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<#LINE#>Efficacy of Progressive Muscles Relaxation Therapy on Functional Disability and Self-Esteem: A Study among Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients<#LINE#>R.@Nithya,Mahendran@P.<#LINE#>1-3<#LINE#>1.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-40.pdf<#LINE#> Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, INDIA<#LINE#>1/3/2014<#LINE#>3/6/2014<#LINE#>The belief about global abilities of oneself (Self-Esteem) is strongly connected to Functional Disabilities Functional Disability, known as a physical condition that limits a person’s movement, senses or activities. Although Self-Esteem and Functional Disabilities have been shown to be important variables in the phenomenology and maintenance of healthy life in adolescents, they have yet to be examined in conjunction with one another. Progressive muscle relaxation training as a sole treatment has shown enhancement in Self – Esteem. The present study was conducted with an objective to evaluate the effect of Progressive Muscle Relaxation therapy on Functional Disability and Self- Esteem among Obstructive Sleep Apnea patients.  A total sample of 50 Obstructive Sleep Apnea  patients identified with the age range of 20 to 40 years, based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria from a diagnostic center, were approached for the data collection and  result shows that the Progressive Muscle Relaxation therapy is more effective in reducing Functional Disability and improving Self – Esteem of patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. The research was discussed with respective to clinical conditions of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Suggestions for further research included. <#LINE#> @ @ American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Internal classification of sleep disorders, 2nd Edition:  Diagnostic and coding manual,  Westchester, IL: American Academy of Sleep Medicine (2005) @No $ @ @ Young T., Palta M., Dempsey J., Skatrud J., Weber S. and Badr S., The occurrence of sleep-disordered breathing among middle-aged adults, N Engl J Med, 328, 1230-5 (1993) @No $ @ @ Arnold P. and Chapman M., Self-esteem, aspirations and expectations of adolescents with physical disability, Dev Med Child Neurol., 34(2), 97–102 (1992) @No $ @ @ Harter S., The construction of the self: A developmental perspective, New York: Guilford Press (1999) @No $ @ @ Elaine Faria et.al., Health – related Quality of Life, Self – Esteem, and Functional Status of Patients with Leg Ulcers, Wounds 23(1), 4-10 (2011) @No $ @ @ Mohamad Rodi Isa. a Foong Ming Moy.Impact of Applied Progressive Deep Muscle Relaxation Training on the Level of Depression, Anxiety and Stress among Prostate Cancer Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention,14, (2013) @No $ @ @ Wachelka D., et,al., Reducing test anxiety and improving academic self-esteem in high school and college students with learning disabilities, J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry, 30(3), 191-8 (1999) @No $ @ @ Sherer M., Maddux J.E., Mercandante B., Prentice-Dunn, S., Jacobs, B. and Rogers, R.W. The self-efficacy scale: Construction and validation, Psychological Reports, 51, 663-671 (1982) @No $ @ @ Claar R.L. and Walker L.S., Functional assessment of pediatric pain patients: Psychometric properties of the Functional Disability Inventory, Pain, 121(1-2), 77-84 (2006) @No $ @ @ Walker and Greene, The functional disability inventory: measuring a neglected dimension of child health status, J Pediatr Psychol., Feb;16(1), 39-58 (1991) @No $ @ @  @No 
<#LINE#>Role of New Media in Political Discussion and Changing Voting Behavior of University Students<#LINE#>Ali@Arshad,Ali@HassanSyed<#LINE#>4-9<#LINE#>2.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-87.pdf<#LINE#> Centre for Media and Communication Studies, University of Gujrat, Post code 50700 Gujrat, Punjab, PAKISTAN<#LINE#>22/4/2014<#LINE#>9/5/2014<#LINE#>This research examines the role of new media in creating political awareness among university students. Mostly students use internet for entertainment as well as political information. In current scenario new media consider as a source of information that has power to change voting behavior and perception of people and it also persuades them towards new political parties. For this purpose sample size has been taken from university of Gujrat’s students. Finding represents that students discuss and share the political information with their online community or social community. <#LINE#> @ @ McCombs M.E. and Shaw D.L, The agenda