Primary Health Centers are the cornerstone of rural healthcare in India. Updating these centers to provide round the clock services to reduce the unmet need for maternal healthcare; is an important objective of National Rural Health Mission since 2005. Yet, functionality of PHCs to provide 24x7 services remains poor due to several health system issues. The present cross-sectional facility based study evaluates the functioning of rural 24x7 primary health care facilities in 3 districts of Gujarat for obstetric care performance and its predictors. The study used pretested questionnaire for collecting data from all PHCs of study areas in 2012-13. Obstetric care performance was measured as number of deliveries conducted in last 3 months. Current study found that the obstetric care performance is independent of infrastructure or logistics situation but highly dependent availability on the skilled human resource. There is urgent need for a systematic study to evaluate performance of public health facilities along with use of routinely collected data to make the system efficient.

Language has a basic role in the matter of communication, and this will separate human being from any other species. In addition, the ability to understand student learning styles can increase the educational experience; moreover, the styles to learn any language may take a lot of time and may change according to different educational and social backgrounds to learn a target language. Furthermore, the different learning styles may fit with different learners; each learner could choose a style which is compatible with personal preference; as it makes it easy for teachers to incorporate them into their teaching. Moreover, different learning styles may vary in different educational background; some learners pay attention to all the styles equally, whilst some others just to a specific style. Additionally, there are different learning styles, but the most popular ones are visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic in which STUDENTS take in information. This study is an analysis of learning styles for Eastern EFL students, especially Kurdish. The purpose of this study is to increase faculty awareness and understanding of the effect of learning styles on the teaching process. The Kurdish classes, as many eastern countries` classes, are more teachers oriented and the lectures are not designed to be a group work class. Consequently, the students stick to a traditional way of learning; therefore, learning styles could be accounted as an important issue to be discussed for Kurdish speakers of English learners. The paper intends to discover the major and minor styles for different types of individuals to learn the target language according to the individual choices and desires.

Captive common buzzards develop adaptive behaviors for survival or vices in response to the stress of captivity, reduced living space, regular handling and change in diet and environment. The studied buzzards showed behaviors suggestive of hierarchy, domination and subservience. Strong and dominant birds would walk briskly across the rooms, stepping on others without challenge or resistance. The weak birds lie prostrate and motionless on the floor anytime the dominant bird spurs up aggressively. This investigation sort to find the purpose mews serve buzzards in captivity; the factors that influence them and the number of mews per minute in different circumstances. They were studied in groups in different rooms to find the mew rate with the observer out of sight, in sight and waving hand. Increase in buzzard population did not increase the mew rate significantly with the observer in sight. The observer coming to sight or otherwise produced a disproportionate increase and decrease in mew rate as the population increased. The study shows that mews by captive buzzards are means of communication and signals and their pitch and frequency were positively influenced by sight and movement. The non-parametric methods (sign test) of comparing mew rates with observer waving hand and not waving hand shows that; z-value=2.04 p=0.041 wilcoxon matched paired test z-value=2.04 p=0.028 Both analysis show significant differences as waving of hand triggered off an exaggerated response as it indicates imminent danger attack or disturbance. Buzzards mew in sympathy to themselves and the high-pitched mews may be their defense against apparent treats, invasion or response to movement. The pitches of the mews were higher with the observer in sight and the observer waving hand. The figures recorded with the observer out of sight,in sight and waving hand suggested that there must be a neuro-endocrinal or nervous/humoral interplay which accounts for the exaggerated responses in terms of pitch

The inhibiting effect of nonionic surfactant of Tween- 20 and 60 on the corrosion of mild steel in 0.5 M HCl was studied by weight loss, potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and electrochemical frequency modulation (EFM).techniques The results show that inhibition efficiency increases with increasing the inhibitor concentration, while it decreases with increasing the temperature. The adsorption of Tweens on the mild steel surface obeys the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The effect of temperature on the corrosion behavior of mild steel was also studied at four temperatures ranging from 25 to 55ºC the thermodynamic parameters were calculated and discussed. The values of free energy of adsorption for investigated Tweens were calculated. It was found the adsorption process is spontaneous and increases, in the same direction as inhibition efficiency. Polarization curves show that Tween-20 and 60 is mixed-type inhibitors but the cathode is more polarized than the anode. The results obtained from chemical and electrochemical techniques are in good agreement.

