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This study was designed to investigate perceptions of secondary school social studies teachers about widowhood practices in Ohafia education zone in Abia State. Four research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 520 Social Studies teachers from which a sample of 95 male and 135 female social studies teachers from secondary schools in Ohafia education zone were randomly selected.

Normative laws govern the conduct of persons in society and both customary and enacted laws are members of this set of laws. And the question as to whether customary law may be regarded as law properly so-called appears to have been posed as a skeptics question, which thus does not seem to require a yes or no answer. What we need here is to provide reasons to justify the answer we prefer, whether as accepting the thesis or rejecting it. This paper is therefore an attempt to show that we can both see law as custom and custom as law.

A field experiment was conducted during rabi-2010 to find out the response of foliar application of micronutrients on vegetative and reproductive growth attributes, in two varieties of tomato viz- Utkal Kumari and Utkal Raja. The treatments consisted of boron, zinc, molybdenum, copper, iron, manganese, mixture of all and control and the experiment was laid our in RBD with three replications. All the Micronutrients except manganese (@ 50ppm) were applied @100ppm in three sprays at an interval of ten days starting from 30 days after transplanting.

The present paper aims to investigate the socio-economic status of scheduled tribes in Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh state. Multi-stage random sampling technique was employed for the study, primary data was used with the help of pre-structured questionnaire for 89 sample respondents during the year 2009, further the results were interpreted with help of tabular analysis.

The creation, growth and decay of any social system, retaining myriads of life forms, have basically been the concerns and exposition of energy. Social Metabolism envisages a natural connectivity amongst physical, biological and social systems and their underlying cybernetics. It is the flow of energy that drives the social systems generating information, applying information and transforming the present social process into a desired social outcome. Energy remains retained, shelved as well as configured within a cell and a social capsule.

The need for background information outlining the basic characteristics of surface soil types in the savannah areas is essential for environmental soil management. Visual assessment and classification of surface soil condition is a key to environmental soil management and development. In this study, Visual Soil Assessment (VSA) was used to assess and classify the surface soil condition of dryland and fadama sites of Kebbi State, Nigeria.

Black gram (Vigna mungo L.) is an important pulse crop occupying unique position in Indian agriculture. The study of phytochemicals, secondary metabolic substances in plants are known to provide protection against insect attacks and plant diseases. The current investigation is an attempt to study the preliminary phytochemicals that are present in black gram using different solvent extracts. An experiment was conducted to study the influence of chemical fertilizers (DAP and superphosphate) and leaf extracts (Ocimum basilicum and Lantana camara L.) on the presence of secondary metabolites.

Technology has, for better or worse, undeniably brought about a change, hitherto unimagined, in our life styles. The transformation brought about by technology in the area of delivery of financial services has, thankfully, only been for the better. Internet Banking complemented by core banking solutions implemented by banks, mobile banking, card based electronic transactions at any bank ATM and merchants locations (both physical and through e-commerce sites) have offered a variety of channels to bank customers to conduct their payment transactions.

Even though dual energy X-ray absorptiometry is the gold standard for measuring the osteoporosis, many institutes in India doesn't have the facility. Singh index for osteoporosis in plain radiographs have low reliability. So in this retrospective study, we used digital radiographs to analyze the relationship between the Singh index with age, gender, fracture site, laterality, along with intra and inter-observer reliability in elderly patients having proximal femoral fractures due to simple fall.

Gastropod is one of among the most important taxa of marine benthic that plays ecological role for the ecosystem stability in the coastal area. This study was aimed to elucidate the spatial trends in the community structure of gastropod that assemblages the coastal area of Tomia Island, Wakatobi Marine National Park, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Two transect lines were placed perpendicularly to the coastline for observation the species and their individuals number of gastropod.