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DISCOURSE ON MORALITY, CORRUPTION AND CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: DOES INTENTION MATTER?
Authors: Ademowo Adeyemi Johnson
Published: August 2018

Corruption is widely regarded as a condemnable act because of its effects on the wellbeing of the populace. More than the reason(s) for the supposed act of corruption, most scholars are of the view that the very act of „diverting? public funds, with likely severe consequence(s), is unacceptable, and therefore immoral. But the question is: should the morality of an act be decided strictly based on the consequence(s) of such an action or should the intent of the „performer? be considered? In this paper we shall be examining the „consequences versus intent? factor in the definition of corruption within the public space, using T.M. Scalon?s „Predictive Significance?. In the final analysis, the work suggests that neither consequences nor intent is solely sufficient in evaluating the morality of corruption. We therefore suggest that both intent and consequences should be duly considered within the ambit of Scalon?s „Predictive Significance? when moralising corruption, most especially in Africa where change is much needed.
The Art of Control: Theatrical Watching, Apostrophe and Acting in Saul Bellow's Herzog
Authors: Assadi Jamal
Published: August 2018

So wide-ranging is Bellow's employment of the acting image and hence of personas in Herzog that references to stage, acting and script-writing are dispersed everywhere in the novel. A vigilant study of this image reveals that the mutual relationships and social encounters of major characters bear on dramatic scenes written, directed, and performed by the characters themselves.

But what does Bellow try to discover through the medium of acting and hence persona? How is it reflected in his treatment of his main themes and characters? And does it affect the narrative point of view? In order to understand the image more deeply and answer these questions, I will study it in relation to three groups of characters: first, Madeleine, Gersbach, and some of Herzog's friends; second, Ramona (the newest girl friend) and his parents and relatives; and third, Herzog, the versatile actor-audience and the ever writer of the unsent letters or the multiple character.
Lifelong Learning and continuing education: Opinions of teachers and student teachers of preschool education in Greece
Authors: Karalis Thanassis , Mantadaki Evangelia , Lemioti Dionissia
Published: August 2018

In the following article we are going to present the findings of a qualitative research that uses semi-structured interviews for data collection. This specific research aims to look into the views of pre-school teachers (Pre-school Education) and student teachers (students of the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education) on the content and importance of lifelong learning and continuing education. At the same time the research compares the views of these two groups as regards lifelong learning and continuing education based on how these terms are coined in relevant literature. The findings show that there is no discrepancy in opinions as both groups consider lifelong learning and continuing education as the medium that will eventually help an educationalist improve both on personal as well as professional level.
Impact of CSR on Education & Healthcare of Underprivileged Sections of the Society
Authors: Jaysawal Neelmani , Saha Mrs. Sudeshna
Published: August 2018

Education and Healthcare keeps an important position in the development paradigm of a country. India, having more than 1 billion population, requires an inclusive growth where each section of society might claim benefits of growth. It is estimated that approximately 29 percent of the Indian population lives below the poverty line (World Bank 2003). This figure accounts for more than 290 million people, or nearly 25 percent of the world's poor population. On average, the poor have lower levels of education than the general population and suffer from higher disease prevalence. Scheduled castes and tribes are overrepresented in below-poverty-line (BPL) households. More than 65 percent of scheduled caste/scheduled tribe (SC/ST) households live below the poverty line. Apart from health sector, even education system of the country is in pitiable condition. The education system of a country doesnot functions in isolation from society. In such a condition, extending educational opportunities to marginalized groups has been considered an antidote to this longstanding discrimination.

Therefore, several organizations working in profit sector have proceeded in the area of advancement of marginalized sections of society through initiatives in education and health sector known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The organizations like Tata, HDFC, Infosys have been actively involved in educational development of marginalized sections. Even public sector enterprises like SAIL, BPCL, BHEL have provided growth of marginalized sections through some of their initiatives in education and health sector.

Therefore, this paper seeks to highlight conditions of education and health in the wake of marginalized sections of our society and critically examine contribution of CSR initiatives of both public and private sectors for their advancement.
Development and Validation of the '˜Relative Deprivation Scale for Financial Possibilities'
Authors: Ozdemir Fatih
Published: August 2018

