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Under the background of education globalization and information technology, open education resources based on the concept of "open sharing" is the important trend of global education movement. MOOC is the new development of open education resources and breakthrough, that it embodies the transformation about the open education resources from the simple resources to curriculum and teaching, and this shift will inevitably impact on learner.

The paper presents the results of the study of the thermal conductivity of brown coal deposit "Okinoklyuchevskoye" of 0.1-1 mm fraction being processed in an electric arc plasma. To solve the problem there have been experimentally determined actual, apparent and bulk density of coal, as well as its porosity. The research was carried out by calculation based on the model of alternative structures by Misnara, using Fritz B. and H. Moser data. The data received reveal the structural uniformity of the coke residue (activated charcoal), i.e. the degree of its graphitizability.

The tribal women, constitute like any other social group, about half of the total population. Tribal societies generally view gender as complimentary and egalitarian, where each role is defined but complimentary to the other. Men focus on cultivation and women plant and gather the foods, thus both roles are necessary and complimentary in the holistic relationship of the family/community. Traditionally, tribal women and men had equal access to lands, animals and resources, and this was beneficial to the collective.

The paper examined the impact of global armed conflict on Education and Health of individuals in the 21st century. It explores the effects communal armed conflicts on education and health of the citizenry. The impact of conflict on education as raised in the paper are that it disrupts school  attendance, educational attainment, destroys educational infrastructures and schools as well as places of learning are often explicit targets of attacks.

Akwa Ibom State with a total land area of 8412.0km2 is endowed with Stubbs Greek Forest Reserve (SCFR). The exploitation of the SCFR has reached an alarming proportion principally due to human occupational activities such as farming, lumbering, oil exploration, road and residential constructions. Relying specifically on field-based data from 240 respondents from three Local Government Areas in Akwa Ibom State, it has been observed that, continuous exploitation of the SCFR through human occupational concerns has resulted in the destruction and loss of human habitat and bio-diversity.

Plato states that democracy and education appear as two sisters. According to him, the most basic feature of democratic managements is the importance they give to the education but the one based on questioning and discussing. Christopher Lasch as another philosopher also brings forward that democracy requires social discussion.  It is possible to increase the number. It is not possible to mention neither democracy nor democratic life in the countries prohibiting or without having discussions.

Investment in India provides the base and pre-requisite for economic growth and development. Apart from a nation’s foreign exchange reserves, exports, government’s revenue, financial position, available supply of domestic savings, magnitude and quality of foreign investment are necessary for the well being of a country. Developing nations, in particular, consider FDI as the safest type of international capital flows out of all the available sources of external finance available to them. FDI provides a win – win situation to the host and the home countries.

The Merpauh (Irvingla malayana olive) sawdust was mixed with empty fruit bunch (EFB) of oil palm tree, aimed to improve the homogeneous EFB particleboard. The EFB and Merpauh fibres with diameter of less than 1 mm and more than 1 mm were prepared and they were mixed with ratios of 40:60, 60:40, 80:20 and 100:0. The particleboard with a target density of 750 Kg/m3 and sized of 340mm x 340mm x 12mm were prepared with 12% melamine urea formaldehyde (MUF) and 3 % hardener.

We have no greater responsibility than providing the safety and security for our citizens, allies, and partners and develop the economic environment that promotes opportunity and prosperity. The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) threatens these interests by killing, injuring, and intimidating citizens and political leaders around the world, inflicting damage on security forces on the battlefield, and disrupting transportation and the flow of commerce. The terrorists and criminals responsible for these attacks are resilient, technologically adept and adaptable.

Global and national-level policy makers have been embracing financial inclusion as an important development priority. Financial inclusion is highly topical globally hence made one of its pillars at the G20 2009 Pittsburgh Summit. By end-2013, more than 50 national-level policy-making and regulatory bodies had publicly committed to financial inclusion strategies for their countries.