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Organizations face a number of complex challenges. Growth and competitive advantage has become strategic perquisites for any organization. Need for developing information and knowledge structures is becoming increasingly important in order to achieve a sustained growth in today's competitive environment. We, in this paper, have briefly reviewed the increased interest in more explicitly valuing intangible assets and have explored the strengths and weakness of the current approaches of Intellectual Capital (IC) and Balanced Score Card (BSC). The paper contends that overemphasis on developing and leveraging intangible assets, is nonproductive and incorrect. All organizational assets financial, tangible and intangible must be managed as an integrated system if the value of intangible assets is to be fully ascertained. A new approach, Systematic Knowledge Management (SKM) that visualizes and harmonizes the organizational factors and dynamic interactions involved in effectively and efficiently managing all assets, has been proposed.

Sexual violence generally leaves a mark on historical records only if such incidents come to trial. Today's experience suggests that only a fraction of such cases have ever reached the courts in the past; and even in those cases, the evidence that survives is far from the whole story. This neglect reflects the way sexual violence against women has been so easily waved aside, mainly by men, as a marginal event, a private catastrophe doubtless, but one of little historical significance for such criminals have been generally considered as sex maniacs. Also, ingrained misogynistic caricaturing of women has always allowed people to trivialise rape and render it titillating to the pornographic imagination. It is therefore suggested that such stereotypes in turn infect the way men have written history. A major achievement of feminist history, particularly in the post-structuralist debate, has been to end this neglect and challenge this trivialisation. Drawing upon post-structuralist feminists and Indian writings, this study examines sexual violence that forms a common theme in the daily lives of numerous dalit women in India.

This particular paper is all about the introductory details of the theoretical and technical structure of the South American GPS Augmented Navigation System-Space Weather Integrated Monitoring and Surveillance Systems(SAGANS-SWIMS) which will undoubtedly be the most robust navigation, communication, surveillance and weather monitoring systems in the entire continent of Latin America, which will cater to the diversified requirements of people in various sectors such as agriculture, Science, engineering and technology, communication, navigation, education, militaries and defense systems, governmental policies regarding the best utilization of natural resources.

Viewed in the context of development and social change, the concept of female criminality is a recent phenomenon both in developed and Third World countries including India. Female criminality is a product of varied socio-economic-cultural and environmental factors resulting out of rapid industrialization, westernization and urbanization. Currently because of its increasing rate, it has drawn the attention of psychologists, sociologists and criminologists both at the International and national scene. Not only it has given a strong blow to our social and cultural heritage but also affected the social structure of Indian society. Against this background, the present paper focusses attention on various causes of female criminality in India and its consequences upon our society. With the help of various theoretical models the authors have analysed the various factors which make women crime prone. Finally, some significant and relevant suggestion have been provided to prevent and control the increasing trend.

Waste pickers and collectors constitute the bottom layer of waste recycling in the metropolis of Delhi. Pickers collect waste just by picking them up from public places such as garbage dumps and streets, whereas collectors purchase waste from waste producers such as households and shops for sale to higher-level waste traders. Most pickers have incomes below the poverty line set by the Planning Commission of India, whereas the majority of collectors earn marginally higher than the poverty-line income. The poverty of pickers is not transitory, but chronic as they have no connection to enter the community of collectors and higher-level waste traders within which the community mechanism works effectively to reduce risk and transaction costs. Despite their low economic and social status, pickers and collectors are making important contributions to society. It is found that pickers and collectors are adding more value than their own income to waste procucers' income and to the saving of the city government's expenditure for disposing waste. Increased public support not only for social services, but also production services and infrastructure can be justified not only for the purposes of reducing poverty but also for furthering their positive contribution to society. (DSE/GIGA)

The technological forecasting for predicting foreseeable scientific breakthroughs, refinements and discoveries has emerged as a serious professional activity in the recent years. In this era of highly competitive economy and cut-throat competitions, where technology change plays a pivotal role, the forecasting is of paramount importance to predict changes in advance and achieve the designated goals within specified time-frame so as to maintain the competitive advantage. The administration of military research and develop'ment has played a disproportionate role in the emergence of technological forecasting as a serious professional activity. This is one marketplace where an acute need for technological forecasting is felt as an adjunct to planning and execution, so as to maintain the muchneeded cutting edge over the adversaries by fielding superior weapon systems. In this paper, an attempt has been made to apply some of the techniques to futuristic combat vehicles. To generate greater confidence in the results, validation has been attempted through analytic hierarchy process. Based on the case study, a generalised framework is also proposed for technological forecasting and technology transfer.