Archives-March 2012

This study was designed to explore personality Big Five factors i.e. Agreeableness, Extraversion, Openness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism relationships with Emotional Intelligence. The research was carried out to in two parts, part one was concerned with the pilot study. For this a random sample of 80 students from four public and private universities was collected. To measure the personality big five factors of universities students the Mini Marker Set of 40 item was used and for Emotional Intelligence TEQue-SF of 30 items was used. In order to determine the psychometric properties of research questionnaires various statistical analysis were performed. Result showed that all items of both scales were significantly correlated with their respect total scales. Part 2 was consisted of main study; the sample of the main study was collected through stratified random sampling. The sample was consisted of 200 students among them 67 male and 133 female students. All of them were studying at the Master level, their ages ranged from 17 years to 27 years, among them 88 from management sciences, 78 from social sciences and 34 from humanities. After the data collection it was analyzed with alpha reliability, coefficient correlations, percentile, mean and SD. The result revealed that personality factors Agreeableness, Extraversion and Openness were positively correlated with emotional intelligence whereas Neuroticism was negatively correlated with emotional intelligence personality factor Conscientiousness have insignificant correlated to emotional intelligence. The private sector universities students have higher score on extraversion and lower score on conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness as compare to public universities students. Students of public sector universities have low score on emotional intelligence as compared with students of private university students.

This paper discusses the emergence of Sungusungu vigilante group among Abagusii of western Kenya. In doing so the paper appreciates the ineffectiveness of state security agencies in crime prevention and control to its emergence. However, the paper goes further to demonstrate that the social, economic and political changes which the community has experienced since colonial period is equally important in understanding the emergence of this vigilante group.

Three accessions of Phyllanthus niruri L., from three different localities were assessed for their fruit or seed germination in vitro and ex vitro. Dried fruits (undehisced seeds) of P. niruri accessions collected from Greater Accra (Kwabenya), Central (Kasoa) and Eastern (Aburi) regions of Ghana did not germinate when nursed both in vitro and ex vitro. However, seeds from 3, 5 or 7 days dehisced fruits germinated with 7 days dehisced seeds having the highest percentage (68.8%) germination when nursed (ex vitro) in the same soil substrate suggesting that there was fruit wall imposed dormancy. To improve percentage germination, dehisced seeds were cultured on Murashige and skoog (1962) (MS) medium supplemented with 0-1.2 mg/l BAP or kinetin. At these treatments, dehisced seeds cultured on MS medium supplemented with 1.2 mg/l BAP had the highest percentage (61.1%) of germination with poor germination of seeds occurring in MS medium supplemented with kinetin. Data were also taken on root and shoot proliferation as well.

This paper highlights the prevalence factors of hearing loss among manufacturing workers in Malaysia. Due to less intention is given to this problem, the factors to noise induced hearing loss is ignored by the employers. Different workers have different level of noise threshold. However, the development of hearing loss is parallel with high noise exposure and increasing of age. As a result, workers responses on level of noise are varies and at disperse of age.

In this paper, one will treat the increase in the rate in silting and his impact on the reduction in the total capacity in the dam during these twenty last years. In a first approach, the grounds eroded by the streamings will increase the content of sediment in the wadis, and consequently one will assist with the formation more and more currents of density in reserves in arid and semi arid areas. The results showed that the dam Djorf Torba (Bechar), SMBA (Tiaret) and Ksob (Msila) which were classified like dam has weak rate of silting during the years four twenties, today are threatened by the silting; their rates of sedimentation increased considerably. Dam like that of Fodda wadi saw its sluices of drainings blocked following an acceleration of the muddy deposits.

Pulverized leaves of red and yellow varieties of Caesalpina pulcherrima yielded 0.50 and 0.52% v/w of essential oils on hydrodistillation. GC and GC-MS analyses of the oils revealed the presence of fifty eight and fifty three compounds in the oil of red and yellow varieties respectively. Percentage compositions of oxygenated monoterpenes in the oil of red and yellow varieties were 70.4 and 85.1%. Sesquiterpenes constituted 28.8% of the leaf oil of red variety, while 5.1% of the oil of yellow variety was sesquiterpenes. The principal constituents of the oil of red variety were; ?-terpinene (44.4%), germacrene B (14.3%), myrcene (5.6%), allo-ocimene (5.9%), ?-caryophylene (5.1%) and ?-pinene (4.2%). Major compounds identified in the oil of yellow variety were; citronellal (58.0%), geranial (17.5%), ?-caryophylene (5.1%), linalool (2.5%) and ?-terpineol (2.3%). With the abundance of ?-terpinene and citronellal in the oils of red and yellow varieties, the oils are of ?-terpinene and citronellal chemotypes respectively.

