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Background: Teachers are actors and thus play various roles and responsibilities in the classroom, school and entire community. Their commitment contributes to increasing the skills, knowledge, creativity, intelligence, devotion, and attitudes of the school community. The demographic heterogeneity of teachers affects not only performance but also thecommitment level of the school community. Objectives:The study aims to find the influence of socio-demographic variables on the organizational commitment of school teachers in Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts. Methods: This study is quantitative and based on primary data. The study has employed a conclusive research design. The population of the study was secondary level teachers in Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts, and a number of them were selected  using the principles of purposive sampling. The size of the sample was 232. Results: The study reveals that affective, continuance, normative as well as overall commitment of teachers in school do not differs in terms of gender and education level. However, affective commitment increases as an increase in service years whereas continuance commitment increases at the beginning years of service for five years. However,between five to ten years, it lessens.Again after ten years, it increases if the teacher is involvedin the same job for one decade. Conclusions: The commitment of teachers is not affected by their gender and education level. However, the years in service spent by teachers influence their affective and continuance commitment but not the normative commitment. Implications: The findings of this study can be useful for school administrators and policymakers to find the influence of demographic factors on the commitment of school teachers.

Ayurveda is basically a natural way to preserve the health of an individual through conserving the mind, body, and spirit practiced equability with nature. Worldwide, the popularity of herbal medicines has grown, and the use of herbal medicines worldwide has increased markedly. Still there is a paucity of research on consumer awareness towards ayurvedic products in the Nepalese context. Thus, this study endeavors to understand various factors that influence consumers awareness towards ayurvedic products. The authors found quality, reasonable price, and minimal side effects are the main factors that have attracted the consumers more to purchase the ayurvedic products in Nepal. Also, this study finds significant relationship between ayurveda awareness and attitude. Thus, an increase in the awareness level of consumers, quality products at a reasonable price, and proper management of ayurveda can lead to a better ayurvedic market in Nepal.

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In this paper an attempt has been made to estimate and analysis the growth and performance of the human capital in Jammu and Kashmir. Given different components of the human capital only health human capital is estimated and analyzed. The health human capital as a proxy variable for human capital is analyzed for inputs and outputs. The proxy variables included total expenditure on health, health expenditure as percentage share of total expenditure and GSDP, quality variables like institutional availability and man power, medical attention received, life expectancy average, mortality rates by sex and residence, birth and death rates, natural growth rates, child mortality, total fertility. Both econometrics and non-econometrics methods were used for estimation. The study concludes that health human capital has increased in the state over time but pace and acceleration was low. Following the findings the study recommends the attention of government to increase the standard of health in Jammu and Kashmir. Substantial amount of government budgetary allocation should be directed towards the health sector and minimization of gap of urban rural access to health care is strongly recommended by increasing infrastructure.  Last but not least the availability of institutions and increase in the man power engaged in health sector must be increased.