Volume 9 | Issue 2 |

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Heavy metals are key components to cause environmental pollution and heightened level of concentration is toxic to the living organisms. In generally food is the main source of accumulation of toxic metals day by day from various source, they include through soil, water and atmospheric dust. Many disorders like cancer, gene mutation, physiological malformation or physical deformations in pregnant women or very young children. May be one of the reason of consumption of indigenous food. Presently people are fascinate to have fish is the one of the most important ingredients in the daily diet due to this rapid growth of consumption and different practices to produce the aqua products based on the demand. Hence forth the present study focused on intoxication studies on the consumption of freshwater catfish namely Heteropneustes fossilis, collected from different aqua farming cultures. Aim of the work is to predict the different adverse effects of LC50 of lead and cadmium and mortality, behavioural and haematological studies.

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Food Chain, Toxicity, Catfish, LC50, Haematological, Lead, Cadmium, Mortality, Behavioural.

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As the cases of Covid-19 came to light and subsequently spread around the world during the initial months of 2020, Indian stock markets which were nearing their all-time highs started falling. The economic conditions in the country were also worsening as was observed by the 11-year low GDP numbers recorded in last quarter in Fiscal Year 2019. The spread of coronavirus in India subsequently led to a complete lockdown in the country resulting in complete shutdown of the economic activities followed by a fall in GDP, rise in Inflation & Unemployment rates and fall in Interest rates. This study has tried to find if these economic conditions had any correlation with the fluctuations in the stock markets. The study found that the Inflation rate had a statistically significant impact on the stock market performance whereas Unemployment rate & Interest rates did not significantly impact the market during this Covid-19 pandemic. The study also aimed to find if the performance of the major global indices had any impact on the Indian stock market performance. It was found that several major indices such as NYSE, HANGSENG and FTSE did have a statistically significant impact on the Indian stock indices.

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Stock Market, Economic Indicators, BSE Sensex, NSE Nifty, Covid-19

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IVF, OVULATION, FERTILISATION, OPU PROCESS, OOCYTE, EMBRYO.

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Carnatic, Composer, Kriti, Music, Raga, Tala, Trinity

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Public sector organisations undergo a procurement process to select a competent consultant and character to carry out the construction work using pre-determined selection criteria or guideline as stated by the public procurement Act 2007. The Act objectives are to provide the best value for money, economy, transparency, accountability and competition among bidder(PPA 2007). However, it must be noted that the Act has not taken into account the transaction costs incurred with participation in the tender processes due to the varied activities undertaken by clients, consultant and contractors. The aim of the study is to assess the effects of procurement governance transaction costs with respect to contracting business and tendering process. A multi-stage stratified random sampling procedure was used in selecting the respondents from construction firms within some selected states of the North-west zone of Nigeria ( sokoto, kaduna and kebbi) that are registered in the bureau of public procurement database of contractors that have participated in any federal government tendering process as respondents of the study. One hundred and thirty five (135) responses were retrieved from various respondents. Using structural equation model (SEM), an analytical tool, using procurement governance and transaction cost as independent variable, with tendering process as intervening variable and contracting business as dependent variable, the result of research shows that transaction cost variable and procurement governance has significant influence toward contracting business, procurement governance variable has indirect influence toward contracting business through tendering process with significance influence. The research recommended that both client and contractors can reduce procurement governance effect by promoting: fairness in the award of contract to the lowest bidder; harmonious relationship between project client and contractor; sound knowledge on construction project procurement by both parties and more attention on how they can improve their bidding strategies based on the procurement governance guidelines.

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contracting business, construction projects, procurement Act 2007,transaction costs, tendering and transaction costs theory.

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Despite efforts made over a decade by successive governments in Nigeria to tackle head long the issue of poverty through various wealth creation and poverty alleviation programme, not much seems to have been achieved. This is evident by the growing poverty incidence of the state. Over time studies that aim to investigate the wealth creation capacity of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) from the view point of individual business owners (chief executive officers) who are seen as decision makers have become increasingly important as most governments pursue economic policies that can alleviate poverty in their nation. This paper adopts a literary perspective in investigating the effects of entrepreneurial practice on wealth creation in Nigeria. The study revealed that the scourge of poverty, youth restiveness, income inequality, social inequality problems and unemployment are associated to lack or inadequate adoption of entrepreneurial practice in Nigeria. More so, it was found that a symbolic relationship exist between entrepreneurial practice and wealth creation and the researcher seriously advocates for government evolvement of policies and programs that support the enthronement of entrepreneurial culture as a panacea to unemployment, poverty reduction, youths restiveness and wealth creation.

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Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial practice/culture and wealth creation possibilities.

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ABSTRACT: Medicinal plants are the precious gift of nature which plays vital role in healthcare sector For developing nation and potent source of therapeutic molecules to heal various diseases In the. Amla (Emblica officinalis Gaertn.) is widely used in the Indian system of Medicine and believed to increase defense against diseases. It is a Widely known fact that all parts of amla are useful the treatment of various diseases. Among all, the most important part is fruit Due to their strong antioxidant and biological properties, Emblica officinalis Prevents innumerable health disorder related to oxidative stress, cardiovascular diseases, Neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Research reports on amla reveals its analgesic, anti-tussive , cardioprotective, cytoprotective , Immunomodulatory, Chemopreventive, antioxidant, memory enhancing, anticancer, antidiabetic and some others properties. In this article, we review The morphology, distribution,nutritional value, chemical constituents, medicinal uses of amla.

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Phyllanthus emblica, Amla, Medicinal Herb, Nutritional Value, Chemical Constituents, Medicinal Uses ., Ascorbic Acid, Disorders, Oxidative stress, Pharmacological Property.

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The term non-violence is the literal translation of Sanskrit word Ahimsa which is the common message that all the major religious traditions of the world carries. Non-violence is not simply refer to not harming others but actively and peacefully helping others. It is not simply the absence of violence. Non-violence, compassion and love are interwoven and interrelated. Genuine non-violence is not possible without the compassion and loving-kindness according to Buddha.

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Avalokite?vara, compassion, theistic, non-theistic, Non-violence,

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Mutual Fund Performance, Investment, Risk-returns, Behavior Factors, Technical Factors, Fundamental Factors, Investor Sentiments, Confidence.

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