{"title":"Arts and Culture","authors":"Iqbal U","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000e112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000e112","url":null,"abstract":"Iqbal [1] aims to review the pull and push factors involved and the characteristics of Japanese investment in Malaysia before and after independence. Bac, et al. [2] explore the Vietnamese postmodern literature. Hassen [3] touched on talk as an instrument of data collection for qualitative research. Alsaggar, et al. [4] state that arts in education are an expanding field of educational research and practice informed by investigations into learning through arts experiences. Abedini [5] aims to study history of Information Society, WSIS and United Kingdom measures regarding on Information Society and WSIS agendas. Iqbal [6] state that economics is a science that is very useful nowadays. Mahato [7] state togetherness the Nepali people experience during the enormous earthquake strikes should be continued and replicated in normal situation as well. Iqbal [8] introduces 30 major battles from the Ancient era to the present day. Each battle includes a concise account of the action, with a broader introductory context and an analysis of the aftermath. Momtaz [9] discusses to what extent the “West” has been successful in reshaping the Russian identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Makonnen [10] assess the impacts of youth outmigration on the socioeconomic and demographic behavior of migrant-sending households using survey data and in-depth interviews. Keshap [11] state that selfmanagement by professional and C.E.Os also contributes to management of big business houses. Glenn-Egil and Herner [12] investigate the importance of individual differences in short term memory capacity (STM) for learning from film (digitized video) and analogue text in a natural learning environment. Debasree [13] attempts to find a common space between Bollywood item numbers and hijra (transgender) dance performances exploring gender, sexuality and the idea that significance of body is especially problematic for these dancers. Goldshlak [14] state that in order to finish our way, and finally become the people, remained only, stop afraid and start thinking and understand. Madhusudhan [15] aims to give small review of festival as a culture in South India.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129099246","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":"An Evaluative Study of Rajiv Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme in Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh","authors":"Gopi Madaboyina","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000231","url":null,"abstract":"Governments all over the world today have come to accept the health of people as a public responsibility. Health is a very significant and vital factor for the prosperity of a country. Health is one of the most important indicators for socio-economic development. After independence, in India, health has been given a constitutional recognition as a major factor for the national development. Article 47 of the Directive Principles of Indian Constitution points out that the basic responsibility of the state as the promotion of health and standard of living of its people. It also, further says, ‘the state shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and improvement of public health as among the primary duties and in particular, the state shall endeavor to introduce prohibition of the consumption, except for medical purposes of intoxicating drinks or drugs which are injurious to health’. While visiting a hospital in India, one often contemplates the sheer impossibility of delivering quality health care services to the economically downtrodden. It is commonplace for poor Indians to use their life savings to access quality treatment for themselves and their loved ones. To address this problem of indebtedness of the poor due to overwhelming health costs, the Government of Andhra Pradesh launched the Rajiv Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme on 01-04-2007 in three backward districts of Mahaboobnagar, Anantapur and Srikakulam on pilot basis was subsequently extended to the entire state in phased manner to cover 2.3 core Below Poverty Line families in 23 districts from 17-07-2008. Thus from the past Nine years Rajiv Aarogyasri Scheme working in the state and provides health insurance to Below Poverty Line, it is the right time to evaluate the scheme and to offer suggestions to improve its performance.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130100409","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":"Gender Inequality Causes and Impacts on Honor Killing: A Case Study of District Shikarpur, Sindh, Pakistan","authors":"Pahor Wa, G. Ah, D. KhanPahore","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000229","url":null,"abstract":"An attempt is made to find out the causes of gender inequality and its impacts on honor killing in district Shikarpur, Sindh, Pakistan in order to chalk out policies for protecting women from gender based violence particularly honor killing. Our research study revealed that gender inequality is one of the major problems in the study area that leads to honor killing of the women. Furthermore, our study revealed that illiteracy, forced marriages, male child preference and economic dependency of women over men are major contributing factors of gender inequality. Honor killing is also getting momentum with the passage of the time in the area. According to our research survey that 10 to 12 women are being killed annually in the name of honor killing and within 5 years, 45 women are penalized to death in the district and most of the honor killing cases are taking place in Lakhi town, followed by Garhi Yaisn town, Khanpur town and Shikarpur town respectively. Presently, a large number of measures are needed to be taken in terms of economic and social spheres in order to protect women from genocide in the area.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122992560","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":"Challenges to Internationalize Bangladeshi SMEs","authors":"M. JoynalAbdin","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000230","url":null,"abstract":"The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered as the engine of growth of Bangladesh economy. SMEs are generally labor intensive industries, generates employment with minimum capital investment. Therefore they are getting priority for employment generation and poverty alleviation in the least developed world. Governments are enacting SME friendly laws and policies to foster local SMEs. They are also establishing specialized institution for the promotion and development of SMEs in respective countries. Various international agencies as well as development partners are inspiring entrepreneurship development and small business promotion for employment generation, economic growth and poverty alleviation. SMEs used to grow faster local market but their entrance to international market is happing rarely. Analyzing causes of SME’s poor performance in international market is the main focus of this paper. We would like to know the challenges for the internationalization of Bangladeshi SMEs and recommend few initiatives to undertake by different stakeholders including the government for facilitating internationalization of SMEs.