Social Sciences and Humanities

All business owners face certain challenges, but women, because of their gender, often have additional challenges and obstacles that their male peers are less likely to encounter working women who have children experience even more demand on time, energy and resources. But this does not mean women as well as success full than men, in fact, statistic show that women are starting business at more than twice the rate female majority owned business. The growing success rate of women entrepreneurship shows that they are resourceful and able to succeed, despite the odds.

This study examined the adequacy and effectiveness of disaster and emergency communication tools in crisis situation in Calabar South local government. Study method was the cross sectional survey involving the use of questionnaires. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed to the sampled communities and key informants to elicit responses. The data collections were grouped according to research questions. The data were organized and presented in tables. Frequency counts of agree and disagree responded were obtained and mean scores were used for data analysis.

School meals programme in The Gambia is one of the successful safety net programmes that have been beneficial to vulnerable families in rural dwellings and some families dwelling in urban slums. The programme has evolved over the years necessitating a study to assess its efficacy thereby validating the need for its continuation in the coming decades and beyond. The study was conducted nationwide, thus providing useful insight on the current school meals programme.

The study relating to the Interpersonal relations and work motivation in Public Sector Human resource management is concerned with a very wide field of activities. This is does not concern itself with providing with merely welfare activities for the workers. This includes any activity which gives the workers confidence in the management and improves their morale and efficiency.

The Straits of Malacca and Singapore is among the world busiest shipping lane, making the Straits among the main arteries of global trade and commerce. Due to its status as important shipping lane, the Straits accommodate an unlimited volume of shipping traffic. High in shipping activities have increased the risks of vessel-source marine pollution to occur. The impact of the pollution has resulted in serious damage to marine environment respectively, thus measures to regulate it is urgently needed.

Recently, competitive advantage was achieved by those firms able to develop their product/service to fulfill a consumer’s need. The market preferences following adequate evaluation of how people measure different features of an individual product. The product or service design using Conjoint analysis, a quantitative research tool widely employed in product management and marketing struggled the over information overload for decision-making in the ranking preference value.

Small-holder cassava farmers in Okwusonwu-atanga in Ikpo-Obibi have since more than 40 years ago been suffering from crop attack by the white curl grub (Phyllophaga spp., Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) pests. Several attempts have been made in the past by the farmers to find solution to the pest-invasion, but none was discovered yet. This study aimed at using the biological pest control method in the form of traditional application of the Allium spp and comparing the result with the dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) method.

Social Responsibility has been associated with large corporations. Scarcity of literature on humanistic social responsibility of Small and Medium indicates that few researchers tend to carry out such study. They have the perception that Small and Medium enterprises regard social responsibility as a costly initiative. This scenario undermines the importance and critical role that Small and Medium Enterprises play in society. The study aims at exploring factors driving sustainable growth through humanistic social responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises of developing countries.

Explosion-proof diesel engine has a strong adaptability to harsh environment, but also has strict requirements for oil injection characteristics. According to the theory of hydrodynamics, a physical model was built to test the capture rate under different spacing between nozzle hole and oil inlet. The relationship between injection temperature and pressure in injection chamber and injection characteristics of nozzle was obtained.

Welding is very important in the manufacturing process of tower crane, which can directly affect the safety and reliability of the whole tower crane. This paper takes the standard section of tower crane as the research object, and calculates the thermodynamics by analyzing the welding process between the support rod and the reinforcement rod. The transient temperature field and stress field at different time were obtained by thermo-mechanical coupling method. In addition, metallographic analysis was carried out for different regions of the weld.