Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2018 Edition


Publication for Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2018.

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DISCUSSION ON DIVERSIFICATION AND FIRM PROFITABILITY[ ]


The desire for our firm to improve their profitability lead to adoption of different measure of performance to enable them occupied the large share of the market. This research work focuses discussion on diversification and profitability. The purpose of the study was to examine diversification and performance on profitability. The study is to examine diversification in relationship with performance on profitability in an organization and also access the fundamental theories of diversification, models of diversification and firm performance.

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The Politicization of Ethnicity and its Role in the Formation of Political Parties[ ]


Ethnicity is one of the most important approaches to understand the political process and institutions as well as the analysis of the political parties and its role of politicization. It is an important social component in African societies. Therefore, ethnicity must be studied in terms of the roots of its composition, and its role to understand the political process. This article gives a brief explanation about The Politicization of Ethnicity and its Role in the Formation of Political Parties in Africa, taken from a comparative politics perspective.

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Content shared on social networks: What effect on the buying intentions of Moroccan consumers?[ ]


In recent years, the appeal of Internet users to different social networks continues to grow. Their impact on the behavior of Moroccan Internet users represent huge deal. This study aims to analyze the impact of content broadcast on social networks on the purchasing intentions of Moroccan consumers. This article will help to determine the factors that can influence the purchasing decisions of Moroccan consumers on the social media channel.

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Structural Study on Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Prepared by Sol-Gel Method[ ]


Fine nanosized metal oxide namely, iron oxide (α-Fe2O3) has been synthesized by sol-gel method using Ferric Chloride as the starting precursor. X-ray diffraction (XRD) study has been conducted to identify the polymorph of the prepared iron oxide nanoparticles. From the study it was observed that the prepared nanoparticles exhibited rhombohedral α-Fe2O3 phase without any other phases magnetite (Fe3O4) or a mixture of magnetite (Fe3O4) and maghemite (γ-Fe2O3). All the structural parameters such as lattice constants, unit cell volume, density, crystalline size, micro strain, dislocation density, texture co-efficient were calculated from the XRD results.

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EVALUATION OF AEROMAGNETIC ANOMALIES OVER SOUTHERN PART OF BIDA BASIN, WEST- CENTRAL NIGERIA[ ]


The qualitative interpretation of aeromagnetic anomalies over parts of Bida basin, west - central Nigeria was performed. Three magnetic data enhancement procedures were employed to determine their effectiveness in characterizing the studying area. The upward continuation technique significantly improves the interpretation of magnetic data regarding discriminating between shallow and deep magnetic source anomalies within the study-ing area.

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Quality Management of the Architectural Design Phase in Professional Practices: RFIs as an Assessment Tool[ ]


Management is the key to the success of any project or process. Architectural Design Management is the management that takes place in the architectural office; during the design process. It tackles a wide range of issues amongst which are; Quality management, Time management, Financial Management among aspects. Practitioners of effective architectural design management should realize its multiple benefits and should see the facilitation in provides towards the success of the practice. It is necessary to satisfy all four pillars (scope, time, cost and quality) of an architectural project in order to reach a project balance. While three of these pillars are easily quantifiable, quality management remains a qualitative aspect, making it challenging to transform the aspects into measureable values and therefore making it difficult to find a calculated harmony/balance in-between these pillars. This research follows a deductive approach, exploring the basis of quality management and unearthing a metric tool that can be used to quantify the quality of the architectural product.

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The characteristics and Perspectives of Tourism in Albania[ ]


In this paper, a general quantitative analysis of the tourism sector is conducted. It analyzes the dynamics of tourist settlements (hotels, motels, etc.) and their capacity, the income from tourism and their dynamics as well, and the government's position in this sector. Moreover, it analyzes the entry and exit of tourists in Albania, entries according to regions of the world. It analyzes the purpose of the trips of the tourists and the travel ways. After processing the material, there are extracted several conclusions: The dynamics of increasing service units should be higher, and with a broader scope both horizontally and vertically, according to the types and distributions of the tourism sector.

