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Analysis of the marketing strategy of savings products at BMT Nasuha during the Covid-19 pandemic
Get PDFPurpose: This study aims to investigate the marketing strategies that can be applied by BMT Nasuha in marketing their savings products during the covid-19 pandemic.
Research methodology: This study uses descriptive qualitative research with a case study approach which is carried out by using observation, interviews, literature studies, and documentation techniques.
Results: The results of the study show that the promotions are carried out by BMT Nasuha through social media, such as Instagram, Facebook, and Website. Before the covid-19 pandemic, BMT Nasuha did its marketing activities through recitation or training. The results of the SWOT analysis of BMT Nasuha show the position of quadrant 1, so that BMT Nasuha can take advantage of its internal strengths, namely developing a stable software system to support BMT operations and increase its human resources in achieving increased business growth.
Limitations: In this study, it was difficult to give a SWOT questionnaire directly to several research subjects because they had other jobs besides their jobs in BMT Nasuha. So, it could only be entrusted to one of the staff
Contribution: It is hoped that this research can provide benefits to BMTs throughout Indonesia regarding marketing their savings products, especially for BMTs which are still relatively small
Evaluation of Giant and Neotropical Otter as environmental assets in Conservation Tourism based on emergy analysis
No full textPurpose: The main objective of this work is to evaluate the natural capital and ecosystem services of the Aquidauana River and the role of Lontra longicaudis and Pteronura brasiliensis as environmental assets for the development of conservation tourism.
Research Methodology: First, a system diagram was built to organize ideas and relationships between components and resource flows. Second, it was to construct tables of emergy flows directly from the diagrams. Quantities of stored emergy of environmental resources are calculated from the sum of the emergy of all inputs and then multiplied by the time it takes to accumulate the storage.
Results: The main services with market values ??provided by the Aquidauana River are water supply, tourism, and fishing. The neotropical otter exhibited the largest asset in the system, followed by the giant otter and the indigenous culture.
Limitations: Application of the emergy method to define public policies that lead to the real valuation of environmental assets and promote the social mobilization needed to change adverse realities.
Contribution: The giant otter and neotropical otter values represent more than 90% of all values listed as environmental assets in the Aquidauana River System. The results can be important for the definition of public policies aimed at conservation tourism. With an appropriate social mobilization program, associated with economic and environmental education, the local economy could be strengthened, along with the protection of biodiversity
Households participation in waste management program in Mekong River Delta Vietnam: Parametric and non-parametric approaches
No full textPurpose: This study aims to estimate households' willingness to pay (WTP) in the Mekong River Delta for the improvement of solid waste (SW) management and identify factors influencing willingness to pay for the improvement program. Then, based on the results, this research proposed some policy implications for better SW management.
Research methodology: The research employed both Contingent Valuation Methodology - CVM employed parametric and non-parametric approaches to estimate WTP and Logit model to identify the determinants of WTP.
Results: The results from a random survey of 400 observations from 3 main cities in the Mekong River Delta (MRD) indicate that households’ willingness to pay level is from 86,000 Vietnamese Dong (VND) to 110,000 VND/month/household for the non-parametric and parametric approach, respectively (US$1 was equal to 22,890 VND on June 30th, 2021). The results also determine the factors influencing the decision to pay for the program, including bid level, households who have already classified waste, households who intend to support the program, and households’ income.
Limitations: In future research, survey areas should be expanded to other developing countries in order to compare and provide a base for proposing better waste management programs in developing countries.
Contribution: Future studies should apply both approaches to check the consistency of willingness to pay value elicited. Besides, in order to encourage households to participate in the waste classification program, the authorities need to raise awareness and encourage higher-income households to participate in advance
Local citizen participation in Uganda: Examining the political, administrative and financial aspects in Hoima district
No full textPurpose: This study aims to ascertain the impact of political, administrative and financial factors on local participants in Hoima district, Uganda.
Research methodology: To ascertain the factors that impact participants in Uganda, a descriptive study was used in which primary data was analysed using descriptive statistics.
