Stimulants of online shopping behaviour among chinese millenials in china
To survive and prosper in the China, online companies must design their operational platforms to organically adjust to changes in consumer shopping behavior. The study investigated the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence the online purchasing behavior of Chinese millennials. A cohort of university students from selected parts of the Jiangsu province provided the sample of study. Consistent with the extant literature, the research confirms that millenials are influenced by several external factors, demographic factors, personal characteristics, and vendor/service/product characteristics and websites qualities when buying online. The economic, socio-cultural, technological, and legal considerations where the main external factors that influences online shopping behavior of Chinese millenials, internet knowledge, concern for security, need specificity and disposition to trust were the main personal characteristics identified. The study also found significant association between vendor services such as real existence of the store, store reputation, store size, reliability, assurance (seals, warranties, news clips) and use of testimonials/reference have association with millennials’ purchasing intention. Similar characteristics were identified for product characteristics, service quality factors and website quality and each of these is statistically significant. Gender was determined to moderate the effect of all the factors on online shopping behavior
Patrick Acheampong, Li Zhiwen, Ruhiya Abubakar, Henry Asante Antwi, Michael Owusu Akomeah
Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Trust and continuance of mobile payment use intention: A study based on structural equation modeling
The interactive nature of the internet has created many opportunities for mobile payment usage. In certain age groups and geographies, mobile payments have already unseated traditional means of effecting payment. In this study, 1,351 mobile payment users in Ghana were sampled using a structured questionnaire to investigate their intention to continue to use mobile payments technologies. The results showed that vendor reputation, word-of-mouth, and structural assurance significantly contribute to imbuing trust in mobile payment technology customers. When high levels of trust become identified with a brand, high numbers of customers choose to continue to use their current choice of mobile payment technology.
Patrick Acheampong, Kofi Baah Boamah, Nana Agyeman-Prempeh, Frank Boateng, Isaac Asare Bediako, Ruhiya Abubakar
Mathematics: A pivotal rebranding tool for national development
A strong brand is invaluable as the battle for it is high. Nigeria is a country that has been linked with corruption, high unemployment rates, underdevelopment among others. Rebranding Nigeria transforms it into a new brand making it a new haven and placing it side by side with developed nations of the world. O'Tudor (2009) reiterated that as a country, we need personal, corporate and institutional reformation to achieve a transformational repositioning of our national brand identity. Some developed countries like United State of America, USA, India, and Japan rebranded before reaching their status as world leaders today. The resounding presence of Mathematics is evident in all fields and human endeavor. This paper examines the pivotal role that Mathematics plays in all aspect restating it as a central tool for national development.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
R Bada Abubakar, SA Dagogo Wokoma, A Olajumoke Afebuame
SAVAP International (Society for the Advancement of Education through Visionary Academicians/Researchers for Peaceful Globe)
Innovative IoT-Based Wristlet for Early COVID-19 Detection and Monitoring Among Students.
Accepted: 4 November 2022 The current global issue of the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the push and utilization of all available means to halt its spread. COVID-19 is a highly infectious disease, and continuously monitoring early symptoms could help avert catastrophic devastation. This paper proposes an innovative use of the Internet of Things (IoT) enabled system to efficiently and effectively detect early COVID-19 signs at a relatively low cost. This study adopted an experimental approach in designing and constructing a low-cost hardware system using a Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller, a temperature sensor, and a heart rate sensor for students. The proposed system detected and distinguished normal and abnormal temperature, regular and irregular heartbeat and constantly displayed the student's status in a mobile application. Consistent tests proved that the developed IoT-enabled system was reliable, responsive, and cost-effective. The mass production of this device will aid in the early detection of the disease, thereby mitigating the spread among students, particularly in underdeveloped countries. The paper's merit stems from the microcontroller's intelligence programming and the sensor's operation via the mobile application, which enables low-cost early identification of abnormal temperature and heartbeat irregularities.
Samuel Akwasi Frimpong, Ayodeji Olalekan Salau, Andrew Quansah, Isaac Hanson, Ruhiya Abubakar, Vincent Yeboah
Female students’ academic performance in Mathematics at Federal College of Education (Technical), Omoku, Rivers State
Gender and academic performance of college Physics students: a case study of department of Physics
Qualitative and Functional Mathematics Education, Does Age and Gender affects Academic performance
Barriers and prospects of smart grid adoption in Ghana
Distributed generation presents the potential solution to the power deficit problem faced in developing counties by encouraging local generation with renewable energy resources that are abundantly available in some part of the world, especially in Ghana. Distributed generations on the other hand are closely linked to Smart Grid (SG) that uses information technology to manage electricity networks. A plethora of problems relating to safety, reliability and affordability of Smart grid solutions remains challenging today. In Africa, especially in Ghana, the adoption of smart grid has been very slow, poorly managed, and almost inexistent in some countries despite the crucial need for electricity provision. This slow adoption can be attributed to many limiting factors that demand a thorough investigation. This paper aims at investigating the barriers to the adoption of smart grids in Africa and also develops and evaluates …
Amevi Acakpovi, Ruhiya Abubakar, Nana Yaw Asabere, Issah B Majeed
Breaking the gender barrier in enrolment and academic achievement of Science and Mathematics students
Pengaruh pelaksanaan bauran pemasaran terhadap proses keputusan pembelian konsumen pada jamu di Banda Aceh
An effective marketing program collects all of elemen of the marketing mix into one cohesive program designed o obtain a company’s terget in order to determine the company’s position towards competition, in order to win consumers as a target market facing such reality, compnies are required to be able to devlop an active marketing policy and always follow technological and economical developments. The aim of this study is to (1) analyze the affect of marketing mix on the purchasing decision of consumers in the jamu industry in Banda Aceh (2) Knowing what type of the marketing mix element most effect consumers buying the decisions in the jamu industry in Banda Aceh. The object of the study on independent variable: product, price, promotion and place. There are 2 methods pf study used, namely th descriptive and verivication methods. The sample in this study consist of 225 jamu industry consumers scattrd through 3 (three) distric in Banda Aceh. The methods of data collection is documentation, interview and quistionnaries while the data analysis methods is the descriptive and paet analysis. The results of this study indicate that the elements of the marketing mix simultaneously affect the consumers buying decision positively and partyaly indicate that the product, price, price and promotion element have a positive affect, while the place (location) element has a negative effect. At the same time th marketing mix involving product, price and promotion significantly affect th buyin decision of jamu industry products in Banda Aceh. The most dominant variable the decision of consumers is th promotion variable, which an be as high as 28, 60%.