Palmyra Fiber as Additional Materials on Solid Concrete Brick of Aggregate
The use of waste as an additional material on the building work was increasingly actively developed, such as straw, styrofoam, bagasse, cow manure. The key drivers of the use of waste is the potential for waste is increasing, due to the depletion of non-renewable resources. Papyrus rod diameter 60 cm, length 30 meters, has a volume of 5,652m3 as well as the edges of the Rods that can be used for construction with a thickness of 3 cm has a volume 0,942m3, Pith and fiber volume content of the stem 4,71m3/rod, then in one rod, there are 2 to 3 bunches each fruit bunches yield as much as 20 to 30 items for one harvest, by weight of fruit fiber 101.2 gram / fruit, Fiber characteristics are round and smooth is expected to reduce cracks in solid concrete brick and also can reduce the use of sand. This study aims to determine the compressive strength of the composition of the additional material of Rods fiber content and Fiber of palmyra fruit with a percentage 3%, 6% and 9%, mixing ratio; 1 cement and 5 sand in the manufacture of solid concrete brick. Rods fiber content used the average Ø1,031mm with a tensile strength of single fiber 39,305N / cm and fruit fiber to an average value Ø0,40mm with a tensile strength of single fiber 33,691N / cm. Making test specimen with a length of 20cm, width 10cm and thick 8cm. The test results of compressive strength after 14 days with the lowest value at 3% of additional material combination of fiber content of 6% fiber stem and fruit by 70,384Kg/cm²with a water content of 15,254% In weight position 2,935Kg as well as the highest value on the combination of additional material 0% rods fiber content and 3% fruit fiber by 98,821Kg/cm² with a water content of 15,031% In weight position 3,058Kg. While N (without additional material) with a compressive strength below the average id 63,704Kg/cm2 with water content of 10,167 in weight position 3,072Kg. Research result of solid concrete brick with additional material of rods fiber content and palmyra fruit fiber was included on the type B70, the average value of the compressive strength of 78.57 Kg / cm² (SNI-03-1348-1989) with a water content of <25%.
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<![CDATA[Human Resource Management in the Europian Health System-A Comparative Approach ]]>
<![CDATA[Kanellopoulos, Dimitrios]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[This paper was done to highlight the trends in human resource management in health care system .In this paper weanalyze human resources management in health system in several European countries , we also analyze the trends in HumanResources management in the health system in European Union. Based on this analysis we have built an extrapolation inEuropean level, in perspective of standardization and improvement of social systems in different European countries. This paperaims to support HRM strategies in health sector and to assist the decisions of preparation, training and specialization ofdoctors.]]>
<![CDATA[Women’s Death as the Triumph in the Patriarchal World of Victorian Imagination ]]>
<![CDATA[Nikandam, Roya]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The novel chosen for this study are Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and the Mayor of Casterbridge (1889). Ichoose Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory as a way to understand the psyche or the unconscious of the Victorian construction ofgender. I will explore the process of the construction of the symbolic order. The close relation between Lacanian and feministtheories has led me to adopt the latter as well, as espoused by Julia Kristeva in order to investigate the interconnection of thesetheories through the manifestation of the woman’s role as goods. This manifestation refers to the ways in which the femalecharacters are victimized in the patriarchal order, which transforms them into commodities in what Lacan terms the symbolicmale-dominated setting. Therefore, it is crucial to study Kristeva’s discourse on the connection of women to abjection/death.Kristeva’s concept is considered under the postulation of Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories, to clarify the attempt of the patriarchalorder to repress the identities of women by depicting them as incomplete, and how they can contest this symbolic patriarchalview of the Victorian era. It will examine the paths that women have taken to overcome their oppressive exclusion that law andhow women can manifest their capability to threaten this order.]]>
<![CDATA[The Relationship Between Prior Knowledge and EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension: Cultural Knowledge in Focus ]]>
<![CDATA[Samian, Samira Hayati]]>;
