This research work is centered on the speech act analysis of Dame Patience Jonathan. The main objectives are to identify types acts in selected Patience’s speeches as well discover its effects citizens country. theoretical framework adopted for data Searle’s theory. For analysis, only three Jonathan will be used. includes: Chibok girls speech, campaign at Umuahia and Calabar. study finds out th...

This Article traces the origins of the Database Directive and asks whether the Directive is a model that should be applied at the international level. Part I examines the background to the Directive. Such an examination is pertinent because the Commission went from a position in 1988 of limiting its proposal to copyright protection, to one of a “copyright plus” approach in 1992. Part II reviews...

Leadbeater A. (2015): Recent developments and challenges in chemical disease control. Plant Protect. Sci., 51: 163–169. The use of chemical fungicides to control plant diseases is an integral component of crop management. Although fungicides have been used to good effect in agriculture since the 1940s, the introduction of new fungicides is an essential element to provide sustained control of ma...

The twentieth century was the bloodiest period in human history. It was plagued by two major world wars and the “cold war” between the West and the Soviet Union, which fought proxy wars in decolonizing and developing countries. In World War I, the Turkish government appalled the world by staging one of the most barbaric massacres in modern times: the death march of the Armenians in Turkey. Neve...

P atients have gained unprecedented levels of control over their medical care, including prospective control over what treatments they will receive if they lose the ability to make decisions. The landmark Cruzan and Quinlan cases helped to secure patients' right to prospectively refuse life-sustaining treatments [1,2], while the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 mandated that patients be i...

IV. PATENTABILITY OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS IN EUROPE............................................................................ 583 A. The European Patent Convention............................. 583 B. Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions ...... 589 1. Procedure for Adoption of a Directi...

Social networks are important for finding jobs, but which ties are most useful? Granovetter (1973) suggested that “weak ties” are more valuable than “strong ties,” since strong ties have redundant information, while weak ties have new information. Using six million Facebook users’ data we find evidence for the opposite. We proxy for job help by identifying people who eventually work with a pre-...

This paper is concernedwith the analysis of theworst case behavior of Hopcroft’s algorithm for minimizing deterministic finite state automata. We extend a result of Castiglione, Restivo and Sciortino. They show that Hopcroft’s algorithm has a worst case behavior for the automata recognizing Fibonacci words. In a previous paper, we have proved that this holds for all standard Sturmian words havi...

The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) requires the EPA to consider "available information concerning the cumulative effects of such residues and other substances that have a common mechanism of toxicity ... in establishing, modifying, leaving in effect, or revoking a tolerance for a pesticide chemical residue." This directive raises a number of scientific questions to be answered befor...

Speech acts are crucial in establishing and achieving a conversation's goal. The purpose of this research is to examine speech the Moxie movie. This study examines types illocutionary perlocutionary produced by main characters movie, Vivian Claudia. writer used two different theories conduct research: theory act Austin (1962, as cited Cutting, 2002) classification Searle (1975, Leech (1983, Pec...