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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Sustainability is an integrating and holistic process aiming to restore harmony between the natural and the built environment, and create settlements that affirm human dignity and encourage equity (Yitmen 2005). Sustainability is the power to use a thing and keep it going or maintained for the next use (Oxford Advanced Dictionary). It can also be defined as using the envir...Continue Reading »
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» TCHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY For decades, other than cash crops, grain crops have played a vital role in agricultural sector in Nigeria where a greater number of populace are subsistence farmers by virtue of their occupation. Most of grain crops such as maize, sorghum, beans wheat to mention but a few, when properly processed yield to other finished and consumable food with gr...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY From a global perspective, third word countries which are mostly found in the continent of Africa have been conspicuously backward in terms of development vis à vis their western counterparts where a day hardly passes without the celebration of one scientific or technological feat or another. These indicates of underdevelopment and backwardne...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY In Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Factor Analysis (FA) one wishes to extract from a set of P variables a reduced set of M components or factors that accounts for most of the variance in a P variables in other words, we wish to reduce a set of P variables to a set of M underlying super ordinate dimensions. These underlying factors are in...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Effective administration requires rational decision making which will lead to the selection of the way to reach the anticipated goal. The educational administrator in trying to achieve the ultimate goal of improving learning and learning opportunities to ensure competent products is faced with the responsibility to make decision on such issues as se...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The importance of funds to any business enterprise, be it private or public, cannot be over emphasized. Cooperative societies need funds to finance their fixed and working capital, to pay for services and for making interest yielding investments. Lack of funds had featured prominently among the key constraints to co operative business enterprise in Nigeria even at norm...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Floor finishes are the final substance applied on the surface of floor before the floor is put to use. Most floor systems of a building are not exposed to the climatic element and their weathering effects, since a floor system must support traffic however durability, resistance to wear and easy of maintain are critical factors in the selection of a floor system and its...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY Construction Management was fully developed in the 1970s out of the need to develop an alternative project delivery system that would incorporate the positive features of the traditional system which was based on long established professional and craft roles (Okolie, 2002). In the traditional system, clients employed architects to produce the overall desi...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study. Financial institution is the institution which collects funds from public and places them in financial assets, such as deposits, loans, and bonds, rather than tangible property or any organization in the business of moving, investing or lending money, dealing in financial instruments, or providing financial services. This includes commercia...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Kerezner (2003) change order is a process whereby changes in the scope of work agreed to by the owner, contractor and Architect are implemented. A change order is work that is added to or deleted from the original scope of work of a contract, which alters the original contract amount or completion period or date. Change orders are common to most...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Construction Contracts are no more awarded because of the need of the society but motivated by greed and shameful intention to perpetrate fraud. We know that fraud and corruption are international problems. They happen daily all over the world and it is not peculiar to Nigeria. In 2001 the United Kingdom government (National Audit Office) fo...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study A major problem facing Nigeria today is how to produce enough food for its geometrically increasing population. The level of food production in the country is barely keeping pace with the population growth. The general food situation in Nigeria has been precarious since the early 1970s. The rate of growth in demand for food in Nigeria in the 197...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Engaging an expert with marketing orientation in a bank many years ago would have been considered a misnomer. This is because marketing was considered applicable only to goods and not services for which commercial banks belonged. In order words, banks are now fully marketing conscious and have an equipped marketing department with an expert in t...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION The simple, but elusive goals in health care delivery are “to deliver the right care, to the right patient”, “at the right time”. “To the right patient”, means that the health care delivery system must be able to discriminate among patients with different types and severities of disease so that an individual patient is n...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER 1 MALARIA INTRODUCTION: Malaria is a life threatening disease of man caused by parasite of the genus Plasmodium, which is transmitted from person to person, through the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is a killer and debilitating disease and remains a formidable health and socio economic problem in the world (Nebeet al, 2002). Jaine and Michael (1990) described it as the l...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale: At the 2001 Special Session of the UN General Assembly on AIDS, 189 nations agreed that AIDS was a national and international development issue of the highest priority [1]. Between December 2005 and March 2006, UNAIDS compiled data from reports obtained from 126 countries on HIV/AIDS prevalence. In sub Saharan Africa a mature epidemic continues to ravage bey...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Principals of schools of nursing are confronted with situations that involve a lot of communication. How effective they become depends largely on their ability to apply the appropriate communication skills in their daily interaction with people. Coordinating the efforts of people towards the achievement of objectives and goals in any establishment h...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Spare Parts Inventory Control Meaning To establish a common understanding, ‘Spare parts’ refers to the parts requirement for keeping both owned equipment/machine or service needs of customers in healthy operating condition by meeting repair and replacement needs imposed by breakdown and preventive maintenance. The term spare parts in this study therefore, i...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Schistosomiasis, is a disease caused by a blood fluke of the genus Schistosoma. It is a serious debilitating and sometimes fatal parasitic disease. The disease is endemic in about 74 countries in Africa, Asia and North America (WHO, 1999). Adult schistosomes live in a mammalian host. Schistosomiasis is the second most prevalent tropical disease in Africa after malaria and ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE RESEARCH PROBLEM. To make the best use of people as a valuable resource of the organization, attention must be given to the relationship between staff, and the nature and content of their jobs. The nature of the work organization and the design of jobs can have a significant effect on the job satisfaction of the staff. Job satisfaction is defined as a...Continue Reading »
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