setting function of mass media, Public Opinion Quarrer/T, 36,176-85, (1972) @No $ @ @ Sanson, Facebook and youth mobilization, 171-172 (2008) @No $ @ @ Wilcox Dennis L., Glen T. Cameron, Philip H. Ault, and Warren K. Agee, Public Relations:  Strategies and Tactics. Boston, MS: Pearson Education, Inc, (2003) @No $ @ @ Lee B., Karen and Lee, Agenda-setting and the internet: The inter-media influence of internet bulletin boards on newspaper coverage of the 2000 general election in South Korea, Asian Journal of Communication,15(1), 57–71 (2005) @No $ @ @ Maxwell, McCombs, Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion (Repr. ed.), Cambridge: Blackwell Pub. 198. ISBN 978-0-7456-2313-9 (2004) @No $ @ @ Kim S.T., Lee, New functions of Internet mediated agenda-setting: Agenda-rippling and reversed agendasetting. Korean Journal of Journalism and Communication Studies,50(3), 175–205 (2006) @No $ @ @ http://www.sappk.org/publications/eng_publications/Democracy_and_Governance.pdf (2008) @No $ @ @ http://ipripak.org/journal/winter2010/Article1.pdf (2010) @No $ @ @ http://www.sappk.org/publications/eng_publications/Democracy_and_Governance.pdf (2008) @No $ @ @ http://www.sagepub.com/mcquail6/Online%20readings/19e%20Pasek%20et%20al.pdf (2006) @No $ @ @ http://advanced.jhu.edu/bin/u/p/Wu-Genesis_of_Civic_Awareness. pdf (2014) @No $ @ @ http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/ogandy/c45405%20resources/scheufele%20framing%20as%20effects.pdf (1999) @No $ @ @ http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/prat/papers/mediasurvey.pdf (2010) @No $ @ @ http://www.jgroshek.com/AEJMC_Groshek_Dimitrova. pdf (2005) @No $ @ @  @No 
<#LINE#>Offences against Children: Criminal Justice and Social issues in India<#LINE#>Chandrashekar@S.V.<#LINE#>10-12<#LINE#>3.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-46.pdf<#LINE#>School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi, Karnataka, INDIA<#LINE#>9/3/2014<#LINE#>24/4/2014<#LINE#>Offence against children is concerned very seriously allover globally, Even United nation play vital role in order to make protection of children rights. But scenario of crime rate indicates there is need to rethink of present law quite often, which are suitable to protect children from the victimization. Since ages, children have been victimized by one abuse or the other. It is not wrong to say that they are a neglected lot. For children there has never been a golden age. Throughout the history of our society, Children have been bought sold, enslaved, exploited and killed. Sexual offences are very serious crimes not only physically but also mentally. Sometimes children are abandoned severely beaten and physically abused. In fact, the more we go in history we find that the lot of children’s had been hushes, and crueler. Poverty and man situation have specially led to killing of children. Exploitation of children is another major problem. There is certain law to protect children, constitutional rights, and offences and its classifications consequences in criminal justice system are discussed. Regarding highlighted factors present paper attempts to focus on the law related issues, provisions, preventive factors analyses and rights of child victims are focused. For this study secondary sources were used.  <#LINE#> @ @ Paranjape P.V, Criminology and Penology (2006) @No $ @ @ Sharma R.N, Criminology and penology, Surjeet publication, New Delhi (2008) @No $ @ @ Crime in India report, National crimes records bureau, Ministry of Home affairs, New Delhi (2012) @No $ @ @ National Crimes Records bureau report (2012) @No $ @ @ The gazette of India Ministry of law and Justice, New Delhi (2012) @No $ @ @ Puja Changoiwala, Mumbai stands second in crime against children in India, Hindustan times, Mumbai (2004) @No $ @ @ Crime in India, A Statistical Appraisal,Ministry of statistics and Program Implementation Government of India (2012) @No $ @ @ Neha Madaan,  Crime against Children on the rise, Times of India, Aug 21,  (2013) @No $ @ @ Bharani N., Domestic violence and Human rights, Int,Res.J.Social Sci., 2(9), 7-10 (2013) @No $ @ @ Ratan lal and Dhiraj lal, Criminal Procedure Code,15thEdition (2000) @No $ @ @ Ratan lal and Dhiraj lal, Indian penal Code, 30th Edition, (2008) @No $ @ @ Jan van Dijik, Crime prevention and Human Security: a United Nations Perspective (2004) @No $ @ @ Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, (1985) @No $ @ @  @No 