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a new scale which measures relative deprivation level of university students toward financial possibilities. According to egoistical relative deprivation model (Crosby, 1976), five preconditions must be met to feel deprived. Depending on these preconditions, 71 items were written. Item pool was conducted 310 (Nfemale = 208; Nmale = 102) university students who study in different universities of Turkey (Mage = 22.84; SD = 2.44). Participants rated items on a 6 point Likert-type response set. Findings indicated a five-dimensional, 22-item scale which is called Relative Deprivation Scale for Financial Possibilities (?=.77); factors were (1) adverse effects of relative deprivation (?=.88), (2) feasibility of obtaining better financial possibilities (?=.78), (3) responsibility for failure to possess better financial possibilities (?=.84), (4) feeling to deserve better financial possibilities (?=.71) and (5) wanting toward better financial possibilities (?=.75). Also, these dimensions were tested with demographic information of participants.
IF YOU COULD KNOW, WHAT USERS THINK: Urban Design and Preference of the Visual Attributes to Design Sustainable Urban Open Spaces
Authors: Ferdous Farhana
Published: August 2018

What are the visual attributes of successfully designed urban open spaces that play significant roles in the creation of sustainable livable cities? Public spaces are mostly designed for social interaction and communication. The aesthetic and morphological dimensions of public spaces are among the essential visual and physical characteristics that need to be understood for successful social use. This paper reports on a study that was exploratory and qualitative in nature and sets out to explore the different physical characteristics of designed urban open spaces as being aesthetically and socially important from the users' point of view. By using photo simulation techniques, a set of 24 photographs of urban plazas, squares, and pedestrian malls were used as surrogates for the physical environment. The study identified some salient attributes of designed urban open spaces in order to create sustainable urban planning, with six sub-categories considered to be important. Based on detailed participant responses, a list of the attributes of preferred physical environment to design sustainable urban open space has been developed. The findings can be implemented to create sustainable urban planning as well as to design successful urban plazas, squares, and other public open spaces according to user preferences in the future.
CHILDREN AND TELEVISION: THE LOOMING MEDIA EFFECT IN KENYA
Authors: Agalo Jerry , Agalo Joyce
Published: August 2018

The debate on children's behavior as competent television viewers and also cultural viewers today continues unabated in research. In the developed world, much of research has focused on the effects of television exposure on children's behavior and attitude formation. Other researches however, focused on effects on cognition. Yet the African child has been left out in such researches that continue to be conducted in developed world. Indeed, media research in Africa may not be meaningful without giving regard to Africanity among the children. This gives an open window through which one sees the peculiarities of the local culture in which African children grow as they get exposed to the media. While a number of Kenyan narratives celebrate the virtues of television including the discourses on coverage of the infamous terrorist attack in West Gate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, 21st September,2013,it appears that the role of television in Kenyan society is catapulting into political discourses with attempts in enhancing approaches to quality  governance. On the contrary,a country with over 40 million population with nascent capitalist economy, there is need for enhancement of local communities and increased opportunities for education which will not lead to the hegemony of one social group and subordination of others. Of these40 million people , 43% of them are children aged between five and sixteen. Thispaper concentrates its focus on the social milieu of the people living around the lake Victoria region, majority of whom are mostly fishermen.
CREATIVE THINKING AND INTELLIGENCE: CATEGORIES' REFERENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF INTEGRATIVE CREATIVE THINKING CONCEPTION
Authors: Chernetskaya Nadezhda
Published: August 2018

The paper refers to the terminological and theoretical problem of reference of creative thinking' and intelligence' categories, which is significant in the integrative creative thinking conception context. Minding the obvious variety of approaches towards creative thinking and intelligence, one must mention their inconsistency evoking difficulties in defining mentioned terms and their reference. In the paper theoretical and methodological methods of conflict resolution of some of those inconsistencies are proposed. Some contemporary approaches towards creative thinking and intelligence are taken into consideration.
Settlements of Bystrinsky District in the XX-th century: Emergening and Development
Authors: Kirillova Alina Igorevna
Published: August 2018

The article analyzes the state role in national settlements emerging and development among Russian Far Eastern nomads in the XX-th century on the sample of Bystrinsky district, Kamchatka. The author used archive materials, books and collected documents and materials of Ethnographic expedition of Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University to Anavgay in 2005. The basic methods are analysis and classification. The topic of the article is actual because of modern re-estimation Soviet period of Russian history. Based on Soviet and Russian authors' books.
Teacher Perfection Level about Environmental Education
Authors: Mondal Naba Kumar , Adhikari Suprakash , Das Pritam
Published: August 2018

A study has been done to evaluate the status of consciousness about Environmental Education among the teachers of Technical college and General college in the district of Birbhum and Burdwan,West-Bengal . Study results revealed that in all aspect like of consciousness the technical college teachers showed better perfection than general college teachers. Finally it can be concluded that overall consciousness about Environmental Education of Technical college teacher much better performance than General college Teachers.
STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR GENDER AND ACADEMIC STREAM
Authors: Kaur Dr.Navdeep
Published: August 2018

Since its evolution environment has remained both a matter of awe and concern to man. The frontier attitude of the industrialized society towards nature has not only endangered the survival of all other life forms but also threatened the very existence of human life. The realization of such potential danger has necessitated the dissemination of knowledge and skill vis-a-vis environment protection at all stages of learning. Therefore, learners of all stages of learning need to be sensitized with a missionary zeal. This may ensure transformation of students into committed citizens for averting global environment crisis.

