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Interrogating the Role of Libraries in the Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic: The Nigerian Perspective

  • Adigun, Ganiyu Ojo;Okuonghae, Omorodion;Mamudu, Philomina Abieyuwa;Suleiman, Idris;Haliru, Ramatu Abdulrasheed
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.47-64
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    • 2020
  • The study investigated the role of libraries in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Six research objectives were raised to guide the conduct of the study. The survey type of the descriptive research design was employed. The population of the study comprised of 139 selected librarians in Nigeria. The complete enumerative sampling technique was adopted to study the entire 139 librarians. The instrument for data collection was an online survey questionnaire designed by the researchers using SurveyMonkey and administered to the respondents via the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) WhatsApp group and the NLA Google group. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study revealed that among the services delivered by Nigerian libraries amidst the global pandemic are COVID-19 awareness and sensitization creation, provision of digital contents to patron, organizing online streaming programs and connecting patrons/citizens to accurate and reliable data on COVID-19 cases around the world. The study further revealed that these services are delivered frequently despite the low level of Nigerian libraries' preparedness for global pandemic. The study concluded that, Nigerian libraries, through their services, are potent weapon for promoting positive change, development, orientation, and re-orientation in the society. By creating COVID-19 awareness/sensitization (especially in rural areas), libraries are able to contribute significantly to the fight against the pandemic.

Robust Orientation Estimation Algorithm of Fingerprint Images (노이즈에 강인한 지문 융선의 방향 추출 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon;Lee, Chul-Han;Choi, Kyoung-Taek;Kim, Jai-Hie
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2008
  • Ridge orientations of fingerprint image are crucial informations in many parts of fingerprint recognition such as enhancement, matching and classification. Therefore it is essential to extract the ridge orientations of image accurately because it directly affects the performance of the system. The two main properties of ridge orientation are 1) global characteristic(gradual change in whole part of fingerprint) and 2) local characteristic(abrupt change around core and delta points). When we only consider the local characteristic, estimated ridge orientations are well around singular points but not robust to noise. When the global characteristic is only considered, to estimate ridge orientation is robust to noise but cannot represent the orientation around singular points. In this paper, we propose a novel method for estimating ridge orientation which represents local characteristic specifically as well as be robust to noise. We reduce the noise caused by scar using iterative outlier rejection. We apply adaptive measurement resolution in each fingerprint area to estimate the ridge orientation around singular points accurately. We evaluate the performance of proposed method using synthetic fingerprint and FVC 2002 DB. We compare the accuracy of ridge orientation. The performance of fingerprint authentication system is evaluated using FVC 2002 DB.

The Effect of Hotel Employee's Service Orientation on Service Performance, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment (호텔기업 종업원의 서비스지향성이 서비스 성과, 직무만족과 조직몰입에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Dae-Hwan
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.1-22
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    • 2007
  • Customer satisfaction is important in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace. This implies that customer service is a critical factor for many organizations. In service encounter context, customer satisfaction is affected by employees' attitudes and behaviors. Accordingly, service firms have been focusing on selecting high quality of service employees, which resulted the ability to identify and select quality service- or customer- oriented employees to become critical for an organization's success. It was suggested that customer service orientation links to performance and subsequent organizational revenue. Moreover, it was found that service encounter failures were among the major reasons for customers' service switch. Therefore, the selection of customer service oriented employees is a key factor in establishing customer service - a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. However, the measurement of employee service orientation is more confusing than that of definitive answers. The difficulty of measuring service orientation is attributed to the use of broad versus narrow measures of personality. Advocates for the broad perspective prefer using basic personality constructs, such as the Big Five personality traits. On the contrary, the latter prefer a construct-oriented approach of personality research that provides a better measure of job performance because it requires the specification of the relationship of the personality traits with multiple dimensions of job performance. The customer service orientation was defined as "a set of basic individual predispositions and an inclination to provide service, to be courteous and to be helpful in dealing with customers and associates." Similarly, it is a fact that the Big five personality traits are predictors of customer orientation, and employee's self- and supervisor performance. They propose that basic personality traits may be too far removed from focal service behaviors to be able to predict specific service behaviors (customer orientation) and service worker performance. Also, customer orientation is defined as "an employee's tendency or predisposition to meet customer needs in an on-the-job context." This means that people who have job-relevant personality traits such as concern, empathy, and conscientiousness will be more adept at customer service than people who do not possess these traits. However, little attention has been given to the exploration of the service orientation of customer-contact employees who play a key role in creating satisfactory service encounters in the hospitality industry except for Kim, McCahon, & Miller (2003)'s study, especially in family restaurants context. Thus, the purposes of this study are to examine and validate the customer service orientation of customer-contact employees using the instrument developed by Donavan (1999) in Korean family restaurants, because the scale was developed to measure the personality traits related job behaviors. And this study explores the relationships between customer service orientation, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and self service performance using structural equation modeling (SEM). And this study explores the relationships between customer service orientation, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and self service performance using structural equation modeling (SEM). For these purposes the author developed several hypotheses as follows: H1: Employee's service orientation is associated with service performance. H2: Employee's service orientation is positively associated with job satisfaction. H3: Employee's service orientation is positively associated with organizational commitment. H4: Service performance is positively associated with job satisfaction. H5: Service performance is positively associated with organizational commitment. H6: Job satisfaction is negatively associated with organizational commitment. The data were collected from 278 employees in 5 deluxe hotels located in Pusan, Korea. The researcher contacted the manager of the restaurants, and managers consented to administer surveys to their employees. The survey was executed during one month period in the October of 2007. The data were analyzed with structural equation modeling with LISREL 8.7 W. The result of the overall model analysis appeared as follows: $X^2$=122.638 (p = 0.00), df=59, GFI=.936, AGFI=.901, NFI=.948, CFI=.971, RMSEA=.0625. Since the result of the overall model analysis demonstrated a good fit, we could further analyze our data. The findings can be summarized as follows: First, the greater the employee service orientation, the greater the service performance. Second, the greater the employee service orientation, the greater the job satisfaction. Third, the greater the employee service orientation, the greater the organizational commitment. Fourth, the greater the service performance, the greater the job satisfaction. Fifth, the greater the service performance, the greater the organizational commitment. Finally, the greater the job satisfaction, the greater the organizational commitment. Seventh, the greater the customer satisfaction, the greater the customer loyalty.