<#LINE#>Disparities in Social development and Status of women: An analysis of India and its States<#LINE#>Ranjana@Kesarwani,Awdhesh@Yadav<#LINE#>13-22<#LINE#>4.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-91.pdf<#LINE#>International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, INDIA<#LINE#>30/4/2014<#LINE#>12/5/2014<#LINE#>  The higher status of women has been widely acknowledged as an important tool in social and economic development of any society. A diverse body of literature has emerged regarding the measurement of women status and its relationship with variables of social and economic development. Thus, focus of the article is to examine the association between women’s status and social development in India. All three rounds of National Family Health Survey data were analyzed for 26 states of India and inter-state comparison is done in the context of changing status of women and social opportunities. To assess the women changing status, different indicators like female literacy rate (age 6+), median age at first marriage, women using modern contraceptive, not anemic, Institutional delivery, exposed to any source of media, current work status, involved in the decision Making to own Health and access of money are considered. However overall literacy rate, percent of urban population, under five mortality rate, percent of household with piped drinking water, household with any toilet facility and electricity facility, household with house type, full vaccination coverage, crude birth rate, crude death rate and total fertility rates have been considered for social indicator. To examine the changing status of women and social development we have created the two indices for each dimension named as Women Status index (WSI) and Social Development Index (SDI) using the Taxonomic approach. In the end, the nexus between social development and women status has been figured out with the help of correlation and regression analysis and upshots proves the intense association between the two dimensions. <#LINE#> @ @ Dreze J. and Sen A., India Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford University Press (1995) @No $ @ @ Bilance, A world in balance – Bilance stands for Social Development: Policy paper, Oegstgeest (1997) @No $ @ @ Dreze J. and Sen A., India Economic Development and Social Opportunity, New Delhi: Oxford Univeristy Press (1999) @No $ @ @ Balakrishnana T.R., Status of women, development and demographic change, Canadian Studies in Population,14(1), (1987) @No $ @ @ Iravani M.R., Study of the Status of Women in Economical and Social Development in Iran, Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research,1(12), 3027-3032 (2011) @No $ @ @ Pradhan J.P. and Abraham V., Women’s Status and Economic Growthh- an Analysis of Indian States. In T. Sukhdeo, J.P. 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Abraham, Industrialisation, Economic Reforms and Regional Development, Delhi: Shipra Publication (2005) @No $ @ @ Sulaja S., Social Development and Women in Status- An Analysis of South Indian States, The Journal of Family Welfare,50(2), 55-57 (2004) @No $ @ @ Kumar N.P., Status of Women and Economic Development A Decadal Analysis Based on Indian Census, Indiastat.com socio - economic voices,(2011) @No $ @ @ Human Development Report office, The 2013 Human Development Report-The Rise of the South: Human Progress in South World, United Nations Development Programme, 144-147  (2013) @No $ @ @ International Institute for Population Sciences, National Family Health Survey-1: State Volumes, Mumbai: IIPS (1993) @No $ @ @ International Institute for Population Sciences, National Family Health Survey-2: State Volumes, Mumbai: IIPS  (1999) @No $ @ @ International Institute for Population Sciences, National Family Health Survey-3: State Volumes, Mumbai: IIPS (2006) @No $ @ @ King E. and Hill A., Women’s Education in Developing Countries, Baltimore, John Hopkins Press (1995) @No $ @ @ Prakasham C.P. and Subramanyam L.B., Family Planning Performance in India- A Methodological Approach, Journal of Family Welfare,31(3), 39-45 (1985) @No $ @ @ Harbison F.H.,  Maruchic J.H. and Resunick J.R., Quantitative Analysis of Modernization and Development,New Jersy: Princeton University, Princeton (1970) @No $ @ @ Callahan D., The WHO Definition of ‘Health’.The Concept of Health 1(3), 77-87  (1973) @No $ @ @ WHO, World Health Report 2000. 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<#LINE#>Effectiveness of Print and Electronic media Advertisement: A comparative study<#LINE#>Upadhyay,BalKrishna@Indu<#LINE#>23-28<#LINE#>5.