237 research outputs found
The status of integration of BIM into the curricula of construction education in Nigeria / Muhammad Abdullahi, Fatima Muhammad Bello and Usman Sabo Nalado
Full text linkThis research appraises the status of BIM integration in the Curricula employed for training construction professionals in the Nigerian Construction industry. Using qualitative research approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted to the sample of nine (9) Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) programs offered in four tertiary institutions in Kaduna State. The heads of department of Architecture, Building and Quantity Surveying in these institutions were invited to participate in the survey. Data collected through the interviews were subsequently analysed using content analysis. The study found that although BIM is yet to be fully integrated into the curricula of the CEM programs of the surveyed institutions, the institutions have a fair awareness of the concept of Building Information Modeling and the potential benefits of its implementation in the industry. Also, several barriers such as; lack of room in the existing curriculum for additional classes; lack of staff with the knowledge of BIM; high cost of training; lack of accreditation standards and requirements to guide the integration of BIM within a curriculum were identified to be the major obstacles hindering successful integration among others. The study concludes that the status of integration of BIM into construction education in CEM programs is unsatisfactory and requires tremendous improvement. To ensure wide and improved BIM integration in the curricula of CEM programs, it’s recommended that the regulatory and professional bodies of the various disciplines in the built environment should mandate the inclusion BIM in the curricula of all CEM programs offered in the country
Abdullahi dan Fodio and Muhammad Bello’s Debate over the Torobbe-Fulani: Case Study for a New Methodology for Arabic Primary Source Material from West Africa
No full textThis paper explores the conflict between Abdullahi dan Fodio and his nephew, Muhammad Bello, over the origin of their ethnic group, the Torobbe-Fulani. Initially open to his uncle’s theories of an Arabocentric migration narrative, Bello went on to change his views abruptly and undermine his uncle’s work. Through sketching the background to the conflict followed by a close reading of the documents themselves–Abdullahi’s īdāʿ al-nusūkh and Bello’s critical commentary to it, the ḥāshiya–I suggest these documents offer different models for political legitimacy. Prefaced by a critical analysis of the use of the Fodiawa’s Arabic writings in Sokoto historiography, I suggest that future approaches must take into account the political nature of these documents, the specific contexts in which they were produced and the personal relationships of their authors.</jats:p
Spiritual Capital, Leadership, and Performance Across Cultural Contexts
No full text“Spiritual Capital, Leadership, and Performance Across Cultural Contexts”, together with Jörg Meyer, Rainer Wehner, Sindhu Shantha Nair, Emmanuel Nwosu, Bello Muhammad Abdullahi. in: Rainer Wehner & Emin Akçaoğlu (ed.), “Global Business Dynamics, Value Chains, and Cultural Linkages”, Würzburg International Business Press, p. 142-181
Spiritual Intelligence in the Marketplace: Exploring Spirituality to foster Organizational Advantage
No full text“Spiritual Intelligence in the Marketplace: Exploring Spirituality to foster Organizational Advantage”, together with Jörg Meyer, Rainer Wehner, Sindhu Shantha Nair, Emmanuel Nwosu, Bello Muhammad Abdullahi. Conference Proceedings of the Würzburg International Business Forum 2024, at Doğuş University Çengelköy Campus Istanbul, Turkey, in: Rainer Wehner & Emin Akçaoğlu (ed.), “Social Entrepreneurship for Innovation, Value Creation, and Economic Growth”, Würzburg International Business Press, p. 208-215
“Spiritual Intelligence in the Marketplace – Exploring Spirituality to foster Organizational Advantage”
No full text“Spiritual Intelligence in the Marketplace – Exploring Spirituality to foster Organizational Advantage”, Research Paper Presentation & Discussion together with Rainer Wehner, Jörg Meyer, Sindhu Shantha Nair, Emmanuel O. Nwosu and Bello Muhammad Abdullahi at the 12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT (CIM24) of the International School of Management Excellence in Bangalore, India.
Abstract in CIM24 Book of Abstracts, Tamil Nadu 2024, p. 11 f
Hausa Visual Genome 1.0
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Hausa Visual Genome 1.0, a multimodal dataset consisting of text and images suitable for English-to-Hausa multimodal machine translation tasks and multimodal research. We follow the same selection of short English segments (captions) and the associated images from Visual Genome as the dataset Hindi Visual Genome 1.1 has. We automatically translated the English captions to Hausa and manually post-edited, taking the associated images into account.
The training set contains 29K segments. Further 1K and 1.6K segments are provided in development and test sets, respectively, which follow the same (random) sampling from the original Hindi Visual Genome.
Additionally, a challenge test set of 1400 segments is available for the multi-modal task. This challenge test set was created in Hindi Visual Genome by searching for (particularly) ambiguous English words based on the embedding similarity and manually selecting those where the image helps to resolve the ambiguity.
