This investigation presents analysis of the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT analysis) in tourism sector of Zanzibar Tanzania, in order to find out the prospects for marketing policies and strategies for the sector with better strategic planning. Zanzibar possesses certain important and attractive historical, cultural and natural attributes that have made it a reasonable tourism destination. Using derivative information and identified SWOT variables, the paper critically reviews the relevant material for the sake of the analysis and discovered that Zanzibar tourism sector has been experiencing significant level of growth and expansion due to government policies and attention. The result shows that, the sector fuels the economy of the state and possesses certain important attributes that could help it in attaining the position of top most Indian Ocean tourism destination. However, the investigation found that, there is need of effective management of natural resources to assure their fair access and control to the tourists as well as local population. The paper also put forwards, possible strategies and approaches together with some recommendations to the government, policy makers and marketing managers to assist them in formulating adequate policies for the sector.
The objective of the study is to examine stakeholders' perception of forest and its implication for sustainable forest management in Ghana. This has become necessary in the light of the fact that operational application of forest management remains troublesome leading to the development of inconsistent forest management practices in the country. The study was approached using a cross-sectional design imploring semi-structured interviews and questionnaires as data collection method and instrument respectively in Juaso Forest District in the Asante Akim Central Municipality of Ghana. The research findings indicate that stakeholders' participation in sustainable forest management in the Juaso Forest District has been met with a myriad of challenges. These challenges are deeply rooted in the stakeholders' perceptions of what constitute forest in the communities. These perceptions have defined the conditions required for sustainable forest management at the local level. It is noted that sustainable forest management is a collaborative efforts, hence at the local level efforts should be made to ensure participation of all stakeholders in the decision making, policy design and implementation.
This research presents a comparison between two methods of learning-classification, the first one is a probabilistic and unsupervised which is the Hidden Model Markov (HMM), while the second is a statistic and supervised that is the Support Vectors Machine (SVM). These techniques are used for printed Eastern Arabic numerals recognition, in different situation: rotated and translated or resized and noisy. In the pre-processing phase we have used the thresholding technique while in the features extraction we exploited the Krawtchouk Invariant Moment (KIM). In fact, in order to make a precise comparison between these two methods, we have introduced two new concepts which are the threshold and the interval of stability of each numeral and for each of these two methods. The simulation results that we obtained demonstrates that SVM is more performing than the HMM technique in this recognition system.
Experiments were carried out on natural convection heat transfer from square pin fin heat sinks subject to the influence of its geometry and heat flux. A total of 50 fins were bolted into the upper surface of the base plate. The area of the base plate is 250mm by 250mm. The base plate and the fins were made of aluminum .Over the tested range of Rayleigh number, 12.45
In recent years planar inverted-F antenna stay as one of the most popular antenna used in mobile phone, because of its low profile, light weight and simple structure. This study presents a simulation of a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with a radiating plate to the associated ground plane by a shorting plate and a FR-4 substrate between the ground plane and the radiating plate. The PIFA antenna is fed by a coaxial cable through a SMA connector. In this work the different parameters are changed to observe their effects on the characteristics of PIFA as the resonance frequency, the length of the bandwidth and the radiation pattern. The kind of this PIFA element is to cover a wide frequency band from 2.31 GHz to 2.71 GHz; therefore, we can find these applications: Wi-Fi (2.45GHz), Bluetooth (2.4 GHz) and the two Long Term Evolution bands (LTE 2.3GHz, LTE 2.5GHz) includes.
In this paper, we study the convergence of offline gradient method with smoothing L_(1/2) regularization penalty for training multi-output feed forward neural networks. The monotonicity of the error function and weight boundedness for the offline gradient with smoothing L_(1/2) regularization. the usual L_(1/2) regularization term involves absolute value and is not differentiable at the origin. The key point of this paper is modify the usual L_(1/2) regularization term by smoothing it at the origin are presented, the convergence results are proved, which will be very meaningful for theoretical research or applications on multi
The relationship between personality and career success was investigated in a questionnaire study with a sample of 200 doctors and educators, who were employed in different hospitals and universities on different organizational designations. Personality judged by the "Big Five Personality Model". Career Success comprised of subjective (intrinsic) career success (financial success, life success, interpersonal success and job success) and objective (extrinsic) career success (salary and promotion) dimensions. In Pakistani society/culture people unaware about their personality, so the research on personality and its impact on career success were unjustified and mostly insignificant. Meaning of success in our society is to earn money and get competitive advantages as compared to colleagues. Personal life and interpersonal relationships have less worth in success counter. Research presents the insignificant impact of personality, person environment-fit and job performance on career success. With respect to limitations of the study, construct of personality like: education, knowledge and experience levels not included in research.