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-102.pdf<#LINE#>  Makhanlal Chaturvedi Rashtriya Patrakarita Evam Sanchar Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, INDIA <#LINE#>12/5/2014<#LINE#>22/6/2014<#LINE#>In the age when electronic media seems to be taking over the print media, it becomes necessary to understand as to why people have started to shift their attention from print to media. The present study has been built with three fold objectives that intends to cast light to the attitude people hold towards print and electronic media, the nature of influence media has on day to day decisions of people and compare the effects of print and electronic media on people’s life. As electronic media television and radio only have been taken for the present study and the print media, in the study, includes all kind of newspapers, newsletters and magazines, which are more readily available at home, on roadsides, in markets everywhere. A sample of 100 students was selected to be included in the present study. An interview schedule was devised consisting of various items pertaining to the objectives of the study. The results have been prepared using Excel and SPSS based analysis package. The results have indicated more positive attitude towards the electronic media, especially the Television, and print media has been placed in the second position. Also the effects of television were observed to be more intriguing than the other form of media in question. It seems that the new generation is more inclined towards the use of new media and in coming years there will be significant shift in the role new media in the lives of people. The study has concluded with proposed future directions for further research in this area of enquiry  <#LINE#> @ @ Ahlers D., News Consumption and the New Electronic Media. Press/Politics,11(1), 29-52 DOI: 10.1177/ 1081180X05284317 (2006) @No $ @ @ Wirtz B.W., Media and Internet Management, Germany: Gabler Verlag, (2011) @No $ @ @ Ray G.N., Future of Print Media, Inauguraladdress presented at the Seminar on “Future of Print Media” on 17th February, at Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata) (2009) @No $ @ @ Chatterjee M., Contemporary Changes in Print Media In India. Paper presented at a Seminar on “Future of Print Media” on 17th February, at Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata (2009) @No $ @ @ National Readership Survey (NRS) (2006) @No $ @ @ Stone L., Conscious Computing. Downloaded from world wide web http://lindastone.net/2012/04/20/ conscious-computing-36/, (2006) @No $ @ @ The Indian Readership Survey (2012) @No $ @ @ Shukla N.K. and Shukla N.K., Effectiveness of Marketing and Advertisement Through Electronic Media. Downloaded from world wide web http://lotus.edu.in/publication/index.php?option=com_ contentandview=articleandid=71:effectiveness-of-marketing-a-advertisement-through-electronic-mediaandcatid =38:marketing-zephyr-vol-3iiandItem id=56 (2011) @No $ @ @ Dijkstra M., Buijtels H. and van Raaij F., Separate and joint effects of medium type on consumer responses: A comparison of television, print, and the internet. Journal of Business Research, 58(3), 377-386 (2005) @No $ @ @ Indian Readership Survey (2013) @No $ @ @  @No 
<#LINE#>Study on self Concept among Rural Girl students<#LINE#>K.Kavitha@Maheswari,J.GodwinPrem@Singh<#LINE#>29-35<#LINE#>6.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-117.pdf<#LINE#> P.G. and Research Department of Social Work, Shrimati Indira Gandhi College, Tiruchirappalli-620002, Tamil Nadu, INDIA @ P.G. and Research Department of Social Work, Bishop Heber College,Tiruchirappalli- 620017, Tamil Nadu, INDIA <#LINE#>22/5/2014<#LINE#>28/6/2014<#LINE#>The self concept is the individual’s perception of her abilities and her status and roles in the outer world. There is a causal relationship between the self concept and the rate of learning and achievement. It is one of the important determinants of achievement motivation. The ideal self is important for higher aspiration and high future performance. The students’ self concept will decide what goals suit him and how she should strive for their realisation and it will also determine her level of aspiration. This descriptive study is an attempt to know perceived level of self-concept among the rural girl students in Pennagaram Block of Dharmapuri District. There were 370 respondents selected by using stratified proportionate random sampling technique constituted the sample. The researcher used questionnaire pertaining to personal data along with .Self -concept questionnairedeveloped by Dr. Rajkumar Saraswat. Major findings of this study revealed that more than half (56.5%) of the respondents had high self concept. As per the study results it is understood that no socio-demographic variable has influence over the respondent’s