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Filling the constitutional lacunae concerning Islamic banking and finance litigations in Nigeria: Towards national harmony / Muhammad Bashir Alkali
Full text linkThe objectives of this thesis are to fill the gaps in the Nigerian constitution 1999 relating to Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) Litigations, using the system as an inter-faith bridge in pluralist Nigeria as well as using Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to supplement the limited court system. The doctrinal methodology was the main method but some interviews were conducted to support it. This research found that the Constitution fell short of, among others, not providing original Jurisdiction to the Sharia Court of Appeal on matters of IBF; rather, it vested the same on the Federal High Court and appellate jurisdictions on the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, whose constitutional requirements for the appointment of their Benchers do not include general knowledge of the Sharia. This work also found that amendments to the constitution, enactment of separate IBF Act, ADR, emulating Malaysia and the establishment of IBF Court or Tribunal will help in filling the lacunae in the Constitution. It was also found that having IBF is within constitutional right to worship and can be used as a bridge to unite Muslims and Christians in Nigeria. The study presented three contributions to legal research on IBF; Firstly, a microscopic view was made in the constitutional problems of incompetent Benchers in IBF litigations. Secondly, proposal was made for the use of ADR, special courts and laws to handle IBF matters. Thirdly, hypothesis was made to prove that IBF is the constitutional right of both Muslims and Christians. In conclusion, it is hoped that these findings and suggestions will be used by the government to legally enhance IBF operations in Nigeria for national harmony
Challenges in implementing Islamic Banking and Finance in Nigeria: A legal insight
No full textas Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) is now accepted in non-Muslim nations worldwide. The licensing by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2011 of the then Jaiz Bank International PLC, the first fully fledged Islamic Bank in Nigeria, triggered a soaring Muslim-Christian relationship. The methodology of concurring provisions of the Quran and the Bible on the subject of financeand inferences to the acceptance of IBF by non-Muslim nations can be used to harmonize application of IBF in society. The objective is to create a conducive legal, economic and social atmosphere for the
smooth, acceptable and uncontroversial operation of IBF through demonstration of the scriptural and international unity on IBF. It is also to enhance peace, unity and prosperity in Nigeria as obtained in other pluralist and secular environments worldwide. The study proved that all scriptural laws have the common goal of ensuring societal prosperity, good health and peaceful co-existence. The IBF symbolizes and seeks to provide those benefits in Nigeria, as are obtained in other jurisdictions sharing the legacy of legal and judicial pluralism founded during the period of British colonial rule
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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