Critical Success Factors was the key to success for the Clothing and Textile industry in the Export Processing Zones (EPZ) in Mauritius in 1971. Many articles have demonstrated that it was mainly due to conducive environment for investment, exogenous factors and preferential trade arrangements. However, with changing business environment, these factors have evolved with great importance in order to keep the industry competitive. A mixed method methodology was used using quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings shows the evolution of the Critical Success Factors in the order of importance with Cost effectiveness and Human and physical resources preceding Supportive environment and Capital investment after more than 40 years of existence.

To keep animals healthy, traditional healing practices have been applied for centuries and have been passed down orally from generation to generation. Rural tribal people generally depend on plants for curing their livestock due to the problem of animal health delivery system. In Ethiopia, the use of ethno veterinary practices to treat and control livestock diseases is an old and important practice. The field survey was carried out in Wolaita and Dawuro Zones of SNNPR, Ethiopia to document ethno veterinary practices in the area. A total of 89 individual healers were purposively selected and interviewed based on their knowledge of using traditional medicine to cure their animals. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze and summarize the ethno-botanical data. Forty plants, which have medicinal value against a total of 27 livestock diseases, were reported and botanically identified as belonging to various 25 plant families. Leaves (57.14%) were the major plant parts used in the study areas. The informants mostly practice oral drenching of plant preparations (77.36%). The age level of healers indicated that the majority were (60.7%) are above the age of 40. This study revealed that ethno-veterinary treatment is playing a significant contribution in treating animal diseases and parasites. Scientific investigations should be carried out to ascertain the effectiveness of identified plant species.

In a calorimeter with a static bomb and an isothermal shield, the energy of combustion of the cyanocobalamin has been measured at 298.15 K. Physico-chemical methods established the products of combustion of cyanocobalamin in the conditions of calorimetric experiment. The enthalpy of combustion ΔcH° and the thermodynamic parameters ΔfH°, ΔfG° of the cyanocobalamin at T = 298.15 K and p = 0.1 MPa have been calculated. Thermodynamic parameters ΔfH°, ΔfS° were determined and used to calculate the enthalpy of formation of cyanocobalamin.

The phenomenon of migration has been indispensable aspect of human histories, cultures and civilizations. In Ethiopia, the post-1991 period witnessed the beginning of new migration to the republic of South Africa in search of greater economic opportunity particularly for unskilled labor. This paper is meant to disclose the developments of the culture of migration and its social and cultural implication, particularly how the culture of migration influence the long standing traditional practice of mate selection among the Hadiya society. A cross sectional study design was employed. In-depth interview, telephone interview, key informant interview and FGDs were data collection tools. The findings of the study revealed that youth migration to the republic of South Africa is bringing a significant and far reaching consequence on the social fabric of Hadiya society specifically on the traditional system of mate selection. In the tradition of Hadiya society, the primary considerations during mate selection were social acceptance on the basis of one’s ascribed qualities like lineage membership and higher position in the stratification. On top of this one’s achieved status such as, hardworking in farming and possession of large land and domestic animals was also credited. These criteria in the mate selection process are currently altered in favor of migrants to South Africa. Most parents, now a day’s prefer mate for their daughter from a migrant in South Africa even without any prior connection. The motive behind the preference of giving ones daughter to a man migrated to South Africa is the anticipated economic changes in the form of bride price and remittance.. Hence, the revival of abduction is one consequence adopted by non migrants as a desperate mechanism of getting mate. Marital instability and family disorganization are also among the worth mentioning negative outcomes of the emerging mate selection system.

