North Eastern Hill University

About: North Eastern Hill University is a education organization based out in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Catalysis. The organization has 2318 authors who have published 4476 publications receiving 48894 citations.

Signatures of Non-Universal Soft Breaking Sfermion Masses at Hadron Colliders

Abstract: We identify several mass patterns, within the framework of N=1 SUGRA with nonuniversal soft breaking masses for the sfermions, which may significantly alter SUSY signals and the current squark-gluino mass limits from the Tevatron. These effects are illustrated in a SO(10) SUSY GUT with an intermediate mass scale, but the conclusions are also valid in SUSY SO(10) models with grand deserts.

Government expenditure on human capital and growth in Namibia: a time series analysis

Abstract: An attempt is made in this paper to examine the impacts of government spending on human capital on human development indicators like healthcare outcomes, education achievements and increase in national income in Namibia using time series data from 1980 to 2015. The analysis reveals a significant long-run inverse relationship of government spending on healthcare with fertility rate, infant mortality rate and under-5 mortality rate. However, no co-integration is observed between government spending on healthcare and life-expectancy or adult mortality rate. Also, the findings reveal a significant long-run positive relationship of government spending on education with literacy rate, net primary and gross tertiary enrolment rate. Whereas, no co-integration between government spending on education and gross enrolment rate at primary and secondary level is observed. The vector auto-regression analysis revealed significant impacts of expenditure on healthcare and education on the GDP growth in the long run through improved human resources. The results are thus in favour of continuation of expansionary government expenditure policy to achieve faster economic growth in Namibia. However, drastic changes should be adopted to improve basic education and primary healthcare in the country.

Micellization and Surface Properties of Alkanediyl-1,4-bis(tetradecyldimethylammonium Bromide) Gemini Surfactants with Dodecylethyldimethylammonium Bromide

Abstract: Mixed micellization and surface properties of three cationic gemini surfactants, viz., (butanediyl-), (pentanediyl-), (hexanediyl-)-1,4-bis(tetradecyldimethylammonium bromide) (14-s-14; s = 4–6) with dodecylethyldimethylammonium bromide have been studied by conductometric, tensiometric, and fluorimetric techniques at 298 K. Values of cmc, ideal cmc(cmc*), degree of counter ion dissociation (g), micellar mole fractions of the components, and interaction parameters have been determined. Further, activity coefficients of the components, surface excess concentration (Γmax), minimum surface area per molecule (Amin), surface pressure at the cmc (πcmc), average aggregation numbers of the micelles (Nagg), excess Gibbs free energy (), and Gibbs free energy of micellization () were also calculated and discussed. The compositions of the mixed systems were varied between 0 and 1. It is observed that the values of cmc, g, , , and Γmax decreases whereas Amin increases with augmentation of 14-s-14 (s = 4–6) mole fractio...