Vol 3 Issue 1 January 2015-March 2015

Abstract: Due to their scientific nature, courses in linguistics present a unique opportunity to teach higher-order thinking skills in the classroom and encourage students to interact and think critically about the material. In the present study, two courses of field methods for advanced undergraduate linguistics students were designed to target and both formally and informally assess the students’ ability to understand, apply, and synthesize information. In both courses, the students showed marked improvement in their ability to use higher-order thinking skills to identify, analyze, and report information on a language unfamiliar to them.

Field Methods:  Higher-Order Thinking Skills; Haya.

Title: Teaching Higher-Order Critical Thinking Skills through Linguistics

Author: Christopher D. Sams

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Abstract: Various studies have proven the leverage of the media exposure in exerting their power on the mindset of the audiences. Therefore, this study illustrates exposure of media reports to understand if exposing to media’s reports paves the way for changes in perception. The main objective of the study is to identify perception of non-Muslim Malaysians towards information concerning Islam and Muslims in the media. The media contains misleading and unreliable contents, which can lead to destabilization by generating negative depictions on the perceptions. Significantly, in a multicultural country like Malaysia where various races are living together in harmony and peace, small portion of negative beliefs or reports on any religions or sect could jeopardizes the peace process in the nation. The major results concludes that mass media in general are all pervasive in their reports but not particularly pervasive. This statement summarizes most of the significant in currently accepted perceived facts about mass media in Malaysia. Non-Muslims in Malaysia hold positive perceptions towards their fellow Muslims. As non-Muslims in Malaysia are well aware of the media hegemony, one’s ideology could not be simply breached by negative reports. Significantly, non-Muslims respect Islam as the official religion of people in Malaysia.

Keywords: Media exposure, Islamophobia, Islam representation, Media reports.

Title: Exposure of Media Reports on Islam among Malaysian Non-Muslims

Author: Ali Parvin

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Abstract: In the era of Globalization, most of the developing countries are witnessing a shift from an import substitution strategy to export promotion policy. Export processing zones (EPZs) acts as a key instrument in promoting exports as well as contributing to the economic growth of the economy. In India, they are called ‘special economic zones’ (SEZs). The Special Economic Zones (SEZ) policy was announced in India in April 2000, which intended to make the SEZ an engine for economic growth with minimum possible regulations and has its genesis in the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) scheme.  The concept of empowerment flows from the power. Empowerment of women mean equipping women to be economically independent, self-reliant, have positive esteem to enable them to face any difficult situation and they should be able to participate in development activities. This study aims at examining the role of women participation in SEZs in India and it also examines the impact of SEZs on export promotion and investment enhancement in India along with the various suggestions to improve the role of SEZs in India. The methodology used is based on secondary data collected from various Bank websites, RBI reports, Journals, etc. The findings of the study evidences that women’s share in total employment of SEZs is substantially higher than both the economy as a whole as well as the manufacturing sector outside the SEZs. The tremendous increase has been seen in the increase in the exports and Indian government’s flexibility towards SEZ reform (SEZ Act, 2005) as part of its economic strategy has resulted in increased investment in the sector. Thus SEZ’s is an important strategic tool to facilitate investment inflow, promote exports and generate employment.

Keywords: Export processing zones (EPZs), Special economic zones’ (SEZs), Globalization, Export Processing Zone (EPZ).

Title: SEZ’s and Women Empowerment in India

Author: Dr. Deepti Narang

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Abstract: India is a fast developing economy having greater role in of higher education in developing and managing its own human resources for both domestic and global employment. Plenty of vibrant opportunities arise due to new economic policy and globalization. Entrepreneurship is a rewarding experience, both in terms of being able to control ones destiny and leaving an impact on the world. It also brings with it unique pleasures, pressures and perils.  Entrepreneurship is am emerging reality. Establishing and sustaining business ventures are considered to be most critical factors in dealing with problems of unemployment and poverty in both and rural India.  The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the Strategies for Developing Entrepreneurial skills through higher education.

Keywords:  Multi skilled programmes, Employability, Creativity, Innovation.

