Adopting basic principles of the United Nations Academic Impact initiative (UNAI): Can cultural differences be predicted from value orientations and globalization?

© 2017 Nechtelberger, Renner, Nechtelberger, Supeková, Hadjimarkou, Offurum, Ramalingam, Senft and Redfern. The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) Initiative has set forth 10 Basic Principles for higher education. In the present study, a 10 item self-report questionnaire measuring personal endorsement of these principles has been tested by self-report questionnaires with university and post-graduate students from Austria, China, Cyprus, India, Nigeria, and Slovakia (total N = 976, N = 627 female, mean age 24.7 years, s = 5.7). Starting from the assumptions of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), we expected that personal attitudes toward the UNAI Basic Principles would be predicted by endorsement of various moral foundations as suggested by MFT and by the individual's degree of globalization. Whereas for the Austrian, Cypriot, and Nigerian sub- samples this assumption was largely confirmed, for the Chinese, Indian, and Slovak sub- samples only small amounts of the variance could be explained by regression models. All six sub-samples differed substantially with regard to their overall questionnaire responses: by five discriminant functions 83.6% of participants were classified correctly. We conclude that implementation of UNAI principles should adhere closely to the cultural requirements of the respective society and, where necessary should be accompanied by thorough informational campaigns about UN educational goals

Factorial Design on the Corrosion Inhibition Effects of Rubber Seed Oil on Mildsteel

Factorial Design on the Corrosion Inhibition Effects of Rubber Seed Oil on Mildsteel was conducted in this study. The inhibitor concentration, reaction time and temperature were considered, to assess their individual and combined effects on the corrosion inhibition efficiency using standard (statistical) means. The Chochrain’s distribution, G for the study sample was computed to be 0.2594, while the observed one, GTable is 0.6798 at 0.05 level of significance. Also, the Fcalculated was found to be 292.6066, while the Ftable is 4.46. By these values of ‘G’ and ‘F’ (calculated and observed), it was, respectively, deduced that the hypothesis for the homogeneity of variance is acceptable and the model is adequate. The ratified model equation for the study was found to be interactive, which is predominant between X1 (Inhibitor Concentration) and X3 (Time), as well as between X2 (Temperature) and X3 (Time). This indicates that the reaction time is the most significant factor (amongst the factors considered) that affected the corrosion inhibition efficiency; this was further demonstrated by the sequential increase in the response variable (weight loss, yu) with tim