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AN IN DEPTH STUDY OF INDIAN TELECOM INDUSTRY � ITS MARKET SIZE, CONSUMER TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES AUTHOR: DR SURPREET SAHAI ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AVADH GIRLS� DEGREE COLLEGE LUCKNOW-226001 E-mail Id: surpreetsahai@gmail.com Abstract: Due to recent growth in the IT industry, there has been a boom in the Indian telecom sector because of which market size has increased. Since there has been great dependency of the Indian population on this sector; as several companies are operating in India as well as overseas, due to which there has been frequent problems in the smooth functioning of this sector as customer�s needs and desires are increasing day by day. On the other hand, many private players have been providing opportunities and growth to both individuals as well as to the economy, which need to be studied in the coming years for the self-sufficiency of the Indian economy. The telecom industry in India has been displaying sustained high growth rates. Riding on expectation of overall high economic growth and consequent rising of income levels, it offers an unprecedented opportunity for foreign investment. Combination of these factors is deriving growth in telecom market, promising rich return on investment. This study will provide an insight into the telecom sector and the steps being taken by them to improve their relationship with their customers. From the study, one can understand the present scenario of the practices and programs being followed by the leading players in this sector and the process followed by them to enhance customer retention and customer satisfaction that in turn, leads to enhanced profits and brand image in the minds of the customers. . The paper would also help provide customized as well as tailored solutions to the telecom industry in terms of planning long-term strategies relating to marketing and other operating divisions.

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Telecom sector, customer satisfaction, economic growth, mobile market

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The aim of the study was to study the nutritional practices of female football players. The nutritional intake of 24 female football players of Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra was recorded by the players them self for a period of one week. Participants were provided with written and verbal guidelines for the completion of the diaries. During this one week period the training imparted to the players were also recorded. This was used in combination with BMR predictions to calculate daily energy expenditure. Results suggest that energy intake was low (1735 � 250.4 kcal) in relation to previous recommendations for football players. Energy expenditure (1915.6 � 410.4 kcal) was not significantly different (p > 0.05) from intake, suggesting energy balance was achieved. Carbohydrate (47.6 � 5.4%), protein (12.6 � 1.9%) and fat (22.7 � 5.4%) intakes were in line with recommendations. Fluid intake (2150 � 847.7 ml per day) was sufficient to meet baseline recommendations, but would need to be higher to meet the additional requirement of training and competition. With the exception of vitamin A and iron, all micronutrient intakes were higher than the DRI. With the help of this study it is recommended that female football players should increase the intake carbohydrate and take more fluid and ensure sufficient iron rich foods to meet out the required intake volume.

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Keywords: Football, Carbohydrate, Protein, Fluid

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Background: Most of the medicine users remain unaware about the disposal of unused and expired medicines. The aim of this study was to know the disposal practices of this unused and expired medications in general public in south Delhi. Method: This was a descriptive cross sectional survey conducted online by using a pre-validated questionnaire. The responses collected were checked for accuracy and SPSS version 23 was used for the statistical analysis. Result: Response from a total of 393 individuals was collected. The respondents belonged to different professions. The study found that the majority of respondents, about 93% of them, had some kind of unused and expired medication while about 80% of the respondents admitted to stocking of medicines for future use. Among the respondents 14% said that they have unused medication because there was a change of medication and 28% said that they shared their medication with friends and family. 82% of the respondents discarded the unwanted medications in to the dustbins. Almost the entire sample (98%) felt that improper disposal of unused and expired medication can have an adverse effect on the environment. Conclusion: The study indicates that the level of awareness among the general population of south Delhi regarding the disposal practices of unwanted medications is low, and there is a need for an appropriate method for disposal of unwanted medication. Hence, guidelines on safe methods of collection and disposing of unused medication needs to be introduced.

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disposal practices, expired medicines, unused medicines, environment, human health

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Abstract The study examined the integration and appropriateness of BIS/BAS scales (Carver and White, 1994) in the light of different personality context of Indian working women. A behavioral dimension of motivational theory focuses mainly two types of behavior; behavioral approach system (BAS) is regulated by immediate urge or hedonic motives, in which satisfaction comes when one reach towards goals. A behavioral avoidance (or inhibition) system (BIS) represents the avoidance motives, in which some unpleasant mental position distracts them from actual goal. This, depend up on the individual differences at different levels in the consideration of these systems. The high and low margin of BIS/BAS scale represents the psychology of human behavior in different situation and resulting the dimension of behavioral variability from approach to avoidance. The association between BIS/BAS concept evaluates the two extremes between �good� and �bad.� This study would seem to analysis the personality profile and also a variety of association including links with self to a sense of positivity versus negativity. It is also important to examine the characteristics of task and the extent to which stimulates responsive versus potential restrain.

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Key Words: Impulsive Buying Tendency; Coping Behaviour; Hedonic Motives

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Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual and in its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to another through institutions. The major purpose of science education is to increase the flow of specialist scientists, technologists and engineers, it could be argued that young people with a special talent in science should be identified as early as possible and provided with a separate, specialised, and highly focused science education and this identification must start right from the senior school level. Despite this identification we are still facing major problems in Science Education at Senior Secondary Level. Today's gender gap in education often focuses on the advantage males have over females in science and math, but fails to recognize the falling behind of males to females in literacy. So in this study we need to look out for the various reasons for such decline and the possible solutions to overcome this gender stereotypes in order to build a meaningful Scientific Society consisting of both female and male scientists as this discrimination on the basis of sexes is the possible hindrance in the National Development. This paper is an attempt to find out the main drawbacks in the learning outcomes among Goverment School Students which are withholding them to opt Science as their future career option.

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Science Education, Gender Gap, Literacy, Decline, Gender Stereotypes.

