This research presents remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) based application in the analysis of Shoreline change in Ibeno L. G. Area, Akwa Ibom State. Satellite imageries of 1986, 2006 and 2008 were used to extract the shoreline through heads-up digitization. The rate of shoreline change was assessed using Linear Regression (LRR) and End Point Rate (EPR) methods. The shoreline change detection was conducted using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS). The result however indicated that the rate of erosion is found out to be very high with maximum value of -7.8m/yr recorded at Itak Abasi community. On the other hand, some portions of the shoreline are accreting at an average rate of 2m/yr. Based on this result however, it is concluded that Ibeno shoreline is eroding at an average rate of -3.9m/yr. Areas mostly affected by accretion processes are identified near Qua Iboe River Estuary and ExxonMobil Jetty where sand filling is usually done for settlement purposes. This best explains the reason for the submersion of school buildings, residential buildings and the persistent inundation of large portions of land in the area. However, acquisition of high resolution satellite images which is believed will facilitate regular assessment, monitoring and modeling of the Nigerian shorelines has been recommended. This will help to model the scenario and proffer proactive measures towards curbing the menace by ensuring effective environmental management practices, timely emergency responses, and salvage the immediate physical environment.

- This study aimed to investigate the impact of some macroeconomic indicators on stocks returns in the Jordanian insurance companies which listed in Amman Stock Exchange during the period (2000-2012). The study sample consisted of (16) insurance company, the analytical approach has been adopted through building a multiple linear regression model. The model of the study was analysed using a variety of statistical tests, including Pooled Model for the regression analysis, Random Effect model, and Fixed Effect model. The results of the study indicated that there is a statistically significant effect for both inflation and the budget deficit, on the Jordanian insurance companies returns, while there was no statistically significant effect for the unemployment on the returns of these stocks. The study recommended a set of recommendations, the most important was that the Jordanian insurance companies must take into consideration all the factors that affect inflation.

There has been increasing research interest in rural migration in recent times. Rural migration is the movement of people from one geographical location to another. The rural areas are the banks of the world’s natural resources such as land and forests which house timber forest and non-timber resources. This study was carried out to ascertain the effect of rural-urban migration on household livelihoods and rural environment in Delta State, Nigeria. It assesses a conceptual framework involving rural household livelihoods as an integrative mediating factor between rural-urban labour migration and the rural environment of Delta State, Nigeria. Data were collected through household surveys and key informant interviews from six villages. The results reject the null hypothesis that labour-migrant and non-labour-migrant households do not differ significantly in livelihood activities, including agricultural production, agricultural technology use, income and consumption, and resource use and management. Implications for future environmental outcomes of rural labour emigration and the related natural resource management and policy in rural push areas are discussed.

Economic development and globalization of international markets have created a favourable atmosphere for the emergence of new forms of crime such as money laundering or financing of terrorism, which may contribute to destabilized and damage economic systems. In particular, money laundering have acquired great importance since the 11S attacks, what has caused on the one hand, the establishment and development of preventive measures and, on the other hand, a progressive hardening of penal measures. Since then, the regulations imposed to fight against money laundering have been viewed as key components also in the fight against terrorist financing. Terrorism, at the beginning, was a “national” crime connected with internal problems of the State (for instance the RAF in Germany or ETA in Spain) but in the last 20 years has started to be an international problem that is connected with the defence and security of the States. Therefore, the new strategic concept for the defense and security of NATO has a comprehensive list of security threats to the Alliance, such as terrorism, international instability, money laundering or attacks on cyberspace, among others. With this new concept, money laundering and terrorism has become a priority in the national defense. In this work we will analyze the methods to combat these new threats to the national security. We will study the preventive legislations to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism, the UIF that exchange information between States, and the hawala-Banking. Key words: Money laundering, terrorism, financing of terrorism, control of financial flows.

Recycling to produce new products out of waste materials is not a regular feature of school art programmes in Ghana. A previous quasi-experimental recycling project revealed the possibility of using pulp waste fabrics and paper mulberry fibre to produce good quality art paper suitable for teaching and learning of drawing, painting, stitching, colour work, and book binding. This article reports on the follow up workshop aimed at introducing 15 art teachers in Kumasi to pulp art making to support effective delivery of the Creative Arts, Basic Design and Technology, and Visual Arts curricula followed in Primary, Junior High and Senior High Schools respectively. Besides learning to produce papers, the teachers tested the suitability of the produced papers using colour pencil, pastel, poster colour, watercolour, oil and acrylic paints. They also learned to sew sheets of the produced papers together into miniature books to teach calligraphy and encourage development of good handwriting skills among their students. This one-day hands-on workshop generated sufficient interest to motivate four participants to successfully replicate the workshop in their respective schools.

