The paper reviews the literature on soft skills with an emphasis on its need and development in professional courses. These reviews have been sourced from well known database such as Pro Quest Dissertation and Theses, On Line Surveys and Journals and have

Introduction: Obesity has become one of the most important public health concerns recently, posing significant long term health and economic risks.Aim of the study: To evaluate the effect of six month of balanced diet combined with supervised physical exercise on adiponectinin obese Egyptian adolescents.Methodology: An intervention study that included 60 obese adolescents, subdivided into two groups) A&B.(Both groups were collected from Nutritional clinic at the National Research Center were included in the study. GroupA: (30)were subjected to diet and exerciseprogram. GroupB: (30) were subjected to diet program only.The program was applied for 6 months. All adolescents were subjected to: hormonal assay(ELISA),Anthropometric assessment body composition by BIA analysis and lipid profile.

Ginkgo bilobaand green tea have attracted interest due to their neuroprotective, potent antioxidant, and blood flow regulatory activities. The current study aimed to assess the potential effects of standardized extracts of ginkgo biloba (EGb 761) and green tea on ocular hypertension induced in rabbits by a single subconjunctival administration of betamethasone (3.5 mg). The latter produced a sustainable increase in intraocular pressure (IOP), measured by tonometry, starting from day 7 post administration. Animals were randomly allocated into 10 groups in which group I served as normal. After ocular hypertension has been established namely, day 7, rabbits of group II were left untreated Groups III & IV were topically treated with timolol (0.5 %) &EGb 761 (0.05 %), respectively. Groups V & VI received EGb 761 (20 mg/kg; p.o) & green tea (300 mg/kg; p.o), respectively. Groups VII & VIII received combination of either EGb 761 (20 mg/kg; p.o) or green tea (300 mg/kg; p.o) plus timolol (0.5 %; topically), respectively. All the mentioned treatments were given once daily for 7 days. Two other groups IX & X were also included where EGb 761 (20 mg/kg; p.o) & green tea (300 mg/kg; p.o) were prophylactically given at the same day of betamethasone injection and continued for 2 weeks. IOP was measured and recorded daily. Levels of whole blood reduced glutathione (GSH), plasma malondialdehyde (MDA), and aqueous humor total antioxidant capacity (TAC) were estimated. Corneal histopathological changes were also examined. Levels of IOP and MDA were increased by betamethasone while those of TAC and GSH were decreased, as compared to normal group. Topical timolol and EGb 761 showed similar suppression of the elevated IOP as compared to betamethasone group. Oral EGb 761 and green tea improved the measured biochemical parameters as compared to betamethasone and timolol groups.

The present study aimed to find out the designing curriculam inputs for aintaining continuity among in service at B.Ed. level. 350 samples were selected from government and private institutions. Standardized psychological tools were used to collect the data. Statistical test t-test and F-ratio (ANOVA) was used to test the hypothesis. Result were found that there is a significant difference in curriculam inputs for maintaining continuity among in service at B.Ed. level.

This research paper seeks to study the status of tourism promotion of Thirparappu waterfalls where domestic as well as foreign tourist visits during peak season, especially from June to November in particular. The paper discuses the amenities near to the waterfalls such as medical facilities, boarding, quality food and unavailability of qualified tourist guides. Moreover, based on the average tourists arrival at the waterfalls a graphic representation has been devised and calculated on the basis of data gleaned from on-site survey. The importance of this waterfall to the localities in terms of its economic value has been analyzed and formulated.

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including logic, abstract thought, understanding, selfawareness, communication, and learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving. In this research paper an attempt has been made to construct and standardize the ICT Intelligence Test to measure ICT Intelligence of B.Ed. student teachers, as there is no suitable questionnaire available to measure the ICT Intelligence of B.Ed. student teachers.

The word project and project management are synonymous with the IT industry, majority of the IT employees in IT organization is part of one or other projects. Indian IT industry is estimated to be around $150 billion industry. Surprisingly almost 80% of projects will not complete within stipulated Time and Budget. There are various reasons why projects fail in the IT sector. Here I would like to focus on why projects fail and how to overcome those difficulties.

