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ROAD CONSTRUCTION IS THE KEY FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Category : JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

Boyce A. Odoko

Department of Architecture,

National institute of Construction Technology Uromi. Edo state.

ABSTRACT

Road construction encourages development in urban centers and rural areas of any society. Construction of good reliable road network and pedestrian walkways provides the general public, access to economic activities. Businesses always locate wherever a road is constructed because the road is the means that makes it possible for people to have access to the business activities. Road network brings positive development in urban or rural area. Provision of street cape with pedestrian walkways that are equipped with pedestrian light poles, seating places, trash receptacles, trees to provide shade and pedestrian cross-walk will create pleasant environment for the inhabitants. Improvement, with such amenities, will not only create positive psychological effect on the people, it will also give positive image and positive picture of good urban development. It will encourage economic activities as well. For example, Walmart, a major retail store in the United States of America, whenever, it opens a new store at any particular location, several other businesses locates around Walmart. This is because there is always a good access road leading to the mega Walmart store. It is the good road that makes it possible for the general public to gain access to the Walmart store, the same road also gives access to the other businesses that locate around Walmart. It is also, true from my practical experience in the United States of America, whenever a major retail Mall is located at any place, several other businesses are opened around the Mall because of the good access road provided to the Mall. For example, Gwinnett Place Mall and Mall of Georgia, located in the City of Lawrenceville, Gwinnet County, a suburban area of Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America. Because of the excellent road network around these malls, several businesses have located around these malls.

Keywords: Road Construction, Development, Urban and Rural, Good Roads, Access Roads, Retail Mall, Goods and services, Economic growth, Effective reliable road infrastructure, Urban growth, Urban centers and market place.

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ESTIMATORS OF PARAMETERS OF LINEAR MODELS WITH AUTO CORRELATED DISTURBANCES IN ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES (OLS)

Category : JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

Uchendu, Bartholomew A. & Ibeh Gabreil C

Department of Maths/Statistics

Federal Polytechnic, Nekede Owerri, Nigeria

Email: Uchendubartholomew@yahoo.com; gabmicchuks@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

The consequences of applying Ordinary Least Squares to a relationship with autocorrected disturbances are qualitatively similar to those already derived for the heteroscedastic case, namely unbiased but inefficient estimation and invalid inference procedures. As in the case of heteroscedasticity, in the presence of autocorrelation, the Ordinary Least Square estimators are still linear unbiased as well as consistent and asymptotically normally distributed, but they are no longer efficient (ie, minimum variance). In the case of heteroscedasticity, we distinguish two cases and the possible cause and sources of autocorrelation. The violation of the assumptions of normality may have significant consequences in applying Ordinary Least Squares and such consequences include substantial loss in efficiency, inflating the precision or accuracy of the estimators by underestimating the standard error of β. Moreover, violating of the assumptions of normally of the error term is important in econometric analysis. If this assumption is violated, then the basis of hypothesis testing breaks down. In this direction, a large number of possible tests for normality and robust estimator have been suggested. The assumption of lack of autocorrelation or serial correlation of the error term implies that the disturbance covariance at all possible pairs of observation points are zero. Violation provides the basis of for this research because it affects the consistency of the Ordinary Least Square estimators. Models with such disturbances are widespread, as applied econometrics especially in modeling of economic data.

Keywords: Least squares, Estimator, OLS, Minimum Variance, and Error Term

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INVESTIGATING THE PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY OF A PV POWERED SOLAR DRYER (A CASE STUDY OF DAMATURU, YOBE STATE – NIGERIA.)

