Socio-economic Life Of People Research Articles

Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Analysis of Groundwater in Bathindi, Jammu, (J&K)

This Paper has been made in order to examine the “Physico-chemical and microbiological analysis of groundwater in Bathindi, Jammu, (J&K)”. Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium (Saxena and Saxena, 2015). Water is a key component in determining the quality of our lives. Although water covers about 70 percent of the earth’s total surface, only 0.3% of it can be used by humans (Sabo and Christopher, 2014; Tiimub et al., 2012). Water is one of the basic needs of life and essential for survival (Das et al., 2014). Water is a vital component in socio-economic life of people (Shankar et al., 2014). The present analytical study of water samples evinces that the quality of water vis-à-vis various physico-chemical and biological parameters are within the permissible limits except for the parameters like TDS, Calcium and Total Hardness which have exceeded the desirable limits compared with National and international standards. According to standards recommended by British Ministry of Health (1957), the water quality comes under the category of satisfactory except for 2nd and 4th (Tubewell, Home and Tap), 1st, and 6th (Home and Tap), 7th (Tubewell) and 8th (Tubewell and Tap) readings. The total coliform count observed also exceeded the permissible limits, indicates that there is entry of sewage and soil sediments in the distribution pipes.

COVID-19 and the State of Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced Persons in North-Eastern Borno State of Nigeria

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had adverse effects on the health and socio-economic lives of people all over the world. These effects could be disproportionately felt by vulnerable populations of which conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) are part of. While attention is often focused on the effect of the pandemic on other populations, vulnerable populations like the IDPs are often neglected. This article fills this gap by examining the state of conflict-induced IDPs in conflict-ridden Borno State of Nigeria in the face of the pandemic. The article adopts an exploratory research design and the qualitative method, using primary data sourced from semi-structured interviews, and analyses the data using discourse analysis. Findings show that given the living conditions in the IDP camps, social/physical distancing was difficult to practice, that special measures were put in place to protect IDPs from contracting the virus; that the lockdown occasioned by COVID-19 had an adverse effect on the welfare of IDPs; and that the pandemic brought new health and safety challenges in the IDP camps, but not security challenges. The article concludes that the pandemic had adversely impacted the lives of conflict-induced IDPs, albeit, it had not spread among them.

Socio-economic Importance of Solar Desalination of Local Water Bodies: A Case Study of Uburu and Okposi Lakes, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Purpose: Access to clean and potable water supply is the priority of many nations including the government of Nigeria towards socio-economic emancipation of the people. Due to increasing population expansion and water pollution, shortage of freshwater has become very common to many nations, particularly to the developing countries. To overcome the growing freshwater shortage, desalination has been proven to be the best alternative option towards freshwater provision for domestic and industrial applications. Desalination could be either thermal or electric methods which include multi-stage flash distillation (MSFD), multiple-effect distillation (MED), reverse osmosis (RO), or solar desalination. The innovation of solar still technology in recovery of fresh water from saline waters makes solar desalination simple and economical. A survey of socio-economic importance of solar energy desalination of saline lake waters at Uburu and Okposi communities, Ebonyi State, South eastern, Nigeria was conducted.
 Methodology: A survey research design was adopted for the study in order to address an age long tradition of fuel wood utilization in salt processing activity by the local women folk of Uburu and Okposi communities using saline water from the local lakes.
 Results: The survey showed that about 1,200 women were involved in the salt production activity utilizing about 26,000 tons of fuel wood per year. Translating this into monetary terms amounts to about US$$1.5 million per year. Socio-economic lives of people in the communities were negatively affected because fuel wood utilization in salt production adversely results to deforestation, environmental pollution and high cost of fuel wood in the communities. The quality and quantity (output) of salt recovering process were not commiserating to time, energy and monetary input in the process. It was observed that the distillate (freshwater portion) of the salt recovery from the saline water was not considered as an important component of the salt extraction process. This is because the salt producers were only interested on the salt extract as the only useful output of the extraction process. Recovery of freshwater component of the process could be an additional valuable income if considered.
 Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: For sustainable salt production and freshwater recovery from the process solar desalination method was recommended for salt processing in the communities. The incorporation of solar desalination system into the age long traditional known method of salt processing will enhance salt production and boast socio-economic activities in the communities. A study of this kind is likely to help solve a major problem of acute water shortage in some communities whose water bodies are salty. The study could be a useful tool for policy makers in making rational policy that would improve and enhance salt and fresh water production as an enterprise.