Title: Higher Education and Entrepreneurship Development

Author: Dr. Chandrakant. N. Koligudde

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Abstract: As the main transmitter of culture from one generation to another, education played a strategic role throughout the existence of Uzbekistan as a single nation. While the society underwent a change from traditional Islamic to bourgeois under the rule of the Tsarist Russia, and then to communist under the Soviet government, education transformed trying to adapt to the requirements of each era. After gaining the independence in 1991, the development of national education system was created in Uzbekistan. The concept of the national education system was elaborated on the own development strategy of the country. The present day educational system of Uzbekistan is the product of the above transformations. Although, the measures are being taken for a rapid development of education in Uzbekistan, and its internationalization, there are still traces from the past of the educational system that bear the characteristics of Islamic education, Secular education introduced by Tsarist Russia, and a great influence of Soviet education which existed in the country for seven decades.

Keywords: Uzbekistan, Education, School, Development, Pupil, Curriculum.

Title: Contemporary Educational System in Uzbekistan

Author: SABINA MUSHTAQ

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Abstract: The development of a successful crisis communication plan at the onset of a crisis is crucial in taking responsibility and communicating information to the public quickly consistently and truthfully. “In today’s world, it is no longer a question of whether a major crisis will strike any organization, it is only a matter of when, which type and how (Mitroff and Pearson, 1993). Therefore establishing an effective crisis communication plan is essential. Crisis in Kenya is not a new thing, in the most recent case in the Kenyan history, in August 12th 2011, a fuel pipeline exploded in a densely populated Sinai slum in Nairobi due to fuel siphoning, bringing to question the state of crisis communication in Kenya. Therefore this study explored three objectives, to explore crisis situations impacting crisis response strategies in Kenya, to examine the communication response strategies used in crisis situations in Kenya. to analyze the forces within the organization impacting effective crisis communication in Kenya. The research tool used was questionnaires. Out of the total respondents interviewed 59% were male and 41% were female. 87% strongly felt that the fuel siphoning menace is not going to end soon. 51% of the respondents admitted in receiving warning concerning the looming danger of Sinai fire, whereas 49% of respondent denied having got any warnings. The study disclosed that many people engage in fuel siphoning because of poverty, lack of clear information concerning fuel siphoning and dangers associated with it and lack of regular warnings concerning the dangers of fuel siphoning, leading to people engaging in fuel siphoning. The relative authorities’ i.e. the government should tackle people’s attitudes and perceptions as a major impediment to successful crisis communication.

Keywords: Crisis, Crisis Communication, Catastrophe, Effective crisis communication, Policy.

Title: Factors Affecting Crisis Communication in Nairobi County: Kenya

Author: Roy Wafula, Hellen Mberia

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Abstract: Purpose of this study to develop Wrong Belief System Detector Instrumen. Constructs of this instrument are values, experiences, educations and sosioeconomic status. The design used in this study is quantitative methods. The quantitative study involved 240 respondents in the actual survey. All respondents were selected among university students who in the pure sciences, social sciences and engineering sciences in Malaysia. Quantitative data were collected and analyzed by Rasch Measurement Model using Winstep Software Version 3.69.1.11. Preliminary results showed that 36 items were identified. Analysis of the findings of the analysis conducted with respondents reliability index was 0.84, while the index of reliability was 0.99. Separation of respondents was 6:30 and the separation of items iwas 8.85. Cronbach Alpha showed the reliability of  item was 0.87. Infit MNSQ value in range 0.89 to 1:20 and the outfit MNSQ in the range 0.88 to 1.28 was show the suitability of the measuring instrumen. The analysis actually shows that the variance explained by measures (%) shows the instrumen has a value of 57.0 and the unexplained variance in 1 st contrast showed that 2.3% is indicated item was very good.

Keyword: Wrong Belief System, Rasch Measurement Model, Reliability, Validity.

Title: Reliability and Validity Of Wrong Belief System Detector Instrument Among Higher Education Students In Malaysia

Author:  Mohd Nur Al Sufi Bin Romele, Syed Mohamed Shafeq Bin Syed Mansor

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Abstract: Change is inevitable and can be very stressful & the world of work is changing   rapidly as a result the role of HR Professionals who are prime responsibility to manage the people is also changing.

Today’s HR Practitioners are considered as future talent managers. their practices need to be more strategic towards change rather than following the old path because new generation is entering into the workforce in organisation & in order to maintain coordination between the four generations i.e. traditional , boomers , gen x & gen y  will be a challenging task for HR  practitioners . HR practitioners need to groom their skills & polish them well for changing demands of the organisation.  HR practitioners while implementing the change need to have proper communication with the employees so that rumors can be avoided which results in employee’s  reactions like shock, anger, denial, blame, fear, understanding & then  acceptance because it consumes lots of time.

