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[Short and Long Run Relationship Between Value of Total Stock Exchange Transaction and Key Macroeconomic Variables in Nigeria. A Cointegration Approach ]]>
<![CDATA[Akpan, Sunday B.]]>;
<![CDATA[Inya-Agha, Chukwu E.]]>;
<![CDATA[Aya, Ebirigor A.]]>;
<![CDATA[Udo, Friday J.]]>;
<![CDATA[Akpan, Obot D.]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The study analyzed the short run and long run influenced of some macroeconomic variables on ttotal stocktransactions in the Nigerian stock exchange market. Unit root test (Augmented Dicker Fuller test) conducted on the data showsthat all variables are integrated of order one. The short-run and long-run elasticities of total stock transaction with respect tosome key macro-economic variables were determined using the techniques of co-integration and error correction estimation.The empirical results reveal that coefficients of industrial capacity utilization rate, domestic savings, external reserves, total valueof import and lending rate of commercial Banks are significant in the long run. Whereas the coefficients of external debt,domestic savings, total import, per capita real GDP; industrial capacity utilization and index of agricultural production weresignificant in the short run. The result calls for a policy package that should focused on stabilization of the real and monetarypolicy variables in the Nigerian economy. Also, institutional and operational reforms in the country’s capital market are inevitablein a bit to increase the stock exchange market’s efficiency.]]>
<![CDATA[Edgar Lawrence Doctorow; a Political Novelist? ]]>
<![CDATA[Marandi, Seyyed Mohammad]]>;
<![CDATA[Ramin, Zohreh]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[Edgar Lawrence Doctorow is generally regarded as a postmodern historical novelist who mingles the marvelous withthe real. His novels are mainly set in the American past. The novels are greatly indebted to historical events and personages butengagement with documentary history is not Doctorow's prime obsession. Critics are at odds in deciding upon the paradox inDoctorow's novels; whether he is a politically minded novelist or an aesthetically obsessed one. Acknowledging the strongpolitical tendencies in Doctorow's novels, many critics claim his enthusiasm and passion for the act of writing finally outweighsthe political inclination of the novels. Identifying Historigraphic metafiction as Doctorow's favorite and repeated technique invirtually all his novels, the present reading wishes to observe the novellas from a contrasting perspective.]]>
<![CDATA[Topicilazation and Focalization in Persian ]]>
<![CDATA[Rezai, Vali]]>;
<![CDATA[Youhanaee, Manijeh]]>;
<![CDATA[Ghasemi, Hasan]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[This article provides a syntactic analysis of Topicalization and Focalization processes in Persian within the frameworkof minimalist syntax. According to Haegeman and Gueron’s Split CP Hypothesis (1999), Topicalization is a recursive processand can apply to more than one constituent in a sentence, while Focalization is unique and therefore appears in a singleprojection. In this paper we argue that in Persian more than one constituent might undergo focalization. This implies thatFocalization cannot be unique. Thus, we first propose two Focal Phrases in the periphery position of a clause. The specifierpositions of the two Focal phrases are the landing sites of the focused constituents. Then we suggest the relative position offocal phrases with topic phrases in Persian. It will be concluded that the first focus phrase appears immediately after thecomplementizer phrase before the first recursive topic phrase followed by the second focus phrase and recursive topic phraserespectively.]]>
<![CDATA[Disposition to Organizational Learning: A Survey of Selected Construction Industry Organisations in Lagos State, Nigeria ]]>
<![CDATA[Dada, Martin Oloruntobi]]>;
<![CDATA[Akpadiaha, Ben]]>;
<![CDATA[Ologunagba, Modupe Mulikat]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The construction industry and her projects are replete with potentials for learning at both the organisational andproject levels. Yet the industry often wastes this opportunity. This research was embarked upon to investigate the disposition ofconstruction industry participants to the use of organisational learning (OL) in the Nigerian construction industry. Data wascollected using a structured questionnaire administered purposively on sixty construction industry organisations operating inLagos, Nigeria. The collected data was subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. The findings indicate thatmajority of respondents agreed that ‘Managers ask probing questions and invite input from others in discussions’ and also‘Managers listen attentively’. The study results further indicate that there is no significant difference in disposition toorganizational learning between contracting, consulting, and client organizations within the Nigerian Construction Industry. Thisstudy recommends that a more detailed investigation be made of those items of measure where respondents indicatedisagreements to understand better the underlying phenomena. Measures indicating strong indices of agreement can be furtherexplored for improvement.]]>
<![CDATA[Don’t Dampen the Laughter: Difficulties in Translating Comedies ]]>
<![CDATA[Papa, Mirela]]>;
<![CDATA[Lama, Irena]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The presence of humor in audiovisual text as it is by the dialectal variants, the cultural references etc., implies achallenge for the translator, and we need to admit, it is not an easy challenge. As long as more elements are characterizedculturally, more it becomes almost impossible for the translator to recreate the same comic effects on the original film, as thenew spectator of the metatext who may not share the cultural environment and the cultural baggage of the prototext. This articlewill analyse problems encountered in the translation of Italian comedies into the Albanian language. We will see concretely howthe dialectal variants, the referents of language, the different registers of speech used to create various shades of humor inaudiovisual texts are difficult for the translator as a mediator between two cultures.]]>
