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Higher Academic Studies in India is more focused on subject-related area. But with this we are actually ignoring student's basic skills. Soft skills are the skills which are essential to build student as a good and responsible human being of society. We as a parent, teacher and guide are more concern towards "Three R's" (reading, writing and arithmetic).We always want our child or student to be good in specialized studies which is so called "Knowledge" of respective subjects. Hence channelize our entire energy towards recuperating the same. Developing of appropriate soft-skills among graduates is a challenge for the society. Our research actually reveals the significance of inculcating soft skills among graduates and suggesting the introduction of the NCC studies as a compulsory component for all the streams in higher education.

Working capital refers to the funds required to undertake the day-to-day operations of a firm. To achieve business objectives, an investment of the firm’s capital in current assets and the use of current liabilities to fund part of the investment are required. Therefore, sound working capital management is required in order for the firm to remain competitive in this information age. This study explores the impact of working capital management on the profitability of food complex manufacturing firms operating in and around Addis Ababa. The efficiency of working capital management has been measured by Inventory Turnover Period, Account Receivable Collection Period, Days Payables Outstanding, Cash Conversion Cycle, Current Ratio and Quick assets ratio; and Return on Assets was considered as proxy for profitability. Relevant data for this study has been collected from 10 food complex manufacturing firms’ annual financial statements for the period 2009-2013 and analyzed through descripti...

Job hopping refers to the tendency of a person to work briefly in an organization in particular position rather than staying in an organization for a longer time. This research study is conducted to examine the job hopping tendency in millennial in private sector of Nepal. It also studies the factors which attracts millennial in new organization. The factors which force a person to leave an organization arête seek new opportunities. Generally the considered variables for leaving the job; low pay structure, low potential for growth, and unfair treatment by management and conflict with the immediate supervisor/ Coworkers. The factors considered for choosing the new job; chances of career growth, higher salary, job security, freedom at workplace, reputation of organization and higher position. Materials and methods: Study populations are the millennial working in private organizations of Kathmandu valley. For this study the convenience sampling method was chosen where the data was coll...

A new form of modified CPW-fed half circle fractal patch antenna is proposed for dual band 2.4/5.2 GHz Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) application. The circular shape antenna based on the Descartes Circle (DC) theorem and iteration of self similar design. The -10 dB return loss (VSWR 2:1) impedance bandwidth in 2.4 GHz band is 28% and it covers the required bandwidth for 2.4 GHz WLAN. The 5.2 GHz resonant mode has impedance bandwidth of 40% covering 5.2/5.5/5.8 GHz WLAN bands. The EM characteristics of the antenna are presented by the current distribution. Proposed antenna maintained good radiation patterns with gain. Detailed design steps and results for the designs are studied and investigated in this paper.

Employees’ commitment is an important issue in an organization which is the outcome of sense of trust. All relationships and interactions are formed and based in the sense of trust. It is equally important in workplace relationship. Trust tends to have a strong impact on the relationships between hospital managers and nursing employees. It increases commitment level of nurses. This study focuses on three components of trust in management: competency, integrity and benevolence. The aim of this study is to understand factors affecting employees’ trust in the management among nursing employees of hospitals in Nepal. Nurses are the crucial human resources in health care organization and their commitment play vital role for the overall objective of the hospitals. This study is an analytical and descriptive study based on nursing employees. Using multi-stage purposive sampling, four hundred sixty five nurses were chosen as a sample of the study. This research paper advances a theoretical ...

The concept of green products is not very old in Nepal. This research paper is an endeavor to examine consumer level of awareness and perception towards green products in Nepal. The data has been collected from a total of 192 respondents in Kathmandu through well-structured questionnaire. An increasing number of consumers have adequate knowledge about green products features, majority of them view green products as healthy and safe. Consumers prefer to believe that green products are offering high quality over conventional products, but they are not having any precise opinion about the excessive prices of green products. The research results also find out consumers’ disappointment towards the promotional measures taken by the marketer. This research will be a good cognizance for the marketers and will increase their seriousness to focus more on making consumer more aware about green products benefits and bring about the adoption of green products.

Telecommunication subscribers’ retention and satisfaction are important goals for telecommunication network operators on their way to superior economic success in the liberalized Nigeria telecommunication market. The tight competition brought about by Mobile Number Portability(MNP) has resulted to the need for telecommunication service providers in Nigeria to constantly tune and fine-tune their marketing strategies to meet the dynamic behaviour and expectations of subscribers on quality service delivery. The Factors influencing telecommunication subscribers’ decision to port among network providers in Nigeria, Adopting a crosssectional survey design, a simple random sampling technique was used to enroll 378 subscribers of the four major network operators (MTN, Glo, Airtel, 9Mobile) aged 18–59 years and above residing in the three geopolitical zones (Owerri Municipal Orlu, and Okigwe) in Imo State into the study. Structured questionnaire was used for data collection, recorded signifi...