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Ankle injuries are common and account for more than five milion emergency department consultations annually. The most common causes of ankle fractures are twisting injuries and falls, followed by sports injuries. Diabetes mellitus and obesity are associated with ankle fractures in middle aged and older adults. The aim of this work to evaluate the outcome in conservative treatment of AO-Weber B fibular fractures. This work involved the (prospective) study of a randomized cases of weber B fibular fracture. A total of 15 cases included, underwent a conservative treatment by immobilization by plaster cast for 6 weeks for follow up period 6 months. Result: The ages of patients ranged from 27 � 60, with mean age 44.3 years. There were 8 females and 7 males, percentage with females was (73.3%) and 7 males with (26.7%), the affected side nearly equal according to the side (53.3%) Right, left (46.7%), 3 patients was diabetics with (33.3%). At the end of the follow up period, patients were assessed by a clinical scoring system. Results showed that the mean was 81.0 � 7.78, that is statistically significant with p value (0.041*). satisfactory score show 8 of the patients are excellent (66.7%), 5 patients were good (33.3%), and the other 2 patients were unsatisfactory 1 faire (6.7%) and one poor (6.7%)., patients were assessed according to the pain in the affected ankle , most of the patients were pain free (66.7%) ,none in 10 cases (66.6), mild in 3 cases (20%), moderate were 2 cases (13.3%), (66.6.%) of the patent had a normal range of motion and the mean time of healing was 7.4 weeks with early return to work and function. Conclusion: 1. Conservative treatment of weber b fibular fractures has a significant outcome compared with the other types of management. 2. The younger patients have more satisfactory results than the older one 3. No significant effect of sex, side affected and occupation on the management outcome. 4-.Diabetic patients and elderly patients are more at risk of particular complications including infection and failure of soft tissue and bone healing

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Oil exploration has enormous economic benefits; however, these benefits are associated with environmental issues arising from oil spills. Numerous methods exist for cleaning up oil spills along with their aftereffect as well as huge financial burden. Hence, the shift to methods that are environmentally friendly and cost effective is imperative so the efficiency and mechanics of using human hair to clean up crude oil contaminated water using various parameters such as contact time, recovery and reuse, adsorbent dosage, temperature, modification. Human hair, being hydrophobic and a biosorbent, has proven to be an efficient material in removing oil from water with a maximum adsorption capacity of crude oil as well as its recovery and reusability. It is independent of the external factors like temperature etc. unlike other methods. Human hair can be modified into boom to clean-up oil spills. Since hair is just a waste product, it has proven to be a cost-effective method. It can adsorb up to 9 times its own weight. Lately, it has been used to clear up a few oil spills successfully and has proven to be a quick process. This is a promising area that researchers need to focus more on in order to explore the huge benefits it presents

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adsorption capacity, clean-up, human hair, oil spill, hair boom, sorbent

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Labour is one of the major resource in this labour intensive Indian construction industry. Due to the transient nature of our industry therefore there are no universally accepted standards to measure factors causing labour productivity loss in construction projects. Objective of this paper is to study factors affecting labour productivity of Autoclaved aerated concrete block masonry activity at construction site in Delhi/NCR, India. The identification and prioritization of the critical factors which affects labour productivity of blockwork activity will assist the project management team to leverage the limited resources at their disposal to improve the labour management on construction site, in order to improve labour productivity. Total 40 factors were identified with the help of work study method and divided into 8 main group as Material, Equipment, Tools & accessories, Labour, Site, Design, Management, and others factors group. The analysis of those 40 factors is considered in a questionnaire survey indicates the 10 most critical factors among all which are negatively affecting the labour productivity are : Inefficient crew composition, Design Complexity, Inexperienced or unskilled worker, no proper Supervision, Non availability of vertical shifting equipment, Unavailability of required material, Poor management of working space, Unclear or inadequate instructions to workers, Unavailability of required tool and No proper or safe scaffolding arrangement. Reliability analysis and validation of the acquired results is done with the help of live construction site in Delhi.

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Labour Productivity, Influencing Factors, Work Study, Productivity Improvement.

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Indian cities are witnessing huge influx of migrating population from smaller towns and cities leading to population increase resulting in increase in property demand and land scarcity. As a result, High-rise residential project demand has been increasing in the Metropolitan Cities. The importance of construction industry in India has grown significantly but at the same time, construction projects in India have become infamous for delays and cost overruns. Construction delays are considered one of the most recurring problems in construction industry and has adverse effects on Project�s success in terms of cost, time and quality. There are many research works conducted to identify various causes of delay in construction and their mitigation measure, yet the problem of delay continues to prevail. Indian metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai include higher number of Residential High-rise projects that have been witnessing delay of over 5 years. While most of the projects are executed conventionally with an emphasis on solving the problems as and when encountered, which eventually leads to delay, most of the delays can be prevented, provided due consideration are adopted in pre-construction stage to mitigate the risk of delays encountered during execution stage. The research aims at identifying the reasons of delay in pre-construction stage that are the root cause of various delays encountered during execution phase of Residential High-rise project. The research also intends to identify mitigation measures for the root causes of delay identified to prevent delays in construction project before the execution begin to prevent the risk of schedule overrun.

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This study of insurance industry and identifies the strategies, challenges, obstacles and problems and implement strategies in life insurances offered. The most condemning fact that must immediately be remedied is the catastrophic expenditure incurred by the patient during the course of the treatment due to the out of pocket expenditure. However, the middle socio-economic group do have some access to the insurance plans, however, this does not hold true to the who are suffering from poverty. Hence, India is a long way from providing equal services to all its citizens even though it is their basic right. With the advent of liberalization, private players have forayed into the market of healthcare insurance. To study the current situation of the healthcare insurance industry of India by analyzing the secondary data obtained from a multitude of sources. .

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