Successful HR practise for change management at workplace and societal setup should comprise of new concepts like I4 teams , president & chairman tea , workplace wellness , diversity management, new concepts in performance appraisal system, training and developmental programs, fun & freedom at workplace and along with HR professionals availability 24 * 7 and this can be done through just following simple steps like communicating about change and its individual and organisational benefits then doing “change readiness” survey in this barriers are identified and then implementing change and then at last follow up and improvement will be done.

Title: The HR Practices in the Changing Workplace and Societal Setup

Author:  Swapna Shrimali

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Abstract: The rapid technology of computer and networking plays a prominent role for the rapid global development. However, innovations of computer technologies, in addition to help and faster development, became the target and the instrument for the commission of crime. Currently, computer crimes are the newly emerging and rapidly growing crime. The global nature of computer crime or cybercrime creates a major challenge for national criminal justice systems. Thus, in combating computer crimes, various measures have been taken at the international, regional and national level. At the national level, many countries in the world respond to by enacting new criminal legislations including Ethiopia. Ethiopia amended and replaced the 1957 Penal Code by the 2004 Criminal Code. One of, inter alia, justifications to enact the 2004 Criminal Code is to address crime born of advances in technology such as computer crime. The 2009 ICT Policy and the 2011 Criminal Justice Policy of Ethiopia also reveal the great attention given to computer crimes. However, the 2004 Criminal Code of Ethiopia composed of only six articles (Articles706-711) under the scheme of ‘property crime’. Under these provision, accessing; accession and taking or using data; accessing and deleting or altering; or denial of services on computers, computer system, computer networking intentionally or negligently, constitute computer crime. This research tries to critically analyze how the Ethiopian Criminal Code criminalizes computer abuses according to its unique nature and to what extent the legislative measures are importantly proportional to the prevalence of such crime. Considering the nature, type, impact, and targets of computer crimes and criminals, this research, concluded that computer abuses did not carefully and sufficiently criminalized according to their unique nature, impacts, and the provided punishments are disproportionally lenient.

Keywords: computer crime, nature of computer crime, impacts of computer crime, combating computer crime, the 2004 Criminal Code, principle of proportionality, punishment.

Title: Computer Crimes in Ethiopia: An Appraisal of the Legal Framework

Author: Molalign Asmare

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Abstract: The paper highlights the concept of library portals and information architecture and the relationship that exists between the two concepts. Further, it imports the functions of librarians in the traditional setting into the webometric setting, elucidating the roles  Indian librarians can play as Information Architects whereby they are seen as content creators, copyright experts, digital reference service personnel, metadata creators, portal specifiers and creators. Questions regarding the imported concepts of Information Architects and librarians‘ roles are raised. Problems facing librarians as Information Architects are raised and solutions proffered. The paper concludes by making a submission that librarians become Info-architects in the present digital information environment.

Keywords: Information Architecture, Librarians, Info-architects.

Title: Indian Librarians Emerging Info- Architects and Library Portals Information Architecture

Author: DR.V.RAMA DEVI

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Abstract: Electronic journal is one of the products of information and communication technologies. The advancement of e-journal during recent years has given librarians a powerful new resource to support learning and research. This study reports the result of a survey conducted at education faculty members in Hyderbad to determine the extent to which user are aware and make use of e-journals. The study also examines the search pattern of e-journals. A questionnaire was distributed among the faculty members to collect desired data. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to the selected sample of Library users; 168 valid samples were collected. The studies found that majority (87.30%) of the male users were aware about the e- journals where as only 73.33 % of female respondents were aware about the availability of e-journals. The analysis reveals that most of the respondents 61.22% use e-journals for writing papers.

Keywords: Education, E-Journals, Library website, File Format, User study.

Title: Use of E-Journals Awareness among Education Faculty Members in Hyderabad

Author: DR.V.RAMA DEVI

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Abstract: This paper traces the story of development of railway in Punjab under the British rule. How modernisations and alternations came with the coming of railway especially in the respective areas discussed however these developments were largely linked with economic, political and administrative interests. Even then some allied transformation came in the Punjab region. On the other side this region became the flashpoint ground of British army recruitment and it added the more importance to Punjab. This paper builds up in the reference of railway development in colonial Punjab in general, especially focusing on railway connectivity of military cantonments and led to social and cultural assimilation in particular.

