{"title":"Economic Prospect of Belt and Road Initiatives in Nepal","authors":"Biranchi Poudyal","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35709","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to explore global economic prospect of Belt and Road Initiative with special focus on Nepal. The paper begins with the overall account of BRI and examines how connectivity with China would help in prosperity for Nepal. Furthermore, the paper discusses about funding modality as Kerung-Kathmandu railway under BRI and various other dimensions of the construction. The paper concludes with some recommendations regarding immediate requirements for Nepal that should be addressed via BRI.","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"37 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124257718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salient Features of the Constitutions of Nepal and India: A Comparative Observation","authors":"D. Gautam","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35712","url":null,"abstract":"While comparing the Constitution of Nepal 2015 and the Constitution of India 1950 the paper comparatively analyses the major issues such as citizenship, inclusiveness, fundamental rights and independence of judiciary. Both constitutions are committed to socialism based on democratic norms and values, including people’s competitive multiparty democratic system of governance, civil liberties, fundamental rights, federal republic, secularism, adult franchise, periodic elections, full freedom of the press, and independent, impartial, competent and free judiciary and concept of the rule of law. This qualitative research article observes the salient features of the constitution of Nepal and India in descriptive and analytical order with comparative methodology.","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"644 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122957549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer Brand Preference in Buying Car in Nepal","authors":"Bharat Rai","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35686","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective this study is to identify the factors affecting the consumer brand preference in the choice of car in Kathmandu, Nepal. The study examines how the price perception, appearance perception and brand personality affect in the consumer brand preference in the buying of car in Nepalese market. The study focuses on how the consumer preferred to select the car and which factor has the more prominent role for brand preference and selection of car. Primary data has been used in the study. The structured questionnaire has been used for collection of primary data. Convenient sampling technique has been used to collect information from the respondents and 265 respondents have been taken from customers buying car in Kathmandu. Descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis and path analysis have been used to diagnose data collected to draw valid conclusions using SPSS AMOS 21. Price perception, appearance perception and brand personality are taken as independent variables to explore the degree of relationship with consumer behavior and to explore the impact of these variables on consumer behavior while making decision to purchase a car. Correlation showed that all independent variables have significant relationship with dependent variable. The path analysis showed that there is a significant impact of appearance perception and brand personality on consumer behavior in buying of car but price perception has no significant impact on consumer behavior in buying of car in Nepalese market.","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131562807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memorialising and Commemorating Traumatic Past: Diary of a Guerrilla Girl","authors":"Badri Prasad Pokharel","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35684","url":null,"abstract":"This article makes an attempt to analyze Tara Rai’s Chhapamar Yubatiko Dayari (The Diary of a Guerrilla Girl) with the help of trauma theory. It is a memoir which unfolds many hidden parts of a combatant as his/her testimony to signify the traumatic memory. Past events related to war and conflicts always bring a horrible consequence to the survivors who, if anything can, remember these historical events as an act of witnessing the painful traumatic events as a psychological need and a social duty to reminisce those who died in the battle. Testimony, expressed about those events would bring afore the facts which, otherwise, may not be known. In doing so, I have used the critical insights of Caruth and other trauma theorists to illustrate the historical role in understanding the psychological response to war trauma in the form of testimony. It is important to elucidate the social factors which play a pivotal role in psychological understanding and building together to develop the concept of the personal narrative. ","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128323979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information and Perception towards Emergency Contraception among Female Adolescent Students in Secondary School of Kathmandu District","authors":"B. Karki","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35708","url":null,"abstract":"Emergency Contraception is a method used to avoid pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse or a contraceptive accident to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. This method has potential to prevent up to 75% of unplanned pregnancies. The aim of this study is to assess the information and perception towards emergency contraception among female adolescent students in secondary school. Secondary classes (+2 Wing) run by Koteshwor Multiple Campus was selected as study area purposively. The study was conducted on November 2018 to December 2018. The study was based on descriptive cross-sectional research design. Self-administered structure and pre-tested questionnaire were used to obtain information and perception from 220 study participants were selected by simple random sampling technique. After data collection, the data was coded, entered, and analyzed by using SPSS version 20. The study shows that 84.5 percentages of the female adolescent students had heard about emergency contraceptive. 85 percentages of them identified the correct timing of use within 72 hours of unsafe sexual contact. 