Rapid increase in construction activities has resulted in shortage of construction materials. In the present scenario, high cost of conventional building materials is a major factor affecting housing system in the world. The effective housing techniques deal with reduction in cost of construction as well as providing strength to the buildings. The current review deals with the addition of natural fibres into concrete and to study the various strength properties. Natural inorganic fibres are basalt, asbestos etc. and the others are the natural organic fibres such as coconut, palm, jute, sisal, banana, pine, sugarcane, lime hemp, bamboo etc. The natural fibres are investigated by many researchers as construction materials that can be used in cement/paste/mortar concrete. For long lasting of natural construction materials including natural sand and aggregates, due importance should be given for sustainable development in the construction field. It is a well-known fact that concrete is hugely consumed by humans for construction activities, making concrete a sustainable material is unavoidable. Although concrete has enough flexibility to use in various materials in its production, understanding the performance of concrete with different materials is important for its end use. The inclusion of fibre reinforcement in concrete, mortar and cement paste, can enhance many of the engineering properties such as fracture, toughness, flexural strength and resistance to fatigue, impact, thermal shock and spalling. In recent years, a great deal of interest has been created worldwide on the potential applications of natural fibre reinforced, cement based composites. These fibres have always been considered promising as reinforcement of cement based matrices because of their availability, low cost and low consumption of energy. The use of above mentioned fibres in concrete production deals with providing social, economic and ecological benefits.

Human Rights meaning: Human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. These are moral claims which are inalienable and inherent in all human individual by virtue of their humanity alone. These claims are articulated and formulated in what we today call human rights, and have been translated into legal rights, established according to the law-creating processes of societies, both national and international. The basic of these legal rights is the consent of the governed, that is the consent of the subjects of the rights.

Delivering products with a level of quality that meets customer requirements in essential to business success. Indeed, in this fierce competition of today’s market, the level of quality needs to exceed what customers already expect, and at a competitive price. To achieve this, quality practices are very much important. The purpose of the present study is to identify quality practices in different fields and also to study the quality practices in printing press of North Karnataka and to suggest a simple theoretical model for the implantation of TQM by printing press.

The Researcher aimed to investigate the psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship among 403 college going Women respondents in Tiruchirapalli. The psychological characteristics are: Entrepreneurial capacity, Entrepreneurial belief, Entrepreneurial consciousness, Entrepreneurial motivation, and Entrepreneurial determination. Among the five factors, Entrepreneurial belief is the most inducing factor among women entrepreneurship, and the Entrepreneurial motivation occupying the next place and all the other factors are almost the same level. For becoming as Successful entrepreneur women’s need to be trained in all these characteristics to make their business success. The data were statistically analyzed using SPSS and results were discussed. Interesting findings and implications are revealed in this study.

Natural computing, also called Natural computation, is a terminology introduced recently which consists of three classes of methods: 1) Methods which take inspiration from nature for the development of new problem-solving techniques; 2) those that are based on the use of computational methods to synthesize natural phenomena; and 3) those that make use of natural materials (e.g., molecules) to compute. Computational paradigms studied by natural computing are abstracted from natural phenomena as diverse as self-replication, the functioning of the brain, Darwinian evolution, Behaviour of natural clusters, the immune system, the defining properties of life forms, cell membranes, metamorphosis and morphogenesis.

WHAT IS STRESS?Stress is what you feel when you have to handle more than you are used to. When you are stressed , your body responds as though you are in danger. It makes hormones that speed up your heart , make your breath faster and give you a burst of energy. This is called the fight – to – flight stress response. Some stress is normal and even useful. the stress can help if you need to work hard or react quickly. Eg: It can help you to win a race (or) finish an important job on time. But if stress happens too often (or) lasts too long, it can have a bad effects. It can weaken your immune system, making it harder to fight off disease. It can make you moody (or) depressed. It suffers you and also your neighbours at home as well as at work place.

Agro industries have been given high priority in India due to their significant potential for contributing to rural development. The emphasis on village based agro industries was initiated by Mahatma Gandhi in the 1920’s as a part of India’s independence movement. However, even today the development of agro industries is a central part of the national development strategy due to their significant role in bringing value addition to agriculture’s output, increasing rural income and employment and alleviating poverty in the countryside. Sugar industry, one of the chief agro-based industries in India has been instrumental in resource mobilization, employment creation, profits generation and creating collective infrastructure in rural portion of India. Many researchers have worked on the various aspects of sugar industry, such as the development, problems of the industry and its prospects. Similarly, Government strategy and provincial planning for sugar industry area, labour situation of the industry, impact of the industry on the lives of farmers and agriculture, the importance of sugar co-operatives in the rural economy and such other aspects of the industry also have been probed into. Present paper is a brief analysis of various published and unpublished work done on the background of sugar industry in India.

Rivers reflect the status and quality of their landscape, river bio-assessment of river through biological monitoring has to have a connection between water quality and quantity, ground and surface water and the interdependence of aquatic biota on water and the landscape. Because, biology is the ultimate integrator of these interactions and biology provides the most direct and effective assessment of the status of the rivers. Biological criteria provide sensitive tracking of resource condition, particularly because the impairment of water is predominantly caused by non-toxic and non-chemical factors. Additional strength of biomonitoring include the ability to assess and characterize resource status, diagnose physical, chemical and biological impacts as well as their cumulative effects serve a broad range of regulatory as well as environmental program when integrated with chemical assessment and also provide a cost –effective approach to resource protection.