Without any doubt rural-urban migration of the rural land owners has its own implication on the development process of both in urban and rural areas of a country. Hence, the primary purpose of this paper is to identify the determinants contributing for rural-urban migration of the rural land owners and its negative impact on rural development in Hulet Eju Enese Woreda of Eastern Gojjam zonal administration. The study further focused on the characteristics of migrants and challenges they face at the destination. To achieve the objectives, both primary and secondary data were employed. Data collection instruments like structured questionnaire, semi-structured interview and secondary sources were largely employed. To this end, a total of 110 migrants were selected through purposive snow ball sampling technique for the survey and the data was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The result of this study revealed that both rural push and urban pull factors were determinants for rural land owners to migrate to Mota town from different parts of Hulet Eju Enese Woreda. Small land holding, poor economic condition, natural disaster and lack of social service in the rural area were serious problems that pushed rural land owners to migrate to urban centers. Where as attractive climatic conditions, existence of urban amenities and social facilities and employment opportunities in Mota town were strong pull forces.

It is a fact that the introduction of labour courts in some developing African countries was a case of need. Others subjectively concentrate on issues of jurisdiction and status which is why they define the labour court as an ad hoc tribunal or an administrative agency and so should be restricted to that status, as an outgrowth of the Executive. The major culprit is the senior courts of law and record. Historically, this may be because at establishment, the labour courts were not provided for as senior courts of record in the constitutions. A simple explanation is that at independence, the post-colonial governments retained much of the constitution around which independence was negotiated. During those early days, there was no industrialisation and mass formal employment and therefore no serious labour disputes that might have threatened the stability of the state. The proponents of exclusion of Labour Courts (LC) or Industrial Courts (IC) contend that “By “courts” is meant the courts of civil judicature and by “tribunal” is meant those bodies of men who are appointed to resolve controversies arising from certain special laws----Certain special matters go before tribunals and the residue goes to the ordinary courts of civil judicature.

The concept of compact city has been evolved through the time, the urban development phase, and the advanced technology. Traditional compact city measurement categorized cities according to the compactness based on single-core urban development. However, the outward extension of city become multi-core and such urban pattern might need to be re-examined for sustainable development. Housing price to income ratio is a popular indicator to assess the livability in such compact city. Therefore, this study applies temporal section analysis to explore urban compactness in 1995 and 2006 in Taipei metropolitan area, Taiwan. The principle component analysis will be utilized to classify compact city types according to the urban development features. Moreover, geographical weighted regression will then be used to explore the effect of urban compact features on house price-income ratio. The PCA results show that the improved urban functions in high-medium compact city while the medium-low compact cities remain the same. The GWR results show that the higher mixed land use might attract more diverse industries which can increase household income and mitigate housing pressure.

In Ethiopia nature, culture and history merge to form a timeless appeal. The countries impressive tourism potential is truly a land of contrast and extremes, a land of remote and wild place, and of spectacular alpine terrain-including the semien mountain national park with its high 4620 meters peak at Ras Dashen one of UNESCO registered heritage site; and at the other end of spectrum, the Denakil depression 121 meters below sea level is among the lowest places on earth. However from these abundant resources the country has not benefited yet. Therefore questions about how tourism policies contribute to national development? What is wrong with the existing system? Why should the present policy be discarded? How did it become successful? These and similar other questions will have to be addressed first before proposing what measures should be taken to ameliorate the situation. For this reason, a brief account of the country’s tourism needs to be provided.

This study investigated factors that hinder the integration of Gambians with disabilities into mainstream society through focus groups and surveys. Stigma towards those with disabilities was perceived as common and more community education on the medical causes of disabilities is needed. Full integration surfaced as fundamental and to achieve this, more support is needed, including both concrete supplies as well as training.

A given configuration of a non-uniform antenna array for which the elements are equally spaced with unequal amplitude excitation using chebyshev excitation method has been studied in this work. The impact of the number, spacing and amplitude excitations of the elements on the radiation characteristics has been analyzed and compeared with its analogues of a linear broadside uniform and non-uniform binomial antenna arrays using 4NEC2 simulation software. The spacing between the elements varied from 0.1λ to 2λ in steps of 0.02λ for a number of elements up to 10 elements. For GSM application at 1.8GHz frequency the best configuration to achieve the required gain of 13.9dBi was 7-elements at 0.86λ spacing.