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INNOVATIVE CULTURE AND PERSONAL VALUES: ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSPECTIVE FROM GRADUATING STUDENTS OF SELECTED PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.
No full textEntrepreneurship edification had been indoctrinated in Nigerian university curriculum, yet many graduates still find it challenging to be self-employed. This appeared to make university support on entrepreneurship to students to be inadequate. Thus, the objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of innovative culture, personal values on graduating students’ entrepreneurial tendency. Survey research design was engaged with data from graduating undergraduates’ students of Babcock, Covenant, Bells and Crawford Universities in Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used, 394 questionnaires were administered but 379 were duly filled and found usable. The descriptive statistics and regression analysis were employed as methods of data analysis. The result indicated that university’s innovative culture does not have a significant effect on personal values of the students to starting a business (R = 0.026, R2 = 0.001, P=0.412>0.05). This paper therefore concludes that private Universities in Nigeria need to be more supportive and encourage entrepreneurial innovative culture
Rejuvenation of Aged Asphalt Binders by Waste Engine Oil and SBS Blend: Physical, Chemical, and Rheological Properties of Binders and Mechanical Evaluations of Mixtures
No full textDue to the poor cracking performance of aged binders, the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in road pavements is limited. When applying a greater RAP percentage, the use of a rejuvenator is necessary. The rejuvenator's unfavourable softening impact, on the other hand, causes the pavement to be vulnerable to rutting. As a result, RAP binders with optimized rutting and fatigue cracking properties are required. Therefore, this study was carried out to evaluate the simultaneous effects of 70% waste engine oil (WEO) and 30% SBS copolymer as a compound rejuvenator (WS-rejuvenator) on the performance of asphalt binders and mixtures containing RAP binders of 30% and 50%. The physical, chemical and rheological properties of asphalt binders were evaluated using the conventional tests, SARA (Saturate, Aromatic, Resin, and Asphaltene) analysis, FTIR test, thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), DSR, and BBR. The mechanical properties of mixtures were examined using the Marshall, indirect tensile strength, moisture damage, rutting, and aggregate coating tests. The findings showed that WS-rejuvenator at 5% and 10% recovered the physical characteristics of asphalt binders containing 30% and 50% RAP, respectively. Furthermore, WS-rejuvenator was able to compensate for the light components of the RAP binder that were lost over time. As a consequence, the behavior of the RAP binder at high, moderate, and low temperatures was recovered to that of the virgin binder. By mixing the RAP binder with the compound rejuvenator, the oxygenation indices were effectively reduced. The TGA revealed that the thermal stability of regenerated binders was equivalent to that of the virgin binders. In addition, the mechanical properties of regenerated mixes were enhanced in comparison to the control mixture. In summary, the adoption of RAP and WEO-SBS rejuvenator in asphalt mixtures show promising outcomes to enhance greener pavement materials application in the future
Systematic Literature Review: Work Engagement Program to Improve Millennial Employee Performance
No full textIn the digital era, the banking industry needs employees who are able to work with growth mindset in an environment that is agile and digital savvy. work engagement is the attitude and behavior of individuals in carrying out their work roles by expressing themselves completely physically, cognitively, affectively, and emotionally. The most compatible work engagement program for the millennial generation workforce is the key to the success of the banking industry in winning the highly competitive business world in the Industrial Revolution era 4.0. and Society 5.0. The purpose of this research is to identify, review and analyze the Work Engagement Program to Improve Employee Performance in the Banking Industry. The research method used is a Systematic Literature Review of relevant research. There are two Research Questions (RQ) set in this research. The research conducted concluded that the right work engagement program makes Millennial employees in the banking industry find meaning in their work, and gain pride as part of the workplace to jointly achieve the company's vision and mission. Each employee will go the extra mile and strive for work results to be above what is expected in time and energy characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption
Class-based Digital Attendance Management System with Computer Vision
No full textAttendance taking is an age long practice used to validate a student’s presence in class. The traditional attendance system is done with pen and paper where students write their names on the attendance sheet. This method is marred with a lot of irregularities, inefficiencies and proxy attendance(s) where students record attendance for their friends and classmates who are not present in class. This paper, therefore, develops an attendance management system that leverages on computer vision technology to detect and recognize faces and a file management system to record the recognized faces against a spreadsheet of students present in a class session. It employed a face-recognition library built using dlib’s and a deep learning mechanism with an accuracy of 99.38%, OpenCV, Pandas, and web app technology, namely HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and python/flask. The database design was based on the resident computer file system and a CVS file type was used to handle the row-column structure of the attendance records. The panda library was implemented to mimic a structured query language. This research paper has been able to solve the problem of proxy attendance recorded in a manual attendance system by recording the registered students’ attendance automatically as they walk into the class
