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Influence Of Telephone Banking On Competitive Advantage Of Commercial Banks In Kenya
Authors: Odhiambo Ong’ara Elias , Mang’ana Robert 
Published: May 2022

Purpose: The current study sought to establish how telephone banking technologies influences competitive advantage of commercial banks in Kenya.
Methodology: The study was anchored on Disruptive Innovation Theory. A descriptive research design was employed and the target population comprised of 43 commercial banks operating in Kenya where the unit of analysis comprised of 1 Branch Manager, 1 Head of Customer Service, 1 Head of IT Support and 2 Relationship officers from each bank making a total of 215 respondents. The primary data collection instruments used was a semi-structured questionnaire containing both closed and open-ended questions and issued to 215 study population respondents. The collected data was analyzed by employing both inferential analysis and descriptive statistics using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) V25 and Microsoft Excel. A random pilot study carried on 21 respondents was done to assess the data collection instrument on validity and reliability. Out of the issued 215 questionnaires to the respondents, 192 were completed and successfully returned. This equates to 89.3% response rate, an appropriate for conducting analysis and making inferences. Tables and figure formats were used in presenting the study results and findings.
Results: The study findings were that the adoption of Telephone banking technologies had positive and significant influence on competitive advantage of Commercial banks in Kenya. The study also concluded that telephone banking technologies bears a positive and significant influence on competitive advantage of commercial banks. Remarkably, telephone banking technologies aspects such as establishing a simplified USSD services for customers, creating avenues where customers can access bank’s financial services through agency banking, and having a paybill service that enables customers to conveniently pay their bills directly from their bank account services further enhances the levels of competitive advantage of the commercial banks.
Unique contribution to theory and practice: The study recommends to the commercial banks to enhance their telephone banking technologies in order to remain competitive in the market.
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF LIQUIDITY, LEVERAGE AND FIXED ASSET TURNOVER TO RETURN ON ASSETS OF OIL GAS MINING SUB-SECTOR COMPANIES (LISTED IN IDX FOR THE PERIOD 2018-2021)
Authors: Christianto David , Munir Anita 
Published: May 2022

Oil and gas company is a company in the main energy sector where oil and gas is one of the factors of the current economic turning wheel. As a company in an industry that is quite significant for the country, this oil and gas company needs to pay attention to financial ratios in order to produce good financial performance. The ratios used in this study are Liquidity (Current Ratio), Solvency (Debt to Asset Ratio), Activity (Fixed Asset TurnOver) and Profitability (Return on Asset). The research method used is descriptive quantitative. The data used in this study is sourced from the financial statements contained in IDX in 2018-2021 in the oil and gas mining sub-sector. There are 15 populations with samples used as many as 5 samples. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression. The results of the partial current ratio study have a negative direction and debt to asset ratio has a positive direction and has no significant effect on return on assets while Fixed Asset TurnOver has significant influence on Return on Assets and has a positive direction. Simultaneous current ratio, debt to asset ratio and fixed asset turnover have a significant influence on return on assets.
Racismo e preconceito nas redes sociais digitais: pesquisa com estudantes do ensino médio
Authors: Paulo Rodrigo Barbosa de , Casarin Helen de Castro Silva , Castanha Rafael Gutierres , Bastos Glória Maria Lourenço 
Published: May 2022

Objetivo: Discutir como o preconceito tem se evidenciado nas redes sociais digitais, com ênfase sobre o racismo; identificar os principais preconceitos sofridos e testemunhados por estudantes do ensino médio em redes sociais digitais.
Método: A fundamentação teórica foi construída a partir do diálogo de autores negros que discutem o tema. O estudo foi realizado em uma escola privada de uma cidade do interior do estado de São Paulo. Para a coleta de dados, aplicou-se um questionário eletrônico ao conjunto de estudantes do ensino médio. Participaram da pesquisa 215 estudantes.
Resultado: constata-se que a maioria dos estudantes possui redes sociais e que também presenciam situações de preconceito na internet, sendo em grande parte devido a: cor ou raça, aparência física, por gostar de pessoas do mesmo sexo e por ser mulher. Os estudantes participantes da pesquisa possuem maior facilidade de perceberem o preconceito sofrido por terceiros, que reconhecer as situações em que foram vítimas.
Conclusões: A principal conclusão é que, assim como no mundo analógico, os educadores, incluindo os bibliotecários, precisam fortemente pautar os temas relacionados ao preconceito e racismo em sua prática educativa de forma crítica. Espera-se que os resultados possam ser usados como subsídio para preparação de programas de competência digital aos estudantes.
Value Extension: Analisis Kebijakan Pemanfaatan Nipah (Nypa Fruticans) sebagai Sumber Energi Terbarukan
Authors: Prasetyo Cahyo purnomo 
Published: May 2022