The research paper aims to examine the attitudinal factors influencing herding behavior in order to manage the fluctuations, bubbles, and bursts in the Nepal capital market. The descriptive and analytical research design has been adopted in the study. The qualitative data has been collected through the structured, self-administered questionnaire distributed to five hundred investors of the securities market in Nepal. The usable questionnaires have been confined to 407responses. The statistical tools mean, percentages, correlation and regression analysis has been done to process the data towards findings. As the result, the decision accuracy, age and experiences have not been found significant. The result from the analysis revealed the significant relationship of hasty decision with herd behavior.

Mammography is the primary and most reliable technique for detection of breast cancer. Mammograms are examined for the presence of malignant masses and indirect signs of malignancy such as micro calcifications, architectural distortion and bilateral asymmetry. However, Mammograms are X-ray images taken with low radiation dosage which results in low contrast, noisy images. Also, malignancies in dense breast are difficult to detect due to opaque uniform background in mammograms. Hence, techniques for improving visual screening of mammograms are essential. Image enhancement techniques are used to improve the visual quality of the images. This paper presents the comparative study of different pre-processing techniques used for enhancement of mammograms in mini-MIAS data base. Performance of the image enhancement techniques is evaluated using objective image quality assessment techniques. They include simple statistical error metrics like PSNR and human visual system (HVS) feature based metrics such as SSIM, NCC, UIQI, and Discrete Entropy

The cryptocurrency is thought to be the next internet revolution, where transactions are done utilizing peer-to-peer network creating a blockchain of the participants involved. Therefore, it is in totality creating a new virtual world, which might change the course of the foreseeable future finance. The reaction to the block chain and cryptocurrency is synonymous to the reaction to the internet when for the first time it emerged. While it is widely accepted for transactions in some countries; for instance in Nepal, it is illegal. Where the basic knowledge about the cryptocurrency is scarce in terms of Nepal, this article attempt to connote the grass root construct on cryptography, cryptocurrency and its practices across the globe to its readers.NCC JournalVol. 3, No. 1, 2018, page: 167-175

Forensic accounting may not be a new concept in accounting. However it has become significant to all stakeholders like the government, investors and practitioners to regularity bodies. Forensic accounting is closely related to the legal process and has the potential to be involved in proceedings in the civil and criminal courts. It provides an accounting analysis to assist in legal matters forming the basis for discussion, debate and ultimately dispute resolution.This article presents status of application of forensic accounting in Nepal and recommends steps that should be taken for the enhancement of the utilization of forensic accounting as an effective tool for curtailing fraud and corruption in Nepal at different sectorsNCC JournalVol. 3, No. 1, 2018, Page: 82-89

The present paper was written as a contribution to ongoing methodological debates within the NCC project. We focus on the neural correlates of conscious perceptual episodes. Our claim is that the NCC notion, as applied to conscious perceptual episodes, needs to be reconceptualized. It mixes together the processing related to the perceived contents and the neural substrate of consciousness proper, i.e. mechanisms making the perceptual contents conscious. We thus propose that the perceptual NCC be divided into two constitutive subnotions. The main theoretical idea that emerges as a consequence of this reconceptualization is that the neural correlate of a perceptual episode is formed in the neural interaction between content-processing and consciousness-conferring mechanisms. The paper elaborates this distinction, marshals some initial arguments in its favour, and tests it against some of the most debated theories of consciousness.

The structure of a Digital Phase Locked Loop (DPLL) based systems for dealing with Nakagami-m fading is proposed here. The emphasis of the work is the implementation of the essential components of a DPLL for better reception of signals with certain modulation transmitted through Nakagami-m channels. A sixth order polynomial fitting algorithm for better phase-frequency detection has been implemented, which has helped to attain optimum performance of DPLL. The results of simulation of the proposed DPLL with Nakagami-m fading and QPSK modulation shows that the proposed method provides better performance than existing systems of similar type.

Policy-based management is considered an effective approach to address the challenges of resource management in large complex networks. Within the IU-ATC QoS Frameworks project, a policy-based network management framework, CNQF (Converged Networks QoS Framework) is being developed aimed at providing context-aware, end-to-end QoS control and resource management in converged next generation networks. CNQF is designed to provide homogeneous, transparent QoS control over heterogeneous access technologies by means of distributed functional entities that co-ordinate the resources of the transport network through policy-driven decisions. In this paper, we present a measurement-based evaluation of policy-driven QoS management based on CNQF architecture, with real traffic flows on an experimental testbed. A Java based implementation of the CNQF Resource Management Subsystem is deployed on the testbed and results of the experiments validate the framework operation for policy-based QoS management of real traffic flows.