The advancement of science and technology made the life more and more relaxed and man also became more and more ambitious. With such development, human dependence on environment increased. He consumed more resources and the effect of his activities on the environment became more and more detectable. Environment covers all the things present around the living beings and above the land, on the surface of the earth and under the earth. Environment indicates, in total, all of peripheral forces, pressures and circumstances, which affect the life, nature, behaviour, growth, development and maturation of living beings.

Irrational exploitation (not utilization) of natural resources for our greed (not need) has endangered our survival, and incurred incalculable harm. Environmental Education is a science, a well-thought, permanent, lasting and integrated process of equipping learning experiences for getting awareness, knowledge, understanding, skills, values, technical expertise and involvement of learners with desirable attitudinal changes about their relationship with their natural and biophysical environment. Environmental Education is an organized effort to educate the masses about environment, its functions, need, importance, and especially how human beings can manage their behaviour in order to live in a sustainable manner. 

The term 'environmental awareness' refers to creating general awareness of environmental issues, their causes by bringing about changes in perception, attitude, values and necessary skills to solve environment related problems. Moreover, it is the first step leading to the formation of responsible environmental behaviour (Stern, 2000). With the ever increasing development by modern man, large scale degradation of natural resources have been occurred, the public has to be educated about the fact that if we are degrading our environment we are actually harming ourselves. To encourage meaningful public participation and environment, it is necessary to create awareness about environment pollution and related adverse effects. This is the crucial time that environmental awareness and environmental sensitivity should be cultivated among the masses particularly among youths. For the awareness of society it is essential to work at a gross root level. So the whole society can work to save the environment.
RELEVANCE OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION TO CURRICULUM THEORY AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Authors: Rauf Zaka , YUSUF MUSA
Published: August 2018

Attempts of undue separation of the philosophy of education and curriculum theory and development in the teaching of systematic functional education have been seriously criticized. This has been so because it is not in the best interest in the teaching of an intelligent and national curriculum which forms the bedrock to the development of a truly vibrant educational system in Nigeria. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to investigate the relevance of the philosophy of education to the development of an intelligent curriculum which is imperative to the teaching of functional education in the technical, the sciences, the humanities and social sciences towards the revitalization of the Nigerian educational sector.
Mahmud Darwish: A Revived Sufi or a Sufi Reviver?
Authors: Assadi Jamal , Naamneh Mahmud
Published: August 2018

This paper will discuss the mask of Farid Ed-Din Al-`Aattar as portrayed in the poetry of Mahmud Darwish with the aim of studying the concatenation between the Sufi mask and intertextuality, and between poetry and meta-poetry.

To be more specific, this paper will investigate are some questions: Why did Darwish wear the mask of Al-`Attarr? Was it a mere fondness of an influential ancestor? Was it an act of protest against severe spiritual and intellectual deficiency and poverty which modern Arab literature suffers from? Was Al-`Attar simply used as a Sufi mask, or as a signal of inter-textuality? Did Darwish intend to pay homage to an ancient ancestor without whom he could not live his present and lead a successful struggle? In other words, did Darwish intend to resurrect Arab poetry and its revolutionary spirit by using Al-`Attar's heritage? If so, is Al-`Attar a revived Sufi living among us to guide in person the battle for freedom and to promote the level of Arab literature? Or was DarwÄ«sh given life by Al-`Attar, the Sufi saint?
THE DIFFERENCES IN CHD RISK FACTORS AND LIFESTYLE PARAMETERS BETWEEN ARAB AND MALAYSIAN ADOLESCENTS IN KUALA LUMPUR
Authors: Doughman Khaled Khalifa , Geok Soh Kim
Published: August 2018

Studying Arab and Malaysian students at international schools appears new to the research field, as there is little in the way of data or literature review that has been obtained to date.The purpose of this study is to compare lifestyle parameters (physical activity, body composition, fitness level and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) risk factors) of Arab and Malaysian adolescents Method:a total of 190 adolescents students, 96 Malaysian and 94 Arab, both male and female aged 14-16 years old, participated in this research.A questionnaire was used to obtain details of physical activity levels (PAL) in Metabolic Equivalents. A 20m shuttle-run test was used to estimate the fitness level (VO2max). A finger prick sample of fasting blood was obtained to measure high-density (HDL) lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), total cholesterol (TC), glucose (GLU) and triglycerides (TRG) in mmoll and identify CHD risk factors, by using the Cholestch LDX analyzer. BMI and %fat used for the body compositions. Conclusion:males were more physically active than females.Arab students had lower BMI, GLU, and TC and participated more in physical activities, and their fitness level was higher than Malaysian students at international schools.Malaysian adolescents had higher triglycerides levels than Arab adolescents.
Women's Involvement in Cybercrime: A Premilinary Study
Authors: Ahmad Termimi Muhamad Asyraf , Rosele Muhammad Ikhlas , Meerangani Khairul Azhar , Marinsah Syamsul Azizul , Ramli Mohd Anuar
Published: August 2018

