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Engineers are individuals who by virtue gotten education and training acquires scientific knowledge and methods in translating engineering designs to Concrete physical facilities.The engineeris an organizational builder who is involved at all the stages of any project from the time the idea of the project is conceived to its final commissioning and operation and maintenance.The work of engineers take into cognizance the various socio - political, economic and engineering factors involved in all the stages of the project and arrive at sound decisions which enables them to offerdeveloping strategies to/make an organization successful in its operations.

The study assesses the environmental and economic benefits of implementing waste-to-energy technology. It utilized a laboratory research method as its study design. Different types of waste were collected and sorted out accordingly. The wastes where then pre-treated for an easy conversion process and eco-friendly. Several methods of waste method, ranging from Anaerobic Digestion, Pyrolysis, Gasification and Incineration. These methods of waste management were all compared and from the result of the analysis, it was noted that the most effective, cost-effective and sentimental friendly is the Anaerobic Digestion and Pyrolysis method. This method converts waste cooking gas, and into electricity without causing damage to the environment. Based on this finding, the study recommended that both government and the society should utilize Pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion method of waste management which is the most effective and cost-effective method of waste management system in managing their menace of waste.

Evaluation of aquifer storage potentials and groundwater level fluxes require analysis of groundwater recharge and discharge rates. Volumetric groundwater budget of the recharge and discharge of the shallow unconfined aquifer system of Benin-City and environ have been simulated using a three-dimensional groundwater flow and a particle-tracking models. This is with a view to elucidating groundwater storage potential water level fluctuations in the area. Nine burrow pit exposures and thirty borehole logs were also studied. Well correlation and geologic cross-sections of the subsurface geology culminated in hydrostratigraphic model, and determination of saturated thickness and lateral extent of aquiferous units. Burrow pit exposures revealed occurrence of surficial reddish lateritic cover underlain by laminated loose sands varying in colour with clay and clayey-sand intercalations. Annual groundwater level fluctuations were 0.85 - 1.25 and 0.82 to 1.60 meters at Ikpoba and Ogba respectively. Thirty-year period groundwater recharge rates from precipitation and river leakage were 0 to 1.075 x 105 m3/day and 02.737 x 105 to 1.114 x 106 m3/day respectively. Groundwater discharge rates through baseflow and evapotranspiration rates were 1.165 x 104 to 4.219 x 106 m3/day and 7.486 x 105 to 3.715 x 107 m3/day respectively. The cumulative groundwater recharge rates (2.73 x 108 m3/day) exceeded the discharge rates (5.07 x 107 m3/day). Hence, the aquifer has very high storage potentials.

The automatic detection of weapons captured by surveillance settings is essential for speeding the otherwise laborious approach. With use of, UCF Crime which is the largest available dataset for automatic visual analysis of anomalies and consists of real-world crime scenes of various categories. In this paper, we introduce HR-Crime, a subset of the UCF-Crime dataset suitable and use a technique for specified object tracking.

In Nigeria, there are expected benefits of the technology Incubation Program for SMEs. Despite the presence of these centers, many SMEs are underperforming. Many incubation centres were established to influence and promote entrepreneurship so that it could add to the economy of a country. However, the performance of these incubators has been less than desirable. The paper, therefore, looks at the role of technological incubator centres in the growth of SMEs in Nigeria. The methodology employed was a cross-sectional survey design. The research was carried out in Lagos State and Abia State. The population for the study was 790 SMEs. Out of that number, 279 were chosen at random. The instrument of data collection was an adapted questionnaire. Ten samples (10% of the sample size) were used to test the reliability of the questionnaire. The Cronbach Alpha Level was 0.79. 250 copies of the questionnaires were coded and used for analysis. To analyze the data, statistical tools like frequency, percentage, mean, and multiple regression analysis were used. The statistical software employed was SPSS version 21. The findings revealed that incubator centers have a positive and significant effect on the profitability of SMEs (= 0.775, t = 24.801, p <0.05). Furthermore, technological incubator centers have a positive and statistically significant effect on the competitiveness of SMEs (=0.775, t = 24.801, p <0.05). The only access to technological facilities had a positive effect on profitability and competitiveness(p <0.05). The study concludes that Technology Incubation Centres play a significant role in Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria in the area of profitability and competitiveness. It was recommended that TICs improve their strengths in the area of finance and their skills in collaboration and teamwork.

