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Festivals and traditional ceremonies are part of the cultural heritage of Africa. This is why the traditional Egungun festival in Yorubaland, till date, still enjoys indigenous monopoly. However, its resources as a unique cultural asset of Africans are presently under-utilized and therefore need to be further explored for greater relevance with the sophistication and demands of contemporary age. This, thus, constitute the subject of this paper. The paper, therefore, focuses on the exploration of the content and form of traditional egungun Ado festival in order to define the basis for its enduring value in Ado Ekiti. This is discussed from analytical and mythological perspectives. The paper establishes that for any art to thrive, it must remain dynamic. And more interesting, the paper unravels the dynamics, the beauty, the uniqueness and multiple potentials of this Egungun Ado festival. Through interviews, personal experience and observation, the paper posits that Egungun Ado festival plays pivotal roles in the social, religious and political milieu of the Ado people and has remained a rallying point. It concludes that Egungun Ado festivals with its rich content and form are crucial to the nation building process in African societies and in fact, capable of yielding great dividends in the global economy if appropriately explored. However, it is imperative that African countries implement credible cultural policies to index and protect the vulnerability of aspects of this Yoruba culture in the face of Western encroachments and onslaught of Islam and Christianity.

This paper presents an experiment concerning the contribution of workplace teaching to the better understanding of ESP terminologies. Accordingly, 40 learners majoring in electronic and power engineering were selected based on a language proficiency test. Randomly, they were divided into two experimental and control groups. While the instructional material was the same for both groups, experimental group was taught at the workplace while control group was taught in an academic environment. At the end of the experiment, the findings were compared through t-test. Results after the analysis of the data indicated that who were taught at the workplace gained more ESP vocabulary than those who were taught in academic environment.

In the contemporary world, the essence of empowering the youth to embrace the concept of national and global cohesion through education is not optional but mandatory. It is equally noticeable that education has facilitated the exchange of information and knowledge that generates potentialities necessary for the global prosperity. The contrary is that education is also accountable for making the world too porous, fragmented, and alienated which is reflected superficial peace, perplexing pandemonium, and ambiguous inhabitance. In contradistinction, education has brought the world together in an attempt to create global prosperity, but has failed to fulfill aspirations of the youth and bring harmony and cohesion not only in Kenya but also worldwide. It is within this backdrop that there is irrefutable necessity to explore the possible means to empower the youth to appreciate the significance of national harmony, social cohesion and integration in Kenya. It is through teaching and learning that the youth can endorse the principle of national harmony and social cohesion. In this treatise, interviews served as tools of obtaining data from the respondents, while phenomenological theory served as theoretical framework. The outcome is that there is need for a new turn to enhance the youth to endorse the value of harmony and coexistence.

Field equations of Saffman’s dusty gas with pressure-dependent viscosity and variable number density through isotropic porous media of variable porosity are developed in this work. The porous microstructure, the Darcy resistance and the Forchheimer micro-inertial effects are accounted for in the intrinsic volume averaging process.

The study sought to identify influence of human resource management on the organizational performance of sharia complaint banks in Kenya with specific interest in recruitment, human resource Planning, compensation, training. There was a positive and significant correlation between the variable s in the study.

One management which does not possess a systematic or a fully completed system will cause the installation of a laboratory or workshop to not to operate smoothly. The venue selected to undergo this research was at the Institut Kemahiran Tinggi Belia Negara (IKTBN) ( ‘National Youth Advance Skill Institute’). Among the issues faced is in regards to the duration of time taken in handling the tender process which at times consumed a too long duration. Besides that, the supervision during the period of installation or maintenance is vital to ensure that the output of quality work meet the specification as in the contract. The instrument of this research uses the Interview and observation methods. The findings of this research analysis conducted had successfully revealed all of the information required. Via audio recordings recorded at the time of the interview being conducted, that is the current and thereafter information regarding the installation activity in the tender management process. Lastly, all the management’s task in respect of the installation conducted require procedures or careful steps to ensure that issues do not arise and even if there is any, it can be averted.

As the creative industry grows from the producing sector and becoming more complex in business industry, entrepreneurship will draw more attention to the need for emphasizing among SMEs in creative industry in Malaysia. Artists should develop entrepreneurial thinking in their business strategies to face challenges in competitive market today. A good creative entrepreneur not totally depends on the artistic value, but they should emphasize on how to utilize the minimum resources to fulfill the maximum consumer requirement towards the product demand in a market. Hence, entrepreneurship training is a fundamental step to make creative entrepreneur become more knowledgeable, skillful, and motivate. Nowadays, the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage takes responsibility to ensure that the implementation of creative industry in Malaysia becomes reality (Rais Yatim, 2006). So, entrepreneurship training becomes useful for creative entrepreneurs to achieve the government planning. A good infrastructure becomes useless if government cannot produce good practitioners in creative industry. Entrepreneurship training is a part of the creative entrepreneur development in business management in creative industry. In fact, Malaysia has a vibrant entrepreneurial base with a huge potential to become a global player. Indeed, the past and current policies to create a class of entrepreneurs have succeeded in the sense that there are more involved in business now compared to before. So, entrepreneurship training becomes as a first step approach among local creative entrepreneurs to develop their motivation toward successful in business in creative industry.

This study will focus on discuss the role of discussion forums in developing and keep on communities of e-learning as well as fostering and strengthened students’ learning skills and knowledge along with the instructors .It conducted on an online course at the University of Baghdad. The course was delivered via Moodle to using discussion forums as a major communication tool. A survey assessing students’ attitudes as a core factor toward discussion forums was occurring. The outcomes presented a positive attitude toward discussion forums and their role in developing and enhancing students’ study skills and knowledge. This study proposes strategies for implementing successful discussion forums.

This study has made an attempt to investigate the significant determinants of private investment in Pakistan during the time span of 43 years, from 1973 to 2013, by using ARDL technique. It has been observed in this study that real gross domestic product, real exchange rate, public investment and credit to private sector are the significant determinants of private investment and the enhancements in these variables has increased private investment in Pakistan.

In this paper we discuss the concept of total edge domination in graphs. We prove that for any connected (p,q) – graph G with ? < q - 1, t q - ? where ? denotes the maximum degree of an edge in G and characterize trees and unicyclic graphs which attain this bound. We also prove that t (S(G)) for any connected graph G. We also determine the value of total edge domatic number for some families of graphs.