One of the most contested issues in Nigeria’s political landscape and federal structure is debate on fiscal autonomy Local Government as third tier government. The literature subject appears to zero down issue a ‘devil’. position existing scholarship concludes that by taking advantage Sections 7 162 1999 Constitution Nigeria, it common practice for State Governors usurp Governments. are also ac...

It is a humbling experience to go to the Web site of the Innocence Project (http://www.innocenceproject.org), a nonprofit legal clinic at the Cardozo School of Law that handles cases in which postconviction DNA testing of evidence has provided proof of innocence. A recent visit to the site led me to the case of Eddie Joe Lloyd, who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old girl in...

1. The cutaneous water loss, respiratory rate and rectal temperature of the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisi) was measured before and during heat stress. 2. There was a sevenfold increase in respiratory rate under heat stress indicating panting, whilst cutaneous water loss increased by only 50 per cent and remained below levels considered indicative of thermal sweating. 3. No marsupials are...

The application is implemented in C++ using OpenGL (Silicon Graphics, Inc. 2012b), OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) (Silicon Graphics, Inc. 2012a), OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) (Ikits and Magallon 2012), The Developer’s Image Library (DevIL) (Woods et al. 2012), and FreeType (Turner et al. 2012). We provide the implementation details and algorithms used in the sample application, as w...