper evaluates the effectiveness of recent initiatives introduced by the Royal Thai Government proliferate Broadband services in Thailand. With globalization, the society is constantly changing resulting by information technology and Internet access to play an important role in communication, social, political, economic or even environmental. Because of the rapid-technological advancement, it causes that many countries moving up their focus on developing infrastructure to enhance the information technology and innovation. The data transmission not only text messages but also pictures such as VDO conference is important to make use of information technology is faster and more efficient. The perception is very convenient and fast and hence requires a good core broadband infrastructure. The role of Information and Communication Technology infrastructure (ICT infrastructure) enables leaders on governments’ decision based on the real time and reliable information. Of course, the government leaders in many countries realized that the quality and performance on ICT infrastructure would directly affect developing countries. In order to monitor the countries in the crisis situation, the stable and qualified network is required which the government called as S-M-A-R-T network. Under ICT2020 Policy Framework and Broadband Policy, Ministry of ICT accelerates connected S-M-A-R-T network to develop ICT infrastructure in Thailand recently. On another hand, Thailand economy is also important mechanism for strengthening competitiveness. The new business opportunities with many other countries have defined a policy and planning in developing Broadband seriously and continuously. In this paper, the study will identify the policies and plans of development and building broadband infrastructure of the leaders in the development of broadband top of the world, including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, The United States, Australia and Sweden, a country that have a clear policy and plan development. The projects initiated and measures taken by the Government of Thailand in the broadband sector have been studied. The information has been gathered by interacting with the executive officers of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Ministry of Information Communication and Technology, Thailand, from interviewing the officers of government departments: Ministry of Education (MOE), Ministry of Public Health (MOH) and etc.

The proof will demonstrate the non-existence of a 3x3 magic square of squares. I remember reading a Scientific America article and at the bottom of the article was the link to an article which described this problem. To me it seemed bizarre that a problem that had such a clear start point and was based on a concept so simple to understand could have no proof. I decided then that I would prove that such a square could never exist. I was inspired that the problem had been unresolved such it was first asked in 1984 and that it could be dated back to great mathematicians such as Leonhard Euler. Like many people interested in maths I am in awe of much of the the work that Leonhard Euler did so to be able to solve a problem whose roots can be traced back to him was exciting. People have been working with magic squares for centuries and yet nobody has presented a proof showing why a 3x3 magic square comprised entirely of square numbers cannot exist. I decided that night that I would provide such a proof. I was unaware how complex the problem was and how complex the tools I would need to solve the problem were but it was the start of the most wonderful journey that I wish I could relive. For hundreds of years people have been constructing magic squares. The definition of a magic square which I will refer to extensively throughout this proof states the following. The sum of all the elements in the rows, columns and diagonals must be equal. Each element must be unique in any square and must be a natural number. Therefore when I say something has been proven false through the defintion of a magic square this is the definition I am referrring to. Well reading an article in Scientific America I came across something that rather astounded me. The article claimed that no one had found an example of a 3x3 magic square that contains only magic square numbers. Furthermore no onw has proven that such a square cannot exist. This type of problem can be traced back all the way to Leonhard Euler who is the first person known to construct a 4x4 magic square of squares. I have always been fascinated in mathematical mysteries as the world is written in the mathematics to understand mathematics is to understand the world. Therefore by proving something in maths I am making the world a little more interesting. In the proof that follows I will show why a 3x3 magic square of squares can never exist. I will do this in 10 parts. The first part will be a general proof as to why the lowest element must be the middle or the corner for any magic square of squares to exist. I will then show that the lowest element can never occupy the middle or the corner of any square without violating the definition of what a magic square is.

Narayan’s women characters embody situations of female repression and exploitation within a patriarchal regime that is challenged by their resourcefulness and independence, to the extent where they enact terrible myths like that of the Goddess Kali. The characters’ symbolic primitivism is blended with western literary techniques in cases like that of “Selvi”, who personifies the Divine Singer Saraswati; Rosie the seducer who represents the Sacred Dancer Mohini; or Savitri and Shanta Bai, who are opposite faces of the loyal and perfect companions Savitri and Sita.

A three dimensional eco-epidemiological model consisting of prey, susceptible predator, infected predator species, is proposed and analyzed in the present work. From infected predator, the disease is transmitted to the susceptible predator species. Differential predation rate is considered due to disease in predator as the infection reduces the predation ability of infected predator. The recovery of infected predator from disease is incorporated; therefore, an SIS model is taken for predator species. The dynamics of the system is analyzed mathematically and conditions for existence and stability of disease free equilibrium point has been found out. Also conditions for disease to be endemic in predator species are obtained. Numerical simulations have been carried out to justify the results obtained.

The present study is a critical criminological introductory note that tries to correlates broader socio-economical processes and the peculiarities of political and social life in modern Jordan with the law and the practice of its function. Instead of reproducing orientalist stereotypical analyses, we use honor and crime as instrumental concepts that reveal the full patriarchal structure of the given society that converses with power in a capitalistic state.

The present study endeavors to investigate teachers’ and students’ expectations toward corrective feedback, focusing on delivering agent, timing, types and techniques of error treatment in communicative-oriented English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms in the context of Iran. It also reveals how teachers provide corrective feedback to EFL learners and the frequency of corrective feedback techniques they use in the classroom. To fulfill the purpose of this study a total number of five class observations were carried out and followed by five interviews with the teachers of the same classes. Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis procedures the results show that both students and teachers prefer to receive or give corrective feedback to infrequent errors more than to frequent ones which is completely against what part of the literature suggests. It also shows that the preferences of both groups of participants do not greatly differ from each other except in few ways such as timing. Also, the findings show that recast is the most frequently-used technique employed by Iranian teachers in their classes.