Cyber crimes is a new millennium threat to society nowadays which brings by developments of technology and information. Various forms of cyber crimes exist either theft and fraud involving money and property or safety threat involving contamination of dignity. Therefore, this study will identify cyber crimes related to women in Malaysia for cases of theft and fraud of money and property through cyberspace. Cyber crimes will be identified and classified according to cases that often occurred in Malaysia and legal protection provided to the victim. The results showed lack of awareness about cyber security transactions and the provision of existing law that exists for cyber crime cause women to be victims of cyber crime.
ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AS A CULTURAL EVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY
Authors: Vladykova Lubov
Published: August 2018

The present paper deals with the project of ecological ethics as a distinctive field of ethics, transgressing the sphere of interpersonal relations to which ethics used to be restricted until relatively recently. Ecological ethics articulates the relation between human beings and other living entities and alternatively other nonhuman natural substances. Ecological ethics has become an interdisciplinary poly-discourse, an attempt to draw attention to the deeper meaning of life; it has become a new way of reflecting on our place in the natural world by raising questions about what we need to know (competence of science), how we need to act (competence of ethics and politics) with regard to the environmental and ecological aspects of understanding of our existence. In addition, the present paper adds to these theoretical implications the concept of pronaturalness[1]based on the fact that our decision to adopt this attitude determines our status of moral, rational and intelligent beings capable of amplifying our positions and perspectives of nature in a global context.
A STUDY OF THE OPINIONS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN DELTA STATE ON CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA
Authors: WHAWO DANIEL D.
Published: August 2018

This is a survey research to obtain the opinions of staff and students of secondary schools in Delta State of Nigeria on the corruption in the country. It is a replica study of an earlier one carried out among primary school teachers. Secondary school teachers are part of the societal agents charged with the character development of citizens.

Analysis of available data indicated that both staff and students agree that there is corruption in Nigeria and that Nigerians are corrupt. They both disagree on the assertions that: all Nigerians are corrupt; only men are corrupt ; and, men are more corrupt than women in Nigeria.

The most noticeable causes of corruption identified by respondents are poor income, unemployment,, corrupt leadership, greed, selfishness, prevalence of bribery and desire to openly spend money in public gatherings.

A strong emphasis on moral and religious education for character building and civic/citizenship education is advocated as a long-term antidote to the evils of corruption in Nigeria.
Action and Passivity as Proportional to Available Self-Control (Metabolic) Energy: Self-Control Use, Diabetes, and Action
Authors: T. Gailliot Matthew
Published: August 2018

The capacity for action may be directly proportional to the amount of its available energy. After having used self-control, participants showed reduced action, or increased passivity, in the form of reduced activity during a social interaction (Studies 1 and 2) and less talking during a group discussion (Study 3). This effect occurred only among people who typically are highly active in such situations those with low anxieties and high extraversion. A final study suggested that the effect may be mediated by metabolism, showing that people with diabetes tend to watch more television than do people without. Action might rely on the same energy as self-control and on that which is disrupted during diabetes, indicating metabolic energy as underlying a broad capacity for action.
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONS:TOWARDS A COGNITIVE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF MEANING IN HUMAN TECHNOLOGY INTERACTION
Authors: Saariluoma Pertti , Rousi Rebekah
Published: August 2018

Information technology has perpetuated the role of symbolism in everyday life practice, through its reliance on sign systems for its creation and operation. Increasingly attention has been placed on applying semiotic techniques to analyze user interface design and usability. Surprisingly, although the move towards symbolic interaction has been one of the most striking components of the digital shift, it has proven difficult to build bridges between semiotics and HTI-design thinking. In this article we argue that the problems in linking semiotic analysis of human technology interaction with modern HTI-design paradigms such as usability or user experience arise from a theoretical gap between the paradigms of semiotics, human cognition and thinking. Consequently, it is necessary to reformulate principal insights of semiotics such as the triangle of reference, by replacing the intuitive concept of thought, with modern philosophical and psychological concepts of human thinking. This allows the unification of usability research based on cognitive research with the analysis of signs in modern semiotics. It is possible to unify the conceptual analysis of signification and semiosis with conceptual and empirical work typical to modern human technology interaction research and design, thus making semiotics an essential tool within the swiftly developing paradigms of interaction design.
Local program of surmounting of post grade: A proposed methodological for your application in the territorial development.
Authors: Quintana Mercedes Vera
Published: August 2018