The Analysis of Urban Farming Potential in Port Dickson for Food Security amid COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textCOVID-19 pandemic and Movement Control Order (MCO) have resulted in a higher percentage of retrenchment, unpaid leave, or reduced wages, especially for the personnel in tourism and hospitality sectors under the B40 and M40 groups. With reduced household income, more families fell into a hard time and faced difficulties obtaining fresh goods such as vegetables with the amount of money left in hand. The study targeted to locate the potential locations in Port Dickson to be developed into urban farming and followed by the best approach of urban farming analyzed according to different site characters. A case study approach was adopted with two techniques, namely mapping analysis for Port Dickson's potential green spaces and interviews with urban farming experts to validate the findings. The findings recognized multiple approaches of urban farming subjected to different site characters and contextual forms. The study provides recommendations on strategies to accomplish a resilient food system embedding sustainability to correspond with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030, efficient land management for urban farms, empowering knowledge, and entrepreneurship of urban farming food production for individuals and communities
A Student Life at INTI International University Volume 1 (Coffee Table Book)
No full textINTI International University has always believed in fostering within our students the kind
of mind, intelligence, and character which they will value for the rest of their lives.
Additionally, we strive to instill ideals such as empathy, self-improvement, and societal
objectives.
The moment a student enrolls at our University, their life experiences a significant turning
point, entering an environment within which they will be raised to become young and
responsible adults.
They develop lifelong memories and experiences as they advance through their studies at
INTI International University. During this time, they start to make new acquaintances,
become inspired to give back to society, and begin to assume leadership roles. It's a perfect
time for them to learn, while taking their interest and cultural development into consideration.
In essence, this is the setting that will ultimately mould the future and broaden the minds of
our students.
INTI International University is a place not just to obtain a certificate, but where a person
learns the tough skills of life: self-discipline, commitment, friendship, sincerity, and tenacity.
Being able to enjoy the University life to its fullest, and yet continue to maintain the balance
between studies and social lives is itself a skill that students learn, which will also prepare
them for a life of work ahead.
Without doubt, students will have wonderful memories of their time at INTI International
University. I am happy to share the wonderful memories of some of our previous INTIMA
Presidents here in this book. May their memories and experiences be immortalised in this
book for others inspiration towards success
K-Means Clustering Approach for Intelligent Customer Segmentation Using Customer Purchase Behavior Data
No full textE-commerce system has become more popular and implemented in almost all business areas. E-commerce system is a platform for marketing and promoting the products to customer through online. Customer segmentation is known as a process of dividing the customers into groups which shares similar characteristics. The purpose of customer segmentation is to determine how to deal with customers in each category in order to increase the profit of each customer to the business. Segmenting the customers assist business to identify their profitable customer to satisfy their needs by optimizing the services and products. Therefore, customer segmentation helps E-commerce system to promote the right product to the right customer with the intention to increase profits. There are few types of customer segmentation factors which are demographic psychographic, behavioral, and geographic. In this study, customer behavioral factor has been focused. Therefore users will be analyzed using clustering algorithm in determining the purchase behavior of E-commerce system. The aim of clustering is to optimize the experimental similarity within the cluster and to maximize the dissimilarity in between clusters. In this study there are relationship between three clusters: event type, products, and categories. In this research, the proposed approach analyzed the groups that share similar criteria to help vendors to identify and focus on the high profitable segment to the least profitable segment. This type of analysis can play important role in improving the business. Grouping their customer according to their similar behavioral factor to sustain their customer for long-term and increase their business profit. It also enables high exposure of the e-offer to gain attention of potential customers. In order to process the collected data and segment the customers, an learning algorithm is used which is known as K-Means clustering. K-Means clustering is implemented to solve the clustering problems
The Effects of Individual vs Team Sports on Perceived Stress, Sports Anxiety and Sports Motivation among Competitive Youth Athletes
No full textObjective: The objective of the study was to determine if there is a significant difference between perceived stress, sports anxiety and sports motivation among competitive young athletes in individual and team sports.
