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    Stock price movement and financial performance of commercial banks listed in NEPSE
    (Department of Management, 211) Basi, Bina
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    Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy for Small Developing Countries : A Case Study of Nepal”
    (Faculty of Economics,Claremont Graduate University, California, 1998) Maskay, Nephil Matangi
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    Human Resource Development
    (Faculty of Social Sciences, 1999) Shrestha, Mangala
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    Feminist Concerns In The Novels Of Willa Cather
    (Banaras Hindu University, 1999) Sharma (Timilsina), Gajab Kumari
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    A Case Study of Birendra Multiple Campus Library (BMC) Chitwan
    (Central Department of Library Science, TU, Kirtipur, 1999) Adhikari, Mahendra Prasad
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    People's Participation in Local Development Planning: A Study of Five Districts in the Western Development Region
    (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2000) Sharma, Prem
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    Party Building in Nepal: The Nepali Congress Party and The Communist Party of Nepal, Unified Marxist-Leninist
    (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2000) Hachhethu, Krishna
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    धुस्वां साय्मिया नेपालभाषा उपन्यासय् शिल्पविधि {Dhuswan Saymmiya Nepalabhaṣa Upanyasay Silpavidhi}
    (नेपाली तथा नेपालभाषा शिक्षण समिति, 2001) वज्राचार्य Bajracharya, चन्द्रमान Chandraman
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    Possible impact of Planning Intervention on City River Corridors
    (Pulchowk Campus, 2002-12) CHITRAKAR, KICHAH
    City river corridors of the Kathmandu valley have a significant role to play on urban planning and urban development. Unlike others, these rivers flow through the middle of the city; therefore, it's high time to study and plan these river corridors before they are encroached and rundown into messy slum riversides by the haphazard urban growth. Dhobi-Khola, though the discharge is low and small, is a perennial river and flows through the heart of the city. The built up area which was 4% in 1954 within the 200 meter band of Dhobi-Khola River has now been increased to 31 %. Net river area has been decreased to 9% now from 18% in 1964. Against this backdrop, this study has been carried out with the aim to investigate the existing situation and changes; to review proposed projects namely DKCIP and GAIAUPP; to find out possible impacts focusing on the transportation networks, socio cultural aspect, people's response, environmental aspects like sewage and solid waste; and land development etc. A descriptive and interpretive approach has been adopted including data analysis of primary survey namely 'river use survey' and "Household questionnaire survey". Chronological studies of river corridor with the help of aerial photographs, Satellite Images and field visits have been made. Urban land availability, environmental degradation, easy to layout roads and sewers as corridors, less cultural and religious linkage to the river, financial viability for development as road corridor too has encouraged authorities to intervene this river corridor. Unlike Bagmati and Bishnumati, less archaeologically important sites and monuments have been found in this river. Less cultural and religious linkage to the river of the surrounding people is also due to the changes on river alignment naturally and artificially in the past. Lacks of facilities to perform their cremation works and other religious function have kept them far from this river. Nearly 5.5 m3 solid wastes per day has been found to be deposited at the entire river corridor from Bagmati confluence to Chabahil (Section 1 to section 7) which should be added to the 350 - 400 m3 per day being managed for KMC today if planning intervention is to made at the corridor. Through the urban planning perspective, the 'Dhobi Khola Link Road' (DKLR) is justifiable. Less cultural impacts, significant improvement over river environment, immediate functioning of the innermost ring road and Dhobi Khola ring road along with existing ring road among four concentric ring roads of the valley envisioned with the huge relief of traffic from city core, decongestion at Thapathali junction, Gaushala and Chabahil Chowks, establishment of connector road between the rapidly growing urban fringe Kapan area and Patan core area and large vacant plots going to be developed at Chabahil, Ghattekulo etc. are the justifications of the construction of DK.LR. Comparative chart made in this study for various origin and destinations have also proved this road to be significant. The corridor may be converted into a large institutional and commercial center of the city combining the characteristics of both the river corridor and the major transport corridor. If not intervened, the proposed land development pockets at Ghattekulo and Chabahil areas, which are the river banks of last 100 years, is most likely to develop as the present area of GAIAUPP, which was also a river bank in the past. The large spaces remained at the corridor as the household courtyards and vacant plots have positively indicated the land readjustment schemes necessity. Still, around 60% area of the corridor has found to be vacant including roads. The prospect of appreciation of land value, with reference to the lands of Bishnumati corridor, where the price hike was almost 10 times after construction of Bishnumati link Road, has been found to be sufficient to finance the proposed planning intervention at the corridor if minimum of 25 meter land is acquired and developed. The proposed ratio of contribution for separate land development schemes and the peoples will for contribution have found significantly different. The necessity of partnership programs with people have been recommended Finally, smce the different nvers of Kathmandu Valley have their own characteristics and require different approach for intervention, the study will definitely help the future researchers specifically for them who want to study in rivers like Manohara, Nakhu etc. Hence, the strategy to develop river corridors should be synchronizing its potentiality with the potentialities of the surrounding areas of the river.
