This paper examines the effect of pastoralist-farmers conflict on access to resources in savanna area of Oyo state, Nigeria. A snow ball technique was used to obtain a list of agro-pastoralists and their camps in the study area whose conflicts with crop farmers were caused by the nomadic pastoralists’ uncontrolled grazing. Fifty percent of the households in each camp were randomly chosen and si...

Pervasive computing is the technology for the future. With efficient smart spaces and the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless networking standards, there are a lot of interesting potential solutions to many of the current problems. Due to the nomadic life of users, devices that are portable and handheld are highly useful in a pervasive computing environment. But there are severe proble...

At the time, Prof. Kemal Akishev drew attention to the considerable similarity of European Scythians culture and Asian Sakas [1], thus laying the foundation for the study of their transcontinental communications. Indeed, the very nomadic ordained main areas of communicative activity of Early Nomads in the entire Eurasian steppe zone. Cultural and economic type of their life estimated duration (...

Mobile phones, music players, personal computers, set-top boxes and countless other digital electronics appliances are part of our daily life. These nomadic devices provide more and more functionality. As an example, recent mobile phones allow to communicate, to take pictures, to play video, to listen to music, to watch TV, to browse the web, ... To achieve all this, the integrated circuit (IC)...

Watching sports is a favorite pastime of many consumers. A more nomadic life style makes the traditional spectating venues unavailable. Designing a sports spectator experience using mobile devices poses design and technological challenges in order to achieve a good experience at an acceptable cost. Combining animations, which have higher understandability and lower cost, with video, which has a...

The Bedouin Arab population in the southern Negev region of Israel has faced health problems as a result of transitioning rapidly from a nomadic agricultural lifestyle to a more modern urban lifestyle. Like many populations around the world, the Bedouins have changed their diets and become more sedentary and this has led to a high rate of diabetes. In this case report, we examine how diabetes h...

The paper attempts to contribute to the largely neglected social and anthropological discussion of technology development on the one hand, and to redirecting the emphasis in anthropology from primitive and exotic societies to problems of high relevance in contemporary era and how technology is used in everyday life. It draws upon multidimensional models of intelligence and ideal type formation....