This research is titled, “The Consequences of Premarital Sex in Genesis 34:1-5, 25-31 and its implications to Curbing Sexual Immorality among the Youth of Arochukwu Presbytery.” Although, God designed humanity to be “a sexual being” sexual activities are placed within the context of holiness and faithfulness, as God stipulates diverse rules which regulate every sexual activity ensuring that all sexual activities are appropriated in accordance to God’s decretal will. Unfortunately, a...
ABSTRACT Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) implies acting beyond the formal job description for the purpose of corporate and individual benefits. This is waning in the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). This scenario has been rendering the commitment of the NSCDC towards the combat of vandalism, protection of critical national assets, supervision of private guards and management of disasters to be less effective. Past studies on OCB among para-military personnel were ...
ABSTRACT Public service retirees in South-West Nigeria face quite a number of challenges which affect their life satisfaction and overall well being; most often with resultant shortened life span few years after retirement. Previous studies have focused more on pension and other benefits as well as problems related with ageism without adequate consideration for the combined effects of socio-economic factors (accommodation, dependent children, family type, other dependents, community commitme...
ABSTRACT This research work examined the persuasive strategies of President Obama's public speaking as enshrined in his inaugural address. The analysis is grounded on Norman Fairclough's assumptions in Critical Discourse Analysis, claiming that ideologies reside in texts that it is not possible to remove or ignore ideologies from texts and that texts are open to diverse interpretations. The selected corpus' ideological and persuasive components were assessed. The analytical part of this resea...
This research utilizes implementation of classic methods for systematic data collection using the medium of the Internet to investigate the idea of culture as a shared cognitive semantic structure. We used the material domain of automobile manufacturer brand names to investigate our intuition that a shared understanding exists within the American culture and is pervasive across a diversity of demographic groups. Semantic structure information for 48 automobile manufacturer brand names was obt...
Study of Coarse Aggregate Characteristics on Strength Properties of High Performance Concrete Using Chemical Admixtures Mushtaque Ahmed Pathan1, Rafique Ahmed2, Maryam Maira3 1Assistant Professor, 2Associate Professor, Center for Pure & Applied Geology, UoS Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan 3Freelancer Researcher Mehran university of Engg. & Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan *Corresponding author: Mushtaque Ahmed Pathan | Received: 14.03.2019 | Accepted: 21.03.2019 | Published: 31.03.2019 DOI:10.2...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the attitude of teacher trainees towards the study of science in the Colleges of Education. The study sought to look at students‟ attitude from four (4) significant perspectives namely; interest to do science, motivation to do science, level of students‟ involvement in science lessons and the type of interpersonal relationship between science teachers and students. The study also considered the effect of practical activities on students‟ performance as ...
INTRODUCTION Of all the plant on which man has depended for his food, cereal grains are by far the most important. Since recorded history, cereals grains are the seed by cultivated grasses that include wheat, corn, 0at, barley, rye, rice, sorghum and millet. There are a number of reasons why cereals have been important in man’s diet. They can be grown in areas with diverse climatic and soil conditions. They give yield peracre (0.4ha) as compared to most other crops and once har...
Studies on the influence of pedological regimes on plant distribution in a lacustrine wetland in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria revealed variations in density and frequency of plant species as a function of the soil parameters. A quadrat size of 5m x 5m through systematic sampling was used to sample the vegetation spaced at regular intervals. The vegetation parameters determined were density and frequency. Soil samples were collected at different depths (0 – 15 cm and 15 – 30 cm) and ana...
ABSTRACT Differentiated Instruction is an approach to teaching that meets the diverse academic needs of students by considering learner readiness, interest and learning styles. The approach is grounded in the socio-cultural, multiple intelligence and constructivist theories. The study sought to explore Junior High School (JHS) mathematics teachers‟ knowledge and practice of differentiated instruction in Tano South district of Ghana. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, an explana...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the drivers of commercial banks investing in Corporate Social Responsibility in Nyeri town. The specific objectives addressed by this study were; to assess the extent to which philanthropy has influenced banks to invest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); to analyze the level at which the desire to build a corporate image drives the banks to invest in CSR and finally to evaluate how investing in CSR has been used as a marketing strategy ...
xii ABSTRACT Introduction- Ethical issues have emerged in the recent years as a major component of health care for the critically ill patients, who are vulnerable and totally depend on the caregiver, optimally the nurse working in the critical care unit. As a result nurses working in the Critical Care Units are faced with ethical dilemmas on a day to day basis in the course of executing their duties. Ethical dilemmas have therefore become one of the priority concerns in the nursing profession...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to examine factors affecting the implementation of inclusive education in selected secondary schools in the Omaheke region and to identify strategies to address these challenges. A teacher questionnaire was administered to a stratified sample of 90 secondary school teachers in the Omaheke region. Hundred percent of the teachers completed and returned the questionnaire. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the data. ...
Abstract Library automation plays a pivotal role in the growth and development of modern-day public libraries. The purpose of this study “Implementation of an Integrated Library Management System (ILMS) in Community Libraries: A Case Study of Windhoek Public Library” was to establish the reasons that led to the automation of the library and the selection of a proprietary system. The objectives of the study were to: establish reasons that led to library automation; determine why a propriet...
ABSTRACT Croton membranaceus is a herb with useful medicinal properties. The leaves, bark and roots are used for the treatment of diverse ailments. The harvesting of the plant by many traditional medical practioners from the wild for the treatment of diseases in the country without replacement exposes the plant to possible extinction in the near future. The only means of propagating the plant is by use of seeds which is relatively slow. Thus, an alternative mode of propagation is needed to de...