Asian Journal of Current Research

The imposed use of masks, hand washing and social distancing as icons of identity and adjustment options to Covid-19 safety guidelines have triggered conflict on preexisting culture among students, staff, and visitors in Alvan and allied academic institutions in this post-modern era. This article employed qualitative (discourse) analysis in its methodologies to explore people’s adjustment level to Covid-19 safety guidelines in Alvan community. Field data were generated from 14 respondents purposively sampled for study using structured interview and field observation. The results revealed that the level of compliances to Covid-19 guidelines in the Alvan community varied from very high in 2020 due to the sustained level of awareness/ supports created within and outside, moderate in 2021, to extremely low in 2022. Also, the post-modern adjustment across geographic spaces in Alvan community manifested through the use of face masks, nose masks, hand sanitizers, hand washing, and social distancing. The adjustment has enhanced people’s recognition of the diversities and heterogeneities of personal geographies, thereby bringing to the periphery the past deserted environmental consciousness, sanitation, personal hygiene, and social disorder in the Alvan community. This study concluded that the safety guidelines need to be strictly adhered to while people in the study area enjoy the free vaccine offered to them by government and donor agencies.

This paper combine the satisfaction from expectation disconfirmation(ED) model and customer regret under un-choice to find their conversion track on customer purchase decision. The conjoint probability model with satisfaction-regret are proposed to demonstrate the phoneme that customer will feel regret even when they feel satisfied. The empirical data from experiment design are used to estimate parameters and model calibration. A two steps process measurement is conducted to calculate the probability model we proposed. The results show good fitness for calibration and it can provide the managers for marketing application.

The enrolment of primary four and five pupils into Junior Secondary School one also known as Upper Basic 1 in the Nigerian educational system and even in some parts of the world is astronomically on the increase. This has reduced the number of years required for pupils to sit for cognitive and placement examinations.  When these children passed the examination, they are moved to Junior Secondary school, or high school not taking cognizance of the fact that making them take the jump without completing the scheme of work for those classes they jumped will affect their performance in the future. This jumping or skipping of classes is known as acceleration or automatic promotion. Above all, will the children with this poor foundation be able to compete favorably with others who spent the required six years?.

This study, therefore, investigated the effect of accelerated promotion on the academic performance of secondary school students in Benin City, Nigeria. The population consisted of primary four, five, and six, pupils admitted into the Junior Secondary School one (JSS 1) in the 2019/2020 academic session in Benin City. The sample size for the study was 600 students selected from primary four, and five pupils admitted into JSS1. The instrument for the study was a proforma designed by the researcher. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts, mean, standard deviation, one-way Analysis of Variance, and two-way Analysis of Variance at a 0.05 level of significance.  The findings that emerged from the study showed that the rate of primary four and five pupils admitted into Junior Secondary School one was high, the pupils in primary six that were admitted into Junior Secondary School one performed better than those who were admitted into primary four and five. It was also revealed that school ownership, parents’ socio-economic status, and qualification had a significant effect on primary four and five pupils’ admission into Junior Secondary School one. However, students’ gender and school location did not yield significant effects. It was therefore recommended that stakeholders in education should be sensitized on the danger of accelerated promotion of students from lower class to higher ones, and privately owned secondary schools should be monitored on the issue of accelerated promotion of pupils from primary four, five to Junior Secondary School one.

The study carried out an Assessment of `Residential Housing Infrastructure and Affordability along Idah Road, Anyigba, Kogi State. The objectives of the study were to identify the type of residential infrastructure, examine the characteristics of the residential housing infrastructure and to assess the affordability of the residential housing infrastructure in the study area. The study used systematic sampling techniques to administer 384 questionnaires. Frequency distribution tables and percentages were used to analyze the data. The study reveals that majority of the residential housing infrastructure 22.9% is room and palour. Also, the residential housing characteristics indicates that majority of residential housing infrastructure nature of floor furnishing is ceramic marble tile 79.4%, nature of walling material is normal bricks 69.2% and nature of roofing material is corrugated metal zinc sheets 63.0%. Furthermore, the study shows that majority of respondents 35.2% pay rents of #81,000 - # 100,000. Likewise, about 84.1% spent above 30% bench mark for housing affordability. Equally, majority of the respondents 48.6% agreed that the residential housing infrastructure is moderate and the general condition of the residential housing infrastructure in the study area is fair with 51.2%. The study recommends that they should be general upgrading of the residential housing infrastructure and that civil servant need to get other stream of income in other to be able to pay their rents as at when due.

This research was conducted during the period (2018 - 2020) at Hamah Agricultural Research Center in the west central of Syria, in the olive orchard planted with a local variety called “Kaisi”, in order to assess the impact of some organic practices in the productive traits of olive, especially that olive in Syria suffer from a decrease in productivity of unit area due to the lack of services provided to trees, or to repercussion of climate changes in the region.

The experimental orchard was divided into four plots: three of them were fertilized as organic treatments coding as follows: (T1: foliar application was applied with certified organic fertilizer its trade name “Amalgerol”, T2: we add fermented manure of free-bred sheep and green manure of vetch and barely plants, T3: in this plot, green manure and organic liquid fertilizer “Amalgerol” were added, whereas the forth plot T4: is a chemical treatment fertilized by NPK.

The productive indicators (one year shoot length, No. flowers, fruit set%, productivity kg/tree, fruit weight, pulp%, oil content%) were studied in the field and in the Olive Oil laboratory at General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, and a study of costs and profit was also conducted for each experimental plot to find out the most feasible treatment.

The results showed that the values productive indicators were lowest in the chemical plot, and the compound treatments (T2, T3) were superior significantly, the differences became clearer in the second season due to the cumulative effect of added fertilizers.

The feasibility study confirmed that the compound treatments achieved the highest profit, especially T2 in which fertilizer can be obtained from the by-products of farm or from nearby ones.

This study demonstrated the response of olive trees to agricultural practices compatible with the organic system, with an increase of oil yield which allow producing organic olive oil, thus achieving new marketing opportunities and higher profits.