Access to resources is one of the elements of women empowerment and a base for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. The study examined the access of rural women to productive resources in Nassarawa Eggon Area, Nasarawa State. Data were collected from 100 women farmers that were purposively selected from five districts in the study area. Descriptive statistics and Likert scale were utilized to analyze the data. The findings indicated that 60% of the rural women farmers were between the age of 36 and 40 years, 62% of the respondents were married whereas 31% and 7% were single and widowed, respectively. About 43% of the respondents had primary education, whereas 62% had farming experience of between 1 to 10 years. Furthermore, 54% of the respondents had farm sizes of less than 1 to 2 hectares. The major income generating activities of the respondents are crop production, livestock production and tailoring. The respondents had better access to land (mean = 3.00), seed (mean = 2.95) and labour (mean = 2.86). However, access to rural institutions and capital were limited. The constraints faced by the respondent were high cost of inputs and inadequate access to credit facilities. It was recommended that rural women should be given the opportunity to have access and control over productive resource in the rural area through public enlightment, extension services and access to capital.

This study aims to predict spatial distribution of deforestation and detects factors influencing forest degradation of Northern forests of Ilam province. For this purpose, effects of six factors including distance from road and settlement areas, forest fragmentation index, elevation, slope and distance from the forest edge on the forest deforestation are studied. In order to evaluate the changes in forest, images related to TM1988, ETM+2001 and ETM+2007 are processed and classified. There are two classes as, forest and non-forest in order to assess deforestation factors. The logistic regression method is used for modeling and estimating the spatial distribution of deforestation. The results show that about 19,294 ha from forest areas are deforested in the 19 years. Modeling results also indicate that more deforestation occurred in the fragmented forest cover and in the areas of proximity to forest/non forest edge. Furthermore, slope and distance from road and settlement areas had negative relationships with deforestation rates. Meanwhile, deforestation rate is decreased with increase in elevation. Finally, a simple spatial model is presented that is able to predict the location of deforestation by using logistic regression. The validation was also tested using ROC approach which was found to be 0.96.

Writing through an organized model and using the most frequent structural patterns as the proficient writers in different sorts of writings has always been worthy of attention. It can be said that narratives are nearly the most common and prevalent sort of writing in Iran. From the primary school, students are being asked to jot down their experiences of a specific occasion or holiday (e.g. Norouz holiday, summer holiday); however, little attention has been paid to the way students have to organize their writings and the kind of referencing has been taken for granted. The connectedness and cohesion of any text in all languages is granted, not mention the fact that coherence is the prerequisite to that. Using cohesive devices, which referencing is one of them, helps the writer to keep the cohesion. Looking for the differences in the commonality of the existence of cataphora and anaphora, we are going to come up with the most prevalent type of referencing, in order to help students to write in the most common way. Cataphora is usually defined as the referential relation in which the element referred to is anticipated by the referring element, usually a pronoun, and anaphora is a linguistic relation between two textual entities which is defined when a textual entity (the anaphor) refers to another entity of the text which usually occurs before (the antecedent). Two English and Persian contemporary short stories have been waded through to discover the most common pattern in terms of using anaphora and cataphora referencing in English writing. Ten English narrative essays and ten Persian narrative essays have been analyzed too for the same purpose. In the end, the results tend to show that anaphoric referencing comparing to cataphoric one is more prevalent in Persian narratives comparing to English ones. Of course, if we consider the frequency of anaphoric and cataphoric referencing, anaphora is more common in both languages; however, it is more common in Persian, as we see rare samples of cataphoric referencing in Persian, while there are more samples of cataphoric referencing in English narratives.

In this century with medical advancements and possibility to treat infertilty by medical methods many question in different scopes ? for example law ? have been submitted which should be answered by scientists to prepare the suitable ground for making necessary rules in this matter .One of these subjects which is submitted in law is the inheritance position of the frozen embryo and the inheritability of the children whose fertilization has taken place after the death of owner of the sperm/ovum and whether ,specific share of inheritance should be saved for them or not? And if the answer to this question is positive how long is its period of time?in this article ,these questions will be answered by relying on law , religious jurisprudence and also the idea of lawyers and religious theorizer. So according to that basis the following conclusions arise: 1- The genealogic relation is just between the children and the owner of sperm and ovum even if there was no marriage relationship between them and clearly inheritance is a result of genealogy. 2- The child whose fertilization has taken place after death of parents also inherits from owner of sperm or ovum’. Because in this situation genealogy (mediocre relationship) does potentially exist. 3- The embroy that is composed and fertilized out of the uterus can be supported by civil law. whether it is growing up or it has been frozen, because the frozen embryo is a pottential human being, in addition the generality of Iran civil law include this group, too.As well,as Freezing embryo, after death or separation from of the parents, causes some problems,the legislators should find a solution to prevent these challenges but it is not a good reason to deprive these children of their right of inheritance.