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Central Bank Of Nigeria Annual Report And Statement Of Accounts For The Year Ended 31st December 2014, Central Bank Of Nigeria

CBN Annual Report

Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the year ended 31st December, 2014. In general, 2014 has been a very eventful and challenging year for the Bank, the country, and the world at large. In the course of the year, the Bank underwent significant changes in its governance composition. In 2014, the global economy witnessed considerable vulnerabilities characterized by fragile growth and weak economic outlook. Global growth recovery was modest and continued to be threatened by strong downside risks, as a result of sharp drop in commodity prices, escalating geo-political tensions, and heightening threats …

Measured And Modeled Soil Moisture Compared With Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probe Estimates In A Mixed Forest, Ling Lv, Trenton E. Franz, David A. Robinson, Scott B. Jones

T.W. "Doc" Daniel Experimental Forest

Soil moisture is a key variable in most environmental processes, and the cosmic-ray neutron probe (CRNP) fills a niche for intermediate-scale soil moisture measurements. In this study, the CRNP estimated soil moisture was compared with a soil moisture measurement network including 108 time domain transmissometry (TDT) probes. We also used a Hydrus-1D numerical model of measured soil moisture at targeted locations by inversely fitting soil hydraulic parameters used to simulate soil moisture in the near surface (0.03 and 0.05 m) during the growing seasons of 2011 and 2012. Both simulated and TDT-measured soil moisture were used in constructing the depth-weighted …

Prologemena To An Future Rhetoric Of Shadows, Shades And Silhouettes, Gene Washington

English Faculty Publications

In this essay, following the implications of "prolegomena" (Greek: "to say before"), i describe what a rhetoric constructed of textual shadows (the word "shadow" in a text) would look like. Specifically, what would be the various motives and rhetorical intentions, for a writer (of all genres) to employ the word "shadow" or a member of its semantic "family."

Representing Entities: The Value Of Teaching Students How To Draft Board Resolutions And Other Similar Documentation, Joan Macleod Heminway

Scholarly Works

This edited transcript comprises a panel presentation and related Q&A at "Educating the Transactional Lawyer of Tomorrow," Emory University School of Law's biennial transactional law conference held June 6-7, 2014. The transcript includes Professor Heminway's talk and a separate presentation by Professor Marcia Narine on "How to Make Transactional Law Less Terrifying and a Bit More Interesting." The panel, "Transactional Drafting: Beyond Contracts," features approaches to teaching transactional business law courses.

Professor Heminway's presentation addresses the benefits of teaching the drafting of board resolutions, minutes, and consents in corporate finance and corporate governance courses. She describes how teaching law students …

Helmut Schelsky: The New Strategy Of Revolution: The “Long March” Through The Institutions Study Guide, 2014, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Mathers Systematic Theology - Chapter 1, Norman W. Mathers

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Sjsu Erfa News, Spring 2014, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter

Volume 27, Number 3

Overcoming The Division: The Relationship Between The Eucharist And Social Justice, Lauren S. Murphy

Theology Graduate Theses

Overcoming the Division: The Relationship between the Eucharist and Social Justice explores the intimate connection between worship of God and service of neighbor. Arguing for the primacy of the Eucharist, I first outline the present problem of the separation between the Eucharist and social justice in the life of the Church and offer possible reasons for this situation. I then proceed to describe the relationship between worship and justice as understood in Scripture and the early Church, giving special attention to the Old Testament prophets, the Gospels, Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, and John Chrysostom. This leads me …

Identification Of Quantitative Trait Loci (Qtl) Underlying Protein, Oil, And Five Major Fatty Acids’ Contents In Soybean, Masum Akond, Shiming Liu, Melanie Boney, Stella K. Kantartzi, Khalid Meksem, Nacer Bellaloui, David A. Lightfoot, My Abdelmajid Kassem

