This study determined the mediating effect of risk management practices on the relationship between attitude of farmers and sustainability of banana production in Southern Philippines particularly on direct provincial players which include Davao Region, Bukidnon, Digos, North Cotabato, and ARMM area. The research design used in this study was the descriptive-correlation that involved 400 banana growers as respondents. The purposive random sampling technique was done in selecting the respondents. Sets of adapted survey questionnaires were used in obtaining data from the respondents which were subjected for content validity and reliability analysis. The data were analyzed using the Mean, Pearson-r, Multiple Regression Analysis, and Medgraph using Sobel z-test. The results revealed that the levels of attitude constructs, sustainable production, and risk management strategies of banana growers are evident most of the time. Moreover, significant relationship existed between these variables. A significant partial mediation of risk management strategies on the relationship between attitude and sustainable production of farmers in Southern Mindanao was proven in the study. Moreover, the results of the study may contribute to a more comprehensive problem structuring and theory development in confronting the issues in sustainable agriculture.

The ultimate aim of this study is to determine the moderating effect of intellectual capital on the relationship between corporate reputation and knowledge sharing of commercial banks in Caraga Region, Philippines. Its objectives are to determine the levels of corporate reputation, knowledge sharing and intellectual capital. Also, correlations between corporate reputation on knowledge sharing and intellectual capital on knowledge sharing were also studied. Adapted survey questionnaires were given to a sample of 400 bank employees of various commercial banks in the region using stratified sampling technique. Results uncovered that the three constructs have very high level as perceived by the bank personnel. Findings revealed that corporate reputation is significantly related to knowledge sharing. Intellectual capital also showed a significant positive relationship towards knowledge sharing. To determine the moderating effect of intellectual capital, a logistic hierarchical regression was employed in this study. Results revealed that intellectual capital demonstrates a significant moderating effect on the relationship between corporate reputation and knowledge sharing. Employees who have higher intellectual capital have also higher level of corporate reputation towards knowledge sharing. Having said this, the proposed research model in this study may be considered by the business enterprises, in general, by revisiting their current platforms and policy formulations and reviews on corporate reputation towards knowledge sharing with the complementary effect of intellectual capital. With these three constructs as support system, superior performance and competitiveness among commercial banks and other business organizations may be expected. With the growing economic activities nowadays especially that ASEAN development is already taking place in the ASEAN member countries where Philippines is a member of, commercial banks have to sustain its competitive position amidst the challenging competition in the banking industry.

The main purpose of the study is to determine the factors that lead to customer loyalty of homegrown coffee shops. This study was also conducted to investigate the relationship of marketing mix, customer expectation, customer experience, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty among homegrown coffee shops. Descriptive correlational design was utilized in this study. The data were obtained from the 580 homegrown coffee shop customers in Davao Region, Philippines. Sets of questionnaires were used as instruments. Pearson product moment correlation was used to determine the interrelationships between the marketing mix, customer expectation, customer experience, and customer satisfaction to customer loyalty. Multiple linear regression was performed to determine the significant predictor of customer loyalty. Path analysis was utilized in order to analyze the path relationships among the variables. The findings of the study revealed that the level of marketing mix, the level of customer expectation, the level of customer experience, the level of customer satisfaction, and the level of customer loyalty as perceived by the customers of homegrown coffee shops were all rated high. Moreover, marketing mix, customer expectation, customer experience, and customer satisfaction were highly correlated to customer loyalty. Meanwhile, all exogenous variables have significant direct influence to customer loyalty. Furthermore, the final model passed all the goodness of fit indices criteria.

This study was conducted to theoretically develop and empirically test to explore the best fit model of millennial tourist behavior towards tourism in Davao Region, Philippines. Structural equation was utilized in this study to test the casual relationships between variables. A total of 553 survey questionnaires were collected from selected millennial in Davao Region. The data were obtained at the pre-departure area of Davao City Airport. Descriptive statistics, Pearson R, Stepwise Regression and Goodness of Fit Test were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that tourist attitude, tourist motivation, social media, tourist visit intention and tourist behavior were all rated as moderately high. Furthermore, tourist attitude, tourist motivation, social media and tourist visit intention were highly correlated to tourist behavior. Meanwhile, tourist visit intention and tourist attitude were the best predictor of tourist behavior while tourist motivation and social media were the least predictor. Furthermore, the final model passed all the goodness of the fit indices criteria. The implication of these findings can be applied to the enhancement of tourism destination competitiveness.