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Customers Voice; Process proficiency - the pathway to higher patient satisfaction[ ]


Hospitals provide care and the life saving procedures, at the same time it is a place which is beset with high level of stress for patients and patient attendants alike. Patient complaints provide a valuable source of insight into safety-related problems within healthcare organizations and can provide important and additional information to healthcare organizations on how to improve patient safety. It is not only the Redressal of the complaints/feedback which affects the satisfaction level positively but also the process in which the complaints are registered and the feedback is collected.

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FOOD CONSUMPTION AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AT THE LOW LINE OF MAHAKAM RIVER IN EAST KALIMANTAN: SOCIAL, CULTURE, AND ECONOMIC APPROACH[ ]


The research aimed to examine food consumption and nutritional status in the household of indigenous people “Dayak” which resided at the low line of Mahakam river, and to conduct the study on social, culture, and economic factors which affected the food consumption. The re-search result showed average energy and protein consumption per person was 2.000,7 kcal and 71,0 gram which the actual energy consumption level was 100,04 % and actual protein con-sumption level was 92,54 %.

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Development of an automated English-to-local-language translator using Natural Language Processing[ ]


Residents in Nigeria and other multi-lingual English-speaking countries are limited to communicating with English despite existing local languages. Although English as a lingua franca facilitates communication between residents irrespective of tribe, communication challenges still exist between residents with limited English language proficiency and a different local language. This paper reports the development of an automated English-to-local-language translator as a model to bridge the communication gap in Nigeria and other multilingual settings.

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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRIES THROUGH TECHNO-MANAGEMENT[ ]


Automobile industry in India is a developing sector and can possibly enhance it. The auto component industry in India has developed as one with the industry and is changing itself from being a "Job order fulfiller" to being a "Coordinated association". With the advancement procedure having begun in 1991, most auto component manufacturers in India have picked the simple way of endeavoring to advance on operational or manufacturing capabilities.

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Interpretation of the meaning of natural language phrases in problem-oriented systems[ ]


The organization of a natural language is one of the most important problems in the field of artificial intelligence. The expressive power of a natural language makes it difficult to formalize and eliminate ambi-guities in understanding phrase meanings. This article considers the approach to interpreting natural language phrases based on the "Meaning-Text" theory. The key point is an intentional relationship.

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GAIN IN BANDWIDTH OF A MICROSTRIP ANTENNA WITH NEGATIVE INDUCTOR[ ]


4G communication requires high gain, easy integrated array circuits. Various communication systems require single radiating element operating in wide band. Microstrip antenna has all these advantages but it has some limitations like low gain, low bandwidth and surface wave propagation. Using negative inductor overcomes this disadvantage of Microstrip antenna. In this paper, an active integrated single patch Microstrip antenna is proposed and it’s radiating pattern and gain performance is optimized with analysis.

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Users’ Attitudes towards Website Characteristics[ ]


This research looks into the influence of web design, content and ease of use on users’ stance towards websites. Elements that reflect such stances or attitudes include user satisfaction, trust, usage intention, and willingness to recommend the site to others. For this study, the researches chose a convenience sample and a questionnaire distributed among Yemenis in Sana’a, Yemen. SPSS was used to analyze the responses to the questionnaire. Study outcomes revealed that the site’s content is of significance and more attention should be paid by retailers in this regard. Feedback from users should also be taken into high consideration. It was also found that users favor resorting to formal sources of information and users are more encouraged to use the site based on the level of ease of use and user experience. Good navigability and friendliness of a site are significant to encourage consumer usage of sites.

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Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of Bulk Fibres[ ]


Polymers are generally known to be poor conductors of heat but few researches have had contradicting results on the thermal conductivity of spider silk. The disparity and controversy of the results obtained for similar spider silk by different authors is suspected to be due to varying test methods.