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    Socio – Economic Condition of Nepalese Child Labor in Restaurants- A Case Study of Kathmandu Metropolitan City
    (Department of Economics, 2003) Khanal, Dipak
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    Environmental Impacts, Systematics and Distribution of Herpetofauna from East Nepal
    (Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology, 2003) Rai, Kalu Ram
    In this thesis, various environmental impacts on the ecological zones of the East Development Region of Nepal have been covered. The studied area includes lakes, ponds, watershed areas, springs, streams and rivers, wetland habitats. Forests, forest bottom leaf litters, buffer zones, community forests, cultivated lands, abandoned and arid zones were investigated as terrestrial habitats. Location and directions of mountain ranges from Siwalik to Midland and Highland landscapes were also recorded. The monthly and annual records of temperature, humidity, light and precipitation records from each climatic station of all districts have been analyzed to assess important abiotic factors in the studied area. Impacts occurring from land-use pattern, socio-development and population growth are also discussed, with evidences of observation from this research area. Furthermore, deforestation and industrialization in the process of progressive development are one of the causes for slowly but steadily increasing pollution. The main focus on the herpetofauna of East Nepal has been the distribution situation and the human impacts, respectively. The turtle situation in East Nepal was another important problem object made during the research period. Systematic study down to species level of amphibians (Gymnophiona, Caudata, Anura) and reptiles (Chelonia, Sauria, Serpentes and Crocodylia) was made. In ethnologic aspect, the tribalzoological names were collected from the lowland, Midland and highland ethnic groups. Besides this, herpeto-batracho-coenosis is another very important aspect used to
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    PLANNING FOR URBAN EXPANSION OF THE KATHMANDU VALLEY- A THRESHOLD APPROACH
    (Pulchowk Campus, 2003-02) JOSHI, KIRTI KUSUM
    The socio-economical and political value of the Kathmandu Valley has never been challenged in the history of Nepal. Even the victory by King Prithivi Narayan Shah of Gorkha over the Valley did not change the status but only highlighted the place of the Valley in the map of Nepal, with the capital city of unified Nepal in its heart. But times changed, and the modem addition in traditional cities of the Valley tarnished the glory which had been so fondly treasured. Today, the Valley faces a number of problems- poor environment, water scarcity, traffic congestion, ugly built-up areas and so on. The list seems endless. But these problems have not stopped the high rate of urbanization of the Valley with annual population growth rate of over 4 %. In fact, the urban problems are the unwanted by• products of uncontrolled urbanization. So to prevent further deterioration of the Valley, which in near future will be a conglomeration of settlements, analysis of population, including migrants, needs to be carried out to figure out under certain circumstances, how many people the Valley can accommodate and at the same time, provide adequate urban services. The physical boundary of the Valley with high hills around it, puts a limit on the urban growth beyond the foothills. Even for the area within the boundary, there is agricultural land to be preserved for ecological reasons, and there are open spaces to be left for seismic safety. There are people, and many are added each year. Services have to be provided to them, and among all, water stands as the most-crucial one. The Melamchi Project is at the doorway, but it needs to be examined for how long it can satisfy the thirst of the Valley people. Of all the perspectives, physical space and drinking water requirements are particularly important in suggesting the threshold capacity of the Valley. Definitely, the carrying capacity is not a static value and changes with change in social and technological changes. But for a country which cannot carry out dramatic development works, planning works have to be based on the realistic limitations and constraints. This study attempts to define the carrying capacity of the Valley based on selected factors, and recommends strategies based on threshold approach.
