scholarly journals Locational Analysis of Police Stations In Bauchi Metropolis Using GIS Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
Ikharo I. Blessing ◽  
Ikharo A. Braimoh
Keyword(s):  
Work Force ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Attribute Data ◽  
The North ◽  
Locational Analysis ◽  
Police Personnel ◽  
Security Problem ◽  
Neighbourhood Analysis ◽  
Simple Ratio ◽  
United Nation

Given the security problem in Nigeria particularly in the North, the need for geospatial analysis of security in Bauchi metropolis in relation to police stations cannot be overemphasized. Apart from the prevalence of security problem in the area current analyses are inadequate, almost non-existent. To tackle this problem, Global Positioning System (GPS) was used to take the coordinates of the police stations in the study area, while the attribute data relating to the number of police personnel in each station were collected using interview and documented data. The data were analysed using simple ratio. Also ArcGIS (Version 10.0) software was used to show the map of the distribution. A nearest neighbourhood analysis has shown that the distribution of stations is random in the area. One and two kilometre buffer zones were generated and the result shows that the old city of Bauchi and the eastern part of the metropolis were fully served while the western and southern parts were underserved. The ratio of population in the area to a police is 898:1 which is far below the United Nation recommended figure of 450:1. The work recommends that there is need for population consideration in citing police stations in the area as well as increasing the work force as means for achieving a holistic security for the metropolis.

Approaching daily life at Late Palaeolithic camps: The case of Lubrza 10, Western Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-333
Author(s):  
Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka ◽  
Aleksandr Diachenko
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
The North ◽  
Locational Analysis ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Sandy Sediments ◽  
Integrative Social ◽  
Late Palaeolithic

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to develop a systematic approach to understanding daily life at Late Palaeolithic camps and identifying its impact on broader site formation processes. Late Palaeolithic contexts are often poorly preserved, especially those found in the sandy sediments of the North European Plain. However, taphonomic obstacles may be overcome through the introduction of spatial statistics into research procedures. We illustrate our approach using a case study of Federmesser and Swiderian campsites at the site of Lubrza 10, Western Poland. The locational analysis of hearths, features that constitute the most important integrative social foci of Palaeolithic camps, provides information on activity areas, seasonality and occupational duration. Additionally, we examine the function of spatially distinct artefact concentrations and their methods of aggregation. The presented research procedure enables us to trace the contribution of individuals to group behaviour, as well as specific individual activities at both camps.

scholarly journals USING SPACE SYNTAX METHOD AND GIS-BASED ANALYSIS FOR THE SPATIAL ALLOCATION OF ROADSIDE REST AREAS

Transport ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kęstutis Zaleckis ◽  
Jūratė Kamičaitytė-Virbašienė ◽  
Irina Matijošaitienė
Keyword(s):  
Space Syntax ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
The Road ◽  
Attribute Data ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Rest Areas ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Roadside Area

A well-grounded system of Roadside Rest Areas (RRA) for transit travellers and local inhabitants in Latvia and Lithuania is absent. To select places for the location of RRA on Latvian–Lithuanian cross-border roads space syntax method and GIS-based analysis was used. The aim of this article is to present the developed methodology, results of the performed research and to lead discussion for the further development and applicability of the methodology. The application of space syntax method to nine transit roads in Latvian–Lithuanian border zone reveals that considering both local and regional contexts three roads or their parts could be recommended for the location of RRA. For the more precise location of RRA GIS-based method was developed. This method includes the GIS capabilities of information collection, spatial analysis and multi-criteria (eight criteria were selected) evaluation. The main proposed methodical stages are: creation of the thematic GIS database; formulation of RRA sites selection criteria, division of the analysed road into intervals, and assignment of attribute data according to the criteria to the road intervals; generation of buffer zones for the analysed road and evaluation of them according the selected criteria; assignment of values provided to the buffer zones to the road intervals attribute data and total rating of roadside area potential to equip rest areas; elaboration of road buffer zone area suitable for the location of RRA.

The colonial encapsulation of the north-western Namibian pastoral economy

Africa ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bollig
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Government ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
The South ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
African Government ◽  
Interregional Trade ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
The North ◽  
North Western

The inhabitants of Kaokoland, Himba and Herero, have recently gained prominence in the discussions concerning a controversial hydro-electric power scheme in their region. They are depicted as southern Africa's ‘most traditional pastoralists’ by groups opposing the dam and those demanding it. The article describes how Kaokoland's pastoralists suffered tremendously from the politics of encapsulation the South African government adopted against them. Having been enmeshed in interregional trade networks, commodity production and wage labour around 1900, they were isolated by the South African government within a period of twenty years. Buffer zones for the commercial ranching area and prohibitions on movement across other newly invented boundaries limited their spatial mobility. Trade across borders was inhibited altogether. Pastoralists who had diversified their assets during the previous fifty years and had taken the chance of a first wave of commercial penetration were forced back on to subsistence herding.

