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Abstract The Misings are a tribal community of Assam. They belong to Mongoloid group and linguistically they are Tibeto-Burmans. Census of 2011 records the total population of the Mising as 680,424 and most of them are settled in Upper Assam. The Mising have their own traditional religious beliefs and practices that falls within the purview of Animism. Animism is the belief that inanimate objects and natural phenomena have souls. The Misings believe in Do:nyi-Po:lo (Sun-Moon) as their eternal heavenly beings on all animistic rites, but they do not worship them as their deities. This is because they believe in the supernatural powers of these spirits. Another characteristic of their belief is offering prayers to their forefathers. In every ritual, they recall the name of their forefathers of up to ten or more generations. However, the Misings since the last decade of the 20th century have made an attempt to institutionalize their traditional beliefs and practices. This started after the formation of �Do:nyi-Po:lo Yelam K�bang�. The objective of the paper is to look into the factors responsible for the recent attempt to institutionalize the traditional beliefs and practices by means of�Do:nyi-Po:lo Yelam K�bang� and its impact upon the Misings. Keywords: Misings, Donyi-Polo, Kebang, Religion

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Misings, Donyi-Polo, Kebang, Religion

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Among the resources available for production, the most critical resources is manpower therefore there need for training and development for them to meet up challenges of modern day business environments. The main objective of this study is to determine the effect of staff training and development on organization performance. To ascertain the relationship between training and development and organizations� productivity and profitability. Data were sourced from primary sources using staff of May and Baker Nigeria Plc. Hundred questionnaires were self-administered and eighty (80) were certified fit for analyses. Data collected were analyzed using Non Parametric Statistical tool of Chi Square on Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS.21.0). It was discovered that training and development helped the employee to discovered new things about their job and help them to build team spirits within the organization. These has led to reduction cost of production and increase productivity. Therefore it was recommended that training and development that can enhance goals and objectives of the organization.

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Job Rotation, On-The-Job-Training, Need: Promotion

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For many years now, there has been an increase in the use of virtual sets in theatre, film and television. This paper proposes an alternative way in redesigning stage sets for a theatrical performance that can be viewed on television. It employs the creation of computer-simulated scenery which is made possible with computer-aided design (CAD) application. Although, virtual sets is popular in the western world, it has received less attention in Ghana. The paper employs a qualitative approach which is descriptive and explanatory in nature. Data collected enable to analyse the virtual set created. It is noted that virtual sets add another form of creating illusionistic scenery, aesthetics with details and accuracy. It became known that such technology can be used by integrating theatre, film or television. Also, this technology can be executed either �live� or pre-recorded performances. The paper concludes that virtual sets have become an alternative for scenographers in creating scenery for performance, apart from the conventional methods. It suggests that the use of computer-aided design (CAD) softwares by scenographers would expose them to various uses of several computer design applications to be able to survive in the technological epoch.

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virtual set, television, theatre, computer-aided design (CAD), scenography

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Introduction: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a cluster of emotional, and physical symptoms PMDD is a more serious and severe premenstrual condition that affects about 5% of women during their reproductive years. Although PMDD, like PMS, may include physical symptoms, it always involves a worsening of mood that interferes significantly with the woman�s quality of life. A severe form of PMS is known as a premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Aim and objectives: The study was aimed to assess the prevalence of PMDD among early adults of MSSW and also to identify the effect of education qualification, BMI range, effect of eating habits such as intake of meat, skipping meals and consumption of fried food, with PMDD. Materials and methods: The study was conducted at Madras School of Social Work, Chennai a total of 72 students were analyzed with a simple random sampling method. Data was analyzed using SPSS 20.0 version. Results: The result of the study showed that education qualification, i.e.) post graduates have positive significance with the PMDD indication. It is evident that certain disparities in the eating habits also have contribution to those respondents who has indication of PMDD. Conclusion: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a severe problem with women of reproductive age, which may have contribution to the physical and the emotional experiences of the women, together with similar symptoms appearing in severe form compared to PMS. The effect of changed lifestyle, food habits, and education has impact on the menstrual disorders, including Premenstrual dysphoric disorder. The aim of the study is to analyze prevalence of PMDD and the association with the above said factors.

