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e‐Maintenance Framework for Strategic Asset Management in Tertiary Institutions
Tertiary institutions require buildings such as its senate building, classrooms, laboratories,
administrative rooms, hostels and other offices in order to function. Providing and maintaining these
buildings require a lot of planning and capital investment. The study examined the prospects of using e‐
Maintenance platform for strategic asset management in tertiary institutions. This study noted that
adequate maintenance of the building infrastructural base of tertiary institutions is crucial for
sustainability in the face of dwindling funds in the education sector. In order to automate the e‐
Maintenance process for strategic maintenance of the institution’s building maintenance, a use case
diagram, system block diagram, sequence diagram and activity diagram were designed and presented in
this study. Three (3) main users are essential in the sequence of operation of the e‐Maintenance
platform. These users represent the building occupants, the facility manager and the management
personnel; for effective oversite and performance monitoring. The methodology of this research
includes using the combination of HTML, CSS and the C‐Sharp programming language for the interface
design and server side scripting while MySQL was the database platform used for storing and retrieving
the data used for the application. In conclusion, the study developed an e‐Maintenance framework for
strategic asset management in tertiary institutions.
Keywords
Asset management Automation Construction industr
The Abyss in Allen Tate’s \u3cem\u3eThe Fathers:\u3c/em\u3e What Can be Seen in the Darkness of American Literature?
There is a thread of darkness that seems to run through much of the canon of U.S. authors. There are, at the heart of us all, the questions we ask ourselves about who we are and what we mean to ourselves and others and to the places where we have lived. I believe that most of the body of writings produced in this country attempt to answer these questions in some form. Allen Tate wrote The Fathers in 1932, nearly seventy years after the Civil War, or the War Between the States. Perhaps one of the most critical moments in the process of how we became modern Americans, this period of history still resonates within our understanding. Tate, who was a Virginian and a Southerner, sought to understand what the South was and what it meant to modern America. The South became Tate\u27s literary construct, a construct that included the abyss he would have to search. My belief is that Tate\u27s South is an abyss which contains the answers to our questions of identity. The Fathers deals with identity through family and social structures in a changing South. Many may not be familiar with the world of the Civil War South that Tate was examining. Tate shows that depths of blackness can be found in the institutions of humans as well as in the natural world
A stochastic model of the logistics actions required to ensure the availability of spare parts during maintenance of railway vehicles
Phylogeny of mercury resistance (mer) operons of gram-negative bacteria isolated from the fecal flora of primates
Association of mercury resistance with antibiotic resistance in the gram-negative fecal bacteria of primates
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