International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (IRJMS)
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MULTILINGUALISM AND THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE QUESTION
Get PDFWe do have nations being described as multilingual, if more than two languages are the official languages, as in Switzerland. In the Ex-colonies, the problem of multilingualism is a little different because of the diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds of the people. The imposed languages serving as unifying forces are not the languages of any one group in the nation. Sequentially, two problems are created in the National Language question. The first is the importation of English into the country, as in Nigeria, as far back as the 15th century; and Lord Lugard’s amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates in 1914. Along with this foreign language came its foreign culture. The English Language does not at all qualify as the Nigerian National Language. Secondly, the government incapacitated itself by giving official recognition to only three out of 521 languages (Oyetayo, 2006) and using the derogatory term “MAJORâ€, meaning that all the other, over 518 languages are “MINOR†languages. A titanic criticism on the government is that totalitarian posture, posing instability to the corporate unity of the nation. There is no categorical statement for an indigenous language, taking over from English. Any proposal that does not take into cognizance the multilingual nature of the country is not likely to succeed. To solve this, we propose that the language spoken by the smallest (micro) population in the country be selected. This should be allowed to develop from within, then expand to some other languages in the form of borrowing, as borrowing is a normal consequence of the natural contact of language in multilingual societies
WOMEN AND MENTAL HEALTH: A Review
Get PDFThis article reviews the importance of the mental health in Women population and how it is affected in them. Marked gender discrimination seen in the psychiatric illness and its acceptance in the society. The women are suffering from mental illness and the treatment is most of the time away from them, because of the stigma which the Indian society have. Women are discriminated from the society when the illness starts and keep them away from the treatment. This, along with family, social and work pressures, has a definite impact on women’s mental health.Â
Hotspot Detection Using Ranked Set Sampling
Get PDFOne of the most preferential and critical needs of 21st century is the Geoinformatics of geospatial and spatio-temporal hotspot detection and prioritization. A declared need is around for statistical geoinformatics and software infrastructure development. The declared need may be for monitoring, etiology, early warning, or sustainable management. The responsible factors may be natural, accidental or intentional.The society in which we live has chosen to fully use Statistics as a decisive instrument to deal with societal crises, whether they are related to environment, education, economy, energy, engineering, or excellence. While it is exciting that we are alive in the age of information, and while it is unfortunate that we find ourselves in the crisis of environment, it is only a bliss to have the opportunity to more effectively serve the cross-disciplinary cause of statistics, ecology, environment, and society in the research, training, and outreach setting.A hotspot can mean an unusual phenomenon, outlier, anomaly, aberration, outbreak, elevated cluster, or critical area. Treating Hotspot as an outlier, which may be extreme value, a method is proposed in this paper to identify it. The proposed method suggests some modification in ranked set sampling to identify hotspot which is towards very right tail of the distribution of sample values