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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Eating Habits, BMI Ranges, Education Qualification, Lifestyle

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There are numerous risks in everyday life of human being. The chances of occurrences of the events causing losses are uncertain because the risk may or may not be taken place. Insurance is assurance against instabilities of life. It provides assured sum as recompense to misfortunes emerging out happening of unforeseen events, protected under the strategy of insurance. Insurance is a financial instrument in which losses of few are compensated out of funds collected (insurance premium) from many insured (insurance policyholders). Insurance provides economic security to the insured from the losses arising out of happening of insured events for example in personal accident policy death due to accident. In order to provide the life insurance coverage to all people especially to rural and unorganized workers the Government of India launched insurance schemes namely Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) and Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY). The motto of the scheme is covering the uncovered, serving the unserved and blessing the unblessed segment of the society and ensure in India no citizen will never worry about illness, accidents or penury in old age. This article analyzes the awareness about social insurance scheme introduced by the Government among the people in Virudhunagar District, Tamilnadu.

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Economic security, Insurance, Risks, Uncertain

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Work Life balance is a great concern for both employees and employers. Changes in demographics such as the increase in the number of women workforce in a nation like India depict the need to balance work and life for the feminine mass (Bharat 2003). Women workforce plays an important role in changing the social and economic conditions prevailing in a nation which is also the case of any country in the world. However, the responsibilities for women increase when they are engaged in some form of profession; this creates many challenges and difficulties that hurdle their balances at work and personal life. Work-life balance maintenance has become a necessity for working women to enjoy better quality of life. Through this review paper, the researcher examines the different factors influencing work-life balance of women. Furthermore, this paper discuses the challenges faced by working women towards maintaining a balance between their personal and professional life.

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Work Life Balance, quality of life, demographic change, Conflict, Work Stress

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Financial Inclusion is defined as the process of proper access of financial services and timely and adequate facilities required by needy sections of the society at the minimum cost in a effective and transparent manner and eradication of rural social and individual financial exclusion. The objective of financial inclusion exercise is easy availability of financial services which allows maximum investment in agriculture, business opportunities, education, health, insurance against risks, use of technology etc. by the rural individuals. There have been many formidable challenges in financial inclusion area such as bridging the gap between the sections of society that are financially excluded and the ambit of the formal financial system, providing financial literacy and strengthening credit delivery mechanisms so as to improvised the financial economic growth. The major activities include formulation of schemes for financial literacy, knowledge dissemination, creation of infrastructure, facilitating technology adoption by banks and policy advocacy. For this reason, government and financial institutions like banks etc. play the vital role in the developments of rural sector of Indian economy. As the majority of the rural population is still not included in the inclusive growth, the concept of financial inclusion becomes a challenge for the Indian economy. In rural areas revolutionary steps have been taking place by the government through welfare and developemental schemes.

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FINANCIAL INCLUSION, FINANCIAL EXCLUSION, TECHNOLOGY, RURAL INDIVIDUALS, GOVERNMENT, BANKS, RURAL DEVELOPEMENT

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One of the major roles of media is �to entertain�. In the current media scenario; television, newspaper, radio, and online media have created a special beat called �entertainment beat�. In this segment, most of the news is associated with celebrities from films to fashion, drama, music, and other arenas of the arts and aesthetics. Similar trends are observed on the Bangladeshi online news portals where a huge portion of entertainment news is uploaded on a daily basis. On this beat, �sexual appeal� is created to attract the mass audience, this appeal is largely been represented by the womenfolk. The socio-cultural scenario of women in Bangladesh and their representation in the entertainment beat is totally different and non-symbiotic. Besides, the photographs used in the entertainment news are not at all related to the story, yet these are used to create �sensation�. In recent discourse, photos are somehow made compulsory for the online news portals and are being used as the �clickbait� and to garner individual presence in reading news from the social media. It is also been observed that the representation (either good or bad) of women in the entertainment beat depends on the selection of news, photos, words, and overall treatment of the news. In this research paper, an attempt is made to understand the imageries of women and their representation on the online news portals of Bangladesh in regard to entertainment beat. The research is based on content analysis where five major online news portals of Bangladesh have been considered as the research population sample. Representation theory, Foucauldian discourse analysis, and Framing theory have greatly administered in the study.

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Gender, Media, Entertainment, Online, Representation, Bangladesh

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ABSTRACT: Lakes are lentic ecosystem. There exists a strong interdependence between human population and aquatic ecosystem, as they provide direct benefits like, drinking water recreation, fishing, crop production, boating, irrigation etc. and indirect ecological benefits like source of fresh air, maintain biodiversity, nutrient recycling, buffer zone assimilation of city sewage, recharging ground water. This study focuses on commercial application of natural water body Ramgarh lake, situated in the eastern part of Gorakhpur city, Uttar Pradesh.

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Key Words � Lentic Ecosystem, Monetary Value, City Sewage assimilation, Buffer zone.

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SANGEET SADHNA

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