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"The personal is political": faith and religion in a public university
Published 2011-06-01“…They illustrate how the great rallying cry of the early feminist movement to make the personal political can help in ensuring that religion does not become a “private” matter. …”
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POVERTY ERADICATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: AN APPRAISAL OF TELEVISION JINGLES
Published 2023-09-01“…The results of this research emphasize how television jingles have a noteworthy effect on increasing awareness about poverty and rallying support for initiatives aimed at reducing it. …”
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IMPLICATIONS OF XENOPHOBIA ON AFRICAN UNITY
Published 2022-05-01“…South Africa started to command sphere of influence and became a rallying point in terms of trade, tourism, education, telecommunication and sport for African countries. …”
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Modeling Campaign Optimization Strategies in Political Elections under Uncertainty
Published 2020“…In most political campaigns,the overall goal of every candidate is to maximize the number of voters during the election exercise.In such an effort,cost effective methods in choosing the optimal campaign strategy areparamount.In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed that optimize campaign strategies of a political candidate.Considering uncertainty in voter support and cost implications in holding political rallies,we formulate a finite state markov decision process model where states of a markov chain represent possible states of support among voters.Using daily equal intervals,thecandidates‟s decision of whether or not to campaign and hold a political rally at a given location were made using discrete time Markov chains and dynamic programming over a finite period planning horizon.Empirical data was collected from two locations on a daily basis during the campaign exercise.The data collected was analyzed and tested to establish the optimal campaign strategy and costs at the respective locations.Results from the study indicated the existence of an optimal state-dependent campaign strategy and costs at the respective political rally locations.…”
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SYNERGY BETWEEN THE YOUTH AND A SECURED NATION: AN ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP NIGERIA THROUGH POLITICS AND ELECTORAL REMINISCENCE
Published 2024-05-01“…The result of findings of the study shows that the youths can participate actively in the political affairs of the nation by; joining political parties of their choice, shunning all political violence, engaging in peaceful political rallies and campaigns and ultimately vying for elective positions in the country. …”
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Doubling constructions and tensor product L-functions: coverings of the symplectic group
Published 2025-01-01“…Our construction is based on the recent extension by Cai, Friedberg, Ginzburg and the author, of the classical doubling method of Piatetski-Shapiro and Rallis, from rank- $1$ twists to arbitrary rank twists. …”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity
Published 2006-06-01“…Regardless of the huge former importance of sport in sustaining national identity, nowadays, only in case of a signal victory, sport is able to rally strong "emotional communities." As a matter of fact, modern-day Lithuanian general public's interest in sports is rather occasional, maybe even an accidental phenomenon that possesses no endurance in daily life. …”
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