COVID-19 Outbreak and Behavioral Maladjustments: A Shift from a Highly Globalized World to a Strange World of Unique Isolationism

The outbreak popularly called COVID-19 which sneaked into the world system generally believed to have originated from China in the city of Wuhan towards the last quarter of the year 2019 in a manner yet to be unfold by the world powers has been judged to be a great threat to human activities and coexistence. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic between February and March, year 2020 and since then it has been a strange world. This paper examined the socio-economic changes and behavioral maladjustments resulting from this deadly disease. The demand and supply shocks as well as the use of fiscal stimulus from different countries and how some key variables respond are well analyzed and structured. The paper underlying some of the damages done to the socio-economic lives of people across the globe and highlight some recovery strategies and future prospects. It recommends spirituality as a winning strategy against carnality. The conclusion was drawn by emphasizing the supremacy of God in the fact that a microbe of invisible property could hastily change our world of global village to a strange world of isolated cities

Article Review: Impact of Kissan Credit Cards on the Socio-Economic Life of People in Jammu and Kashmir (2017) byNasir Ahmad Ganaie and Ramdas Rupavath

Article Review of “Impact of Kissan Credit Cards on the Socio-Economic Life of People in Jammu and Kashmir”(2017) by Nasir Ahmad Ganaie & Ramdas Rupavath, International Journal of Modern Social Sciences, 6(1), pp. 1-21, ISSN: 2169-9917, Florida, USA.

Financial Inclusion & Implementation of Jan Dhan Yojna – Information Technology as Enabler

With the announcement of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY) on 28 August 2014, the current government has once again attempted to implement Financial Inclusion in the country. This scheme is based on “Sab ka sath sab ka vikas” i.e. inclusive growth. It has far reaching impact on the socio-economic lives of people, as it ensures that everyone in the society gets access to social, economic and political opportunities without any discrimination. This facet is strongly linked with the concept of inclusive growth. Technology can play an important role in not only reducing operating cost of providing banking services, particularly in the rural and unbanked areas but also increasing the reach of the financial sector to the remotest areas. There are technologies that could drive the growth in financial inclusion and with further development and innovation in Information Technology it is succeeding in its desired objective.

Portraying the Performing Artistes in Early India in the Context of Ancient Indian Scripters

<p><em><strong>I</strong>n ancient India theatrical performances were the main attractions for the people. Literary evidences prove that ancient Indian theatre is a comprehensive one and is a very popular for entertainment. Cultural arts like dancing, singing, puppet shows etc. were formulated and enacted from pre-Vedic period onwards. Historically, the origin of dance as a form of entertainment can be traced in the Indus valley period. The findings of archeological excavations from Mohenjo-Daro suggest that dance was very much popular in those days. ‘Some of the earliest representations of scenes of dancing occur in cave paintings found in Mesolithic rock shelters. Subsequently, finds of sculpture and representations on seals from Harappan civilization (c. 2700- 1800 BCE) have been taken to represent dancers.’<a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/SPub/Desktop/July%202016%20IRA%20Issues/IRAJEMS/IRAJEMS8.docx#_edn1"><sup><sup>[i]</sup></sup></a> The posture of grey slate figure of a male dancer from Harappa reminds of tāṇḍava and supports the affinity between the male deity of Harappan culture and later Śiva. It seems that Indus people were interested in theatrical art very much<sup>.<a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/SPub/Desktop/July%202016%20IRA%20Issues/IRAJEMS/IRAJEMS8.docx#_edn2"><sup>[ii]</sup></a></sup></em></p><p><em>Some scholars hold the view that theatrical performances developed from the instinct of primitive peoples to imitate the action of people and nature around them.<a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/SPub/Desktop/July%202016%20IRA%20Issues/IRAJEMS/IRAJEMS8.docx#_edn3"><sup><sup>[iii]</sup></sup></a>During their leisure they had cultivated various kinds of fine arts, music, dance etc. Further, it developed as theatrical art and it provides suitable jobs, artistic engagements and also a source of livelihood for men and women. Scholars suggest that performance tradition emerged probably from ritual contexts. A.L. Basham says, ‘as in most other civilizations there is little doubt that the Indian drama developed from ritual miming song and dance.’<a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/SPub/Desktop/July%202016%20IRA%20Issues/IRAJEMS/IRAJEMS8.docx#_edn4"><sup><sup>[iv]</sup></sup></a>A.B. Keith also shares this opinion. He states, ‘The Vedic ritual contained within themselves the germs of drama, yet there are nothing but elements of representation.’<a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/SPub/Desktop/July%202016%20IRA%20Issues/IRAJEMS/IRAJEMS8.docx#_edn5"><sup><sup>[v]</sup></sup></a>Most probably dancing and singing were regarded as important features of ritual performances. Practice of various forms of performing arts in the socio-economic life of people has been traced in ancient Indian literature. ‘In Vedic period, music and dance can be divided mainly under two heads; ritual and secular/ social.’<sup><sup><a title="" href="file:///C:/Users/SPub/Desktop/July%202016%20IRA%20Issues/IRAJEMS/IRAJEMS8.docx#_edn6">[vi]</a></sup></sup></em></p><div> </div>

