Social Sciences and Humanities

The aim of this paper is to explore the identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from the postcolonial perspectives. Actually this novel has been discussed through the concept of nationalism, therefore gave more concentration towards the cultural, psychological and physical displacement due to colonization, exploration and the shifting notion from one place to another place. This paper’s main focus has centered aroundthe issues of national identities, the streams of European explorers, scientists and spies.

This research examined the influence of internal factors on the behavior of organic rice farmers in Sragen. Research using quantitative methods. The results of this research are described qualitatively. Relationships model between variables are described in qualitative descriptive. Hypothesis test by using path analysis program employing methods Amos SEM.

Academic stress is found to be the major stress among the student population, particularly for senior class students. Academic stress has been associated with poor academic performance and poor mental health. However, no intervention programs have been developed addressing the issues of academic stress. The present study aimed to develop and study the efficacy of the stress management module for 12th class students.

The basic assumption of the paper is that, a well designed and concise Working Capital Management ensure enterprises to move forward to attain their goal. However, many Micro enterprises in rural areas do not care about their working capital position and they only run business without the concept of working capital management. Base on this issue, this paper tries to analyse the management of working capital of micro enterprises of Karbi Anglong district of Assam.

In this research, with respect to the CAEP/NCATE’s Blue Ribbon ten design principles, a Middle-Eastern university that was undergoing accreditation process was evaluated for the aptness of its student teaching program based on the ten designated principles. Questionnaires were distributed to 13 college supervisors and 95 cooperating teachers. The results revealed consistent degrees of satisfaction towards the program implemented based on the principles. A major implication was the capability of current program to proceed towards transformation based on the respondents’ perceptions.

Decision-making can be defined as problem-solving activity terminated by a solution deemed to be satisfactory. It is therefore a process which can be rational or irrational and can be based on explicit knowledge or tacit knowledge. The decision-making process is regarded as a continuous process integrated in the interaction with the environment. The in hand research was conducted to re-confirm and re-establish the concurrent validity of the numerical value of Decision Making Ability as assessed through the standardized Cognitive Ability Test.

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has featured consistently in the news for various forms of financial malpractices in recent times and this could be emanating from weaknesses in the institution’s internal financial control system. To this end, the present study sought to evaluate the existing internal financial control systems of the hospital to assess the extent of their effectiveness and efficiency.

This paper was designed to understudy the contemporary issues affecting quality provisions in the Nigerian university context. It has been observed that qualities are declining gradually in the provision of university education in the country. However, studies that have looked into the problems the universities are faced with are yet to close the gap in knowledge of other factors that remain problematic within the sector especially problems created by the private universities. This study uses a standard literature review to study quality and the problems the universities are faced with.

In recent years, people's living standards is improving continuely and ecological consciousness is strengthening gradually, so agritainment becomes a popular travel patterns for city people.In the environment of the rapid development of network, combining agritainment with the network platform is a new opportunity for tourism.This paper is on the basis of development situation of t area rural in Hohhot and put forward a new strategy for its online development.

Satisfaction is a kind of steeping away from an experience and evaluating it. One could have a pleasurable experience that caused dissatisfaction because even though pleasurable, it was not pleasurable, it was supposed or expected to be so satisfaction / dissatisfaction is not an emotion.