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Rethinking Nigeria’s Strategic Relationship with its Immediate Neighbours

This paper strengthens the perspective that the national security and development of a state are predicated upon the good and strategic relationship of countries with their immediate neighbours. It centres its argument around the fact that the global system in the 21st century has been characterized by ups and downs that have shaken the grounds of global peace and security and that growing diminution of the “global village”, due to increasing interdependence of states and non-state actors,has necessitated an ever-rising need for collective security on global and regional scale. Nigeria’s foreign policy has often been said to be characterized by the principle of good neighbourliness for the purpose of secure neighbourhood and national security. Indeed, the numerous security challenges of the country at present, such as ethnic conflicts,religious fundamentalism, power tussle and insurgency, require shared security intelligence, regional military cooperation and of course, good neighbourliness. This enterprise constitutes a search for a deeper understanding of ‘good neighbourliness’ and suggests a redefinition of that stance to reflect realpolitik. The paper seeks to critically identify the new ways in which Nigeria can strategically relate with its immediate neighbours, including Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Equatorial Guinea and nearby countries that do not share boundaries with it. Emphasis is made on the need for the government to pursue dynamic, tactical and strategic defence policy, which will include ensuring the impenetrability and prevention of infiltration of its boundaries, in view of the fact most of the national security problems testing the corporate existence of Nigeria todayare from its borders

Psychosocial care for people with dementia in long-term care : the use of dementia care mapping

A substantial proportion of people with dementia is cared for within long-term care settings. There is currently a greater recognition of the importance of providing for these individuals’ psychosocial needs, and “person-centred care” has emerged as an important approach. Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) is a useful tool to evaluate and inform the provision of person-centred care. The aim of this work was to investigate the usefulness of DCM to improve the individual care provided to this group. The first paper provides an overview of psychosocial care for people with dementia in long-term care from a person-centred perspective. A review of the definitions of this type of care is provided and the models and approaches that attempt to guide psychosocial care provision are examined. The challenges of putting this care into practice and evaluating its effectiveness are also discussed. The second paper involves conducting a multiple baseline experimental design in order to investigate the effectiveness of DCM to inform the care plans for individuals with dementia in long-term care. The results from the study were inconclusive with regards to improvements in the patients. However, it is concluded that further investigations are warranted and recommendations are made. The aim of the third paper is to explore care staff's experience of DCM, as this method is very reliant on care staff accepting the changes to care delivery yet there is a paucity of research in this area. The results indicate that care staff perceive it to be a useful tool to inform their care practice but the method could be improved by including staff in this process. Finally, the process of carrying out this research, including the difficulties encountered, is reflected upon and the author's learning is discussed

Caseflow management: A rudimentary referee process, 1919-1970.

This thesis discovers that a form of caseflow management was practised by Official Referees in England more than 70 years before the Woolf reforms. It also describes an innovative concept of judicial sponsorship of settlement at an early interlocutory stage. For its time it was revolutionary. Such process created a distinct subordinate judicial culture which promoted economy and expedition in the management of complex technical cases. This culture was facilitated by the referees' subordinate function as officers of the High Court and the type of casework undertaken. The essential elements of my theory of rudimentary micro caseflow management emerge from a study of the methods used by Sir Francis Newbolt K.C. These are analysed and discussed by way of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative analysis. I conclude that this form of rudimentary caseflow management and judicial settlement process made the court more efficient. This process, identified as Newbolt's "Scheme," is traced from its inception through the judicial activities of Newbolt and other referees who followed this approach whether actively or passively. Having traced the origin and reasons for such officers this study considers the senior and subordinate judicial figures involved, their influence and encouragement as to the employment of innovative interlocutory techniques. Contemporaneous records including reports and correspondence are analysed in considering these innovations. The analysis is supported by the results of a quantitative study of Judicial Statistics between 1919 and 1970 and other contemporaneous judicial records including the referees' notebooks and judicial time records known as Minute Books. A number of conclusions are drawn which suggest a correlation between such techniques and levels of efficiency providing an interesting comparison for those interested in wider questions of civil justice reform

Daily Eastern News: November 09, 1979

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Turning a blind eye?: a moral and theological examination of corruption in current Portuguese culture