The work had as object of study the content and application of the postgraduate programs that it is imparted in the branch office of technical sciences (FCT) of "October 10 ", of the ISPJAE (CUJAE), due to your important role in the social appropriation of the knowledge for the local development. In it a deep analysis of the process of formation of postgraduate and your particular characteristics are made in function of implementer a new pedagogic conception, all the who constitutes an instrument of value invaluable for the historical studies, logical and related prospective with this themes. This study has as objective it develops in practice educational of our professionals a sustained methodology in a local program of surmounting of Postgraduate (PLSP), by keeping in mind your level of impact and pertinence for the territory. This proposed methodological is made to this process through the investigation carried out, the who reveals your possibilities of application to validate your effects and as of the positive results, it elaborates a synthesis that constitutes the main objective by keeping in mind the more advanced focusing of the consulted literature.
ENHANCING THE PARTICIPATION OF MEN AND WOMEN IN THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES AT THE BRIDGE WATER SUPPLY PROJECT IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA
Authors: Mwambu Brian , Kimani Prof. Elishiba , Maina Dr. Lucy
Published: August 2018

affects livelihoods, health and the fulfillment of basic needs of women and men. Women and men as the users of water resources need to be involved in the management of water resource. This can effectively be done with proper strategies to mainstream gender in all the management undertaking at the community level. This study sought to investigate on the participation of men and women and strategies to enhance gender mainstreaming in the management of water resources at the Bridge Water Project which had drilled 123 boreholes for use in households, learning and religious institutions in Kakamega County. The study was a case study guided by the equity theory developed by John Stacy Adams in 1963. 10% samples of 13 out of the 123 committees that manage the boreholes were randomly selected as respondents to the study. They include 5 household committees, 6 learning and 2 committees from religious institutions.Â  Key informants were heads of selected institutions and the chief of the location where the study was undertaken. The instruments used to collect data were Questionnaires, Focused Group Discussion, Interview Schedule and Observation. Data collected was cross-tabulated for qualitative analysis. The study established that women were discriminated against in terms of participation in management committees despite the fact that they were the main water users. On the basis of strategies, the study identified training and awareness creation on the need for gender equity, dissemination of the affirmative action policy, empowerment and mobilization of women to seek management positions and engagement of a gender expert to guide gender mainstreaming in the management of the project as strategies to enhance gender mainstreaming in the management of the Bridge Water Supply Project.
CHD Risk Factors & Lifestyle parameters of Malaysian Adolescents.
Authors: Doughman Khaled Khalifa , Geok Soh Kim
Published: August 2018

A direct relationship exists between rising living standards and weight-gain/health-related problems. This has become increasingly widespread resulting from increases in socioeconomic development and changes in lifestyle, related to physical, and behavioral health. The purpose of this study is to determine and further evaluate the differences in physical activity level, dietary habits, sleeping duration, body composition, and fitness level between Malaysian adolescents at international and public schools, in relation to gender. Method: Two hundred and ten Malaysian students from international and public schools in Kuala Lumpur, male and female age 14-16 years old, participated in this study. Physical activity questionnaires were used to estimate the daily/weekly physical activities levels. Body composition was determined by percentile/age BMI and measurements to percent body fat. Fitness level was assessed by using the 20m shuttle run test.Results; females had higher percent body fat and BMI than males; females do more low intensity activities than males. There are differences on %fat, low intensity METS, and VO2 max between Malaysian student studying at public and international schools.
“That line’s got personality!” – The Big 5 as a Model of Personality Perception
Authors: T. Gailliot Matthew
Published: August 2018

Personality – enduring traits describing how people tend to think and behave – often is described by the Big 5 model. Everything people do and think can be described as representing 1 of 5 more general traits. Though the Big 5 model has been posited to describe actual thought and behavior, the current work tested the hypothesis that personality ratings would fit the Big 5 model even when the target being rated does not have a personality in any meaningful sense. Supporting this hypothesis, the Big 5 model showed acceptable fit for describing a person (consistent with past work), but also a straight line drawn on paper, something that should not have personality in any meaningful sense. The Big 5 model thus does not necessarily describe actual thought and behavior but instead the structure of personality perception.
Language and Politicking: A Pragmatic Analysis of Political Texts in Political Posters and Jingles in Oyo State, Nigeria
Authors: Ajayi Temitope , Ajayi, Daniel Oluwafemi
Published: August 2018