<![CDATA[Dastjerdi, Hossein Vahid]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The present study investigated the impact of cultural familiarity on improving Iranian EFL learners’ listeningcomprehension. To do this, forty English language learners were selected at a private language institute in Isfahan based ontheir scores in FCE test and were randomly assigned to four groups of ten. A pre-test was administered to the four groups beforeany treatment. During the experiment, Group A had exposure to target culture texts. The participants in Group B had exposure tointernational target culture texts. The participants in Group C had exposure to source culture texts. The participants in Group Dhad only exposure to culture free texts. At the end of this treatment, the four groups took a post-test which was the same as pretestto see whether the treatment had any influence on their listening proficiency. The results of the post-test showed that thefour groups performed differently on the post-test, which indicated that greater familiarity with specific culturally-orientedlanguage listening material would improve Iranian EFL learners’ listening proficiency.]]>
<![CDATA[Albania Fiscal Policy: Designing Tax Policy by Given Circumstances ]]>
<![CDATA[Kadiu, Fatbardha]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[I will consider through this paper the fiscal policy that Albania has applied in the recent years. First I will give anoverview of macroeconomic situation in Albania. After that I will describe an overview of what tax system looks like in Albania, Iwill discuss the principle objective that Albania may attempt to achieve through the tax policy. I will conclude by considering thepolitical economy environment within which tax policy and economic growth must be designed and implemented. The aim of thepaper is to set out some of the basic problems facing tax policy in Albania and to outline some key element that should beconsidered in designing the best feasible tax structure for the particular circumstances at this particular time in Albania.]]>
<![CDATA[An Investigation of the Severity, Causes, Impact and Actions Against Counterfeiting and Smuggling in Nigeria ]]>
<![CDATA[Aregbeyen, Omo]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[This paper provides evidence-based information through survey that counterfeiting and smuggling are severeproblems to the manufacturing sector and the economy of Nigeria and with significant negative effects. The several factorsfacilitating the counterfeiting and smuggling activities and the subsisting initiatives against these illegal undertakings wereexplored. A major reason uncovered why these initiatives have not been effective in curtailing the menace of counterfeiting andsmuggling is the lack of coordination among stakeholders. The paper therefore concludes that to make success of the fightagainst counterfeiting and smuggling and their undesired effects on businesses and the economy requires an integratedapproach from stakeholders. Accordingly, a number of recommendations are proposed.]]>
<![CDATA[Journalism in the 21st Century World – Tackling Challenges ]]>
<![CDATA[Bora, Abhijit]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[With the advent of internet and digitized formats of communication, journalism has been going through a lot ofchallenges over the last about one-and-a-half decade in an unprecedented situation in which the very concepts of the disciplineare undergoing lot of changes. The challenges are manifold - from citizen journalism to free flow of information and newsthrough the internet, emergence of social networking sites (SNSs) to a large extent are posing newer aspects in front of the fieldof journalism. This paper would endeavour to examine how these developments are facilitating a better flow of informationdissemination to the masses and at the same time creating problems of ascertaining authenticity, journalistic practice without thebenefits of trained human resources. This analysis has been necessitated as the availability of so many virtual digital outletshave facilitated a better flow of information making it highly difficult to hoodwink the masses by deliberately passing on wronginformation. Yet, this uncontrolled flow of information at the same time is also posing serious questions of finding out whetherthe sources are ‘reliable' or not. Also, how much filtering we need to carry out to find out what portion of the information availablefrom the blogs and SNSs are authentic and free from propaganda or personal opinion about an event. Further, this paper wouldalso like to analyze how much of the censorship restrictions in place in many ‘developing nations' including India actually holdsgood in today's media situation where practically everything is freely available through the virtual communication mode.]]>
<![CDATA[An Assessment of the Effect of Remuneration on the Construction Performances of the Professionals in the Nigerian Building Industry ]]>
<![CDATA[Awolesi, J.A.B.]]>;
<![CDATA[Ayedun, C.A.]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[Construction professionals are the authors on one hand and co-executors of construction projects on the other,therefore, the quality of the services expected of them in construction project delivery as environmental resource manager is key.This paper investigated whether quality of service of the construction professionals in Nigeria is influenced by the level ofprofessional fees receivable for services rendered hence their resource management role. The determinants of service qualityare identified and their means of evaluation examined using the SERVQUAL; instrument used for measurement of the servicequality on responses got from a set of questionnaires administered on the construction stakeholders comprising of theconstruction clients on one hand and the construction professionals on the other hand in Lagos, Nigeria with a view to assessingthe perception of the clients regarding the quality of services being received from their construction professionals vis-a-visclients expectations. The study revealed that there was no significant relationship between the level of fees paid and the qualityof service rendered by the construction professionals as the result of the analysis of variance between service quality gap andthe various methods of fees paid is not reflected in the service quality of construction professionals.]]>
