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A study on Customer Expectation Management in Expediency Stores Format in Organized Retail Stores in Surat City

In today’s competitive environment only the best survives. To survive and grow, the retailers need to strategize their operations to ensure customer delight, repeat purchases and increase in profitability. The key to achieve this objective is to give exemplary shopping experience and convert the customer from browser to a spender and to a big spender. Amenity excellence is a measure of the extent to which a delivered amenity meets the customer expectations.

Relationship between market value and book value of Major Indian Information Technology firms under pre and post IFRS

Many researches have been conducted on the effect of adoption of IFRS on value relevance of firms e.g. Mohd Halim and Zulkifli [2008], Ahmed and Goodwin [2006], Harris and Muller [1999], Bartov et al. [2005], Lin and Chen [2005], Horton and Serafeim [2006], Schiebel [2006], Niskanen et al. [2000] and Mohd Kadri et al. [2008]. Even though they have employed similar model [Ohlson, 1995], their results were not conclusive. In India, the effect of adoption of IFRS on value relevance of accounting numbers is still not known yet as the IFRS is not fully applicable.

Role of RRBS in Financial Inclusion Empirical Evidence from RRBS in Gujarat

Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) in India have been established to spread the banking amongst rural poor, based on the recommendation of various expert committees. RRBs have special role to play in spread of banking, now known as financial inclusion, in rural and semi urban areas to include the rural mass in banking network and thereby help them the rural poor, small and marginal farmers, artisans, agricultural labors, and even small entrepreneurs.

EVALUATION OF THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF SOME PLANT EXTRACTS ON SALMONELLA SPECIES

Salmonella is a facultative intracellular pathogen which is responsible for causing diseases ranging from gastroenteritis to typhoid fever. Multi-drug drug resistant Salmonella spp. is of serious concern that has urged scientists to find alternative medicine. The present study was designed to evaluate the antibacterial activity of methanol extracts of Casuarina equisetifolia, Euphorbia hirta, Euphorbia tirucalli and Sphaeranthus indicus against identified Salmonella species (S. typhi, S. enteritidis and S.

EFFICACY OF MULTIMEDIA IN TEACHING BIOLOGY

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand

- Confucius (551 BC – 497 BC)

Computer-based multimedia is the core and main technical measure of the application of modern information technology into education. Multimedia tools are useful to develop a creative and learning atmosphere. It helps students to develop technical and research skills that they cannot acquire from reading a textbook. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to encourage the widespread use of multimedia in biology teaching.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PROFITABILITY OF SELECTED DIAMOND COMPANIES IN INDIA

The present paper aims to comparative analysis the Profitability of the selected diamond companies by making use of Profitability ratios such Gross profit ratio, Net profit ratio, Expenses or Operating ratio Return on fixed Assets Ratio, Return on Shareholders’ Funds Ratio, Return on Capital Employed Ratio for the time spanning from 2004-2014. Short term creditors are mainly interested in the profitability position of the firms to know the promptness of company to meet its current liabilities. The result shows that among the nine selected diamond companies i.e.

AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF PROFITABILITY MANAGEMENT OF THE SELECTED AUTOMOBILE COMPANIES IN INDIA

The Indian automobile industry has vital role to play in the world’s automobile market because the automobile industry has continued its growth trajectory over the past few years. Through the growing progress in demand, increasing of revenue, expanding middle class and young population base, skilled manpower as well as enhancement of technology, will propel India to be among the world's top five auto-producers by 2015.  “Profit is the engine that drives the business enterprise‟. Every firms or companies need to maintain sufficient profits to survive and grow in the long run.

EFFECTS OF PICTURES IN TEXTBOOKS ON STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY

One essential key element of the curriculum is the textbook which provides a clear structure for teachers and students. This paper is study based on the literature and previous research papers to explain the importance of textbooks as well as effect of pictures in the textbooks on student’s creativity. Images in the textbooks influence the learning process. Students often see pictures before reading the text and these pictures can enhance the power of imagination of the students. The findings of this study show that the pictures in textbooks can increase students’ creativity.

VALUE EDUCATION – NEED OF THE MODERN TIME

Today’s modern time is the time of globalization. Aptitude of our youth is toward western life -style and culture is natural. This aptitude is not only limited to youth, almost everybody in country is running a blind race of cut throat competition to accumulate more money and things of leisure and pleasure. In recent years increase in percentage of crimes committed by youth especially adolescents has created a line of concern on the face of parents. Root cause of the problem lies in the quality of education we are providing to our child.

A STUDY OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO CERTAIN VARIABLES

The present study was conducted to investigate the emotional intelligence of higher secondary school students of Anand district. A sample of 820 participants was selected from secondary school of Anand district using stratified random sampling method. Among them 471 were boys and 349 girls were selected. Emotional Intelligence scale constructed and standardized by Dr. Pallaviben Patel and Dr. Hiteshbhai Patel was used to measure Emotional intelligence of the students. The data were analyzed using t-test. The urban students were having high emotional intelligence than the rural students.