Ethiopian Airlines is one of the most successful organizations in Ethiopia; however, there is virtually no formidable data on determinants of relationship marketing. Therefore, the objective of this study is to assess the determinants of relationship marketing on overall relationship quality of Ethiopian Airlines. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative study approaches. Both domestic and international flight clients, who fly Ethiopian during the study periods, were respondents for the five Likert scale survey questionnaire. Semi-structured key informant interview was also conducted with employees of the organization. As the theory predicts, this study also confirms that conflict handling is the first strong contributor followed by commitment, communication, and trust. In addition to this, descriptive and interview results show that the airline relationship quality is good; sociable; and show good hospitality. While the airline is generally successful in maintaining quality relationship with its clients, certain problems such as poor conflict handling, unequal customer treatment, and delays in informing flight schedule changes require attention.

To make education a profitable enterprise and contributor to social development in the age of globalisation a strong role of the school in values integration, and as part of the ethical construction of learners and citizenship building. A mixed design study was attempted on participants from Kampala district schools. The findings were that different values are imparted though he school process. Educators, SGBs, the community, counsellors, and worship centres participant in integrating these values. But the challenges are enormous, ranging from poor remuneration of educators, a theoretical education system and the unemployment problem which drains the original essence of education. In order to optimally integrate values for social development, a systems approach is proposed. The model has inputs, the process, outputs and the environment. The conclusion made is that reintegrating the school into social development requires an understanding of the policy context of the link between education and society. This policy context is thus observed as the conceptualisation of the globalisation impacts on the state of education. Globalisation impacts are those elements that affect the quality of industry and the school.

A series of new stable adducts of tris (pentafluo-rophenyl)antimony(V) diisothiocyante of the type (C6H5)3 Sb(NCS)2.L. Where, L = dipropyl formamide (DPF), 3-methylpyridine(3-Picoline), dimethyl formamide (DMF), tryphenylphosphine oxide(Ph3PO), triphenylarsine oxide (Ph3AsO), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), thiourea (TU), pyridine(C5H5N) have been synthesized by the reaction of tris (pentafluorophenyl)antimony(V) diisothiocyanate with desired ligand in anhydrous methanol. Tris(pentafluorophenyl) antimony diisothiocyanate was obtained by the metathetical reaction of tris(pentafluorophenyl) antimony (V) dichloride and potassium thiocyanate in anhydrous methanol. The molecular weight measurement and molar conductance data of the complexes revealed them to be monomeric and non-conducting in nature. Elemental analysis and IR data indicates that the complexes have hexacoordinated octahedral structure.

Availability of remote sensed data provides powerful access to the spatial and temporal information of the earth surface. Real-time earth observation data acquired during a cropping season can assist in assessing crop growth and development performance. As remote sensed data is generally available at large scale, rather than at field-plot level, use of this information would help to improve crop management at broad-scale. Utilizing the Landsat TM/ETM+ ISODATA clustering algorithm and MODIS (Terra) the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) datasets allowed the capturing of relevant rice cropping differences. In this study, we tried to analyze the MODIS (Terra) EVI/NDVI (February, 2000 to February, 2013) datasets for rice fractional yield estimation in Narowal, Punjab province of Pakistan. For large scale applications, time integrated series of EVI/NDVI, 250-m spatial resolution offer a practical approach to measure crop production as they relate to the overall plant vigor and photosynthetic activity during the growing season. The required data preparation for the integration of MODIS data into GIS is described with a focus on the projection from the MODIS/Sinusoidal to the national coordinate systems. However, its low spatial resolution has been an impediment to researchers pursuing more accurate classification results and will support environmental planning to develop sustainable land-use practices. These results have important implications for parameterization of land surface process models using biophysical variables estimated from remotely sensed data and assist for forthcoming rice fractional yield assessment.

The present study tries to highlight the behaviour of households as a consumer unit with a view to make a coherent analysis of the factors influencing the purchase of personal care items i.e. toothpaste, bath soap, hair oils/creams and body lotions. 640 households were sampled for the study from rural and urban areas covering all the functioning 8 districts of Mizoram. Promotion was found to be the most prominent factor triggering purchase behaviour among the respondents, followed by price and health benefits of the product.

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) uses the contents of images to represent and access the images. This paper focus on retrieving the image by separating images into its three coloromponents R, G and B and for that Discrete Wavelet Transformation is applied. Then Wavelet based Generalized Gaussian Density (GGD) is applied which is used for modeling the coefficients from the wavelet transforms. After thatit is given to Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) for extracting its feature vectors with Relevant Feedback technique is used. The performance of this approach is calculated by accuracy and it confirms that this method is efficient for image retrieval.

