Online harassment has become a pertinent issue across the globe. In Nigeria, there have been increasing cases of online harassment against women. This study examined the influence of online harassment on the self-disclosure of women using Facebook as an example. This study was anchored on the uses and gratification theory, which stipulates that individuals can use Facebook as a social media to harass and threaten women. The method adopted for this study was Survey and the instrument of data collection was questionnaire. The results indicated that show that more than 78% of the respondents believed that the practice of online harassment was on an increase on Facebook. Also, almost 22% of the respondents indicated that they were victims of online-harassment on Facebook. This study advocates that women should be seen as agents of social change in any modern society. The studies also recommend that media experts and non-governmental agents spearhead an agenda to mobilize the public to curb the menace of online harassment against women.
_The notion of administrative justice, its content, backgrounds of establishment and its main models were examined in the article. It was envisaged significance and functions which administrative justice performs for public administration. Different approaches of definition of administrative justice in both in common law countries and in civil law countries on the example of Ukraine were provided in the article. It was proposed a definition of administrative justice for both common law and civil law systems.
Green HRM is the necessity of the 21st century, and researchers have shown that the process of green human resource management enhances a firm\'s environmental performance. However, existing studies fail to explain how green human resource management initiatives allow a green organizational culture or how such culture impacts environmental performance and sustainability of the firm. This article examines the relationship between green human resource management practices, green organizational culture, and a firm\'s environmental performance. We conduct an extensive survey of employees in manufacturing and service firms. A covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) approach used to analyze the collected data and find out the results. We also used statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) to test the reliability of the model and performed a research factor analysis to identify the green organizational culture (GOC), green human resource management (GHRM) practices, and factors associated with the environmental performance (EP). Our findings suggest that Green HRM practices, including recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and appraisal, and rewards and compensation, contribute to the development of individuals in green organizational culture. We recommend that key facilitators of the green organizational culture include leadership emphasis, message credibility, peer involvement, and employee empowerment play an essential role in sustainable devolvement of firm. We also emphasize that EP plays a vital role in permanent improvement, cost savings and waste reduction in a secure and friendly environment. Our research contributes to the HRM theory in terms of the originality and usefulness of the study that individuals in the green organizational culture positively mediate the relationship between GHRM practices and environmental performance for the sustainable development of a firm.
The examination researches the impacts of cultural identity on entrepreneurial performance in the southern Nigeria. The examination connected a cross-sectional overview approach in choosing the SMEs in south-south district who reacted to an organized poll. The Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and structural equation modelling (SEM-PLS 3.2) were utilized in analyzing. The examinations show that there is an association between family structure, communal spirit and entrepreneurial performance. Nevertheless, there is a weak connection among individualism orientation, profitability and survival. The examination reasoned that SMEs could raise performance by embracing significant antecedents of cultural identity from successful cultural groups.
Background and objectives: Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) is a heterogeneous immunological disorder. Vitamin D has immune modulatory effects. The pleiotropic effects of vitamin D are exerted via vitamin D receptor (VDR), which genetic alterations could influence its functions. The changing life style could have affect Vitamin D level, that in conjunction with the genetic status of VDR could contribute in the pathogenesis of Pediatric ITP Materials and Methods: Serum 25(OH) D level was measured in 98 Pediatric and Adolescence ITP patients and 100 apparently healthy controls. Genetic polymorphisms of VDR gene ; FokI, BsmI ,ApaI and TaqI using specific restriction enzyme for each polymorphism. Results: Vitamin D deficiency was found not to be associated with Pediatric ITP. However, patients carring FokI homomutanat variant were found to have significantly lower Vitamin D levels.Patients who were carriers of BsmI G allele have nearly two folds higher risk of ITP. Conclusions: Vitamin D deficiency in the studied pediatric age was a dominant factor but,it was not associated with Pediatric ITP, with significant lower values in carries of FokI homomutant genotype. BsmI polymorphism of VDR could be considered as a molecular risk factor for ITP.
Mitigation of water shortage becomes a critical issue of the 21st century. Nowadays, water is considered as "blue gold". Effective irrigation scheduling of crops prerequisites an accurate estimation of crop water requirement. The purpose of irrigation is to replenish depleted water content for optimum plant growth. The accurate estimation of crop water requirement is of critical important parameter for designing the hydraulic structure and efficient water management. Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is considered an essential factor in determining the meticulous estimation of crop water requirement and effective irrigation scheduling. The application of soft computing approaches is widely adopted alternative tools in the field of hydrological and ecological modelling for producing supreme results. Various methods/approaches including physical, remote sensing, hydrological and soft computing have been applied in order to estimate precise ETo. This paper firstly summarizes the most commonly used methods/models for ETo estimation. Afterward, several methodologies reported in the literature that indicate superiority of soft computing approaches in diverse agro-climatic regions have been wisely reviewed. The global validity of soft computing approaches is also evaluated since last two decades. Further, an endeavor has been made to ponder the performance of different generally utilized techniques under various climatic conditions. The paper also deliberates the forthcoming research requires in soft computing of ETo estimation to establish this methodology as an alternative tool over the commonly existed methods.
In recent years, the durability of concrete has been the subject of a few research projects carried out by several scientific and technical centers. As a major cause of concrete degradation around the world, reinforcing steel corrosion requires our full attention. This article analyzes one of the phenomena at the origin of these disorders, namely the carbonation of concrete, and proposes some provisions to guard against it. The article is divided into two parts, the first describes the causes and consequences of the chemical process of carbonation as well as the means to protect it. The second deals with the influence factors on carbonation such as the minimum cement dosage, the type of cement, the water-cement ratio (W/C) and the reinforcement coating. Indeed, prismatic specimens (15 x 15 x 60 cm3) and cubic specimens (15 x 15 x 15 cm3) were made for different mixtures and with a W/C ratio of 0.50, 0.55 and 0.60. The prismatic specimens were subjected to a carbonation test, while the cubic specimens were used to determine the compressive strength, the corresponding density and the immersion water absorption.