It is commonplace that a sovereign state is a prerequisite to democracy. But not all states are alike, each having different resources, capacities, priorities, properties, and so forth. What kinds of states and what particular features are conducive to democracy or autocracy? How do different...

A series of short insights provided by five academics spanning three institutions are provided. Each of these submissions draws on current and past research of the contributors as well as the academic literature more generally. A key theme uniting these submissions is the importance of...

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...

Absenteeism from lectures has become an issue of great concern for stakeholders in education. This has been brought to focus by the much publicized poor performance of students in national examinations. Little has been done to gain reliable data on the extent, causes and effects with an aim to...

The main focus of this paper is to reduce the inventory aging in an automotive parts industry which directly reduces the cost. The reduction in cost will be a great competitive advantage for the company to have in this competitive market arena. To achieve the objective the inventory management...

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...

Classifications (typologies) of human behavior have long occupied the attention of researchers. They had been used in psychology, sociology, management, and economics and so on. However, existing classifications and typologies are based, as a rule, on expert systems. The main assumption in the...

Emerging technologies have consistently assumed a significant part in armed conflict. From the crossbow to nanotechnologies, innovation that could be weaponized to make a benefit over an enemy has unavoidably tracked down its direction into military stockpiles for use in outfitted struggle. The...

Peer-review is a well-established cornerstone of the scientific process, yet it is not immune to status bias. Merton identified the problem as one in which prominent researchers get disproportionately great credit for their contribution while relatively unknown researchers get disproportionately...