This paper discusses the results of a number of comparative statics exercises carried out in the context of the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) matching model by distinguishing two alternative scenarios concerning the outflows from the labour market. The main results show that when the job-destruction rate is sufficiently influenced by the wage, labour market deregulation reduces wages but increases unemployment. This is counterintuitive to the standard result. In addition, endogenous redundancy exacerbates the reactivity of the labour market tightness indicator to productivity shocks

ZnS nanoparticles of average size (5 nm) are prepared using thioglycerol. Highly conducting polypyrrole-ZnS nanocomposite has been synthesized by in situ deposition technique by placing the fine grade powder in the polymerization reaction mixture of pyrrole. The samples are characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission and scanning electron microscopes. The current voltage characteristics of these samples clearly revealed a nonlinear space charge controlled charge transport process. The observed nonlinear current-voltage characteristics are satisfactorily explained using the Schottky type barriers.

Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) constitute a large family of sialic acid containing sugar, composed of hydrophobic ceramide and hydrophilic sugar chains. GSLs represent a major class of lipids that are essential constituents of eukaryotic cells. GSLs cluster to form membrane microdomains (lipid rafts) on plasma membranes, along with several kinds of transducer molecules, including Src family kinases and small G proteins. They play an important structural role in regulating membrane fluidity. GSLs mediated biological roles includes acting as second messengers or modulators of signal transduction by affecting several events, ranging from cell adhesion, cell growth, cell motility, regulation of apoptosis and cell cycle. GSLs have been shown to have crucial regulatory roles in the normal physiological process as well as in pathological conditions, including tumor onset and progression. The implication of some sphingolipids in diseases is well established whereas that of some others is still a matter of intense investigation.

The beginning of the 20^th century witnessed a growth and proliferation of regional associations throughout the world indeed heralded the dawn of a new chapter in the annals of international relations. Spurred by the supreme successes of such enterprises in South East Asia and Africa, the nations of South Asia also desired a new collaborative enterprise, indigenous to their own. And the SAARC was born in 1985. However, right from the beginning, the SAARC has belied the hopes of its framers. And, even after almost 3 decades of existence, the aspirations remain unfulfilled. This research paper is an attempt to analyse the recent position f the SAARC in the realms of regional cooperation in South Asia.

This paper presents a critical study of the selected stories from Malgudi Days and explores Narayan’s depiction of ordinary people with their joy and sorrow, oddity and eccentricity, wisdom and ignorance, affluence and poverty, trying to live their mundane lives in a changing world. Narayan’s milieu is the tedious, humdrum world of the average man. He relates the trivial happenings of everyday life, observes the foibles of the familiar world of Malgudi and records them with wit and irony but never malice. The portrayal of life in Narayan’s fictional world is engagingly realistic. It blends both the tragic and the comic aspects of life.