Introduction: In the last few decades external approach to rhinoplasty has gained enormous popularity for the correction of functional and aesthetic problems of face. Our study aims to demonstrate the wide array of surgical manoeveres that can be done by external rhinoplasty. Materials And Methods: This prospective study was done in AJ Institute of Medical Sciences. 52 patients were presenting to our outpatient department with nasal deformity with or without nasal obstruction between January 2010 to 2011 were selected. Results: Among the 52 patients who underwent external rhinoplasty 44 (84.6%) were males and 8 (15.6%) were females. 16 (30.8%) had deviated nose, 10 (19.2%) had tension nose, 23 (44.2%) had various tip deformities and 3 (5.8%) had saddle nose. Conclusion: External approach facilitates full exposure of osseocartilagenous vault, easy implementation of modern rhinoplasty techniques to yield an aesthetic result well balanced with other facial components.

Prolonged hyperglycemia and insulinre-sistance in type II diabetes are the main factors contributing to the damage of the vascular endothelium (endothelial dysfunction) leading to micro and macroangiopathy which result in significant amounts of damage towards many internal organs such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetic retinopathy (DR) and nefropathy (DN). Those pathologies frequently result life threatening for the patient. The employment of high-sensitivity biomarkers for the early detection endothelial dysfunction in general and more specifically for the renal endothelial dysfunction seems to represent a major step ahead towards an improvement in the management algorithms of diabetes and its severe complications. Purpose The aim of our study is to discover the correlations of endothelin-1 (ET1) with known clinical markers of endothelial dysfunction such as microalbuminuria (MA) and fundus oculi (FO) findings in order to help an early detection of renal damage and consequently preventing or slowing progress of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Materials and methods: This is a prospective study where some eighty type 2 diabetes patients were recruited and were dichotomized in 2 groups. In the first group were included forty patients with normoalbuminuria (urinary albumin 0-30 mg/24 hours) while in the second were included the remaining forty patients with microalbuminuria (urinary albumin 30-300 mg/24 hours). Plasma ET-1 levels and 24 hour urinary excretion of albumin were measured. Diabetic retinopathy assessment was made according to the International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy Disease Severity Scale which includes 5 severity scales. The first scale without retinopathy, the second of light retinopathy non proliferative, the third of moderate non proliferative and the fourth severe retinopathy non proliferative and the fifth one of proliferative retinopathy. Results: We found a statistically significant correlation between ET-1 and MA (p<0.001) and ET-1 with fundus

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) represent a new technology at the nanotechnology level. Conventional digital technologies use ranges of voltage or current to represent binary values. In contrast, QCA uses the positions of electrons in quantum dots to represent binary Values ‘0’ and ‘1’. Quantum technology has gradually applied in various fields. A quantum-dot cellular automaton is projected as a promising nanotechnology for future ICs. A QCA is an array of structures known as quantum-dots. The advantages of using QCA technology are smaller circuit size, higher clock frequency, and lower power consumption. Two electrons occupy each cell. Each electron is free to tunnel between dots within one cell, but cannot leave the cell. The two electrons within each cell repel each other to diagonally opposite corners of the cell. This leaves only two stable states for each cell. These two states are used to represent logic values. The occupation of upper-left and lower-right dots represent logic ‘0’. In this case, the QCA cell is said to be polarized to -1. Similarly, the occupation of upper-right and lower left dots represent logic ‘1’. In this case, the QCA cell is said to be polarized to +1. In this paper, a BCD to excess-3 code converter circuit is proposed based on QCA logic gates: the 3-input MV OR gate, 3-input MV AND gate, MV NOT gate. This 3-input AND & 3-input OR gates, 3-input complex gates, multi-input complex gates. The proposed circuit is a remising future in constructing of nano-scale low power consumption information processing system and can stimulate higher digital applications in QCA.

Forests comprise an essential life support of the rural people of Ghana. This is particularly the case in the Ho Municipality area, as far as the provision of fertile land for food crop production, timber for housing, medicine, and creating suitable micro climates conducive for rainfall are concerned. Small scale industrial activities, trading and the services sector have recently expanded the scope of employment option in the Ho Municipality. The agricultural sector continues, however, to be a leading employer. Production pressure on forest cover in the area due to agriculture and related activities have accelerated deforestation,destroyed animal habitat and contributed to the loss of valuable tree species. While farmers are aware of accelerated forest cover loss, they do not have access to accurate data on the extent and rate of deforestation in order to understand deforestation dynamics to plan remedial measures. In view of the data gap, the study described herewas designed to assess the nature, extent and rate of deforestation in the Ho Municipality in Ghana. Data analysis was undertaken by classifying Landsat images from 1975 to 2001 and through analysis of questionnaire data. Study results show loss of forest cover by 6562 hectares from 1975 to 1991, and a further loss of 2949 hectares from 1975 to 2001. It is evident that the accelerated pace of deforestation has negatively affected the biophysical environment.