The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of factors like personality factors, job factors, organizational factors, job burnout and work engagement on employee workplace deviant behavior. Moreover, this study also contributes to knowledge in the emerging literature on the subject matter of human resource management, organizational behavior and organizational development. The survey was conducted among three sectors of Pakistan, electronic, textile and sports where 170 questionnaires were distributed to the employees of these sectors. Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the relationship among variables and to test the model, whereas AHP test was used to find the critical factors associated with this study. The personality factors, organizational factors, job burnout and work engagement are essential factors for the firm because these three factors have extremely vital effect on employee workplace deviant behavior. Personality factors like conscientiousness, trait anger and agreeableness were found to have a significant effect on job burnout. Similarly, personality factors like high level of conscientiousness and low level of trait anger enhance the level of work engagement which ultimately lowers the employee workplace deviant behavior. Organizational factors have significant impact on work engagement while job burnout has significant effect on employee work place deviant behavior. Work engagement impacts employee workplace deviant behavior. This study was limited to only three sectors of Pakistan and further sectors can be considered in order to validate this research in future. The time and resources were also remained the big issues during the research. The findings of this study allow the managers to understand the factors underlying employee workplace deviant behaviors and in this way, managers or organizations.
Purpose: The basic purpose of this research is to demonstrate financial position of Pepsi Company with beverages and food industry that how companies amount their financial magnitudes and utilize these financial steps to recognize organization's change associated situations. Design/ Methodology: The detailed analysis strategy is utilized to better understand the organization. In this study analysts created that how organization's operations and position is effected by the incredible financial destruction in general world's economy. Primary and secondary data are used for that ratio analysis Also they examined that how they are attempting to make due in businesses to hold their heading position. Findings: After the ratio analysis researcher found that company is in good position in his beverage and food industry or leading company with high sale growth, No doubt company affected by the worse economic situation but still follows the top level strategies in their operations and sustains their position.
In the last few decades, university-industry collaborations have attracted considerable attention. A large body of literature has pointed to the importance of scientific research for technological change, innovation and economic performance. This paper identifies the effect of collaborations with public research organizations on firms' innovative performance. Using the French Community Innovation Survey, we present evidence that collaborating with universities and other public research organizations increases firm's innovative performance.
The link between inflation and growth has often been the center of debate and has attracted much attention. In this context, this work is an attempt to determine the possible relationship between inflation and growth through an econometric study using the method of panel data (the panel includes in one side the United States, in the other Europe represented by France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain), we tried to confirm the thesis that states: inflation is negatively related to growth, was also exposed in this work policies against inflation and deflation to achieve the idea that both are harmful to growth hence the idea of targeting. So of this work, we can conclude that there is a negative relationship between inflation and growth where we must set a limit inflation above (and below) which fight against inflation Night the economy.
Field experiment was conducted at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) farm during Rabi season (from 25 November 2011 to 24 March 2012) to investigate the effects of irrigation water and variety on wheat production. The experiment was set up using split plot design (SPD) with two modern-varieties (MV) of wheat BARI Gam-25 (V1) and BARI Gam-26 (V2), each of which received four irrigation treatments viz., T1 (control), T2 ((17-21 Days After Sowing (DAS)), T3 (17-21) + (45-50) DAS) and T4 ((17-21) + (45-50) + (75-80) DAS), that were randomly replicated thrice. Irrigation was applied IW (Irrigation water) and CEP (Cumulative Pan Evaporation) ratio. The study revealed that maximum grain yield was found BARI Gam-25 which was 4.11 t ha-1 where BARI Gam-26 produced 3.90 t ha-1 and the highest grain yield (4.32 t ha-1) was found in treatment T4, its water productivity was the lowest (289 kg ha-1cm-1) of all. On the contrary, treatment T3, gave a yield of 4.25 t ha-1 which was highest one having the highest water productivity of 346 kg ha-1cm-1, indicating less use of water. The grain yield in treatments T1 and treatment T2 produced 3.47 t ha-1 and 3.99 t ha-1 respectively which were significantly lower as compared to T3 and T4. The highest irrigation requirement (7.78 cm) was found in the treatment T4, while treatment T3 needed only 5.08 cm of water saving about 2.70 cm of water. The effect of variety on plant height and harvest index was significant at 1% level of probability.