The rapid improvement of technology and software, combined with the interests of millennials, has led to a boom in the study and development of instructional video games in the 21st century. This boom has led to an increase in the number of millennials interested in these fields. This is due to the fact that games offer a variety of benefits, including the fact that they are pleasant, intriguing, and motivating. A great number of efforts have been started in order to implement this kind of technology into conventional as well as unconventional educational environments. Numerous studies have been conducted on the efficacy of game design; however, academics have paid less attention to other elements that may affect how games are viewed by students. When it comes to information systems, usability research seeks to quantify user experiences with the systems in order to maximise the systems' ease of use or user friendliness, whereas user acceptance research seeks to understand both ease of use and other factors that might affect the user's decision to use the information system. Both types of research are conducted in order to maximise the systems' ease of use or user friendliness. A research model was developed by adding two additional variables, learning opportunity (LO), and enjoyment, with the UTAUT serving as the basis for the construction of the model (Enj).

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most defining factor of the recent decade due to its extreme impact on the world and the people within it. The coronavirus caused a lot of problems at the personal level as well as the economic level. There have been massive losses of life and the governments across the world have been hit very badly and are yet to recover from this pandemic. The main problem that has led to the escalation of the pandemic has been the fact that it was unexpected. The lack of highly accurate prediction approaches led to the medical infrastructure not being able to handle the load of patients. Therefore, there is a need for a methodology that can predict the COVID patient count to adequately prepare the healthcare professionals in advance. The proposed methodology utilizes deep learning in the form of Convolutional Neural Networks and Long Short Term Memory to achieve the prediction of COVID-19 infection count. This approach will be elaborated further in the upcoming editions of this research.

Regardless of the fact that it is endowed with a variety of earth's assets, Nigeria is still regarded as among the world's most impoverished nations. Also, irrespective of the several programs launched to eradicate poverty, unemployment and poverty still continues to grow rapidly in Nigeria. On the other hand, entrepreneurial development has proven to be a veritable tool that can engender better socioeconomic well-being for business owners, create jobs and improve the standard of living of entrepreneurs. As we argue in this paper, embracing entrepreneurship is the solution to Nigeria's poverty. The population for this research consists of Small business owners in the commercial cities of Aba, and Onitsha Nigeria. Random sampling was used to select 400 business owners from the two cities. The study adopted the stratified-random sampling method to select the respondents. The instrument used for this study was a self-designed questionnaire. A 6-point Likert-type scale was used to find out how people felt about the subject under investigation, with answers ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree." The pilot study was done by the authors and Drawbridge Automation Ltd., which used 40 small businesses as part of the pilot scheme. The factor analysis test and Component analysis method of data extraction show the average variance extracted was greater than 0.5 for all the constructs. Reliability analysis was used to figure out how reliable the study variables were. Cronbach's alpha reliability values of 0.7 and above were found. It is expected that the tenet of assumption will prove beyond measure the effectiveness of eradicating povert through entrepreneurship in Nigeria

Edmodo technology has been identified as a social media educational platform that can be used for remote learning between instructors and students. Many studies have been carried out separately to determine Edmodo technological impact, advantages or disadvantages and effectiveness. However, few studies focussed on the factors such as ease of use, usefulness and effectiveness of Edmodo technology together on instructors. The objective of the study is to investigate the ease of use, usefulness and effectiveness of using Edmodo technology by instructors for development of post-primary education in Nigeria. A convenience sampling method was used to select 30 instructors (12 males and 18 females) from six different post – primary education in Ibadan North, Oyo state, Nigeria and a structured questionnaire that included age, year of experience, educational qualification and three researched questions on perception of usefulness, easy to use and effectiveness of Edmodo technology was designed. A descriptive statistics and chi-square at 0.05 significant level were used to analysis the collated data. The result shows that 66.7% instructors’ aged between 25 and 35 years, 33.3% aged between 35 and 45 years, 33.3 and 66.7% had less than five and above five years’ experience, respectively while 23.3, 56.7 and 20% instructors had OND/NCE, B.Sc./B.Ed. and M.Sc./PhD, respectively. The chi-square result shows that Edmodo technology is useful, easy to use and effective tool for development of post-primary education in Nigeria. The use of Edmodo technology in post-primary education should be encouraged within instructors for educational development in Nigeria.

The world’s constant combat towards global issues such as climate change, pollution, violence, security, terrorism, etc., all rooted from danger inflicted activities or interests has taken its toll accelerating our extinction. The list goes on and in just a snap, we were all consumed by the infamous COVID-19. This pneumonia-like disease has launched a global economic tsunami and disruption to our lives that was later on declared as a pandemic. With no available cure yet, there were few safety measures practiced globally namely social distancing, quarantine, and mass testing. In order to contain and avoid further spread of the virus, we were forced to adapt to the new normal. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has become an inseparable part of our daily lives ergo, the increase in PPE production, which is considered inevitable, leads to a surge in global plastic waste. COVID-19 waste has become a new form of pollution caused by mass production of single-use PPE with no structured waste management that floods our ocean beds. Manufacturers are now looking for alternatives to decrease plastic waste and to shift to a more sustainable and circular PPE ecosystem. Philippines, as the second top exporter of bananas in the world, would a banana pseudo-stem fiber be the most promising business venture opportunity at post-COVID stage?

