Personality and Attitudes of Indian Young Female Workforce: Entrepreneurial Orientation by Education and Regions

This investigation analyzes the impact of region and educational background on entrepreneurial orientation of Indian young female trainees by using four personality descriptors i.e. need for achievement, innovation, personal control, and self-esteem around three attitude components i.e. affect, behavior, and cognition. The findings reflect the highest score of the respondents on the achievement motivation as compared to the other three personality descriptors (innovation, personal control, and self-esteem) and lowest score on the self-esteem dimension. Among attitude components, cognition has emerged as highest. Entrepreneurial orientation score of the sample as a whole is moderately high and female trainees from South India are having an edge over their counterparts from North India. Significant differences are not found between females of different educational backgrounds.entrepreneurial orientation, achievement, attitude, female, self-esteem

Resource Management in Grid Computing: A Review

A Network Computing System is a virtual computer formed by a networked set of heterogeneous machines that agree to share their local resources with each other. A grid is a very large scale network computing system that scales to internet size environments with machines distributed across multiple organizationsand administrative domains. The resource management system is the central component of grid computing system. Resources in the grid are distributed, heterogeneous, autonomous and unpredictable. A resource management system matches requests to resources, schedules the matched resources, and executes the requests using scheduled resources. Scheduling in the grid environment depends upon the characteristics of the tasks, machines and network connectivity. The paper provides a brief overview of resource management in grid computing considering important factors such as types of resource management in grid computing, resource management models and comparison of various scheduling algorithm in resource management in grid computing

Non-Linear Effort dynamics for Harvesting in a Predator- Prey System

In this paper, a non-linear harvesting of prey is considered in a prey-predator system. The predator is considered to be of modified Leslie- Gower type. The effort is taken as dynamic variable. The steady states of the system are determined and the dynamical behavior of the system for its all steady states is discussed under certain conditions. Necessary condition for global stability of the system is analyzed at the positive interior equilibrium point. Numerical simulations are carried out to explore the dynamics of the system for the suitable choice of parameters. Keywords: Modified Leslie-Gower predation, Nonlinear Harvesting, stability, Numerical Simulations

A note on 2-D lithospheric deformation due to a blind strike-slip fault

Analytical solution for the problem of a surface-breaking long strike-slip fault in an elastic layer overlying an elastic half-space is well known. The purpose of this note is to obtain the corresponding solution for a blind fault. Since the solution is valid for arbitrary values of the fault-depth and the dip angle, the effects of these two important fault parameters can be studied numerically. The variation of the parallel displacement and shear stress with the distance from the fault is studied numerically for different values of the fault-depth and dip angle

A Study of Home Environment, Academic Achievement and Teaching Aptitude on Training Success of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers of India

The primary intend of the study was to explore  the relationship of Arts, Science and Commerce stream and training success and the influence of Home Environment, Academic Achievement and Teaching  Aptitude on training success of ETE trainees. The study analyzed the numerical data from a survey of 380 teacher trainees of three DIETs of Delhi, India.Teaching Aptitude Test of SS Dahiya and L C Singh (2005) and Home Environment Inventory by Karuna Shakar Mishra) was applied. Teaching Aptitude test has 50 items of multiple-choice type.  Each item has four alternative answers - A.B.C.D. Home Environment Inventory has HEI Contains 100 items related to ten dimensions of home environment. Achievement of the students was taken from their 10+2 result, whereas their training success was established on the basis of   marks obtained in final year in theory and Practice of ETE course.Study revealed that Home environment and teaching aptitude of ETE trainees is significantly and positively correlated with training success. Similarly academic achievement at +2 level of the three streams students ie., Arts, Science and Commerce differs significantly and the two groups of trainees. Trainees having Low aptitude and High aptitude differ significantly in regard to training success in ETE programme. Keywords: Home Environment, Teaching Aptitude, Academic Achievement and Training Succes