This study aimed to determine how significant the influences are of the organizational values and interpersonal skills on the public image of school heads in Region XI. The respondents were the 775 public secondary school teachers who were chosen through purposive sampling. This study used the descriptive correlation approach. The researcher used the mean, Pearson r and multiple regression as statistical tools. A modified research instrument was developed, validated, and pilot tested. Findings revealed that the organizational values and interpersonal skills were rated high levels. These results implied that the organizational values were observed in most occasions, while the interpersonal skills of the school heads were often manifested. Further, there was also a high level of public image of the public secondary school heads. This showed that the school heads met the expectations oftentime. Moreover, the organizational values and interpersonal skills jointly influenced the community image of school heads. Both the organizational values and interpersonal skills showed significant influences on community image. Further, the combined influence of organizational values and interpersonal skills was significant. This result implied that the community image of the secondary school heads was affected by their organizational values and interpersonal skills.

Mobile application, or “mobile apps”, are transforming the consumer behavior. In this new environment, “unless conventional merchants adopt an entirely new perspective omnichannel experience- they are likely to swept away (Rigby, 2011). A recent study finds that Apple IOS users had average of 48 apps, while Android users had, on average, only 35 (Nielenwire, 2011). Moreover, another study indicates IOS users average 105.3 minutes each month using mobile commerce apps, while Android users averaged only 87.6 minutes (Arbitron, 2013). This study aims to examine the influential factors of Performance expectancy, Effort expectancy, Social influence, Facilitating conditions of UTAUT theory, and Information quality, System quality, Service quality of design quality on mobile application. This research used survey technique to collect the data from 300 respondents who used mobile banking application. Multiple Linear Regression were statistical design. The researchers found Performance expectancy, Facilitating conditions, Information quality, Service quality, was influenced on consumer’s usage intention

Mobile application, or “mobile apps”, are transforming the consumer behavior. In this new environment, “unless conventional merchants adopt an entirely new perspective omnichannel experience- they are likely to swept away (Rigby, 2011). A recent study finds that Apple IOS users had average of 48 apps, while Android users had, on average, only 35 (Nielenwire, 2011). Moreover, another study indicates IOS users average 105.3 minutes each month using mobile commerce apps, while Android users averaged only 87.6 minutes (Arbitron, 2013). This study aims to examine the influential factors of Performance expectancy, Effort expectancy, Social influence, Facilitating conditions of UTAUT theory, and Information quality, System quality, Service quality of design quality on mobile application. This research used survey technique to collect the data from 300 respondents who used mobile banking application. Multiple Linear Regression were statistical design. The researchers found Performance expectancy, Facilitating conditions, Information quality, Service quality, was influenced on consumer’s usage intention

In real business management of shipping companies, the managers often use various models to select tracing control and methods for risk management which are inevitable in maritime activities. Due to tracing such data it is easily to analyze the risks that are present in maritime markets. Therefore, modern business imposes indispensability of acknowledging the risk factor and there is no business activity that is not under the influence of risk. Thus, the obligation of business people is to take care of that and to learn how to manage the risk. Research work on the risk problem area in shipping industry is a subject of interest for many scientists and experts. However, a single systematic approach to the problem is missing. Our economic organizations usually do not have the right methodology by which risk of running business is estimated, nor do they have manager approach to the problem of its management. Only banking, where management developed very good methods of risk measuring, and which manages risk very successfully, can be excluded from that assessment. Risk management is not a new discipline. However, shipping agencies have to broaden their understanding of the risk management, to understand that risk can also be a business initiator. When a risk is managed strategically, the organization can balance its exposure to the risk and have more security in accepting risks, which are necessary for creating new products, services, business models and new ways of competing on the world market. The project and its risks are directly connected with project aims: the more ready shipping company is to take over the risks in the project, the more business benefit will they have. On the other hand, a shipping company which plays safe will lower its possible benefits. The risk should not be afraid of because most of them can be managed.

