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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study Job satisfaction is not a new phenomenon at all in any organization. It is one of the topics that have drawn interest among scholars in the field. Many studies have been done on this particular topic for over six decades and thousands of articles have been published (Zembylas & Papantasiu,2006). Job satisfaction has been defined as “a plea...Continue Reading »
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EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Yam is another crop cultivated across Nigeria. It is a seasonal crop and very difficult to preserve as it tends to rot. Nearly all Nigerians consume yam on regular basis and in large quantities particularly the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. Nature allows yam to form a bond when it pounded or beaten in a mortar, it is then consumed as a meal with a choice soup. Pounded yam i...Continue Reading »
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study The need to strengthen food safety and hygiene practices is a fundamental public health concern for all for the prevention of food borne diseases. World Health Organization (WHO) (1999) defines food as any substance, whether processed, semi processed or raw which is intended for human consumption. In a similar view, Akande (2002) defines food as any...Continue Reading »
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FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study The importance of mathematics in man's growth and way of life cannot be overstated. In general, mathematics is a valuable tool in almost every field of human endeavor, including science, engineering, industry, technology, and even the arts. No country can progress scientifically or technologically if mathematics is ignored (Azuka, 2003). Accordi...Continue Reading »
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EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study Product marketing is critical for increasing sales and thus profit for the industry.However, in academic environments such as universities and colleges, the marketing of libraries and information is done through professional librarians who must envision that the reading public will become aware of their library services. Libraries are regarded as in...Continue Reading »
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LIBRARY SCIENCE
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study Academic libraries are currently experiencing changes in the new information age, due to rapidly changing media technologies, increasing users’ preferences and expectations, competition from other information providers such as the internet, and dwindling library budgets. These necessitate library and information science professionals leveragin...Continue Reading »
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LIBRARY SCIENCE
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION According to Melvin (1975), secondary school education is the engine room of knowledge acquisition, a stage at which students come in contact with various subjects, which determine the field of study they will like to pursue in higher schools secondary school education is kind of level after the primary education and before higher education. Its position in educational sys...Continue Reading »
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GUIDANCE COUNSELING
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» INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to the study Microfinance is the provision of a broad range of financial services to poor low income households and micro enterprises (Amin and Pebley, 1994). Research interest in the issue of access to microfinance particularly by women has been on a rising trend in recent times. Bennet and Goldberg (1993) asserted that in developing economies, low income women are oft...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Smart phones are digital wireless phones that can send and receive voice, data and video as well as storing information and running software. Features vary from phone, but all connect to the internet for E mail and web access. Smartphone consolidates mobile phone technology with that of the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to create a powerful mobile communication tool...Continue Reading »
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MASS COMMUNICATION
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background of the study The phenomenon, “crime” has been a major subject of private and public concern throughout human history. No society is free of crime. However, the question often asked is that even if crime is part of inevitable human behaviour, how much of it can a society tolerate? This question is linked to man’s natural instinct for survival, the abilit...Continue Reading »
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The Nigerian capital market is a long term end of the Nigeria the financial system just as the money market is its short termed in other words, the capital market performs for the economy, at the long term end, the functions which the money market performs at the short term end of the spectrum. Thus, while those who are short of funds and ne...Continue Reading »
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ECONOMICS
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study An entrepreneur is an innovator who implements changes within a market through the carrying out of new combinations. The carrying out of new combination can take several forms; the introduction of a new good quality, there fore; the introduction of a new method of production, the opening of a new market; the congress of a new source of new mater...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Small and medium scaled enterprises (SMEs) are no longer exempt from environmental conditions that until recently were often the drivers of strategic decisions in large organizations. They now find themselves subject to the same rapid, novel and discontinuous changes that have become amplified due to the exceptional advancement in technology and...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Every instructional activity involves communication. Language is a meaningful medium of sending a message to a receiver. The message may be ideas, feelings, desires, fears, joy or sadness. Language in general terms, can be an instinctive (as in animals) or a non instinctive (as in human beings) medium of communication. The human language manifes...Continue Reading »
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ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES
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» ABSTRACT Apart from the impacts of ICT on the entire societal fabric, one of the goals of Ahmadu Bello University is to be a renowned and celebrated academic institution through computerization, multi media communication and linkage programmes. Within this framework, the University established the Institute of Computing and Information and Communication Technology (ICICT) to handle issues of compu...Continue Reading »
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO STUDY The term “Renewable energy” covers all forms of energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, water (or hydro power), tide, geothermal heat, biomas and biofuels. They are derived from natural processes that are constantly replenished and each of them has characteristics that determine where and how they are used. (Ikpon...Continue Reading »
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ACCOUNTING
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Recent researchers have shown that one of the main causes of indigenous business failure in this country is failure to maintain proper financial records. Many businesses have been operated with merely a single entry memorandum record of transactions and others with no record whatever, except possible cheque stubs. As a result, business decisions...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
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» ABSTRACT This study investigated internet usage, and academic performance of university of Uyo students. Internet today, enables information sharing and real time communication unlike before, it was only for intelligence communication. Students use it frequently to satisfy their needs such as broadening their academic knowledge, and to communicate with each other in their academic communities. Res...Continue Reading »
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MASS COMMUNICATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Despite the relevance the Gulf of Guinea (Gog) bears for the international system, opinions varies as to the exact composition of the region. The geo political entity known as the gulf of guinea, according to Merz and Yates consist of seven countries along the south Atlantic ocean, namely Nigeria, Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea, Sao tome & Prin...Continue Reading »
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MBA-MSC-PhD Thesis Research
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION I.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The long term success of an organization is related to its ability to measure how well its employees perform within a predetermined period, and how effectively, it uses that information to ensure that performance meets set standards, and also improves over time (Fisher, Schoenfeldt and Shaw, 2003). Grote (2000) refers to this process as performa...Continue Reading »
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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