Keywords: colonialism, railway, urbanization, migration, socio-cultural assimilation

Title: Railway Development in Colonial Punjab: Social and Cultural Assimilation

Author: Bhupinder Singh, Amandeep Kaur

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Abstract: Palani is one of the part of the Kongu Country. The early sangam works refer to Kongu as an independent territorial division. It was surrounded by the Western Ghats and the hilly regions such as, south of Mysore and included the present day districts of Coimbatore, Erode and Salem (excluding Attur taluk), Karur, Kulittalai taluk of Trichy district and Palani taluk of Dindigul district. The Sangam literature Akananuru and Purananuru mention this place as Pothini belonging to the Vel chieftain Nedu-Vel-Avi. Society of Palani is primarily a caste-ridden society like other part of India. Since the ancient times down to the present day, the caste structure of society remains the same, but the increase in the number of sub-caste is a phenomenon peculiar to any caste-based society.  From the early day’s agriculture, weaving and trade were the main occupation of the people. Different religious families live Palani to develop secular attitude towards their counter-parts and they, live in complete harmony with one another.

Keywords: Palani, Vaiyapuri Nadu, Pothini, Idumbankullam.

Title: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF PALANI - A STUDY

Author: P.Valarmathi, Dr. R. Meera

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Abstract: The main aim of this study is to “Study the Ill Effects of Child Labours in India”. The issues of child labour have gained prominence since the 1980's, though its origin can be traced to the period of industrial revolution in Britain, where the children of the poor were forced to work in textile industries, iron and coal mines, gas works, shipyards, construction, match factories, nail factories, and the business of chimney. The problem arose when children, many below the age of 10, were employed by factories and mines. The Children were forced to work long hours under dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and their wages were very small. Child workers were often deprived of the chance to attend school. 

Child labour is most prevalent in the developing countries. The growth of the service sector with an increase in the demand for more flexible and part-time workers have contributed to the expansion of child labour market in the developing countries. The problems of child labour are acute in many of the developing countries. Many millions of these children work in occupations and industries which are dangerous, hazardous and exploitative. Many of the working children here face serious hazards, such as cuts, fractures, loss of body parts, crushing injuries, burns, skin diseases, sight or hearing loss, and respiratory illness and many are unpaid workers.

In this study, an attempt has been made to find out the issues and owes of child labour and how Industrial Social Worker handle the situation. Also the socio-economic factors, which play a significant role in pushing children into the labour force and the repercussions of early employment, have been studied in detail. The study also examines the attitude and the priorities of the Government and the society in dealing with the issues of child labour. The study also analyses in detail the effectiveness of the tools used by the Governments in resolving the problems of child labour in India.

The study will be made by referring several other literatures on “Child Labour” published by various sources. In the above context, a Conceptual study will be conducted on “A STUDY ON ILL EFFECTS OF CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA”. This being a non-empirical study the analysis will be made from the data and contents collected from various articles published by various authors and released through various sources. The references of the same will be given in reference part. The hypothesis of the analysis is Implementation of our Laws protecting Child Labour in Stringent manner by Industrial Social Worker will only curb the Ill Effects of Child Labour in our Country.

Keywords: WHO-World Health Organization. UNICEF-United Nations Children's Fund. ILO-International Labour Organization. UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, EU - European Union, NGO - Non Governmental Organizations, NPE - National Policy of Education.

Title: A STUDY ON ILL EFFECTS OF CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA

Author: R. Dinesh, Dr. R. Belinda

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Abstract: This Paper endeavours to selectively present some of the new ‘Challenges and threats’ that India’s energy foreign policy faced in Twenty-First Century. There are many challenges before Indian foreign policy like, Sustainability of energy imports and sustain cordial relations with crude oil export countries. The first section includes trends behind India energy demand before 1990s challenge for Indian foreign policy and new trends. The next section embraces challenges faced by India to sustain its relation with energy exporting countries especially The Middle East and Central Asia. Another section embrace obstacles in the way of importing energy and last section include overall strategy of Indian foreign policy makers to overcome these problems.

Keywords: Foreign Policy, Challenge, threat, Controversies, embrace and soft power.

Title: India’s Emerging Energy Foreign Policy: an Analysis

Author: Ghulam Mohiudin Naik

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