Research design for investigation of Nigeria manufacturing management

Nigeria is a developing nation in West Africa and the manufacturing management in this nation in the past twenty years has not been well documented. This paper sets out the research design for investigating Nigeria manufacturing management. The project is a combination of 'explanatory and exploratory researches' because it strives to explore the issues related to the Nigerian manufacturing organizations with the help of the existing research studies as well as statistical survey work

Discovery of elements 113 - 118

Review of discovery and investigation of isotopes of elements 113-118 produced in the reactions of 48 Ca with target nuclei 238U-249Cf is presented. The synthesis of the heaviest nuclei, their summary decay properties, and methods of identification are discussed. The radioactive properties of the new nuclei give evidence of the significant increase of the stability of the heavy nuclei with rise of their neutron number and approaching magic number N=184

Standardising the elimination of unnecessary data from interview transcripts for the purposes of knowledge-based systems - A case study

Although knowledge elicitation, the process of extracting knowledge from human experts to be incorporated into a knowledge-based system, has been the subject of some notable studies, less attention has been paid to the methods of analysing the raw data once it has been extracted from the expert. When knowledge elicitation sessions are interview-based, the resultant form of raw data is usually a transcript of the interviewee's utterances. This paper describes an investigation into the preliminary stage of analysing such transcripts. It outlines the development of an approach to eliminate unnecessary detail from interview transcripts, thus enabling attention to be focused upon the remaining, more relevant data via a simple technique based upon cheap and readily available technology. The paper then outlines a rapid-prototyping approach for evaluating this method, the results of which were felt to be very encouraging