Articles

Improved seed composition in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] for protein and oil quality is one of the major goals of soybean breeders. A group of genes that act as quantitative traits with their effects can alter protein, oil, palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, and linolenic acids percentage in soybean seeds. The objective of this study was to identify Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) controlling protein, oil, and fatty acids content in a set of F5:8 RILs de-rived from a cross between lines, ‘MD 96-5722’ and ‘Spencer’ using 5376 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) markers from the Illumina Infinium SoySNP6K BeadChip array. …

Fair - Rowan County, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Place Names - Rowan County, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Lynching - Rowan County, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Streets & Roads, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Caves, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Compulsory Dna Collection And A Juvenile's Best Interests, Kevin Lapp

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Attending To Small Talk In The Classroom: An Issue Of Answerability/ Responsibility, Carmen N. Veloria

Pedagogy and the Human Sciences

Education, as a field, is inherently political, ideological, and contextual (Freire, 1970). As a result, there are no easy answers to address the myriad of highly contestable educational issues that arise as part of the daily classroom discourse. Educators can find themselves at a los for words when it comes to providing clear cut answers given the number of highly polarizing stances, comments, and opinions that elicit strong student and teacher responses. Yet, in the context of the classroom space, the teacher holds a lot of power, which must be coupled with an ethical responsiveness to student engagement, participation, and …

Black History - Rowan County, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Ellis, Jack - Biographical Information, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Arts In Morehead, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

No abstract provided.

Common Core, Informational Texts, And The Historical (Mis)Representations Of Native Americans Within Trade Books, John H. Bickford Iii, Lauren Hunt

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national initiatives have repositioned elementary teachers’ emphases. These mandates increase the frequency with which teachers utilize informational texts and students’ exposure to diverse perspectives of the same event or era. In short, history and social studies content will likely have a more prominent position within the incorporated literature in English/reading class. Teachers will intentionally supplement age-appropriate, engaging tradebooks with relevant, interrelated informational texts, like primary source material. To guide interested elementary teachers, we focused on tradebooks that centered on Native Americans, an oft-included topic in elementary curricula. We evaluated the tradebooks for their historical representation (and misrepresentation), located …

Vaxcelerate Ii: Rapid Development Of A Self-Assembling Vaccine For Lassa Fever, Pierre Leblanc, Leonard Moise, Cybelle Luza, Kanawat Chantaralawan, Lynchy Lezeau, Jianping Yuan, Mary Field, Daniel Richer, Christine Boyle, William D. Martin, Jordan B. Fishman, Eric A. Berg, David Baker, Brandon Zeigler, Dale E. Mais, William Taylor, Russell Coleman, H. Shaw Warren, Jeffrey A. Gelfand, Anne S. De Groot, Timothy Brauns, Mark C. Poznansky

Institute for Immunology and Informatics Faculty Publications

Development of effective vaccines against emerging infectious diseases (EID) can take as much or more than a decade to progress from pathogen isolation/identification to clinical approval. As a result, conventional approaches fail to produce field-ready vaccines before the EID has spread extensively. Lassa is a prototypical emerging infectious disease endemic to West Africa for which no successful vaccine is available. We established the VaxCelerate Consortium to address the need for more rapid vaccine development by creating a platform capable of generating and pre-clinically testing a new vaccine against specific pathogen targets in less than 120 d. A self-assembling vaccine is …

History Newsletter, 2013-2014, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of History

History Newsletter

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The Relevance Of Benjamin Franklin's And Thomas Jefferson's Technical Writing For Modern Communicators, Kristin Fecko

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Today's technical communicators enjoy an increasingly broader role and influence in the workplace, and are often given latitude to use engaging rhetoric and personal touches in many kinds of communications. Historical documents, particularly those that are substantially removed from our own era, can offer fresh approaches and insight into the enduring elements of successful communication. This study explores the technical writings of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and considers their usefulness to professionals today. Although the political writing of Franklin and Jefferson is more familiar, both men frequently wrote about scientific and technical subjects and were well-known in their day …

Morphological Associative Memories For Gray-Scale Image Encryption, Mar?A Elena Acevedo, José ?Ngel Mart?Nez, Marco Antonio Acevedo, Cornelio Ya?Ez

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This work describes a novel method for encrypting gray-scale images using an associative approach. The image is divided in blocks which are used to build max and min Morphological associative memories. The key is private and it depends on the number of blocks. The main advantage of this method is that the cyphertext does not have the same size than the original image; therefore, since the beginning the adversary cannot know what the image means.