scholarly journals Effect of Strategic Analysis and Strategy Implementation on Service Quality of a Popular Telecommunication Company in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aguoru C.N. ◽  
Orsaah S. ◽  
Umogbai M.
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Telecommunication Network ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Strategy Implementation ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
The North ◽  
Network Provider

This study critically examined the effect of strategic planning and strategy implementation on the service quality of a popular telecommunication network provider in Nigeria. A survey research design was adopted through the use of structured questionnaires randomly administered to some MTN staff in the north central axis. Hypotheses were formulated followed by data validation, reliability and analysis using appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics. The Kaiser- Meyer- Olkin (KMO) test which measured the sample adequacy was .656 while the Bartlett's Test of Sphericity was significant (X2= 84.362, p= .000). The overall result was reliable with the Cronbach’s Alpha values greater than 0.70 for each variable measured. Result showed that most of the workers (about 54%) had 2-4years working experience with the organization while the longest length of service was approximately 12% in the work force. All the parameters measured were above the minimum agreeable benchmark of 3.5. The environment of the business affects its performance with a mean value of 4.12. There are enough resources to help the organization achieve its goal (4.3). The analysis of resources in the organization has helped improve the quality of services rendered (4.25).  The adoption of strategic analysis by MTN helped in improving the service quality of company. Strategic analysis and strategy implementation each had significant relationship with service quality (F=25.48, p=0.000, R2= 53.5). All the seven indicators of service quality employed indicated high results. The organization is reliable with good assurance. Network quality recorded the highest mean (3.71). Other results such as competitive advantage and reliability (3.22) attested to the high service quality of the organization. With the average service quality of 3.09, the corporate planning of MTN is oriented towards retaining customers through the provision of high quality of its service.  

Making a Place: Mangakino 1946-1962

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Kate Linzey
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Design Review ◽  
New School ◽  
The North ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Town

In between Whakamaru (1949-56) and Maraetai (1946-53) dams, on the Waikato River, sits Mangakino. Planned and built from c.1948 to 1951, by the Town Planning section of the Ministry of Works, the civic centre was to provide housing and services for the work force on the Maraetai scheme. The architectural design of these dams has previously been discussed as the work of émigré architect, Fredrick Neumann/Newman (Leach), and the town, as that of Ernst Plischke (Lloyd-Jenkins, Sarnitz). In 1949 the plan for Mangakino was published, alongside the plan for Upper Hutt, in the February-March edition of the Design Review. As two "rapidly growing towns," Upper Hutt and Mangakino are briefly reviewed in the context of two essays ("Who wants community centres?" and "Community Centres" by HCD Somerset), an outline of the curriculum of the new School of Architecture and Town Planning, run by the Wellington Architectural Centre, and notification of the 1948 Town Planning Amendment Act. As published in the Design Review, the plan of Mangakino includes a church in the south west, with the sporting facilities to the north and Rangatira Drive flanking a shopping strip on the east. The church sits in a field of grass, isolated and apparently serene. In the drawing published in the monograph Ernst Plischke, however, this building has been cropped off. Focusing on the case of Mangakino, this essay will review the discourse of town planning for secular and religious community in the late 1940s. This era, framed by the end of World War II and the deepening of the Cold War, is seen as the context for industrial action, a changing sense of nationalism, and small town New Zealand as the site of civil dispute.

scholarly journals Kimberley's Model Compounds

1984 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Turrell
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Lung Diseases ◽  
Underground Mining ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Compound System ◽  
The North ◽  
De Beers ◽  
Health And Mortality ◽  
Comparable Period

The compound system that was to become a striking feature of most mining enterprises in Southern and Central Africa was first introduced in the diamond mines at Kimberley. In the period of open mining (1871–1884), Africans lived in open compounds, which gave them the freedom to spend their leisure time where they pleased. In the period of underground mining (beginning in 1885), Africans were isolated from the surrounding town in closed compounds. The closed compounds of the De Beers Consolidated Company were soon regarded as models of social welfare and aspects of their system were copied at other mining centres in Africa. However, this article questions this model for the period before 1903, when there was a complete reconstruction of the compound system and a great improvement in living conditions. Before 1903 the health and mortality record of Kimberley's closed compounds was as bad, in some cases worse, than its imitators to the north in a comparable period of development. In the period of open mining African miners died of sanitation-related diseases. However, when they were forced to live in closed compounds, lung diseases, and in particular pneumonia, which was directly attributable to overcrowded accommodation, poor diet and inadequate protection against major changes in temperature, became the greatest killer on the diamond fields. It is argued here that closed compounds were more models of labour control than of social welfare before 1903. The role and functions of the De Beers convict station are compared with the advantages mining companies derived from closed compounds. Managerial ideology about compound philanthropy is called in question, and it is shown how the closed compound system contributed towards the creation of a disciplined work force, part of which was permanently resident in Kimberley.