This paper attempts a pragmatic analysis of political texts in political posters and jingles of gubernatorial candidates for 2015 General Elections in Oyo state, Nigeria, within the purview of Mey's (2001) Pragmatic Acts Theory. Data were collected from political posters and jingles of Governor Abiola Ajimobi(the incumbent governor of the state), the erstwhile governors of the state, Rasheed Ladoja and Alao Akala, and Professor Adejumo, a yet to be declared PDP?s gubernatorial candidate for the said election. The study reveals that the language of politicians in the state is characterised by practs such as accusation, challenge, abuse, warning and persuasion, commendation and condemnation which draw on contextual features such as Shared Situational Knowledge (SSK), Shared Cultural Knowledge (SCK), Metaphor (MPH) and Relevance (REF).

The paper concludes that politicians in the state, an indication of what happens on a large scale in the country, employ language to attack one another?s personalities, rather than address issues that could help move the state forward.
THE INFLUENCES OF SELF REGULATION TOWARDS ACADEIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG GIFTED STUDENTS IN SAUDI ARABIA
Authors: Sharipahmira Wan , Faisa Al-Sahafil , Zuri Ghani Mohd
Published: August 2018

This research examines the influence of self-regulation towards academic achievement among gifted students in Saudi Arabia. The discussion in the study is base on the theoretical framework of the emotional intelligence Theory Goleman’s (1995), the Mayer and Salovey Model (1997) and achievement motivation Theory. These theories are appropriate for the study because they allow the reader to understand how academic achievement is significantly influenced by selfregulation among gifted students in Saudi Arabia. A total of 150 respondents were involved in the quantitative study comprising of male and female gifted students whereby 10 teachers and 30 gifted students were used for qualitative study. Questionnaires were the instruments used to sample the opinions of 150 gifted students? where by interview protocol was used to get the information from the 10 teachers and 30 gifted students. During the analysis and interpretation of the responses gathered from gifted students which is the quantitative data, multiple regressions were used to investigate the influence of self-regulation towards academic achievement among gifted students. For the qualitative data thematic analysis was used through manual qualitative style to describe the concept of self-regulation and provide suggestions from the teachers that could be adopted to improve self-regulation among gifted students in Saudi Arabia. The findings of the study show the effect of self-regulation on academic achievement. The study will be significant to teachers of gifted students, educational planners, government, international agencies such as UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, e t c and nongovernmental organizations by putting into practice the suggestions and recommendations which will help them improve emotional intelligence among gifted students in Saudi Arabia.
AFRICA'S DIRGE: THE ILLUSION OF SOLUTIONS TO THE NATIONS?
Authors: Antwi Emmanuel
Published: August 2018

Over the centuries, the theatrical and pretentious activities of African Political leaders have culminated in the evolution of a thick skin of carelessness and indifference guided by fuzzy and visionless eyes that stare hopelessly into the future. It is certainly difficult now to determine what could stair her to realize her precarious situation and act. Time and again African nations have proven unable to solve petty problems, thoughtless of managing weightier matters of the current century, while her keen and expectant citizens behold, distressed with disillusion and frustration. Employing a constructivist paradigm the studyfocuses onthe works of artists whose works reference issues of the continent of Africa, as means to lambast satirize and chastise her to wake up. The work is organised on the basis of Stream - Write,a qualitative method of research through art that share qualities of prose, poetry and drama to benefits from the expressive qualities available in same, and to allow for the liberty needed in exploring the domain of the intuitive, creative and sometimes illogical writing impulse. From all historical indications I submit in conclusion that indeed Africa is gleefully willing and hopeful to embrace an end far worse than her most dreadful past.
The United States' Global Realism: US Policy in El Salvador as a Case Study
Authors: Daghrir Wassim
Published: August 2018

Should the United States’ global mission be to make the world “safe for democracy”, as Woodrow Wilson said, or, in the words of John Quincy Adams, should the US be “the well-wisher of freedom and independence of all” but the “champion and vindicator only of our own”? The debate between Idealists and Realists in US foreign policy has been going on forever. Idealists hold that the US should make its internal political philosophy, namely Democracy, the goal of its foreign policy. Realists, on the other hand, esteem that the US foreign policy should be mainly oriented towards the protection and enhancement of “the National Interest”. My line of reasoning is that the balance has always shifted towards Realism and, occasionally, aggressive Realism. U.S. interventions in Latin America offer telling case studies. They have taken the shape of a mixture of overt and covert interventions in conjunction with the significant political, economic and military pressures. Washington’s efforts to check hostile developments in the Americas necessitated the investment of considerable tax-dollars, political capital, and even American lives. To accomplish its political, strategic, and economic objectives in the area, the U.S. has devoted extensive human and material resources. The strategy to follow might differ depending on each country’s specificity or on the reactions of the U.S. Congress and public opinion. The big lines, however, remain unaffected, as we will try to find out through our study of the U.S. interventions in El Salvador.
Elements de Reflexion sur les entraves a la construction de la cohesion sociale en periode post-crise en Afrique : l'exemple de la Cote d'Ivoire
Authors: FOFANA Memon , Sociologues Traore Kassoum
Published: August 2018

