The practice of conducting elections in Nigerian politics dates back to Pre-Independence particularly, after the enactment Clifford Constitution 1922. After Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule 1960, Nation prides herself as a democratic regardless 13 years military interference. This, she tends demonstrate by periodic Elections every four select leaders. This exercise is made poss...

Standard neoclassical principal-agent theory predicts that stricter monitoring should reduce employee shirking from principal desires; however, recent analyses indicate that social aspects of principal-agent relationships may result in monitoring “crowding out” disciplinary effects. From 2001 to 2008 Major League Baseball (MLB) instituted an automated pitch-tracking system (QuesTec) to assist i...

In English, nominal compounding is a very productive means of word formation and hence of lexical expansion. Recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary online include e.g. bucket list – 'a list of things that a person hopes to experience or achieve before they die (or kick the bucket)' – and trout pout – 'unnaturally swollen lips resulting from the injection of excessive collagen into th...

The present study used quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the relationship between interval feedback and self-efficacy toward umpiring netball games. Grade "A "level umpires (n = 7) provided feedback to umpires (n = 40) under two conditions; 1) interval feedback given at the end of one tournament game (after 14 minutes) and again at the end of a second consecutive game (after 28 mi...

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self-created self-organized and self-administering set of nodes connected via wireless links without the aid of any fixed infrastructure or centralized administrator. Protecting the network layer from malicious attacks is an important and challenging issue in both wired and wireless networks and the issue becomes even more challenging in the case of MANET. I...

INTRODUCTION Pivotal to athletic performance is the ability to more maintain desired athletic performance levels during particularly critical periods of competition [1], such as during pressurised situations that typically evoke elevated levels of anxiety (e.g., penalty kicks) or when exposed to unexpected adversities (e.g., unfavourable umpire calls on crucial points) [2, 3]. These kinds of si...

the legal system of any given society, whether national or international, requires that legal disputes between the parties must be finally concluded and settled. abiding by judgments made by international courts and prevention of contradictory judgments are related to international public order. variety of international courts, arbitration tribunals and commissions increases the possibility of ...

The present paper proposes a branch-and-price approach to the Traveling Umpire Problem (TUP). In this hard combinatorial optimization problem, umpires (or referees) have to be assigned to games in a double round robin tournament. The objective is to obtain a solution with minimum total travel distance over all umpires, while respecting several hard constraints. Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition is ap...