69 percentages respondents said they are ready to use emergency contraceptive if required. There is significant relation between educational level and information of emergency contraceptive. The level of information of emergency contraception among female adolescent students was high but perception towards that was negative while comparing to other studies.Thus,health education intervention regarding information and positive perception towards emergency contraception is needed to female adolescent students of secondary school. ","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130335775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interface between Subalternity and Sexuality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things","authors":"Sedunath Dhakal","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35720","url":null,"abstract":"There is an interface between subalternity and sexuality in Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’. This article attempts to describe that sexuality has been stood as a form of protest and resistance against all forms of discrimination and prejudices against subaltern groups. The central characters of the novel, Velutha, and Ammu’s copulation with each other is implicitly an attempt to break the artificial and arbitrary walls constructed between the so called elite class and the subaltern groups. Thus, the sexuality can be discussed as a means of liberation from the chain of subalternity. However, the attempt was averted when the protesters (Velutha and Ammu) confront the mechanical society. The act of copulation exposed the subalternity of Velutha and sexuality of Ammu. Both Ammu and Velutha cross the social boundary. So called marriage system and love laws both have been transgressed upon. It is due to the sexual act, the so called authentic laws and systems have been broken, all things dismissed, impossible become possible. Such instinct is uncontrollable. This article analyses that in the matter of sex, so called touchable and untouchable, master and servant, so called higher class and lower caste all become equal; there remains no boundary at all; as it has been presented in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133322314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Status of Employment Among Tamangs and Non-Tamangs Women in Sindhupalchowk District","authors":"Tulasa Devi Dulal","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35722","url":null,"abstract":"This paper tries to highlight the women’s working status in previous time to some changing status these days in Sinhupalchowk District. In the previous time women have to do all manual work, women reserve the grain, tend to the livestock, grow the vegetable in the kitchen garden, transplant the saplings at the start of the cropping season and than again reap, thresh and clean the harvest. Such activities are not restricted to the village economy alone; women are also equally involved in other development work of their community these days. \u0000The family work could be defined as the total volume of physical and mental labour performed for the maintenance of a family. It incorporate all the endeavors applied for the person him/herself and for others. Indeed, the family work in total should be termed as the collective responsibility of all the members of family. However the burden of family work is usually greater for the women and for those people living in the marginalized economy of the household. The CNAS collected data suffices the ground to conclude that the women in Sindhupalchowk have miserable life .But now-days some women are changing their employment to government service and foreign employment. ","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126007294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge and Attitude towards Sexually Transmitted Disease and HIV/AIDS among Secondary Level School Students","authors":"Urmila Sunuwar","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35723","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescent sexuality leads to adolescent pregnancy, unsafe abortion, reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS.The study objective is to assess the knowledge and attitude towards sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDs among secondary level school students of Kathmandu metropolitan city. Descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted by using self-administered questionnaires. The study population was school adolescent students. They were selected by using random sampling method. After data collection, descriptive statistics were used to analyse the collected data. Knowledge and attitude towards sexual transmitted disease is significantly varied with student’s background characteristics. Around 95% of study population had heard about sexually transmitted disease and almost 99% heard about HIV/AIDS. Majority 85.6% of students reported that they “agreed” that HIV/AIDS is a major problem in Nepal however 14.4% students were not agreed on it. 73% respondents reported that teachers are the main source of knowledge regarding sexual transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS.It is clear that students need a specific package of education about sexual and reproductive health in school curriculum so that they could gain more information about sexually transmitted disease and HIV/AIDS.","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127816829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Service Learning: A Study of Relevancy in Nepal","authors":"Dataram Karki","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35710","url":null,"abstract":"Service learning is one of the lately introduced curriculum as well as method of teaching in the world. In practice, it is applicable in both school and higher level. The curriculum is partial one which is made based on students’ direct participation in community. The theory of service learning is basically learning through experience. Many education provider institutions around the world have developed it as mandatory curriculum with objective of making students active and community friendly. The relevancy of the curriculum corresponds with ultimate objective of education. The offered curriculum can have insight to strengthen reciprocal relation between students and society, and let them know about society, knowledge and social issues. As such direct involvement of students in community changes their perspectives toward society and nation.","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134014793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Art: An Aesthetic Transformation for Freedom and Justice","authors":"Lekha Nath Dhakal","doi":"10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v3i3.35716","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to explore African Americans’ world view and its roots in Black Aesthetics. It also reveals that Black art is an aesthetic transformation of African Americans for freedom and an expectation of a higher level of life. Supporters of Black Aesthetics appealed to black artists to establish a new standard of judgment and beauty based on African myths, spirituality, belief systems and music in opposition to Western aesthetic. However, the Black Aesthetics had its origins in those first artistic resonances of black slaves in the form of spirituals, coded singing and signifying, and later in writings. Black aesthetic theory in the United States traces its origin to the literature of slavery and freedom. The slave narratives depict African-Americans’ artistic and academic labors to show their humanity and critical moments in the development of Black aesthetics. Writing about their own communities in order to establish a sense of self-worth and claiming their identities as African Americans are crucial elements in the works of many Black writers.","PeriodicalId":135029,"journal":{"name":"KMC Research Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131495118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}