Social Sciences and Humanities

This article attempts to show Christopher Moore as a new entrant on the horizon of black humor. He has written more than a dozen novels sprinkled with a dose of black humor and other tools of satire especially pastiche. His literary tenor is queer, shocking and out of the ordinary. ‘A Dirty Job’ and ‘Fool’ are two of his explosively funny novels. In ‘A Dirty Job’ Christopher Moore uses pastiche to the extreme. He laughs at ‘death’ and treats it with a pedestrian distain. There is nothing hoary about death.

People with shared experiences and interests like gays or even students create a language that binds them. A language of every group is peculiar since a language of a particular group is different from other languages (Flores, 2011). Everyone could not escape from the alluring and colourful language used by gays because it is funny and it is more fun to say it that is why some of us are influenced by gay language (Cayabyab in Camalig, 2016). This study claims that there is an internal variation of the gay language as a socioliect, from its internal etimologies.

Modern hospitals slowly have left their main purpose as public service facility and have moved to business orientation. For that reason, they always had to enhance the professionalism as well as continuously innovate in order to win business competition as well as to earn maximum profit. Previous researches provided results on impact of marketing mix to customer’s loyalty. However, the impact of marketing mix particularly on patient loyalty to hospital, whether directly or mediated by hospital brand image, was still under observed.

The terminator technology is the main application of a broadly framed pattern for the “control of plant gene expression”. The terminator is a genetically engineered suicide mechanism that can be triggered off by a specific outside stimulus. As a result, the seeds of the next generation will self-destruct by self-poisoning. Terminator technology is the Trojan horse for the spread of generality-Engineered crops in the south. The most alarming is the terminator genes themselves could infect the agricultural gene pool of the neighbour’s crops and of wild and weedy relatives.

Investigation on the influence of board involvement on price earning was carried out using both the correlation and the multiple regression models to analyze publicly available data for a sample of 69 firms from 11 sectors quoted in the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the fiscal year 2011. This indicates that the research made use of cross sectional data. Several diagnostic tests have been applied to justify the validity of the results. The empirical investigations reveal that directors’ shareholdings, firm’s age and firm’s leverage are significant.

To understand the dynamics of Dengue transmission particularly in areas having construction sites of Gandhinagar district to plan and implement effective control measures.The study was conducted covering 3 Primary Health centers viz. Uvarsad, Adraj and Sughad where maximum construction sites were located. Detailed analysis of Dengue cases detected was undertaken. 64% of the confirmed cases were male patients, while 61 % falls in the age group of 20 to 45 years. 42 % of the total dengue cases in the district were contributed by the three PHCs where construction sites were more.

The relations between the Portuguese State in the person of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and the Vatican during the New State. The four phases of relationship, all different and always influenced by the international context.

After stroke, hand impairment is very common and its recovery is often incomplete. Early neuroplastic changes may form the basis for restitution of motor function after stroke. Neuroplasticity starts from day one immediately after injury or insult to cortex. Mental practice being one of the principles of motor learning can accelerate neuroplastic changes. Thus to compare the efficacy of mental practice and physical practice over only physical practice on hand function in individuals with stroke, this study was conducted. Methodology: 50 stroke patients divided into two groups i.e.

This is an exploratory cross-sectional study undertaken among college going student to explore the present usage of smart phones for accessing nutrition information and factors affecting it. Data has been collected from randomly selected 200 college students (105 boys and 95 girls) by administrating a questionnaire- cum interview schedule. The result revealed that statistically higher percentage of girls (58.9 %) than boys (41.0 %) were using their mobiles for obtaining nutrition information (χ2=6.46; p=0.011).

The evolution and development of indigenous management theories in Africa have been tremendously affected by Colonialism. This actually accounts for the retarded progress of African management theories and principles. Introduction and infusion of western management literatures and practices have successfully silenced the astonishing management prowess of the pre-colonial Africa.