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Effect of Small ICT Businesses' Learning Organization Participants' Self-Leadership on Their Job Satisfaction, Through Learning Orientation and Leader-Member Exchange (중소 ICT 기업 학습조직 참여자의 셀프리더십이 학습지향성과 LMX를 통하여 직무만족에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Nanhwan;Hwang, Changyu
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.103-120
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    • 2018
  • Global conglomerates in the late 2010s are seeking changes from the existing method of financial growth into that of sustainable growth, as they are facing the age of 4th industrial revolution. In preparation for this change of the times and to stay competitive, small businesses are required to produce creative knowledge, and systematically share and store it by means of implementing voluntary and specific changes in their convictions and actions. This study aims to empirically examine how the ICT small businesses' organizational learning participants' self-leadership affect their job satisfaction through organization orientation and Leader-Member Exchange(LMX). The research sample consists of the first to third-year employees that have previously participated in the small businesses' organizational learning support project, and of learning leaders, group leaders, and group members from companies that have previously concluded the project. The results are as follows: First, the self-leadership at the ICT small businesses' organizational learning project has been shown to have a positive effect on job satisfaction. The same positive results are shown in learning orientation and LMX. Second, the learning orientation has been shown to have a positive effect on job satisfaction. Third, the LMX has been shown to have a positive effect on job satisfaction.

A Study on the Effects of High Developed Structure of Workforce on Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Customer Orientation (컨테이너터미널 운영사 현장인력의 고도화가 직무만족, 조직몰입 및 고객지향성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Seung-Hwan;Choi, Hyung-Rim
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.211-232
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    • 2013
  • This study concerns the importance of workforce on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and customer orientation through the change of global logistics industry and the operational condition of Busan port and Busan new port container terminals such as below. The purpose of this study is to firstly, that understand the current facilities and situation of container terminals in Busan port and Busan new port, and its changing environment of port industry. Secondly, provide basic information through the seeking whether the concept of importance of workforce is able to apply into container terminals. Thirdly, establish the theoretical system through the literature consideration on workforce on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and customer orientation in container terminals. Finally, draw useful suggestions for managing container terminals through the structural relationship among variables, which are workforce on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and customer orientation in container terminals.

