132 research outputs found
Laboratory bioassay of six pesticides, an entomopathogenic fungus, and a botanical pesticide on two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae)
No full textBasak, Rumpa, Akter, Mahbuba, Tumpa, Toufica A., Sharmin, Dilruba, Ullah, Mohammad S. (2021): Laboratory bioassay of six pesticides, an entomopathogenic fungus, and a botanical pesticide on two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae). Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (23): 269-280, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v10i3.6509
EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF BOUNDARY STRENGTH AT HOME ON WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT-OUTCOME RELATIONSHIP
No full textThe research will evaluate the relationship of work-family conflict (WFC) with some of the work and family-related outcomes (i.e., life satisfaction, job satisfaction, marital satisfaction) that were derived from a thorough literature review. I will collect data from human subjects along with the evaluation of some secondary data sources. The study expects that boundary strength at home will help dual role players (e.g. work role, family role) to reduce the adverse effect of WFC. Data will be collected in early Spring 2019 and the thesis will be completed by mid-April 2019. Contributions to the literature and directions for future research will be offered
IMPACT OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN AGRICULTURE ON CHILD LABOUR IN NARSINGDI DISTRICT OF BANGLADESH
No full textA thesis submitted to the department of Agricultural Economics, Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICSOne of the most effective strategies for reducing child labour is women empowerment. The key
purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of women empowerment through
agriculture and reduction of child labour in some villages at Narsingdi district in Bangladesh. A
pre-structured questionnaire was used to collect data through face to face interview from
randomly selected sample size of 100 respondents from some villages. The logistic regression
model is used here to assess the impact of women’s empowerment on child labour. The main
findings indicated that about 98% respondents had child helping hand who don’t use to go to
school, but after starting work of the women of that family the education, nutrition of the chlildren
increases. Agriculture as well as livestock rearing was the main occupation among the
respondents. Most of the respondents were found owner and labour of their work. Their main
source of income provided from some occupation like- business, service, fish farming, livestock
rearing, and day laboring. The respondents have overall good farming experience. Most of the
respondents (99%) have Leadership quality and were able to make their own decision. The
economic participation rate in family of the respondents was very high (100%), on the other hand
they (18%) had little loan opportunities. The study suggests that there needs a lot of work for
empowering women to eradicate child labour. Government and nongovernment organizations
should take proper step to increase women empowerment as well as ensure women’s fundamental
rights make their life easy and make them more empowered so that women can generate income
and be provided with greater access to finance then families can be lifted out of poverty and
children are more likely to stay in school. Because the additional income helps families to mitigate
the need to rely on children for labour. As a result, it is apparent that as women empowerment
rises the problem of child labour decrease
EFFECT OF NITROGEN LEVELS ON GROWTH, YIELD AND SEED QUALITY OF WHEAT
No full textA Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRONOMY
SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2015A field experiment was conducted at the Research Field and Agronomy Laboratory of Shere-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka 1207 during the period from November, 2014 to
March, 2015 to evaluate the effect of nitrogen levels on growth, yield and seed quality of
wheat. The experiment comprised of five nitrogen levels viz. (i) N
= Control (no nitrogen),
(ii) N
1
= 25% less nitrogen from the recommended dose, (iii) N
2
0
= Recommended dose of
nitrogen, (iv) N
3
= 25% higher nitrogen than recommended dose, (v) N
= 50% higher nitrogen
than recommended dose and four wheat varieties viz. (i) V
1
4
= BARI gom 21, (ii) V
= BARI
gom 23 (iii) V
3
= BARI gom 24 and (iv) V
= BARI gom 27. The experiment was laid out
in a split plot design with three replications. Data were collected on different parameters of
growth, yield attributes, yield and seed quality of wheat. Results revealed that N
4
(25%
higher nitrogen than recommended dose) gave the highest grain yield (3.41 t ha-1) which was
statistically at par with N
(recommended dose of nitrogen) (3.29 t ha-1). This might be
attributed to highest number of spikes m
2
-2
(194.46), spike length (15.61 cm), number of
spikelets spike
-1
(20.91), number of grains spike
-1
(48.17) and 1000-grain weight (47.08 g).