Alternaria alternata one of widely distribution plant pathogenic and saprophytic fungi. A. alternata producing more than 70 secondary metabolites, One of the important metabolites (AOH). The main effect of alternariol (AOH) lies in the generation reactive oxygen species (ROS) in rat's liver cytochromes. The aim of this work was studying the detection of polyketide synthase gene that responsible for Alternariol (AOH) production from Alternaria alternata by specific primer. Detection of AOH production by thin layer chromatography and the PKSJ gene by specific primer in PCR thermal cycle.43 sample of infected tomato by early blight disease in Karbala city collecting and cultured on PDA. For detection of mycotoxins (AOH) production. Designed this primer through the use of the complete sequence of the PKSJ gene (Gene bank sequence JX103645.1) from the site of Gene bank-NCBI and Primer3plus using the program to design primers and used in the PCR test. The result showed 23 out off 24 isolates were produced AOH toxin. TLC plate (Silica gel G60 20x20cm) was used for detection of AOH in comparison with OTA standard spot. 23 isolates was produced AOH toxin. TLC plate was used for detection of AOH in comparison with OTA standard spot. PKSJ primer that designed in this study was success for the detection and investigation of the gene responsible for the production of AOH, where the primer could amplify the target piece of PKSJ gene and produce bands by molecular weight 514 bp on agros gel for all isolates that produced the toxin according to the TLC results. Most isolates of A.alternata can produce AOH toxin. The specific PKSJ primer was success by PCR amplified the target gene with all isolates excepted isolate No. 2 which not produce AOH, finally the PKSJ primer is specific primer for detection of polyketide synthase gene.
Inclusive Education has gained sufficient ground in developed systems. Its extension to Pakistan and elsewhere emerged as a result of "Islamabad Declaration on Inclusive Education 2005". Government of Pakistan Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNESCO organized this National Consultation on Inclusive Education. This study intended to measure the attitudes of key stakeholders, teachers, head teachers, (managers) of the pilot project towards this initiative. Attitudinal scale and interview process will be evolved to collect the field-based data, together with school profiles to measure the level of their commitment. Statistical treatment in the form of tables, charts and graphs was assigned to the raw data. Factor analysis and other relevant analytic tools were equally used. Analysis of the data yielded that the teachers and head teachers were well aware of the concept of inclusive education. Integration of the two groups was at initial stage. Its full reorganization would gain ground with increased training. Socialization and developing belongingness, patterns of personality development and Health facilities, increased mothers' involvement formed major gaps for future research.
The study reveals how much relationship between parental economic level and academic achievement of the university students. This study examines one important aspect. It studies the relationship between Parental Economic level and academic achievements of university students. For this study five discipline of Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University were selected from Rawalpindi Pakistan. A sample of 270 students was selected from each discipline through stratified sampling technique. This research work used descriptive statistics to obtain relationship among parental economic level and academic achievement of the respondents. Pearson Product
Audio-Visual aids are those aids, which assist the teaching process, by which teaching and learning both process become attractive, interesting and sophisticated. It solves the teaching problems which occur during teaching. This experimental study is designed to investigate the role of A.V aids on the cognition of students at secondary level. The objective of this study was to find out the use of A.V aids in teaching of Pakistan studies at secondary level and to find out the effect of A.V aids on the cognition of students. The population of the study was comprised of all the Govt Girls secondary schools. For the present study Govt M.C. Girl's secondary school was selected through purposive sampling. Quasi-experimental research design was adopted for the study intact classes were taken in this experiment. The instruments of this study were an inventory of A.V. aids and also developed an achievement test. The test reliability was found 0.75. The experimental group was taught by using technical audio- visual aids while the control group was taught by the traditional method. The results of pre and post test scores were calculated and analyzed through statistical tools and percentage was used for analysis of inventory responses. The mean achievement scores of student from experimental group was significantly higher than the control group It was therefore recommended that Pakistan studies teachers should use the audio-visual-aids to teach to teach students at 9th class. The findings of the study will provide useful knowledge for educators and teachers to improve their teaching methods. The results of this study might stimulate further research.
Talent management concept deemed as cornerstone in human resource management studies as it covers different features of human recourses by polishing employees' skills and expertise with different methods. Banking sector is paying great attention to develop the effective mechanisms regarding talent management. The purpose of this study is to identify the strategic importance of talent management and to create a link between talent management and organizational performance. Researchers examined the role of talent management in overall organizational effectiveness. Study is descriptive and qualitative in nature. Data collected from managerial staff of banks through interviews. Results revealed that effective talent management strategies have significant and positive relationship with organizational performance. Study results also highlight that talent management also has positive and strong association with competitive advantage, performance and talent position within the banking sector. This study will provide great insight for understanding of talent management concept and its importance in banking sector. Banks can utilize these results to shape their talent management practices. Limitations, practical implications and future directions also mentioned at the end of the article.