This study is an attempt to examine the association between important variables of service quality namely information and communications technology, prior experience and customer loyalty in Saudi Arabia’s provision of health insurance. This study obtained primary data collected through questionnaire after which SPSS version 21 was employed to test the relationship between independence variables and dependent variable. The results of this study revealed a positive and significant association between information and communications technology and customer loyalty. In the same path, prior experience was found to have a positive and significant connection with customer loyalty. Finally, this study provides limitations and suggestion for future studies towards the end.

A circuit design for a new Low Power 4-bit Braun Multiplier is presented. The multiplier is implemented by using different Threshold Voltage techniques. Power reduction techniques are proposed for 4-bit Braun Multiplier which is designed by Full Adders. To get Optimum design low threshold voltages are used at critical paths similar way high threshold voltages are used at non critical paths. The design uses CMOS digital circuits in order to reduce the power dissipation while maintaining computational throughput. This architecture is simulated at 90nm Technology with 1.2v power supply. The power dissipation of nearly 46%, Power Delay Product of 56% and delay 19.3% has been reduced by using proposed techniques with good performance.

Before the advent of Christian and Islamic religions, African Traditional Religion was solely practised among the Yorùbá without any interference or hindrance. However, in the 19th century, when Christian and Islamic religions emerged, there was a marriage of inconvenience initially, but later, these religious practitioners found a way of peaceful co-existence among one another. In this paper, we evaluate the importance and use of Yorùbá orature in relation to the spread and peaceful co-existence of Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religion in the Yorùbá society and argue that one of the ways adopted to ensure peace and unity among the three groups is the use of Yorùbá orature and that during the advent of Christianity and Islam, the Yorùbá manipulate proverbs in various degrees to also enhance the spread of the two religions in the Yorùbá society. We further argue that, since all the adherents of the three religions have the same cultural background, they find it very easy to adjust to the prevailing religious situations. It is also observed that the deadly wave of westernization has not been able to do any havoc to the sociocultural unity, peaceful co-existence and religious harmony in the Yorùbá society but instead, it has helped to boost the use of Yorùbá orature and the effect is that socio-religious harmony is noticeably waxing stronger and stronger among the adherents of the different religions in the society. Finally, we conclude that the use of the Yorùbá orature in churches, mosques and shrines has paved way for the socio-cultural unity, peaceful co-existence and religious harmony in the Yorùbá society.

Twenty five common buzzards randomly picked at the reception of the Hellenic wild life hospital and Rehabilitation centre Aegina, Greece were weighed and put in separate well ventilated paper boxes in a large room(30m x 15m x5m). At entry, the birds weight ranged from 499g-796g.They were weighed 4 times during the study at fairly regular intervals. The birds were fed on chicken with bones every morning. A control was set up in a 26th paper box in which the same quantity of meat was placed but without any buzzard. The control was to find out the quantity of moisture lost to the atmosphere through evaporation.The moisture lost daily was recorded and the average computed and corrected for in calculating the average quantity of food consumed by the buzzards.A unit increase in the average quantity of food consumed per day and the initial weight resulted to a corresponding increase of 1.495 and 1.265 respectively in the final weights of the buzzards. The approximate daily food consumed by a buzzard of average weight of 691g was 115.1g which translates to 16.7% of its live body weight. The initial weight is significant in predicting the final weight with the criterion P value < 0.05.The range of weight gain for the studied buzzards was (2.7%-32.9%) with an average of 19.4%. The approximate daily quantity of food consumed by a common buzzard of average weight of 691g was 115.1g which translates to 16.7% of its live body weight.

This study examines the relationship between consumer characteristics (demographic characteristics and personality traits) and SST adoption in Multiple Service Industries in Saudi Arabia. With regards to the appropriate population sample, it should be 384 (Sekaran, 2003), and as such, the sample comprised of 400 individuals where data was obtained by self-administered questionnaire. This study addressed some assumptions of analysis including normality and multicollinearity. Furthermore, this study used multiple regressions analysis in order to test the relationship between independent variables and dependent variable. This study found a positive and significant association between demographic characteristics and SST adoption and a positive significant effect of personality traits on SST adoption. Eventually, this study offered some limitations and suggestions for future studies towards the end.

In the atmosphere many gaseous pollutants like CO, O3, NOX and CH4 are present fluctuates with the atmospheric temperature, relative humidity (RH) and rainfall. The annual average observation of the year 2013 is presented in this paper, which shows the entire monthly average from January to December. Correlation of carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and oxides of nitrogen (NOX) has shown negative correlation with temperature, relative humidity and rainfall. In addition to this, methane (CH4) also shows negative correlation with temperature and positive correlation with relative humidity and rainfall. The major fluctuation of temperature and RH was observed in the month of May (increased) whereas, in the month of August rainfall was more fluctuated (decreased).