Flow characteristics around/behind a porous circular cylinder and porous sphere in a wind tunnel are studied. The parameters are incoming flow velocity (Uin), air ejection velocity (Vw) from the surface of cylinder/sphere, and dimension/shape of cylinder/sphere. This study is divided into dual parts. First part deals with flowfield with no air ejection from the surface of cylinder/sphere, and the second one deals with the flowfield for air ejection from cylinder/sphere surface. Finally, for each cylinder/sphere, Vw and critical Uin that causes the wake returns to the rear of cylinder/sphere are correlated into equations, respectively.

Water scarcity along with climate change, population growth and urbanization pose challenges for the present water supply systems. Today, 2.1 billion people worldwide are living without a safe water supply close to home. Hence, domestic wastewater treatment along with its reuse is becoming a significant topic for research. Grey water is all wastewater generated in households, public or commercial properties without fecal contamination. Treating and reusing grey water reduces the amount of freshwater needed and also reduces the amount of wastewater entering sewer system. The grey water sample was collected from a residential society in Ahmedabad and the natural coagulant used was freely and locally available Custard Apple (Annona Reticulata) seeds. The initial characteristics of the grey water were accessed based on the parameters pH, TS, TDS, Turbidity and COD and measured as 7.79, 780 mg/L, 590 mg/L, 276 NTU and 625 mg/L respectively. Turbidity and COD were analysed for different concentrations of Coagulant Dosage and also by varying the Settling Time and pH. The settling time was varied from 10 to 30 minutes considering the removal of micro-flocs and pH was varied from 4 to 9. The optimum results were obtained at settling time of 30 minutes, pH 9 and 10 mg/L coagulant dosage giving 85% turbidity removal and 82% COD removal. It was observed that adding organic coagulant beyond the optimum level contributes to COD. The study focuses on investigating the effect of natural coagulant on treatment of domestic grey water along with factors affecting the removal efficiency.

This review paper emphasizes on various suitable replacements of cement and fine aggregate in concrete tiles, so as to reduce problems of global warming and to create sustainable environment. Proper roofing is a major issue in rural and sub-urban areas as they suffer immensely due to the high cost of present day concrete tile roofing technique and adverse weather conditions. The conventional roofing system in rural areas is made of thatch or fired clay tiles which cannot perform well under adverse weather conditions while in urban areas, Asbestos-cement tiles are used which suffice in terms of strength and permeability but cannot perform thermally. Micro Concrete Roofing Technology in India is a potential alternative of a common industrial concrete tile which is much thicker and heavier. Concrete tiles comprise of cement (30-50%), fine aggregate (50-70%), admixtures along with water. In 2017, India consumed 270 million metric tons of cement. The production of Portland cement is not only costly and energy intensive, but it also produces large amounts of carbon emissions. Fly ash is commonly used in concrete in replacement ranging from 0% to 30% by weight of the total cementitious material. Large quantities of fly ash and quarry dust are available around the world at low cost and their use in high volume seems to offer the best solution to rising cement and fine aggregate demands, respectively. According to a study, replacing cement by fly ash up to 65% gives about 46.77% cost beneficial to that of original mix cost. Various factors such as strength, durability, reuse and problem solution has been compared with previous investigations and approaches to most suitable replacement for cement concerning all parameters. The study focuses on partially or fully replacing cement by fly ash and fine aggregate by quarry dust thereby increasing the overall strength by 50% and reducing the cost reasonably.

The light weight design of the seat cushion frame using carbon fiber composite was performed. Additionally, the safety of the seat cushion frame with carbon fiber composite that is attached to the pipe was analyzed through the finite element analysis. The seat cushion frame with the carbon fiber composite was divided into front part frame, left side frame and right side frame after considering the manufacturing process and compression molding characteristics. In order to analyze how the pipe that supports the seat cushion part has effect on the safety of the seat cushion frame, modeling of the carbon fiber composite seat cushion frame according to the reinforcement of the pipe was performed. AFT moment load, vertical load and lateral load based on the FMVSS 207 seating system test procedure were applied to the seat frame. Boundary conditions were considered as the carbon fiber composite seat cushion frame was fastened on both sides and one side of the vehicle floor respectively. Since the stress and displacement of carbon fiber composite seat cushion frame were analyzed by the finite element analysis according to each boundary, the load condition and the pipe reinforcement variables, as well as the design conditions of the carbon fiber composite seat cushion frame suitable for the vehicle were confirmed.