Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University

With the rapid growth of internet penetration in a country like India, the social media usage among the citizens has also witnessed growth over the last few years. The traditional journalism which dominated the news-making process in all these years has been facing serious challenges with the expansion of internet connectivity in recent years and the subsequent boom of journalism on social media and web portals. This expansion of new media in the form of social media is not only transforming the news-making process, but also providing audience who consume media messages to become a part of the news dissemination process. Assam, a state situated in the Northeastern part of India, boasts of a rich history of journalism over 176 years. However, with the expansion of internet connectivity and social media in recent years in Assam, it witnessed a new style of journalism practiced through “Facebook Pages” which cater to a large number of heterogeneous audiences. The present study using Erving Goffman’s “Framing Theory” looks at the functioning of the select Assamese News Pages on Facebook using a qualitative analysis of the media contents of these news pages. The study brings to light a new style of reporting in the media contents of Facebook News Pages which was not prominent in the reporting of traditional media. The researchers argue here that despite Facebook providing a democratic space for the audience, still the political economy of these pages suggest serving the agendas of a section of people like the traditional media.

This paper examines the political stability, corruption, and economic progress of the nations that make up the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) between 2000 and 2020. To prevent misspecification bias and therefore skewed statistical results, the common features of the panel data were examined first. First of all, the CD test did not find any evidence of cross-sectional dependency across the nations, validating the use of the conventional panel unit root, which does not account for cross-sectional dependence. According to Levin et al. (2002)'s panel unit root test, the variables are integrated of order zero, or I (0).Using the panel VAR framework as a basis, the paper investigates. Emotional intelligence data demonstrated that while corruption impedes regional economic growth, political stability and the rule of law foster it. According to the findings of variance decomposition, the factors under investigation either support or impede the WAMZ countries' economic development. Based on the results the paper recommends that, transparency and accountability at all level of government affairs as well as respecting the constitution in these nations should be preserved in order to overcome all social and political injustice among the countries under study

Teachers’ motivation has become a significant concern, given their obligation to impart knowledge and skills to students. This research attempts to investigate the motivational factors and their effect on teacher’s performance in private and public schools in Guwahati. The classical theories of motivation have given a clear view on various factors of motivation. The study incorporated the factors of motivation of various classical theories of motivation and its present-day implication among teachers in government and private schools. The study's broad aim was to investigate the role of motivation in improving the performance of teachers of private and public-schools. The study tried to throw light on the effectiveness of factors of motivation that were discussed in the classical theories to motivate of teachers of 21st century. The study also tried to cover whether factors of motivation is different in government school than a private school as the quality of teachers, pay structure, security, extrinsic and intrinsic benefits are all different in both the schools. One of the objectives of our study is to identify whether the same strategy can be used in government schools which are influential in private school in motivating teachers’ performance. A total of 206 respondents, including head teachers, were surveyed using a descriptive survey template and a causal research design employed to check the factors of motivation as stated in the classical theories as independent variables and overall teacher’s motivation as dependent variable. Structural Equation Modeling has been used to draw the interrelationship and model fit. The study revealed that factors of motivation are different in a government school compared to the private schools and all the factors of motivation that were discussed in classical theories of motivation is not relevant in today’s context in teacher’s motivation with changing needs of teachers.

The problem of insurgency has posed a major threat to the whole concept of human rights and human security. The North East region of India in general and Assam in particular has been experiencing the problem of insurgency since last six to seven decades. The State of Assam has also been witnessing this problem and the insurgent movements led by different groups have created major problems to the rights and security of the common people. Particularly women have to face insecurity and violence and this has resulted in gross human rights violation of Assam. Rights of women are being violated both by the insurgent groups as well as state actors in situation of insurgency and armed conflicts in Assam. Through this article, an effort is being made to examine the issue of human rights violation of women in the context of insurgency movement in Assam.

Soil texture using a hydrometer or pipette method requires expertise, although these are accurate. A soil expert may help the farmer to detect the soil texture by analyzing the visual texture of the soil, which is not always accurate. This paper presents the smartphone image-based sand and clay soil classification in wet and dry humid conditions using Self Convolution Neural Network (SCNN) and finetuned MobileNet.A soil dataset of 576 soil images was prepared using a low-cost smartphone under natural light conditions. Different augmentation techniques such as shift, range, rotation, and zoom were applied to the soil dataset to increase the number of images in the soil dataset. The best performance of the MobileNet was reported at epoch 15 with a testing and training loss of 0.0091 and 0.0194, respectively. Though the SCNN model performed best at epoch 10 with a testing accuracy of 99.85%, the MobileNet reported less computation time (167.8s) than the SCNN (273.2s). The precision and recall of the models were 99.62 (MobileNet) and 99.84 (SCNN). The accuracy of the SCNN reported itself as the best model, whereas the computing time of the MobileNet reported itself as the best model in different humid conditions. The model can be used to replicate the traditional soil texture analysis method and the farmers can use it for better productivity.

