Volume 4, Issue 10

Impact Factor 3.582

1) The Influence of Social Networking Sites on Student Educational Performance (A study on Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur).
Author’s Details: ⁽¹⁾Paras Soomro, MS Scholor ⁽²⁾Bilawal Ali Soomro, MS Schlor ⁽³⁾Dr. Syed Muneer Ahmed Shah, Assistant Professor–Department of Business Administration Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur
Abstract:This article investigate the influence of social networking sites (sns) on student educational performance.   Structured questionnaire based on likert  scale was used in business department of shah Abdul Latif University to gathered data from the sample of 165 undergraduates. Gathered data was examined through Quantitative method regression. Results demonstrate that social networking sites (SNSs) is positively and significantly influence  the students’ educational performance and degree of significance   is .008, but  the influence of  social networking sites(SNSs) on  students’ educational  performance  is too much weak that is (.207). There may be other variables which influence students’ academic performance.
Key Words- social networking sites, student academic performance.
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2) Income Structure and Risk: An Empirical Analysis Conventional Banks of Pakistan.
Author’s Details:(1) Dr. Syed Muneer Ahmed Shah Associate Professor – (2)Ghulam Ashgar M.Phil Student – (3) Nadim Mirza M.Phil Student -(1)(2) (3) Business Department of Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan.
Abstract:Keeping in view the gap between bank income and risk, this research is conducted for this purpose data was collected from five commercial banks and analysis through SPSS 18 by applying 1-Tailed correlation and concluded that Deposits are highly, positively and significantly correlated with assets, equity and net income whereas net income has insignificance relationship with return on equity.
Keywords: Income, Structure, Risk
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3) Assessing School Readiness in Cyprus.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾ Maria Christopoulou ⁽²⁾ Maria Pampaka –⁽¹⁾European University of Cyprus Director of Speech and Hearing Clinic Speech and Language Pathology Program Nicosia, Cyprus ⁽²⁾The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Room B4.10, Ellen Wilkinson Building School of Education University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester
Abstract
School readiness is a concept used to describe a set of necessary prerequisites for a child’s satisfactory transition to the schooling experience. It undoubtedly involves the complex, interdisciplinary and inter-depending relations between the child, school and family and leads to a dynamic perspective of this system, whose parts are inter-subsidized with the final aim to achieve the integration of the child into the Primary school system. This multidimensional view of school readiness sets the context for this paper, which reports on a study with an aim to establish a reliable diagnostic test for school readiness for Cypriot kindergarten children entering the primary school. We start with an overview of how school readiness has been measured internationally so far, and a review of the main findings in regards to such measures, like the association with children’s background characteristics and their future performance. We then present our instrument and report on the results of our pilot investigations with a sample of 128 children aged 5.5 to 6.5 years old. Our methods and analysis include both the use of the Rasch model for the validation of our constructed school readiness measures, as well as further statistical models for the for the comparison of children of various backgrounds on these measures. We conclude with a discussion of our main findings and the implications from the use of the constructed measures for potential language disorders, and identification of possible weaknesses at the four measurable aspects of school readiness (cognitive, language, motor and emotional).
Key Words: school readiness; transition to primary school; language skills; cognitive skills; motor skills; physical skills; social skills; multidimensional; bilingual children.
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4) F. M. Alexander, the Use of the Self, and a 1932 Book Review + Discussion in the Yorkshire Post: A Failure to Impact Medical Science.
Author Details: Jeroen Staring-Dr Jeroen Staring teaches mathematics at secondary schools in The Netherlands. His 2005 Medical Sciences dissertation describes the life, work and technique of F. Matthias Alexander. In 2013 he successfully defended a second dissertation, on the early history of the NYC Bureau of Educational Experiments.The author wishes to acknowledge assistance by the (2003-2004) archivist at the Special Collections at the Wessell Library, Tufts University, Medford, U.S.A.
Abstract
In 1931, Frederick Matthias Alexander, founding father of the Alexander Technique, who in 1894 began a career as a full-time stage artist and elocution and breathing teacher launched his book The Use of the Self explaining the history of his discovery of what he called a “primary control of the psycho-physical mechanisms” (Alexander, 1932c). This case study critically describes the chronicle of Alexander’s claim, notably citing the full text of a yet unreferenced letter to the editor of the Yorkshire Post written by Alexander in reaction to a book review by the young journalist Charles Davy. The case study shows how Alexander and his followers developed a strategy of self-sought isolation.
Key Words: Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889-1977), F. Matthias Alexander (1869–1955), Charles Davy (1897-1985), John Dewey (1859-1952), Ellen Avery Margaret Goldie (1905-1997), Ernst Franz Jokl (1907-1997), David Alexander Cecil Low (1891-1963), Rudolf Magnus (1873-1927), Caleb Williams Saleeby (1878-1940), Irene Tasker (1887-1977), ‘central control,’ ‘conscious control,’ ‘primary control.’
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5) Overall Well-being of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya.
Author’s Details: ⁽¹⁾ Jepkemboi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education University of Alabama at Birmingham ⁽²⁾ Pauline Jolly, Ph.D., MPH, Professor and Director-University of Alabama Minority Health International Research Training Program ⁽³⁾ Jerry Aldridge, Ed.D., Professor Emeritus of Early Childhood Education University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Abstract
The purpose of this research study was to examine the overall well-being of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya. Ten domains of OVC well-being were examined in the study: Food and Nutrition, Economics, Family, Education, Protection, Health, Shelter, Mental Health, Spiritual and Community care. The study sample comprised of 215 orphaned and vulnerable children. Data was collected using the OVC Well-being tool. Means and Standard deviations, T-tests of the ten domains were computed using SPSS software. The evaluation of the overall children’s well-being yielded the following scores: Desirable (67.9%), Average (19.5 %), Below Average (11.2 %) and Undesirable (1.4 %). Spirituality, Shelter, Mental Health and Protection domains ranked at the top while Economic, Food and Nutrition, Community Care, and Family domains ranked the lowest. Overall this findings show favorable developmental outcomes for OVC. Children’s well-being was enhanced because their basic needs were met in the short-term. The developmental outcomes of OVC will be more boosted by long-term and sustainable efforts.
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