This article adds technology choice to a free-entry Cournot model with linear demand and constant marginal costs. Firms can choose from a discrete set of technologies. This simple framework yields non-existence of equilibrium, existence of multiple equilibria and equilibria in which ex-ante identical ̄rms choose di®erent technologies as possible outcomes. I provide a full characterization of th...

JEL Classification: K42, L13, O17.

JEL Classification Numbers: G100, G120

In recent years, developing countries like Nigeria with large human and natural resources have attracted huge investment leading to a rise in foreign into the Nigerian economy. To create conditions that would attract more Foreign Direct Investment manufacturing subsector, right infrastructure must be put place. This study examined relationship between Investment, output Nigeria. Time series dat...

JEL classification: C51 C52 G11

Simian, and Sydney creases are anomalous palmar crease that had generated medical attention as their presence correlate strongly with several human chromosomal abnormalities and diseases. Works on these creases have been done on several human populations; racial and ethnic, but no specific documented study had singled out the Ijaws of SouthSouth Nigeria in respect to these palmar creases aberra...

This article describes how a mixture of two densities, f0 and f1, may be decomposed into a different mixture consisting of three densities. These new densities, f+, f−, and f=, summarize differences between f0 and f1: f+ is high in areas of excess of f1 compared to f0; f− represents deficiency of f1 compared to f0 in the same way; f= represents commonality between f1 and f0. The supports of f+ ...

JEL Classification Numbers: E 31, E 52

The strategies of deploying nonfinancial incentives to bring the best performance out employees organizations have received global attention. It was however discovered that sensitive sector as public had not been thoroughly engaged know why workers show no enthusiasm in their productivity. This study, therefore, examined effect on efficiency Nigeria with a specific focus use recognition and awa...

Past work on emotion processing has focused solely on detecting emotions, and ignored questions such as ‘who is feeling the emotion (the experiencer)?’ and ‘towards whom is the emotion directed (the stimulus)?’. We automatically compile a large dataset of tweets pertaining to the 2012 US presidential elections, and annotate it not only for emotion but also for the experiencer and the stimulus. ...