This study explored the breach of psychological contracts and discretionary behaviour by Nigerian academics. A survey was employed to elicit information from 378 academics that were randomly selected 7,131 in federal universities North-Central Nigeria. The results hypotheses testing revealed most zone did not comply with contract (as supported negative statistical estimates Levene’s t-values). ...

The resistance of Java Card against attack is based on software and hardware countermeasures, and the ability of the Java platform to check the correct behaviour of Java code (by using bytecode verification for instance). Recently, the idea to combine logical attacks with a physical attack in order to bypass bytecode verification has emerged. For instance, correct and legitimate Java Card appli...

The relationship between cognitive function and violence in 76 remanded prisoners, without formal psychiatric illness, was investigated. The violent group tended to be of slightly lower general ability than the non-violent group, but not abnormally so in relation to the general population; no relationship was found between specific patterns of cognitive functioning and violence. The violent gro...

Scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) are sensitive indicators of subtle alterations in cerebral processes. We assessed automatic auditory adaptation and detection of novel stimuli in violent and non-violent alcoholics and normal subjects. Source analysis of ERPs revealed active medial temporal and frontal regions in all subjects. Frontal lobe processed alerting tones in violent alcoho...

T he structure of a social network is fundamentally related to the interests of its members. People assort spontaneously based on the topics that are relevant to them, forming social groups that revolve around different subjects. Online social media are also favorable ecosystems for the formation of topical communities centered on matters that are not commonly taken up by the general public bec...

The relevance of the publication is determined by military challenges that negatively affect people’s behaviour. risk group consists children and adolescents who, due to conflict, had adapt new, unusual conditions a change residence. Despite efforts authorities at all levels, volunteers, community, benefactors support create acceptable living for internally displaced persons, process adaptation...