288 research outputs found
A Visionary of the Lagos Muslim Community: Mustapha Adamu Animashaun, 1885-1968
No full textThe development process of a society can be understood through the study of lives of its inhabitants either as individuals or groups. In this connection, Nigerian historians have produced considerable amount of works on the country\'s local and national leaders. Such works have continued to enhance our knowledge of their roles in, and relevance to the country. While such biographies cut across religio-cultural boundaries, it seems clear that biographies on Muslim personalities, most especially at the local level, deserve more attention. This is why this study is on Mustapha Adamu Animashaun, who influenced the lives of Muslims and non-Muslims alike in Lagos during the first half of the twentieth century. In this study, the birth and educational background of Adamu Animashaun are examined. His life as a publisher, editor and author also receives attention. Furthermore, Adamu Animashaun\'s participation in the crisis of the Muslim Community of the Lagos Central Mosque between 1915 and 1947 is analysed. In addition, the study pays attention to his involvement in the formation of a Muslim political party in Lagos in the 1950s. The study concludes that despite the servile antecedents of Adamu Animashaun, he moved across the social ladder to become a leading personality in Lagos society – a feat achieved through sustained struggle, determination and support of those who shared the same aspiration with him. Lagos Historical Review, vol. 5 (2005), 22-4
Youth Engagement and Skills Acquisition Within Africa's Transport Sector: Promoting a Gender Agenda Towards Transitions into Meaningful Work, Qualitative Data Collection, 2019-2022
No full textYouth engagement and skills acquisition within Africa’s transport sector was a collaborative research project between Durham University, UK, the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, the South African Labour and Development Research Unit [SALDRU] at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the UK-based NGO Transaid. The project’s core data set deposited with RESHARE comprises in-depth interviews focused on daily mobility and transport, conducted by project academic staff and young unemployed women we trained as peer researchers at the outset of the study; a small number of focus group discussions conducted by academic staff; and diaries focused on daily mobility, mostly written by peer researchers during the pandemic. Anonymised data sets are provided for each of the three study cities.
Note: The research team had also anticipated collecting quantitative data concerning the pilot trainings for transport users and transport workers led by Transaid. These were to have comprised baseline assessments, followed by post-intervention surveys after one month and six months to assess skills uptake among participating women. Although Transaid staff succeeded in implementing pilot training interventions in each city, in the final months of the project, COVID constraints limited recruitment numbers and the collection of baseline data amenable to statistical analysis. Collection of post-intervention data has not been possible due to COVID constraints and the requirement to end the project on 31st March 2022. Transaid’s reports on the pilot interventions will be made available on the project website: https://transportandyouthemploymentinafrica.comAcknowledging the importance of mobilising Africa's young women into the labour-force, this research addresses the specific impediments presented by a highly gendered transport and travel arena and the implications this has for girls' and women's current/future access to meaningful work. Women of all ages are discriminated against, both with regard to access and use of transport (which affects their access to skills acquisition and employment across all sectors) and with reference to their employment within the transport sector itself. Relevant skills acquisition at an early age, for safely navigating transport and more equitably seeking employment is essential if they are to break through such barriers.
We aim to understand and address these challenges through in-depth participatory research with young women of low socio-economic status in peripheral locations of Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia (one city-region per country), including piloting of skills-based interventions.
The research has three, interlinked strands:
a)The User Strand comprises research into improving young women's use of transport to access training programmes and employment, built around the following questions:
-What are the economic, social and infrastructural determinants of the transport ecology in which young women are located and how does it impact on their transport experiences and behaviours?
-How is young women's physical access to meaningful work and associated skills building shaped by their travel potential and access to transport (i.e. especially travel safety and security for women resident in low income areas)?
-What key skills do young women need if they are to travel safely to work and training opportunities (whether as pedestrians, as cyclists, or when negotiating public transport)?
-How can appropriate safe travel skills training be provided?
