Product Features and Customers Satisfaction of Patanjali Product: Evidence From Kathmandu, Nepal

The objectives of this study are to identify the features of Patanjali products and it focuses to identify the satisfaction level and purchasing decision of consumer by the features of Patanjali products. In this research, convenient sampling technique were used to get the sample, correlation and regression were used in order to get the result. Descriptive statistics is used to explain the respondents’ perception towards the features of Patanjali product. In this study, the data was collected through questionnaire from 300 respondents. This research used SPSS - 23 for analysis. This study has been done on four attributes or determinants of Patanjali product, they are price, quality, availability and healthy (organic) of product. The result of this study indicates that there is positive relationship between the features of Patanjali product and satisfaction. It can be said that the independents variables have effect on consumer satisfaction of Patanjali products. The producer and marketing managers are recommended to focus on the product features in order to obtain loyal satisfied customers

THE PERCEPTION OF INVESTORS TOWARDS INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING: EVIDENCE OF NEPAL

The main aim of this study is to examine the perception of investors towards initial public offering (IPO), to analyze the relationship between different factors (quality management, company goodwill, company performance, company sector, and market information) and investment decision to examine the factors that impact in IPO to making an investment decision. This research used primary data. The data was collected from 290 respondents which were related to five different brokerage firms at Kathmandu district. The inferential analysis was preferred in SPSS by using statistical tools such as correlation and regression analysis to analyze the relationship between variables and the impact of different factors on investment decisions. The study revealed that quality management, company goodwill, company performance, company sector, and market information are the highly considerable factors before making investment decisions in IPO.   &nbsp

Internal Control Systems in Nepal: A Case of Nepal Telecom

The purpose of this study is to discover the efficacy of internal control system of Nepal Telecom. This study followed a case study research design, because it offers a deeper perspective and clearer understanding of the internal control system and its practices. The sample size of this study consisted of all the employees working at different level in Nepal Telecom. The convenience sampling method has been applied for selection of respondents. The researchers distributed 280 questionnaires out of them only 240 respondents returned usable questionnaires. This study was totally based on primary data. In order to make proper analysis descriptive and inferential statistics were used using SPSS software version 23. The finding of this study showed that the control environment, risk assessment, control activities, communication and monitoring affects perceived performance of organization. Effective internal control system helped to increase working efficiency also. The recommendations were made that the company should emphasize the required internal organizational management structure to be implemented. This is because of the internal organizational management structure positively affects the execution of strategies and policies, thereby achieving a sustainable competitive advantage and increment of profit

Effect of Motivation on Employees’ Performance in Cooperative Society of Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Nepal

The main objective of this research is to find out effect of motivation on employees’ performance in cooperative institution. In general, the research on effect of motivation on employees’ performance in financial institutions like; commercial banks, insurance companies and cooperative institutions is rarely found in Nepal. Thus, this research tries to explore the impact of motivation on employee’s performance of cooperatives in Nepal. This study is based on descriptive research design. Independent variables on this study are salary and allowance, social security, career development and training facility. The dependent variable on study is employee’s performance. Populations of the study were 329 cooperatives and 30 cooperatives are selected using convenience sampling technique. Data collected through structured questionnaire. Total 230 questions were distributed to the respondent out of which only 193 were used for this study. Five - point Likert scale questions were sent to respondent, where 1= strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. Descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis are used to analyze the data. Test of reliability has been conducted by using Cronbach’s Alpha. The average value of Cronbach’s Alpha is 0.989 and reliability is acceptable. The study finds that there is a positive and significant effect of career development and training facility on employees’ performance. Salary and allowance have insignificant negative effect and social security has insignificant positive effect on employee’s performance

Forming a mixed Quadrature rule using an anti-Lobatto four point Quadrature rule

A mixed quadrature rule of higher precision for approximate evaluation of real definite integrals has been constructed using an anti-Lobatto rule. The analytical convergence of the rule has been studied. The relative efficiencies of the mixed quadrature rule has been shown with the help of suitable test integrals. The error bound has been determined asymptotically

Robust Modified Flower Pollination Algorithm for Power Quality Enhancement in an Autonomous 31-Level Cascaded H-Bridge Photovoltaic Inverter with Partial Shading Conditions

The effect of global warming and the scarcity of fossil fuels has created an enormous problem in today’s era. To overcome such a problem, renewable energy sources, particularly solar energy, play a crucial role in meeting the developing need for power. However, the design of the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) system is interrupted by various factors such as the effect of temperature, isolation, aging, partial shading conditions, etc. Among all the factors mentioned, partial shading results in the significant diminution of power. To address this shading effect and enhance the flexibility of the PV system in terms of better utilization and energy extraction, a 31-Level Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter (CHB-MLI) has been implemented to the autonomous PV system comprising of Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller, boost converter and variable loads in MATLAB/Simulink architecture. To track maximum power from PV during varying irradiance and temperature and to further improve the system performance in terms of better convergence speed, an MPPT system with a Modified Flower Pollination Algorithm (MFPA) based PID controller has been proposed in this paper. To justify the suggested approach, the is-landed PV system is led to variation in irradiance and load. A detailed comparison of the proposed MFPA technique with classical control techniques has been meticulously discussed. The results obtained indicate that the suggested MFPA tuned PID with MLI outperforms the conventional methods in better system stability, reduced harmonics, and enhanced capacity to track maximum power from the PV system. In addition to this, the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) has been found to verify IEEE-1547 power quality constraints. The values are found to be well within limits, thus justifying its real-time applications

Biotechnological significance of Actinobacterial research in India.

Actinobacteria are of special biotechnological interest since they are known to produce chemically diverse compounds with a wide range of biological activity. This distinct clade of Gram-positve bacteria include some of the key antibiotic producers and are also sources of several bioactive compounds, established commercially. The class Actinobacteria holds some of the resilient species, capable of growing in extreme, hostile and polluted environments. Their adaptation has been the outcome of several chemical entities which are answers to a number of medicinal and industrial questions of today. In India, actinobacterial research in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems has prospered significantly in past few decades. This valuable class contains large number of genera and demands more attention for exploration. Though substantial work in this field has been carried out, the diversity from the extreme environments in the Indian Peninsula remain unexplored. Marine actinobacterial research has been restricted to the coastal ecosystem while the deep sea oceanic floors remain untapped. Substantial bioprospecting of actinobacteria for bioactive molecules, has not been explored in extremophilic environments in India and the molecular mechanisms for the production of various bioactive compounds are yet to be reported. The present review enlists the prolific metabolites from culturable actinobacteria and attempts have been made to focus on the  potentially feasible aspects of actinobacterial research in this field