Purpose: Today talent acquisition is one of the major challenges faced by the most of the companies in India. The age old techniques and practices of recruitment is gradually giving way to new and modern techniques of acquiring and building a talent pool for various industries. Social networking sites have become a rage amongst the young professionals today though elderly professionals are also making their foray into this field. With more and more people spending a substantial portion of their productive time on social networking sites, it has given a new turn to recruitment trends across the industry. The study explores the impact of social networking sites on the recruitment practices across various sectors in India. The study examines the impact of these sites both from the recruiter’s point of view as well as the job seeker’s point of view. It brings to the fore the various opportunities which have opened up due to the upsurge of social networking sites and also paves the way for the future prospects of the same. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: The study has been conducted with the help of inputs received from various sources like publications and personal interviews with industry professionals. A comprehensive analysis of the shifting trend has been done and explained through various graphs and diagrams. Findings: The findings of the survey has revealed marked shift in trend from traditional methods of recruitment to modern techniques like social networking sites. However there still remains enough room for improvement and tapping of various advantages through such sites. Originality/Value: Provides foundation for insight so that the framework could be usefully developed for various companies and other industries to bring about a perfect job-talent match for the organization.

The purpose of this study is to see how much fertilizer sector is contributing in the economy of Pakistan, here we see some particulars performance i.e. sale, assets, equity, paid up capital, cash dividend, stock dividend etc. we have taken the data from 2001 to 2010 and run regression analysis and generate different results which we will discuss later. if only the government policies, technology improve then the sector could give its total output, which thus contribute to the economy of the Pakistan which will be benefited for all of us.

INTRODUCTION : Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and its prevalence has substantially increased worldwide, particularly in pre-school children (Masoli et al., 2004). According to many investigators asthma prevalence is above 10% in most developed countries & expected to be twice in 2020(Movahedy, 2000;Tepas et al., 2001, Liu et al., 2004,Lodrup et al., 2006). In children, asthma is the most common cause of school absence, affecting children’s educational potential and adversely affecting a child’s quality of life (Rance and Trent, 2005) and associated with significant morbidity and economic burden (Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention, 1995).

In this study, microwave drying behaviour of shrimp was investigated. The drying study showed that the times taken for drying of shrimp from the initial moisture contents of 3.103% (d.b.) to final moisture content of around 0.01% (d.b.) were 11.75, 7, 4.75 and 4 min in 200, 300, 400 and 500W, respectively. The drying data were fitted to 7 thin-layer drying models. The performances of these models were compared using the determination of coefficient (R2), reduced chi-square (χ2) and root mean square error (RMSE) between the observed and predicted moisture ratios. The results showed that Midilli model was found to satisfactorily describe the microwave drying curves of shrimp. The activation energy for moisture diffusion was found to be 12.834W/g.

The objective of this study is to develop a conceptual research model for examining relationships between shopping mall attributes, customer satisfaction and positive word-of-mouth. The proposed model has two features. First, it examines the influence of five shopping mall attributes (i.e. quality of customer services, convenience, mall environment, quality of retailers and rewards) on customer satisfaction. Second, it examines the influence of customer satisfaction on positive word-of-mouth recommendation. This empirical study was conducted in the context of Chinese visitors to malls in Hong Kong, travelling under the individual visitor scheme. After one month, 750 valid responses were successfully collected. The model was analysed using structural equation modeling. Consistent with previous research, the findings of this study support all hypotheses. This study has identified certain significant implications for researchers and shopping mall owners.