Blood Feud in the Eastern Himalaya

Anthropos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tamut
Keyword(s):  
Police Force ◽  
Eastern Himalaya ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Police Personnel

This article brings to attention an event that occurred in January 1963, in which Indian police personnel were murdered by Nyishi tribesman in Chayangtajo, a remote administrative Circle in the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA), today known as Arunachal Pradesh, India. This paper uses oral sources to illuminate how the event unfolded and how it was perceived locally. I will show that this deadly event was the consequence of an on-going tribal feud. By allying themselves with the wrong clan, the police force was considered the enemy of a group of clans among which they intended to establish an administrative outpost.

Venetian Walls of Nicosia: Between Kyrenia Gate - Barbaro Bastion

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehra Öngül
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Historic Period ◽  
The North ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
North Side ◽  
Peace Operation ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The City

Nicosia today has the characteristics of being the only divided city in Europe. By examining the inside of the walls, one observes that the structure of the city is determined by the circular plan of the walls that were constructed during the Venetian period. There are 11 bastions on the walls and three Venetian gates, namely Kyrenia Gate, Famagusta Gate and Paphos Gate, were originally designed to allow entrance to the city that is encircled by the walls. Nicosia continued to be the islands capital which has fallen under Ottoman rule in between 1571-1878. In the period of British occupation 1878-1960, as a result of the increasing population, the city of Nicosia overflew the walls and developed by spreading beyond the city walls and 8 new passages were opened. The organic fabric of the walled city, with the establishment of buffer zones after the peace operation of 1974, resulted in the division of the island that divided the capital city into two. In 1931, because of the increased vehicle needs through the north side, the walls around the Kyrenia Gate (Porta del Proveditore) were trimmed and designed as a single monumental building. Between Kyrenia Gate and Barbaro bastion wall height is lower than the existing. Public lavatory and 9 small shops were inserted. Sitting steps were designed on the walls and two stairs were constructed to reach these area. To give an access from the moat to the inner city there is a passage. In this context, identifying changes of the Kyrenia Gate-Barbaro bastion site, during this historic period, is the main goal of this study. Decisions with regard to these walls and observations to be made on right places to determine the changes are main focuses of the study.

Some Aspects of the Security Problem in the Middle East

1953 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-198
Author(s):  
Halford L. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Collective Security ◽  
Crucial Step ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Security Problem ◽  
The North Atlantic

On April 4, 1949, the representatives of twelve European and American nations, assembled in Washington, D. C., affixed their signatures to an instrument called the North Atlantic Treaty. This was the crucial step in the formation of one of the most impressive alliances ever entered into by sovereign states. The pact bore testimony to the rise of a new menace in the world, a menace spearheaded by a specious form of communism and powered by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whose postwar activities left to the free nations no practicable alternative other than to seek safety in a regional collective security pact.

scholarly journals Die verband tussen lokus van beheer en werkstevredenheid by senior polisiepersoneel

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Rothmann ◽  
A. M. Agathagelou
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
External Control ◽  
North West ◽  
Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
The North ◽  
Police Personnel ◽  
Moderate Negative Correlation

Job satisfaction is a complex variable and is influenced by situational factors of the job environment as well as dispositional characteristics of an individual. The aim of this study was to determine the possible relationship between locus of control and job satisfaction. The Locus of Control Questionnaire and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire were administered on 101 senior police members in the North West Province. The results of the empirical study confirm a correlation of large effect between locus of control (combination of internal control, external control and autonomy) and job satisfaction of senior police personnel. A moderate negative correlation was also found between an external locus of control and the job satisfaction of senior police personnel. Opsomming Werkstevredenheid is n komplekse veranderlike en word beinvloed deur situasionele faktore in die werksomgewing, asook disposisionele eienskappe van 'n individu. Die doel van hierdie ondersoek was om die moontlike verband tussen lokus van beheer en werkstevredenheid te bepaal. Die Lokus van Beheer-vraelys en Minnesota Tevredenheidsvraelys is op 101 senior polisiepersoneellede in die Noordwes-Provinsie afgeneem. Die resultate van die empiriese ondersoek dui aan dat daar 'n verband van groot effek tussen lokus van beheer (interne beheer, eksterne beheer en outonomie) en werkstevredenheid van senior polisiepersoneel bestaan. 'n Matige negatiewe verband is ook tussen 'n eksteme lokus van beheer en werkstevredenheid van senior polisiepersoneel gevind.

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