Nipah (Nypa fruticans) adalah tanaman palem tropis bagian dari ekosistem hutan mangrove yang banyak memberikan jasa lingkungan. Luas areal tanaman ini diperkiraan 837.000 Ha di seluruh Indonesia. Dengan potensi besar tersebut upaya pemanfaatannya sebagai sumber energi terbarukan menghadapi kendala, salah satunya adalah regulasi. Studi ini bertujuan untuk menciptakan nilai baru pada Nipah dengan menambahkan manfaat ekonomi sebagai sumber energi terbarukan (ET) selain manfaat ekologis, dengan menganalisa kebijakan pengelolaannya dalam peraturan perundang-undangan di Indonesia. Studi ini menggunakan metode kajian pustaka dengan sumber informasi didapatkan dari literatur serta peraturan perundang-undangan yang relevan. Dari studi yang dilakukan didapatkan beberapa hasil yaitu: (1) pengembangan manfaat ekonomi Nipah sebagai sumber ET tidak mengganggu manfaat ekologisnya, (2) pemanfaatan berkelanjutan Nipah sebagai sumber ET tidak menyebabkan kerusakan ekosistemnya karena berbeda dengan biomassa hutan, (3) pemanfaatan Nipah sebagai sumber ET akan menciptakan sinergi manfaat ekonomi juga ekologi, dan (4) ketidakselarasan regulasi akan menghambat pemanfaatan Nipah sebagai sumber ET. Rekomendasi utama bagi pengambil kebijakan adalah mendorong segera disahkannya RUU EBT untuk sinkronisasi dan harmonisasi regulasi sektor energi di Indonesia.
Proses Produksi Jamu Tradisional Dengan Metode Network Planning
Authors: SUBADERI SUBADERI , Purnamayudhia Onny 
Published: May 2022

TJamu merupakan tanaman herbal yang baik bagi kesehatan. Di daerah maupun perkotaan banyak dijumpai berbagai jenis jamu. Di daerah kabupaten madiun, terdapat UKM yang bergerak dibidang pengolahan jamu tradisional. Oleh karena itu, Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan untuk mengetahui waktu normal penyelesaian kegiatan produksi Jamu Tradisional. Pada Penerapannya, Proses Produksi dipantau dengan menggunakan Metode Network Planning dengan Teknik Analisis Program Evaluation And Review Technique (PERT) dan Critical Path Method (CPM). Proses Produksi Jamu Tradisional melalui beberapa tahapan. Hasil Penelitian ini yaitu Dengan Analisis Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) menunjukkan bahwa Proses produksi akan selesai paling cepat dan paling lambat (EF dan LF) selama 9 hari, mulai dari pengadaan bahan baku, pengolahan s/d. produk jadi. Sedangkan pada bagian Critical Path Method terdapat tahapan aktifitas yang bersamaan waktunya/berdurasi sama yang menimbulkan Dummy (tidak dapat ditunda pelaksanaan kegiatannya), sedangkan Total Slack pada Event A dan B (kegiatan pengadaan dan pembersihan bahan baku) paling cepat/lambat = 3 hari, Event C dan D (Pengeringan dan pemotongan bahan baku) 8 hari (jumlah kumulatif setelah event A & B s/d. D), Event E = 1 hari (penyelesaian akhir setelah event A s/d. D).
religión para los salvadoreños en 1995
Authors: IUDOP  
Published: May 2022

