851 research outputs found
The Characteristics and Complexity of the Nigerian Security Challenges: The Need for a New Strategy
No full textNigeria, the world sixth most populous nation, is faced with an array of security challenges like most developing nations in West Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. The level of insecurity in Nigeria has risen to an unprecedented level. No part of the six geopolitical zones or regions could be said to be safe. The security challenges in each region of the country are slightly integrated and peculiar as well. From insurgency, terrorism, banditry to cattle rustling in the North to farmer-herder conflict, kidnapping, bank robbery, secessionist and separatist agitations in the South of the country. No part of the country is free of insecurity. The study investigated the characteristics of the security challenges confronting the country and analyzed its peculiarities in the six geopolitical zones. The study revealed that the security challenges ravaging the country were domestically created and interrelated. Inversely, it would require some domestic dynamic military cum pragmatic socio-political approaches to quell. The study adopted a quantitative method of analysis and drew from the benefit of insight and experience of the author who had served in the Nigerian military. It further recommended new inclusive security and political strategies for quelling the uprising in the country
The Prepared Piano Music of John Cage: Towards an Understanding of Sounds and Preparations
No full textThe subject for this thesis is the prepared piano music of John Cage with particular attention focussed on the preparations that create the varying sonic pallets in this music. The thesis is divided into six chapters, each chapter fulfilling one of two tasks. Firstly they will provide for pianists an examination of ways in which Cage‟s instructions in the scores for preparing the piano can be interpreted, and it will highlight the difficulties that become apparent (and should be considered) when performing Cage‟s prepared piano music. The second function to be fulfilled will be to musicologists who wish to trace the development of Cage‟s prepared piano music with relation to his later chance determined music.
Chapter one traces the historical and aesthetic influences that were relevant to Cage in the creation of the prepared piano, and places it in an historical context.
Chapter two looks at John Cage‟s compositions for prepared piano and provide a thorough inventory of John Cage‟s prepared piano pieces. Chapter two also examines the possibilities for making suggestions for the recreation of Cage‟s preparations.
Chapter three examines the physical relationships between piano, strings and preparations.
Chapter four analyses the solo prepared piano pieces and highlights the compositional techniques that Cage used in the composition of the prepared piano pieces.
Chapter five looks at the reasoning for performer choice in relation to ambiguity discussed in chapter three
Chapter six explores the six movement work The Perilous Night, and uses it as a case study to identify and explain all of the issues discussed within this thesis
Community Governance and Socio-Economic Development Realities in Nigeria
No full textThis paper explores the nexus between community governance and the realities of socio-economic development at the local level. This work relies on secondary data. The paper reveals that institutional frameworks at community level have potentialities in the realisation of socio-economic development in Nigeria. The paper recommends that extensive national value re-orientation and spirit of communalism are the needed mechanisms that would inspire patriotic citizenship/leadership and active civil society which is able to drive the process of utilising both local human and naturalresources for the actualisation of socio-economic development in Nigeria
THE EFFECTS OF WORKERS PERCEPTION TOWARDS THE 2014 PENSION REFORM ACT (PRA) IN NIGERIA
No full textThis study examined the perception of workers towards the 2014 PRA. These were with a view to provide information on the satisfaction and opinion of workers towards 2014 PRA in Osun State. To facilitate the study, primary and secondary sources of data collection were adopted with qualitative content analysis technique for presentation of findings. “The study adopted System theory”. The study revealed there were gaps and loopholes in the PRA 2014 and its implementation which negatively altered the noble objectives of the reforms, thereby failed the yearning and expectations of workers and retirees respectively. The study concluded that satisfaction of workers toward 2014 Pension Reform Act in Osun State, Nigeria is negative, unhelpful and unsatisfactory. The study, therefore, suggested the need for further review and amendment of the provisions in the PRA, 2014 by the National Assembly (After 10 years of enactment) to take care of the identified loopholes and gaps in the Act. The study suggested the need for a sincere political will by the three tiers of government in Nigeria, and holistic synergy among the stakeholders to nurture the scheme to an enviable world Standard. The study further called for a strict compliance in implementation of the provisions of the Act (as amended
The Historical Development of Local Government Administration and Its Contemporary Realities in Nigeria
