May 2013

Road crashes trends and safety management in Nigeria

  This paper is concerned with traffic accidents and safety management in Nigeria. It focuses on trends in road crashes and carries out a critical review of current road safety approaches with a view to identifying their defects and deficiencies in tackling the traffic accident problem in the country. Accident records and details of current safety measures obtained from such relevant agencies as the Federal...

Author(s):   Sumaila, AbdulGaniyu Femi    

May 2013

Spatio-temporal changes of growth and production of sericulture in Asia: An analytical and comparative study

  The sericulture industry is unique for many reasons; is a highly valued textile fibre of animal origin based on agricultural output including, cocoons and cottage based labour intensive in nature is used almost entirely for the production of high quality textiles. In this paper, the present status of the sericulture industry in India and sericulturally advanced countries in Asia, their pace of trends in...

Author(s):   Akhtar Hasinur Rahaman, Nizamuddin Khan and Shahid Ali Khan        

May 2013

Quality of affordable housing projects by public and private developers in Indonesia: The case of Sarbagita Metropolitan Bali

  Housing refers to both the physical product and the process of its attainment. Housing is perceived according to its performance and its usefulness varies with the level of comfort and hygiene it provides. The importance of people in housing is recognised not when housing complies with municipality by laws, but when people live in it and is acceptable in a community. Housing also means privacy and is an...

Author(s):   Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra