scholarly journals Best Practices for Community Policing and Crime Prevention in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugwu A. N. ◽  
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Nwaogu G. A. ◽  
Oyebamiji M. A. ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Accountability System ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Community engagement lies at the core of policing. Therefore, through collaborative efforts, community and police members address crime and disorder using approaches determined to be best practices for their communities. Today, community policing involves a new philosophy of police operations and management; hosting an accountability system involving the entire organisation. Nevertheless, to be effective in preventing crime, Nigerian police must place renewed emphasis on community engagement and practices. Based on this premise, this paper examines the best practices for community policing and crime prevention in Nigeria. The paper began with an introduction which x-rayed community policing as evolving to meet the new expectations that emerge in the 21st Century. The paper further looked into the philosophical principles of community policing, crime prevention, community policing best practices for Nigeria, organisational changes for implementing community policing best practices for Nigeria, and the expected benefits of community policing to Nigerians. The paper concluded that while the ways of implementing community policing may differ in practice in accordance with certain conditions in the communities, it is imperative to know that the basic philosophical principles of community policing should always be adhered to, if the best practices for community policing is to be achieved in Nigeria.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF ARCHITECTURE GRADUATES: PERCEPTIONS FROM GRADUATES, ACADEMICS AND EMPLOYERS IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Joy Joshua Maina
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Study Results

The clamour for better quality graduates by architects in the Nigerian Construction Industry (NCI) necessitates a look into the core competencies and the adequacy of architecture education in preparing architecture graduates for professional practice. 116 self-report likertscale questionnaires from architecture graduates (2009-2015), academics and employers were analysed to establish core competencies developed by the graduates while in school. Descriptive statistics, t-tests as well as Mann-Whitney tests for differences in ratings were employed for the study. Results reveal the perceived adequacy of architecture education for the future career of graduates from the academic perspective. Graduates were most proficient at design related competencies while AutoCAD was still considered the most important CAD competency for architecture graduates in the NCI. The study recommends more frequent evaluations of competencies for employability in collaboration with industry as well as embracing BIM related software in line with global best practices. Keywords: Academics, Architecture, Employers, Graduates, Professional competencies, NCI

scholarly journals Internet of Samples (iSamples): Toward an interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure for material samples

GigaScience ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Davies ◽  
John Deck ◽  
Eric C Kansa ◽  
Sarah Whitcher Kansa ◽  
John Kunze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Standards ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Data Stewardship

Abstract Sampling the natural world and built environment underpins much of science, yet systems for managing material samples and associated (meta)data are fragmented across institutional catalogs, practices for identification, and discipline-specific (meta)data standards. The Internet of Samples (iSamples) is a standards-based collaboration to uniquely, consistently, and conveniently identify material samples, record core metadata about them, and link them to other samples, data, and research products. iSamples extends existing resources and best practices in data stewardship to render a cross-domain cyberinfrastructure that enables transdisciplinary research, discovery, and reuse of material samples in 21st century natural science.

The Obligation to Tear Through the Veil: An Analysis and Transformation of Mankind’s Insufficient Complacency Through the Novels of Jenny Offill

Meliora ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Toole
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Evolutionary Aspects

This thesis explores the ways in which we as humans are alienated by the fundamental social structures of our world and how the novels of Jenny Offill offer a possible remedy. With a specific focus on the psychological and evolutionary aspects of womanhood and motherhood, this text attempts to illustrate the ways in which these novels address the imposing weight of such fundamental structures in the 21st century. Through an analysis of the nuclear family, this thesis examines the debilitating and profound existence of women, and more specifically, mothers. Offill’s novels present a profoundly clear picture of the modern world as it depicts the reality and ramifications of psychoanalytic and evolutionary theory. This work demonstrates how Offill’s texts attempt to remedy the core dissonance of our binary-laden human existence with clarity and realization rather than acceptance of an oversimplified past and a debilitating future.

An Episode in the History of PreCrime

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-647
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lemov
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Behavioral Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Predictive Policing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current Spread ◽  
History Of

This article traces the rise of “predictive” attitudes to crime prevention. After a brief summary of the current spread of predictive policing based on person-centered and place-centered mathematical models, an episode in the scientific study of future crime is examined. At UCLA between 1969 and 1973, a well-funded “violence center” occasioned great hopes that the quotient of human “dangerousness”—potential violence against other humans—could be quantified and thereby controlled. At the core of the center, under the direction of interrogation expert and psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, was a project to gather unprecedented amounts of behavioral data and centrally store it to identify emergent crime. Protesters correctly seized on the violence center as a potential site of racially targeted experimentation in psychosurgery and an example of iatrogenic science. Yet the eventual spectacular failure of the center belies an ultimate success: its data-driven vision itself predicted the Philip K. Dick–style PreCrime policing now emerging. The UCLA violence center thus offers an alternative genealogy to predictive policing. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Histories of Data and the Database edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter.

Genomic Science—From 2001 to Present Day: What School Nurses Need to Know

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Barnby ◽  
Mark Reynolds ◽  
Pamela O’Neal
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
21St Century ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Medically Fragile ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Genomic Science ◽  
Genomic Sciences ◽  
Information And Technology

Genetic science has made remarkable advances in the 21st century. As genetic and genomic sciences continue to expand, school nurses will become thoroughly immersed in data, information, and technology. As new diseases, treatments, and therapies are discovered, school nurses will need to implement and assess best practices for the complex and medically fragile student population. This article will discuss the top 10 recent discoveries in genomic science and how school nurses can use this information in clinical practice.

scholarly journals Practical Precision Electrical Impedance Measurement for the 21st Century – EMPIR Project 17RPT04 VersICal

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Power ◽  
Adam Ziolek ◽  
Andreas Elmholdt Christensen ◽  
Andrei Pokatilov ◽  
Anca Nestor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Electrical Impedance ◽  
Impedance Measurement ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Core ◽  
First Results ◽  
Electrical Impedance Measurement ◽  
Measurement Infrastructure

The core objective of EMPIR project 17RPT04 VersICaL is to improve the European measurement infrastructure for electrical impedance, with particular emphasis on the capabilities of developing NMIs and calibration centres. The project will seek to exploit the results of existing research on digital impedance bridges (DIBs) by designing, constructing and validating simple, affordable versions suitable to realise the impedance scale in the range 1 nF to 10 μF and 1 mH to 10 H with relative uncertainties in the range 10-5 to 10-6. The first results of the research project, including the bridge designs and details of a polyphase digitally synthesized multichannel source capable of providing voltage outputs of precise ratio and phase are presented.

scholarly journals Best practices for embedded librarian service: Connecting with students online

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Michelle Strasz
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Embedded Librarian

Embedded librarianship has been around for a long time. It was considered a buzz word and began appearing in journals and conferences early in the 21st century, according to Kathy Drewes and Nadine Hoffman. Embedded librarianship became a way for librarians to provide research help and assistance to distance education students, as more library resources came online. Embedded librarianship has been an important service no more so than now in the new reality of the pandemic world.

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