THE NIGERIAN OIL RESOURCEAND SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: AN INTERROGATION by Joshua DANJUMA

“…During the oil boom of the 1970s, oil was the primary source of government revenue, amounting to about 80% of total income. The paper adopts content analysis of mainly secondary sources to examine the research problem at stake using the resource curse theory. …”
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Talking Local: Florida Consumers’ Local Food Purchasing Behaviors by Caroline G. Roper, Joy N. Rumble

“…This series provides information about Florida consumers’ perceptions of local food to Extension faculty who are interested in local food programming or who work with local food clientele. …”
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The Florida Natural Resources Leadership Institute by Paul Monaghan, Emily Ott, Carol Lippincott, Ondine Wells, Jessica Ireland, Jon Dain, Bruce Delaney, Roy Carriker

“…Effective leadership in managing such issues requires a specialized set of skills, tools, and strategies to build trust and promote innovation and collaboration among competing interests. …”
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On (dis)agreement between different methods of calculation of the imaginary part of the effective action in expanding space-times by E.T. Akhmedov, I.A. Belkovich, D.V. Diakonov, K.A. Kazarnovskii

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Reflexivity, description and the analysis of social settings by Rodney Watson

“…The concept of 'reflexivity' has become an often-intoned mantra in contemporary social science, particulary, perhaps, sociology. …”
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La re-creación de la universidad: universalización de la universidad by Mary Carrero, Omaira García de Berrios

“…El presente trabajo tiene como finalidad caracterizar los elementos representativos del Modelo de Organización Inteligente, con los cuales la Universidad podría articular su funcionamiento a los requerimientos de la sociedad, como la principal fuente de compromisos que tienen las instituciones de educación superior. Bajo un enfoque epistemológico introspectivo-vivencial en que prevalece la simbiosis entre investigador, texto y contexto, se recogen algunas apreciaciones de sujetos clave dentro de La Universidad de Los Andes, Núcleo Trujillo, seleccionada como unidad de análisis, en donde se registran como principales elementos de aplicabilidad del Modelo de Organización Inteligente, las referencias a la arquitectura de cooperación, aprendizaje en equipo y pensamiento sistémico, como las tres de las cinco disciplinas en que se apoya la operatividad del Modelo de Inteligencia de Peter Senge.…”
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Rational and Emotional Communication in Advertising in Women's Magazines in Brazil by Edward Robinson Marin, Nadia Kassouf Pizzinatto, Antonio Carlos Giuliani

“…The methodology was based on an exploratory study, supported on a scale of 14 items, by Resnik and Stern (1977), which recommend matching appeals to attitude toward the product, that is, use informative advertising, based on rational appeals for products in which the consumer attitude is predominantly cognitive. …”
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A Study of the Usage of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research and Education by Peng Ruisen

“…By combining the essential information from recent papers about tliis field, this paper analyses the crucial problem scientists face and the general solving method. …”
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TRAYECTORIAS DE MUJERES Y TRABAJO DE CUIDADO EN EL ÁMBITO COMUNITARIO: ALGUNAS CLAVES PARA SU ESTUDIO by Carla Zibecchi

“…Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las trayectorias de las mujeres que efectúan el trabajo de cuidado en organizaciones comunitarias en con- textos de pobreza, desde un enfoque de género. Además, se propone pre- sentar dimensiones, aspectos e hipótesis de trabajo que son fructíferos para el estudio de trayectorias laborales de mujeres. …”
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'n Teologies-dogmatiese beoordeling van die Suid-Afrikaanse grondwetlike konsep van menswaardigheid by N. Vorster

“…As constitutional value it informs constitutional interpretation at a range of levels. …”
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Calidad en la educación superior desde las ciencias sociales y administrativas by Maritza Rengifo-Millán

“…La metodología fue un estudio de caso con enfoque mixto, cuantitativo complementado con análisis cualitativo. …”
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La protección social de la niñez: subjetividad y posderechos en la segunda modernidad by Leandro Luciani

“…En el trabajo reflexiono sobre el sentido de la categoría niñez en la segunda modernidad. Desde un enfoque de derechos, analizo el interjuego entre los marcos legales supranacionales, y los existentes en la República Argentina, revisando la posibilidad de concreción de un Sistema de Protección Integral de Derechos. …”
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The power of dialogue and discovery by Kalina Jastrzębowska

“… Greater emphasis must be placed on activities that promote innovative teaching methods in early childhood mathematics education in Poland. …”
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Participatory Culture for Social Justice: Students Deploying New Media as a Call to Action and Social Change by Sarah McCorkle

“…Each class curated their artifacts online, prompting others to explore the materials and encouraging reuse of the materials in both formal and informal educational settings. Halverson’s design principles for participatory media spaces are used to frame and make meaning of the faculty participants’ experiences. …”
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‘Florida Beauty’ Strawberry by Vance M. Whitaker, Natalia A. Peres, Shinsuke Agehara

“…Data from these trials have been used to generate the following information and recommendations to help growers obtain optimum performance of this cultivar in west-central Florida. …”
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The number of nonunimodular roots of a reciprocal polynomial by Stankov, Dragan

“…We prove that the ratio of the number of nonunimodular roots of $P_{d}$ to its degree $d$ has a limit $L$ when $d$ tends to infinity. We show that if the coefficients of a polynomial can be arbitrarily large in modulus then $L$ can be arbitrarily close to $0$. …”
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Derechos de niños y niñas: del discurso a la política local by Ernesto Durán Strauch

“…Presento aquí los resultados de un estudio de caso de tipo cualitativo sobre la política pública de infancia y adolescencia de Bogotá, que emplea un enfoque interpretativista de análisis de política. …”
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Cuban Agriculture Before 1959: The Social Situation by José Alvarez

“…Díaz-Briquets (1983; 1986) contain useful information on several of the variables discussed in this fact sheet. …”
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Generalized logistic equation on Networks by Elbetch, Bilel

“…Second, in the case of perfect mixing, i.e. when the migration rate tends to infinity, the total population follows a generalized logistic law with a carrying capacity which in general is different from the sum of the $n$ carrying capacities. …”
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Spiritual abuse under the banner of the right to freedom of religion in religious cults can be addressed by S. P. Pretorius

“…Abuse in religious cults can be addressed by cultivating public awareness through the gathering and distribution of information on the abusive practices of these groups. …”
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