MGNREGA stipulates that wages will be equal for men and women. It is also committed to ensuring that at least 33 per cent of the workers shall be women. By generating employment for women at fair wages in the village, MGNREGA can play a substanti a l role in economi cally empowering women and laying the basis for greater independence and self-esteem. In contrast to the high participation of women in the pro¬gramme as workers, their participation in processes like work se¬lection, social audit, mobilisation of civil society, and share in the control and management of assets created is not encouraging. The emergence of women workers as independent bread-earners with control over their earnings has significant empowerment effects, such as a greater decision-making role in the family, discretion to spend and control the use of their earn¬ings, and confidence to earn independent of male family mem¬bers.

Population growth is the most fundamental demographic process with which all other demographic attributes are directly and indirectly associated. In this paper an attempt has been made to study the growth of population in South Konkan region, both in terms of time and space by selecting period of thirty years that is from 1981 to 2011.Tehsil is selected as basic unit of investigation. The positive growth rate indicates that the population is increasing, while negative growth rate indicates the population is decreasing. Overall the trend of growth of population in the region indicates that the whole region has just entered in the last phase of the second stage of the demographic transition and the resultant population explosion, usually found in developing regions.

Advertising is a paid form of mass communication which is aimed at promoting ideas ,goods and services by an identified sponsor. It is also non-personal communication. It is most economical method of communication of ideas , goods and services because it reaches a large number of people and hence cost permessage is low.

The present study was conducted to examine the ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MATHEMATICS IN RELATION TO THEIR MATHEMATICAL APTITUDE. The investigation was carried out on 300 high school students of Haryana state. Descriptive survey method of research was used to conduct present investigation. For the present study the investigator used Mathematical Aptitude test (developed and standardized by Rajni, 2006). Data were collected personally by the investigator. Mean, standard deviation , pearson’s product moment method of correlation and t-Test were used to analyzed and interpret the data.

This article aims to introduce innovations in process control by following standards, legislation and somemanagement techniques and aims to raise actions to be applied in project management forrestoration and tipping of buildings entitled as historic site sanitation in the city of Manaus, as examplesare: the tank maneuver house the Castilian and pumping plant. The problem of lack of procedures androutines for maintenance, abandonment and destruction of a monument is in charge of erasing thememory of a bygone era. The project will provide and guarantee for future generations the preservationof the history of sanitation in Manaus by restoring the property endangered by distortion, trying tofollow the initial design for reuse by society and proposing the tipping preventing his disappearanceand protecting their affective value. The management of management processes was raised as practicefor project management.

This study aims to present conceptual theoretical elements about protected areas, areas of ecological influence and strategic areas. Protected areas are defined spaces, recognized and managed, responsible for sheltering ecosystems, ensure the environments’s preservation Iná a untouched way,creating areas for research and ecotourism. Ecological and socio-economic influence areas are subject to change due to direct or indirect entrepreneurial operations and its delimitation seeks make the impacts impossible through the environmental diagnostics. Strategic areas are demarcations according to territorial environmental criteria. The importance of mapping and management of these areas is linked to the better use for the conservation of ecosystems and socio-environmentally correct development.

The study within hand deals with the most important reasons for the deterioration of living conditions in villages under study. Low income of individual, in general, in the countryside of northern area which is not enough to cover basic needs for individual (food, beverage, clothes, education, treatment and housing) is one of the most important reasons resulting in this deterioration.In addition, some social traditions about 50% of sample who can read and write and holder of intermediate degree could not avoid such as swimming in the canal which is one of the main reasons for infection with endemic diseases for which they cannot provide the cost of treatment due to the huge rise of prices of medicine and lack of health units or hospitals with qualified specialists. About 84% of houses of sample peasants are not connected to sewerage networks. They discharge water through underground collecting hole which is called as "Taransh" which results in overflow of water most of times that makes them vulnerable to spread of diseases. Moreover, the cost of this holedischarge is expensive and results in financial problems. Cars that discharge the holes "Taranshat" throw the wastein canals and drains by about 26% and 74% respectively which causes diseases for plants, animals and humans. This might be the main reason for poisoning cases that appear in many villages due to mixed water and sewage. In order to improve these bad living conditions, study recommended activating the role of health guidance to spread awareness of risks of bad health and social traditions such as swimming in the canal which is the main reason for infection with endemic diseases which led to financial deterioration and inability to work.