The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Aid and International Remittance on Economic Growth in South Asian Countries

The total amount of money sent from the developed world to the developing world has always been increasing with no signs to slowing down. Foreign aid and remittance are at its highest levels ever recorded. Even with these large sums of money transfer, there still seem to be no consensus among economists regarding the effectiveness of external development finance and foreign exchange earnings (Foreign Direct Investment, foreign aid or remittance) in promoting economic growth. This paper attempts to identify an econometric model that properly portrays this relationship and analyze the effect of external development finance and foreign exchange earnings on economic growth in South Asia. A Fixed Effect panel model is developed using data of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka ranging from 1960 to 2014. These findings suggest that only remittance have a consistent positive effect on growth, where as Foreign Direct Investment and foreign aid have varying effect dependent upon model specification

Implementing Automated Testing Frameworks in CI/CD Pipelines: Improving Code Quality and Reducing Time to Market

In the fast-paced world of software development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines have emerged as crucial tools for accelerating delivery while ensuring high software quality. This paper explores the impact of integrating automated testing frameworks such as JUnit, Selenium, and TestNG into CI/CD pipelines. Through a comprehensive evaluation, the study highlights improvements in code quality, deployment velocity, and resource utilization. Key findings reveal that automated testing increased code coverage by 32.8%, raised bugs detected per build by 74.2%, and reduced critical bugs in production by 71.4%. Furthermore, the average build time decreased by 51.1%, resulting in a 119% increase in daily builds and a 33.3% reduction in time-to-market. These findings underscore the value of automated testing frameworks in streamlining software development processes, optimizing resource consumption, and improving overall software reliability

To scrutinize the Status of Library Staff in the High School Libraries in Goa

Few studies have reported the status of high school libraries from Goa. Keeping the importance of early education the present study highlights major issues through qualitative as well as quantitative methods. This study focuses on the library staff of High school libraries, their qualification and pay scale. Librarians in High schools are often treated as non–teaching staff and are given office-related clerical work. The authorities have shown negligence in setting up the required standards for High school libraries in Goa. No proper guidelines are formed which could help librarians to develop their school library. It was found that the majority of the aided-High school libraries do not have a permanent school librarian. The government high schools do not have the post of a school librarian. A teacher or non-teaching staff are given authority to handle the library work. The required qualification for the post is the certificate course in library science hence the pay scale given is also much lesser and not as of the status of the teachers. Subsequently, they are not considered as same as the teachers. This study concluded by suggesting some of the measures to be taken to develop the status of the librarians as well as the libraries

Content Analysis of the Library Webpages of Educational Colleges in Goa

In this digital era of abundant information production, there is an increase in demand of high - quality digital information. With the greater demand from users to serve their information needs, the job of the librarian has become critical in terms of delivering services to its patrons. The content richness of the website is the key factor to attract users and facilitate them in navigating through its web pages. These websites are playing a key role in helping students and faculty to carry out their study and academic work. Thus the need arises to continuously evaluate these web pages to keep them updated or use. This study evaluates 25 selected educational college library web pages in Goa from the usability perspective. For this study 9 main parameters were used to evaluate library web pages. The checklist was made for measuring its various dimensions regarding its usability, validity, efficiency and, effectiveness. The results showed that the web pages are partially usable and hence there is a need to improve their usability. The study further suggested evaluating these web pages to check the relevancy and validity of the information available on the web page. The study revealed that most of the college websites provide an Online Public Access Catalogue but none of the websites mention the availability of plagiarism checking facilities. The study has shown that web pages are lagging in exploiting the potential of the library portal. It also suggests keeping the web page updated as it is frequently used by college students and faculty. This study is capable of providing a basic framework that can be used to design and improve academic library web pages

Stateful metadata for big data

Large volumes of data, characterized by large variety and high update velocities, pose challenges in terms of storage, application of concurrently occurring frequent updates, and serving processes that require the most accurate version of the data simultaneously. In most current schemes, it is not possible to guarantee all of these characteristics and a relaxing one or more requirements is necessary. The present disclosure describes a scalable, easy-to-maintain metadata mechanism that is fast and efficient to update, and can provide all the above guarantees on data. The metadata maintains lightweight validity markers, and simple algebra is performed thereof to surface the most up to date and accurate data while enabling constant updates to the data in a non-blocking fashion

BDD for Testing Microservices and Distributed Systems

This research uses Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) to test microservices and distributed systems for scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency. By using natural language specifications, BDD helps stakeholders collaborate and record and validate system behaviours. Unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end (E2E) testing are evaluated inside the BDD framework. Integration testing balances coverage, maintainability, and complexity best. Compared to TDD and ATDD, BDD excels in behaviour specification and stakeholder alignment, complementing TDD's unit test coverage and ATDD's acceptance criteria validation

A Framework for Localizing and Neutralization of Jammers in Wireless Networks.

The communication in wireless networks can be severely interrupted by Jammers and information about the jammers position can help to eliminate its attack. The main approach of this paper is to localize and neutralize the jammer in the network based on the energy(JSS) and finding the new route through the network i.e., best route through the network. The best route is defined as the minimum distance in the network that a sender node selects as its boundary or next hop node Thus, in this paper we aim to design a frame work to localize multiple jammers with high accuracy and minimal error factor. An effective means is to measure the strength of jamming signals (JSS). It conceives an evaluation feedback mechanism for localizing jammer as non linear optimization problem, to quantify result close to true jammer position. This paper focuses on localizing multiple jammer considering energy(JSS) as parameter for identifying a node as a jammer and using another parameter i.e., distance between nodes along with their energy(JSS) to find a best path for the communication in a network jammed scenario. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15057