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Living Organ Donation, Beneficient Helping, & the Kantian Concept of Partial Self-Murder
(Scientific Research, 2014-11)This paper deals with the ethical issues concerning living organ donor transplantation in the context of Immanuel Kant’s Ethical Theory. It primarily aims to refute the common perception about Kant’s categorical opposition ... -
Microscopy and outpatient malaria case managementamong older children and adults in Kenya
(Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com), 2006-04)To evaluate the accuracy of routine malaria microscopy, and appropriate use andinterpretation of malaria slides under operational conditions in Kenya.methods Cross-sectional survey, using a range of quality of care assessment ... -
The Mind-Body Problem: The Perspective of Psychology
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)The paper traces the changes in the conceptualization of body-mind relations in psychology in terms of five sequential phases. The first phase is characterized by the view that there is nothing but the body. The second ... -
Music Education and Youth Empowerment: A Conceptual Clarification
(Scientific Research, 2015-02)This paper is a conceptual clarification of the nexus between music education and youth empowerment. It is also an exposition of how music education can be utilized for the empowerment of the Nigerian youths with a brief ... -
The Need for a Family Policy That Fosters Family as an Institution
(Scientific Research, 2015-01)The 20th anniversary of the international year of the family has led to the General Assembly of the United Nations to ask for a review of family policies adopted by each country to achieve three objectives: eradication ... -
Online-specific fear of missing out and Internet-use expectancies contribute to symptoms of Internet-communication disorder
(Elsevier, 2017-06)Some of the most frequently used online applications are Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. These applications allow individuals to communicate with other users, to share information or pictures, and to stay in contact with ... -
Organ Transplant Trade: A Moral Examination
(Scientific Research, 2015-05)This article normatively discusses two moral theories namely: Ubuntu and Deontology, with the aim of arguing against the practice of organ transplant trade. It is argued that this practice violates a rule of categorical ... -
Philosophy of Education: A Tool for National Development?
(Scientific Research, 2014-08)This paper is an exposition on the theoretical and practical relevance of educational philosophy to national development. It postulated that philosophical ideas have been responsible for shaping the development of societies ... -
Pre-service primary school teachers’ knowledge of informal statistical inference
(Springer Netherlands, 2018-03)The ability to reason inferentially is increasingly important in today’s society. It is hypothesized here that engaging primary school students in informal statistical reasoning (ISI), defined as making generalizations ... -
Public Sector and Corruption in Nigeria: An Ethical and Institutional Framework of Analysis
(Scientific Research, 2014-08)The paper examines the imperatives of good ethical conduct in the conduct of government business in Nigeria. As government business grows in complexity with the adoption of technological innovations in government, ... -
Quadrature formulas for integral equations of kinetics and digital reactimeters
(2017-08)The aim of this work is to derive quadrature formulas for nuclear reactor kinetic equations in the form of Volterra integral equations of the second kind and reactimeter equations in the form of integral convolution, the ... -
A Qualitative Study on the Outcomes of Social Media Advertising
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-29)In this modern digitalized world, almost everyone is attached with internet. So there is an opportunity for the advertisers to use the social apps/internet for the purpose of advertising. This study was conducted to check ... -
The Relative Effects of Logistics, Coordination and Human Resource on Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief Mission Performance
(University of Malaya, 2014-10)Most studies on humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HADR) missions suggest that the quality of logistics, coordination and human resource management will affect their performance. However, studies in developing countries ... -
Research on Chewing Gum: Questions of Ethics
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)Guidelines for clinical research and ethics committees are significant contributions to decision made in science and law. But since research methods need to follow the changes and the development of science, guidelines ... -
Revisiting the Catalogue Cards in University Libraries in Nigeria
(Scientific Research, 2015-03)The card catalogues are neglected in the university libraries in Nigeria because of the introduction of OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) which is rarely seen in most of university libraries. After conducting a ... -
Social security reforms in Kenya: Towards a workeristor a citizenship-based system?
(University of Fribourg, Department of Social Sciences, Switzerland, 2016-05)With social security provisions in Kenya remainingunder-reported in the more recent literature, this overviewcovers recent reforms in key areas of the country’ s social secu-rity system. In the health sector and in old-age ... -
“Soul Stealer: 1768 Chinese Sorcery Scare” in Social Crisis
(Scientific Research, 2015-01)The “Soul Stealer: Chinese Sorcery Scare 1768” written by Alden Kuhn is a successful example to research more profound problem areas by use of legal history. In the aura of prosperity and good governance by the determination ... -
Study on Implicit Ideological and Political Education Theory and Reform in Higher Vocational Colleges
(Scientific Research, 2015-05)The rapid development of higher vocational education in our country, to higher vocational ideological and political education work has brought serious challenges, researching the effectiveness of the ideological and ... -
Study on the Development of Rural E-Commerce against the Backdrop of Rural Revitalization
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2018-07-06)Under the trend of “Internet+”, the analysis of the development of rural e-commerce will reveal some of its deficiencies such as a single booster, the lack of standards of the products, the difficulties of building the ... -
Theoretical Model of Special Product Design for the Elderly
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-02)As ageing in current society is gradually increasing, it is urgent to study product design for the elderly, exploring the theoretical system of elderly product design is of great significance. In order to guide product ...
