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The Need for Greater Pro Active Involvement by Regulators in Financial Regulation and Supervision:Lessons from the Legal and General Case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper considers the need for a more pro active approach which facilitates greater on site work being carried out by supervisors – as highlighted in the Legal and General Case.
Ojo, Mariane.B.
core   +2 more sources

Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

Una iconografía del ojo en Un chien andalou

open access: yesArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2014
Este artículo tiene como objeto realizar un análisis del motivo visual del ojo en Un chien andalou. El ojo, que en esta película es rasurado con una cuchilla, tiene una función simbólica que recorre toda la filmografía de su director.
Ainamar Clariana Rodagut
doaj   +1 more source

Direct Visualisation of the Depth-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Full-Thickness Articular Cartilage. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The structural anisotropy of articular cartilage controls its deformation response. As proteoglycans and collagen vary with depth, simple uniaxial compression results in inhomogeneous deformation with distinct depth-dependent mechanical properties ...
Szarko, M, Xia, Y
core   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Heavily polluted mechanic workshop soil and its phenanthrene-degrading Bacillus thuringiensis

open access: yesThe Microbe
Mechanic workshops in residential areas are sites referenced for small-scale chronic contamination with petroleum hydrocarbons (HC) and associated pollutants like heavy metals.
Oluwafemi Sunday Obayori   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Propuesta alternativa para la enseñanza de la óptica

open access: yesGóndola, Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de las Ciencias, 2006
A través de clases donde la tecnología y la ciencia motiven al alumno a la atención y curiosidad por la adquisición y explicación de fenómenos tan cotidianos como los ópticos.
Diana Pequetita García Rodríguez.   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

When property becomes rent

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
wiley   +1 more source

The Plausibility of Distance and Computer-Assisted Learning in an era of Fuel Subsidy Removal: a Case Study of the Main Campus of Lagos State University

open access: yesФілософія освіти
Following the removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria on 29th of May 2023, residents of Lagos State have witnessed a significant spike in cost of living.
Мохаммед Акінола Акомолафе   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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