The Hustler Fund, as a form of digital finance exploring mobile money, has received considerable amounts praise and criticism almost in equal measures, notwithstanding the material determination behind its creation or noble intentions architects. Though ingeniously crafted, publicized, adorned into hearts Kenyans during campaign period, that political phase long elapsed. Promulgated at end 2022...

This study examines how mainstream news media reported the withdrawal of a popular pastor from the 2013 Obama inaugural ceremony. Louie Giglio was originally chosen for a role in the event, but relinquished his position when focus was placed on a sermon he once delivered about homosexuality. Analysis of framing and sourcing of the stories raises serious questions about the role media played in ...

The theory of Petri nets that was conceived to model the interactions between asynchronous concurrent processes, can be extended to explore conflicts and delineate the options available to resolve such conflicts in such processes. To this end we define the property of essentially decision free places (EDF places) in Petri nets to represent the absence of conflicts in resource allocations. Using...

I believe my good and learned colleague Dr Ackerman raises an interesting issue. Is it inherently unprofessional or unethical for a dermatologist who has performed a skin biopsy as part of his evaluation of a patient to render a pathology diagnosis as an additional part of his care of the patient? From the purest of motives, Dr Ackerman argues against such a practice since these dermatologists ...

Traditionally, "Cryptography" is a benediction to information processing and communications, it helps people to store information securely and the private communications over long distances. Cryptovirology is the study of applications of cryptography to build the malicious software. It is an investigation, how modern cryptographic tools and paradigms can be used to strengthen, develop and impro...

In 1924 under the auspices of the Heretics, a society at Cam-bridge, were published two small booklets. One, Daedalus or Science and the Future, by J. B. S. Haldane, pictured, perhaps too optimistically, and certainly too vividly, the vast beneficent potentialities of science and the blessed world it might create. The other, Icarus, or the Future of Science, by Bertrand Russell, pointed out the...

Recent curriculum changes in the educational system of Australia have resulted in allowing optional Engineering course work to count for university entrance for students choosing to apply to a university. In other educational systems, Engineering is playing an increasingly important role, either as a stand-alone subject or as part of an integrated approach to Science, Mathematics, and Technolog...