This paper addresses farmers' participation in On-Farm Adaptive Research (OFAR) in South-western Nigeria. The concept of OFAR entails full participation of farmers in the research process, direct contact between researchers and farmers and intensive investigation of farmers' situations to strengthen Research-Extension-Farmers Linkage. Farmers' level of participation is critical in creating room for consideration of local ethics, culture, environmental and socio-economic characteristics to enhance successful and accepted programmes. This study sought to assess the farmers' level of participation based on four major phases of OFAR process: diagnostic survey phase, research phase, field test phase and demonstration phase. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed to collect cross sectional data from 350 farmers in Southwestern Nigeria. Farmers were favourably disposed to participation and inadequate input, capital, access to information; time and non-availability of market were major constraints against participation in OFAR. The implications of these findings for both research professionals and farmers are discussed.
The present work was aimed at knowing the effect of polyherbal extracts {neem(N), nishynda(N), tulsi(T) and turmeric(T) i.e. NNTT} as growth promoter at the (i) growth performance of broiler and on the (ii) dressing percentage, relative weight of heart, gizzard, liver, spleen and pancreas of the broiler. A total of 50 day-old broiler chicks were purchased from kazi farms limited and randomly divided in two groups, viz., A and B. Group A served as control and was without any supplementation in drinking water. Whereas group B were supplemented with 1ml of polyherbal (NNTT) extracts per liter drinking water. Live body weight was recorded at on 7th day and the final weight was recorded on 42nd day, total feed consumption, feed efficiency and blood parameters of birds were recorded on 21st day and on 42nd day. The treatment groups i.e. B (1700
The amount of waste in the developing Dhaka city is reaching a point where the Metropolitan is running out of space for discarding. This increasing waste is becoming an issue not only for the lack of space but also due to it being the cause of illness, pollution, destruction of natural beauty of the city. The city has already successfully polluted its once primary water source, the Buriganga River. In the current scenario, waste management has become an essential factor. Both quantitative and qualitative disposal is absolutely crucial. In this study a new model of a waste power plant has been proposed which will require less manpower, will create lesser pollution than existing waste power plant models and will put use to a large mass of waste that goes unused in the city.
The major objective of the study are to explore the trends and developments of human resource information system in public sector department of Azad State of Jammu and Kashmir. The paper examines the current HRIS uses, benefits and barriers in these selected public sector organizations. A questionnaire was developed specially based on previous studies done in this area. The result showed that benefits of HRIS are quick response and easy access to information and reducing manpower while the lack of funds and trained staff are the greatest barriers. This study gives an overview of Information system implementation initiatives taken by government of AJ&K, Pakistan.
The capital budgeting techniques have the real life impact in case of decision making process. The available techniques are traditional techniques: Pay Back Period (PBP), Average Rate of Return (ARR) and discounted techniques: Net Present Value (NPV, Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Profitability Index (PI) and Discounted Pay Back Period (DPBP). Here researcher has introduced a new capital budgeting technique: Net Future Value (NFV). The researcher focused NFV basis on borrowing phenomenon and investing or lending phenomenon. The researcher has characterized this technique that if the Net Future Value (NFV) of a borrowing project is negative, the project has the positive worth for the outsider investor(s) and /or the outsider lender(s) and negative worth for the borrower(s) otherwise positive NFV creates negative worth for the investor outsiders and /or the lender outsiders and positive worth for the borrower(s).And if the NFV of an investing or lending project is positive, the project has the positive worth for investor(s) or lenders and negative worth for the borrower(s). The researcher viewed NFV as the compounding technique of capital budgeting. The researcher found the positive relationship between NPV and NFV in case of investing or lending project or investor or lender perspective but negative relationship between NPV and NFV for borrowing project or borrower or debtor perspective.
The paper discusses electronic information resources as library materials use for information works in contemporary information age by library staff. The paper purposely identified the available electronic information resources and their extent of use by library staff. The study employed a descriptive survey design. The instrument of data collection is questionnaire while, population of the study comprises 19 library staff who work in Kogi State University Library, Anyigba. Data gathered by use of questionnaire were analyzed by simple percentage to determine availability of electronic information resources (table,1) and use of available electronic information resources by library staff (table, 2); while mean were used to determine the extent of use of available electronic information resources (table, 3). The findings shows that out of 20 itemized electronic information resources 8(40.0%) were considered available while 12(60.0%) were considered not available. More to this, out of population of 19 library staff 6(31.6%) know how to use available electronic information resources while, 13(68.4%) do not know how to use them. Furthermore, out of 8 available electronic information resources 5 were used to great extent while, 3 to low extent. Hence, data analyzed in (table 1, 2 & 3) are presented in charts. Recommendations were proffered on how to make adequate electronic information resources available, examples/ categories/ types of electronic information resources to be provided (table, 4) as well as uses of them in the library (table, 5) so that library staff would able to use them appropriately to very great extent in support of knowledge to be acquired through trainings.