Dataset Formats
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The multimodal dataset contains both text and images.
The text parts of the dataset (train and test sets) are in simple tab-delimited plain text files.
All the text files have seven columns as follows:
Column1 - image_id
Column2 - X
Column3 - Y
Column4 - Width
Column5 - Height
Column6 - English Text
Column7 - Hausa Text
The image part contains the full images with the corresponding image_id as the file name. The X, Y, Width, and Height columns indicate the rectangular region in the image described by the caption.
Data Statistics
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The statistics of the current release are given below.
Parallel Corpus Statistics
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Dataset Segments English Words Hausa Words
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Train 28930 143106 140981
Dev 998 4922 4857
Test 1595 7853 7736
Challenge Test 1400 8186 8752
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Total 32923 164067 162326
The word counts are approximate, prior to tokenization.
Citation
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If you use this corpus, please cite the following paper:
@InProceedings{abdulmumin-EtAl:2022:LREC,
author = {Abdulmumin, Idris
and Dash, Satya Ranjan
and Dawud, Musa Abdullahi
and Parida, Shantipriya
and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen
and Ahmad, Ibrahim Sa'id
and Panda, Subhadarshi
and Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej
and Galadanci, Bashir Shehu
and Bello, Bello Shehu},
title = "{Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation}",
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {June},
year = {2022},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {6471--6479},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.694}
Appraisal of OFDM for multi-carrier, high-speed data rate wireless communication networks
No full textMeasurement of radiation dose level within Queen Amina Hall, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
No full textMeasurement of background radiation is of great interest for it provides useful information in monitoring environmental radioactivity. The aim of the present study is to provide information and generate database on the natural background radiation dose levels of densely populated Queen Amina Hall, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The radiation dose (outdoor and indoor dose rate) were measured at 29 rooms (Block 1- 4) and their compounds using RADOS survey meter held at 1m above the ground. The measured radiation dose ranged 0.13 nGyh-1 to 0.43 nGyh-1 and 0.54 nGyh-1 to 1.72 nGyh1 for indoor and outdoor respectively. Some of the high values recorded could be attributed due to the contribution of cosmic radiation emanating from the atmosphere as well as the geological settings of the location as there is no any artificial contributing factor within the area. The annual effective doses within the study area was found to be 0.01 mSvy-1 throughout which is quit below the world average value of 0.87 mSvy-1 for natural sources.
Keywords: Radiation dose, Annual effective dose, RADOS meter, Queen Amin
From rebels to rulers: political and religious legitimacy in the writings of the Sokoto Fodiawa 1803–1837
Full text linkThe nineteenth century was the century of revolutions not just in Europe and the Americas, but West Africa as well. Here, Muslim reformers overturned whole political systems by jihad. The largest and most enduring of these states was Sokoto, centred in present-day Northern Nigeria. It was founded by Usman dan Fodio with his younger brother, Abdullahi, and his son, Muhammad Bello, also playing major roles. These three individuals – the Fodiawa – articulated and debated a new vision of Islamic statecraft in hundreds of Arabic treatises. Sokoto’s early history – from its founding in 1804 to the death of Muhammad Bello, its second ruler, in 1837 – is perhaps the best documented event in pre-colonial Africa. Yet, while historians have used the Arabic writings of the Fodiawa to reconstruct the early history of Sokoto, the role of these texts as vehicles of authority and legitimacy has not been fully explored. This thesis interrogates concepts of “legitimacy” in the nineteenth century Sahel. It examines how the Fodiawa utilised, adapted and disputed such concepts over the roughly thirty year period in which they turned from rebels to rulers, suggesting a common process of (de)legitimisation in Muslim West Africa, and the wider world of Islam
Sociological Perspective of the Roles and Impact of Nigeria Bank of Industry on Small and Medium Enterprises for National Developments
No full textThis study seeks to assess the role and impact of Nigeria Bank of Industry towards the small and medium enterprises development in Kano Metropolis. The study used both the quantitative and qualitative method to collect and analyze data. The total of one hundred and ten (110) sample size of small and medium enterprises was selected for the study. The study found that small and medium entrepreneur plays significant role in the development of national economy. It also found that Bank of Industry play significant role in the development of small and medium entrepreneur. The study also discovered that small and medium entrepreneur utilizes effectively the services rendered by the bank of industry and importantly the Bank of Industry is not stringent in rendering assistance to the small and medium entrepreneur. It was recommended that Small and medium entrepreneurs should not take for granted the advantage given to them by the Bank of Industry and that they should utilize the opportunity given to them effectively and efficiently. It has also been recommended that since the nation has focused on the small and medium entrepreneurs as a mechanism through which to achieve industrialization, as such they should be monitored effectively in every of the steps of collection and utilization of the loans
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