Willingness to pay for social services is often regarded as a means of ensuring the long-term sustainability of such services. This paper examines willingness to pay (WTP) for improved water supply in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 256...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/39282
The holdings of periodic free and fair elections have become a key step to consolidating democracies around the world. This calls for an effective means of addressing election-related issues and building strong election management bodies that have the ability to ensure the involv...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/39607
A real-world problem in stock markets is always the emotional control. Obviously, the real question is how to “control” the bad emotions and feelings (e.g. fear and greed), just before the execution orders, rather than to “eliminate” them. In order to address the emotional contr...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/39351
Body marking is both an elusive and a sensitive issue on various forms of discussion. Most individuals do not want to associate themselves with other people who have body marks and this has attached a sense of stigmatization to the issue of body marks as there is the vivid lack o...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/39317
As a signatory of the 1951 United Nations (UN) Convention on the Status and Rights of Refuges and the AU 1969 Refugee Convention, Ghana is obliged by international law and convention to ensure and guarantee the basic rights of refugees in Egyeikrom Refugee camps. These basic righ...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/39406
The play “The Birthday Party” delineates the predicaments faced by the people in the second half of the 20th century. It represents the existential problems among the post-war generations who have given up life and stuck in utter seclusion. The elderly class have been living life...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38079
Aims: This study aims to analyze the scene represented in the Izapa Stela 5 from the Gadamer’s aesthetic, to unveil the link between myth and logos in the horizon of understanding of the Mayan civilization. Study Design: Philosophical research. Place and Duration of Study: The fi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38247
The question of how potent negotiation is in ending violent terrorist campaigns has remained unanswered. This is because terrorist negotiation is morally repugnant as it is politically necessary. This study investigated the pros and cons of Nigerian government and BK negotiation....
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/37236
Women in remittance earning household have to perform various sorts of roles and responsibilities in and out of their house. The present study investigated the socio-economic characteristics of remittance earning household as well as the part of women in remittance-earning househ...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38316
This essay presents a review on Brian Swimme’s 3-DVD set of lecture series in the interdisciplinary field of philosophy, cosmology and consciousness. In the eleven 45-minute episodes of a systematic 9-hour immersive program, a set of 12 intercorrelated cosmological powers is prop...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38313
Trickster-like Dharma teachings in Tibetan Buddhism behave as a kind of shortcuts in the approach to leading people along the path of enlightenment. This essay collects three such teachings of different levels towards destroying illusions, i.e., Buddha’s silence, Guru’s paradox,...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38108
The objective of this paper is to investigate the empirical effect of public debt on economic growth, using a sample of six Central African Economic and Monetary Community countries over the years from 2000 to 2016. The Hausman's test suggests that the fixed-effects model is pref...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/39080
Block argued against functionalism. The argument was metaphorized by building a normal body but with the brain of a homunculus. A review of the metaphorization exposes that the argument is inadequate to avoid the weakness of the functionalist doctrine.
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38093
As retail chain store business is gaining popularity very quickly, people engaged in this sector should pay special attention to the growth of this sector. The present study elucidates the direct and associated factors influencing the growth of supermarket activity in Sylhet dist...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38593
This article introduces Hegel's Eurocentric philosophy of dialectics in the 19th century and its transformation to Kelly’s planetary paradigm at the turn of the 20th-21st century. The new theory develops Hegel’s thesis—antitheses—synthesis to identity—difference—new-identity whic...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2018/38314