Background: Organized sport has been shown to be the most optimal form of physical activity associated with improved mental health. This is especially important in the youth population, where the prevalence of mental health problems has been on an upward trend. It remains unknown whether individual and team sports vary in terms of their impact on perceived stress, sports anxiety, and sports motivation among competitive young athletes.
Methods: We conducted ex post facto quasi-experimental research in which participants in individual or team sports were retrospectively studied for perceived stress, sports anxiety, and sports motivation. We compared self-reported measures of perceived stress, sports anxiety, and sports motivation among athletes in individual and team sports.
Results: The results indicate that there is a significant difference between perceived stress (p <.001), sports anxiety (p <.001) and sports motivation (p = .002) between competitive young athletes in individual sports vs.
Conclusion: individual sports athletes are more likely to report higher perceived stress, higher sports anxiety, and lower sports motivation compared to team sports athletes
Development of a Self-Contained Power Management System
No full textThe power management system has become an important issue to industries and consumers with the growth of electrical and electronic modern equipment such as house appliances. Power sources increased tremendously with the recently fast-growing population, elevated energy demand volume, and depletion of fossil fuels are aimed at finding an alternative source of energy in the power industry. An abundant source of renewable energy such as solar energy has been shown to be a better choice to satisfy this challenge. Thus, solar energy applications should be advanced using solar panels in this research. The power management system is implemented using solar energy, charging circuit, Lead-Acid battery, and Lithium-Manganese Dioxide battery. This power management system has been developed with the interaction of charging circuits from solar panels to batteries. In this paper, the design was carried out on the solar cells testing with different temperatures to accustom the product. This process is to find the maximum output which the solar panels can deliver. It also includes the part of the battery charging circuit that utilizes the time for charging and recharging the battery. The proposed design is compared with the power system in terms of charging time and reliability of the power source. The results show that the proposed design power management system is able to provide a highly reliable source of power
Impact of COVID-19 on Caregiver Burden among Parents of Differently Abled Children: A Survey
No full textIntroduction: During COVID19 outbreak, parents of differently abled children have to quit their institutional rehabilitation session as a result of pandemic. Many factors lead to depressing experience on caregiver’s mental health, burden, and health status. Caregiver Health Self-Assessment Questionnaire will be helpful in determining the mental behavior and health risk of parents or caregivers of developmentally delayed individuals.
Objective: The present study was aimed to examine the impact of COVID19 on caregivers of differently abled children and to compare the burden, stress, and health status of differently abled children’s parents in terms of gender and different age group.
Methodology: From the period of October 2020 to March 2021, 30 caregivers of 30 differently abled children’s who were under developmental therapy in child developmental center in Saveetha medical college and hospital were asked to participate in the study through telephonic interview.
Results: The mean stress and health status scores among parents of Female children (8 and 7.18) were much higher than parents of male children (5.73 and 4.52). On comparing the age groups, parents of preschool had high caregiver burden and stress mean value of 10 and 7.37, the mean value of school and toddler age group is (8.75, 6.28) and (6.57, 7) parents of infant age group scores lowest burden score compared to the others.
Conclusion: Caregivers of differently abled children’s experiences burden, stress and health issues. Children with developmental disability were completely dependent on their caregivers on activities of daily living and decline in their health also inversely have an impact on health status of the caregivers. Our team is working out with home-based exercises facilitated through tele consultation and handouts to reduce the possible impact of COVID19 on these children and caregivers