When Death is Not an Option? Empirical Evidence from Ijaw Armed Group Fighters in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Obinna Ezejiofor
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Armed Group

On the road to the state's perdition? Authority and sovereignty in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Eberlein
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
State Failure ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The Road ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Extra State

This article discusses the reorganisation and fragmentation of political rule in the Nigerian Niger Delta from the end of the 1990s until today. It details empirical evidence on the resources provided by transnational interventions, especially those connected to the changing security strategies of oil companies as well as intensified corporate social deployments, and on the appropriation of these resources by local actors. The continued drive from neopatrimonial to predatory rule, it is argued, has taken a decided twist towards localisation during recent years. Instead of constructing the crises in the Niger Delta as an example of ‘state failure’, the focus of this article is directed at the establishment of extra-state political formations, their legitimising discourses and social practices.

Male Role in Emergency Obstetric Care in Rural Niger Delta, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Tarilaifa Akpandara
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Emergency Obstetric Care ◽  
Obstetric Care ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Disadvantaged Community ◽  
Male Role

After more than two decades of continuous democratic rule and government policies geared towards improved emergency obstetric care (EmOC) access in Nigeria, maternal mortality remains a fundamental public health challenge. Although many studies have emphasized the significance of the male role in female reproductive health-seeking behavior in the country, there is insufficient empirical evidence on the male role in accessing EmOC in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, the bastion of the nation’s petroleum industry. This study explored women’s perspectives, beliefs, and experiences concerning the role of their husbands on reproductive health by collecting quantitative and qualitative data in an economically disadvantaged community of Bayelsa State. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 616 women aged 15-49 years. Focus Group Discussions (16) were conducted among purposively selected male and female participants. Men play positive roles toward accessing EmOC by women in rural Bayelsa. At least eight out of ten women reported that their husbands were present during pregnancy or birth complications; five out of ten claimed they followed them to hospitals or clinics for treatment. Men also provided the finance for the specialized care during emergencies. This study provides empirical evidence of a positive male role in accessing EmOC in the study area. More deliberate promotion of male involvement in the reproductive health of their wives will contribute significantly to the reduction of maternal mortality in a patriarchal society such as Bayelsa.

Challenges to the social motivation theory of autism: The dangers of counteracting an imprecise theory with even more imprecision

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Uljarević ◽  
Giacomo Vivanti ◽  
Susan R. Leekam ◽  
Antonio Y. Hardan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Motivation Theory ◽  
The Social

Abstract The arguments offered by Jaswal & Akhtar to counter the social motivation theory (SMT) do not appear to be directly related to the SMT tenets and predictions, seem to not be empirically testable, and are inconsistent with empirical evidence. To evaluate the merits and shortcomings of the SMT and identify scientifically testable alternatives, advances are needed on the conceptualization and operationalization of social motivation across diagnostic boundaries.

Integrating perspectives: How the development of second-personal competence lays the foundation for a second-personal morality

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Corbit ◽  
Chris Moore
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Competence ◽  
Triadic Interactions ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
Integrative Process

Abstract The integration of first-, second-, and third-personal information within joint intentional collaboration provides the foundation for broad-based second-personal morality. We offer two additions to this framework: a description of the developmental process through which second-personal competence emerges from early triadic interactions, and empirical evidence that collaboration with a concrete goal may provide an essential focal point for this integrative process.

Men Are Hierarchical, Women Are Egalitarian: An Implicit Gender Stereotype

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Schmid Mast
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Gender Stereotype ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Two Samples

The goal of the present study was to provide empirical evidence for the existence of an implicit hierarchy gender stereotype indicating that men are more readily associated with hierarchies and women are more readily associated with egalitarian structures. To measure the implicit hierarchy gender stereotype, the Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald et al., 1998) was used. Two samples of undergraduates (Sample 1: 41 females, 22 males; Sample 2: 35 females, 37 males) completed a newly developed paper-based hierarchy-gender IAT. Results showed that there was an implicit hierarchy gender stereotype: the association between male and hierarchical and between female and egalitarian was stronger than the association between female and hierarchical and between male and egalitarian. Additionally, men had a more pronounced implicit hierarchy gender stereotype than women.

Socially Shared Regulation of Learning: A Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Panadero ◽  
Sanna Järvelä
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Optimal Form ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recorded Observation ◽  
Socially Shared Regulation

Abstract. Socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL) has been recognized as a new and growing field in the framework of self-regulated learning theory in the past decade. In the present review, we examine the empirical evidence to support such a phenomenon. A total of 17 articles addressing SSRL were identified, 13 of which presented empirical evidence. Through a narrative review it could be concluded that there is enough data to maintain the existence of SSRL in comparison to other social regulation (e.g., co-regulation). It was found that most of the SSRL research has focused on characterizing phenomena through the use of mixed methods through qualitative data, mostly video-recorded observation data. Also, SSRL seems to contribute to students’ performance. Finally, the article discusses the need for the field to move forward, exploring the best conditions to promote SSRL, clarifying whether SSRL is always the optimal form of collaboration, and identifying more aspects of groups’ characteristics.

Neuroscience and Ethics

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Matthew Liao
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Joshua Greene

Abstract. A number of people believe that results from neuroscience have the potential to settle seemingly intractable debates concerning the nature, practice, and reliability of moral judgments. In particular, Joshua Greene has argued that evidence from neuroscience can be used to advance the long-standing debate between consequentialism and deontology. This paper first argues that charitably interpreted, Greene’s neuroscientific evidence can contribute to substantive ethical discussions by being part of an epistemic debunking argument. It then argues that taken as an epistemic debunking argument, Greene’s argument falls short in undermining deontological judgments. Lastly, it proposes that accepting Greene’s methodology at face value, neuroimaging results may in fact call into question the reliability of consequentialist judgments. The upshot is that Greene’s empirical results do not undermine deontology and that Greene’s project points toward a way by which empirical evidence such as neuroscientific evidence can play a role in normative debates.

Empirical Evidence About Legal Evidence

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 535-536
Author(s):  
Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Legal Evidence
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