This paper analyzes the factors that affect corporate governance and influence on financial performance of Nepalese firms for theperiod of fiscal year 2009/10 to 2015/16 using descriptive and causal comparative research design. The profit margin and return on assets are dependent variables usedto measure financial performance and corporate governance and firm related variables such as corporate governance index, age of firms, size of assets, debt ratio, market to book ratio and ownership concentration are considered as explanatory variables. The result of this paper reveals thatprofit margin and return on assets of firms are positively related with age, market to book ratio and overall corporate governance index which implies that higher age, market to book ratio and corporate governance increase financial performance of Nepalese firms. Further, the regression result of the study shows that size of assets and debt ratio have negative effect and ownership concentration has no relatio...

Present research has been conducted to examine the customer satisfaction on service quality of selected commercial banks of Nepal. The study has employed descriptive research design and quantitative study by using survey methodology to deal with customer satisfaction in the context of Nepalese commercial banks. In this study, the data collected through questionnaire from 65 respondents (out of 100 customers of commercial banks) has been used for analysis. A detail study has been done on the basis of five dimensions as suggested by Parasuraman, Zeithamal and Berry (1988). They are reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangibles. The result of the study indicated that the overall customers are satisfied with service quality of the commercial banks. Hence the level of customer satisfaction of the commercial banks on the basis of service quality can be considered satisfactory.NCC JournalVol. 3, No. 1, 2018, Page: 121-133

This study relates cross-sectional differences in stock prices of Nepalese commercial banks to the underlying behavior of six fundamental variables: earnings per share, book value per share, cash dividend per share, stock dividend per share, price earnings ratio, and firm size. This study uses secondary sources of data. The balanced panel data from commercial banks including 150 observations are used for the period of 2000-2014. The earnings per share and stock dividend per share are the more significant determinants of stock prices of commercial banks in Nepal. The performance of the stock dividend is especially noteworthy; this variable is statistically and economically the most important of the six fundamental variables investigated.NCC JournalVol. 3, No. 1, 2018, page: 44-64

The research paper aims to examine the attitudinal factors influencing herding behavior in order to manage the fluctuations, bubbles, and bursts in the Nepal capital market. The descriptive and analytical research design has been adopted in the study. The qualitative data has been collected through the structured, self-administered questionnaire distributed to five hundred investors of the securities market in Nepal. The usable questionnaires have been confined to 407responses. The statistical tools mean, percentages, correlation and regression analysis has been done to process the data towards findings. As the result, the decision accuracy, age and experiences have not been found significant. The result from the analysis revealed the significant relationship of hasty decision with herd behavior.

Increasing demands of ubiquitous services in wireless networks and evolution towards heterogeneous solutions has driven the necessity of developing efficient QoS aware vertical handoff (handoff between different networks) mechanisms. This paper proposes a QoS aware fuzzy rule based vertical handoff mechanism that makes a multi-criteria based decision, found to be effective for meeting the requirements of different applications. The QoS parameters considered are available bandwidth, end-to-end delay, jitter, and bit error rate (BER). A new evaluation model is proposed using a non birth-death Markov chain, in which the states correspond to the available networks. Simulation results show that compared to other vertical handoff algorithms, the proposed algorithm gives better performance for different traffic classes.

Higher Academic Studies in India is more focused on subject-related area. But with this we are actually ignoring student's basic skills. Soft skills are the skills which are essential to build student as a good and responsible human being of society. We as a parent, teacher and guide are more concern towards "Three R's" (reading, writing and arithmetic).We always want our child or student to be good in specialized studies which is so called "Knowledge" of respective subjects. Hence channelize our entire energy towards recuperating the same. Developing of appropriate soft-skills among graduates is a challenge for the society. Our research actually reveals the significance of inculcating soft skills among graduates and suggesting the introduction of the NCC studies as a compulsory component for all the streams in higher education.

Higher Academic Studies in India is more focused on subject-related area. But with this we are actually ignoring student’s basic skills. Soft skills are the skills which are essential to build student as a good and responsible human being of society. We as a parent, teacher and guide are more concern towards “Three R’s” (reading, writing and arithmetic).We always want our child or student to be good in specialized studies which is so called “Knowledge” of respective subjects. Hence channelize our entire energy towards recuperating the same. Developing of appropriate soft -skills among graduates is a challenge for the society. Our research actually reveals the significance of inculcating soft skills among graduates and suggesting the introduction of the NCC studies as a compulsory component for all the streams in higher education.

... Vinodh.MV, Ashwin Bellur, Badri Narayan K., Deepali M. Thakare, Anila Susan, Suthakar NM, Hema A. Murthy Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology - Madras Chennai 600 036 Email: {vinodh, ashwin, badri, deepali, anila, suthakar ...

