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  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Opinion The population of South Asia is equivalent to 24.78% of the total world population, which is approximately one-fourth of the world total [1]. According to the country classification of the World Bank, Maldives is the only country in the upper-middle-income category in the South Asian region whereas Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan are in the lower-middle-income category, and Afghanistan and Nepal are in the group of low-income countries. [2]. More than half of the people living in South Asia are living under the extreme poverty line, are also subjected to various health and social problems. Tobacco use has been one of the significant causes to increase health problems and poverty in this region. As Leslie Shepherd observed, ‘the South Asia has about 170 million adult smokers and consist of 30 per cent of males and about 4 per cent of females [3]. As Samarasinghe stated, ‘cigarette consumption is ...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Opinion Who are you? Though this question seems simple, the syntax that ensues is anything but. The quantity of potential replies is limitless when considering the parameters of defining the self. In Westernized countries, such as the United States, responses typically consist of: titles (president, manager, doctor), professions (pediatrician, professional golfer, student), and relationships (wife of…, son of…). The jury is still out on whether this sense of individualistic identity is either symptomatic or resultant of, what contemporaries call: “Generation Me”, whom are marked as tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious, yet narcissistic, distrustful, anxious, and disengaged [1]. Whereas in traditional Eastern cultures, based on social identities influencers’, responses tend to be more aligned with: kin (Wang family) and role (family elder) [2]. However, something that is ...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Definition of Occupational Stress As per distinctive investigations the thought of stress has been anticipated and shown with various qualities. According to the definition from one scholastic from the long history, stress could be described as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it” (Selye, 1987, p.17).Following the literature in the near histories; the term of stress has been recreated in the form of a term which could be used to describe a force that results in or else causing for the deformation and meanwhile the response to the stress now could be possibly described as the strain referring to the manifestation in a body Le Fevre et al. (2003). The concept of stress is always accompanied by several notions such as performance, motivation and as well as the employee wellbeing when referring to anorganization. As described in many research articles on...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Introduction This study entails about agricultural pollution and assesses the synthetic fertilizer application in Sudano-Sahelian zones of Nigeria. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation with an estimate population of 140.0million people according to 2006 census conducted by Nigerian Population Commission but increased to an estimate of 189.6 million people as of 1 st January 2017 (UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs: Population Division). The population is rapidly increasing due to high birth rate and low death rate. Fertilizer use and needs vary across Nigeria depending on agro ecological conditions, government policies, cropping systems and fertilizer responsiveness. Nigeria has one of the most promising agricultural potential which is yet to be realized. From the year 1960 to 2005, it cereal production per hectare has only grown by about 40 per cent. This is ...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Social Sciences & Management studies Introduction Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States (22.2 million people have used it in the past month) according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health [1]. Marijuana use is more prevalent among males compared to females and more likely to be used by adolescents and young adults. [2]. The overall prevalence of marijuana use has remained stable in the United States at 4%, but the prevalence of cannabis related disorders has continued to increase [3]. As of December 2016, more than half of all states in the United States have a law legalizing marijuana for recreational or medical use. [4]. In 2007, New Mexico became the 12th state to allow the use of cannabis for medical use with the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act. Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS) was first described in 2004 by Allen and colleagues [5], and is characterize...