Category : JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

F. M. Mustapha and A. Adamu

Department of Physics,

University of Maiduguri

Email: fatimamuhammadmustaphaonline@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

In this paper, samples of chili and tomato were used to focus on performance comparison between open air drying and inside a PV powered solar dryer. The hourly system performance of the PV powered solar dryer has been measured for several days in Damaturu (Latitude: 11.7470⁰N, Longitude: 11.9662⁰E), Yobe state – Nigeria and the drying efficiency was calculated on the basis of weight change, drying time, heat gain and moisture removal. The results obtained showed that the dryer efficiency are 15% and 16% for tomato and chili respectively, while for open air drying the efficiency was found to be 10% and 13% for tomato and chili respectively. These results showed vast difference between open drying and drying inside a PV powered solar dryer. Thus, base on these results it can be concluded that the dryer is more efficient way of preserving vegetables food than the open air drying.

Keywords: Solar Energy, Drying Process, Moisture Removal, Temperature, Efficiency

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THE IMPACT OF INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) IN A MANUFACTURING SECTOR

Category : JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

Rilwanu Yusuf Gigane; Shehu Sidi Abubakarand Abubakar Yusuf

Department of Computer Science, Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto, Nigeria;

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto;

Department of Computer Science, School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Zungeru.

Email: rilwangigane@gmail.com; lynkcd@gmail.com; abukagarayusuf@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Manufacturing of goods involves a lot of work and requires machinery for connectivity and efficiency. This is achievable through the use of well-connected and designed Machinery communicating together to achieve a predefined goal. Internet of things within the manufacturing sector is the key to achieving the entire manufacturing goal. Recent studies revealed the applicability of internet of things in many areas of human endeavours by allowing and providing method of intelligently connecting devices for resource sharing. The objective of this paper is to outline the impact of internet of things within the manufacturing sector. The objective is attainable through discussing and identifying what is required to enhance a positive functionality of internet of things with the support of an analysis of required architecture, resources and capabilities. Also the evolution and application of manufacturing system structure is discussed to help identify recent advances in Information technology and the requirements of decision support systems in advanced manufacturing. Exploration of all the above helped in identifying the technological gaps in relation to adopting Internet of things as an infrastructure of a manufacturing system. Finally the related advantages, possible future works and associated challenges are discussed.

Keywords: Advanced Manufacturing Systems (AMSs), Internet of things (IoT), Cloud Computing (CC), Cloud Manufacturing (CMfg), Enterprise Systems (ESs)

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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN LIBRARIES: A NEW DIMENSION IN LIBRARIANSHIP

Category : JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

¹Madalla Ajemasu; ²Yusuf Mohammed Inuwa; ³Yusuf Saad & ⁴Abdullshi Adamu Jumba

¹Muhammadu Wabi Library, Federal Polytechnic Bauchi

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& 3}Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, Bauchi

⁴Bauchi State Library Board

Email: madallajemasu@gmail.com; Yunuwa80@gmail.com yusufsaadazare@yahoo.com; abdullahiadamujumba@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Library is a knowledge store that is indispensable to the success of any functional education. Education without the services of a library is half-baked and can only produce narrow minded individuals who would not be productive to their communities. The literatures on library and information science indicates that Libraries started off as store houses, where books were more preserved than utilized and librarians acted like custodians and their interaction with users were minimal. Later on there was a shift in all components of library system, especially the users, the services and the staff as a result of information communication technology. Effectiveness of library services now largely depends upon the Information and Communication Technology (ICT).The advent of digital computer, telecommunication and audiovisual technologies has opened up new ways of collecting, organizing and disseminating scientific and technical information. Therefore, in a bit to justify that ICTs plays a central and critical role in library operation, this paper attempts to give reasons for libraries using ICTs, highlight the impacts of ICT on librarianship as well as identify the modern technologies used in the libraries. Problems inhibiting the deployment of ICT infrastructure and facilities in Nigerian libraries and the way forward were identified and discussed.