La reconstruction de la cohésion sociale après une décennie de conflits militaro-politique et/ou socio-politique est tout un agenda de réflexion qui mérite que l’on s’attarde sur les éléments de référents sociaux de sa consolidation en période post-crise. En effet, au lendemain des crises politico-militaires qui s’accompagnent des affrontements entre communautés, la première action des pays en général est de réconcilier les populations. La Côte d’Ivoire n’est pas en marge de cette situation qui après la crise de 2011 s’est lancé dans le processus de reconstruction et de consolidation de la cohésion sociale suffisamment fractionnée par le conflit. Cependant, dans la pratique, ce projet n’est pas toujours aisé en raison de plusieurs facteurs sociaux souterrains difficilement canalisables. La présente étude a pour objectif de scruter les facteurs sociaux qui compliquent ou susceptibles d’entraver la reconstruction et la consolidation de la cohésion sociale dans un pays en période post-conflit. Sur le plan méthodologique, l’étude privilégie la démarche qualitative basée sur une approche stratégique axée sur la revue de la littérature, des observations et d’entretiens réalisés parallèlement à plusieurs études de terrain réalisées depuis la fin de la crise de 2010 en Côte d’ Ivoire.
The Glorification of Academic Imperialism in an African Citadel of Learning: A Textual Analysis of Lekan Are's The Challenge of The Barons
Authors: Idowu Adewumi Samuel Idowu
Published: August 2018

The Berlin Conference of 1884/85 which culminated in the scramble for and partitioning of African continent into various states by some European nations, brought negative implications to the psyche of Africans. The partitioning was seen as aploy devised by western countries to seize advantages by using military forces to cow the Africans, thus carrying away their naturally endowed potential to stage indigenous economic development. This paper therefore, takes a critical look at the various ways by which academic excellence was jettisoned, rubbished to romantic academic mediocrity in order to pave the way for sustaining the illegitimate academic emptiness of the Baron tagged as â€œexpertsâ€ in a citadel of learning in an African country. The academic wizardry of the protagonist in the text reveals the bold challenge against the Barons in order to remove academic excellence from the shackles of colonialism.
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF KADUNA STATE GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION ON HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Wuyah Yunana Titus , Ahmad Muhammad Dahiru
Published: August 2018

This study empirically examine the impact of government expenditure on education on human capital development in Kaduna State over the last 15 years (2000-2015) using econometrics model with Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique.The paper test for presence of stationary between the variables using Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and autocorrelationusing Durbin Watson statistics. The results reveals all the variables were not stationary in levels except capital expenditure (CE) and Primary schools enrolment (PE) while the rest were stationary at second difference. DW shows presence of serial correlation. The regression results indicated that government expenditure on education have significant impact on human capital development in Kaduna State. It could therefore be recommended that the state government should increase its capital and recurrent expenditure on education, ensure proper management and monitory of funds made for the teachers, constant payment of teachers salaries and allowances in a manner that it will raise the state production capacity. The state should construct addition primary and secondary schools across the state, with modern facilities, and employ more teachers.
Exploring John Updike's Terrorist as a Neo-Orientalist Narrative of the Arabo-Islamic World
Authors: Arif Muhamad Shahbaz , Ahmad Maqbool
Published: August 2018

The present study aims at exploring John Updike's "Terrorist", as a Neo-Orientalist account of the Muslims, especially the Arabs. In fact, there has been an age long strife between the West and Islam dating back to the Crusades. The ideology which propelled the crusaders was based on the binary of "us" versus ˜them. The Western rulers, clergy, missionaries,merchants and writers would tend to view Islam and Muslims through their myopic lens and built an exotic, strange albeit distorted image of Islam and Muslims in their accounts. These accounts influenced the representations of the Muslim and Islamic World in the scholarly discipline of Orientalism significantly.The study underpins that orientalist representations of the Muslims as barbarians, inert, unprogressive and an imminent to danger to world peace, are still very much a part of the contemporary world. This re-incarnation of orientalist thinking is termed as Neo-Orientalism in the post-colonial parlance. Many literary works published in the wake of 9/11 echoes this Neo-Orientalist thinking. Updike's famous novel â€˜Terroristâ€™, which was published in 2006, has been chosen as a specimen text to this effect. The critical appraisal of the narrative, particularly the depiction of Muslim characters, through application of the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on the lines enunciated by Huckin, suggests that Updike has adopted a Neo-Orientalist approach by creating and fortifying the so called binary of West and Islam, and portrayed them as irreconcilable entities. Instead of bridging the gulp between the West and the Muslim World, the narrative is likely to create further chasm between the two.
Skill Mismatch and Employability in Nigeria: A review of Literature
Authors: Muo Ik
Published: August 2018