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Unintended Pregnancy among Young Women in Dhaka city: Socio-Economic and Gender Aspects[ ]


Unintended pregnancies are precisely connected with unsafe abortion, maternal morbidity and maternal deaths. Several research studies showed that approximately one-third of pregnancies are unintended in Bangladesh. This article explores socioeconomic, cultural, and gender aspects of young women’s sexual behaviour. It is significantly important to draw a clear line between those informed sexual behaviour and those that are not informed with implications for policy interventions.

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TRAINING AND DEMONSTRATION ON ECO-CONCPTION: AN EXPERIENCE OF ENST (ALGERIA) IN CLEAN TECHNOLOGY[ ]


The eco-design is an approach that clearly fits within the logic of sustainable development and concerns both services and equipments. From the start of the academic year 2017, within the objective of transferring skills to the School of Science and Technology in Algiers, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Technologie (ENST d'Alger); and with the help of a cooperative project between Algeria and Canada, a team was set up.

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Physical Attributes of Thamaraparani River Stretch at Kanniyakumari District[ ]


Riverine ecosystems is the very source where life and thereby human civilizations originated. Water the finite resource that is very essential for the human existence, agriculture, industry etc. Without any doubt, inadequate quantity and quality of water have serious impact on sustainable development. The present investigation looks into the physico-chemical characteristics of river Thamaraparani stretch flowing through Kanniyakumari district of Tamil Nadu which is under tremendous anthropogenic intervention

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Perumchani reservoir of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu and its Physico-chemical attributes[ ]


Water samples from Perumchani reservoir was collected from three sampling sites over a period of 12 months. The Physio-chemical analysis like Turbidity, Transparency, Alkalinity, pH, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Nitrogen and Phosphate were carried out in the water samples to find out its impact on the productivity of the reservoir. It was found that the most of the above said parameters were all well within the permissible limit. However PH was more to the acidic side indicating nutritionally poor water in the reservoir but the least polluted water, compared to other reservoirs in the South Western Ghats.

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Leverage the power of SQL Analytical functions in Business Intelligence and Analytics[ ]


It is said that the world’s most powerful resource is no longer oil, but data. As rightly said by E.O Wilson, we are drowning in data, but striving for wisdom. Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Science require processing huge amounts of data in various and complex ways using a vast array of statistical methods and tools. Market increasingly needs manpower with both databases and data warehouses technological skills and statistical competencies to decipher the business patterns and trends hidden in the mountains of data[1] This paper presents an overview of SQL and its role in business intelligence and data analytics. The paper further focuses on the power of analytical functions in SQL. We experimentally prove the efficiency of the same using Spark-SQL in Python.

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Technology Transfer with Reverse Technology Approach in the Least Developed Countries “LDCs”[ ]


Today, under developed countries for progress in science and technology and decreasing the technological gap with developed countries, increasing the capacities and technology transfer from developed countries. One of the methods for transfer of complex technologies is reverse technology. This paper is to address the factors, mechanism and benefits of reverse technology, as it can be applicable to the least developed countries in bringing meaningful technological and economic growth, suggesting a procedure for reverse technology process in manufacturing as a way forward in achieving the possibility of bridging the gap between LDCs and developed countries if implemented.

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IMPACT OF ISLAMIC FINANCE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH – Empirical Evidence from Pakistan[ ]


After the Global financial crisis, Islamic finance gets worldwide attention and it increased with fast pace especially in Pakistan where total assets of Islamic Banks crossed Rs. 1.7 Trillion. This paper explores empirically the relationship between the development of Islamic banking system and economic growth in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Using econometric analysis, quarterly time-series data of economic growth and Islamic banks’ financing from 2006 to 2015 were used.