Keywords: Information Communication Technology (ICT); Libraries; Librarianship

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THE IMPACT OF PRICING STRATEGY ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY IN A PRODUCTION COMPANIES (A CASE STUDY OF HI-MALT AND 7UP BOTTLING COMPANY, KADUNA)

Category : JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

Abdullahi Ndagi Yakubu; Salihu Shehu & Nwokenkwo Ben Olubunmi

Department of Marketing

The Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State

Emailo: ndyakubu1976@yahoo.com; Shehumunir2005@yahoo.com & bunminwokenkwo@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

One of the most crucial decision management must make in business is establishing a selling price for its product, but this is quiet unfortunately that many firms are still not paying attention to price of their products causing a lots of firms to loose customers to competitors. This study sought to find out the pricing strategies adopted by companies and its impact on customer’s loyalty. This study used the descriptive survey design, the use of this design facilitated an in depth analysis of the role of pricing strategies on customer loyalty. The population of this study was the hi-malt and 7up and coca cola bottling company with a population of over 1000 and sample size of 100 in Kaduna metropolis. The collected data was sorted edited and coded before the analysis, using non parametric, percentage pie chart and chi square to test the Hypotheses, the finding confirmed that, price has impact on the customer loyalty. The researcher recommended that company should endeavor to compare price of products with that of competitors before setting price compare prices.

Keywords: Pricing Strategy, Customer and Customer Loyalty

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGEMENT STYLE AND STAFF PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC BALI LIBRARY, TARABA STATE

Category : JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

Kefas Gilbert

Library Department

Federal Polytechnic Bali, Taraba State, Nigeria

Email: kefasgilbert@gmail.com

ABSTRACTS

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between management style and staff performance in Federal Polytechnic Bali Library (FPBL) Taraba state-Nigeria. Four objectives of the study were raised to investigate the relationship between management style and staff performance in FPBL .To investigates the management style of library manager in federal polytechnic Bali library. To investigate the existing relationship between the manager and the staff of federal polytechnic Bali library, To examine the style employ in the effective channels of communication and the relationship between manager and the staff of FPBL and to investigate the motivational style use to encourage staff performance of FPBL. This study will be useful to libraries in carrying out managerial activities. It will be helpful to librarians of similar organisations such as information centres. It will equally be useful to improve the relationship between the super-ordinate and subordinate in the FPBL. This study has been conducted to help researchers in the area of management on personnel performance. This study is expected to provide additional literature on FPBL for future researchers. Using a survey design and random sampling method, with a well-structured questionnaire, to the library staff was used to investigate the relationship between management style and staff performance. The conceptual framework used was the content theory of motivation-hygiene theory by Fredrick Herzberg (1959). Despite this theory now been of some age, it remains relevant for use in this current study. Data were collected from 100 respondents comprising of all staff of FPBL that constituted sample for the study. The study reveals that the Staff of the FPBL was not satisfied with the motivational style for staff in the library, nor the management style employed in the library, and generally the staffs of the FPBL was not happy with the style employed in channels of effective communication in the library. It was recommended that the library management of FPBL should encourage staff by offering positive incentives; the management of FPBL should consider the employment of appropriate management style to encourage staff performance is fundamental. The management of FPBL should employ various motivational styles which can encourage staff to improve their performance.

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THE IMPACT OF WORKPLACE POLITICS ON ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

Category : JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, 2019

Omowunmi Joshua Olusegun

Department of Public Administration

Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Nigeria

Email: omowunmijoshua7@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Organization emphasizes corporate unity in which all employees work with consistent strategies cascaded down through the various levels and processes. The study examined the effect of politics on workplace relationship vis-à-vis effective and efficient service delivery in various organizations. It is imperative for strategic positions to be occupied and decisions to be made that will drive the affairs of an administrative system amidst interpersonal relationship, lobbying and interference of different phases. The internet, theses, journals, archival materials and the vast expanse of literature assisted in no small measure in sourcing for relevant information to distil the subject matter of this paper. The author found evidences of pervasive tendencies for fleece behaviours among administrative officials despite standard rules and regulations guiding all activities. The paper concluded among others that politics influenced strategic and tactical decisions as well as organization development

Keynotes: Organization, Politics, Workplace, Development, Employe, Strategic

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