IOSR-JHSS   Volume-6 ~ Issue-2 ~ Nov-Dec-2012

Abstract:Classroom furniture design can affect educational activities because it is an important component in any classroom which helps in providing a comfortable and functional classroom environment for the children. Improper furniture design can result in defective posture which could affect children's academic performance. Hence it is essential to facilitate school furniture in accordance to the requirement of school children. To focus on the issue of furniture design the present study is conducted with an objective to identify the mismatch between the individual body dimensions of children and existing furniture in preschools. To carry out the objective, urban and rural preschools were selected randomly from the selected urban and rural areas of Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, India. The evaluation of the study was made by using the self made questionnaire standardized along with anthropometric checklist. The results of the study revealed mismatch between existing furniture (seat height, seat depth, and desk height) with children's body dimensions which may result in various health problems in later life.
Keywords: "Classroom furniture', 'Design compatibility', 'Urban and rural preschools'

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Abstract:This paper addresses the arguments for and against fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria as a political discourse in the Nigerian media. We examine the political discourse from the theoretical and methodological perspectives of discourse structure, linguistic function, and ideological bearing to determine how the groups on both sides of the divide exploit their social power to control the public discourse and by extension control the mind and actions of one another. The results of the analysis tend to show that the more powerful group represented by the Federal Government struggles to redefine the discursive structure of those properties of the social situation that are relevant for the production and comprehension of the fuel subsidy discourse to change the personal/social cognition and mental representations of fuel subsidy by Nigerians as one sure way of achieving the ultimate aim of reproducing dominance (power abuse) and hegemony. The less powerful group led by the organized labour combats this mind control onslaught by enlisting discursive strategies that provide information from which derive alternative knowledge and beliefs needed by the Nigerian masses to challenge the discourses and information about fuel subsidy, which they are exposed to by the Federal Government.
Keywords: CDA, fuel subsidy, mind control, Nigeria, power.

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Abstract:This paper examines the linguistic messages of the placards, which were displayed during the fuel subsidy removal protests in Nigeria. In this regard, we rely on the central notion of 'stratification' deriving from Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar. The data elicited from the online edition of Nigerian newspapers is subjected to analysis following the analytical procedure of context stratum. The results of the analysis indicate an emerging pattern of civil protest in Nigeria driven by the nation's brand of 'Arab Spring', or the 'Occupy Movement,' which interrogates a wide range of socioeconomic and political ills plaguing the Nigerian nation. Specifically, the protests transcended the narrow confines of hardships caused by the fuel subsidy removal to pertinent issues of official corruption, debilitating cost of governance, crash in public expectations of a Jonathan presidency, and recourse to people power-induced revolution. The paper concludes that the fuel subsidy removal protests provided a teachable moment, the invaluable lessons of which need not be lost on the PDP-led administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Keywords: context, fuel subsidy, linguistic message, Nigeria, placards, systemic-functional grammar

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Abstract:This paper examines the ingenious ways Nigerians use the English language with less integrity and in so doing, abuse the power of language, and consequently enthrone corruption through deception, manipulation, judgmental accusations, and lying. The grave implications, which this practised state art of what can be described as "verbal carpentry" portend for good governance in Nigeria and Africa by extension call for a radical departure from this depraved communication system. To give the power of the English language its rightful place in Nigeria, the political leaders should strive to use and appreciate the power of language with integrity, teach the power of articulate speech that captures the intensity of our feelings, without using it as a weapon of mass deception, and abhor the abuse of this power that violates and insults the sensibilities of the people.
Keywords: corruption, Nigeria, language, verbal carpentry

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Abstract:The progress of human civilization mainly depends on agriculture. In the rural areas particularly in India, for sustainable income and employment, people seems to be very much dependent on the degree of diversification of landuse towards cultivating various types of crops. Crop diversification refers to the raising of varieties of crops in a given area in a crop season. To achieve agricultural sustainability there must be crop diversification. The economy of Dibrugarh District of Assam located in the North Eastern corner of India, is mainly agrarian as most of the population are engaged in agriculture. But due to lack infrastructure and others, the agricultural sustainability in the study area is hindered. So to achieve agricultural sustainability, Dibrugarh district should go for crop diversification. In this context the present paper tries to study pattern of crop diversification and find out the nature of change in cropping pattern during the period lying between 1999-2000 and 2009-10 in Dibrugarh district. It also tries to find out the nature and magnitude of disparity in agriculture in the study area .The varying natural, socio-economic and cultural environments in Dibrugarh exercise a critical and differential effect on the adoption of modern farm technology which has resulted to disparity in agriculture.
Keywords-crop diversification, cropping pattern, disparities, sustainability, dibrugarh.

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Abstract:This paper proposes orthography for Àbèsàbèsì a language known as Akpes in Literature with ethnographic identity ibe. Agoyi 2008 proposed the name Àbèsàbèsì formed from the root morpheme Àbèsì 'we' because it is the only identity accepted by all the nine communities that speak variant of the language. All speakers of the language are aware of the endangered status of the language hence the need to have a writing system that will be used in writing literature in the language for teaching and documenting the language. In line with Nigeria National Policy on Education 2004section 4 subsection 19e states that the medium of instruction in the primary school shall be the language of the environment for the first three years. During this period, English shall be thought as a subject. To be able to implement this policy there is the need to propose orthography for the languages to assist speakers of minority languages who feel the need to safe their languages from death. Since the speakers are familiar with the Yoruba orthography, this paper proposes graphemes that are close to the Yoruba graphemes. The orthography is based mostly on a co-language orthography principle. The proposed graphemes ware tested with literate speakers of the language. In all 37 graphemes are proposed for the consonants, vowels and tone phonemes the various dialects attest.
Keywords: Àbèsàbèsì multi-dialectal orthography, consonants, vowels, Nasalized vowels, tone, word,

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Abstract:The study empirically examined the impact of leadership and corporate governance in Nigeria. The paper gather information through structured questionnaire and this was analysed through simple percentage, table for tabular analysis, and the spearman's rank correlation coefficient for the testing of formulated hypothesis. The results revealed that effective leadership and good corporate governance determines the success of organisation. In the analysis, we found out that corporate governance policy has really helped Nigerian entrepreneur to grow financially. Based on our findings, effective leadership and good corporate governance was a solution to global financial crises, organisation problems and the right policy that enhances increased productivity and economic growth in Nigeria.
Keywords: Corporate Governance, leadership, entrepreneur, productivity

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Abstract:This paper discusses divine revelation in its various forms. The occasional conflict between some Christians and adherents of African Traditional Religion (ATR) in Yorubaland, Nigeria, was the motivation. Some large Christian population sometimes tried to prevent the adherents of Yoruba traditional religion from celebrating some of their festivals. One had attributed the conflicts to Christian absolutism and triumphalism. The impression seemed to be rife that ATR was not a revealed religion or that it did not enjoy divine revelation as applied to Christianity. It was discovered that in the view of many scholars, God is impartial, and no culture or religion has a monopoly of divine revelation. The Yoruba example also revealed that although the people did not know such biblical personalities as Abraham, Moses, David, and Jesus, they have corresponding names in their history. In place of the Bible, many scholars refer to the obviously resourceful Africa's "Oral Traditions", and even Africa's "oral literature". Christians in Yorubaland, and indeed all human beings, are, therefore, enjoined to cultivate humility, mutual respect, and brotherly sharing of knowledge and experience, since God is said to be impartial, and He alone is omniscient.

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