377 research outputs found
A prototype mobile money implementation in Nigeria
Researchers have shown that majority of the populace in the developing nations are rural dwellers that do not have access to basic financial services and are poor. This class of people are peasant farmers and petty traders who rely mostly on remittances from their wards and relations in major cities and abroad to meet their financial obligations at home. The methods of remittances are encumbered with challenges. Mobile money is a tool that allows individuals to make financial transactions using mobile cell phones. Nigeria is one of the fastest growing telecoms nations of the world and the adoption of mobile money will help a great deal to solve the problems associated with remittances. In this paper, we present a short messages services (SMS) and unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) implementation of mobile money implementation in Nigeria modelled using Django and Python as the programming language, MySQL as the data store and Apache hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) as the Web server. The system made comparative analysis with M-PESA implementation in Kenya: the first mobile money implantation in Africa. Furthermore, the system was tested among a selected few of the populace to evaluate the usability of the design. Findings revealed that the prototype implementation is user-friendly and can be used by all without many problems except for the illiterate populace; hence, the need to have a combined bank and agent-based implementation. This approach will help with time to reduce the number of unbanked populace, which is currently at 80%
Electronic transport properties of Cs-encapsulated single-walled carbon nanotubes created by plasma ion irradiation
Quantization of U_q[so(2n+1)] with deformed para-Fermi operators
The observation that n pairs of para-Fermi (pF) operators generate the
universal enveloping algebra of the orthogonal Lie algebra so(2n+1) is used in
order to define deformed pF operators. It is shown that these operators are an
alternative to the Chevalley generators. On this background Uq[so(2n+1)] and
its "Cartan-Weyl" generators are written down entirely in terms of deformed pB
operators.Comment: plain TeX, Preprint INRNE-TH-93/7, 6
Development of Prototype Low-cost and High-strength Fault Current Interrupting Arcing Horns for 77 kV Overhead Transmission Lines
Fault Current Interrupting Arcing Horns (FCIAH) are newly designed arcing horns installed on transmis-sion line towers as a countermeasure against lightning damage that greatly contribute to reducing power interruption by interrupting fault current independently within an AC cycle. This paper describes the de-velopment of two new prototype FCIAH for further cost reduction and strength enhancement, using computational fluid dynamics and short-circuit tests
Small-Angle X-ray Scattering of Heat-Treated Flame-Fused Silica Glass from Amorphous and Crystalline Powders
Electric transport properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized by plasma ion irradiation method
科研費報告書収録論文(課題番号:13852016/研究代表者:畠山力三/プラズマイオン照射による新機能性進化ナノチューブ創製法の開発
Small-angle X-ray scattering of heat-treated flame-fused silica glass from amorphous and crystalline powders
High-quality as-fused silica glass, heat treated at 1523 K and prepared by the flame-fusion process using natural crystalline quartz and high-purity amorphous silica glass powders, was investigated by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The X-ray scattering intensity amplitude from the amorphous structure after heat treatment was analysed in terms of viscosity, density and metallic impurity content. It is shown that SAXS scattering of the amorphous sample is sensitive to the structural change induced by annealing.30691892
Invariant solutions of the supersymmetric sine-Gordon equation
A comprehensive symmetry analysis of the N=1 supersymmetric sine-Gordon
equation is performed. Two different forms of the supersymmetric system are
considered. We begin by studying a system of partial differential equations
corresponding to the coefficients of the various powers of the anticommuting
independent variables. Next, we consider the super-sine-Gordon equation
expressed in terms of a bosonic superfield involving anticommuting independent
variables.
In each case, a Lie (super)algebra of symmetries is determined and a
classification of all subgroups having generic orbits of codimension 1 in the
space of independent variables is performed. The method of symmetry reduction
is systematically applied in order to derive invariant solutions of the
supersymmetric model. Several types of algebraic, hyperbolic and doubly
periodic solutions are obtained in explicit form.Comment: 27 pages, major revision, the published versio
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