Morphological and microsatellite DNA diversity of Nigerian indigenous sheep

BackgroundSheep is important in the socio-economic lives of people around the world. It is estimated that more than half of our once common livestock breeds are now endangered. Since genetic characterization of Nigerian sheep is still lacking, we analyzed ten morphological traits on 402 animals and 15 microsatellite DNA markers in 384 animals of the 4 Nigerian sheep breeds to better understand genetic diversity for breeding management and germplasm conservation.ResultsMorphological traits of Uda and Balami were significantly (P < 0.05) higher than Yankasa, which were both higher than West African Dwarf (WAD) sheep. Stepwise discriminant analysis showed tail length, rump height, chest girth, ear length and chest depth as the most discriminating variables for classification. Mahalanobis distances show the least differentiation between Uda and Balami and the largest between WAD and Balami sheep. While 93.3% of WAD sheep were correctly assigned to their source genetic group, 63.9% of Yankasa, 61.2% of Balami and 45.2% of Uda were classified correctly by nearest neighbour discriminant analysis. The overall high Polymorphism Information Content (PIC) of all microsatellite markers ranged from 0.751 to 0.927 supporting their use in genetic characterization. Expected heterozygosity was high for all loci (0.783 to 0.93). Mean heterozygote deficiency across all populations (0.171 to 0.534) possibly indicate significant inbreeding (P < 0.05). Mean values for FST, FIT and FIS statistics across all loci were 0.088, 0.394 and 0.336 respectively. Yankasa and Balami are the most closely related breeds (DA = 0.184) while WAD and Balami are the farthest apart breeds (DA = 0.665), which is coincident with distance based on morphological analysis and population structure assessed by STRUCTURE.ConclusionsThese results suggest that within-breed genetic variation in Nigerian sheep is higher than between-breeds and may be a valuable tool for genetic improvement and conservation. The higher genetic variability in Yankasa suggests the presence of unique ancestral alleles reflecting the presence of certain functional genes which may result in better adaptability in more agro-ecological zones of Nigeria. These genetic characteristics are potentially useful in planning improvement and conservation strategies in Nigerian indigenous sheep.

Tourism in the West of Ireland: Solution to Economic Collapse or Part of the Problem?

Those of us who study the impacts of tourism have Valene Smith (1977) to thank for being among the first to ask the questions that we all ask on a regular basis when thinking about our research: What impacts does tourism have on local people? How does tourism potentially commodify cultures, traditions and beliefs? Can a balance be struck between the economic benefits of tourism and its negative impacts? In this article, I apply these classic lines of inquiry to the causes and effects of the recent economic crash in Ireland. I focus on two case studies in particular to illustrate the role that tourism played in creating the dramatic economic boom called the Celtic Tiger of the 1990s and 2000s and its subsequent role in the equally dramatic collapse of the Irish economy since 2007. The tourism industry is a disappointingly perfect microcosm of the widespread corruption, greed, and wild overspending that occurred during the Celtic Tiger era. Still, tourism is so integrated into socioeconomic lives of people in the west of Ireland that it must also play a key role in a recovery from the crisis over the coming years.