Pratiman is a refereed social science and humanities journal which addresses the needs of a growing number of academics researchers, students, and writers wanting to read and write discursive texts in Hindi. It is edited by the Indian Languages Programme of CSDS.

Prominent US constitutional lawyer and scholar Alan M. Dershowitz raised eyebrows when he described Qatar as " the Israel of the Gulf states. "

Now a days in industry major losses are find out so here we calculate these losses and find out efficiency of boiler. Boiler efficiency and energy losses from boiler are important parameter for any industry using boiler. In this work a detailed analysis was carried out for boiler at Anish Chemicals Bhavnagar. It is a combined water and fire tube boiler using biomass coal as fuel. Boiler efficiency calculated by direct method is in range of (78.5% to 81.6%). Major losses from boiler are heat loss due to radiation and convection from uninsulated surfaces (4.8% to 6.3%), heat loss due to flue gas (6.3% to 6.4%), heat loss due to blow down (0.263 to 0.398%), heat loss due to incomplete combustion (1.87% to 2.21%), heat loss due to unburnt coal in bottom ash(1.74 % to 1.86)and heat loss due to moisture present in fuel (1.3% to 1.6%).To reduce radiative and convective heat loss from flue gas duct surface, flexible glass mineral wool insulation was suggested.

Chapter 6 and 7 Ross 10th Ed

This article is a study on the neoliberal state, its relation to time and its ongoing transformation through crisis. It is spurred by two seminal works-Hartog's on historicity and Rosa's on acceleration-that catalogue a collapse of the modern temporality defined by progression from past to future. The article develops this problematic by focusing on the state as a key organiser of social temporalities. As the state has, in the course of the 21st century, been occupied with fighting crises, the assessment of its transformation and its relation to time proceeds from an analysis of its crisis-response. It finds that the state cannot articulate a vision for the future. This is a historically unique development, and the article traces its causes and consequences. It argues that the loss of the future perspective results from neoliberalism's success in enhancing capital's power over society. This makes both capital and the state avert to change, even as crisis and disruption become systemic elements of the neoliberal order. This causes the neoliberal state to acquire the form of neoliberal despotism: a state whose purpose is to impose social stasis and, since it cannot lead towards an appealing future, can only govern through fear.

Análisis minucioso del concepto de competencia en la semiótica discursiva de la Escuela de París de A.J. Greimas, con algunas propuestas de reformulación.

Work force diversity has become an organizational imperative and as such, it is important for organizations to understand, embrace and manage diversity to be able to outperform competitors. Researchers have produced mixed result on the impact of diversity on performance. Some scholars found a positive relation between diversity factors and performance whilst others have found negative relations between diversity factors and performance. This paper therefore examines the effect of work force diversity factors (generational diversity, gender diversity, ethnic/racial diversity) and the role of managerial expertise on organizational performance. This study followed the correlational research design as it intends to evaluate the impact of workforce diversity on banking sector performance. The population of the study was managerial level employees working in banking sector of Nepal and 156 responses were collected and analyzed. Five-point Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect the...