Entre el 27 de mayo y el 3 de junio de 1995, se realizó una encuesta de opinión pública con una muestra de 1,211 adultos urbanos y rurales de todo el país y representativa del mismo, con un margen de error de más/menos 4 por ciento. El sondeo fue diseñado para conocer algunas de las principales prácticas y creencias religiosas de los salvadoreños, así como de la opinión que tienen sobre el rol que debe tener la Iglesia católica en El Salvador y sobre los retos y las cualidades que debe observar el recientemente elegido arzobispo de San Salvador. Los resultados indican que a pesar del alto número de personas sin religión, los salvadoreños siguen siendo tanto o más religiosos que en 1988; además muestran una importante actitud crítica hacia el rol social de la Iglesia católica y señalan la necesidad de que el nuevo arzobispo denuncie la injusticia social, evangelice y proteja a los más pobres.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 50, No. 563, 1995: 849-862.
An Analysis on Speech Styles Used by English Lecturers
Authors: Riasari Evi , Dollah Syarifuddin , Salija Kisman 
Published: May 2022

The objectives of this research were to (1) find out the types of speech styles used by English lecturers in teaching-learning process and (2) explore the impact of lecturers’ speech style on the students’ attitude towards the lesson. The method of this research was a qualitative descriptive research. There were 2 lecturers and 30 students of 4th semester as the participants of this research. The data were obtained through observation checklist, interview, and video/audio recording. The data from audio recording were transcribed into written form to be analyzed. The result of this research showed that there were 4 speech styles were used by the English lecturer such as formal style, consultative style, casual style, and intimate style. The lecturers used 2 to 4 speech style in teaching-learning process. The impact of lecturer speech style on the students’ attitude towards the lesson, based on the result of the observation and the interview with the students, can be concluded: first, the use of formal speech style did not make the students participate actively and enthusiastically in the lesson even though some students feel that the use of formal style in teaching-learning process could give them more lesson on the language and some feel it is easier to understand the lesson. It is because they felt anxious about the grammatical error that may occur when they speak. Second, the use of consultative style motivated the students to learn more because they felt challenging when the teacher asked them their prior knowledge or opinion regarding the lesson material. The students also participate actively in the class discussion because they think when their lecturers ask them questions; their lecturer is testing their knowledge and ability. It is also stimulated by the belief about effective students is the one who participate actively in the class. Third, the students participate actively and enthusiastically when the lecturer used casual speech style because they do not have to be anxious of the grammar when they speak. The students feel relax and comfortable because the language that is used by the lecturer is the language that they used every day. Fourth, the use of intimate speech style got the students participate actively in the class and got more interested in the lesson. This speech style made the students felt relax and comfortable in the lesson because they felt a close lecturer-students relationship.
PENTINGNYA MANAJEMEN PEMBELAJARAN CRITICAL THINGKING SKILL PADA SEKOLAH MENENGAH KEJURUAN (SMK)
Authors: HARDIANTI A. , SUHARTI SUHARTI , PURNAMAWATI PURNAMAWATI 
Published: May 2022

This article aims to discuss the importance of the soft skills aspect of critical thinking skills in Vocational High Schools, especially for the industrial revolution 4.0. Teachers have a strategic role to improve these soft skills aspects so as to deliver graduates who really become competent human resources in facing the 4.0 industrial revolution by mastering 3 domains, namely knowledge, skills, and attitude. Several educational strategies that can improve creative thinking skills based on problems are adalah project based learning, problem based learning, guided inquiry learning serta cooperatif learning. This review uses the study method of the relevant literature. The stages of writing a review article are follows by: (1) conducting an article selection process by identifying the feasibility of the article; (2) evaluate the article data; (3) perform analysis and interpretation of the literature. The results of this review article show that students's critical thinking skills at Vocational High School have an important urgency to be fulfilled by improving critical thinking skills of Vocational High School.
ABSTRAKArtikel ini bertujuan membahas pentingnya aspek softskill kemampuan berpikir kritis pada Sekolah Menengah kejuruan (SMK) khususnya di masa revolusi industri 4.0. Guru selaku pengajar mempunyai peran yang strategis untuk meningkatkan aspek softskill tersebut sehingga melahirkan lulusan yang menjadi SDM yang berkompetensi dalam menghadapi revolusi industry 4. 0 dengan menguasai 3 ranah yaitu knowledge, skill, serta attitude. Beberapa strategi pendidikan yang dapat melatih keahlian berfikir kritis yang didasari atas permasalahan adalah project based learning, problem based learning, guided inquiry learning serta cooperatif learning. Artikel review ini menggunakan metode study terhadap literatur-literatur yang relevan. Tahapan penulisan artikel review adalah sebagai berikut: (1) melakukan proses seleksi artikel dengan cara mengidentifikasi kelayakan artikel; (2) mengevaluasi data artikel; (3) melakukan analisis dan interpretasi terhadap literatur. Hasil dari artikel review ini menunjukkan bahwa keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa pada SMK memiliki urgensi yang penting untuk dipenuhi dengan cara meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa SMK.
Gambaran Kepatuhan Masyarakat Di Lingkungan Perumahan Rorinata Dalam Penerapan Protokol Kesehatan Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19 Medan Tahun 2020
Authors: Derang Imelda , Simbolon Maria Puji Astuti , Simorangkir Lindawati , S Rianti Lusiana 
Published: May 2022