Scalable Visualization Of Semantic Nets Using Power-Law Graphs, Ajaz Hussain, Khalid Latif, Aimal Tariq Rextin, Amir Hayat, Masoon Alam

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Scalability and performance implications of semantic net visualization techniques are open research challenges. This paper focuses on developing a visualization technique that mitigates these challenges.We present a novel approach that exploits the underlying concept of power-law degree distribution as many realistic semantic nets seems to possess a power law degree distribution and present a small world phenomenon. The core concept is to partition the node set of a graph into power and non-power nodes and to apply a modified force-directed method that emphasizes the power nodes which results in establishing local neighborhood clusters among power nodes. We also made refinements …

Representation And Symbolization Of Motion Captured Human Action By Locality Preserving Projections, Sang Ryong Lee, Geun Sub Heo, Choon-Young Lee

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Human motion analysis and assessment are important in determining Parkinsons disease and stroke, or in measuring skill quality in basic motions. Reduced space is useful in representing motion segments and finding basic behavioral patterns for humanoid robot control using the modularized approach. In the current paper, we represent motion-captured data of human action in a reduced space of nonlinear degrees of freedom in which the original motion is characterized. First, we represent high-dimensional data, such as motion sequence of the position of joints in Cartesian space, in a reduced space using the locality preserving projection (LPP) method. Second, we find …

The Environmental Theology Of Aimee Semple Mcpherson (Chapter 4 Of Blood Cries Out : Pentecostals, Ecology, And The Groans Of Creation), A.J. Swoboda, Steven Bouma-Prediger

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

Excerpt: "My initial investigation into Aimee Semple McPherson—founder of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel—and ecology was bleak: every word search returned a spiritual metaphor. “Garbage” came back as “garbage can of Satan,” “pollution” came back as “pollution of the soul,” “plants” came back as “plants of faith,” and “dumping” came back as “dumping ground for gossip.” But eventually, persistence paid off.

Popular pastor and author Rick McKinley writes, “Margins are those clear spaces along the edge of a page that keep the words from spilling off. Every book has them. You might jot notes in the margins, but …

Prophetic Preaching For The Faithful Life, Rebecca S. Jeong

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

This paper is a part of one entitled “Preaching and the Church’s Public Life in Korean Society: Toward Prophetic Preaching as the Call for the Church’s Faithful Practice.” The full paper begins with my hypothesis that one significant reason for the Korean church’s current problems in the public space is the focus of Korean sermons on personal blessings and perspectives which lack the present embodiment of the Word in our lives, on pre-millennial eschatology that tends to ignore social concern and involvement, and on numerical church growth. Therefore, throughout the paper, I argue on three points as follows. First, the …

Using Radio Frequency Identification Technology In Healthcare, Sr. Avery Williamson

Theses

In the healthcare industry, medical treatment can be a matter of life and death, so that any mistakes may cause irreversible consequences. As hospitals have sought to reduce these types of errors, Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) has become a solution in the healthcare industry to address these problems. Since 2005, RFID has generated a lot of interest in healthcare to make simpler the identification process for tracking and managing medical resources to improve their use and to reduce the need for future costs for purchasing duplicate equipment. There are rising concerns linked to the privacy and security issues, when …

Evaluating Cecal Ligation And Puncture- Induced Kidney Injury In Diabetic Meprin Deficient Mice, Kasheena Burris

Theses

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD), and is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Key histological changes observed in DN include accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Meprins are metalloproteinases that are abundantly expressed in the brush border membranes of proximal kidney tubules. Meprins are also expressed in leukocytes (monocytes and macrophages) and podocytes. Meprins cleave/degrade extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as collagen IV, collagen VI, fibronectin, laminin, and nidogen-1 in vitro. Meprins have been implicated in the pathology of DN. Sepsis is a complex medical condition, where the …