Browsing by Author "Mohammed, M."

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    Creating an Enabling Environment for Workplace Interventions: From Policy to Action
    (Department of Psychology, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2006-09-06) Emmanuel, Alhassan; Mohammed, M.; Meribole, E.; Mafeni, J.; Otive-Igbuzor, E.; Ibe, O.
    Issues: In spite of all the documented impacts of HIV at the workplace, only a small percentage of workplaces in Nigeria (the most populous country in Africa) have policies and programmes on HIV/AIDS. Issues of pre-employment testing, discrimination, confidentiality, care and support, etc are therefore mostly at the whims and caprices of employers. A bold step towards addressing this issue was the development of the National Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS. Description: Based on an assessment identifying the need for a framework to protect HIV infected and affected workers in the workplace, a diverse range of stakeholders (Government Agencies, Labour, Employers, the Private Sector, PLWAs and NGOs) was brought together to develop the National Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS for Nigeria through a highly participatory process. This policy was approved by the highest level of Government in Nigeria and a National Technical Working Group set up to work towards ensuring implementation of the policy at all levels. Lessons learned: Policy needs to contain clauses that deal very clearly with issues of non-compliance. To make it more actionable, there is need for policy to have legal backing especially in Nigeria where over 70% of workers are engaged in the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises sector which often do not have legal entities, systems or policies to protect employees. Involvement of all relevant stakeholders enhanced the widespread acceptance of the policy. Recommendations: The policy should be stepped all the way down to enterprise level through advocacy and capacity building. Enterprises should be assisted to adapt the policy to their peculiar situations. A review should be undertaken to fill in gaps identified - particularly in making the objectives more SMART. In moving policy the process of getting legal backing should be embarked upon. An M & E system should be put in place to track implementation.
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    Generalization of Quantum Mechanical Wave Equation in Spherical Coordinate Using Great Metric Tensors and a Variable Gravitational Scalar Potential
    (Department of Physics, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-07-30) Maisalatee, A.U.; Lumbi, W.L.; Ewa, I.I.; Mohammed, M.; Kaika, Y.K.
    In this research work, the Riemannian Laplacian operator for a spherical system which varies with time, radial distance and time was obtained using the great metric tensors and a varying gravitational scalar potential. Furthermore the obtained Laplacian operator was used to obtain the generalized quantum mechanical wave equation for particles within this field. The Laplacian operator obtained in this work reduces to the well known Laplacian operator in the limit of c0 , and it contained post Euclid or pure Riemannian correction terms of all orders of c2 . Also the generalized quantum mechanical wave equation obtained, in the limit of c0 reduces to the well known Schrodinger mechanical wave equation, and in the limit of c2 contained additional correction terms not found in the well known Schrodinger wave equation. Hence the results in this work satisfy the Principle of Equivalence in Physics.