-What wider interventions are needed to support a safe travel skills programme [e.g. from government, transport unions, NGOs, private sector] i.e. with reference to the multiple layers of political, economic and socio-cultural decision-making processes?
b)The Employment Strand comprises research into improving women's access to skills (e.g. commercial driving, vehicle repair/ maintenance) to enable them to obtain more meaningful employment within the transport sector, built around the following questions:
- How have historical, social, political and economic legacies of planning and policy processes impacted on opportunities for women's employment in the transport sector?
-How can young women's aspirations to work in this sector be expanded and enhanced?
-What do young women perceive as the main barriers to skills acquisition and subsequent employment in the sector?
-What skills training can be provided to enable young women to play a more prominent role in the sector?
-What wider interventions are needed to support training programmes to improve women's employment in this sector [e.g. from government, unions, NGOs, the private sector]
c)The Action Research Strand builds on User and Employment Strand findings. It will pilot transport-related skills training for young women, to improve their access to employment [both directly, through employment in the transport sector and indirectly, through travel safety skills to enable them to travel to diverse employment opportunities].
Ihere will be small pilot action research projects in each country:
-One to assist women build skills as transport users [and thus access diverse employment opportunities within and beyond the transport sector]
-Up to 3 to assist women build skills towards employment in the transport sector.
Intensive monitoring and evaluation of this strand throughout its life will ensure key lessons are learned.
Through this work we will produce gender-sensitive transport/travel skills guidance for govt, private sector, NGOs + academia at local, national + international levels.</p
Rev. William B. McClain, Dr. Cole, Alhaji Hassan Adamu, and Dr. Calvert Smith at Convocation, circa 1985
No full textRev. William B. McClain, Dr. Cole, Alhaji Hassan Adamu, and Dr. Calvert Smith pose at convocation.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of historic collections as part of the project: Our Story: Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions.</em
An Ecological (Re)presentation of Depravity and Environmental Depletion in Adamu Kyuka’s The Death of Eternity
No full textThe notion that the environment has always served as a thematic and aesthetic base for the production of texts in the literary enterprise, globally is inarguable. In attestation, of the afore claim, this paper draws cogent data from Adamu Kyuka’s The Death of Eternity to closely examine the natural world and the environment as underscoring the relationship between man and his environment. The paper is exponential in its portrayal of man’s symphonic interaction with the environment as a blessing or a curse. Going forward, this paper builds a composite philosophy around the intersection between literature and environment. Where it argues that Nigerian literature has become more conscious of issues arising from resource control, as it especially relates to the devastating effect it melts on the environment. In concretizing these arguments, the paper deploys Ecocriticism as its analytical/investigative mechanism to explore the selected text as a fair representation of the environmental degradation Nigeria suffers at large. Seemingly, the choice of Ecocriticism as the investigative tool identifies the selected author as keenly aware of the devastating effect of industrial pollution as portrayed in the text under study as an expression of the commitment of the course of environmental preservation. The paper therefore finds that, Kyuka’s The Death of Eternity is critical in its examination of the social injustices, greed, corruption, political crisis and economic setbacks as social ills which are inspired by the scramble for natural resources
A double-edged sword: challenging women's oppression within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria
No full textIslamic development NGOs find it difficult enough to finance their work, because Western donors are often reluctant to sponsor NGOs with religious affiliations. Muslim women activists working to achieve development with gender equity face an even greater challenge: they must secure funding as well as justify their goals to those within their societies who see feminism as a threat.
This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website
Fractional investigation of time derivatives airflow process in a rectangular building
No full textAbstract: The study investigates the fractional time derivatives of air flow process across vertical openings in rectangular building by Caputo sense. Governing equations of air flow are solved analytically by Laplace transform technique and method of undetermined coefficient to obtain the solutions in Laplace domain. The solutions are inverted from the Laplace domain back to the time domain by the Riemann-sum approximation approach. The influence of the different flow parameters such as fractional order , Prandtl number , effective thermal coefficient and discharge coefficient are plotted in graphs. In the course of investigation, it is found that the increase or decrease in fractional order between the interval of the temperature profile and velocity profile will increase or decrease while the volumetric air flow and mass transfer will only decrease as fractional order increase.
Keywords: airflow process, building, fractional derivatives, investigations, rectangular, time.