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Estimation of Global Solar Radiation Using Gopinathan and Rietveld Model for Putrajaya, Malaysia[ ]


Solar radiation data plays a vital role in the design and implementation of any solar energy related project. Renewable energy engineers and scientists, always employ solar radiation data of the area under consideration for effective discharge of their duties. For the areas where the measured data is not available, the most common way of obtaining the data is by calculating with the appropriate regression model. This study, estimated the global solar radiation of Putrajaya (latitude, 2.9264°N, longitude, 101.6964°E) Malaysia. In the estimation, two sunshine based empirical models (Gopinathan and Rietveld) were considered, the data used was obtained through simulation from the satellite using Meteonorm software package 7.1.3.

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Effect of Learning Facilities on Graduate Quality Through Quality of Learning Process in Vocational High School of Business and Management in West Sumatera[ ]


The purpose of this study was to empirically examine the effect of learning facilities on graduate quality with learning process as the intervening variable. The type of this study is descriptive research. The study was conducted in West Sumatera with 32 vocational high schools as the population. Sampling technique employed was total sampling, which can be defined as sampling technique in which we incorporate all subjects in the population as study sample.

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The Role of Environmental Quality on Healthy Urbanism Planning (Case Study of Soetomo General Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia)[ ]


Healthy Urbanism is a concept of urban development that supports the improvement of environmental quality such as clean air and water. This is to provide comfort for the citizens of the city. The award of e-health received by Surabaya in 2015 also encouraged the urban government's desire to develop the city's attractiveness. The concept is supported by the availability of health facilities and infrastructure that are adequate and spread out flat in the city area. One area of the hospital with the spread of health facilities are quite a lot around the Soetomo General Hospital’s area. Referring to the background of the hospital, it is necessary to evaluate the environment of the hospital area. This research used direct observation to understand environmental quality in the hospital street area. This study can benefit to encourage the successful public space and comfortable environment by understanding the role of environmental quality in planning healthy urbanism.

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Cultural Attachment with Special References Kampung Ampel, Surabaya, Indonesia[ ]


Kalimas River and Pegirikan River are two structures that play an important role in forming settlements in the city of Surabaya. Along the banks of the river Kalimas and Pegirikan, there are early settlements that are now referred to as old kampung. The old kampung (early settlement) in Surabaya initially relied on the existence of Kalimas and Pegirikan river as the source of life and transportation. One of the old kampung is Kampung Ampel. As one of the old kampung in the city of Surabaya, Kampung Ampel certainly has its own history and peculiarities. To find out how strong the attachment of the inhabitants of Kampung Ampel to its place, it is necessary to study a place attachment in Kampung Ampel as the old kampung of Surabaya City.

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FLEXURAL BEHAVIOUR OF POST TENSIONED BEAM[ ]


This paper presents an experimental study on the Flexural behaviour of post tensioned beam. The main objective of this work was to study about the deflection, initial load carrying capacity, ultimate load carrying capacity and flexural behavior of the beam. With increase in the innovation of concrete and prestressed members, the whole construction industry is heading towards a new era. Different Admixture like GGBS, Silica Fume, and Fly Ash etc. have been used in the concrete from ancient times.

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Hardware Prototype Design for Real-Time Collision Detection and Prevention Application of VANET[ ]


Real-time embedded system design of Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) application is discussed. Expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the presence of sensors and internet integration in most everyday objects. This paper describes the implementation of small-scale intra-vehicular and inter-vehicular VANET prototype with wireless sensor communication link for real-time collision prevention and detection. VANET technology is therefore, emerging as a new system to improve the safety of car drivers and passengers alike. Cars fitted with suitable sensors can display warnings about impending collisions due to over-speeding or rash driving as well as communicate with other vehicles through roadside infrastructure to detect accidents out of the visible range of drivers. Due to dynamic network topology of cars, it becomes difficult to deploy VANET system on a large-scale. In this paper, the implementation and working of a small-scale real-time VANET system prototype with three mobile nodes and one stationary node is achieved to enable future development and deployment.

