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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Religious Fundamentalism and Problem of Normlessness: Issues in Value System in Nigeria

Religious fundamentalism following 9 11 attack in the United States has a assumed new a dimension in Nigeria The current wave of religious fundamentalism raises the concern whether Nigeria is a normless society or the problem of normlesness has been inherent in cultures and traditions of the Nigeria inhabitants before the arrival of Islam and Christianity This paper argues that religion in the pre-colonial times was developed with the need to provide a world view for the people to understand themselves and to direct collective consciousness toward achieving societal goals The paper contends that the current wave of religious fundamentalism became fossilized through religious manipulation and politicization in the post colonial era The paper concludes that unless our universal cultural norms and value are resorted to redirect behavioural attitude toward governance in Nigeria religious fundamentalism would thrive o

Group aggregation of pairwise comparisons using multi-objective optimization

AbstractIn group decision making, multiple decision makers (DMs) aim to reach a consensus ranking of alternatives in a decision problem. The differing expertise, experience and, potentially conflicting, interests of the DMs will result in the need for some form of conciliation to achieve consensus. Pairwise comparisons are commonly used to elicit values of preference of a DM. The aggregation of the preferences of multiple DMs must additionally consider potential conflict between DMs and how these conflicts may result in a need for compromise to reach group consensus.We present an approach to aggregating the preferences of multiple DMs, utilizing multi-objective optimization, to derive and highlight underlying conflict between the DMs when seeking to achieve consensus. Extracting knowledge of conflict facilitates both traceability and transparency of the trade-offs involved when reaching a group consensus.Further, the approach incorporates inconsistency reduction during the aggregation process to seek to diminish adverse effects upon decision outcomes. The approach can determine a single final solution based on either global compromise information or through utilizing weights of importance of the DMs.Within multi-criteria decision making, we present a case study within the Analytical Hierarchy Process from which we derive a richer final ranking of the decision alternatives

Effectiveness of Management of Change in an Organization (Case of Kenya Power Ltd, Central Rift, Nakuru County)

Change is inevitable in business life and business that fails to change is doomed to extinction Marcus (2011). Efforts of implementation of change management in organisations very often fail, most of the transformation efforts undertaken in firms end up with a failure, producing only disappointment, frustration, burned-out and scared employees, and waste of resources. The objective of the research was to find the effective and efficient ways of implementing change management obtain useful solutions for practitioners and new knowledge for scholars and managers. The objectives include,to establish the extent to which the organization plan for implementation of change management,to find out the significance of education and training on the implementation of change management in an organization, to examine how the organization deals with resistance to change management  implementation. The target population was1057 employees of which 857 are employees of Kenya power and 200 Kenya power contracted companies employees in Central Rift Region Nakuru county. Research utilized stratified random sampling to select 265 employees and contractor for the study. Self administered Questionnaires were used to collect the data.  The cording system was inco-operated in the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) data analysis software and Ms –Excel The data was collected and analysed by use of both descriptive statistics. Percentages mode median and means calculated from responses to questionnaire. The study established that Kenya Power Ltd was able to sustain change in its operations leading to service delivery but was unable to achieve employees’ satisfaction and the desired goal of changing organization culture in spite of changing the organization name through restructuring

A Rule-based Part-of-speech Tagger for Classical Tibetan

This paper reports on the development of a rule-based part-of-speech tagger for Classical Tibetan. Far from being an obscure tool of minor utility to scholars, the rule-based tagger is a key component of a larger initiative aimed at radically transforming the practice of Tibetan linguistics through the application of corpus and computational methods

Unemployment among Technical Students: Implication for Managers of Higher Education

The problem of unemployment among youths has remained unabated. This has cast doubt on the methods of instructions by lecturers. This study takes a critical review of some of the previous studies with an emphasis on employment statistics and employability skills. The paper x-ray the basic elements of employability skills and the latest statistics of youth unemployment in Africa particularly, Nigeria. The aim is to sensitize education managers of higher institutions in Nigeria about the danger inherent in turning out graduates massively without the corresponding skills to match them adequately with the world of work. Findings show that there is a persistent rise in the rate of youth unemployment because what the schools offered is not compliant with the labour market demand. The resulting skills played a significant role in increasing unemployment among Tertiary Education graduates. Therefore, the higher education curriculum needs to be modified to reflect the skills required of employers

The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries

The first alphabetized dictionary of Tibetan appeared in 1829 (cf. Bray 2008) and the intervening 184 years have witnessed the publication of scores of other Tibetan dictionaries (cf. Simon 1964). Hundreds of Tibetan dictionaries are now available; these include bilin gual dictionaries, both to and from such languages as English, French, German, Latin, Japanese, etc. and specialized dictionaries focusing on medicine, plants, dialects, archaic terms, neologisms, etc. (cf. Walter 2006, McGrath 2008). However, if one classifies Tibetan dictionaries by the methods of their compilation the accomplishments of Tibetan lexicography are less impressive. Methodologies of dictionary compilation divide heuristically into three types. First, some dictionaries lack explicit methodology; these works assemble words in an ad hoc manner and illustrate them with invented examples. Second, there are dictionaries that are compiled over very long periods of time on the basis of collections of slips recording attestations of words as used in context. Third, more recent dictionaries are compiled on the basis of electronic text corpora, which are processed computationally to aid in the precision, consistency and speed of dictionary compilation. These methods may be called respectively the 'informal method', the 'traditional method', and the 'modern method'. The overwhelming majority of Tibetan dictionaries were compiled with the informal method. Only five Tibetan dictionaries use the traditional methodology. No Tibetan dictionary yet compiled makes use of the modern method