Results: The factors were identified and clustered into thematic areas; they indicate a cluster of three factors appeared as themes. The results suggest that financial and political challenges are key impediments to effective participation and a good number of the technical personnel were not appointed on the basis of technical know-how. Hoima district needed to intensify its advocacy regarding increased central government transfers as well as the disbursements of more unconditional grants coupled with regular monitoring of its technical personnel.
Limitations: The key limitation is the geographical scope since this study covered only one district, implying that the results cannot be generalized for the whole country.
Contribution: The results of this are essential to academics in both Public Administration and Policy studies interested in enhancing local democracy and citizen-based governance
The Impacts Of Port Characteristics And Port Logistics Integration On Port Performance In Ethiopian Dry Ports
No full textPurpose: This paper identifies the impacts of port characteristics and port-logistics integration on port performance in the case of Ethiopian dry ports.
Research Methodology: To complete the study, we used structural equation modeling to test the relationship between port characteristics and port-logistics integration with port performance. Moreover, Statistical Package for Social Science is also used to filter indicators. Apart from this, the study was conducted in three dry ports of Ethiopia having a sample of 279 employees.
Results: The finding shows that port characteristics such as port infrastructure, port connectivity, and port privatization have significantly impacted port performance. Also, port-logistics integration has an impact on both port operational performance and port efficiency.
Limitations: The main limitation is that the study focused only on three dry ports of Ethiopia which do not include other dry ports in the country.
Contribution: Ethiopia suffered forced dependency on transit countries after a blooded war with Eritrea which resulted in customs delays at port. To reduce this, the study suggests that Ethiopia should coordinate in developing joint infrastructures, and formulating unfettered rules and regulations with its transit countries
Predictors of Performance in Mathematics of Science, Technology And Engineering Students of a Public Secondary School in The Philippines
No full textPurpose: To fully participate in the future world, students of today should be mathematically skilled. Nowadays, mathematics backs directly and fundamentally the ways of business, health, finance, governance, and technology. Thus, this study predicts the performance in Mathematics through attitude in Mathematics, reflective thinking skills, and problem-solving skills of the Science, Technology, and Engineering (STE) students.
Research methodology: This study utilized the descriptive-predictive method. It was conducted in Sto. Tomas National High School has 58 respondents.
Results: There is a positive significant relationship between attitude in Mathematics, reflective thinking skills, and performance in Mathematics. However, it was revealed that there is a negative not significant relationship between problem-solving skills and performance in Mathematics. Furthermore, it was discovered that attitude in Mathematics significantly predicts performance in Mathematics.
Limitations: The study is quantitative non-experimental research. The respondents are only those students who specialized in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Contribution: The model that predicts the performance in Mathematics can be considered by mathematics teachers in improving the performance of STE students in Mathematics
Articulation of Womanism in African Literature: A Reading of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
No full textPurpose: Womanism, as a subset of African feminism, provides a framework for a comprehensive examination of African female writers' work. The point of this study is that women should get that independence and want to make sure that a woman, her husband, and their children have a real connection in a real environment.
Research Methodology: In this study, Ogunyemi's womanist theory guided the work. Through analysis study, a womanist reading of this novel will be conducted in order to determine the various and comparable ways this novelist communicates womanist ideology in the above-stated novel. The study also seeks to determine whether there is any continuity of womanist issues in the works of female novelists. This study looks at the attitudes and behaviors of the female characters in the novel towards male characters.
Result: Based on the findings of this study, it is evident that Emecheta champions the old patriarchal society. Emecheta's protagonist, Nnu Ego, resounds with womanist promise. The author, on the other hand, wants to make sure that men, women, and kids can all stay alive.
Limitation: The work is basically about one Anglophone female writer and her work called The Joys of Motherhood. Discussing the issues of womanist articulation.
Contribution: The study is important because it shows how Nigerian writers have been able to tackle the global issue of human suffering, especially knowing that womanism is geared towards ensuring the survival of all, regardless of gender
Optimizing the Banking Service System Using Queue Theory, Fuzzy DEMATEL and TOPSIS Approach: Case Study
No full textPurpose: This paper aimed to improve and optimize the overall performance of the banking service system using queue theory in various activities whilst maximizing profits.
