Past Issue

Corruption impedes investment and economic growth by increasing enterprises’ cost of doing business. This cost is often transferred to consumers through higher prices or lower quality of goods and services, which affect negatively the private sector’s labour market, efficiency, competition, innovation and general output. The mainimpetus of this paper is to investigate the linkage between corruption and economic growth in Zimbabwe. The study relies on a quantitative methodology by employing a multivariate regression equation using annual time series data.

The study has attempted to analyse the suggestions expressed by the tribal farmers for better utilization of indigenous agricultural practices in Pachaimalai hills. This study was conducted in Pachaimalai hills of Trichy District of Tamilnadu. It occupies a prominent position in tribal population of Tamilnadu. A sample size of hundred respondents was selected on the basis of proportionate random sampling techniques. Data were collected by interviewing the respondents personally with the help of pre-tested and well-structured interview schedule.

This study aimed to analyze the effect of the Banking Customer Relationship Management Quality (Quality CRM) and Information Technology (IT) Performance Quality against both partially Brand Image and simultaneously at PT. Bank Mandiri Jakarta Bintaro Jaya Unit 1. Unit analysis of micro credit borrowers study, the sample population of 558 and 89 customers with slovin techniques. The method of analysis with quantitative analysis.

This study was designed to explore the instructional potential of a Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) program in the teaching of probability concepts to form three mathematics curriculum in selected secondary schools in Kenya.  Specifically, the study reported herein sought to determine whether there was a statistically significant difference by gender on students exposed to the computer based instruction in terms of the students’ achievement, their perception of the learning environment, and their attitudes and motivation during the instructional process in the area of probability.

The study aimed to determine the performance of twelve thousand six hundred twenty-six(12,626) second year students of selected high schools in the Division of Zambales in the National, Regional and Division Achievement Tests in relation to academic performance in Mathematics during the school year 2005-2006 to 2009-2010.The descriptive research design was used in the documentary analysis of the National, Regional, and Division Achievement Test results, and the Academic Grades obtained from the Division Office of the Department of Education.

This WSN applications for civil and environmental engineering first of all deals with monitoring condition of the objects created by human, as well as the environmental objects. For a researcher these applications are interesting first of all because of a great number of various types of sensors used, and also because of variety of places where it is necessary to implement a network.

In vitro experiments on chromium, copper, lead and zinc heavy metals bioaccumulation using duck weed Lemna polyrrhiza L. (Lemnaceae) was conducted with 5, 10 and 20 mg/100 ml concentrations for a period of 20 days. The SEM-EDX results revealed the bioaccumulation of lead as high as 20.91% followed by copper 9.71%, zinc 5.66% and chromium 1.86%. There was a change in the pH of the medium, the bioaccumulation of metals were confirmed by FTIR analysis involved in the binding characteristics of alcoholic, phenolic, amino and amides groups in the biomass.

Introduction: The aim of this paper is to present new approach for nicotine dependence treatment with Cytisine (Tabex) and to compare it to the dosage regimen, prescribed by the manufacturer.

It is common to discover that many patients admitted into the hospital for certain pathological or physiological disorders would end up manifesting one infectious disorder or another. Nosocomial infection is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and medical cost. This study was aimed at assessing knowledge and practice of standard infection control among health care providers in secondary health facility in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey.

Background: Access to basic health services of acceptable quality is still denied to many of the world’s poorest people, Identification or application procedure and screening criteria by local kebele administrator for free health services provision at public health facilities are not transparent.
Objective: The aim of the study was to assess free health service delivery system and the extent to which strict criteria are followed in granting free health services to the eligible poor in Dilla town, South Ethiopia.