The Yoruba image of the witch.

Philosophic Sagacity and the Problems of Transmitting Philosophic Knowledge without Writing: The Ekiti Yoruba Experienc'

Transferrin Genetic Types in Fulani and Yoruba Ecotype of Nigeria Indigenous Chickens

Fulani ecotype chickens (FEC) and Yoruba ecotype chickens (YEC) are the two major types of indigenous chickens in Nigeria. They subsist under traditional Animal husbandry and are thus liable to indiscriminate mating and consequently to loss of genetic diversity. Fulani ecotype chickens (FEC) and Yoruba ecotype chickens (YEC) were investigated to determine genetic variation at transferrin locus ...

Philosophic Sagacity and the Problems of Transmitting Philosophic Knowledge without Writing: The Ekiti Yoruba Experience'

بهبود محلی کیفیت تصاویر چهره با سایه شدید به منظور ارتقاء شناسایی

Varying illuminations, especially the side lighting effects in face images, is one of the major obstacles in face recognition systems. Various methods have been presented for face recognition under different lighting conditions witch require previous knowledge about Light source and shadow area. In this paper, a novel approach based on H-minima transform to image segmentation and illumination n...

Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...