self concept except the course of study. <#LINE#> @ @ Fite, Karthy, Narma, K. Zinkgraf and Steve, Self concept, anxiety and attitude toward school: A correlation study. TACD Journal: Spring, 20(1), 21-28, (1992) @No $ @ @ Muhammad Maqsud and Sepideh Rouhani, Relationships between socioeconomic status, locus of control, self-concept, and academic achievement of batswana adolescents, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 20(1),107-114 (1991) @No $ @ @ Niebuhr K., The effect of motivation on the relationship of school climate, family environment and student characteristics to academic achievement ERIC Document Reproduction Service ED 393 202,. (1995) @No $ @ @ Schunk D.H. and Pjares F., The development of academic self-efficacy, Development of achievement motivation 15-32, San Diego, CA: Academic press 15-32 (2002) @No $ @ @  @No 
<#LINE#>The Situation in Contractual Work at Domestic Sphere:  A Study of the Paid Female Domestic Workers of Howrah, West Bengal, India<#LINE#>Soumi@Dey<#LINE#>36-42<#LINE#>7.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-97.pdf<#LINE#>  Dept. of Anthropology, University of Calcutta. West Bengal. INDIA<#LINE#>3/5/2014<#LINE#>13/6/2014<#LINE#>The present study is on the Hindu Bengali speaking women who were mainly from Schedule Caste and Other Backward Class  group, work in the informal sector as a domestic worker (maids) locally termed as Thiker (contractual)  jhi (lady) / Kajer (worker) masi (aunty) at the urban areas of Howrah district of West Bengal. They perform the household tasks, mainly washing of utensils and clothes, sweeping and cleaning house along with other run errand as well as few outdoor tasks like irregular grocery shopping etc. The research has tried to explore the present situation of the domestic workers from the narratives of the self of the householders and of the domestic workers themselves. Participants were selected by using snowball technique. Total hundred respondents of domestic workers and fifty householders were interviewed. The defense statements of the employers were collected to understand the existing situation. Study explored the violence faced by the domestic worker at their workplace consciously or unconsciously due to the underlined concept of unclean occupation and the exploitations due to their poor economic and educational condition. <#LINE#> @ @ Machado R. and Maria J.,  Domestic work, conditions of work and employment: A legal perspective, International Labour Organization (ILO), Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 7, (2003) @No $ @ @ Sundaram I.S., The Plight of Unorganised Workers, in S. N Tripathi (eds.) Unorganised Women Labourer In India. 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<#LINE#>Womens Rights in India: Problems and Prospects<#LINE#>Saryal@Sutapa<#LINE#>49-53<#LINE#>9.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-84.pdf<#LINE#> DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh, INDIA<#LINE#>21/4/2014<#LINE#>16/5/2014<#LINE#>United Nation in its Millennium Summit in 2000 declared ‘Gender Equality and Women Empowerment’ as one among the eight ‘Millennium Development Goal’ to be achieved by the year 2015. However these goals are far from being realized in a country like India. Infact often women in India are deprived of their fundamental right to dignity also, leave alone the question of gender parity. The present paper explores the questions central to women’s right in India that is fundamentally patriarchal in nature. The article attempts to grapple with the few challenges faced by the women in India like the dowry, female foeticide, denial of inheritance rights, sale and trafficking of girls etc. The objective of the paper is to evolve strategies to empower women uniformly like the men.<#LINE#> @ @ Sen Amartya, Missing Women, British Medical Journal, 304, 587-588 (1992) @No $ @ @ bonjourplanetearth.blogspot.com.au (2014) @No $ @ @ Sabharwal Sagun, K.G. Santhya and Shireen J Jejeebhoy, Determinants of Marital violence, Economic and Political Weekly, 47, 41-45 (2013) @No $ @ @ www.freiheit.org, ielrc.org (2014) @No $ @ @ National Commission on Population, National Population Policy 2000-Objectives, National Commission on Population, Government of India (2000)  (http://populationcommission.nic.in/npp_obj.htm)  @No $ @ @  Kishwar Madhu, Where daughters are unwanted, Manushi, 86, 15-22 (1995) @No $ @ @ Jha P., R. Kumar, P. Vasa and N. Dhingra et al, Low Male to female sex ratio of children born in India: national survey of 1.1 million households, Lancet, 367, 211-18 (2006)  www.homeoffice.gov.uk   @No $ @ @  Vishwanath L.S., Female