Introduction : The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the events faced by various countries in the world in the health sector and various policies have been established by the government in each country to stop the spread of the pandemic, therefore the public is required to comply with health protocols so that the spread of the Covid-19 virus does not spread.
Method : This type of research is quantitative with a descriptive design. Population, all people who live in Rorinata Housing 40 KK. Sampling technique: total sampling.
Result : The results showed that the obedience of the community in the Rorinata housing environment in implementing health protocols during the Covid-19 pandemic was 17 families (41.5%), non-compliant: 16 families (39.0%) and obedient: 7 families (17 , 1%), it can be concluded that most of the people in Rorinata Housing are still in the less obedient category..
Conclusion : It is hoped that the community can improve health protocols by: washing hands, using masks, maintaining social / physical distancing, and also the importance of accessing reliable sources of information about good and correct Covid-19 prevention behavior..
Assessment of Thevetia neriifolia Juss. Toxicity as a Rodenticide in Wistar Rats
Authors: Fayinminnu Olajumoke O. , Adebiyi Funmilayo G. , Fashola Ebunoluwa I. , Gbemibade Temitayo A. , Ogunwole Olugbenga A. 
Published: May 2022

Problems of rodents cannot be over underlined as a household and agricultural pest, damaging the crops on the field and stored produce thereby reducing qualities of produce. Controlling rodents using physical, biological and chemical methods have resulted in a slow rate success, several dangers on humans, animals and environment, hence they are discouraged. Thevetia neriifolia has been found to be a rich source of pesticide substance that could be used in crop protection; thus, its powdered form could be used as a baseline for potential natural rodenticide bait. The rodenticide capability of Thevetia neriifolia was evaluated using 50 female Wistar rats weighing 80±10 g which were acclimatized for seven days. The rats were allotted to ten treatments, each replicated five times. There was a Standard Reference Feed (diet) (SRF). The test samples were milled (with 2 mm sieve) sun-dried seed (SS), sun-dried leaf (SL) and sun-dried stem bark (SB). Each sample was incorporated at 15%, 30% and 45% into the reference diets. The allotments were in a completely randomized design. Experimental rats were fed with separate diets and supplied water ad-libitum for seven days. Results showed significant differences (p<0.05) in all the parameters. Rats on SS and SB at 45% inclusion levels had the lowest body weight reduction. Also, the lowest feed intake was observed in rats fed 45% SS, while those on 15% SL and SRF had the highest feed intake. Packed cell volume and hemoglobin were the only hematological parameters that differed significantly (p<0.05) at 15% and 45% SL inclusion levels. The serum biochemical parameters were not affected by the treatments (p>0.05). Organ sections (livers, hearts and kidneys) showed moderate congestion of sinusoids, multiple foci of mononuclear cells and congestion of renal blood vessels of rats on 45% SS inclusion level. No mortality or abnormal behavioural changes were observed among animals on SRF. Varying dietary inclusion levels of test samples resulted in rat mortalities which was attributed to cardiac glycosides. Rats on 45% SS died faster within 96 hours than those on corresponding inclusion levels of SB and SL which died after 216 hours. Therefore, Thevetia neriifolia has rodenticide capability and could be used as baits for rats.
The First Riverside Chaucer
Authors: Meyer-Lee Robert J. 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
This article highlights the accomplishments of a nineteenth-century American editor of Chaucer’s works, Arthur Gilman. It describes the nature of those accomplishments and situates them in respect to the Chaucer editorial activity of the time and to Gilman’s background. When Gilman’s Chaucer edition appeared in 1879, it was unprecedented in several ways, and for fifteen years it was the best mostly complete Chaucer ever produced. In particular, the edition, the first newly edited collection of Chaucer’s verse published by an American press, was also the first to make use of the outpouring of Chaucer Society materials that had appeared in the ten years leading up to it, resulting in an edition with a sounder text and more coherent, up-to-date introductory apparatus than any other available at the time. This achievement was all the more impressive given that the man who managed it was a largely self-taught student of medieval literature.
Natural Law and Parliamentary Election in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls
Authors: Ni Yun 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
