OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal
Volume 9, Issue 3 (2019)
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Table of contents
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Attitude of College Students towards Teaching Profession
Abstract: Teacher is the dynamic force and pivotal of the educational system for the young generations. Teachers are apparently the central actors in education, facilitators of learning knowledge and in developing healthy relationship between pupils and societies in which they live. Changing times have added new dimension to this profession, which requires specified competencies and right attitude. Behavior, attitude and interest of teacher help in shaping the personality of the student. …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 1–5 Read article
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Tackling Racial Prejudice with Music: A Perspective
Abstract: Despite long efforts in eradicating racial discrimination and the thrive for an egalitarian society, racism still pervades to haunt humanity. With racial discrimination comes prejudice. In fact, it is prejudice that functions as the base for discriminatory psyche and dehumanizing the ‘others’. Prejudice as thought of, could have evolved as a necessary tenet for survival. Human brains are able to differentiate between in group (us) and out group (them) within …
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Elasticity of Substitution—A Summary
Abstract: This paper has a very specific purpose of explaining the differences among Allen elasticity of substitution, Morishima elasticity of substitution and McFadden elasticity of substitution. It is roughly divided into three sections. The first section traces the evolutionary trajectory and provides a summarized description(including formula) of these three measurements. The next section discusses a hypothetical scenario to bring out the intuition behind elasticity of substitution more vividly. In the last …
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Changing Profile of Sarod of 20th Century: A Timbral Study
Abstract: Sarod is one of the long lasted classical musical instruments in India. From early days, through the ages, its shape changes continuously. Its resonant structure has been changing for the development of sound quality. All these were done by the then extraordinary talented craftsmen with the imaginative and emotional attachment of legendary music maestros. The primary objective for the structural modification of Sarod were: improvement of sound quality and easy …
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Descartes Foundationalism: An Answer to the Skeptics’ or a Way Out?
Abstract: The phenomenon of knowledge is a fundamental issue in epistemology as a main branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge-related problems. Over time, epistemologists attempted to give us or provide clues as to what reality actually is, that is the question of the certainty of knowledge has always been topical in any epistemic enterprise. The search for knowledge becomes more cumbersome when one considers the challenge of the skeptics and sophists …
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Sacred Groves—its Traditional Importance, Social, Cultural Heritage and Religious Belief of the Tribal People in Different Parts of India: A Review
Abstract: Sacred groves (SG) are small patches where involvement of people makes unique traditional in situ method of nature conservation in India. The ethnic communities protected these patches on religious ground in the name of different deities. These small patches are located in different parts of India which are mainly dominated by tribes and are managed by local communities for different purposes. The groves have significance of cultural and spiritual value …
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A Critical Evaluation of Ranking of Indian Universities among Global Universities based on ARWU Shanghai Rankings 2019
Abstract: Academic ranking of world universities (ARWU) 2019 was released on 15 August for 2019 by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy of China. ARWU has been presenting the world top 500 universities annually since 2004. It is unfortunate that none of the Indian universities and Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) find a slot among the top 500, except Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. USA has 45 universities among top 100, Europe …
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The Impact of Phonological Change in Manipuri Morphology
Abstract: The main objective of the present paper was to study the impact of phonological change on Manipuri morphology. Manipuri is a highly agglutinating Tibeto-Burman language which is highly influenced by other languages such as Bengali, Sanskrit, Assamese, Hindi and English. The study discusses the various phonological changes in the language such as assimilation, epenthesis to name such a few along with the condition. For instance, epenthesis can be of two …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 6–11 Read article