No full textLocal government is the government at the grassroots closest to the people. It is the tier of government administration that coordinates the activities of citizens at the local community levels. Local government as a concept of government existed long before the arrival of the colonialists. There were forms of local government administrations in Nigeria before colonial rule. During colonialism, the British's indirect rule system was built upon existing local administrations in Nigeria. However, the story is not the same for local government administration regarding structure and organization in the country today. The study x-rayed the various phases and eras of local government development in Nigeria. It further analyzed the present realities of local administration in the country. The study employed a qualitative approach. The qualitative data were generated from interview responses from relevant stakeholders (such as Traditional leaders and senior local government administrative staff). Also, data were gathered from existing relevant literature. Data collected were analyzed using the context analysis method. The study revealed that local government administration in Nigeria has passed through torturous phases. It identified the lack of local government autonomy amongst others as the main challenge bedeviling its development in the country. The study concluded with recommendations to reposition local government for effective service delivery as Nigeria's third tier of government
Letter from [author unknown] to John Muir, 1884 Apr 2
No full textDr. George Engelmann Born at Frankfurt on the Main, February 2nd, 1809 DIED, In the midst of his scientific labors at his more in St. Louis, on Monday, February 4th, 1884, in the seventy-fifth year of his age 3003 Locust Street, St. Louis March 10th, 1884https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/44166/thumbnail.jp
Technological Innovations for Museum Evaluation: A New Model to Understand Visitors
No full textThe American Association of Museums 2011 Mobile Technology Survey, and the Museums & Mobile 2011 Online Conference and Survey provide evidence that the museum community recognizes that increasingly prevalent smartphone technologies offer new potentials for museums to engage visitors. Central to this thesis lies a proposed technology that will use smartphones and location-sensing technology to (a) provide visitors with a platform to engage with museums and other visitors, and (b) provide museums with ways to collect and analyze evaluative data in the forms of visitor feedback, timing and tracking of visitors' movements, and analytics of smartphone use. This thesis addresses features and impacts of the technology on visitors but primarily compares the existing evaluation methods with those of the proposed technology. The author conducted semi-structured interviews with eighteen museum evaluators to provide a framework of professional opinion about pros, cons, and implications of this technology on the field of museology
Technological Innovations for Museum Evaluation: A New Model to Understand Visitors
No full textThe American Association of Museums 2011 Mobile Technology Survey, and the Museums & Mobile 2011 Online Conference and Survey provide evidence that the museum community recognizes that increasingly prevalent smartphone technologies offer new potentials for museums to engage visitors. Central to this thesis lies a proposed technology that will use smartphones and location-sensing technology to (a) provide visitors with a platform to engage with museums and other visitors, and (b) provide museums with ways to collect and analyze evaluative data in the forms of visitor feedback, timing and tracking of visitors' movements, and analytics of smartphone use. This thesis addresses features and impacts of the technology on visitors but primarily compares the existing evaluation methods with those of the proposed technology. The author conducted semi-structured interviews with eighteen museum evaluators to provide a framework of professional opinion about pros, cons, and implications of this technology on the field of museology
Noted author on Islam and sectarian issues to present free talk in Monterey
No full textInternationally-renowned Middle East expert and Naval Postgraduate School professor Dr. Vali Nasr, author of the recent book The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future, will present a free public talk on Monday, Oct. 30 at the Monterey Conference Center. The evening program is co-sponsored by the City of Monterey and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)
John Cage e a poética do silêncio
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em LiteraturaEsta tese se propõe a analisar o silêncio a partir da obra de John Cage (especialmente a literária e a musical). Esse silêncio, inicialmente compreendido por Cage como um empírico (a pausa em música), revela-se gradualmente um transcendente: não mais uma substância nem a simples ausência de som, mas um modo da ação (modo de silêncio), aparecendo como estilo, profundidade, aura, dimensão, verticalidade, densidade. Esse silêncio implica modos de percepção e temporalidade próprios, descritos aqui a partir das noções de Gelassenheit (Heidegger) e Awareness (Gestalt) e estabelecendo conexões com as noções de Invisível em Merleau-Ponty e de Nada no Zen-budismo
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