Social Sciences and Humanities

Impact of global armed conflict on education and health of the citizenry in the 21st century

The paper examined the impact of global armed conflict on Education and Health of individuals in the 21st century. It explores the effects communal armed conflicts on education and health of the citizenry. The impact of conflict on education as raised in the paper are that it disrupts school  attendance, educational attainment, destroys educational infrastructures and schools as well as places of learning are often explicit targets of attacks.

Human occupational activities in the stubbs creek forest reserves (SCFR) of akwa ibom state: impacts and implications on socio-economic environment

Akwa Ibom State with a total land area of 8412.0km2 is endowed with Stubbs Greek Forest Reserve (SCFR). The exploitation of the SCFR has reached an alarming proportion principally due to human occupational activities such as farming, lumbering, oil exploration, road and residential constructions. Relying specifically on field-based data from 240 respondents from three Local Government Areas in Akwa Ibom State, it has been observed that, continuous exploitation of the SCFR through human occupational concerns has resulted in the destruction and loss of human habitat and bio-diversity.

Improving democratic perception scale towards social studies teacher candidates: validity and reliability study

Plato states that democracy and education appear as two sisters. According to him, the most basic feature of democratic managements is the importance they give to the education but the one based on questioning and discussing. Christopher Lasch as another philosopher also brings forward that democracy requires social discussion.  It is possible to increase the number. It is not possible to mention neither democracy nor democratic life in the countries prohibiting or without having discussions.

Globalization of economy and the impact of foreign direct investment on sustainable growth: an Indian perspective

Investment in India provides the base and pre-requisite for economic growth and development. Apart from a nation’s foreign exchange reserves, exports, government’s revenue, financial position, available supply of domestic savings, magnitude and quality of foreign investment are necessary for the well being of a country. Developing nations, in particular, consider FDI as the safest type of international capital flows out of all the available sources of external finance available to them. FDI provides a win – win situation to the host and the home countries.

Selected properties of hybrid particleboard composite made from oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) and merpauh (irvingla malayanan olive) particles bonded with melamine urea formaldehyde res

The Merpauh (Irvingla malayana olive) sawdust was mixed with empty fruit bunch (EFB) of oil palm tree, aimed to improve the homogeneous EFB particleboard. The EFB and Merpauh fibres with diameter of less than 1 mm and more than 1 mm were prepared and they were mixed with ratios of 40:60, 60:40, 80:20 and 100:0. The particleboard with a target density of 750 Kg/m3 and sized of 340mm x 340mm x 12mm were prepared with 12% melamine urea formaldehyde (MUF) and 3 % hardener.

The improvised explosive devices unsurgent artillery in modern warfares

We have no greater responsibility than providing the safety and security for our citizens, allies, and partners and develop the economic environment that promotes opportunity and prosperity. The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) threatens these interests by killing, injuring, and intimidating citizens and political leaders around the world, inflicting damage on security forces on the battlefield, and disrupting transportation and the flow of commerce. The terrorists and criminals responsible for these attacks are resilient, technologically adept and adaptable.

Financial inclusion and development: Recent evidence of agency banking in Kenya

Global and national-level policy makers have been embracing financial inclusion as an important development priority. Financial inclusion is highly topical globally hence made one of its pillars at the G20 2009 Pittsburgh Summit. By end-2013, more than 50 national-level policy-making and regulatory bodies had publicly committed to financial inclusion strategies for their countries.

The role of technical education in a reforming economy: The Nigerian experience

History has shown that technical education is an important factor in the growth and development of any nation. The reality of today also indicates that technological advancements and innovations have touched virtually every aspect of life. Therefore, any nation that fails to take the production of technicians seriously has sentenced itself into perpetual underdevelopment. It is against this background that many countries including Nigeria mapped out strategies in promoting technical education.

Language as the most effective instrument of communication

In this study, character of communication is evaluated and language is discussed as main component of communication and spiritual power of language is emphasized as a primary actor of communication. Man drew on cave walls and graved on stone and wrote on papyrus and painted on canvas and always tried to tell something in past because of his natural need and because of natural necessity of social life. He wanted to tell his opinions and his impressions and wanted to learn other’s messages and he tried to talk to other people.

Ethno-medicinal uses of floristic diversity of sub-tropical forests of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India

The study was conducted to record the diversity, traditional uses and the utilization pattern of medicinal plants in sub-tropical forests in and around erstwhile district Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. During the survey, out of total 395 plant species recorded, 118 species belonging to 107 genera in 56 families revealed the ethno-medicinal relevance to the area. These belonged to 42 trees, 27 shrubs, 39 herbs, 08 climbers, 1 epiphyte and 1 bamboo species.