DETERMINANTS OF MSME MORTALITY AND MSME SUSTAINABILITY IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA: A MULTI-INDICATOR RESEARCH MODEL
This study examined the determinants of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) mortality and their implications for sustainability in Delta State, Nigeria. Specifically, it assessed the effect of access to finance, the relationship between managerial competence, and the influence of…
GREEN OCEAN STRATEGY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF POULTRY FARMING SUB-SECTOR IN DELTA STATE
This paper examined the influence of green ocean strategy on the sustainability of poultry farming Sub-Sector in Delta state, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine the effects of both market innovation and value proposition on the sustainability of poultry…
LEARNING FROM CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES: REVISITING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION, AND WORKERS' HEALTH IN NIGERIA
Persistent unemployment, weak industrial capacity, and unsafe working conditions continue to challenge development efforts in Nigeria, prompting renewed attention to Learning from China and the United States: Revisiting Vocational Education, Industrial Expansion, and Workers’ Health in Nigeria. This paper examined…
QUANTIFYING RISK EXPOSURE IN PEDESTRIAN-VEHICLE SCENARIOS VIA FUZZY TECHNIQUES
Road safety is a major concern that raises significant worries, especially regarding accidents involving pedestrians. Often, the study of interaction between pedestrians and vehicles focuses on various measurable factors such as vehicle speed and pedestrian crossing speed, often overlooking human…
BOOSTING TEXT CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE WITH LLM-DRIVEN DATA AUGMENTATION
This research considers the impact of data augmentation on multi-class text classification. A diverse news dataset comprising four categories was utilized for training and evaluation. Various transformer models, including BERT, DistilBERT, ALBERT, and RoBERTa, were employed to classify text across…
ENHANCING CODE-STYLE RECOGNITION WITH LLMS: DATASET SIZE CONSIDERATIONS
One aspect of a well-written codebase is its adherence to a particular code style, and Large Language Models (LLMs) can greatly assist in reviewing and adapting the code to follow the defined conventions. Because specific code-style rules are typically not…
IMPROVING ACCESS SECURITY THROUGH 2D SHAPE-DRIVEN GRAPHICAL PASSWORDS
Authentication systems are paramount to individuals and institutions. Several methods are proposed and used to grant access for legitimate users to systems. The most common way of authenticating users is textual passwords. However, textual passwords can be forgotten—especially if they…