Recent international declarations stress the importance of partnerships between and amongst donors, the state and civil society, in order to improve service delivery and promote qualities of good governance, particularly in key sectors such as education. However, in conditions of state fragility—where high levels of distrust between and amongst these ‘partners’ may exist; large and often ungove...

In this paper, a real time, user independent eyeball tracking approach is presented. The system is implemented using a low cost webcam. The robustness of the system is measured by several criteria such as users of different age where some of the users are wearing glasses under varying lighting condition, pose, eye orientation and distance from camera. The size and location of the region of inte...

Psychopathy is the result of a complex interaction between biological and environmental factors; both participate in the final expression of the phenotype and can modulate the variation regarding beginning, deterioration, and severity. Nevertheless, up to now it has not been possible to determine the circumscribed molecular track and its interaction with environmental factors that shape its exp...

The conventional Cobb-Douglas production function model require strong assumptions such as the constant elasticity and the entire frontier efficiency. The varying elasticity production function is an useful extension but it does not take frontier efficiency into account, and the data envelope analysis model involves the use of linear programming methods to estimate the frontier efficiency where...

Diabetes mellitus is an incapacitating and often serious disease with increasing prevalence in rural populations throughout the world. In the current study, the putative antihyperglycemic and antihypolipidemic effects of C. orchioides were evaluated in comparison with those of glyclazide, a standard drug for therapy of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes was induced experimentally in 12-hr fasted rats ...

Science educators have generally agreed that understanding the atom concept is the basis of science education. However, the numerous research studies have shown that many students at all educational levels have difficulties understanding this concept. This study was developed under three headings. The first was to identify misconceptions that prospective teachers (PTs) had about atomic structur...

The present study investigates the effect of Withania somnifera (WS), a well-known adaptogenic agent in Indian system of Medicine, on acute cerebral reperfusion and long-term cerebral hypoperfusion in rats. Acute ischemiareperfusion (30 min occlusion of bilateral common carotid arteries followed by 45 min. reperfusion) and Long-term cerebral hypoperfusion (for 15 days) in C.F. strain rats were ...

One of the most important issues being addressed in organizations is the integration of systems to ensure the free flow of information from one department to another. The implementation of an integrated system throughout an organization has the potential of affecting the bottom line of the organization. While technology issues will present challenges, these will pale in comparison with the dema...