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Online Engagements and
Nigerian Polity: Exploring Users Reactions to Election
Results on Facebook . by Morah Doris Ngozi, PhD , Sunny E.
Udeze, PhD and Ekwenchi, C. Ogochukwu, PhD . |
Facebook commonly accessed on
mobile remains the most popular and pervasive social media in
Nigeria. The rapid, swift development of media technology;
the global access to the Internet and the continuous online
presence on social media are fundamentally changing the
global political and governance experience. In the new media
age of political engagement, the issue is no longer whether
social media technologies help in political mobilization, but
how to use social media so that the users’ experience and
interest will be heightened to harness development. Hinged on
the Agenda Setting, Media Priming and Technological
Determinism theories, this study investigated how 384
residents in three communities of Enugu state – one of
Nigeria’s 36 political subdivisions - reacted to the election
results on Facebook plus how they were politically activated
to participate in the 2015 presidential elections with
regards to their social media presence and engagements. The
study also explored the new relationship between Facebook,
national development and election results as well as ways in
which newly emerging citizen reports wavered during the 2015
election periods vis a vis the traditional media reports and
updates in Enugu state. Findings show high use of Facebook on
mobile for political information though; most respondent’s
voting decisions were not influenced by social media
messages. |
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Women’s Empowerment in
Agriculture. by Zaria Amber and Sadia Fakhar. |
The paper computes the current
empowerment situation, the inclusion of women in decision
making and gender equality within the household in the
agriculture sector of Punjab, Pakistan. It follows an
estimation approach that is based on a multidimensional
poverty index methodology proposed by Alkire and Foster.
Women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEA Index)
methodology combines two corresponding sub-indices. The first
index is five domains of empowerment (5DE Index) and the
second is Gender equality index (GE Index). Five domains are
Production, Resources, Income, Leadership, and Time. After
analysis, the Overall WEA Index appraises that Leadership,
Income and Resources domains respectively add the most share
to the disempowerment of women. Men are not completely
empowered in all the five domains but relatively they are in
many advantages in many indicators than their partners.
Overall in Punjab women are relatively more empowered in the
time domain and production domain. The current situation of
women’s empowerment needs a further supportive policy or
program implications in the area for better consequences in
the future. |
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Crystallographic and
Frieze Groups Structures in Hablon. by Joefel T. Libo-on. |
The existing hablon –a handloom
textile of Hiligaynon and Karay-a speaker- is the
manifestation of the Ilonggos’ culture, tradition, as well as
a livelihood which brought Iloilo to its highlight in the
19th century and further named to be the Textile Capital of
the Philippines. This current study would like to classify
the crystallographic group and the frieze group patterns
present in the hablon designs. In addition, it attempted to
determine the mathematical concepts embodied in the process
of hablon. The ethnographic method was employed in this
study, specifically, immersion, fieldworks, and interviews to
understand the process in hablon. This study revealed that
the seven frieze group patterns were present in hablon
designs and ten for the crystallographic group. The
mathematical concepts embodied in the process of hablon were
harmonization of multiple processes for planning, practicing
parallelism of threads for warping, logical sequencing of the
direction for beaming, alternate injective and surjective
sets for heedling, consecutively injective and surjective
sets for reeding, establishing the limitation for tie-in,
able to estimate for spooling and creating waving pattern of
weft for weaving. |
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Relationship of Body
Mass Index with Explosive Strength of Hill and Plain Area
School Girls in Uttarakhand by Dr. Navneet Kumar |
Existing studies reporting on
the Explosive Strength of hill and plain area school girls.
This study was conducted on 400 school girls. The 200 girls
were plain and 200 from the hill area. The age group of girl
students was between 15 to 17 years. In the finding, the mean
value for the height of the hill and plain area girls was
(162.48±160). The Std. Deviation of a hill and plain area for
height (5.91±4.63). In the case of weight the mean value of
hill and plain area (54.79±46.28). In the case of weight Std.
Deviation of a hill and a plain area was (10.36±8.51). The
mean for the Explosive Strength of the hill and the plain
area was (1.18±1.08) and Std. deviation for hill and plain
(0.29±0.20). All the results on p˂0.05** level, the height
with Explosive Strength of hill is (r=-0.131) (P=0.065) and
with plain r value (-0.090) (P=0.206). In case weight with
Explosive Strength of hill r value (-0.039**) (P=0.00). For
plain area correlation coefficient (r=-0.150*) (P=0.033). In
the results, it was concluded that hill area girls were
better explosive Strength in comparison to hill area girls. |
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Relationship of Body
Mass Index with a Muscular Power (Right Hand) of School
Girls in Hill and plain areas of Uttarakhand State by Dr.
Navneet Kumar |
This study was conducted on the
Muscular power of the right hand of a hill and plain area
school girls. This study was conducted on 400 school girls.
The 200 girls were plain and 200 from the hill area. The age
group of girl students was between 15 to 17 years. In the
finding, the mean value for the height of the hill and plain
area girls was (162.48±160). The Std. Deviation of a hill and
plain area for height (5.91±4.63). In the case of weight the
mean value of hill and plain area (54.79±46.28). In the case
of weight Std. Deviation of a hill and the plain area was
(10.36±8.51). The mean for Muscular power of the right hand
of a hill and the plain area was (18.66±16.24) and Std.
deviation for hill and plain (3.98±4.76). All the results on
p˂0.05** level, the height with Muscular power of the right
hand of the hill is (r=0.08) (P=0.26) and with plain r value
(0.07) (P=0.02). In case weight with Muscular power of the
right hand of hill r value (0.12) (P=0.06), for the plain
area correlation coefficient is (r=0.01) (P=0.82). In the
results, it was concluded that hill area girls were better
Muscular power of right hand in comparison of hill area
girls. |
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