Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2003. Graduate Programme in History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NQ99219

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Political Science, 2007. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references.

Proefschrift Maastricht. / Lit. opg. - Met een samenvatting in het Nederlands.

The importance of branding in the consumer market has been emphasised in many studies. In contrast, branding in the industrial markets is under researched. Even so, few researches on motor oil have been conducted. Motor oil is a good example of an important industrial brand due to its use in the production of other goods. Thus, by studying branded motor oil products in two distinct economies, Nigeria and the UK, the thesis aims to understand the nature and extent of branding industrial products, based on comparing and contrasting aspects of motor oil branding in the two contrasting economies. The choice of comparing the two economies is significant bearing in mind that global brands operate globally, hence the need for a more appropriate global strategic orientation. The dearth of studies in this area supports the rational for the use of grounded theory as research strategy. To fill this gap, the study employed a multi methods research approach by employing the use of exploratory qualitative approach. The thesis utilised a longitudinal archival study to gain insight of motor oil branding. Participant observations in the supply chain of the two countries allowed gaining understanding of motor oil branding. Interviews and documents contributed to knowledge to allow triangulation of the findings. The findings suggest that a collection of branding strategies are done by focusing on inter firm relationships, purchase behaviour, effective distribution and various supporting services in the aftermarket. The thesis reveals motor oil functions between the consumer and the business markets with several branding strategies to attract awareness and differentiation. Additionally, the thesis develops a model of the branding strategies of low involvement, branded motor oil products. The model shows various branding strategies through the middlemen to the two markets (i.e. garages (B2B) and retail (B2C)). This research contributes to the literature by identifying the branding behaviour of a hybrid brand from the supply chain perspectives, showing an inter link of branding in both markets. The research further extends understanding of market behaviour of low involvement, business brands. The study further contributes to literature by understanding the effect of foreign brands operating in developing economies like Nigeria. In practice, the findings offer improvement of branding strategy especially with global brands that cross borders to operate in different economies.

The management of Nigeria high schools are noted for administrative practices in the management of their schools; hence the term administration is commonly used in their daily operations. This fact on ‘administration’ was emphasised by the Nigerian government in the National Policy on Education (Nigeria, 1981, p. 21). Therefor as a researcher from Nigeria, my rationale for embarking on this research study was to find out to what extent a public high school in Nigeria was still operating in a hierarchical, individualistic, authoritarian style of leadership or whether it has started embracing contemporary approaches such as distributed leadership. The main goal of this study was to explore leadership practices in the case study school with the main focus on how different people relate to each other in the various leadership practices of the school, such as staff and briefing meetings of the school. In addition, my research questions aimed at exploring the respondents’ perceptions of leadership and factors enabling or constraining the distribution of leadership in the school. The study is located within the interpretive paradigm. As a researcher in a wheelchair studying in South Africa I needed to find alternative ways of accessing the research site and gathering data. I was able to use electronic communication for the collection of my data. I used four different tools of data collection methods namely document analysis, observation, questionnaire and stimulated recall interviews. Findings from the study indicated that there was limited evidence of contemporary leadership approaches in the case study school. The school was still operating traditional leadership, while school activities were dominated by a hierarchical chain of command. What emerged from the leadership practices of the school could be termed authorised distributed leadership which was under the command of the school principal. Data also indicated that there were some forms of restricted teacher leadership in the management and administration of the school. In addition, findings revealed that the case study school was very good at the management and administrative functions. The school was very effective and efficient in the controlling and management of both human and material resources. Lastly, findings from the case study school indicated some enabling factors to the distribution of leadership in the case study school which include a culture of respect and cordial relations among the SMT and the teachers, Prominent among constraining factors to the distribution of leadership in the case study school were: cultural orientation of the people where the case school was located, exclusionary religious practices by the principal of the school and the inhibiting role played by the Ministry of Education. Finally, based on these findings, recommendations were made both for practice and for future research.

