Dissemination of research findings through the publication of one's work or a group of contributors is an important part of the research process, as this allows the passing on of benefits to a much wider community. In whatever evocative form this dissemination may take, the onus lies on the author(s) to ensure adherence to the code of ethics as it pertains to the integrity of the information be...

This paper presents a general overview of the recent rise of mobile networks and their related applications, focusing on the particular case of mobile networks and technologies applied to the early detection and management of emergencies, crisis, and conflict events. It then raises the question of how these new developments could endanger the privacy and security of their end users and briefly ...

This paper explores the need, development of computerized passenger reservation system for Indian railways. The passenger reservation system is based on online transaction processing. It was given the name Integrated Multitrain Passenger REServation System (IMPRESS) which later developed into single image system called Countrywide Network Of Computerized Enhanced ReservaTion (CONCERT). Then thi...

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As Latin America emerges scathed from the COVID-19 pandemic, political pendulum appears to turn once again towards its longstanding calls for greater social inclusion. Inequality, inflation and continuous resource extraction without sufficient inclusiveness – in forms of mining, expanding export-oriented agriculture or, increasingly, exclusionary approaches sustainable development through renew...

Digital image authentication is an essential attribute for protecting digital image from piracy and copyright violator. Anti-piracy, digital watermarking, and ownership verification are some mechanisms evolving over the years for achieving digital image authentication. Cryptographic primitives, such as hash function, digital signature, and message authentication codes are being used in several ...

This paper investigated the mode of entry as a predictor of success in final year bachelor of education degree examinations in universities in Ekiti and Ondo States, Nigeria. The study population comprised all the 1810 final year 400 level students in the two universities offering education courses namely University of Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti State and Adekunle Ajasin University in Ondo State, Niger...

This article traces the historical evolution of risk perception around Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, Germany, from 1956 to 1997. It does so by targeting water-related risks. Federal hopes in postwar era that would bring progress and prosperity clashed with local values nuclear engineering as dangerous health environment. Various conflicts arose opponents made use their past lived-knowledge...

‘The common grave of Europe’: with these negative words the Netherlandish humanist Justus Lipsius described Low Countries. His adaptation Catullus’ famous verse on Troy1 reveals an essential aspect role territories in early modern Europe. Although their privileged centrality had contributed to function as a nodal point transmission culture, it also turned Countries into theatre war for bloody a...

Infrastructural systems have emerged as productive ethnographic sites for analysing political subjectivities and rationalities. Through the case of shared electricity prepaid meters in compound housing system Accra, Ghana, I suggest that infrastructures’ potential lies their imaginative hermeneutic abilities to foster desires dignity, sustain well-being, question moral ideals collective life. I...