The main purpose of this paper was to examine the relationship between brand reputation attitudinal loyalty and behavioral loyalty with mediating variable brand trust. Data was collected from 120 respondents. Non probability convenience sampling was used to collect the data. Structural equation modeling through AMOS 18 was applied to test the model. Results indicated a significant cause and effect relationship between brand reputation and brand trust, brand trust and attitudinal loyalty as well as brand trust and behavioral loyalty

The study examined the importance of creativity and innovation to mankind and wondered that despite the fact that every human being has a deposit of creativity in him that could make individuals to live successfully in life, many still live an idle, fruitless, confused and frustrated life. This is often common among the youths who are expected to be the future leaders of the nation, hence the problem of unemployment has aggravated to an alarming level leading to incessant high rate of crime in the country, due to the fact that people have failed to nurture and develop their creativity. The study therefore investigated the effect of the Six Action Shoes creativity technique in fostering the creativity and innovative skills of the members of the National Youth Service Corps in Nigeria. The study made use of pretest-posttest quasi experimental design whereby a randomly selected sample of 70 members of the NYSC cutting across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria whose ages ranged from 21-30, with a mean of 26.4 were randomly selected from 2 Local Government areas of Oyo state. They were assigned to the experimental and control groups based on balloting. Both groups responded to the Creativity and Innovation rating scale in Animasahun’s (2007) Success Potential Battery to collect their pre-test as well as post-test scores. The experimental group was subjected to six weeks of training in the utilization of the Six Action Shoes lasting for 2 hours per week, while the control group waited for their turn later. At the end of the exercise, the 35 members in the experimental group remained intact, while only 32 members in the control group completed the exercise. The one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the only hypothesis generated for the study at the 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that there was a significant main effect of treatment on the Youth Corps’ creativity and innovative skills, which means that participants exposed to treatment scored significantly better than the control group on Creativity and Innovative rating scale (F (1, 64) = 73.866, p<0.05). The Partial eta square was 0.536 which translates to 53.6% of the total variance in the Youth Corps’ creativity and innovative skills score, which means that the Six Action Shoes technique was relevant to foster creativity and innovative skills. The result further showed that experimental group (exposed to Six Action Shoes technique) displayed high creativity and innovative skills score (mean = 112.09) above the control group (mean = 82.735). It was therefore recommended that the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps members should be exposed to training in the Six Action Shoes during their one-year mandatory National Youth service so as to foster their Creativity and Innovation skills, which would prevent them from being idle, wanderers or becoming white collar job-seekers alone, but engage themselves in worthwhile creative and innovative ventures after the mandatory national service, and help to reduce unemployment problem as well as crime rate in Nigeria. Further, all other countries in the world should also imbibe this creativity technique to act proactively in preparing their youths for unforeseen future circumstances so that such youths would not turn nuisance to the nation thereby enhancing sustainable excellence.

This study was conducted to determine a suitable time and temperature combination for the electrical conductivity test to be used in sorghum seeds. Fifty seeds known initial seed moisture content and weight of fresh and dead seeds (105 °C for 6h) of seven sorghum cultivars were used as material. The electrical conductivities of soaking water were measured using an EC meter in 20, 25 and 30 °C for 4, 8, 12 and 24 h using 50 mL deionized water. The experimental design was three factor factorial (7 × 3 × 4) arranged in a completely randomized design; with four replications and 50 seeds per replicate. The results showed that increased time and temperature caused a remarkable increase in EC values of all of the cultivars. Temperature significantly affected the electrical conductivity values and the best results were obtained at 25 °C. The cultivars having the lowest germination percentage gave the highest electrical conductivity value. Dead seeds always gave higher electrical conductivity at 25 °C for all periods. It was concluded that the temperature of 25 °C and higher period than 12 h was the optimum combination for the electrical conductivity test in sorghum.

E-learning is becoming a learning approach within greater academic settings because of the quick development associated with Web systems. E-learning may be the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) to improve and help teaching and learning. This particular research looks at the use of e-learning to describe popularity from the e-learning technology inside the educational environments. In so doing, a questionnaire came back from 213 had been 177. 19% from the participants had been female college students whilst 81% had been male. A simple linear regression analysis had been carried out to accept or reject the null hypotheses mentioned. The findings indicated that E-learning would enhance students’ educational overall academic achievement. Suggestions had been that instruction and information periods upon e-learning have to be concentrated mainly on how the e-learning technologies might help enhance the effectiveness and usefulness associated with students’ learning procedure.