Critics have reached the consensus that Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls reveals the fallibility of human reason in interpreting and applying the precepts of natural law. This article, however, asks the reader to look more closely and more skeptically at the common birds’ elections. Though Chaucer critically revises Thomas Aquinas’s concept of natural law by setting will against reason, as is personified in the parliamentary debates, the poet still allows the common birds to follow their natural dispositions when electing representatives and offering counsel. Only in the episode of the collective abuse of the cuckoo does Chaucer criticize the Commons for violating natural rights. The Parliament of Fowls parallels the turn from objective natural law to subjective interpretation of individual rights in intellectual history with the rise of the parliamentary Commons in late-fourteenth-century English constitutional history. As a result, it exposes the crisis of “commonalty” in the 1370s and 1380s.
Restoring “Mr. Wesley’s Rule”: The General Conference of 1840 and Its Context
Authors: Swinson Daniel 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
At the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1840, held in Baltimore, Maryland, a majority of delegates fully expected that a step would be taken that would restore the Church to its rightful place in the front ranks of the Temperance Movement. Instead, the conference became embroiled in a constitutional battle that pitted a minority of the delegates, representing different viewpoints, against a majority of delegates, also representing different viewpoints. The maneuvering in and around this conference illustrates parliamentary processes then common to the denomination, the character of antebellum Methodism, and the importance of temperance in the life of the Church.
1980 General Conference and the Evangelicals
Authors: Case Riley B. 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
Founder of the Good News Movement, an evangelical caucus loosely associated with The United Methodist Church, Rev. Charles Keysor looked back on the 1980 General Conference as a failure for the evangelical cause within United Methodism. In this article, Riley B. Case offers a different understanding of the 1980 General Conference and its implications for Good News’ future within the denomination.
Identifying the Collective Wisdom of the Teaching Office of General Conference
Authors: Stephens Darryl W. 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
Does United Methodism have a teaching office? Yes, and General Conference is a primary part of this office, according to several noted Methodist theologians and historians: Frank Baker, Thomas Langford, Mary Elizabeth Moore, and Russell Richey. However, the fruit of United Methodist theological discourse at General Conference is dispersed and not readily available as a coherent tradition of thought. This article explores the teaching office of General Conference, identifying a few of the most significant teaching documents emerging from this legislative body, addressing topics of theological method, missiology, social witness, ecclesiology, and sacraments. The article also identifies gaps in this church’s store of collective wisdom and suggests further avenues of exploration in the history of teachings of General Conference. As The United Methodist Church struggles to define itself amidst divided caucuses, regions, and theological perspectives, the task of retrieving what General Conferences teaches, and deliberates about teaching, takes on renewed urgency.
Off the Rails: The Evolution of the General Conference’s Assertion of Unconstitutional Authority to Make Binding Declarations of Church Doctrine
Authors: Starnes Thomas 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
Contrary to widespread beliefs and practice, the text of the Constitution of The United Methodist Church, illuminated by the well-documented intent of its framers, establishes that the denomination’s General Conference lacks authority to make binding declarations of church doctrine. Resolute adherence to the constitutional provisions that bar the General Conference from defining church doctrine continued until in 1968, when the General Conference authorized appointment of a Theological Study Commission to review and report on the church’s doctrinal statements. Thereafter, in two subsequent General Conferences (1972 and 1988), the delegates voted to include expansive narratives on church doctrine in the denomination’s Book of Discipline, effectively normalizing the Conference’s unconstitutional intrusion into doctrinal matters, including its relatively recent votes to make it a “chargeable offense” to engage in conduct the General Conference has “declared” to be “incompatible with Christian teachings.”