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Psychological Capital
(Psycap) in Nigeria: Adaptation of Luthan’s Postive
Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Pcq-24) for Nigerian
Samples by Callistus Chinwuba Ugwu , Egheosase Davies Ojeaga
Ogbeide ,and Anayo Chukwunonye Uhiara |
Positive psychological capital
(psycap) as personal resources has been linked with favorable
organizational outcomes such as employees’ job performance,
creativity and entrepreneurship, decreased workplace absence,
organizational commitment, job satisfaction, organizational
citizenship behavior etc. Given the utility of the psycap,
there is therefore the need to properly examine its
psychometric properties in order to have confidence in using
it for assessment in developing nations like Nigeria. The
present study therefore focused on adapting the Psychological
Capital Questionnaire 24 (PCQ-24) developed in USA by
Luthans, Youssef and Avolio (2007) to measure positive
psychological capital for Nigerian samples. Currently there
is paucity of research on the psychometric properties of the
PCQ-24 especially in non-Western societies like Nigeria. In
order to maximize the utility of the positive psychological
capital especially in non-Western societies like Nigeria, the
adaptation of the PCQ-24 which measures the construct is
necessary. Employees from two occupational groups in Nigeria
completed the survey questionnaire (total N = 205). Exploring
the psychometric properties of the scale shows that the
internal consistency of the subscales and the composite scale
were sufficiently high (α = .85). Also, the results of factor
analysis confirmed the original four-factor model which
indicates that the scores are best represented by the four
factors while the confirmatory factor analysis shows an
acceptable CFI/NNFI and RMSEA Index. The results in general,
suggest that the PCQ-24 is a reliable and valid instrument;
and therefore a good measure of psychological capital in
Nigeria. |
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Observation of Unusual
Cancer Zone in WorldHippo Using Mellin Change and Neural
Matrix Classifier by Dr. R.Jiva Ram & Dr. S.Sonesh Rao |
This paper proposes a new
approach to detect and diagnose the breast cancer tumor in
mammogram images and to detect breast tumor at the initial
stage or its symptom stages by identifying micro
calcification lesions. It employing the combination of Non
Subsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) for building the
classifiers. The micro calcification features are extracted
from the contourlet transforms coefficient of the image.
These results are used as an input of neural network and
these system classifies the mammogram image as normal or
abnormal and abnormal severity as benign or malignant. The
experiments demonstrate that our approach can provides better
performance in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive
predictive value, accuracy, classification, precision, and
recall. The evaluation of this system is carried on
Mammography Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. |
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The Socio & Economic Unfairness Traceable to
Smoking by Dr. Kailash Joshi |
Smoking is one of the most
searched risk factor. One of the aspect more analyzed respect
to smoking is the double impact over the economy like cause
of income and spends. The active consumption of tobacco and
cigarettes like main cause for the smoking existence carry to
social and economical asymmetries because of smoking like
socioeconomic inequity cause. Objective. To describe the main
characteristic that identifies to smoking like cause of
socioeconomic inequity. The socioeconomic inequity because of
smoking given by the cost caused by smoking it evidence in
two mains forms: in the assignation of resources to Public
Health and in the social redistribution of economical
resources because of labor productivity lose because of
smoking. |
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Indonesia Stock
Exchange: Result of Corporate Governance and its Inference
on Stock Return of Banking and other Listed Firms by Nocole
Polo1, Mila Watson, Ph.D2 |
Good Corporate Governance is a
major concern to support the operational activities of the
company. In the current development of Corporate Governance
Perception Index is the assessment result of the
implementation of Good Corporate Governance which has an
important role in increasing the trust of shareholders to the
company so can be expedited investment flow. This study aims
to analyze the effect of GCG dimension implementation using
CGPI consisting of selfassessment, documentation, paper
report, and observation on stock return through market value
of equity. The results showed that GCG dimension
implementation includes self-assessment; documentation, paper
report, and observation affect the market value of equity
both partially and simultaneously. Then the market value of
equity affects stock return. It can be concluded that GCG
dimension implementation affects stock return through market
value of equity both partially and simultaneously where
observation has dominant contribution followed by
documentation, self-assessment and paper reports. |
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Influence of Personal
Settlement on Fruitful Extension in the Gambia by Mr. Jessal
K. Amber ,Mr.Davis Cuze |
This paper adopt the error
correction model technique (VECM) to establish the long run
and short run relationship between personal received and
economic growth in the Gambia during the period 2003 to 2017.
In testing for the unit root test properties of time series
data, all variables are found to be stationary at first
differencing level under the Augmented Dickey Fuller test
(ADF). The results of VECM demonstrate the existence of a
positive and significant relationship between personal
remittances received and economic growth both in the long run
and short run. Personal remittances received act as a great
source of foreign exchange currency and also help in reducing
the level of poverty in the developing countries. Total
exports have a positive and significant impact on economic
growth in the long run but not in the short run. Total
imports have a negative and significant impact on economic
growth in the long run but in short run. We recommend that
the government should encourage the people who received
remittances to invest their money in business and also
agriculture especially in poultry and agro base processing.
It is also recommended that the government should create more
employment opportunities to minimize the number of our able
young men and women migrating to overseas in search for a
better living standard. |
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