The onerous task of protecting orphans in Africa requires a multifarious effort aimed not only at infusion of public, private or international funding into the care and treatment of HIV/AIDS but also the building of economic and legal systems that integrates social and cultural representation and identity of the people such as those that energize the primary base and involve these vulnerable victims of HIV/AIDS. Goals and objectives of governments and institutions working in this field of health should be a collaborative effort towards an effective coordination of work strategically designed for children in partnership with mental health, social, medical and legal personnel. It is my opinion that this will promote easy access to all available resources especially in countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa where HIV/AIDS is very endemic. In order to prevent abuse and improve access to health care, ethical and legal issues, much attention should be paid to the underlying social and economic problems that contributed to the spread of the disease. Orphans have been greatly affected by the high level of poverty, infectious diseases reaching epidemic levels, lack of education and inadequate health, legal, social and economic infrastructures.

The legal framework for women’s rights in Nigeria is based on the Constitution primarily, other local laws and international treaties relating to women ratified by the country. Nigeria is a country with very high but youthful population. 2 Women in Nigeria constitute more than two - thirds of the country’s 70% adult non literate population. Despite the fact that women also constitute about 49% of the total population, they are discriminated against in all spheres of governance. The marginalization of Nigerian women is much more pronounced in the native laws and custom which constitutes a major aspect of the sources of Nigerian law. The issue of women’s rights in Nigeria is very sensitive. Right is defined as ‘A power, privilege or immunity, guaranteed under a constitution, status or decisional laws or claimed as a respect of long usage.

Periodic random impulse signals are appropriate tools for several situations of interest and are a natural way for modeling highly localized events occuring randomly at given times. Nevertheless, the impulses are generally hidden and swallowed up in noise because of unwanted convolution. Thus, the resulting signal is not legible and may lead to erroneaous analysis, and hence, the need of deconvolution to restore the random periodic impulses. The main purpose of this study is to introduce the concept of cyclic sparsity or cyclosparsity in deconvolution framework for signals that are jointly sparse and cyclostationary like periodic random impulses. Indeed, all related works in this area exploit only one property, either sparsity or cyclostationarity and never both properties together. Although, the key feature of the cyclosparsity concept is that it gathers both properties to better characterize this kind of signals. We show that deconvolution based on cyclic sparsity hypothesis increases the performances and reduces significantly the computation cost as well. Finally, we use computer simulations to investigate the behavior in deconvolution framework of the algorithms Matching Pursuit (MP) [13], Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) [14], Orthogonal Least Square (OLS) [15], Single Best Replacement (SBR), [19, 20, 21] and the proposed extensions to cyclic sparsity context: Cyclo-MP, Cyclo-OMP, Cyclo-OLS and Cyclo-SBR.

This study aimed to measure the effect of concentration to achieve the banking goal in each of (deposits and loans) on the profitability of the Jordanian commercial banks, which have been measured by using ratio of profitability (ROE). The study was conducted on Jordanian commercial banks. Also the study covered period between 1993 to 2013. The researcher used in this study descriptive analytical method and used statistical program (E-VIEWS) also data were analyzed by using simple linear regression method to test hypotheses of the study. The results showed that there was no statistically significant effect of the concentration of each of the banking (deposits and loans) on the profitability of commercial banks in Jordan. The study recommended the demand of Jordanian commercial banks to diversify the services provided by them and to rely on efficient and effective management of its reliance on more concentration to get market share.

This research was conducted to assess the growth performance of dahlia on various crop residues as potting media. Pot research was conducted by transplanting 20 days old seedlings on different crop residues, including, Silt as control, FYM+Silt (1:3), FYM+Silt (1:3) cockscomb and FYM+Silt (1:3) Maize crop residues as treatment. Completely Randomized Designs (RCBD) was applied to test the significance and compared means of treatments. Data was recorded for different parameters including plant height (cm), total number of leaf, total number of branches, total number of flower, fresh weight(g), dry weight (g), total bulbs, bulb diameter, flower diameter. All the results were statistically significant and the results related with plant growth indices indicated that the maximum values for plant height (39.33cm), total number leaves (53)total flowers (4.66), fresh weight(g) (76.03),dry weight (g) (14.00), bulb diameter (8.33) flower diameter (11.66) were found in slit. The combination of Slit + FYM and crop residues has little effect on all the parameters studies.