Infanticide: The Colonial Experience, Economic and Political Weekly, 45, 2313-2318 (2004) @No $ @ @ www.unhchr.ch (2014) @No $ @ @ http://www.unhabitat.org/tenure; http://www.unhabitat.org /gender; http://www.unhabitat.org/campaigns; www. unhabitat. net (2014) @No $ @ @ Agarwal Bina, Are We Not Peasants Too? Land Rights and Women’s Claims in India, Population Council, 4 (2002) @No $ @ @ Sarpotdar Anagha, Sexual harassment of Women: Reflections on the Private Sector, Economic and Political Weekly, 47, 18-23 (2013) @No $ @ @ Ncrb.gov.in/CD…/statistics2012.pdf (2014) @No $ @ @ Mihra Sweta, Women and 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act: A Critical Appraisal, Social Action,  44, 16-30 (1997) @No $ @ @ Narayan Shashi S., Gender Equality through reservation in decision making bodies, Social Action,  48, 148 (1998) @No $ @ @ Kishwar Madhu, Off the beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women, OUP, New Delhi, 200-205, 1999)17.Menon, Nivedita(ed) Gender and Politics in India, OUP , New Delhi, 455-460, (1999) @No $ @ @ Agnes, Flavia Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women’s Rights in India, OUP, New Delhi, 127-128 (1999)  ; www.anna.iwate-pu.ac.jp  @No $ @ @  Chatterji Angana, Women in search of human equality, Social Action, 40, 46-56 (1990) @No $ @ @ Sivaramayya B., Status of Women and Social Change, Journal of Indian Law Institute,25, 270 (1983) @No $ @ @  @No 
<#LINE#>The Recent Depreciation of the INR against the USD: An Analysis of Currency Fluctuations<#LINE#>V.K.@Narasimhan<#LINE#>54-56<#LINE#>10.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-107.pdf<#LINE#> BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus<#LINE#>14/5/2014<#LINE#>16/6/2014<#LINE#>The exchange rate of the USD against the INR had been roughly steady at around 45.00 for a long period, until the subprime crisis of 2008. But post the crisis, some effects of the crisis, as well as some effects of the responses by regulatory authorities all over the world to the crisis led to a fluctuation in the currency exchange rates, causing it to go to almost as high as 70 over the past year. This has had serious ramifications for the Indian economy, as the US Dollar is one of the most widely used global currencies. This article tries to delve deep into the global economic environment after the crisis and analyze the various factors responsible for this significant fluctuation and depreciation in the value of the Indian Rupee against the US Dollar <#LINE#> @ @ Tumer Kapan and Camelia Minoiu, Liquidity shocks and the credit supply after the 2007-08 crisis, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 19, 19-23 (2014) @No $ @ @ Pathania Rajni, Linkages between Export, Import and Capital Formation in India, International Research Journal of Social Sciences, 2(3), 16-19 (2013) @No $ @ @ Ajay Shah and Ilai Patnaik, India’s experience with Capital Flows: The elusive quest for a sustainable Current Account Deficit, NBER working paper, 113872005)  @No $ @ @  Cheung, Yin-Wong &Sengupta, Rajeswari, Impact of exchange rate movements on exports: An analysis of Indian non-financial sector firms, Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, 39(C), 231-245, (2013) @No $ @ @ Jens H.E.Christensen and James M. Gillan, Does Quantitative easing affect market liquidity, Federal Bank of SanFransisco, Working paper Series November (2013) @No $ @ @ Volker Wieland, Quantitative Easing: A rationale and some evidence from Japan, NBER working paper, 15565, December (2009) @No $ @ @ Anand M.R., Gupta G.L. and Ranjan Dash, The Euro-zone Crisis: Its dimensions and implications, Finance ministry working paper series, January (2012) @No $ @ @ Popovici O.C. and Calvin A.C., Effective toll for improving the central and eastern European countries’ attractiveness for Foreign Direct Investment: Reducing corruption, International Research Journal of Social Sciences,2(7),1-7 (2013) @No $ @ @ Vipul Bhatt and  Arvind Virmani, Global Integration of India’s Money market: Interest Rate parity in India, Indian Council for Research and International Economic Relations, Working paper, 164, (2005) @No $ @ @ Sravanthi S., Investment Schemes for NRI in India and guidelines for them, International Research Journal of Social Sciences, 2(11), 37-40 (2013) @No $ @ @ Jha G.M., Agarwal A., Gupta A. and Mishra A.K., Determinants of FDI in South Asia, International Research Journal of Social Sciences,2(1), 1-6, (2013) @No $ @ @ Sarkar Rimi and Ghosh Aritra, Rabindranath Tagore: In the age of globalization, International Research Journal of Social Sciences, 2(2), 48-51 (2013) @No $ @ @  @No