Bacteriological analysis is very important because it helps to identify the causal agent of infection: bacteria, parasites, fungi. Our study has as purpose the statistical study of different types of analysis developed in the service for nine months ; the urine cytology examination (urinalysis), stool culture, cytology examination of the pus, the blood culture examination, examination of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the bacteriological examination of secretions and ENT bronchopulmonary and ascites fluid and cytology examination of vaginal swab. Based on the statistical study established and the results we determine the impact of the most common germs in different types of analyzes namely E.coli; klebsiellae and Staph.Aureus
This study evaluates yield formation and breeding efforts in durum wheat grown in Morocco by the mean of path coefficient techniques based on plant ontogeny. A field experiment was conducted during 2008-2009 growing season with six Moroccan durum wheat varieties released between 1984 and 2007. Results obtained showed an increased grain yield from old to moderns varieties that was mainly due to longer vegetative period and heavy grains. Path coefficient analysis elucidates the correlation studies, and showed that grain yield was dependent on their three main components from old to modern varieties. Absolute and relative genetic gains in grain yield was 23 kg ha
This paper aims to improve our understanding the gap between existing law and real scenario relating to Industrial relations and the procedure of settlement of industrial dispute in Ready Made Garment (RMG) Sector of Bangladesh. The very object of this writing is to find out the reason behind the labour movements and the role of the employer in this situation. Though garment sector is a rising sector in Bangladesh. Most of the time it faces labour movements due to various inner and outer kind of reasons. The main object is to give a pen picture of present status of industrial relation and to put some general suggestions that can help to reduce the dispute in the readymade garment sectors of Bangladesh.
Using monthly data of Egypt over the period from 2008:M6 to 2013:M1, we extend the linear Taylor rule to a regime-switching framework, where the transition from one regime to another occurs in a smooth way, using a logistic smooth transition regression (LSTR) approach. We find that the nonlinear Taylor rule improves its performance with the advent of special events, such as the global financial crisis in 2008 and the general political instability defined by outbreaks of revolution. In particular, our results show that the adoption of a nonlinear speci?cation instead of a linear one leads to a reduction in errors of 90 basis points in 2008 and 20 basis points in 2012.
This paper examined the impact of rural road connectivity and accessibility on farming activities in Akoko South-West Local Government Area of Ondo State. Using graph measurement analysis to determine the relationship between structure of transport network, flow of traffic to and from the hinterlands as well as to measure the accessibility of the routes within the study area. A grids of 20km by 20km were first superimposed on a larger-scale route map of the study area of scale 1cm to represent 20km.Thereafter, the length of the routes in each grid was measured and summed up and the answer was placed in the centre of each grid as the accessibility index for the concerned grids which was later subjected to the Beta index network analysis of Kansky (1964). The result obtained was B = 0.98, this shows that road network is not well connected to support highly integrated farming activities in the study area. This does not only, has negative impact on food crop production but has seriously reduced the economic status of 'the rural farmers. The paper recommends that both state and local governments should attach much importance to the improvement of rural road network accessibility such that farm sites in different locations can be well connected for easy means of food passage and raw materials to the people and industries in urban centres as well as its overall positive effect on the rural famers in the study area.
Background and aim: This study conducted to determine gastrointestinal parasite (GI) infection and evaluation of some heamatological changes in domestic animals . Methods: One hundred fecal samples and blood were collected (4 camels; 4 horse; 5donkey; 40 cattle; 26 sheep, 18 goats and 3 dogs). Results: Of the total samples examined,86 (86.0%) were found positive for GI parasites. The hematological changes recorded in sheep, goat and cattle infected by GI parasites show decrease in PCV, Hb, RBCs and Plasma protein while slight increase in WBCs. Prevalence of GI parasite infection was higher (96.15%) in sheep compared with cattle (85.0%) and goats (83.33%). High percentage of infection (100 % / 60%) in horse than donkey was recorded respectively. Significant difference (P<0.05) was recorded in prevalence of GI parasites among small age group when compared to adults in sheep goats and cattle. Parasites identified in this study includes protozoan Eimeria spp. (95.40%), Nematodes, as Strongyles type of eggs (86.20%), Strongyloides papillosus (47.12%), Parascaris eqiurum (4.59%) and Oxyrius equi (25.0%) . Cestodes (50.57%), as Monieza sp. (48.27%), Monieza expansa (52.38%) Monieza benedeni (47.61%) and Anaplocephalum sp.(2.29%). The percentage of Monieza expansa and Monieza benedeni in sheep was (55.0%), (45.0%) respectively and in Goat (66.66%), (33.33%) while in Cattle (30.0%), (70.0%) respectively. Mixed infection was detected in 73 (84.88%) while single infection was detected in 13 (15.11%) in domestic animals samples. Conclusion: Mixed infections and young age come in consideration as a cause of hematological changes in farm animals.