Research Methodology: Based on previous literature and interview with related experts, the initial status of the banking system is analyzed as well as the methodologies of queue theory. The data was analyzed to modeling queuing systems for understanding queuing behavior using Wittness Software for simulation. Different queuing strategies will be implemented using the waiting time to find the most efficient solution and the optimized result is concluded.
Result: In this paper, the performance of the banking system is investigated and improved by the queuing theory. The sensitive analysis approach will provide new solutions for the optimization of the bank queuing, which could later be implemented for better banking performance. Based on the results obtained, the recommended method produces the best customer satisfaction and maximizes profits. The results of the paper enable decision-makers to obtain useful results with enough knowledge of the behavior of the system.
Limitation: This research only described the Iranian bank system. There is different limitation regarded as external factors that varies from one banking system to another and many works are needed to further combat the problems faced by the banking sectors.
Contribution: The results are a guideline for managers or decision makers and help them shorten cycle time and to save costs, and resolve problems. It also serves as a useful base for researchers to expand further research concerning the problems of the banking system in other organizations
Emotional Resilience and Employee Performance of Commercial Banks in South-East Nigeria
No full textPurpose: This study examined emotional resilience and performance in commercial banks in South-East Nigeria as the broad objective and specifically examined the extent employee emotional literacy influence performance in commercial banks in South-East Nigeria.
Research Methodology: A survey research design was chosen for the study. The population of the study consisted of 250 staff of 5 selected commercial banks in the studied area. The sample size used, as arrived by the use of Krejcie and Morgan sample size formula was 152. The instrument used for data collection was a Likert-structured questionnaire, which was subjected to both validity and reliability test. The data collected were analyzed through the use of a simple regression technique, and the hypothesis was tested at a 5% level of significance.
Result: The result revealed that the correlation coefficient as represented by R is .915, signifying a 92% relationship between the variables while R-Square which represented the coefficient of the determination indicates that an 84% change in the performance of employees is accounted for by changes in employee emotional literacy.
Limitation: The inferral powers of this study may be questioned as only a region in Nigeria was examined.
Contribution: All the studies looked at empirically did not take cognizance of employee emotional literacy as a measure of employee resilience and none of the studies was carried out in southeast, Nigeria, hence, making this work fill an important gap that served as a contribution.
Novelty: This study recognized that emotional literacy could be used to measure employee resilience and thus, represents something new within the context of the research area
Reproductive traits of rabbits fed Ipomea asarifolia Leaf Meal (IALM) levels in Semi-Arid Zone of Nigeria
Get PDFPurpose: This study aimed to determine the reproductive traits of rabbit fed varying levels of Ipomea asarifolia leaf meal in the semi-arid zone of Nigeria.
Research methodology: Fourty (40) nulliparous composite grower rabbits of 10 - 12 weeks with an average body weight of 1,320 g + 20 g were used for the study. The rabbits were allocated to five dietary treatments. The research used a Completely Randomized Design in allocating the experimental animals with eight rabbits in each treatment.
Results: The results obtained in this study indicated that inclusion Ipomoea asarifolia leaf meal at 10% in rabbits' diet had a negative effect as it increased the gestation length. Rabbits fed a 7.5% IALM based diet yielded the best results on litter size (LS) and conception rate (CR). The post-partum performance revealed that kittens on treatment three (5% IALM) performed better in weight at day 7 (61.47 g) and day 21 (235.33 g), respectively. Whereas kittens in treatment five (10% IALM) were reported with the highest daily weight gain (10.09 g) and pre-weaning mortality (38.84%). Does fed 10% IALM based diet performed better (720.10 g) in milk yield. The results of the morphometric traits were mostly not affected by an increased level of MGLM except for tail length (TL), length of the front leg (LFL), and shoulder to tail drop (STT) that have the highest value in rabbits fed 5% MGLM based diet, and nose to shoulder (NTS) and length of the back leg (LBL) that had highest figures in rabbits fed 10% MGLM.
Limitations: This research only focused on the effect of the test material on reproductive traits and body Morphometry, yet there might be an effect on blood parameters and serum hormones concentration.
Contribution: This research will help the farmers involved in Animal production