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Item Coralin’s Metamorphosis into the Self-reliant Girl: Reading Neil Gaiman’s Coraline(Department of English, 2022) Shrestha, SrijanaThis paper studies Neil Gaiman's children fantasy Coraline based on identity formation of the title character, Coraline. Neil Gaiman, as an author of juvenile literature, presents the transformation–from reliant to self-reliant–of the pivotal character in this novella. Therefore, the researcher attempts to embody the interconnectedness of the transformation of the novella’s heroine and all the struggles she has to go through just to establish herself as a bold and independent girl who does not rely on any man, not even her father.In this regard, this dissertation asserts that Coraline is on the verge of becoming a new woman who fights with everything, as a man fights in most of the stories, to save her family. In order to examine the minute process of the major Character’s transformation and her search for the true self, the paper borrows the relevant insights from Erik H. Erikson’s theory of ‘psychosocial development’.As far as the dissertation’s argument is concerned, the researcher analyzes the text using some of the theoretical insights propounded by Erikson: Intimacy vs. Isolation, Trust vs. Mistrust, and Identity vs. confusion. As claimed by Eriks on, that each new stage builds upon the living experiences of the subsequent stages that are clearly observed in the life of Coraline as she involves in a perilous circumstances. Based on these three stages of psychological development the research paper explores the world of Coraline where the protagonist undergoes the surreal circumstances that insist her to explore the inner self so as to imbibe a tremendous transformation in her life. Keywords: transformation, existential crisis, identity, true self, existenceItem In Vitro Study of Neopicrorhiza Scrophulariiflora (Pennell) Hong(Department of Botany, 2007) Shrestha, SrijanaMicropropagation of Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (Pennell) Hong an important endangered medicinal plant, was taken for this investigation. The explants (root, internode, node and shoot tip) obtained from in vitro grown seeds were cultured on MS medium supplemented with different concentration of BAP and NAA. Seeds were sown on MS medium and 40% of seed germination was found after 4 weeks. Shoot tip explant gave the most satisfactory result for shoot multiplication. Shoot tip explant cultured on MS + BAP (1ppm) + NAA (0.5ppm) produced maximum but reduced shoots. These microshoots with callus when cultured on MS hormone free media produced elongated shoots. MS media with BAP (1ppm) and NAA (0.5ppm) was found to be best for callus induction and shoot multiplication whereas elongation of shoot was done in hormone free MS media. MS media without auxin and with auxins (IAA, NAA and IBA) were used to induce rooting. Among these, auxin free media induced longer roots without formation of callus at base of shoots whereas all other combinations with auxins produced basal callus and hairy roots. Rooted plantlets were transferred on the pot containing soil: sand: vermiculite in 1:1:1 ratio with high humidity.Item Investment Analysis of Commercialbanks in Nepal (A Case Study of Nepal Investment Bank, Himalayan Bank,Nepal Sbibank, Everest Bank)(2010) Shrestha, Srijananot available