Ife and Modakeke communities in South-western Nigeria have engaged in several years of communal conflicts. The conflicts have reconfigured both the economic systems and land use structure of the Central Business District of Ile-Ife. This study assessed the impact of the Ife/Modakeke crisis with emphasis on mapping the spatial realignment of land-use in the CBD and the rate of urbanization before and after the last conflict. Primary data were collected through field survey and oral interviews. The secondary data used included the base map and Land sat images of 1999 and 2015 for Ile-Ife. The period of 1999 and 2015 represents the period before and after the last conflict in 2000. GPS coordinates of some of the features were taken and plotted on the base-map extracted from the Google-Map, geo-referenced and classified into the existing land-use and land-cover types. The results showed that physical reconstructions, urbanization and new economic activities have been generally fast in Ife but relatively slow in Modakeke. The study also showed that 31% of the vegetated land-cover had been lost. The study concluded on the need for intra-communal peace for sustainable development of the two communities.

Demand forecasts form the basis of all supply chain planning. This research is focused on the simulation of cement manufacturing process to find out the production loss of machines that will affect the production quantity, and analyzing different methods of forecasting to compare their errors so that appropriate forecasting method is identified to predict correct demand. Depending on the forecasting, the simulation process applied can aid to estimate amount of raw materials require producing particular amount of cement to fulfil the demand including the losses in various steps of manufacturing process. Moreover, seasonality of demand is considered where the same demand will repeat at a particular period. The longer horizon forecasts, using Holt-Winters method, are usually less precise than the shorter horizon forecast; that is, long horizon forecasts have larger standard deviations. This investigation on overall demand could facilitate the comparison between the futures forecasted demand and the overall customer demand.

Cloud technology is playing a vital role in presentera to store and process massive amount of data, which leads to the convergence of cloud and big data. Cloud computing holds a tremendous promise of unlimited, on demand, elastic, computing and data storage resources. It has the potential to enhance business agility and productivity while enabling greater efficiencies and reducing costs. Big data environments require clusters of servers to support the tools that process the large volumes, high velocity, and varied formats of big data. It offers the promise of providing valuable insights that can create competitive advantage and also to explode new innovations. In this paper, I discussed how cloud and big data technologies are converged to improve quantitative decision making with minimal risk and to offer cost-effective delivery model for cloud-based big data analytics.

This paper advocates the extension of the resource based view (RBV) by proposing a new theory to understand the actual creation process of sustainable competitive advantage using a services firm in the motor industry in Kenya as a case, by integrating the activity-based view (ABV) with the RBV, through activity drivers, to generate a new theory: Activity-resourcebased view (ARBV). A qualitative case study of a consistently high performing firm in the motor services industry in Kenya was used to determine if the ARBV assists in creating a sustainable competitive advantage. The results from the in depth semi-structured qualitative case study shows that a firm in a motor service industry that adopts the new theory, ARBV, will generate and sustain a competitive advantage for itself.

Ownership and control of corporations under the watchful stewardship and surveillance of their boards have a significant influence in shaping corporate behavior and the equitable management of relationships between and among themselves, the society and communities they serve, and the governments of the countries they operate in.This paper tracks the movements in corporate ownership in India among its top companies indexed in BSE-100 in the first decade of the new millennium and moving forward in to the second.The paper is organized as follows: section I provides a brief overview of the development of the corporate format of business organizations; section II provides literature related to the topic and describes the sample and its categorization for analysis,; section III methodology; and section IV sets out the findings, interpretation and conclusions.

Now a day’s 3G mobile phone services are very essential to the telecommunication organizations to attract their customers. To provide better service, it is also necessary for these organizations to know customer satisfaction factors of 3G service. Therefore this study has been conducted to address the factors that will influence satisfaction of customer toward these services in Dhaka city. Seventeen potential customer satisfaction influencing factors are taken into consideration in this study. Data has been collected from both primary and secondary sources. Multiple regression and factor analysis have been conducted on the primarily collected data. The outcome of this paper is that network quality, price (overall charge), promotional offer, availability of customer service center, value added service and speed are most important factors influencing customer satisfaction.

