the study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the niger delta region of nigeria. a multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. the heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

This paper is concerned with the saddle-path stability of monetary growth rules in a two-country two-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. Alongside standard features of emerging economies, such as a combination of producer and local currency pricing for exports, fiscal dominance and oil exports, this model also incorporates informal labour and production sectors and examines how...

The study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. The Heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

The GOPCSD (Goal Oriented Process Control Systems Design) tool is an integrated environment, where the process control systems engineer can construct, import, check, reason about, modify, validate requirements specifications and generate in the B specification language a formal specification of such process control requirements. Borrowing from the KAOS method, the GOPCSD tool adopts the goal-or...

“Learning by doing” (for example see [MAT-88]) is an informal way to describe a constructivist philosophy to the design of educational tools. This paper presents the current state of a project to develop an interactive graphical tool “LEG” to support computer graphics students learning the use of matrix arithmetic to calculate two-dimensional geometric transformations. The tool supports a simpl...

The use of Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management is invading the corporate sphere. The Web 2.0 is the most adopted knowledge transfer tool within knowledge intensive firms and is starting to be used for mentoring. This paper presents IM-TAG, a Web 2.0 tool, based on semantic technologies, for informal mentoring. The tool offers recommendations of mentoring contents built upon personal c...

An important decision that must be taken by anyone designing a course involving (object oriented software) modelling is what tool support, if any, to use. Options include picking an industrial strength modelling tool, using a tool specifically designed for educational use, or eschewing tool use altogether in favour of pencil and paper. The best answer will depend on many factors, including the ...

Developers of interactive software are confronted by an increasing variety of software tools to help engineer the interactive aspects of software applications. Typically resorting to ad hoc means of tool selection, developers are often dissatisfied with their chosen tool on account of the fact that the tool lacks required functionality or does not fit seamlessly within the context in which it i...

Introduction: Starting in 2008 an internet-based platform: Personal Control and Rehabilitation (PCR) has been developed for people with psychotic vulnerability and their formal and informal caregivers and was tested in two mental health institutions in The Netherlands. The Trimbos-institute and the Julius-Centrum evaluated the development, the implementation and the preliminary effects of PCR o...