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Field trials were carried out at the farm of Livestock development unit of Ekiti state Ministry of agriculture, Erinfun, Ado Ekiti (7°40? N, 5°15? E) in 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 cropping sessions to assess the effects of sprout number per cassava stand on the performance of cassava Manihot esculenta. The treatments which represented the number of shoots allowed to survive from sprouted shoots per stand were single shoot; double shoots; triple shoots and multiple shoots. At four weeks after planting (4WAP), sprouted shoots were detached to the required number per stand in each treatment. Multiple shoots produced the tallest plants while single and double shoots per stand gave the shortest plants. Single shoot per stand produced the highest stem girth figure, number of initial and final branches, fresh shoot biomass, number of tubers per plant as well as tuber yield per hectare. While the percent peel per tuber was lowest in the single and double shoots per stand, the highest percentage of peel per tuber was recorded in the multiple shoots cassava plants. It is concluded that sprouted cassava should not be allowed to be more than two shoots per stand for optimum cassava tuber yield.

This study investigated the importance of succession planning in Academic Libraries in some selected universities in the south west. The universities selected include Federal University Oye, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, University of Lagos, Lagos, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Osun state University, Osogbo, Lagos state University, Lagos, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Joseph Ayodele Babalola University, Ikeji Arakeji, and Caleb University, Lagos. The Study population was made up of all academic librarians working in the university libraries. The study made use of simple and random technique and sample size of 100 respondents were chosen to represent the academic librarians working in the library. The survey instrument was questionnaire and it consists of six questions for item to elicit information on succession planning. A total of 100 questionnaires were distributed, 81 were returned while 73 were properly filled and could be analyzed giving a response rate of 81.11 %. The simple frequencies table and percentages were applied to analyze the generated data. The following recommendation were made for effective succession planning in academic libraries: succession planning must reflect in every assignment, committee; profession librarian must exposed to both academic and administrative duties that will form part of their experience on the long run and that librarians must be able to have an all round experience in all the sections of the library such that there will not be any gap peradventure there is long absence, resignation or retirement from service.

This study aims to explore the role of marketing practices in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and to evaluate the impact of changes in marketing practices from traditional to entrepreneurial marketing practices will have an impact on the SME performance. A quantitative, exploratory approach using structured questionnaire amongst 50 owners of SMEs in the Klang Valley region of Malaysia was used. Marketing in SMEs is centered on traditional methods such as using print media and hard selling. SME owners should take account of the findings and work towards introducing SME-specific marketing practices in trying to achieve higher sales volume and growth. This study uses a small number of SME companies in one region and therefore the generalizability of the findings may be limited. Further research could extend the number of SME companies and to other regions of Malaysia. The findings have a bearing on the Malaysian SME performance. This study offers insights into how the marketing practices in Malaysian SMEs needs to be adapted in light of the findings to ensure marketing practices of SMEs are compatible with current digital approaches.

The importance of primary education in promoting efficiency, security and national development in Nigeria cannot be underrated. This cannot be overstressed because this level of education is the basic foundation to other levels of education. This paper examines scope of primary education in Nigeria, it’s objectives and various reforms in the education sector as it relates to the effectiveness of primary education. This paper explains the concept of national security and national development as it relates to primary education. This paper further discusses the relevance of primary education in promoting national security and development as well as efficiency. It concludes by proffering possible solutions on how to improve on the primary education system in Nigeria.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the practice of teachers’ Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme in Dire-Dawa Administrative Region, Ethiopia. The specific objectives of the research were to explore the status of schools’ CPD implementation as per the national framework, identify the success areas of the schools in implementing the CPD, identify the gaps of schools in implementing the CPD, explore the challenges the schools face in implementing CPD and to suggest some possible solutions/strategies for effective implementation of the programme. The study design used was descriptive survey. A total of 20 schools (18 primary and 2secondary) and 213 teachers (144 urban and 99 rural) were taken as participants of the study using questionnaire. For observation three schools which are serving as cluster resource centers were used. Regional education bureau CPD focal person was used as interviewees. The data were analyzed using number, percentage, and mean for quantitative ones and narration for qualitative ones. The data witness that many efforts have been made by the different stakeholders of teachers’ CPD such as Ministry of Education, Regional Education Bureaus, School principals and teachers themselves. On the other hand, the efforts made were not consistent, specific CPD budget was not there. Cluster Resource Centers were not functional, CPD practices were tried in both primary and secondary schools but the practice by the secondary school teachers is very minimal, principals and supervisors were not practicing their own CPD. The major challenges or gaps identified include low commitment of teachers to perform CPD activities, lack of commitment of mentors to support teachers, failure of Cluster Resource Centers to function, lack of commitment of supervisors and principals to do their CPD and become models for their teachers, lack of ownership of CPD to follow up regularly and assess its status. finally, to implement teachers’ CPD as per Ministry of Education (MoE) guideline, there should be ownership at the different level of the Education system, the Regional Education Bureaus should organize the Cluster Resource Centers and make them functional and should have regular communication and support for the schools, supervisors and principals shall be models to their teachers in doing their own CPD were recommended.

The present study investigated the moderating role of adolescent’s intrinsic motivation to know on the relationships between novelty seeking and video game playing among 400 Iranian adolescents. Results showed that novelty seeking was significantly related to video game for adolescents who have high level on intrinsic motivation to know. The Current findings highlight the importance the motivation of game on personality traits and video game.

John Bunyan's The Pilgrim’s Progress, is one of the most important religious texts ever written in English. There are several important factors that have made for the perfect and excellent structure of this seventeenth century work of English literature. What follows is an attempt to analyze these elements in detail in order to find how such a masterpiece has been created and why it has gained such importance in realm of religious writings that has been given the title of Second Bible.

The present paper intends to overview some basic concerns and developments in the educational systems of the current century highlighting how remarkable role information communication technology (ICT) plays in today’s education and finally comes up with some justifications for the integration of ICT into the teaching and learning process.

The purpose of this study is the review of the relationship between organizational trust and knowledge management in the national company of refining and distribution of the oil production in Kermanshah – Iran. This research is on the basis of the descriptive type, and the questionnaires are used in it. Aloonen et al., (2008). Questionnaires are used for organizational trust and for knowledge management evaluation is the questionnaires of Proset et al., Capacity of statistical society consist of 270 employee of the national company on the basis of the class accidental sampling among them, some of them have selected as a statistical sample and finally, 134 questioners have collected. Kolmogorov -Simonov test was used for the determining of the normality collected data, and to confirm the results of it. Hypothesis of the research were put in test container with spearman conjunction test. Results show meaning full and positive conjunction between trust and knowledge management. That is as trust of employees about their organization, increases; they should show much knowledge management.

The geometries of various rotamers, tautomers and isomers of N-(pyridine -2yl)acetamide have been studied using the density functional theory (DFT) method at the level of B3LYP employing 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. We report the enthalpies, Gibbs free energy, entropy, relative stability and tautomeric equilibrium constants for the title compound isomers at 298.15 K in gas phase. The most stable A4 is taken as reference to obtain the relative energetic stability of other rotamers. Calculated values for the equilibrium between these some tautomers show that pKT value is negative values. If the pKT was positive, equilibrium moved from right towards the lift and when it was negative, equilibrium moved from left towards the right.