The histopathological view of liver, intestines and kidney of bacterial infected rabbits, fed with 100mg/ml saponin extracted from Phyllanthus niruri over a period of seven days was carried out to determine the effect of the plant extract on these organs after treatment. Saponin was administered as strawberry suspension at a dose of 10mg per day (divided into four doses) to ten rabbits, nine of which were fed with food contaminated with 0.5mL bacterial suspension obtained by McFarland standardization (10% Barium sulfate) after starvation for 6hrs . Multiple foci of tubular necrosis and haemorrhages in the kidney, marked hyperplasia of the mucosal layer of the small intestine, and a mild periportal lymphocytic cellular infiltration of the liver of the treated rabbits were observed. Plasma urea, uric acid, creatinine and blood glucose levels increased significantly (p < 0.05) in the treated rabbits. Plasma protein, hemoglobin, red blood cell and leukocyte counts were not altered adversely. No significant changes were observed in the enzymes’ activity in all the groups of rabbits tested. The extract seems to show therapeutic actions on infections caused by E. coli and Salmonella typhi without any adverse effect on the organs.

This paper presents a new two-stage hypergraph-based algorithm for edge detection in noise-free gray images. The first stage consists of mapping the input image onto a hypergraph called the Intensity Interval Hypergraph (IIHG) associated with the image. In the second stage, each hyperedge is partitioned into two disjoint subsets, namely, the interior pixels and the edge pixels. The interior pixels are then suppressed, so that the edge pixels trace out the edges in the image. These edges are then sharpened using an edge sharpener function to eliminate all the duplicated edges. The algorithm is validated on a number of images of largely varying details, and shows promising results. Other hypergraph-based algorithms are of computational complexity O (n2) or O (n3) whereas the IIHG model works at a reduced computational complexity of O (n).

Rural markets in India are big attraction these days. Marketers need to understand rural markets differently. A comparative study has been carried out to understand how rural and urban consumers buying behavior differ with respect to different types of influences on their buying behavior. The study was based on the sample of 411 (204 from urban and 207 from rural areas) households across the state selected on the basis of non-probability convenience sampling. Three durable goods from three different product categories Television (entertainment product), Refrigerator (home appliance), and an Automobile (two-wheeler, motorcycle and car/jeep) have been selected for study. Overall there are insignificant differences between rural and urban consumers for television and refrigerator. However there are considerable differences in case of automobiles.

Co-composting oil palm wastes, particularly the empty fruit bunch (EFB), frond and trunk with sewage sludge could be potentially converted into value added product. The objective of this study was to determine the best formulation using oil palm wastes and sewage sludge in producing a composted material to be used as a potting media in horticulture. Shredded oil palm wastes (EFB, frond and trunk) were mixed with sewage sludge in 3 different ratios (1:0, 3:1 and 4:1 ratio) using a polystyrene box and adjusted to 60% moisture content. At week 12, oil palm trunk with sewage sludge at 4:1 ratio was found to be the most optimum compost as potting media for ornamental plants because of its texture suitable for potting media, not stringent or stiff, had high nutrient contents (2.05 % N, 0.640 % P, 1.39 % K, 0.705 % Ca, 0.229% Mg), pH 6.2 and low C/N ratio, 19. Oil palm trunk + sewage sludge compost (OPTSC) was used as as a complete or partial substitute to peat and possible enhancing effect with Agroblend and Grofas chemical fertilizer in the production of potted chrysanthemum. The design used was a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with 9 treatments, replicated 5 times giving a total of 45 pots.

The study assessed farmers’ technologies on integrated and non integrated fish farming in Ogun State Nigeria. Multi stage Random sampling techniques was used to select 133 non - integrated fish farmers (NIFF) and 216 integrated fish farmers (IFF) (n = 349) from the study area. Data were analysed using chi-square, T-test and Pearson Product moment correlation. Results showed that 92.5% of NIFF were male compared to IFF (90.7%). Also, 96.8% of IFF and 79.7% of NIFF were married. The mean ages of sampled farmers were 44 years (NIFF) and 46 years (IFF) while the mean fish farming experiences were 4 years (NIFF) and 5 years (IFF). More so, 99.1% of IFF identified pond site selection as one of the key technologies used in integrated fish farming compared to 95.5% recorded for NIFF.