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Can the data collected through grey literature have weightage in comparison with other Research Articles?

  Can the data collected through grey literature have weightage in comparison with other Research Articles?   Abstract Grey literature comprises of the materials and the research produced in the form of conference proceedings, unpublished trial data, Government publications, working papers regulatory data by organizations outside the traditional, commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels. These are the   types of document produced by governments, academic institutions, businesses and industries that are protected by intellectual property rights, of sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by library holdings or institutional repositories, but not controlled by commercial publishers i.e., where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body This article examines if there is weightage for a research paper if the data is collected through grey literature. It is a mix bag of opinions that has been suggested from the literatures Grey literature
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What is in Number?

  What is in Number? Yes , there is   lot expressed in Numbers. A number indicates/represents a reality. It is measuring the yardstick. Though number is giving only the quantitative measure which does not take into account the quality aspect, but still numbers play a major role in many contexts. most of the research work and their conclusions are based on the statistical inferences which are purely numbers. The application of numbers in research is numerous. It is used to measure the validity of the questionnaire, which conveys that the items in the questionnaire when using Cronbach Alpha should be consistent and should be above 0.7. if this number is not met, it is an indication that there is a need to change some questions or some questions to be eliminated. Therefore, this number is an indicator to make the necessary changes so as to get accurate response from the respondents. It is not only the items in the questionnaire which is measured in terms of numbers, but also coding whic
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  STATEMENT OF PURPOSE   I am an Associate Professor. I have been associated with the Department of Commerce (CHRIST Deemed to be University) from the past 13 years, having the overall teaching experience of 25 Years. I worked in the Oxford College of Business Management for 12 years and I have taught students from    Business Management, Accounting for Nursing students, Pharmacy Students, Diploma Students. I have an experience of handling highly immature studtens to highly matured students.   I have a great passion for teaching. I have been handling subjects like Cost Accounting, Financial Management, Management Accounting, Research Methodology, Business Law, Indian Financial System, International Financial System, Project and Operations Management for both UG and PG Classes. I have been supervisor for M.Phil. Scholars.     I have been a resource person on different occasion in different institutions talking on the Research Methodology and Faculty Development Programme.   I have
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  Title:   Open Source indexing Author: John Culleton Journal : The Indexer Vol. 24 No. 2 October 2004   The Article on the Open Source indexing written by John Culleton describes about two indexing applications. A simple stand-alone application for the beginners and a more sophisticated software is outlined. To adopt to the full open source method, one has to   go to the uprooting of habits of long standing and accept different changes in indexing.   Generally these two applications use a couple of independently executing programmes. The communication between them take a form of plain text (ASCII) files and the familiar Graphic Interface (GUI) . the application of these two programmes are operated under the guidance of control files which are customised according to the requirement. The control files are also plain text which can be edited. The instructions are based on the assumption of Microsoft Windows and adaption of Linux of Macintosh system is easy. A simple applicat
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