Out of 4 varieties V
3
(BARI gom 24) showed highest grain yield (3.02 t ha
) which was
statistically similar with V
4
(BARI gom 27) (2.89 t ha
-1
-1
). The variety BARI gom 27 (V
) also
showed higher number of grains spike
-1
(46.65) and 1000-grain weight (49.53 g). In respect
of seed quality, N
(recommended dose) showed higher quality of seed which was
statistically similar to N
2
(25% higher nitrogen dose than recommended) because this
nitrogen dose gave highest germination percentage (96.67 %), vigor index (10.34), shoot
length (19.94cm) and dry weight seedling
3
-1
(0.19 g). In the case of variety, V
(BARI gom
27) showed the higher seed quality attributes of germination percentage (95.20%), vigor
index (10.52) shoot length (20.51cm) and dry weight seedling
-1
(0.18 g). Regarding the
interaction of nitrogen doses and varieties, N
2
V
3
, N
2
V
4
and N
3
V
were shown best in
producing quality seeds. From the above results it was concluded that the recommended dose
and 25% higher nitrogen than recommended dose with BARI gom 27 shows better for
producing higher yield and quality seed.
4
4
2
3
Asia in the ageing century: part III - healthcare
No full textWith total health spending in the region worth over a trillion dollars in 2010 and demand for healthcare continuing to grow, Asian governments will have a tremendous challenge meeting and funding this demand.Summary• This is the third research brief in a three-part series that looks at Asia in the ageing century, with a particular focus on the countries of East and South-East Asia.• The context is outlined in the first brief, which describes population, urbanisation and social trends in the region. Specifically, it notes that population ageing in East and South-East Asia is happening faster and at a lower level of economic development than in the West. Many Asian countries now have a decade or so to prepare for the final stages of demographic transition. Parts II and III of the series focus on two areas of economic activity which are both pertinent to population ageing and have enormous scale: provision of retirement income (covered in Part II) and of healthcare (outlined in the present brief).• As Asian societies become wealthier and older they will demand more of their health systems. This translates to extending health insurance coverage to a broader cross- section of the population, and offering reimbursement for a greater proportion of costs on a larger package of benefits. China has enrolled 1.2 billion people into the health insurance system within the last decade but in some provinces benefit packages are lacking. Malaysia achieved universal health coverage in the 1980s, but in 2004 key medicines were only available in a quarter of public health facilities.• East and South-East Asian governments currently have the fiscal capacity to keep expanding health systems, but to avoid the excessive cost growth seen in the West they will need to employ various micro, macro and demand-side measures – heeding the successes and failures of reforms within the region and elsewhere.• An important area for healthcare is the epidemiological transition that comes with ageing societies, where the relative prevalence of non-communicable diseases increases. Health packages in Asia are yet to take a full account of this change.• Health spending in the region was worth over US50 billion of spending, but recent growth has been high (e.g. 100% p.a. in China). On the provider side, the size and growth of the market will result in opportunities for pharmaceutical, medical device manufacturing and consumer health companies, as well as for operators of hospitals and specialised facilities. Some of that demand will spill over into the growing medical tourism market.• At the level of the macro-economy, stronger welfare provision offers an opportunity to rebalance growth in the region by reducing excessive precautionary savings. So far, East and South-East Asian countries have been taking this opportunity but much remains to be done for healthcare systems to be fully ready for an ageing population. 
Factors affecting consumers green purchase intention towards ecological products: ICA supermarket in Sweden
No full textTitle: “Factors affecting consumers green purchase intention towards ecological products: ICA supermarket in Sweden”. Level: Master degree thesis in Business AdministrationAuthor: Khalida Akter Supervisor: Zahra AhmadiExaminer: Maria Fregidou-Malama Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate how consumer trust, eco-branding and green marketing strategy influence consumer purchase intention towards ecological products. Method: The qualitative method and inductive approach have been used for this research. The primary data have been collected through face to face interview and the secondary data have been used through scientific journals and the internet. Findings: The results show the important factors that can promote green marketing towards ecological products are; consumer trust, green trust, eco-label trust, eco-branding, green pricing, green advertising, green design and green promotion have a strong relation with each other. The study also shows that consumer purchase intention can be increased by giving sufficient information regarding ecological products, by increasing awareness, credibility, by reducing the perceived risk of the products, brand uniqueness, by advertising the products through the company magazines, billboards and posters outside of the supermarket, by raising awareness of customer health. Brand loyalty is also an important factor to create a long-term relationship with customers and it can be created by the fair price perception among the customers. The main promotional issues have been found for this study is customer health and climate change. The study also shows that price doesn’t affect on consumer purchase behaviour. Suggestions for future research: This study helps to understand how to promote green marketing for ecological products. For further study, the author suggests to investigate if there is a relationship between green marketing, consumer trust, eco-branding as well as a green marketing strategy. The future study will help to research on green marketing for ecological products. Contribution: This study has identified elements to promote green marketing and factors that can help to increase consumers purchase intention. The author hopes that the findings of this study will help companies to create their consumer purchase intention. The study has contributed to the theory and to the managers by investigating the factors affecting on green marketing. Keywords: Green marketing, Consumer trust, green trust, Eco-branding, Green marketing strategy, consumer purchase intention