The Shira complex belongs to the anorogenic province of Niger and Nigeria. It is dominated by peralkaline syenites and granites and has an estimated area of 152 sq.km. Apart from a related intrusion of granite porphyry at Zigau to the southwest, the Shira complex can be divided into three centres. Centre 1 is dominated by the Shira quartz syenite and this has been intruded by a large cone sheet of Birji granite and by microgranite dykes. These peralkaline syenites and granites are believed to represent successive intrusions from a progressively differentiating magma chamber. The Birji granite has two facies distinguished by the habit of the arfvedsonite and both facies exhibit layering. Centre 2 is composed of the Andaburi granite and a small intrusion of Amdulayi syenite. Centre 3 consists of the very poorly exposed Eldewo aluminous biotite granite. The Zigau granite porphyry contains phenocrysts of alkali feldspar, quartz, fayalite and ferrohedenbergite in a quartzofeldspathic groundmass. The Shira quartz syenite consists of microperthite, quartz, ferrorichterite-arfvedsonite and aenigmatite. The Birji granite contains microperthite, quartz, arfvedsonite and a little aegirine, and the dykes related to it have a similar mineralogy but are more mafic-rich. The Andaburi granite consists of microperthite, quartz, ferrorichterite-arfvedsonite and aegirine. The Amdulayi syenite has three facies which collectively contain microperthite, quartz, ferrowinchite- arfvedsonite, aenigmatite and aegirine . The Eldewo granite contains microperthite, quartz and biotite. Several minerals have been discovered which are either new to the province or are recorded for the first time in Nigeria, namely, aegirine-hedenbergite, chevkinite and narsarsukite. In the Zigau granite porphyry, fayalite has a composition of Fa93-100 and the pyroxene is ferrohedenbergite with sodic margins. Amphiboles from the Shira complex exhibit a compositional trend from ferrorichterite or ferrowinchite to arfvedsonite. In the syenitic rocks there are two periods of alkali pyroxene growth – early aegirine-hedenbergite and later aegirine, separated by a period of anphibole and aenigmatite crystallisation. Aenigmatite occurs in the syenitic rocks, which have the highest Ti contents, but it shows limited compositional range. Biotite composition in the aluminous granite is close to the theoretical annite end-member. Whole rock geochemical data suggest that there is a progression from the syenites to the highly fractionated granites. With regard to the occurrence and characteristics of the peralkaline and aluminous granites in particular, it is concluded that the peralkaline syenites and granites from Shira are the result of fractional crystallisation from a basaltic parent, whereas the aluminous rocks are the result of partial melting in the continental crust.

The purpose of this study is to show that within the context of Nigeria's development effort, financial development with respect to the banking system has aided investment and economic development to a greater extent than is generally recognised. This study, therefore, sets itself the task of a detailed examination of the structure of the Nigerian banking system as a service producing industry, the analysis of the economic performance of the banking system arid the prescribing of policies and regulations to improve the banking system's structure and performance. The structure of the Nigerian banking system is reflected in its historical pattern of growth, ownership, the network branch expansion, assets and liabilities composition and the legal and regulatory framework. The economic performance is reflected in output, profitability and the efficiency with which the banks have met some requirements indeispensable for economic development such as the contribution to saving-investment process and the provision of adequate finance to various sectors of the economy. A banking system, as a service industry, suffers from output measurement problem. Surrogates were used to measure the output of the Nigerian banking systems. The profitability of the banking system was measured by the ratios of profit after tax/capital and profit after tax/assets. The determinants of the Nigerian banking system's lending and profitability performance are based on the hypothesis: the demand, policy and structure variables significantly affect the performance of the Nigerian banking system. The evidence from the analysis indicates xii that policy and demand factors were more important in influencing the performance of the banking system. The bank market structure as measured by the bank offices rather than the deposits concentration ratio was significant in influencing the Nigerian banking system's performance. The study i rounded up by prescribing policies and regulations to improve the structure and performance of the Nigerian banking system.

The primary purposes of this study were (1) to investigate the current and preferred extent of non-supervisory classified staff employees' participation in university decision-making in Nigeria, as viewed by Nigerian higher level university administrators; (2) to investigate their current level of satisfaction with participation, and (3) to investigate the future trend of their participation in university decision-making. A three-part questionnaire developed by Allen L. Christian at North Texas State University in 1980 was slightly modified and used in this study. The respondents were 19 higher level university administrators at six Nigerian universities. The data were analyzed using frequency, t-test for related samples, one-way analysis of variance and the Scheffe' procedure used to test all possible comparisons among the means of the independent variables.

The purposes of this study are to describe the past and the present systems of secondary education in the Cross River State of Nigeria; to examine the goals, achievements, and failures of each with special consideration for the period from 1970 to 1981; and to make recommendations for improvement of the secondary educational system in the Cross River State of Nigeria.

Magister Public Health - MPH / The aim of the study is to determine the characteristics associated with ART adherence to , in Albert Horsfall Medicacal Center (AHMC), Abuja, Nigeria. The Objectives are to measure the adherence to ART, assess the association of the demographic characteristic of patients on ART with adherence to medications in the facility; and to establish patients' perspectivesto adherence and impediments to compliance to ART in the center. / South Africa