Verbalizing visual stimuli can reduce the global precedence effect (시각 자극의 언어화에 의한 전역 선행성의 역전)

  • Min, Soo-Jung;Yi, Do-Joon
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.389-408
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    • 2012
  • 'Verbal overshadowing' refers to the phenomenon whereby the verbal reporting of a visual memory of a face interferes with subsequent visual recognition of that face. Schooler (2002)[1] suggested that verbalization causes a shift from a holistic/global processing orientation towards a more analytic/local processing orientation that is detrimental to face recognition. The present research investigated whether this processing shift occurs or not by assessing performance of Navon task following face recognition task, interposing verbalization between encoding stage and retrieval stage. The face recognition task showed the verbal overshadowing effect. In the Navon task, while non-verbalization group showed global precedence, verbalization group showed local precedence. This results imply that the cause of verbal overshadowing effect is a processing shift induced by verbalization.

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A Study on the Relationship of Internal Marketing and Market Orientation (내부마케팅과 시장지향성간의 관계에 대한 연구)

  • Chung, Ki-Han;Kim, Dae-Up
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.9
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    • pp.19-46
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    • 2002
  • Market orientation emphasizes the capability of a firm to learn customers, competitors, and inter-functional coordination and to use this market intelligence of creating superior value in the marketplace. It has been proved that market orientation contributes to organizational performance. But the question is what the antecedents and consequent to superior market orientation are. The objective of this study is to assess the relationship between internal marketing and market orientation. In this study, Internal marketing consists of empowerment, internal communication, reward system, management supports, and education and training. The effects of internal marketing on market orientation were analysed by Structural equation model. Market orientation was positive affected by internal marketing, directly and indirectly. Specially, the management supports of internal marketing' constructs had relatively important effect on market orientation.

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A Study on the Effect of Inter-departmental Dynamics on Relationship Commitment and Performance in International Freight Forwarder (국제물류주선업체의 부서 간 역학관계가 관계몰입과 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Hong, Dong-Wan;Ha, Myung-Shin
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.40-62
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    • 2010
  • Because of rapid changes in business environment and fierce competition, firms are facing a more competitive environment and a more serious global competition. Many of the previous literatures have indicated that a business which increases its market orientation will improve its market performance. Numerous authors have argued the interdepartmental dynamics as prior factor to market orientation, and relationship commitment are an essential part of successful long-term relationships. Based on previous literatures, this study proposes the structure about interdepartmental dynamics, market orientation, relationship commitment and performance. The purpose of this paper is to find the impact of market orientation and relationship commitment on customer performance. In addition, this suggests interdepartmental dynamics as prior factor to market orientation. Results indicate that interdepartmental connections can reduce interdepartmental conflict, and lower conflict is a key factor of market orientation. Furthermore, this paper finds evidences that support the mediating effects of the relationship commitment between market orientation and customer performance.

The Effects of Internal Marketing on Market Orientation and Customer Orientation (내부마케팅이 시장지향성과 고객만족에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Chung, Ki-Han;Jang, Hyeong-Yu
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.11
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    • pp.103-128
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    • 2003
  • As the service market is increasingly competitive, internal marketing, marketing orientation, and customer satisfaction are becoming a crucial issue to the survival and growth of the service firms. This Study examined the structure modeling of internal marketing, market orientation, and customer satisfaction to verify the relationship among construct variables. Conslusively, the higher degree of internal marketing and market orientation, the higher degree of customer satisfaction. Specifically, The positive impact of internal marketing, customer orientation and competitor orientation on customer satisfaction is verified respectively. But, the impact of interfunctional coordination on customer satisfaction is rejected. The company is required to intensify interfunctional coordination in company operation process to boost sustainable competative advantage.

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The effect of Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation on Entrepreneurial Intentions: Focusing on the Mediating Effects of Cognitive Competency and Social Awareness (개인의 기업가적 지향성이 창업의도에 미치는 영향: 인지역량과 사회적 인식의 매개효과를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Su Jin;Kim, Jong Sung
    • 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2024.04a
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2024
  • This study aimed to confirm the positive impact of individual entrepreneurial orientation on entrepreneurial intentions and to investigate whether cognitive competency and social awareness of entrepreneurs serve as mediating variables in the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intentions. The results of this study are as follows: Individual entrepreneurial orientation positively influenced entrepreneurial intentions, cognitive competency, and social awareness of entrepreneurs. Moreover, it was found that higher levels of cognitive competency and social awareness led to higher entrepreneurial intentions. Additionally, it was demonstrated that cognitive competency and social awareness of entrepreneurs had parallel mediating effects in the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intentions. Based on these findings, this study provides theoretical foundations for research on the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intentions, which have been relatively underexplored. Furthermore, by identifying cognitive competency and social awareness as mediating variables, this study opens avenues for academic expansion. Finally, the findings of this study can serve as practical groundwork related to individual entrepreneurial orientation.

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