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Item Distribution and Diets of Wolves (Canis lupus, Linnaeus 1758) in Trans-Himalaya of Humla, Nepal(Department of Zoology, 2015) Kunwar, BinodThe wolves are top predators in the Trans-Himalaya region. The research was conducted in Limi valley of Humla District of Nepal in June and July 2014. The major objectives were a) to determine the distribution of wolves in Limi valley, Humla, b) to analyze the characteristics of scats of Wolves and c) to examine the diet composition of Wolves. Scat samples were collected by line transects method and opportunistic survey. Diets were determined by micro-histological analysis of remains in sixty scats by using the Protocol developed by Klare et al. 2011. During the study revealed by a total of ten individual wolves were observed in the two study sites. Most of the scats were collected from grassland at 4600 masl to 4799 masl. Wolves preferred grassland than barren land. The weights of scats were ranged from 20 gm- 80 gm and 5 cm- 12 cm long with 2.5 cm- 4 cm in diameter. A minimum of 10 taxa were consumed by wolf constituted wild ungulates (46.9%), small mammals (29.7%) and livestock (23.4%). Kiang and Tibetan Argali were recorded first in diets of wolves. The frequency of occurrence of Blue Sheep in scats was 42% followed by Himalayan Marmot (19%), Horse (17.3%) and remaining others. In term of biomass consumption, Horse was the dominant prey species i.e. 36.8% which was followed by Blue Sheep (34.8%), Himalayan Marmot (10%) and remaining others. Significant proportion of diets consists of medium wild prey species (40.83%) followed by small wild prey (29.50%), large domestic prey (20.17%), large wild prey (6.34%) and medium domestic prey species (3.16%). Forty scats samples are enough for the diet analysis of wolf’s diet. The study concluded that a minimum 10 Wolves were found in the study area where large ungulates had great contribution in the diet compositions of wolves and secondary and small preys had seasonal importance. The study suggests exploring the distribution of Wolves throughout the country and to cover all the seasons and bigger landscape is needed to assess entire food spectrum of Limi Valley.Item English Code-Mixing in Saptakoshi Fm: A Case of Request Time(Faculty of English Education, 2011) Khanal, RishiramThis dissertation is primarily a study of English code-mixing in Saptakoshi FM in Itahari. The main objectives of the research study were to find out and analyze English code-mixing in terms of major word classes, frequency of occurrence of the words, contexts in which code-mixing takes place and, find out reasons for English code-mixing. The primary sources of data for this study were 12 radio prorammes of Request Time broadcast from the FM station as well as the 25 radio announcers and 25 radio listeners of the FM radio. The researcher used judgmental or purposive nonrandom sampling procedure for the collection of data. The findings of the research work shows that there is maximum amount of English code-mixing in the programme. It was found out that programme announcers mixed higher amount of English words than the audience. It was also found out that nouns were in the first position, adjectives in the second position, verbs in the third and adverbs were in the last position regarding the number and percentage of the English words mixed. Regarding the context of code-mixing, the announcers and listeners mixed English words in such context as greeting, expressing gratitude, answering telephone call, agreeing, changing the topic of discussion, consoling, requesting, offering, dedicating the songs etc. in the programme. The study extends to four chapters. Chapter one deals with general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significant of the study and definitions of specific terms. Chapter two deals with the methodology for study including sources of data, population of the study, tools for data collection and process of data collection. Chapter three includes the analysis and interpretation of data using such simple statistical tools as frequency and percentage. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations of the research study