Aborigines-Migrant Settlers Crisis and Reconstruction Efforts in two Yoruba Communities in South Western Nigeria

Communities coexist for several reasons. Many traditional Yoruba communities are not an exemption as quite a number of communities were brought together partially based on the need to fight against a common enemy as well as prevent invasion. Ile-Ife and Modakeke-Ife are two neighbouring communities demonstrating such historicalbackground. The communities have co-existed peaceful for several decades, shared many things in common including cases of intermarriages until they started having communal clashes. The crisis have caused significant changes to the existing social relations between the two communities, resulting in widespread breakdown of law and order, destruction of lives and properties as well as homelessness and dispossession of farmlands. Despite the intensity of the crisis and the overwhelming odds, the communities have remained as neighbours. What are the sources of the communities’ resilience amidst the disaster? Forty Seven in-depth interviews were held with twogroups of adults (youths and the elderly) on gender basis who are residents in the two communities. Findings revealed that informal social network and some formal community institutions were the most significant factors enhancing participants’ resilience during and after the crisis. However, the study also disturbingly revealed thatthere is still bitterness centring on farm land rights within the community, and partisan politics have undermined previous efforts at addressing the issue. The study concludes that disrupted social networks could erode community cohesion and political factorshave the potential to further diminish resilience against crisis in the future

The effects of quantitative easing on bank lending behavior

Banks’ exposure to large-scale asset purchases, as measured by the relative prevalence of mortgage-backed securities on their books, affects lending following unconventional monetary policy shocks. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, this paper finds strong effects of the first and third round of quantitative easing (QE1 and QE3) on credit. Highly affected commercial banks increase lending by 2% to 3% relative to their counterparts. QE2 had no significant impact, consistent with its exclusive focus on Treasuries sparsely held by banks. Overall, banks respond heterogeneously, and the type of asset being targeted is central to QE

Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography for Blood Glucose Monitoring in Human Subjects

A device based on Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography is developed to monitor blood glucose levels in human subjects. The device was initially tested with tissue phantom. The measurements with human subjects for various glucose concentration levels are found to be linearly dependent on the degree of circular polarization obtainable from the PS-OCT.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure

Contractions to endogenous and exogenous endothelin-1 in segmental renal arteries of the mouse: up-regulation in obesity

Poster Session 1: Oncology, Renal Physiology and Disease, Neurology, Infectious Diseases, New Topics of Endothelin Biology: P-26Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is implicated in cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, and the endothelin system is prominent in the kidney. In murine arteries, the contractile pro! le of the peptide is heterogeneous among different preparations, and the renal vascular bed is largely unexplored. Segmental renal arteries branching from the main renal arteries of age-matched lean and 30 weeks diet-induced obese WT mice were investigated by isometric tension recording in Halpern-Mulvany myographs. Contractions after administration of big endothelin-1 (bET-1) or ET-1 (both 10 pM to 100nM) were determined in the absence ...postprin

Interaction between IP, TP, and 5-HT2 receptors during contractions to prostacyclin in rat renal arteries

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