The study carried out an investigation on electronic payment system in Nigeria focusing on the implementation and the constraints antagonizing it with the aim to come up with solutions to the constraints so identified. The ostensible low level of contentment with e-payment system in Nigeria motivated this study. Banks, contractors and government agencies formed the sampling population with tota...

Although the author repeatedly emphasizes his points of disagreement with orthodox Freudian doctrine and very briefly mentions the existence of other schools of thought and types of psychotherapy, he appears to recommend analysis as the cure for everything from the mildest to the most severe psychological problems. Besides being unnecessary and inadvisable, it is also unpracticable as very few ...

This article argues that some ostensible advantages of Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC) over classic OT are actually liabilities. OT-CC correctly predicts that Chamorro umlaut occurs only when trigger and target are adjacent. But OT-CC is incompatible with similar phenomena like Central Venetan metaphony, and attempts to modify OT-CC to produce metaphony impair the theory’s handl...

Despite the hype and ostensible investments in child survival strategies, the state of child health in much of the developing world is alarming. Not only are global investments and support programmes for child health by the development agencies declining, but commensurate support for maternal and child health by poor countries themselves is poor. In order to make a meaningful contribution to ma...

William Lane Craig offers two philosophical arguments for the conclusion that the universe began to exist. To be compelling, these arguments must not only be sound—we must also have reasons to believe that they are sound. I determine that these arguments do not provide such reasons to many individuals. The arguments ultimately rely on supposedly intuitively obvious absurdities. However, if one ...

Appeals to the significance of a culture, tradition, or way life can simultaneously edify and alienate different audiences as they serve an identity-forming other-excluding function. The imaginary that some cultures are civilized complex others natural simple has been complexly mediated through historical entanglements interactions between, on one hand, colonialism Eurocentrism and, other, vari...

Similarly to quasidifferential equations of Panasyuk, the so-called mutational equations of Aubin provide a generalization of ordinary differential equations to locally compact metric spaces. Here we present their extension to a nonempty set with a possibly nonsymmetric distance. In spite of lacking any linear structures, a distribution-like approach leads to so-called right-hand forward soluti...

The kinetics of accumulation of the known stable RNA species (23S, 16S, and 5S rRNA and tRNA) in Escherichia coli C122 were monitored by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of purified cellular RNA, following termination of brief pulse labeling with (32)P-orthophosphate. Isotopically labeled stable RNA species appear only after a time lag, while total cellular RNA and the ostensible precursors t...

Over the last 30 years, Silvana Patriarca, a professor of Contemporary History at Fordham University, New York, has deeply and consistently investigated construction Italian national narrative: its ‘long term’ genealogy, characteristics, tensions. Her first book, Numbers Nationhood (Patriarca 1996), focused on co-production statistical knowledge image Italy during Restoration Risorgimento, rere...