Quasi-static deformation due to two-dimensional seismic sources embedded in an elastic half-space in welded contact with a poroelastic half-space

The Biot linearized theory of fluid saturated porous materials is used to study the plane strain deformation of a two-phase medium consisting of a homogeneous, isotropic, poroelastic half-space in welded contact with a homogeneous, isotropic, perfectly elastic half-space caused by a two-dimensional source in the elastic half-space. The integral expressions for the displacements and stresses in the two half-spaces in welded contact are obtained from the corresponding expressions for an unbounded elastic medium by applying suitable boundary conditions at the interface. The case of a long dip-slip fault is discussed in detail. The integrals for this source are solved analytically for two limiting cases: (i) undrained conditions in the high frequency limit, and (ii) steady state drained conditions as the frequency approaches zero. It has been verified that the solution for the drained case (ω → 0) coincides with the known elastic solution. The drained and undrained displacements and stresses are compared graphically. Diffusion of the pore pressure with time is also studied

Plane strain deformation of a multi-layered poroelastic half-space by surface loads

The Biot linearized quasi-static theory of fluid-infiltrated porous materials is used to formulate the problem of the two-dimensional plane strain deformation of a multi-layered poroelastic half-space by surface loads. The Fourier-Laplace transforms of the stresses, displacements, pore pressure and fluid flux in each homogeneous layer of the multi-layered half-space are expressed in terms of six arbitrary constants. Generalized Thomson-Haskell matrix method is used to obtain the deformation field. Simplified explicit expressions for the elements of the 6 × 6 propagator matrix for the poroelastic medium are obtained. As an example of the possible applications of the analytical formulation developed, formal solution is given for normal strip loading, normal line loading and shear line loading

Postcolonial Indian Feminism: A Study of Sensible Sensuality: A Collection of Essays on Sexuality, Femininity and Literature

Present paper attempts to study the key features of postcolonial Indian Feminism as represented by Sarojini Sahoo a feminist of international fame in her monumental work Sesnsible Sensuality: A Collection of Essays on Sexuality, Femininity and Literature. Linked with sexual politics of women, this work covers various issues pertaining to women like motherhood, marital practices, socialization of gender, beauty myth, feminine identity and female sexuality. Drawing upon theories of Chandra Talpade Mohanty critiquing monolithic concept of universal womanhood, this research paper underlines the Indian version of feminism as depicted in the text to be studied. The selected work is grounded in Indian socio-cultural context. Sahoo demands equal status for women in every sphere of life. Her bold and candid expression for sexual liberty for women makes her stand apart from the conventional women thinkers and writers. She redefines feminism with Indian perspective dealing with sensitive issues like rape, menopause, abortion, lesibianism from a female perspective

A Study of Home Environment, Academic Achievement and Teaching Aptitude on Training Success of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers of India

The primary intend of the study was to explore  the relationship of Arts, Science and Commerce stream and training success and the influence of Home Environment, Academic Achievement and Teaching  Aptitude on training success of ETE trainees. The study analyzed the numerical data from a survey of 380 teacher trainees of three DIETs of Delhi, India.Teaching Aptitude Test of SS Dahiya and L C Singh (2005) and Home Environment Inventory by Karuna Shakar Mishra) was applied. Teaching Aptitude test has 50 items of multiple-choice type.  Each item has four alternative answers - A.B.C.D. Home Environment Inventory has HEI Contains 100 items related to ten dimensions of home environment. Achievement of the students was taken from their 10+2 result, whereas their training success was established on the basis of   marks obtained in final year in theory and Practice of ETE course.Study revealed that Home environment and teaching aptitude of ETE trainees is significantly and positively correlated with training success. Similarly academic achievement at +2 level of the three streams students ie., Arts, Science and Commerce differs significantly and the two groups of trainees. Trainees having Low aptitude and High aptitude differ significantly in regard to training success in ETE programme. Keywords: Home Environment, Teaching Aptitude, Academic Achievement and Training Succes