positive psychology as a field focuses on identifying and supporting internal strengths and external resources to promote optimal functioning, flourishing, and resilience in individual, organizations, and communities. research and interventions from the field are helping people be happy, productive, and resilient. from this perspective, each person has a unique set of strengths, which when used...

This article is a reflection on significant recent growth in engineering education programs devoted to service-learning, sustainable development, humanitarian engineering, and so on, which we group under the term “engineering to help” (ETH). ETH programs are touted for their ability to provide engineering students, mainly from wealthy nations, with an opportunity to practice small-scale enginee...

The transport of CO2 by ships for storage or utilisation is a component CCS/CCUS systems which has been considered based on existing ship designs and the assumption that internationally agreed standards are always applicable constrain can be used. This paper demonstrates that, developed to used within one two jurisdictions, novel irrespective international regulatory system. Significant discret...

this paper is an attempt to discuss the concept of madness and its differentcauses and functions in bessie head’s semiautobiographical novel a question ofpower. it aims to explore the multifaceted insanity of elizabeth the exiled coloredprotagonist in terms of different theories. we will see how once a devastatingtrauma turns out to be a habilitating schizophrenia. head challenges the readers’n...

Blogging is a form of social communication that facilitates human interaction. The cultural orientations of individualism and collectivism, which relate to basic beliefs about human relationships and interactions, should be determinants of blogging. This study explores the impacts of individualism-collectivism orientation on perceived self-efficacy in blogging, along with blogging and attitudes...

Scores and league tables are the spirit of the age: we have seen them for schools and hospitals, and league tables for universities were inevitable. Perhaps equally inevitably they would reveal depths of innumeracy unsuspected by a working scientist, let alone a trained statistician. The Financial Times produced a league table on 29 April 1998, the Times on 15 May 1998, the Daily Telegraph one ...

will is the basis and foundation of contracts and possessions; almost without which no contract and possession can take the religious and legal affects. heart is the place of will, and because will has a high dignity, it cannot attributed to any matter unless it is declared and manifested. silence is one of the means of interpretation of the will. it, like utterance, scribe, deed and gesture, h...

The study investigates consumers’ preference for cowpea reflected in the Nigerian markets through price discounts and premiums that consumers pay for different cowpea characteristics. The price data used for this study were obtained through a market survey. A common data collection protocol was employed. Every month, between October 2009 to December 2010, five cowpea samples per seller were bou...