Title: Fractional investigation of time derivatives airflow process in a rectangular building
Author: Auwal Inusa Adamu, Muhammad Auwal Lawan, Abba Sunusi Yakasai
International Journal of Novel Research in Physics Chemistry & Mathematics
ISSN 2394-9651
Vol. 9, Issue 3, September 2022 - December 2022
Page No: 39-60
Novelty Journals
Website: www.noveltyjournals.com
Published Date: 06-November-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7296349
Paper Download Link (Source)
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9. A double-edged sword: challenging women’s oppression within Muslim society in Northern Nigeria
No full textIntrusion Detection through DCSYS Propagation Compared to Auto-encoders
No full textIn network settings, one of the major disadvantages that threaten the network protocols is the insecurity. In most cases, unscrupulous people or bad actors can access information through unsecured connections by planting software or what we call malicious software otherwise anomalies. The presence of anomalies is also one of the disadvantages, internet users are constantly plagued by virus on their system and get activated when a harmless link is clicked on, this a case of true benign detected as false. Deep learning is very adept at dealing with such cases, but sometimes it has its own faults when dealing benign cases. Here we tend to adopt a dynamic control system (DCSYS) that addresses data packets based on benign scenario to truly report on false benign and exclude anomalies. Its performance is compared with artificial neural network auto-encoders to define its predictive power. Results show that though physical systems can adapt securely, it can be used for network data packets to identify true benign cases
User Experience Adaptation of Complex Game Interface for User Behaviour Modeling Using RNN
No full textIn a video game review, the main focus is the narratives, characters, graphics, and mechanics in the gameplay. Some recent research mentions the user interface only when it comes into light as a creative platform for simple interactive narratives from a technical point of view; this narrative is mainly a software tool that requires traditionally modernized inputs from the user. The user needs to interact with the navigational controls or menus in order to start a basic game play. A complex game interface as stimulus is generally considered as having a feeling of immersion that allows for visual tracking of user behavioural patterns and use it to predict the next strategy of the user using robust computational models. A number of users have limited sensory perception in a gameplay and hence rely on complex game stimulus and an adaptive model is paramount when considering behavioural expectations that place the user in a digital environment with more expressive perceptions. We developed a custom based eye tracking and 3D object detection algorithm which was utilised by recruiting users to interact with visual 3D objects and trace their eye movement behaviour to generated data. We then applied the use of recurrent neural network (RNN) for direct tracing of user behavioural activities in a sequential manner to predict their behaviour for interface adaptation. Result indicates that redundant user attributes are flexible and flawless for identifying predicted response of the user in a controlled environment. This would lead to prototypical representation of user behavioural analytics as an embedded platform in the confined digital environment. One of the limitations of the project is its inability to basically specify the 3D gaze point at the inner boundaries of the visual field. Data visualisation is strictly based on combined object flow detection. The originality of the work is its ability to redefine fixation point to a rendered cascaded 3D gaze point and space-defined saccade which is indicated by the distance between one gaze points to the other. The 3D gaze point would be well suited for fixation generalisation on 3D as well as on 2D digital oriented environment
Emoji Essence: Detecting User Emotional Response on Visual Centre Field with Emoticons
No full textUser experience is understood in so many ways, like a one on one interaction (subjective views), online surveys and questionnaires. This is simply so get the user’s implicit response, this paper demonstrates the underlying user emotion on a particular interface such as the webpage visual content based on the context of familiarisation to convey users’ emotion on the interface using emoji, we integrated physiological readings and eye movement behaviour to convey user emotion on the visual centre field of a web interface. The physiological reading is synchronised with the eye tracker to obtain correlating user interaction, and emoticons are used as a form of emotion conveyance on the interface. The eye movement prediction is obtained through a control system’s loop and is represented by different color display of gaze points (GT) that detects a particular user’s emotion on the webpage interface. These are interpreted by the emoticons. Result shows synchronised readings which correlates to area of interests (AOI) of the webpage and user emotion. These are prototypical instances of authentic user response execution for a computer interface and to easily identify user response without user subjective response for better and easy design decisions
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