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Awareness, Attitude and Barriers towards Adverse Drug Reactions among Community Pharmacists in Cross River State, Nigeria[ ]


Background: Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions is the foundation of drug safety evaluation after approval for use in general population.

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COMPUTER SYSTEMS SERVICING ANDROID-BASED SIMULATION: A STRATEGIC MOBILE LEARNING MODEL FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITY[ ]


The Department of Education (DepEd) has been providing quality and inclusive education for all. Several laws and policies were made to protect the rights of learners with special educational needs to gain equal access to education. One of which is the “No Child Left Behind Act of 2010”. This is a policy that protects and promotes the right of the citizens to quality education and to take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all. The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA is a law that ensures that students with special needs receive appropriate free public education in the least restrictive environment necessary to meet those students’ needs. It helps students receive the extra assistance they need but allows them to participate in the same activities as children without special needs whenever possible.

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Inflation, F.D.I. and India – the imperative of who’s who[ ]


Two important functionaries that are playing major role in Indian economy in these days; one of them is known adversary and years long ‘inflation’ and the next is it’s antidote of ‘Foreign Direct Investment or (FDI)’ which has got definite part to play in the current Indian market. Impact is that the Indian economy has extended and expanded now. Consumer Price Index replaced the Wholesale Price Index. India's annual inflation rose to a three-month high, cost of food, beverages, clothing and lodging are very high. The relating temporary expansion rates for rustic and urban territories were indulged; FDI in the name of Two Hundred smart cities are being incorporated; sustainable and/or energy developments are also being taken care of in a huge way.

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A web-based online examination system for computer science education[ ]


The use of online tools to teach courses in various disciplines has gained popularity in the past decade. Assesement is an essential activity to achieve the objectives of the course being taught to improve the teaching and learning process.there are several educational taxonomies that can be used to assess the efficacy of assesemnt in engineering learning by aligning the assesment tasks in line with the intended learning outcomes and teaching and learning ctivties. Designing and assessing learning outcomes could be a challenging activity for Engineeringeducator.

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Optimization of Water Resources in the Northern Province River Basins for Irrigation Schemes Used for Food Production in Sri Lanka[ ]


Sri Lankan consumes rice as the main source of food. Hence most of the area of the country has been used for paddy cultivation. Therefore improving the paddy cultivation will lead to a positive impact on the society in every aspect. Northern Province of Sri Lanka is divided into two distinct geographic areas: Jaffna peninsula and the Vanni. Jaffna peninsula is irrigated by underground aquifers fed by wells whereas the Vanni has irrigation tanks fed by nonperennial rivers. Major rivers include: Akkarayan Aru, Aruvi Aru, Kanakarayan Aru, Kodalikkallu Aru, Mandekal Aru, Nay Aru, Netheli Aru, Pali Aru, Pallavarayankaddu Aru, Parangi Aru, Per Aru, Piramenthal Aru, Theravil Aru.

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Role of Media in Disseminating Conflict Resolution at Democratic Republic of Congo[ ]


United Nations mission has been arrayed in hostile environments duly faced by multiple contingencies, which require an innovative response from the forces deployed known as peacekeepers. United nations follow the potential of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ power for the all the contingencies uprising in peacekeeping missions. This paper is an effort to highlight few of the potentials of “soft’ power in the context of the utilization of ‘hard’ power being deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The main actor in the in disseminating conflict resolution is the ‘media’ itself. United nations have employed peacekeepers instead of peace builders in the region. All organizations of united nations are focused on the aim of ‘building peace’. MONUSCO is one of the organizations working effectively in DRC, starting from public affairs to civil-military cooperation. At this edge, an important question arises about the competency, effectiveness, and role being played by ‘soft powers’ itself for the conflict resolution in DRC. It is a sarcasm; media is unable to bring awareness about most of the situation in the region. This research paper endeavors to unfold a way forward to meet this shortcoming via recommendations for the suitable outcome in the paraphernalia.

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