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Nigeria, Globalization and the Development of Underdevelopment in the Third World
Get PDFThere are two contending opinions on the issue of globalization. There are some observers who believe that globalization has brought rapid prosperity to the underdeveloped countries while others argue that globalization serves the needs of the metropolitan countries at the expense of the peripheral countries. This paper posits that globalization is economic terrorism. Using a dependency theory to analyze the asymmetric relationships between the developed and the underdeveloped countries, the writer applies some economic indicators to highlight the widening gap between the two worlds. In doing so, it is argued that the socio-economic and political structure of the peripheral countries is subordinated via globalization to foster the economic interest (the superstructure) of the metropolitan countries. Although several studies have been done on the issue of globalization, there has been no systematic study done to link the activities of both the governmental and nongovernmental organizations in terms of their impact in the international political economy. This holistic approach is an attempt to fill that vacuum. Drawing from the experience of Nigeria and some other underdeveloped countries in enhancing our understanding of how globalization accelerates the underdevelopment of the periphery, the roles played by the multinational corporations, Western media technology, the lone superpower, World Trade Organization, and International Monetary Bank/World Bank, are subjected to the test of empirical reality and logical plausibility
The Rural Development Politics Under Prime Minister K.A. Busia of Ghana, 1969-1972
Get PDFThis article discusses rural development under the Second Republican government of Ghana. While not directly engaging with the claims of Busia’s unrivalled rural development agenda, this article provides some perspectives as to why the assertions of unqualified success remain popular. Drawing on newspapers and published sources, it discusses the Busia government’s rural development programme and accomplishments, and finds that plans to develop rural Ghana date to several years before the Busia government. By adopting rural development as its flagship programme, Busia directed the government and citizens’ attention towards rapid rural development in the early 1970s. Widespread media publicity has helped to create the impression that Busia’s government was unrivalled in its rural development focus. Busia’s interest in rural development was significant, but future researchers may have to interrogate the assertion that the Progress Party (PP) was responsible for unprecedented progress in Ghana’s rural areas
2025-4-25 Minutes of the Academic Senate
Get PDFApproved minutes of a meeting of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton
Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Vol. 33 (2025)
Get PDFIn addition to organizational information, honors, and awards, this issue contains the following articles: The Nature, Ethics, and Politics of Uncivil Obedience, by Jennifer Kling Hegemonic Gamblers Playing with Nuclear Fire, by Edward Demenchonok The Truth Will Set Us Free: A Reflection and Response, by Angela Walter On ‘The Post War Dream’: 80 Years Since the Nightmare, by Court Lewishttps://ecommons.udayton.edu/concerned_philosophers/1051/thumbnail.jp
Investigating Tandem Propeller Performance in Multirotor Aircraft
Get PDFStrategic placement of the rotors in a non-planar configuration can improve power efficiency in multirotor aircraft. To validate this concept, a custom-built multirotor was developed to conduct flight tests based on a prior wind tunnel study at the University of Dayton. The original study, conducted in the University of Dayton Low Speed Wind Tunnel (UD-LSWT), demonstrated that a negatively staggered rotor configuration with a vertical offset of 60% of the propeller diameter (0.6 dz) maximized power savings of individual rotors tested in tandem configuration. Flight test data confirmed improved power efficiency in negatively staggered configurations, achieving up to 18% power savings compared to a conventional configuration without vertical offset, thereby indicating the practical viability of such configurations. However, flight testing also revealed that, at higher flight speeds, offsets beyond 0.2 dz yielded diminishing returns, a trend not observed in the prior study. This discrepancy was investigated through unpowered drag characterization of the multirotor in the UD-LSWT, which showed a nonlinear increase in drag with offset, especially at higher velocities. As a result, a 0.2 dz offset was identified as the optimal configuration for the tested flight regime, as it balanced trade-offs between power efficiency and drag-induced performance losses. Though multirotor mass was held constant in this study, performance benefits of vertical offset are only realized if they outweigh penalties associated with increased structural mass, which is more easily mitigated in a 0.2 dz configuration
Observations of Memristive Behavior for Ba\u3csub\u3e0.6\u3c/sub\u3eSr\u3csub\u3e0.4\u3c/sub\u3eTiO\u3csub\u3e3\u3c/sub\u3e and Ba\u3csub\u3e0.7\u3c/sub\u3eSr\u3csub\u3e0.3\u3c/sub\u3eTiO\u3csub\u3e3\u3c/sub\u3e Through IV Curve Analysis
Get PDFAs indicated by the consistent validation of Moore’s Law, decreasing the size of electronics has been a perpetual goal for decades. Memristors have a unique way of decreasing the size of devices by performing the functions of what would normally need a group of devices. This is done by making use of the multiple states of a memristor. Additional useful qualities of memristors include ultrafast switching, low power consumption, and nonvolatile memory. There are many possible dielectrics that can be used for memristive devices, but barium-based dielectrics show promise. Sixty-forty and seventy-thirty compositions of strontium barium titanate (BST) are dielectrics of interest. Analysis of the current-voltage curve is made from voltage sweeps to observe memristive behavior of these dielectric materials. The sixty-forty composition of BST largely does not show memristive behavior, as these devices remained in a high resistance state throughout testing. The seventy-thirty composition of BST largely shows memristive behavior on only the positive side of the voltage sweep, clearly switching from high resistance state to low resistance state. However, the seventy-thirty composition shows similar behavior to the sixty-forty composition on the negative side of the voltage sweep
Data Preview Animations
No full textContains video animations for each polarimetric data file in animated GIF format for the Model Parking Lot RGB DoFP dataset
Ground Truth Images
No full textLaboratory and scenario ground truth images for the Model Desert Terrain Monochromatic DoT dataset
