The views of selected NGOs on corporate social disclosures in Bangladesh

Although prior studies looked at corporate social disclosures (CSD hereafter) mainly from the managerial perspective there are very few studies which examined CSD from a non-managerial stakeholder perspective. This paper contributes to that limited CSD literature. It does so from a developing country perspective. The main aim of this paper is to examine the views of selected NGOs on current CSD practices in Bangladesh using Gramscian hegemonic analysis. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were carried out in the selected social and environmental NGOs of both overseas and Bangladesh origin. The results suggest that NGOs viewed the current CSD practice as far from satisfactory. They also argued that it is mainly aimed at maintaining corporate interests of image building. The study suggests that it is not corporations to be blamed alone for production of CSD in the interests of business, it is the capitalist society that consents to such reproduction of CSD

Query Profiler Versus Cache for Skyline Computation

A skyline query is multi preference user query which generates the best objects from a multi attributed dataset. Skyline computation in an optimum time becomes a real challenge when the number of user preference are large and size of the dataset is also huge. When such a big data gets queried at large, response time optimization is possible through maintenance of the metadata about the pre-executed skyline queries. We have earlier proposed, a novel structure namely �Query Profiler� which preserves such metadata about the historical queries, raised against a dataset. Also as the dataset gets queried at large, the dimensions of user queries often overlap and queries get correlated. Such correlations in user queries and the availability of metadata about the earlier queries, combined together speed up the computation time and the optimization of the response time of the further skyline computation becomes possible. In this paper, we assert the efficacy of the Query Profiler by comparing its performance with the parallel techniques which utilize cache mechanism for optimization of the response time. We also present the experimental results which assert the efficacy of the proposed technique

Histochemical investigation of different organce of genus sesbania of marathwada region in maharashtra

The histochemical studies of leaves and wood of Sesbania grandiflora, Sesbania bispinosa and Sesbania cannabina are medicinally important plants of Marathwada region in Maharashtra. For histochemical studies the free hand sections of leaves and wood were taken and treated with the respective reagent in localize components, viz. starch, protein, tannin, saponin, fat, glucosides and alkaloids in the tissues

Determination of ash values of some medicinal plants of genus sesbania of marathwada region in maharashtra

The seasonal variation of total ash, water soluble ash and water insoluble ash have been investigated leaves , wood and bark of Sesbania grandiflora, Sesbania bispinosa and Sesbania cannabina, which are medicinally important. Comparative account of total ash, water soluble ash and water insoluble ash content of bark of Sesbania grandiflora showed high level of total ash (range  11.80 to 12.10 %) and low level of total ash of leaves of Sesbania cannabina ( range 5.05 to 5.35 % ) .The water soluble ash  showed higher level of wood of Sesbania grandiflora (range 4.30 to 4.80 % ) and lower in leaves of Sesbania cannabina (range 1.5 to 2.05 %),Comparative account of water insoluble ash of bark of Sesbania grandiflora showed higher (range 7.20 to 7.35 % ) and lower in the leaves of Sesbania bispinosa (range 2.9 to 3.1 % ). Â

Evaluation of an Immunochromatographic Lateral Flow Assay (OXA-48 K-SeT) for Rapid Detection of OXA-48-Like Carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae

We evaluated an immunochromatographic lateral flow assay for the detection of OXA-48-like carbapenemases (OXA-48 K-SeT) in Enterobacteriaceae (n=82). 100% sensitivity and specificity was observed using bacteria recovered from both solid media and spiked blood culture bottles, with the result obtained in less than 10 minutes

Chemical composition and size distribution of atmospheric aerosols over the Deccan Plateau, India.

Measurements on atmospheric total aerosol were made at Poona during the summer and winter seasons of 1978–79. An Andersen particle sampler Model 20–810, Mark II (Andersen 2000 Inc. U.S.A.) which samples atmospheric particles with diameters ranging between 0.4 and 10.0 μm was used for the measurement. The mass distribution of the total aerosol, and separately for the chloride, sodium, ammonium, sulphate and nitrate components were obtained. The mass distribution of the aerosols exhibited a bimodal distribution in the size ranges 0.4–0.6 μm and 5–6 μm. The chloride and sodium components exhibited by and large a unimodal distribution. The ammonium and sulphate components exhibited a bimodal distribution during the monsoon and a unimodal distribution during the winter. The nitrate component exhibited a bimodal distribution during the monsoon and winter. The molecular form of this component appears to be ammonium nitrate in the sub-micron range and sodium nitrate in the higher size range (1–10 μm)