July 2010

Developing an approach for a sustainable agricultural revolution: A prescription for the private and public sectors in the Southern states of Nigeria

  Over the years, agricultural development in Nigeria has been on a downward trend. This negative trend is attributed to the apathy from the people, the discovery of oil just before independence; and the after effects of the civil war of the late 60's. In addition to the local political problems, intensive agricultural research and delivery systems have been disappointingly low in some of the underdeveloped...

Author(s): E. A. Alademerin and T. O. Adedeji

July 2010

Impact of liberalization on employment in India

  Trade liberalization refers to the removal of government incentives and restrictions from trade between nations. Rapidly increasing flows of goods and services across national borders have been the most visible aspect of the increasing integration of the global economy in recent decades. There is a vast body of literature which shows that trade is good for economic growth which in turn is also good for...

Author(s): R. K. Shastri, Ravindra Tripathi and Anushree Singh

July 2010

Personality hardiness, job involvement and job burnout among teachers

  The study examined the influence of personality hardiness, job involvement and job burnout among teachers from one of the central universities in India. The findings of the study reveal that personality hardiness and job involvement resulted from job burnout of teachers. Job involvement are found to be negatively and significantly correlated with depersonalization and positively with personal accomplishment...

Author(s): Syed Mohammad Azeem

July 2010

A multifactor ANOVA study for trainees performance measurement subjected to CADCAM and CAD courses

  The study aims at investigating individual performance of trainees who are subjected to two interrelated courses, namely, CAD and CADCAM. First, a three factor design experiment has been conducted to measure the effects of trainer (A, B), trainee secondary certificate (Scientific and  Industrial) and trainee college esteem (High, Low) on the mean score of CAD and CADCAM obtained by the population of...

Author(s): Ali Chedli Trabelsi and Mohamed Ali Rezgui