The paper seeks to establish whether Maslowian theory of hierarchy human needs, in concert with other factors, could be a valid explanation for the observed poor insurance buying behaviour most Nigerians. Relying mainly on literature evidence it was that, given poverty level country, an average Nigerian would concerned more his existential needs than bother about security which decision relates...

The Hierarchy of Needs proposed by Abraham Maslow has been adopted by many groups of practitioners as a way to understand their customers and users. It argues that there are universal human needs, namely physiological, security/safety, social, self-esteem/ego and self-actualisation. Maslow contests that unless the former of these are met, the latter cannot be. This paper demonstrates the need f...

Existing memory management mechanisms used in commodity computing machines typically adopt hardware based address interleaving and OS directed random memory allocation to service generic application requests. These conventional memory management mechanisms are challenged by contention at multiple memory levels, a daunting variety of workload behaviors, and an increasingly complicated memory hie...

Economic, environmental, and psychosocial needs are common and wide-ranging among families cared for in primary care settings. Still, pediatric care delivery models are not set up to systematically address these fundamental risks to health. We offer a roadmap to help structure primary care approaches to these needs through the development of comprehensive and effective collaborations between th...

Probabilistic methods allow a first analysis, which leads to a hierarchy, in terms of orders of magnitude: one risk deserves to be taken into account, whereas some others may be neglected. Then, according to the needs, one can go further, and ask for a better knowledge of those which have been kept. In this respect, we realized in 2005 a risk analysis for the French "Commissariat à l'Energie At...

This paper proposes a new method for finding fuzzy weights in the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP), which fuzzifies the derived formulation of an eigenvector directly. The presented formulation only needs information about the upper triangular matrix and the assumption about the reciprocal matrix is not necessary. This characteristic makes the FAHP feasible because the property of recipr...

Purpose – To provide an interesting approach for determining interval measures, through the analytic hierarchy process, for integration with social network analysis for knowledge mapping in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – In order to develop improved organizational and business processes through knowledge management, a knowledge audit should be conducted to better understand the kn...

A typical instruction memory design exploration process using simulation tools for various cache parameters is a rather time-consuming process, even for low complexity applications. In order to design a power efficient memory hierarchy of an embedded system, a huge number of system simulations are needed for all the different instruction memory hierarchies, because many cache memory parameters ...

construction industry is the second most contributor of gross domestic product and the high rates of accidents /fatalities have tarnished the image of construction industry in india. the importance of safety at site cannot be underscored and it needs the combined attention of all stakeholders to address the issue of safety in construction industry in india. although the construction industry pl...

lack of awareness of the critical factors involved in production of plants and sometimes, the cultivation of plants in areas unsusceptible to plant, can increase the amount of chemical fertilizer consumption in order to compensate the subsequent reduction of plant yield. this would increase environmental pollution. thus, identifying of suitable areas where could supply plants initial needs of t...