The alarming incidence of skill mismatch and the consequential declining employability has become a key challenge to governments, educational institutions and employers of labour at large. This paper reviews relevant literature as regards the nature, scope, causes and consequences of the worrisome trend, identifies some gaps and suggests a tripartite investigation involving students, lecturers and employers. It also suggests that the investigation focuses on social and management sciences which accounts for 50% of students population in Nigerian universities and also the need explore the presence or otherwise of gender dimension to the mismatch crises.
War and Peace from Viewpoint of a Sociologist
Authors: Oleg Yanitsky
Published: August 2018

Drawing on a review of global and risk studies as well as on studies in the history of modern western sociology, the author has organized his argument into the following theses. First, the modern world is highly interdepended, i.e. has a hybrid (multisided and multileveled) nature. Therefore, a war and peace are two sides of the same coin. The second, the global whole is actually a rather complex sociobiotechnical system (the SBT-system), and the '˜behavior' of its social and other actors are usually contradictory. Third, each subsystem of it has its own basic principles of structural-functional organization, a temporal order and mode of evolution, and a specific kind of relationships with other subsystems. Fourth, hence this hybrid is inherently contradictory and unstable.A high interdependence of the subsystems objectively raises a risk of a hybrid war emergence. Fifth, that is why the war-and-peace problem should be considered as hybrid as well. Sixth, the hybrid war may have a variety of social aims ranging from economic and political domination till total destruction of a probable adversary. Seventh, despite of technocratic orientation of the westernoriented capitalism the beliefs, values and social memories are still the mighty weapons in any hybrid war. Eighth, a very essence of hybrid war is multi-sided as well. It's a mix of fear and alienation with mass protest actions and military operations. In one cases such wars mobilized people while in the others demobilizes. Ninth, these hybrid structure and processes needs more close integration of social, natural and technical sciences, i.e. modern sociology should be capable to translate any SBT-transformations sociologically. Tenth, the media and social networks are the most powerful means for the shaping individual and mass consciousness. The media and social sciences use a social memory as a '˜peaceful' weapon. Eleventh, the role of civil society organizations and movements as well as of irregular military units is still an open question.
THE BAKOR MATRILINEAL DESCENT SYSTEM: AN ETHNO-LINGUISTIC MODEL OF FEMALE EMPOWERMENT.
Authors: GANYI FRANCIS MOWANG , UTSOAL CARMELINE KUKU
Published: August 2018

The continuous existence of matriliny in several communities particularly in Africa has triggered this investigation into the Bakor matrilineal society the aim of which is to discover the reasons for the people's continuous reliance on the system in modern society and the parameters for its sustenance. It was discovered that the Bakor language particularly and the ecology of the environment as well as the occupational mainstay of the Bakor people are the major props that sustain the system which is ingrained in Bakor culture and serves as an identity index of the people within the several patriarchal communities surrounding them.
Security, Securitization and the Iperative for a New Security Studies
Authors: Al Chukwuma Okoli
Published: August 2018

This paper reviews the concepts of security and securitization in an attempt to underscore the bourgeoning complexion of the security problematique in the contemporary world. By means of a discursive exegesis of extant literature, the paper posits that the transformation of the security discourse and practice from the orthodox traditional tradition to the critical modern tradition has compelled a new understanding of security; necessitating, thereby, a new Security Studies.
Applied Linguistics in Context of English Studies in Nigeria Higher Institutions
Authors: Olamide Ijadimine
Published: August 2018

Applied Linguistics is a field of interest to scholars because it depends on insights in other fields such as philosophy and psychology in the teaching of language. Hence, this paper considers a review of Applied Linguistics as an important course of study for English students in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions by considering the context of English as a Second Language(ESL) as an important factor that should guide Applied Linguistics as a course for the students. In addition, questionnaires were administered to students studying English to further shed light on the subject matter. Furthermore, it  provides added contribution to academic debate that borders on Applied Linguistics by recommending practicaldemonstration of theories of language and communication for the training of English as Second Language(ESL) students in Nigeria.