The influence of external environmental factors on tourism market strategies in Africa
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, 2010
... It has been determined that ''management contract'' is th... more ... It has been determined that ''management contract'' is the most prevailing strategy that MNCs adopt in entering African markets. According to Ankomah (1991), managerial contract led the other strategies. ... Annals of Tourism Research, 12, 3147. Ankomah, PK (1991). ...
Purpose: The demand for accountants is increasing from time to time because of the increase in th... more Purpose: The demand for accountants is increasing from time to time because of the increase in the complexity of the business environment. Higher education institutions are responsible for producing well qualified and ethical accountant required by different organisations. Specifically, Technical and Vocational education and Training (TVET) colleges play a great role in training middle and lower level accountant in Ethiopia. However, academicians, practitioner and employers are raising concern on the excellence and significance of training given in TVET colleges. The objective of this research is to evaluate the education and training in accounting offered by public and private colleges in West Oromia region, Ethiopia. Research Methodology: This study used the cross-sectional survey to obtain the opinion of the trainee, trainers and college deans on how TVET in accounting program is performing about each of the components of CIPP model and identify the knowledge and skill gap as com...
International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business, 2016
The Arabic Optical Characters Recognition (AOCR) is one of the challenging recognition tasks nowa... more The Arabic Optical Characters Recognition (AOCR) is one of the challenging recognition tasks nowadays, as Arabic handwriting is cursive and contains many dots. Dots are a big challenge for Arabic recognizers, as writers sometimes connect them. Moreover, Dots are prone to be considered noise. This paper proposes a new divide and conquers based approach that tries to conquer dots problems. The novelty of the proposed approach is in its feature extraction method. The extracted features are used to train Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Feed-forward. The result is interesting and shows that this method should be further investigated.
International Journal of Human Resource Studies, 2016
Purpose-This study examines the attitude of academic staff in one higher education institution in... more Purpose-This study examines the attitude of academic staff in one higher education institution in Malaysia towards the implementation of total quality management principles, and how that affects the intention to implement total quality management in the university. It also highlights the impacts of several demographic variables on the implementation of total quality management in the university.Design/methodology/approach-The study used survey data drawn from 149 academic staff selected using stratified random sampling techniques. Regression analysis was used to analyse data.Finding-The findings demonstrate there is a positive significant correlation between attitude toward TQM implementation (customers and stakeholders, employee engagement and teamwork, continuous improvements and total degree of attitude) and the intention to practice TQM among sampled institution faculties.Concerning the correlation between the subjective norms and intention, the analysis manifests that there is ...
Microprocessor-based out-of-phase reclosing protection for nonutility generation units
PowerTech Budapest 99. Abstract Records. (Cat. No.99EX376)
Protection against an out of phase reconnection with the utility power network is one of the most... more Protection against an out of phase reconnection with the utility power network is one of the most important protection requirements for nonutility generation (NUG) units, since an out-of-phase reclosing will certainly damage the rotating equipment and windings of a generator. Power system test studies presented show that the power-based protection algorithm provides a very good performance for reliable detection of out-of-phase reclosing conditions
Looking backward, looking forward: African media studies and the question of power
Journal of African Media Studies, 2009
The emergence and development of communication and media studies in Africa is related to the cont... more The emergence and development of communication and media studies in Africa is related to the continent's colonial experience. Concerns with domination and the denial of their right to self-determination under European colonialism gingered Africans into establishing media institutions and to acquiring training to equip themselves with the professional competence and theoretical and methodological tools to enquire into the roles and relationship of modern media and society. To that extent, in the early days, concern with power relations and the desire to bring change played a role in the rise of communication and media studies. The replications of curricula from Western universities, as well as the training of many African scholars in the field, were major factors in the reproduction of some conservative scholarship in communication and media studies. The importation and imposition of social scientific models of development in the post-independence era resulted in the negative app...
The Basics Issues on the Security Information Management Practices in Organizational Environment
2011 International Conference on Management and Service Science, 2011
Page 1. The Basics Issues on the Security Information Management Practices in Organizational Envi... more Page 1. The Basics Issues on the Security Information Management Practices in Organizational Environment Rashad Yazdanifard1 Fuculty of Information and Communication Technology. Limkokwing University of Creative Technology. Cyberjaya, Malaysia ...
Project Management and Project Integration Management in Relationship with Service Marketing
2011 International Conference on Management and Service Science, 2011
Abstract The new economy made it necessary for researchers to focus on service marketing due to p... more Abstract The new economy made it necessary for researchers to focus on service marketing due to products not being successful on their own. Marketing techniques have changed from traditional which was based mostly on goods only, goods and services to services only ...
Quality of life assessment in patients undergoing reduced intensity conditioning allogeneic as compared to autologous transplantation: results of a prospective study
Bone Marrow Transplantation, 2004
The aim was to analyze quality-of-life (QOL) during the first year post transplant in 47 patients... more The aim was to analyze quality-of-life (QOL) during the first year post transplant in 47 patients undergoing reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) allotransplantation, and to compare these with a similar subgroup of patients receiving autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). We ...
Media development and the rise of communication studies in institutions of higher learning in Nig... more Media development and the rise of communication studies in institutions of higher learning in Nigeria are directly related in two ways. If expanding media institutions and practice stimulated the need for further professional training at the university level, media output also provoked concern and intellectual curiosity that universities needed to respond to or engage with. Thus, intellectuals in communication studies in Nigerian universities trained and produced the personnel required to work in the growing media sector. At the same time they kept a curious eye and searchlight on the role of media in society that the present article is addressing. This article addresses domination as a key concern of Nigerian media scholars between the 1970s and 1990s. It addresses the theoretical and empirical bases of the debate at the time and raises issues with the conspiratorial silence among Nigerian intellectuals on the subject in the period since 1990. The article will argue, among other th...
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