Objectives: End stage renal failure patients, face multiple complications. One of them is the involvement of auditory system. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and degree of hearing loss in CKD patients on haemodialysis. Methods and Results: This cross sectional study was conducted from July 2014 to June2015.The subjects consist of 50 CKD patients on haemodialysis. The patients were from a tertiary care teaching hospital. The baseline characteristics and risk factors such as age, sex, exposure to ototoxic drugs, diabetes, hypertension, renal functions, electrolytes and duration of dialysis were recorded for all patients. The patients were evaluated for their hearing function using pure tone audiometry. Association of CKD patients with haemodialysis for hearing loss was compared with duration of dialysis. The prevalence of hearing loss in CKD patients on dialysis was found to be 42%. Prevalence of hearing loss based on duration of dialysis is 52.4% in patient who got HD < 1 month, 23.8. % who got HD for 1-6 months and 23.8% in >6 months group. Conclusion: Mild sensorineural hearing loss was seen to be relatively prevalent in patients with CKD on haemodialysis. Hearing loss was seen to be inversely associated with duration of dialysis.

Introduction: cutis laxa syndrome is a heterogeneous group of disorders rare elastic tissue; Characterized by skin laxity associated with systemic manifestations variables. Congénital or acquired. Case report: A 4-year-old chile, the last in a family of six, from a non-consanguineous marriage. No family related cases. For hospitalized pediatric pulmonary emphysema. Addressed to: ectropion of the right lower eyelid, entropion of left lower eyelid, the conjunctiva and hypertrophied hyperhémiées. anterior segment and background of normal eye. General examination evoked facies cutis laxa. precociously senile appearance; stretchable skin mobilizing easily malformation syndrome. In our patient the multiple organ damage and the lack of familial cases are in favor of an autosomal recessive form is poor prognosis. The patient died two weeks later in an array of respiratory failure. Discussion: Cutis laxa (CL), or elastolysis, is a rare, inherited or acquired connective tissue disorder in which the skin becomes inelastic and hangs loosely in folds. The clinical presentation and the mode of inheritance show considerable heterogeneity. cutis laxa is a heterogeneous group of disorders clinically and genetically. Characterized by skin laxity, skin stretch, Results from various tissue abnormalities or acquired conjonctif.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to verify if we had a good management of amblyopia and to study its clinical, therapeutic and prognostic. Methodology: This is a retrospective study made in the service of Ophthalmology at the hospital specialties Rabat between 2000 and 2010, involving 80 patients with functional amblyopia. Results and discussion: The average age of care was 4.68 years, the majority of children had bilateral amblyopia itself 67.5%, 48.8% of average depth. All of strabismus in our series is 91.3% and Strabismus anisometropia was the dominant etiology in our series. In multivariate analysis: only the lateage and depth of amblyopia were the factors affecting the gain line of sight.

This paper focuses on the opportunity cost of school feeding policy introduced by Kaduna State Governemnt. Kaduna State Public Primary School like any other States suffers huge set back in terms of Teachers welfare, infrastructural facilities, Teachers training and development, Teachers motivation among others. It is on this basis that the study critiqued government choice of feeding pupils against addressing key fundamental issues confronting the core objectives of educational institutions like primary schools in the State. The research solely relay on secondary sources of data while Victor Vroom’s expectancy theory of motivation was adopted as a framework of analysis. It was deduced from the reviewed literatures that, free feeding policy is counterproductive as it does not seems to be the immediate needs of Kaduna State Public Primary Schools, neither does it have the capacity to meet the core objectives of the policy. Thus, the paper see the policy as a way to achieve cheap political gain rather than an attempt to improve the educational standard of public Primary Schools in the State. It is in view of the above that the paper recommends to the State government that; Teachers welfare, training and development, infrastructural development should be the centre piece of Kaduna State education policy in Public Primary Schools.