Shopping has changed as a result of the influence of technology with most people preferring online shopping to the traditional physical store shopping. This trend took center stage in the past decade with many retail giants integrating the two approaches to achieve maximum benefit. This research aims to understand the comparison between online shopping & physical store shopping and consumer behavior towards these modes of shopping. This paper identifies and discusses that male population tend to shop more online shopping rather than physical shopping. For safety of payment more preference is given to shopping malls related to physical shopping. People are slowly going for online shopping but the majority mentality of people goes to physical shopping as it is having trust, feel and touch of the product. In our research we have found out that FlipKart and Jabong are the major players in the online retail and online shopping is here to stay and number of people favoring this mode is growing day by day.

The Burj Khalifa is known to be the tallest skyscraper ever built by man and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. At over 828 meters (2716.5 feet) and more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa is a multi-use development tower that includes a hotel, observation deck, restaurant, fitness and recreation club, and 37 floors of corporate offices. The project to build the Burj Khalifa tower is one of the most successful projects in the Middle East and in the world to date. It was planned by the Dubai government with the purpose of making the city a hub for finance, trade, and tourism. The project spanned for 6 years from 2004 to 2009 and was designed to be the centerpiece of the large scale Burj Khalifa Development that would rise into the sky to an unprecedented height. As listed in burjkhalifa.ae (2018), the completion of the tower has broken numerous world records such as Tallest Building in the World, Highest Number of Stories in the World, Highest Outdoor Observation Deck in the World, and many more. Agreed that that there are many iconic structures around the world, of which Dubai still plays host to most of them, the Burj Khalifa is not only the tallest and one of the most glamorous, with a lot to learn from its project design, process and implementation. The research work is designed to x-ray the entire project, its phases and the factors that led its successful completion.

The research paper explained the role and the importance of customer satisfaction and loyalty in detail. Customers are the link to an any level and type of business success. A business organization should focus on a large number of customers, for this customer satisfaction and loyalty should be incorporated along the long-term goals and other strategic dimensions without any failure. This paperis focusing onanalysing the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer relationship with service quality measures. The objective of this research is to study the concept of customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and its relationship. Moreover, this paper studies the factors that influence customer satisfaction and loyalty at large scale. This paper also analyses the factors that have impact on customer satisfaction and result in customer loyalty in multiple contexts. Recommendations on improving the service quality and getting customer retention are ultimately proposed by the author to do the business in more effective and efficient way. Customer satisfaction index (CSI)provides an economic indicator of the quality of economic output; calculation of the net present value of the company?s customer base as an asset over time; information for strategic business applications; a predictor of consumer spending & corporate earnings. In this paper the focus of research is customer satisfaction index as a base for new strategic marketing management implementation level to attain sustainability.

Today, ethics has an important place in all areas of life. Education is also a fundamental process of human life. Therefore, in education ethics has a very important and effective role. In order to be a good human, ethics should be placed as a course in educational system. In this paper, it will be discussed the ethics education in schools. In doing this, it will be also discussed why teaching ethics is important in education. Before discussing this issue, it is necessary to define what ethics is and what education is.

The present study aims to portray the real need of water to lead life. Today there are number of countries are unable to live a normal life without water facility. Water is actually the elixir of life. Everyone should use the water in limited according their need. Water may avail excess, but not in deficit. Gulf countries, some of the African countries appear as deserts and very difficult to lead a normal life without water. The place is not having water that is a desert. If the place is in water resource, that is a heaven for human survival. If human wants to realize water, he should be in the desert. The thirst for a man can be solved, but a thirst of animals, birds living in the forest is unsolved. Hence one can understand the need of water to survival. The title of the paper is taken from the greatest Tamil grandfather Thiruvalluvar?s ?Thirukural?. He has written about the water in one of his ?Kurals? (double lined poem). He further says, if water fails, functions of nature will sease and if rain fails, no men can walk in regular duty. Girish Karnad has found the need of water, so he has written the play ?The Fire and the Rain? to people realize one drop of water. Scientist can portray water is the formula of H2O. But ordinary man, common people, animals, birds, reptiles are depending upon the water and its usage. Karnad has immensely defines the fire sacrifice for rain in this play.