Heavy metals are micro likely to cause nuisance even when they are released in very small quantities (toxicity develops through bioaccumulation). Moreover, small amounts are often offset by a volume effect into account the importance of water flow. The industry is responsible for almost all releases of heavy metals in water. In effect, water rivers, streams, canals, the sea has long been "outlet" that allowed to evacuate waste. This work focuses on the analysis and evaluation of metal contamination of raw sewage drained by three main collectors Oued R'dom (Morocco) through the spatio-temporal monitoring of the levels of some metals (Pb, iron, Zn, Cd, Cu and Cr). Sampling was conducted for one year from January to December 2013. Analysis of Fe, Zn, Cd, Pb, Cr and Cu revealed the presence of metal contamination from the Fe exceeded the threshold of acceptability, other metallic trace element exist in quantity accepted, they could be classified in order of abundance in the following manner: Fe> Zn> Cd> Pb> Cu> Cr. The average concentrations of metals Oued R'dom level in water are 3.11 mg / l for Fe, 2.17 mg / l for Zn, 0.046 mg / l for Pb, 0.01 mg / l for Cr, 0.043 mg / l for Cu and 0.083 mg / l for Cd.
The objective of this paper is to present the analysis of geometric tolerances of the assembly design with the deviations and clearance method, for this we will study initially the tolerance analysis using the worst case method, in a second step we will integrate statistical Tolerancing approach, and finally we will integrate form deviations of the parts to study the impact of these deviations on the tolerance analysis. To illustrate this process of analysis we used a classic case of assembly and we considered the location tolerance (perpendicularity) and the form tolerance (flatness). Finally, a comparative study between the two statistical methods was illustrated.
This paper defines the building blocks and derives basic queuing systems that provide some sort of services by moving customers in a particular order to a specific service according to the customer requirements and also integrated Alert Notification via SMS to be sent to customers updating them of the progress as they wait. The study focuses on the bank line system mostly on credit applications, the different queuing algorithms that are used in banks to serve the customers, and the average waiting time. The main aim of this research is to develop a Model that integrate Alert notification via SMS on credit applications during queuing system and analyze the queue status to decide on which customer to serve. The researcher adopted empirical approach to achieve his objectives. The target population covers mainly the customers at Bank. The researcher applied a probability sampling technique to select respondents. There were a couple of interviews and questionnaires conducted to bank customers to find out their satisfaction level about the current system and acceptance of the proposed system during data collection which enable easy of analysis. The data was then tabulated and presented in a graph for presentation purposes. The researcher used the research study findings to design and develop a model. The requirements for this model were obtained from the responses that the target population gave. Some of the variable loaded low than the theoretical established entry values were therefore dropped, while the ones that loaded higher than these thresholds were retained. These are the ones that were included in the final loaded model constructed using AMOS software.
The study examined the grammatical errors of Technology student teachers' utterance structure. It was conducted to answer two questions: (1) what are the language backgrounds of the Technology student teachers; and (2) what are their common grammatical errors during the on-campus teaching. To address the first question, the participants were personally interviewed for their language profile utilizing the developed and modified interview guide. To address the second question, the participants' Technology classes were observed and video recorded for transcription. The findings show that misinformation and omission account for most of the total grammatical errors identified, with addition and ordering of elements being less frequent. It is observed that the student teachers repeatedly use the wrong forms of the words in place of the correct ones. These errors in their utterance structure are the results of the influence of their native language structures to produce a spoken discourse of the English language (L2). It can be noted then that grammatical errors on spoken discourse are different from written discourse as the spontaneous utterances encompass several errors. Data present a Philippine English variety based on the utterances of student teachers which are patterned on the Philippine language structures.
For the development of any country the education is necessary. Education is the right of both genders male and female. In the different rural areas of Pakistan it is a red signal that people deprived their female from education. Layyah is the backward district of Punjab where the literacy rate is comfortable as compare to as a whole but in the rural areas of this district the female participation is very low. This research was conducted in the three union councils of district Layyah. This is quantitative research because it was an exploratory study. These UCs were selected through systematic random sampling. A sample size of 150 respondents was selected through systematic random sampling. District Layyah was selected as the universe for the present research. Another reason for selecting this city was the easily accessibility of collecting data from rural area. Parents of girls who were illiterate were selected as respondent for the present research. Interview schedule was used as the tool for data collection. The reason was that the mostly people showed non serious behavior towards questionnaire and majority of respondents were illiterate. Before the collection of actual data, it was required to test the accuracy the work ability of information .For this purpose the interview schedule was pre-test to 10 respondents on the basis of response the interview schedule was finalized after introducing some modification in interview schedule to make it more relevant and understandable. The data was present in tabulated form with the percentage was used for data representation and SPSS was used for data analysis.
