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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Anyanwu"”.
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… intensive examination of Butler's ur-character, Anyanwu. This character is vitally important in discussing Butler's canon because she embodies the attributes and thematic issues that run throughout the author's work, specifically, the author's argument that black woman are provided opportunity …
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Institutional Logics and the Double Bottom Line: A Study of Chikum Microfinance Bank Limited
<p>Microfinance institutions (MFIs) serve a social mission, while also having to focus on financial sustainability. Microfinance emerged as an alternative to traditional aid to the poor and aims to help alleviate poverty through providing them with financial services. MFIs can be self-sustainable …
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Development administration: the role of bureaucracy in national integration in Nigeria
<p>This paper examines the problem of national integration in Nigeria. The theoretical framework used here hypotehsizes, that the lack of national integration in Nigeria is a result not only of intense tribalization of the masses but also due in most part to lack of elite consensus. This study …
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Reshaping The Theology and Praxis of Inculturation through Interreligious Dialogue Between The Catholic Church and African Traditional Religion in Igboland, Nigeria
<p>Prior to the advent of Christianity in Igboland, the people practiced Igbo Traditional Religion. They believed in a Supreme Being (<em>Chukwu/Chineke</em>) who has other smaller deities as messengers including <em>Ala/Ani</em> the most powerful deity on earth. They revered their ancestors, who, …
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The influence of family dynamics on adolescents deviant and sexual risk behaviour in a migration affected community in South Africa: an evidence for public health intervention
The well-being of adolescents’ population is a major concern to policy makers, educators and researchers all over the world. Research has shown that adolescents engage in deviant and risky sexual behaviour, and such behaviour may have consequences for their present or future health. Likewise, it …
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Stratigraphy and Petroleum Production potential of the Spearfish Formation in North Central North Dakota
<p>The Spearfish oil play is unconventional requiring the use of horizontal wells that are fracture stimulated to deliver economic flow rates. However, fraccing into the underlying water has been a source of significant production problems for operators. The key to developing the area is to keep …
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Characterising the role of GPR50 in neurodevelopment and lipid metabolism
G-protein coupled receptor 50 (GPR50) is a genetic risk factor for psychiatric illness. It is a member of the melatonin receptor family, which includes the well characterised melatonin receptors 1 and 2 (MT1 and MT2). However, the ligand for GPR50 remains elusive and little is known about GPR50 …
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A Reconfigurable Random Access MAC Implementation for Software Defined Radio Platforms
Wireless communications technology ranging from satellite communications to sensor networks has benefited from the development of flexible, SDR platforms. SDR is used for military applications in radio devices to reconfigure waveforms, frequency, and modulation schemes in both software and hardware …
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF NIGERIA’S INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) FLOWS: A COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS
… 2009; Ekpo, 1997; Ajakaiye, 2010; Ajayi, 2006; Anyanwu, 1998; Olatunji, 2011; Ariyo, 2009; Okpara,et al., 2012), leaving a glaring gap on the key factors influencing inward FDI in Nigeria. Aiming to address this gap, the present PhD thesis intends to investigate the determinants of inward FDI in …