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133206856","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":"Gandhi and Tagore: A Critical Analysis","authors":"I. Haq","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000228","url":null,"abstract":"History is full with the great personalities, who can never be forgotten as they had contributed a lot in their life period. Among them are Gandhi and Tagore, who made a great contribution in world history. Both of them are born in last quarter of the nineteenth century. Tagore in 1861 and Gandhi in 1869 and lived up to the India got independence from the colonial rule [1]. Gandhi and Tagore were so famous that their mutual friend Andrews once argued Tagore as modern, while as Gandhi is the St. Francis of Assisi. While as John Haynes Holmes compared Gandhi and Tagore as Erasmus and Luther (the poet’s anxiety). Although both of them were close friends of each other throughout their lives, but there was difference in their intellectual understanding. Besides these differences their friendship remains entirely unbroken.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124690912","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":"Floral Festival: A Culture of Telangana","authors":"L. MadhuSudhan","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000227","url":null,"abstract":"The World is full of festivals, cultures and traditions which are formed due to their past experiences and believes, in some areas their culture resembles with festivals. In South India a region of people specially celebrate festival for environment, as it is a major living source to the living beings, the region is newly emerged as a state in India. This paper aims to give small review of the festival as a culture in that region.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132611034","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":"Club and Courtyard: Study on the Intersection of Bollywood Item Numbers and 'Hijra'Dance Tradition","authors":"Debasree Basu","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000225","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to find a common space between Bollywood item numbers and hijra (transgender) dance performances exploring gender, sexuality and the idea that significance of body is especially problematic for these dancers. Constantly vulnerable to be presented as a disembodied ideal, these dancing bodies reveal a counter movement towards an understanding of dance as a bodily grounded art form. The article also traces the role of ritual and Dionysian ecstasy in their dance forms and different treatments in terms of display. It is the connection between the dancing body, desire, creativity and consciousness that occupies their center of rhythmic poetics. The dancer is preoccupied with dance as a fusion between eroticism and ritual. Transforming into a concrete and active natural, the dancer attains agency and subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123693533","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":"Multimedia vs. Analogue Text: Learning Outcome and the Importance of Short-Term Memory Capacity","authors":"Glenn-Egil Torgersen, Herner Sæverot","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000224","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to investigate the importance of individual differences in short term memory capacity (STM) for learning from film (digitized video) and analogue text in a natural learning environment. The results are based on a survey of 396 students on Bachelor's level (military cadets, teachers college and psychology majors). A short-term memory test battery was developed to measure different types and capacities of several individuals simultaneously in a classroom environment Alpha. Respondents were divided into two groups, one receiving a film presentation and one reading an analogue text (the film narrative). The subject matter was the formation of the Norwegian nation in the tenth and eleventh century (history subject at high school/college level). A knowledge test measuring the total learning outcome as well as details and interconnection (understandings/ context) was developed. In total, the results showed that texts gave the best learning outcome. Both film and text had an increased learning outcome for details and understandings in correlation with increased STM capacity, with the largest increase from low to medium capacity. Progressive capacity (successive) matters more than multicapacity (processing a lot concurrently). Non-verbal intelligence (Raven/RAPM) has an underlying general importance, but less important than the total STM capacity. Different types of capacity are more important than others depending on the presentation form and learning content. Visual sensory memory capacity for learning details in text was one of the types most clearly associated with learning outcome. This was explained by code-switching (representation transformation) during processing of information.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127810370","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":"I Am Ok, You Are Not Ok- A Lesson from Life","authors":"Keshap Pk","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000223","url":null,"abstract":"A child is born in a family. As a young and helpless to defend itself, the child is directed to do everything and is taught the cultural mores of the society as per the religion of the elders. Child observes that when a glass of water splashed on the floor, lot of hue and cry was made by others in the family. But when the same act i.e., a glass of water was splashed by grandmother, nobody either yelled or shouted or frowned. Child is young but observes. The child feels “I am not OK, you are OK”.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114443344","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":"The Effects of Rural Youth Outmigration on Migrant-sending Householdsin Gojjam and Wolayta, Ethiopia","authors":"Teferee Makonnen Kassa","doi":"10.4172/2151-6200.1000222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2151-6200.1000222","url":null,"abstract":"Rural youth outmigration from densely populated agricultural areas is a common phenomenon in Ethiopia. The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of youth outmigration on the socioeconomic and demographic behavior of migrant-sending households using survey data and in-depth interviews. The findings revealed that remittances are considered important by the migrant-sending households to enhance asset formation, increase levels of income and consumption, improve debt repayment position, and augment family member’s education and medication. The study further underscored the positive impacts of youth rural outmigration in improving humanenvironment relations through fertility reduction and easing population pressure, and mitigation of harmful traditional practices.","PeriodicalId":161420,"journal":{"name":"Arts and social sciences journal","volume":"8 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129495453","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}