The pellets are foodstuffs obtained by manual taxiing of cereals flours mixed with water. After steam cooking, pellets are then mixed with a fermented milk to give a beverage called d
In this work, the critical phenomena of Nickel II Iron III oxide (Ferromagnetic) shall be determined using Monte Carlo simulation technique. The critical temperature (Tc), the magnetization per site (?), energy per site (E), magnetic susceptibility (?), specific heat of a NiOFe2O3 are determined as a function of temperature for two different square lattices 20x20 and 150x150. The analysis of simulation results indicates that the bipolar magnet with strong tetragonal distortion in external magnetic field applied along the axis resembles the behaviour of the two dimensional Ising model on the rectangular lattices. The numerical solution of the model in MATLAB "R2013a" is presented. For the sake of clarity, a Monte Carlo Algorithm known as Metropolis Hastings Algorithm was used to evaluate the behaviour of the lattice and the critical temperature at which the phase transition between NiOFe2O3 and paramagnetic state occurs was noted. The analysis of the results shows that Tc = 2.25J/KB , in the absence of external magnetic field. It was observed that above (Tc) the material (NiOFe2O3) becomes a paramagnetic state, and this leads to decreasing in average magnetization and the average Energy increases, while below (Tc) the material is in a ferromagnetic state.
Aplasia cutis congenital is a rare congenital absence of skin, exceptionally involves extremities. Most cases are sporadic but familial autosomal dominant pattern can be found. The etiology remains unclear, both genetic and environmental causes have been implicated. This lesion has primarily a clinical diagnosis. Imaging studies may be used to evaluate underlying tissues and investigate other comorbid abnormalities. Treatment modalities depend upon the extent defect and involvement of underlying tissues. Genetic counseling is useful in cases of hereditary form. We report a new case of extensive bilateral aplasia cutis congenital of extremities in a new born, occurred as an isolated sporadic case without family history, no teratogenic medication and no evidence for an amniotic band or infection in pregnancy.
Kasabach Merritt syndrome is defined by clinical and biological association of a purplish-red vascular tumor rapidly extensive, thrombocytopenia, a variable degree of disseminated intravascular coagulation and sometimes anemia. It usually occurs in neonates and infants less than 6 months, sometimes in utero. The imaging can confirm the diagnosis and search for deep locations. This syndrome can be life-threatening by the risk of bleeding, coagulopathy, thrombosis, compression and heart failure. The therapeutic management should be early, multidisciplinary adapting therapeutic benefits to risks in order to improve the prognosis. We report a case of Kasabach Merritt syndrome, we insist through a literature review of diagnostic, therapeutic and evolutionary difficulties.
Pseudo tumoral peritoneal tuberculosis is a rare clinical form witch clinical and para clinical aspects can mimic advanced ovarian cancer leading to unjustified radical surgery, with high risk of morbidities, often in a young woman. We report a new case of pseudo tumoral peritoneal tuberculosis in a girl of 21 years old in which diagnosis of ovarian cancer with ascitis and peritoneal carcinomatosis was suspected clinically, radiologically and biologically by rising CA125. Exploratory laparotomy with extemporaneous histological examination has confirmed tuberculosis diagnosis.
The destructive oxidation of dyes and textile effluents has recently received considerable attention since colored aromatic compounds have proven to be degraded effectively by a variety of AOPs. We calculated its electronic and optical properties by using DFT and TD-DFT methods at B3LYP/6-311+G(,p) level in solvent (IEF-PCM model) To determine the reactivity and the active sites of azo dye reactive violet5R (V5R). The results showed that V5R is polar and high soluble in water. A good correlation was obtained between the predicted and experimental absorption bands of V5R (R2=97%).
The objective of this work is to study the removal of violet 5R azo dye by adsorption on powdered activated carbon. Following for kinetics adsorption showed that the best results were obtained after 10 minutes of agitation of a solution of 100 ml of violet 5R 10-4M with 10 mg/l of PAC. The initial amount of the dye and the pH of the medium influence greatly the rate of retention.
The objective of this work is to study the possibility of removal of orange 16 azo dye by adsorption on powdered activated carbon and the effect of different reaction parameters. During the experimental study, adsorption tests were carried out in reactor static solutions of this compound in distilled water. Following for kinetics adsorption showed that the best results were obtained after 15 minutes of agitation of a solution of 100 ml of orange 16 10-4M with 10 mg of PAC. The initial amount of the dye and the pH of the medium influence greatly the rate of retention.
