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The study examined the relationship between the Academic Hardiness and Motivational Beliefs, Goals and Values of tertiary students towards mathematics learning. The respondents of the study consist of about 167 BS Mathematics third year students of the Bulacan State University during Academic Year 2016-2017. The descriptive – correlational method of research was employed in the study. To gather the necessary data, the researcher adopted two instruments - the Academic Hardiness Scale developed by Benishek and Lopez (2001) and the Learning Motivation Questionnaire, a section from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) developed by Duncan and McKeachie (2005). Pearson correlation analysis and Test of significance were used to interpret the results. The study showed that among the three related attitudes of Academic Hardiness (Commitment, Control and Challenge), the students posted the highest mean in the Commitment domain. Seemingly, the difficulty posed by mathematics has not negated students’ interest and involvement in doing their mathematical tasks. Regarding the status of the students’ Motivational Beliefs, Goals and Values toward mathematics learning, results yielded a high overall mean rating reflective of the high ratings received in almost all the motivational constructs: Intrinsic Goal Orientation, Extrinsic Goal Orientation, Task Value, Controls of Learning Beliefs, Self-Efficacy for Learning and Performance except Test anxiety. The highest perceived mean is on Task Value which demonstrates the respondents expressed interest in mathematics and their acknowledge importance of the subject in their preparation to life-long learning. For Test Anxiety, perceived mean rating is average. This result simply reiterates the psychological distress experienced by students when taking examinations in mathematics. Lastly, analysis also showed that students’ Academic Hardiness and the identified motivational constructs has significant positive correlation with each other.

Hospital service quality is the variation between the patient’s perceptions about the services delivered by a healthcare organization and their expectations about healthcare organizations delivering such services. Patient perspective is the ultimate indicator of healthcare service quality as it enables them to judge the performance of the services provided by the hospital. A huge gap exists between the quality of the healthcare services provided by the hospitals in rural and urban areas. The quantitative study was conducted to understand the perceptional differences in the service quality between the urban and rural hospitals. It was a survey that documented the patient perspective of hospital service quality by measuring various dimensions like healthcare delivery, facilities, financial access to care, diagnostic aspects of care, health personnel conduct and drug availability. The sample consisted of 115 residents, chosen based on convenience, from urban and rural areas. The responses were analyzed using SPSS 20 software. From the findings, it was inferred that there are perceptional differences in the service quality between rural and urban hospitals. Further, perceptional differences exist in the facilities provided between the rural and urban hospitals. Financial and physical access to care widely differ between rural and urban hospitals. Overall, the perception of service quality is higher in the urban hospitals than in the rural hospitals. Thus, study provides insights to the hospital administrators and the managers in enhancing the quality of services, based on the perceptions and needs of the patients.

The growth for the need for technology has not hindered with time. The traditional approach of learning is time consuming, the use of technology has helped students in procuring information at a quicker pace. The traditional approaches towards learning have not been able to keep the pace. E-learning has increased the accessibility by providing information to anyone anytime anywhere and with that it has been cost effective too. Various institutions have implemented similar e-learning platforms so it gives more reason to assess the acceptance of such measures by students. The objective of the study is to explore the attitude of students towards e-learning by using TAM framework and also to assess the influence of computer self-efficacy. The current study was able to establish that computer self-efficacy acts as a mediator between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and attitude towards adoption of technology by students. The implications of the study will help the management to understand if the students have accepted e-learning as a platform to learn and whether they wish to use this in future.

The Article supports the hypothesis that in the Globalised era, a country can develop by globalising its workforce. India is having the youngest population in the world and is continuously facing the challenge of educating its young population and preparing them to meet the Global competition. Its struggle to provide employment to its increasing workforce can be resolved by providing efficient education which will increase inter- regional and international student mobility and as a result will make the workforce more Globalised. Therefore the Article shows a strong positive relation between Education (preferably Higher Education), Student mobility and labour mobility and concludes that an increase in one of these factor results in an increase in the other two.

Over the years the quality of care provided by healthcare organizations is measured through an important tool called patient satisfaction. It is important to understand the perceptions of patients on health care services in order to understand the expectations levels and thus the quality of services can be improved. Also such perception levels may differ across private and public hospitals. This study aims to understand such perceptual differences in the patient satisfaction level of private and public hospitals and also understand the various factors that influences patient satisfaction in a hospital. The study was conducted on 136 respondents who have visited a hospital earlier either private or public. Self-administered questionnaires were provided to the respondents and they were assessed on various factors such as front office services, doctor consultation, diagnostic services, hospital facilities etc. The study revealed that there was a significant relationship between doctor consultation, hospital facilities and patient satisfaction. Further it was also understood that the satisfaction levels were better in private hospitals when compared to public hospitals. Such findings of various factors influencing patient satisfaction help the managers in create policies that address patient’s perceptions. Thus help in improving the quality of services provided.

Advertising is known as an art form used as a persuasive tool to escalate business profits. It is the most flexible and adaptive element in the growth of marketing communication. With enhancements in scientific development, the advancements in technology have resulted in Digitization and the emergence of Online Media. The advertising world has evolved taming the advertisers about the need to sell products on the basis of elegance and indulgence rather than humble efficacy. Moreover, Online Advertising is serving as a complementary rather than a competitive medium to the traditional media, surfacing a way for it to tap the consumers with more effectiveness and efficacy. The revolution in technology and the emergence of Online Advertising as an interactive universal medium has given advertisers amazing opportunities worth exploring that are desirable for a brand to pursue.

In this paper we direct a seismic design of a Reinforce concrete frame building under displacement based design. There is a problem with force based design that we can’t find a clear relation between forces & cracking, that was drift or displacement is directly related with damage. By this simple design method we consider drift as parameter and can easily design this with given performance level under-code drift limit. In this paper determine maximum deviation from target drift& justified it code limit. The approach of our design methodology satisfactorily achieves by inelastic time history analysis as well as push over analysis. In this simple design we get a very successful and a clear predictable seismic response.