The subject of this thesis is contemporary Portugal from 1974 onwards. The object is corruption. The purpose is to examine the dynamics of both the occurrence of, and impunity to, corruption, as a means of evaluating the quality of democracy and improve it. Part One (Problem and Awareness Pattern) focusing primarily on the Emaudio case study, the thesis establishes within politics and economics a summative evaluation of the most critical issues heeding to be addressed when dealing with alleged cases of corruption. Part Two (Cause and Response Pattern) moves beyond a single case study to include both historical and current socio-religious, political and economic contexts of corruption, by exploring critically certain patterns of practice, structures of incentives and opportunities, and perceived cultural assumptions most likely to either nurture or ignore corruption. Three clusters of responses are advanced. They illustrate the inadequate administrative and judiciary responses of the anticorruption agencies, which include a detailed analysis of the Parliament’s Inquiry Commission regarding the dismissal of two deputy directors of the Judicial Police. Part Three (Tentative Solution Pattern) seeks to develop morally and theologically a means of minimising such corruption and the tendency to ignore it, by formulating an alternative framework which could be used both as a foundation and a starting point (first phase only) for a nationwide, comprehensive, and a multidisciplinary anti-corruption scheme. A classic (10 Great Words) and contemporary (Singapore experience) case study are provided prior to proposing eight principles upon which to base the new anti-corruption alternative response. This follows a tripartite jointly approach of top-down (political will), bottom-up (civil society) and middle-ground (administrative and judiciary) structures

The social creation of a legal reality : a study of the emergence and acceptance of the British patent system as a legal instrument for the control of new technology

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Frontier knowledge and scientific production: evidence from the collapse of international science

We show that WWI and the subsequent boycott against Central scientists severely interrupted international scientific cooperation. After 1914, citations to recent research from abroad decreased and paper titles became less similar (evaluated by Latent Semantic Analysis), suggesting a reduction in international knowledge flows. Reduced international scientific cooperation led to a decline in the production of basic science and its application in new technology. Specifically, we compare productivity changes for scientists who relied on frontier research from abroad, to changes for scientists who relied on frontier research from home. After 1914, scientists who relied on frontier research from abroad published fewer papers in top scientific journals, produced less Nobel Prize-nominated research, introduced fewer novel scientific words, and introduced fewer novel words that appeared in the text of subsequent patent grants. The productivity of scientists who relied on top 1% research declined twice as much as the productivity of scientists who relied on top 3% research. Furthermore, highly prolific scientists experienced the starkest absolute productivity declines. This suggests that access to the very best research is key for scientific and technological progres

Persuasion in the context of a psychic reading

This thesis considers the claim that although there is little reason on the basis of experimental evidence to believe that psychic readers have paranormal access to information about their clients, nevertheless individuals are persuaded that such claimants have demonstrated that they possess psychic abilities. A random sample survey of 1,000 residents of Edinburgh district did find support for the claim that the general population is sympathetic to the claims made by psychics. These findings are reconciled with reference to Pseudopsychics' claimed ability to simulate psychic abilities through the use of a technique known as cold reading. A model is proposed, informed by a review of pseudopsychic literature and a pilot study with a known cold reader, which suggests that cold reading actually consists of a number of discrete but interdependent techniques. Central to the model is that much of the reading is dependent on the Bamum effect for success. Experimental work assessed the previously untested assertion that pseudopsychic statements are capable of inducing Barnum acceptance, and found that such items perform in a similar manner to classical Barnum statements. These statements were used to expand the Barnum pool so that the nature and causes of Barnum acceptance could be studied more systematically. One study explored those properties inherent in Barnum statements which are regarded as contributing to their ready acceptance as true of Ss. It was found that acceptance of items could be predicted on the basis of independent judges' ratings of eight statement properties.Two further studies presented Bamum items as pseudo-feedback from an ostensible psychic reading. These were conducted to explore a proposed model which suggested that Ss accept items because of an artifact of cognitive processing, whereby Barnum statements are not assessed for accuracy in their given form, but rather are interpreted by the client in terms of their own particular circumstances and concerns. Predictions were made on the basis of the artifact model about Ss' recall for the content of the reading, and provided some support for this characterisation of the effect. A final study was conducted to assess the contention that experimental tests of psychic readers misrepresent the function of the reading, and makes the suggestion that with regard to psychic functioning, the client may actually be an active participant. The implications of these results for testing and evaluating psychic readers are discussed