Human relationships are determined by power structures which are erected on cultural, social, physical, economic or political basis.The man-woman relationship is considered as a hierarchical one placing the male at the supreme position and the female at the lowest, the weakest.Such a distinction is measured from both the gendered and the biological perspective.The patriarchal and patrilineal social structures throughout the world treat women as the recipient of male consent and relegate them towards the state of passivity, selflessness, caring and dependency.To legitimize these supposed situational perceptions about women; patriarchy installs different socio-cultural institutions among which motherhood is one.The reproductive power rather than the woman herself, is very essential for the man to continue his reign of manhood down through his descents for which female bodies are treated as nothing but some child bearing machines.This is done in such a neat and obvious manner that the woman herself doesn't realize the politicization and objectification of her own body.In fact, motherhood becomes and remains the only denominator of successful womanhood under a patriarchal regime.The Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta highlights all such issues concerning women in a tribal social background especially through the character of Nnu Ego.Nnu Ego who got dishonored due to her infertility in her first marriage, had to try her fate in a second marriage with someone she thought she would never have chosen as her husband.She was bestowed with motherhood with a good number of children.She even brought them up with all care and aspired to be happy at a successful completion of the mostly cherished motherhood.But, it appeared treacherous and a bitter outcome ruined all her hope and pride, thus a dismantling is done of the institution of motherhood making space for a line of questions aroused immediately against its legitimacy.This paper proposes to make a study of motherhood as a patriarchal institution or rather one patriarchal imposition that enables men to utilize female bodies for their own sake, thereby exploiting and silencing them.It will peep through the illusioned life of Nnu Ego for that sake as a victim of body politics in the consolidated institution of motherhood.Such a discussion will further help in understanding the myths lurking around motherhood and the female body in a male dominated society particularly in Africa and in the world as a whole.

Capital structure decision is one of the most important decisions in the field of financial management which involves assessment about the choice of combination of different sources of funds. These sources of funds include short term debt, long term debt, preferred stock and common stock or equity stock financing and the decision about the perfect mixture of these sources is a difficult task for the financial manager in every business firm. The perfect or ideal mixture is that where the risk and costs are minimum at the same time profits and shareholders’ wealth are maximum. Capital structure decision is a continuous process and becomes optimal when it maximizes the market value of the firm involved. Therefore, the continuous process of capital structure decisions involves an attempt to strike a balance between risks and returns in firm’s operation. Managing of optimal capital structure is of paramount importance as it would affect the profitability and ultimately the value of the firm. However, what constitutes an optimal capital structure is still a unsolved question. Despite the fact that there are many theories which tried to explain the optimal capital structure, researchers in finance have never yet find a model to determine the optimal capital structure

The main function of mass media is to inform and educate people. Maternal health of pregnant women is not only influenced by availability, accessibility of health care services but also by access to information about care during pregnancy. Due to limited exposure of rural women to mass media, information related to mass media are not able to reach the poor and illiterate women. Socio-economic background of rural women is also statistically significant in seeking benefits from the mass media. Mass media must facilitate in creating desire among poor rural women in seeking more and more information on maternal health for the development of women’s health. Integrated approach by various grass root level community development programs must be undertaken to enable rural women’s access to mass media for information related to their development. How to cite this article: Choudhury A, Barman A. Mass Media Support to Rural Women for Maternal Health Development - A Study in Dhubri District of Assam. J Adv Res Jrnl Mass Comm 2019; 6(2): 12-17.

<div><p><em>Education is a lifelong learning process. Education is the backbone of society. In common parlance education is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In this modern era technology has changed the way of teaching learning process. Teaching and learning process has now become more flexible and easily accessible from anywhere and anytime irrespective of location and time and all this is possible because of Mobiles Technology that are being used today. In this paper how Mobile education impact distance education, what are the benefit and challenges it has on teaching-learning process in Distance Education is being discussed<strong>. </strong>For this paper the data has been collected from internet and other research papers as well as bibliographic. This paper will cover topics on Mobiles Education for Learning, benefits, values, challenges and impact on Distance Learning.</em></p></div>