<![CDATA[Beneficial Application of Facilities Management In Hotel Organizations in South-Western Nigeria ]]>
<![CDATA[Durodola, Olufemi Daniel]]>;
<![CDATA[Ayedun, Caleb Abiodun]]>;
<![CDATA[Adedoyin, Akinjare Omolade]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[A survey was conducted of probabilistically determined fifty-seven hotels of various ‘stars’ in South-Western geopoliticalzone of Nigeria to investigate the beneficial applications of Facilities Management (FM) in the hotel organizations. Datawere collected from hotel organizations through their general managers, staff and customers with the aid of questionnaires. Acombination of stratified and cluster sampling techniques were used. Kothari’s formula was adopted to determine the appropriatesample size while descriptive statistics, ranking and Spearman Correlation analysis were carried out. It was found that aboutthirteen benefits were common to all the stakeholders (Hotel organizations, Facilities Managers and Customers) while additionalfive benefits were just peculiar to the Facilities Managers and Customers only. Curiously, the flaunted benefit of FM asinstrument of strategic management by literature was not reckoned with, thus affirming that receptivity to FM is at low-ebb in thehotel sector of Nigeria’s economy and a pointer to ignorance of FM as instrument of strategic change. The study recommendedthat International Facilities Management Association (Nigeria Group), hotel organizations and Governments at all levels inNigeria should be conscious of this development and put in place strategic actions to market and educate the gentries on theefficacy of FM in running hotel businesses.]]>
<![CDATA[Factors Influencing Marital Stability ]]>
<![CDATA[Maciver, J. E.]]>;
<![CDATA[Dimkpa, D. I.]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The marital institution is witnessing instability globally. This study investigated factors that influence marital stability asperceived by literate spouses in Yenagoa metropolis of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The population of this study consist of all literatemarried couples in Yenagoa metropolis. A total of 600 respondents were selected using the simple random sampling technique.The instrument titled “Factors Influencing Marital Stability Questionnaire†(FIMSQ) was used in collecting the relevant data, withPearson reliability (r) of 0.78. Mean scores were used to analyze the main research question; Analysis of variance (ANOVA) andthe t-test statistics were used to test four null hypotheses generated for the study. The findings showed that in order of ranking,social, behavioural, domestic, sexual, religious and financial factors influence marital stability. It further showed that there wereno significant differences among the respondents in their perception of factors influencing marital stability based on gender,religion, educational level and length of marriage. Thus, some recommendations were made in line with the findings.]]>
<![CDATA[Challenges of Domestic Water Consumption in Bhahumono Communities of Abi Local Government Area, Nigeria ]]>
<![CDATA[Otu, Judith E.]]>;
<![CDATA[Eja, Eja I.]]>;
<![CDATA[Agbor, Emmanuel A.]]>;
<![CDATA[Inyang, Ita O.]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The menace of domestic water consumption and quality in Bhahumono Communities, in Abi Local Government Areahas become of great concern especially among stakeholders saddle with the responsibility of maintaining quality water fordomestic and public uses. This paper examines the challenges of domestic water consumption in Bhahumono communities withspecific reference to sources of water supply, elemental contents of the difference sources, the rate of consumption and waterborne diseases in the area. Seventeen water points were sampled in selected location and the water samples collected wereanalyzed using Gallenkamp flame analyzer (model F.A. 330-9 and atomic absorption spectromometer (model PYE UNICAMSP29007. The tritrimetric and observatory methods were used to determined the physical properties of the water. The analysisshows that most sampled location had a high level of iron (fe) and cadmium (cd) which makes the not suitable for drinking asevidence in F-value of 4.62 (calculated) higher than critical value of 3.04 (calculated). A calculated value of 4.60 at 0.05significant level higher than critical value of 3.60 which indicate that distance was a major determinant factor affecting the qualityof water supply in Bhahumono communities. Therefore, adequate measures must be put in place if the menace of domesticwater quality in the area must be averted.]]>
