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The use of ICT in the banking industry is now a global phenomenon. For over a decade now, Nigerian banks have imbibed ICT culture. Hitherto financial and business transaction in Nigeria is largely cash based. This study examines the role of ICT in banking operational activities, appraise the impact of ICT on the sectors performance, determine the level of customers’ satisfaction and identify the problems with the use of ICT. It was found that ICT devices is knowledge driven process, and the procedure calls for certain level of literacy and training; but greed, ignorance, low moral value and unethical behavior have been responsible for fraud and abuses that underpin the success of ICT devices. Graphs from time Series analysis showed the performances of the 24 recapitalized Nigeria banks on pre and post ICT mass deployment basis and it was discovered that performance has not dramatically improved as expected, though better. This means a lot of work should be done on public mass enlightenment, intensification of training on ICT, moral value and ethical behavior for banks staff and hiring of dedicated people in the banking industry. Also there is a need to intensify research and development work on engineering and reengineering of soft and hardware, especially in a consortium and partnership between Banks, Academic and Research Institutions that will create a synergy effect and beneficial symbiotic relationship in ICT training and performance otherwise investment on ICT capital will be a drain.

This paper discusses the potential of using technologies in the diagnosis, study and intervention treatments of autism. The first part of paper introduces background information on autism spectrum disorder. The second part deals with review of literature survey. The third part summarizes our proposed research work on the connected topic. The fourth part concludes our work as whole.

Three-dimensional CFD simulations are carried out to evaluate the effect of baffle spacing on heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of a single phase, single pass and 35% baffle cut, single segmental baffled Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger. Shell and tube heat exchanger is the most common type of heat exchanger and widely use in oil refinery and other large chemical processes because it is suitable for high pressure application. The processes in analyzing the simulation consist of modelling (SolidWorks 2012) and meshing (HyperMesh11). Then, the boundary condition will be set before been simulate in ANSYS Fluent version 6.3 based on the experimental parameters. The variation in Shell side Outlet temperature (K), Heat transfer coefficient (W/m2K), Shell side Pressure drop (Pa) and Total transfer rate (W) are measured for different Baffle spacing Bc and for different mass flow rate Kg/s. The sensitivity of the shell side heat transfer characteristics are analysed and concluded.

In the competitive market place, organizations are fighting battles on all fronts i.e., building & retaining market share, stakeholder satisfaction and more importantly recruiting & retaining best talent. The talent in modern era is well informed and have high aspirations. Organizations are finding it difficult to attract and retain talent be it on compensation and career growths. It is here that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) comes into play for organizations to leverage upon. CSR provides an opportunity for the organization to differentiate itself from the competition. Organizations have adopted different connotations of Talent management. While some of the looked at only the Hi-Performers as the talent, and in cases of other organizations, they consider all the employees associated with the organization as Talent and accordingly design and offer Talent Pool offerings customized to respective talent pools. This research paper looks as to who organizations can integrate and leverage both CSR and Talent Management Initiatives, so that it could be result in multiple pay-off such as connecting with & serving community through the employees and in the process win over both the segments.

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This study tried to investigate how Persian translators manipulate children’s literary texts in translation. To the purpose of this study, the researcher chose the model presented by Lambert and Van Gorp (1985) which was used for the comparison of ST and TT literary system and the description of relations within them. The researcher applied the model to the translation of children’s literature and presented a description of how translators might manipulate the original text in translation. To this purpose the first two sections of the model, preliminary and macro-level data, were selected and applied in the available Persian translations of the children novel Anne of Green Gables (1908). The results showed that the three Persian translations of the novel, translated by Hefazi, Modarres and Ghadiani, included some manipulations at different parts of the novel. They made changes in translating the title of the novel, titles of the chapters, and the way of punctuating; they added metatexts to the translations in the shapes of footnotes and prefaces or even omitted some parts of the novel. These manipulations, whether recognizable by reading the translation alone or along with the original novel, led to a more visible status of the translators.

In determining meat yield and sensory attributes of 12 weeks old guinea keets, ninety guinea fowl keets (Numida meleagris) at one-week old and of equal weights were fed conventional diet based on maize, sesame and groundnut meals (210.4 gkg-1 crude protein and 11.95 mJKg-1 ME) up to 12 weeks of age, then their meat parts yield, skin colour measurements and sensory characteristics were determined. The dressing percentage gave a mean value of 68.28, while the mean carcass parts yield showed he highest relative weights for the breast (28.1) followed by the back and neck (27.9), drum sticks and thighs (27.54) and the lowest for the wings (14.86). Hunter guinea fowl’s skin colour measurements showed higher values, coinciding with the observed dark dressed carcass skin colour. Sensory properties scores for the tasted attributes showed that guinea meat have slightly desirable colour, moderately desirable flavor with moderate juiciness and tenderness.

In recent days, the Fiber Reinforced Composites have replaced many of the engineering components and the composite material manufacturing area is experiencing substantial growth. FRC’s also have replaced materials used in the civil construction area, sporting goods, automobile and aircraft parts, and boat and ship hulls. The composites in general, offer many advantages over homogenous materials like high strength to weight ratio, less weight, flexibility in design, structural and dimensional stability, corrosion and wear resistance along with low tooling cost. Because of the anisotropy in nature, machining composite materials is a complex process especially operations involved in in drilling and milling. Therefore, dry drilling operation on composite materials affects the performance of the drill tool. Hence the present investigation focusses on the study of effect of the machining parameters such as spindle speed (1200, 1500 and 1800 rpm), feed rate (0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 mm/rev), drill diameter (6, 8 and 10mm) on HSS drill tool wear in the drilling of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyester (GFRP) composites. The present work also aims to optimize the machining parameters in drilling to get minimum flank tool wear. The experiment is designed using full factorial design of experiments. Measure of land width was used to assess the Flank wear of HSS drill. The process parameters are optimized to reduce the tool wear using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Mathematical model was generated by through regression analysis by developing a Regression equation for flank wear of HSS drill.