Neuroendocrine tumors with small cell cervical represent less than 2% of cervical cancers, and if their evolution depends on the volume and tumor stage, prognosis is generally dark Morphological characteristics and clinical features of these tumors are comparable with neuroendocrine tumors of the lung. This tumor can also be found in other sites such as the skin, gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and cervical region. We report two new cases of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix small cell and through the literature data we review the different aspects of this rare entity.
On the one hand, this study expresses itself on the characteristics of the sensitivity of the consumer to sales promotion and promotion techniques. On the other hand, it reveals the relationship that exists between the promotional offers of firms and the response of consumers to these promotions. An analysis of variance and linear correlation analysis on data from a convenience sample of 1072 consumers of drinks reveals that the sensitivity of the consumer to sales promotion is a one-dimensional concept of the promotional techniques used and a category of goods. However, the complexity of the promotional mechanism can negatively and significantly affect the sensitivity of the consumer to sales promotion. Going from this finding, we recommend that managers should better focus their efforts on the techniques preferred by consumers (take away gifts, sale of two products at the price of one, winning crown corks and price reductions) presented in simple or easily understood forms that reduce supplementary participation effort from consumers and brings them to react favourably.
This study sought to determine the state of management of binocular vision anomalies by eye care facilities in two major cities in Ghana: Accra and Kumasi. Using the snow balling technique, 86 eye care centres were sampled from the two cities from January to February, 2014. Well-structured questionnaires, verbal interviews and in most cases observational check-ups were employed in the data collection process. Out of the 86 clinics, 51 (59.3%) were located in the Accra metropolis. Binocular Vision Anomalies were reported to be managed by 63 (73.3%) clinics. Majority of the clinics (69.8%) managed accommodative dysfunction with added lenses (69.8%) being the most-employed method. Overall, 79 (91.9%) clinics reported that they referred unmanaged cases and mostly to the ophthalmologist (55.7%). It was found that reports of adequate training in management of binocular vision anomalies and number of instruments owned by the clinics were positively associated with management of binocular vision anomalies (p value =0.001 and p value =0.000 respectively). Based on the report of the clinics, it could be concluded that although some form of binocular vision anomalies are managed by most clinics, there is possibly lack of efficient provision of services as most clinics lacked instruments that are required in detecting, measuring and managing Binocular vision anomalies. It is therefore recommended that to ensure provision of more efficient and quality binocular vision services to clients, eye clinics in the country should endeavour to obtain the equipment that are necessary for managing Binocular vision anomalies.
Meeting domestic water requirements has been a very big problem to urban planners. To evaluate the pattern of water supply and use in households in the study area, systematic random sampling technique was used to select the households that were interviewed. Survey questionnaires were employed with which data on water-use characteristics of the respondent households were obtained. A total of 250 households selected at random sampled, and the data obtained were presented in frequency distribution tables, bar charts, pie charts and graphs. The hypothesis formulated were tested using chi-square (x2) test for the goodness of fit. The gross inefficiency in domestic water-use observed among residents in the study area requires that government and NGOs make provision for water to augment the efforts of the private sector, promote sanitation and enforce conservation if water-use is monitored.
Teak (Tectona grandis L.f) is highly famous woody plant species for the quality and durability. Teak has two main problems on long reproductive cycle and produces low seeds. Both problems are basically related to mechanism of flower development. Hence, the determination of the genetic pathways and specific genes involved in teak flowering development could be beneficial for teak productivity improvement. The aim of this study was preliminary development of expressed gene database to characterize the floral transcriptome in teak. Two subtracted cDNA libraries were constructed from teak bud tissues. Libraries were sequenced using Illumina MiSeq technology which generated 3,778,316 in vegetative and 3,701,878 in generative paired-end reads sequences. The sequences were combined QC tested, trimmed, and de novo assembled conducted using CLCGenomics Workbench. The sequence reads assembled de novo into 87,365 transcript contigs consisting of 42,435,728 bases with N50 of 498bp. 64,961 (74.36%) of assembled contigs exhibited similarity BLASTN to Arabidopsis thaliana database. The assembled contigs were annotated through high stringency BLASTX analysis to proteome of A. thaliana. Distribution of contigs abundance between vegetative and generative stages analyzed using the DEGseq approach. The numbers of contigs distribution are 24,730 in vegetative, 28,912 in generative and 33,723 in transition stage. The functionally protein datasets characterized by gene ontology (GO) annotation and KEGG metabolic pathways assignments for the result of DEG analysis. This study allowed us compare the transcriptomes of vegetative and generative tissues of teak in flowering developmental stage, and identify potential biological processes involved in teak flowering developmental stage.