the study investigated the effects of communal crises on selected crops production among farmers in langtang north local government area of plateau state, nigeria. multi-stage sampling technique was adopted; four local government areas were selected in each of the local government selected, four villages affected by communal crises were selected purposively. in two of the villages selected, 24 ...

The Italian National Centre for Information Technology in Public Administration (CNIPA) introduced the concept of Local Alliances for Innovation (ALI) as the tool for the inclusion of small municipalities in the spread of E-Government in Italy. Based on the CNIPA’s definition, the paper discusses the concept of ALI as an organizational model that can be resorted to in order to reduce the admini...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with an increased risk of developing heart failure and with inferior health outcomes following diagnosis. METHODS Data for hospitalisations and deaths due to heart failure in the Sydney metropolitan region were extracted from New South Wales hospital records and Australian Bureau of Statistics databases for 1999-2003. Standardised rates were...

The Agile Web Engineering (AWE) Process is an agile or lightweight process that has been created to tackle the challenges that have been identified in Web engineering: short development life-cycle times; multidisciplinary development teams; delivery of bespoke solutions comprising software and data. AWE helps teams identify and manage the interactions between the business, domain, software and ...

In this paper we study the problem of constructing accurate block-based ensemble classifiers from time evolving data streams. AWE is the best-known representative of these ensembles. We propose a new algorithm called Accuracy Updated Ensemble (AUE), which extends AWE by using online component classifiers and updating them according to the current distribution. Additional modifications of weight...

Awe has been theorized as a collective emotion, one that enables individuals to integrate into social collectives. In keeping with this theorizing, we propose that awe diminishes the sense of self and shifts attention away from individual interests and concerns. In testing this hypothesis across 6 studies (N = 2137), we first validate pictorial and verbal measures of the small self; we then doc...

Social funds are well-suited for working with decentralized government to deliver local services and strengthen local institutions. This manual sets out the implications of decentralization for the design of social funds both as institutions and as bundles of processes for project selection and implementation. It also discusses how social funds can strengthen community and local government inst...