Most studies on corporate governance recognize endogeneity in the nexus between corporate governance and financial performance. Little attention has, however, been paid to the direction of causality between the two phenomena, and hence the Vector Error Correction (VEC) model, which allows for endogenous determination of the direction of causality, has not been widely employed. This study fills that gap by estimating the nexus and the direction of causality using the VEC model to analyze panel data on selected listed firms in Nigeria. The results agree with the findings of most previous studies that corporate governance significantly affects financial performance. Board skills, board composition and management skills enhanced financial performance indicators – return on equity (ROE), return on asset (ROA) and net profit margin (NPM); in many occasions, significantly. Board size and audit committee size did not, and can actually undermine financial performance. More importantly, finan...

Background - Complaint is a result of dissatisfaction or feeling of injustice/unfair treatment, related to his/her employment situation, which is formally filed and in written form. Objective – The objective of this paper is to examine the level of complaints that take place in the financial institutions of Nepal. Similarly, this study examines the causes and solutions of complaints in selected financial institutions. Methodology Used – Descriptive and analytical research designs have been used for the study. Primary data have been collected through the questionnaires using judgmental sampling from the financial institutions of Nepal. Questionnaires have been developed in five scales and mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation have been used as tools. Findings – All the financial institutions have faced complaints from their employees and they try to resolve that complaints to their best.

Is consciousness based in prefrontal circuits involved in cognitive processes like thought, reasoning, and memory or, alternatively, is it based in sensory areas in the back of the neocortex? The no-report paradigm has been crucial to this debate because it aims to separate the neural basis of the cognitive processes underlying post-perceptual decision and report from the neural basis of conscious perception itself. However, the no-report paradigm is problematic because, even in the absence of report, subjects might engage in post-perceptual cognitive processing. Therefore, to isolate the neural basis of consciousness, a no-cognition paradigm is needed. Here, I describe a no-cognition approach to binocular rivalry and outline how this approach can help resolve debates about the neural basis of consciousness. Acknowledgement: Thanks to

Traditionally message authentication codes (MACs) and the process of encryption are treated as orthogonal security mechanisms, where MACs are used to prove data authenticity while encryption is used to preserve confidentiality. In this paper we propose to integrate the two in a framework where the parameterized hash value of an encrypted image is designed to be the same as the hash value of the parent unencrypted original image. This form of privacy preserving authentication has applications in database searches containing sensitive files such as sets of patient's X-ray records. The main challenge here is to develop a parametric hashing algorithm that is invariant to encryption by allowing a small part of the statistical signature of the original image to emerge despite the encryption process. Since the hash value is computed without decrypting the original data, one can prove authenticity without actually revealing the information. Our contribution is twofold: (1) Formulation of this new problem of authenticating encrypted data and (2) Development of a simple hashing algorithm applicable to encrypted images.

A number of influential theories posit that visual awareness relies not only on the initial, stimulus-driven (i.e., feedforward) sweep of activation but also on recurrent feedback activity within and between brain regions. These theories of awareness draw heavily on data from masking paradigms in which visibility of one stimulus is reduced due to the presence of another stimulus. More recently transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used to study the temporal dynamics of visual awareness. TMS over occipital cortex affects performance on visual tasks at distinct time points and in a manner that is comparable to visual masking. We draw parallels between these two methods and examine evidence for the neural mechanisms by which visual masking and TMS suppress stimulus visibility. Specifically, both methods have been proposed to affect feedforward as well as feedback signals when applied at distinct time windows relative to stimulus onset and as a result modify visual awareness. Most recent empirical evidence, moreover, suggests that while visual masking and TMS impact stimulus visibility comparably, the processes these methods affect may not be as similar as previously thought. In addition to reviewing both masking and TMS studies that examine feedforward and feedback processes in vision, we raise questions to guide future studies and further probe the necessary conditions for visual awareness.

The main objective of the present study is to improve the bandwidth of the dielectric resonator antenna (DRA). A new four-element multilayer cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (MCDRA) array above the ground plane is proposed here. MCDRA is easy to design and excited with HE 11δ mode excited in each MCDRA by centrally placed dielectric resonator in which TM 01δ mode excited. The effect of design parameters such as permittivity of materials, probe height and arrangement of dielectric layers are investigated ...

This paper analyzes the factors that affect corporate governance and influence on financial performance of Nepalese firms for theperiod of fiscal year 2009/10 to 2015/16 using descriptive and causal comparative research design. The profit margin and return on assets are dependent variables usedto measure financial performance and corporate governance and firm related variables such as corporate governance index, age of firms, size of assets, debt ratio, market to book ratio and ownership concentration are considered as explanatory variables. The result of this paper reveals thatprofit margin and return on assets of firms are positively related with age, market to book ratio and overall corporate governance index which implies that higher age, market to book ratio and corporate governance increase financial performance of Nepalese firms. Further, the regression result of the study shows that size of assets and debt ratio have negative effect and ownership concentration has no relatio...