Many rituals in Africa are deeply rooted the cultural beliefs, traditions and indigenous religions of continent. The guided by people’s belief their existence after death, role living dead or ancestors. These African have been infused Christian, Muslim Western concepts. Death mourning practices Africans varied because so many religious on families will engage one way another some cleansing deat...

AbstractThe transition of the dead to world ancestors in indigenous societies goes beyond burial and physical disintegration individual. The rites attendant on absence deceased Ugbo/Benin milieu culminate final journey ancestors. This can be termed apotheosis which may considered general recognition that an ancestor could sit among other While using aesthetics as a springboard, paper establishe...

Proteins are not static entities. They are highly mobile, and their steady-state levels are achieved by a balance between ongoing synthesis and degradation. The dynamic properties of a protein can have important consequences for its function. For example, when a protein is degraded and replaced by a newly synthesized one, posttranslational modifications are lost and need to be reincorporated in...

This paper examines the incentive-based system of Urban Meyer, head football coach at The Ohio State University. Personal discussions with this coach and members of his football staff took place following a review of his methods as described in biographical and media reports, and were compared with the approaches used by other successful coaches as documented in coaching research. Meyer has cre...

The textual entailment system determines whether one sentence can entail another in a common sense. We proposed several approaches to train textual entailment classifiers, including setting ancestor distance threshold, expanding training corpus, using different sets of features, and tuning classifier settings. The results show that a MC classifier trained by using an expanded training corpus an...

The experience of a successful adolescent learner will be described from the student’s perspective about learning the video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) through selected passages from a phenomenological interview. The question driving this investigation is, “Why did she sustain engagement in learning?” The importance of this question came out of the need for background on how to create an ...

This paper discusses to what extent hacker- and makerspaces (HMS) facilitate technology expertise. It draws on a combined qualitative interview survey study of current/former community members. Study participants relate that HMS encourage learning-by-doing self-directed creativity involving digital crafts. Despite some being hesitant label they do as learning, notion strongly associated with pr...