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Pentecostal Christianity and Yoruba Oracular Practices: Religious Differences and Ambivalences in the Utilization of the Media in Lagos/Environs
No full textAbstract Using a comparative framework, this research analyses religious media forms and their contents, as they pertain to religious conversion, differences, and ambivalent practices of adherents of Yoruba oracular religion and Pentecostal Christianity in Lagos, Nigeria. Taking cognizance of the physical space as a primordial dimension of religion, this research examines how Yoruba oracular religious and Pentecostal Christian practices have engaged the Lagos urban space with its attendant multiple and plural religious outlook through the contents of these media forms (Christian tracts, pamphlets, microphones, loudspeakers, billboards, signboards, painted walls, drawings, masks, drums, and gong). Through an ethnographic engagement at the time of the outbreak of Covid-19 and, drawing from the information that was obtained from participant observations, document and archival materials, unstructured oral interviews conducted in physical and virtual formats and visual methods, this research demonstrates and contextualizes the performative ways through which Yoruba oracular practitioners and Pentecostal Christians make their religions visible in the city. This visibility is not only through the media contents adherents produce and consume, but also through their performances in evangelical street preaching and oracular ritual processions. Building on and contributing to previous scholarship on Pentecostalism, especially by the focus of this thesis on evangelical street preaching and Yoruba oracular elements (Ifa, Esu, Egungun, Yoruba-Gelede, Aje, e.t.c), this study explores the differences and similarities in the utilization of these media forms by adherents, in order to gain a better understanding of the core dynamics of a multi-faith setting where religious practitioners interact, borrow from, and align with each other in the production of religious subjects despite the erection of boundaries and the conventional rules that define their religions
Five decades of constructed wetland technology: Knowledge overload, wisdom underload and the emergence of 4th generation systems
No full text\u3ci\u3eThe Adventures of Darrell and the Invincible Man\u3c/i\u3e
No full textThe Adventures of Darrell and the Invincible Man has been nominated for the prestigious National Association of Multicultural Education Outstanding Multicultural Children\u27s Book Award.
Research literature is replete with studies that demonstrate how and why Black children when asked to draw themselves do so almost exclusively by depicting themselves as White. Researchers have concluded that this predilection is the result of the Black child being acculturated in a White racist society. This book explores identity development in minority, particularly Black, youth. This book provides a riveting deconstruction of how minority children adopt the White, western ideal as their self-image and the proper way to make the children themselves aware of their subconscious adoption and how the astute multicultural educator, parents, and anyone interested in identity development in minority, particularly, black youth, can redirect this propensity.
Dr. Omowale Akintunde has published a plethora of research regarding multicultural education, black identity development, white privilege, and how these dynamics impact and influence early childhood education. He is also the author of Multiculturalism and the Teacher Education Experience: Essays on Race, Class, and Culture (iUniverse, 2007). He has served on the Editorial Board of the Official Journal of the National Association of Multicultural Education and is currently serving on the national executive board of the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) and the National Board of Peace Education (NAPE). The Adventures of Darrell and the Invincible Man is certain to become a necessary and celebrated addition to the field of multicultural children\u27s literature.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/facultybooks/1045/thumbnail.jp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Modeling of hot-air drying of pretreated cassava chips
No full textTunde-Akintunde T. Y, A. A Afon(Department of Food Science and Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, PMB 4000, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria)Abstract: Effects of pretreatment (soaking and boiling) on cassava chips dried in a hot air drier at temperature of 60℃ and constant air velocity of 1.5 m/s were investigated. Mass transfer during air-drying of pretreated cassava chips was described using the Fick’s diffusion model. Drying took place entirely in the falling rate period. The form of pretreatment was observed to have an effect on drying rate of the samples. In order to select a suitable drying model for prediction of the drying kinetics of dried cassava chips, four thin-layer drying models were fitted to the experimental data. The Page model best described the drying behaviour of pretreated cassava chips with high correlation coefficient values. The effective moisture diffusivities of the pretreated samples varied from 7.31×10–7 – 8.06×10–7 m2/s.Keywords: modeling, cassava chips, pretreatment, batch dryingCitation: Tunde-Akintunde T. Y, and A. A. Afon. Modeling of hot-air drying of pretreated cassava chips. Agric Eng Int: CIGR Journal, 2010, 12(2): 34-41. 
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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