Reprezentacije neevropskega sveta v izobraževalnem sistemu: Učbeniki kot akter etnocentrične in rasistične socializacije
No full textThe intention of this paper is to determine how the educational system as a significant actor in the socialization process generates ethno-/Eurocentric standpoints respectively, and racist representations of “the other”. The article is methodologically based on the social-historical and comparative method of selected theories from the research field of ethno-/Eurocentrism and racism and their reproduction in educational discourse. The author states that geography and history textbooks frequently enable the defining of potentially possible and above all exceedingly plausible situations, which leads to negative, Eurocentric and racist conclusions about Non-Europeans and migrants. This can be achieved by means of particular linguistic strategies, selection of illustrative material, and especially at the level of content and broader textual context.Namen članka je ugotoviti, kako izobraževalni diskurz kot pomemben socializacijski akter generira etno-/evropocentrična stališča in rasistične reprezentacije »drugega«. Avtorica izhaja iz socialnozgodovinske in primerjalne metode posameznih teorij etno-/evropocentrizma in rasizma ter njihove reprodukcije v izobraževalnem diskurzu. Ugotavlja, da učbeniki za zgodovino in geografijo omogočajo definiranje potencialno možnih in zelo verjetnih situacij, ki vodijo v negativne, evropocentrične, tudi rasistične sklepe o Neevropejcih in migrantih. To dosegajo s posebnimi jezikovnimi strategijami, s selekcijo slikovnega gradiva in zlasti na ravni vsebine ter širšega tekstualnega konteksta
Macroeconomic Determinants of Bangladesh’s Foreign Exchange Reserves: Evidence from Time Series Analysis
No full textThere is no denying that an optimal level of foreign exchange reserves is crucial for maintaining macroeconomic stability and achieving steady economic growth. Additionally, it can serve as a development tool by financing import payments and supporting essential development spending, making it a symbol of the country\u27s economic sustainability. This study utilizes monthly data from January 2008 to July 2022, sourced from the Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh, to examine the determinants of Bangladesh\u27s foreign exchange reserves. A standard time series approach was used, which involved testing for stationarity and selecting the appropriate lag length before applying the Johansen cointegration test to identify the presence and rank of cointegrating relationships. This study identified multiple cointegrating equations and, therefore, employed the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to investigate the long-term relationships among the variables. The results indicated that exports, remittances, and foreign direct investment have a positive influence on foreign exchange reserves, while imports and the exchange rate have a negative impact. Short-term dynamics and the error correction term (ECT) were also analyzed to demonstrate adjustment processes. Following the econometric analysis, diagnostic tests, including autocorrelation, normality, and stability tests, were performed. The results showed that autocorrelation and stability tests were satisfactory; however, only imports followed a normal distribution, as confirmed by the normality test. Based on these findings, this study recommends several policy measures to help Bangladesh maintain an optimal level of foreign exchange reserves. Since exports, remittances, and foreign direct investment positively affect Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves, efforts should focus on expanding these sectors through export diversification, improved support for remitters, and providing additional facilities or incentives to attract foreign direct investment.
JEL Classification Code: G 2
Modelling Centuries of Geo-morphological Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta
No full textThe Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta is a good example of a large estuarine system with sparse data. This study describes the development and validation of a morphodynamic process-based model (Delft3D) as a tool to predict the dynamic system as a response to climate change, sea-level rise, subsidence and other influences. The modelled sediment transport of the Ganges and Jamuna systems is between 200 and 1100 million ton/year, which is in line with observations. On annual basis sand accounts for less than 20% of the sediment load in the system with the remaining sediment being much finer. Analysis of modelled bed level changes over time reveals that only a few river systems are in an aggrading phase. The 2D model exhibits that about 22% of the supplied sediment deposits in the delta system on floodplains and tidal plains, whereas the remaining 78% of the sediment causes subaquatic delta progradation or is lost in the deep ocean bed. Although the model does not reproduce all-natural phenomena at all spatial scales, it will be a valuable tool to describe and explore the morphodynamic development of the GBM Delta over decadal to centennial timescales for macro-scale understanding, planning, and management.Coastal Engineerin
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