New Zealand consumers’ perceptions of private insurance for pharmaceuticals

This descriptive qualitative study is aimed at identifying and describing the types of free collocations found in the articles of Reader\u27s Digest. By taking a sample of ten articles from different months for each year since 2003 up to 2012, it was found all the four productive free collocations were in the data. Type 4 (Determiner + Adjective + Noun) was the dominant type (53.92 %). This was possible because the adjective in the pattern included the present participle and past participle of verb as adjectives. The other types have the following percentages (in order of the highest level to the lowest level): Type 1 (33.40 %), Type 2 (10.06 %), and Type 3 (2.62 %). The largest number of free collocations was found in the book of Feeding My Fashion (13.48 %). The data analysis also indicates that all the articles contain free collocations. As free collocations are abundant in text, it is suggested that this grammatical construction be introduced as part of strategy to master English

Current Conceptualization of English as Lingua Franca

English has emerged as the unprecedented Lingua Franca that has taken the world over by a storm. Sustaining in this multicultural, digital world is next to impossible without a good command over English. Hence, English as Lingua Franca (ELF) requires an in-depth scrutiny, both as a construct and as a reality. This paper analyses the use and employment of English for varied purposes and its implications and results. The native – non-native speaker dichotomy and ways to resolve the situation are brought into consideration. The emergence of a World Standard English is the latest phenomenon and endeavour to bring in the most apt answers to the questions raised by the English speakers all over the world

Innovation Height and Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis from the Community Innovation Survey

This study evaluates the economic impact of product innovation by using firm-level data from the Community Innovation Survey conducted in Japan. It accounts for possible technological spillover from innovation activities and examines the extent to which nI. Introduction 　II. Surveys of Product Innovation 　III. Hypotheses Related to New-to-Market Product Innovation 　IV. Econometric Analysis 　V. Conclusion 　REFERENCE

New fractional integral inequalities associated with pathway operator

This paper deals with the derivation of certain integral inequalities involving fractional integral operators of Chebyshev type by an application of the pathway fractional integral operator. The results obtained are of general character and provide extension of results given by Belarbi and Dahmani

Diversity Of Hymenoptera In Jai Narain Vyas University, New Campus, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

This study examines the diversity of Hymenoptera in Jai Narain Vyas University new campus in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Analyse their distribution and abundance in different microhabitats. Survey runed over a ten-month period from September 2022 to June 2023. Total 15 species from6 different families (Apidae, Formicidae, Sphecidae, Braconidae, Vespidae, Ichneumonidae) were recorded. The results showed that the diversity of species had different microhabitats, with the highest diversity found in gardens and trees. The results of this study are important for understanding the bee diversity of JNVU and suggesting conservation and management strategies to preserve the rich biodiversity of the region. &nbsp

Integral transforms of the S-functions

The object of this paper is to introduce a new special function, which will be called S-function. This function is an extension of the generalized Mittag-Leffler function due to Prabhakar [7], generalized Mittag-Leffler function introduced by Srivastava and Tomovski [14] and M-series given by Sharma and Jain [13], various integral transform of this function such as Euler transform, Laplace transform, Whittaker transform, K-transform are derived. The results obtained are useful in applied problems of science, engineering and technology

Urbanizing refuge: interrogating spaces of displacement

Refugee spaces are emerging as quintessential geographies of the modern, yet their intimate and everyday spatialities remain under-explored. Rendered largely through geopolitical discourses, they are seen as biopolitical spaces where the sovereign can reduce the subject to bare life. In conceptualizing refugee spaces some scholars have argued that, although many camps grow and develop over time, they evolve their own unique form of urbanism that is still un-urban. This article challenges this idea of the camp as space of pure biopolitics and explores the politics of space in the refugee camp using urban debates. Using case studies from the Middle East and South Asia, it looks at how the refugee spaces developed and became informalized, and how people recovered their agency through ‘producing spaces’ both physically and politically. In doing so, it draws connections between refugee camps and other spaces of urban marginality, and suggests that refugee spaces can be seen as important sites for articulating new politics