The use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology has become synonymous with the practice of architecture. The attainment of CAD proficiency is therefore critical for any architecture graduate in employment and professional practice. Consequently, the study sought to examine the inclusion of...

The use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) technologies has become pervasive in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. This has led to its inclusion as an important part of the training module in the curriculum for Architecture Schools in Nigeria. This paper examines the...

The paper proposes an outline for the link between two theoretical perspectives on the prerequisites of high institutional quality and long run growth. One framework is based on the tradeoff between disorder and dictatorship and introduces the notion of the institutional possibility frontier,...

Recently there has been explosive growth in both the global reach and easy access to online social media content. However, people's motivations for using social media vary considerably from individual to individual. Attempting to gain a greater understanding of what motivates people to use...

Efforts to launder money and finance terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in response to heightened counter-measures. As a result, banks and other various financial organizations must be aware of risks of being used, intentionally or unintentionally for criminal activities. This...

In 2007, the voluntary University Staff assisted laptop acquisition scheme was created by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Anambra State University, Uli branch with the support of the University management and eventual adoption by other staff unions in the community. It aimed at...

This paper describes the need for more effective crowd-scale deliberation, presents the social computing technologies our international team has been developing to achieve this, and outlines some promising directions for future work

The paper (for the first time, to the best knowledge of the author) applies the Duhem-Quine thesis to conventional quantitative methods in political science. As a result, the discussion of methodological problems associated with these methods is implanted into the epistemological issues...

The research problem is about to generate artificial fractal landscape surfaces from the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) using a stochastic algorithm by Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Geographic Information System (GRASS GIS) software. Fractal surfaces resemble appearance of natural...