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    Physical and Social Transformation of the urban fringe of the Kathmandu Valley
    (Pulchowk Campus, 2003-12) Upadhyay, Anir Kumar
    Urban areas are continuously gaining population and urban activities overspill from central cities to peripheries rapidly. Urban fringe areas are the localities where the cities are expanding. These areas reflect urban dynamics and the.. non agricultural land uses which are trying to adjust in an urban complex. In the wake of urbanization, fringe areas have both threats and opportunities due to the expansion of urban areas. On one hand, when agricultural land converts into urban land use, it certainly provides economic opportunities and on the other hand decrease in agricultural land causes serious problems to the farmers who do not have other skills than agriculture. Kathmandu Valley is experiencing rapid land use conversion. Twenty two percent of the agricultural land was converted for non-agricultural purposes in the last two decades. Conversion rate was more than 950 hectares per year in the last decade only. Agricultural land is gradually converting into other land uses. The study aims to know how the farmers and the landowners of urban fringe are affected by the • ongoing rapid urbanization. This study concentrates on physical, social and economic ., transformation of the local farmers and the landowners. I Two case study areas are selected along two major arterial roads of the Kathmandu Valley. These two areas represent both planned intervention and unorganised development. Saibu Land pooling area is planned by the government to accommodate growing housing demand of Kathmandu. Sunakothi VDC is an unorganised development led by informal market. The literature review and information gathered during the field survey, consists of information on physical, social and economic aspects of the farmers and landowners of both the case study areas. Considering the physical aspect, findings from the iv study suggest that people are deprived of proper access due to haphazard and incoherent land fragmentation in an unorganised development. In both the cases, land holding capacity of landowners has reduced significantly. Physical displacement of the local residents is also observed and some more households are at the verge of displacement in near future. Socially the relationship that has been developed through agricultural activity has - reduced significantly and people are facing difficulties to continue with agriculture. Mutual help among friends and relatives is found to have been maintained in the unorganised development while the similar relationship has decreased in the planned area. Considering the economic aspects, it was observed that the people are changing their professions from primary (agriculture) to secondary (business) and tertiary (services) sectors but the transformation process is rather slow and most of the households are still dependent on agriculture. Those who are practicing multiple professions are earning better than those who are practicing agriculture only. Due to the lower income, people are forced to sell their property whenever they get attractive price. They spend the money thus received for the needs of the family. Comparative study of both the planned intervention and unorganised development divulge some strengths and weaknesses • of these two different developments. Strengths of both the cases should be incorporated and weaknesses should be mitigated while planning in the urban fringe areas. Strengths of unorganised developments are good social relationship in the community, incremental land use change etc. Good social relationships could be maintained through infrastructure sharing among local residents and the migrants in the community. Staged and pocket wise development of infrastructures would help in preserving agricultural land while supplying the building parcels at the same time. This would help farmers to continue with their profession for a longer period of time.
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    A Study of Prevalent Stress and Life Satisfaction Among Five Star Hotel Employees in Nepal
    (Department of Psychology, 2004) Neupane, Gopilal
    This research has two pronged aims. The first aim is to develop life Event Inventory after collection of stressful life events from 800 sample of professionals (N=700) and students (N=100). The Nepalese life stress Inventory was administered on 10.18% employees (N=250) sample from all (six) five star hotels. Systematic random sampling technique was used to represent the population universe of 2455. The sample (N=250) consisted of males (N=208) and females (N=42). Methods of study usedwere Standardized Questionnaire: Locus of Control Inventory (Rao, 1985), General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg and Williams, 1988), Life Satisfaction Scale (Warr, 1989), informal interview and participatory observation. The second aim is to compute analysis of variables, showed that married employees were less stressed, enjoyed good health and showed more satisfaction in life than unmarried. Married were found to be more internal than the unmarried. Married were high risk takers. Employees from terai were high internality oriented than the employees from Hill and Mountain. Urban employees showed high internality than the rural employees. Similarly Sino- Tibetan employees showed high internality. Female employees also showed high internality, good health andhigh life satisfaction. Further attempts were made to test hypotheses. The difference of stress score in males and females were not found significant (null hypothesis was retained). There was positive and significant relation between life satisfaction and locus of control. The difference of stress due to gender (biological) was not significant. Employees scoring high in internality showed high life satisfaction. The mean score of life events at hill region was greater than mean score of life events at mountain and terai. Pearson correlation between life satisfaction and general health was significant. Stress has negative effect on the well-being. In covariate analysis age has significant effect on life satisfaction, and religion has effect on health. The interaction effect of work experience and salary together has the significant relation to life satisfaction.
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    Microbiological and Physico-Chemical Analysis of Alcoholic Beverages of Kathmandu Valley
    (Department of Microbiology, 2004) Shrees, Bhim
    Three of each alcoholic beverage(Beer,Jand and Raksi) were collected from retail shops covering the Kathamdnu valley and analyzed for their total bacterial count, coliform count and yeast and mold count. Pour plate technique and MF–technique were applied for bacteriological count.The total bacterial count of beverages had done by MF-Technique and total bacterial count was ranging from 23 to 128 cfu/100ml. Similarly, in case of yeast and mold count was ranging from 5x10 2 cfu/ml to 19x10 8 cfu/ml. In case of Raksi total bacterial count as well as yeast and mold count was nil. Yeast and mold count in beer was ranging from 39 cfu/100ml 134 cfu/100 ml. Total coliforms were not found in anyanalyzed samples.Amongst bacterial isolates Bacillus sps., Staphylococus aureus, Pseudomonassps.,Enterobactersps.etc. were predominant. Analyzed chemical parameters were temperature, pH, acidity and alcohol percentage.The averages pH, acidity, Brix, alcohol percentage of beer was 4.55, 0.151, 5.196, and 5.15respectively. The average value of pH, acidity,Brix, alcohol content of Jandand raksi were4.02, 0.28, 3.31, 4.6 and 3.98, 0.0151, 6.81, 22.8 respectively. Microbiological parameters showed that there was high in count of micro-organisms as compare to recommended value. While, chemical parameters satisfy the recommend value.Beverages sold in Kathmandu valley is contaminated through external source due to unhygienic handling and storage. Bottles and closures are another possible source for bottled beverages. It also contains several pathogens in it indicating unsanitary practice during manufacture.
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