Evaluation of Quality Protein Maize (Zea mays L) Hybrids at Jimma, Western-Ethiopia

Maize is an important food crop in Ethiopia. But its nutritional quality is poor as its seed protein is devoid of two essentialamino acids (lysine and tryptophan). The objective of the present study was to evaluate the performance of Quality Protein Maize (QPM) hybrids developed by CIMMYT. 

Forty three QPM hybrids and 2 checks were tested using 5X9 alpha lattice design with two replications. Data were subjected to ANOVA using SAS version 9.2. The ANOVA revealed very highly significant differences among the geno types(p<0.001), for 50% tasseling, ear height, plant count and grain yield. High phenotypic variances were observed for ear height, number of rows/ear, number of grains/row and grain yield. 

Analysis of Customer Expectations of Services Compensation Strategy Using Fuzzy Hierarchical Analysis Approach (AHP) (Case Study: Customers of Health Insurance Organization in Tehran - Iran)

This study aimed to identify constitutes anthropomorphism in health insurance organization in Tehran, Iran. Service failure is inevitable and serves as an important factor in the loss of customers. Its inevitability requires that companies offering such services seek to identify the expectations and demands of the customers for the occurred failure in order for appropriate measures to be taken so as to prevent the loss of customers. 

The present study has purposeful application and is a descriptive analytical survey in the nature and method conducted in 2015. A simple random sampling method was used. Data collection was performed using 394 questionnaires. Content validity and reliability of the questionnaires was approved by professionals (using Cronbach’s alpha 0.85). In the current study, AHP was adopted by a fuzzy approach and data analysis was performed using Expert Choice software.

The Limits of State Power in a Democratic Society

The coding is not only the expression of the political will of the law maker, it firstly is a complex juridical technique for the choosing and systematization of the normative content necessary and adequate to certain social, political, economic, institutional realities. Since Constitution is a law, yet it nevertheless distinguishes itself from the law, the problem is to establish which juridical norms it contains. 

The solving of this problem needs to consider the specific of the fundamental law and also of the requirements of the coding theory. The determining with all scientific stringency of the normative content of the Constitution is indispensable both for the removal of any inaccuracy in delimiting the differences from the law, for the stability and predictability of the fundamental law and last, but not the least, for the reality and effectiveness of its supremacy.

Challenges of the Informal Job Sector in India: Needs Government Intervention

Indian economy is very vivid and diversified that agriculture, cottage industries, handicrafts and large scale industries co-exist, While the formal sector enjoys huge benefits including the government recognition, secured pay scales, leaves and other employment benefits, informal sector consisting individual and small scale operations suffer from multiple challenges including job insecurity, social insecurity, instability, migration, child labour, and exploitation of working women. As the informal sector remained as a employment for many, government of India must initiate programmes to streamline this sector in order to provide job security and the other employment benfits.

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The Developments of the Competition Law in Macedonia (2014 until Today)

This article discusses the developments in the competition law of Republic of Macedonia with regard to the developments in the area of antitrust, abuse of dominant positions, concentrations, and state aid. The discussion is primarily focused in the legislative framework of the developments as well as in the relevant case law during the time period 2011-2015. 

In this article, an effort will be made to provide a general overview of some of the most important cases. In addition, this article will also to a certain extent discuss the progress made in the area of State aid. Last but not least, having in mind that competition law is also relevant area of reform required for the EU accession of R.M., the annual “progress reports” issued by the EU Commission regarding R.M. dealing with competition will be also addressed in this article.

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Lanchester Law, Shock and Awe Strategies

The American military was introduced to, and has mastered Decision Theory and the Theory of Games under a mathematical oriented Secretary of Defense: William Perry. One particular aspect is the application of the theory developed by the English engineer Frederick Lanchester. His theory is based on the study of air battles in the First World War. It was applied in the two “Shock and Awe” campaigns against Iraq, even though initially meant to be used against the Warsaw Pact nations during the Cold War; in which its efficacy was spectacularly demonstrated.

The strategy is worthy of investigation as it is being adopted by the USA’s world competitors which is leading to new multi-players Game Theory configurationxs, rather than a single player situation, as can beob served in new theaters such as the Syrian conflict. The application of the theory can be expanded from defense applications to business, sports, politics and other socio-economic realms such as, dare-we-say, survival entertainment TV shows.

Narratives and Healing: Implications for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

While narrative has become increasingly important in the humanities, social sciences and medicine and psychotherapy, it is medical anthropology that has predominantly focused on the role of narrative in healing and how individual narratives reflect overarching cultural themes.

Collecting narratives is part of the everyday work of medical Anthropologists. As part of fieldwork they typically spend at least a year living in another community asking people about their families, their religion, their understanding of the Cosmos, politics, social roles and various other aspects of their lives. The ethnographic accounts are then published using narrative as an analytic tool to support arguments.

Launer points out how sociology and ethnography see psychiatry among the medical specialities as peculiarly culture bound and occupying the uncomfortable no man’s land between conventional medical science and the search for meaning.