Understanding a Resource Curse Hypothesis: The Nigerian Archetype

In continuation to understanding how Nigeria is emblematic of a resource curse model nation, this study presented an intricate look at national, regional and global data-sets which provided credence to the hypothesis that the country is indeed a resource cursed archetype. While report of compelling evidence showed that oil as a resource has been the bane on the growth of the Nigerian economy, with implicit structural disturbances occasioned by poor leadership, the study presented the sordid state of the country in this regard, but also offered policy initiatives that could help the country manage its malaise.

Peculiarity of the use of pseudonoise signals in electrical prospecting equipment

The article provides a practical assessment of the effectiveness of the use of electrical prospecting equipment with pseudonoise sounding signals based on the results of field experiments with a new electrical prospecting measuring complex developed at the Scientific Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Two main sources of interference are considered, limiting the possibilities of effective use of pseudonoise signals in electrical prospecting equipment: “structural disturbances”, manifested in the process of correlation processing of recorded signals and interference, the source of which is an industrial power network with a frequency of 50 Hz. Methods of reducing the influence of the above noises on the sounding curve obtained during data processing are considered using specially developed algorithms for eliminating “structural disturbances” and suppressing residual noise and interference.

Psychic Unhomings, Amnesia, and the Risk of Decosmopolitanization in Damon Galgut’s The Impostor (2008)

The apartheid regime has left behind a range of chronic and structural disturbances of home/lands in contemporary South Africa. This article examines the representation of housing in Damon Galgut’s The Impostor. In this post-apartheid novel, houses feature prominently; they are not only the axle around which the plot revolves, but characters in their own right. Houses are depicted as relational and dynamic sites, invested with traumatic repressed material. By drawing on critical house studies, psychoanalysis, memory, and postcolonial studies, it will be shown that there is a strong intersection that needs to be unpacked between inhabited spaces, the mnemonic economy of the self, its displacements and unexpected flights, and the larger socio-economic and political sphere. This article argues that houses in Galgut’s novel emerge as psychological and affective contents, as symptoms of historical amnesia and displaced whiteness; characters’ psychic disturbances find fertile terrain in a country which, while parading itself as “new” and “open”, risks regressing towards new forms of “decosmopolitanization” (Appadurai).

Research on peasants poverty alleviation under ecological constraint based on neural network algorithm and network features

Aiming at the actual problems encountered in the specific poverty alleviation work, this article designs a management system specifically designed for poverty alleviation workers to solve poverty alleviation data sharing and online editing and uploading of poverty alleviation logs. Based on the neural network and network characteristics, a system model is constructed, and the application of structural disturbance theory in dynamic networks is studied. Moreover, in this study, the dynamic change information between time-series networks is taken into account for structural disturbances. By combining structural disturbances and local topology, a new similarity measurement method suitable for dynamic networks is proposed. In addition, this study proposes an algorithm based on evolutionary clustering and density clustering to detect the structure of dynamic communities. Finally, this study compares the proposed method with the classic method in the artificial network and the real network and analyzes the performance of the research model through data analysis. The research results show that the model constructed in this paper has good performance.

Morphometric Analysis of Kolavadi Sub-Watershed in Bhor Tahsil Using GIS Techniques

The growing demand and competition for water from domestic, industrial and agricultural sectors reached utmost limit. Drainage basins, catchments, and sub-catchments are the hydrological units ideally suited for planning of conservation of land and water resources. GIS techniques are useful for analysis of morphometric properties of any watershad. Morphometric aspects: linear, relief, and areal aspects of Kolavadi sub-watershed of Upper Nira basin were analyzed using spatial tools and arc-hydro tool in Arc GIS 10.3. The bifurcation ratio (2 to 4.5) indicates structural disturbances and mature topography with higher degree of drainage integration. This watershed shows less elongated shape with low relief, moderate to gentle slope, moderate drainage density and highly prone to soil erosion. Techniques used in study and results are useful for planning and monitoring the sub-watersheds for sustainable development.