<![CDATA[The Effect of Lingua Franca (Persian) on Minority Languages (Kurdish) ]]>
<![CDATA[Saiedi, Mahnaz]]>;
<![CDATA[Rezvani, Payman]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The present study aims to consider the effect of lingua franca a sample of which is Persian upon minority languages asKurdish which is spoken in a place where both Azari and Kurd-ish people have to communicate but by means of a third language(Persian) .the lexicon ,syntactical and phonological features of Kurdish in the local areas based on gathered data have beenstudied. The data gathered by questionnaire and recorded sounds along with in-terview with the local people, in particular literateones who had the greatest exposure to the third language (lingua franca). The researcher could find significant changes whichwere traced to the impact of Persian as lingua franca in the region. This research is an innovation in its own kind and helps thosewho follow lingua franca and language changes and try to find any relations of which with linguistic purposes as well as languageteaching.]]>
<![CDATA[Objective Correlatives of City and Places in T.S. Eliot’s the Waste Land ]]>
<![CDATA[Nasi, Manjola]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[Although T.S. Eliot is primarily appreciated as a poet, his contribution in the field of literary criticism and literarytheoretical discussion are greatly important. The interrelationship between his criticism and his poetic work is marked by manyconcepts that are materialized in his artistic creation. The objective correlative is a perfect example of this phenomenon, since itis Eliot’s original notion and also because it has been applied to a large extent in his poems. This article aims to investigate theobjective correlative from a theoretical point of view and in comparison to other theoretical concepts explicated in Eliot’s criticalessays. In addition, the article addresses the use of this literary device in the capacity of urban life, urban ambiance and urbansites in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, where metropolitan elements provide not merely a setting for the development of thecontent, but also one of the most recurrently encountered motifs. Eliot’s use of metropolitan details in this poem contributes inthe portrayal of modern life by supplying a composite of emotional, logical and sensory reactions, compatible with his descriptionof the objective correlative, which in turn enables a unified experiencing of the poem.]]>
<![CDATA[The Impact of Person Job Fit on Job Satisfaction and its Subsequent Impact on Employees Performance ]]>
<![CDATA[Iqbal, Muhammad Tahir]]>;
<![CDATA[Latif, Waqas]]>;
<![CDATA[Naseer, Wahab]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[Humans Resource is considered to be a vital source of growth for the companies, for best utilization of humanresource it is indispensible to align the knowledge, skills and abilities possessed by the employees with the assigned roles in theorganization. The present study reveals the relationship between person job fit, job satisfaction and job performance. This studystudied and analyzed the responses of 251 respondents from various universities in twin cities i.e. Islamabad and Rawalpindi.Results indicated that there exists relationship between person job fit and job satisfaction and job performance and the result ispositive. While the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance is also positive.]]>
<![CDATA[Representation of the East in Western Literature (A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Travelogue Eothen) ]]>
<![CDATA[Salahshour, Neda]]>;
<![CDATA[Salahshour, Farzad]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[Representation in discourse is a constructed practice; that is, it is not neutral. Events and ideas are not transmittedneutrally as they were, because they have to pass through a medium with its own ideological filters. Critical discourse analysis(CDA) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequalityare enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. Edward Said’s book Orientalism (1976)focuses on how the East is represented by the West. He believes that during the process of representation, the Orient is alsoremade. He mentions a number of writers who he believes depict distorted images of the East in order to satiate their colonizingends among whom is Kingslake and his travel narrative Eothen (1844). Twenty seven pages from this travelogue have beentaken as the data of this research. The purpose was to reveal how the writer has tried to create a biased image of the Orient.The method applied was van Dijk’s ideological square which is used to reveal forms of positive self and negative other. Uponextracting these biased images, the rhetorical techniques used to create them were identified. Interestingly the findings suggestthat the travelogue was saturated with creations of binary oppositions revealing a biased and inaccurate description of the East.]]>
<![CDATA[Vector Error Correction Modelling of the Composition of Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate in Nigeria ]]>
<![CDATA[Oriavwote, Victor E.]]>;
<![CDATA[Omojimite, Ben U.]]>
<![CDATA[ Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): May 2012 ]]>
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<![CDATA[The main objective of this study has been to empirically investigate the relationship between government expenditureand the Real Exchange Rate in Nigeria . Using data covering 1970 to 2010, the Vector Error Correction and Cointegration testsresults established a long run relationship among the components of government expenditure and the Real Exchange Rate. Theresult showed that government investment has delivered more productivity gains in the non-tradable sector than in the tradablesector, while an increase in government consumption increased the relative demand for non-tradable. The government shouldthus shift attention to the expansion of the tradable sector.]]>
