<abstract> <p>The effect of pipeline vandalism among other disasters has been drastic on the Nigerian economy. The research aims to examine level awareness stakeholders immediate and remote causes in Nigeria. This involved comprehensive review literature along with semi-structured open-ended interviews (as a pilot study) enrich strengthen context subsequently follow-up questionnaire...

The hybrid cloud ERP system is widely used in automobile companies Thailand. It a popular and effective strategic tool that aids boosting organization’s competitiveness. However, because of their complexity, high risk, resource requirements, investment costs, projects still have significant failure rate. acknowledged by academics practitioners alike to be an extremely challenging endeavour. Thi...

We agree with A’Court and colleagues that the consequence of diagnosing greater numbers of people with other chronic conditions in addition to hypertension may be associated with increasing difficulties in providing access.1 The argument is that as more patients with chronic disease require regular management, the demand for appointments with GPs and practice nurses increases. This is important...

The expectancy value theory (EVT) has been used in many studies to predict the motivation processes of individuals with regard how they think and act particular ways. Critical are three elements EVT, namely cognition (expectancy), instrumentality (instrumentality) valence. This study therefore seeks establish whether EVT could be explain lecturers apply culturally responsive pedagogies (CRPs) t...

the present study examined the factor structure of the university of tehran english proficiency test (utept) that aims to examine test takers’ knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. a structural equation modelling (sem) approach was used to analyse the responses of participants (n= 850) to a 2010 version of the test.  a higher-order model was postulated to test if the unde...

The metaSEM package provides functions to conduct univariate, multivariate, and three-level meta-analyses using a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach via the OpenMx package in the R statistical platform. It also implements the two-stage SEM approach to conducting fixed- and random-effects meta-analytic SEM on correlation or covariance matrices. This paper briefly outlines the theories a...

Supply chain management (SCM) has become an effective tool now a day to survive in this competitive world. Organizations do their best to improve performance by adopting better supply chain (SC) performance indicators. In this paper 19 key performance indicators (KPI) were identified based on strong literature support in consultation of practitioners and consultants in the field of non-livestoc...

Industri beton berperan penting pada proses konstruksi sebagai pemasok material beton. Peranan industri mempunyai dampak buruk terhadap lingkungan. Penerapan konsep green, masalah yang timbul adalah konsekuensi kenaikan biaya green retrofitting dikeluarkan oleh pemangku kepentingan agar atau bangunan menjadi ramah lingkungan, beton, value engineering(VE) merupakan komponen utama berpengaruh nya...