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This study sought to find out the challenges in achieving effective mentoring during teaching practice in the teacher education institutions in Zimbabwe. The multiple case study design was used and five teacher colleges participated in this study.  The purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants.  The participants included student teachers and mentors. Data were generated through focus group discussions for both student teachers and lecturers. Data were analysed through interpretive study analysis.

A state with its socio economic and political institutions is undeniably the most important socio economic and political institution in a society. But states have exhibited varying ability in fostering socio economic development across the world which partially could be explained by the difference in the ability of states to mobilize natural and non-natural resources towards developmental goals.

In every religion education is considered as a most powerful medium for preserving and transferring the ideas, ethics and values among the member of its future citizens. For this purpose every religion has developed its own education system. In Islam Madarsa education system generally cater the need of education of their future citizens. The history of the arrival of Islam in India and its contributions in the field of knowledge and culture, are well documented, which enrich its cultural and religious multiplicity, for which India is well known in the world.

The purpose of this document is to provide data management standards and practices as they apply to manage, monitor and control the data. The majority of text was taken directly from the information resources listed under the references. In some instances, text from these resources was modified to facilitate the document’s ease of reading or to reflect the compilers’ understanding of current data management practices.

The present paper aims to investigate the socio-economic status of scheduled tribes in Khandesh region of Maharashtra state. The primary data was used with the help of structured questionnaire for 439 Scheduled Tribe UG and PG student respondents during the year 2014; further the results were interpreted with help of tabular analysis. The results reveal that, the majority of the sample respondents are the tribe of bhill community (more than 51%), more than 94 per cent of the sample households are male headed and more than 62% family heads are illiterate.

Concern with women’s access to credit and contributions to women empowerment are not new. In India, the trickle down effects of macroeconomic policies have failed to resolve the problem of gender inequality. The empowerment of women and improvement of their status and economic role need to be integrated into development programs, as the development of any country is inseparably linked with status and development of women. One of the powerful tools of women empowerment and rural entrepreneurship is micro finance.

The study attempts to analyse the production and market intermediaries involved in the entire marketing process of orange in Humtso village of Wokha District during the period 2013-14. For this, the data is collected from 50 respondents cultivating orange and 15 retailers and 7 wholesalers involved in moving the commodity were randomly selected. The respondents were further classified into three categories based on their size of cultivated area with 40% of the respondents in the holding size of 1.0-1.9 ha, followed by holding size 1 ha and 2.0-2.5 ha.

A factorization procedure for a given totally positive (TP) matrix- a matrix with all positive minors - is introduced. The strategy is to reduce a column to corresponding column of the identity matrix. Factors so obtained are triangular matrices with constant row or column entries. Such matrices and their inverses with simple structures can be constructed using the entries of a given non-zero vector without any computations among the entries.

The paper assesses the quality of sandcrete blocks in some selected areas of Alimosho Local Government Area (LGA), the north eastern part of Lagos state, Nigeria. With the view of enhancing the quality of the production of sancrete blocks in the state. The study is hybrid in its methodological approach.