Academic literature on the topic 'Lagus Jonas'

In this paper I used VAR Technique and estimated an equation that enables us to forecast future expected changes in the Dow Jones.Surprisingly, I found that small lags in the Dow Jones are not significant, while very distant lags are significant and can explain a large amount of the variance in the rate of change of the Dow Jones. Comparing actual to fitted values, I found that in 10 out of 11 predictions the forecasts lie within the confidence interval of the prediction.

In four experiments, the lag retention interval from parent words (e.g., blackmail, jailbird) to a conjunction word ( blackbird) was manipulated in a continuous recognition task. Alterations to the basic procedure of Jones and Atchley (2002) were employed in Experiments 1 and 2 to bolster recollection to reject conjunction lures, yet conjunction error rates still decreased across lags of 1 to 20 words. Experiment 3 and a multiexperiment analysis examined the increments of forgetting in familiarity across lags of 1–20 words. Finally, in Experiment 4, participants attempted to identify conjunction probes as “old”, and the data were contrasted with those from a previous experiment (Jones & Atchley, 2002, Exp. 1), in which participants attempted not to identify conjunction probes as “old”. In support of earlier findings, the decrease in familiarity across lags of 1–20 words appears robust, with a constant level of weak recollection occurring for parent words.

This paper investigates clinical waste management in five selected primary health centres in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria. The research used quantitative and qualitative techniques to evaluate data on clinical waste sources, types, rate of generation, collection and transportation and disposal at the health centres. The average generation rate of clinical waste generated was found to be 6.7kg/day, 20.3kg/day and 56.4kg/day at Adeniyi Jones, Ajuwon and Aregbesola primary health centres respectively while average daily waste generated per patient were found to be 0.11kg/patient/day, 0.20kg/patient/day, 0.26kg/patient/day, 0.45kg/patient/day and 0.69kg/patient/day at Ikeja Phc, Adeniyi Jones Phc, Ajuwon Phc, Ikosi-Ketu Phc and Aregbesola Phc respectively. Segregations of waste at generation source were properly done however, sometimes; they were haphazardly thrown into a common dustbin at the point of transporting to the disposal site. The paper concludes that the collection and transportation of the wastes are fairly effective and required improvement through training of the personnel and regular collection of wastes generated to avoid infections and outbreak of epidemics.

The biostratigraphy of the Outer Carpathians is based mainly on the ranges of agglutinated foraminifera. Species acmes provide the opportunity to enhance and support the existing biozonations. Assemblages of agglutinated foraminifera from the Campanian to Eocene of various tectonic-structural units were analyzed in terms of their qualitative and quantitative occurrence. In this stratigraphic interval, 19 species display significantly increased abundance within a relatively short interval: Caudammina gigantea (Geroch) (upper Santonian–lowermost Maastrichtian), Caudammina ovulum (Grzybowski) (Campanian–Danian), Placentammina placenta (Grzybowski)-Saccammina grzybowskii (Schubert) (upper Campanian–Danian), Caudammina excelsa (Dylążanka) (lowermost Maastrichtian–Danian), Caudammina ovuloides (Grzybowski) (Danian–Selandian), Hormosina velascoensis (Cushman) (upper Danian–Selandian), Praesphaerammina gerochi (Hanzlíková) (Thanetian), Glomospira charoides (Jones et Parker)-Glomospira gordialis (Jones et Parker) (uppermost Thanetian–lowermost Ypresian), Trochammina spp. (upper Thanetian–lower Ypresian), Reticulophragmium amplectens (Grzybowski) (Lutetian–Bartonian), Reophax duplex (Grzybowski)-Reophax “pilulifer” Brady group of taxa (Lutetian–Priabonian), Haplophragmoides walteri (Grzybowski)-Haplophragmoides nauticus Kender, Kaminski et Jones (Lutetian–Bartonian), Spiroplectammina spectabilis (Grzybowski) (Lutetian–Priabonian), “Ammodiscus” latus Grzybowski (Bartonian–Priabonian), Praesphaerammina subgaleata (Vašíček) (Lutetian–Bartonian). The biostratigraphic position and quantitative data of species with increased abundance are presented.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine what happens to the variance of individual stocks forming the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) allowing for aggregate uncertainty measured by VIX, the “fear gauge index” of US options contracts. In examining each individual stock belonging to DJIA in 2011, the authors reconsider aggregate market uncertainty (VIX) as the mixing variable. In contrast to studies on the effects of VIX on the aggregate equity market, the data set used in this paper allow a further look at the proposition that market aggregate uncertainty should have varying impact on individual stock variance. Design/methodology/approach – GARCH-M models estimate individual stock returns belonging to the DJIA in 2011 on its lags and on the ARCH-M term in the mean equation linking stock returns to the variance equation. The longest time span has 5,738 observations for most stocks under daily frequency from January 3, 1990 to December 30, 2011. The authors use one lag for the VIX2 term to address simultaneity problems in the variance equation. In order to allow for interactions between volatility and business cycles, the authors include a dummy variable for the three recessions identified by the NBER over the period. Findings – Adding the “fear gauge” VIX index and a dummy variable for recessions to the variance equation in GARCH-M models, the VIX coefficient always increases variance and the recession dummy has mixed effects. Overall, VIX acts as expected as mixing variable. Supporting the mixture of distribution hypothesis, the impact of VIX is always positive (1.039 on market variance) and GARCH effects vanish completely for the index and almost as much for 24 stocks. Research limitations/implications – In theory, the effects of VIX on stock variance should be positive and statistically significant, together with reductions of GARCH persistence. The authors find this to be the case for the aggregate stock market and for 24 out of its 29 DJIA stocks. The authors leave for further work extensions to estimating the variance equation for companies very exposed to idiosyncratic changes, such as oil price fluctuations or stock buybacks. The implication of this research for the academic or financial community relies on the estimation of VIX effects on individual stock variance, controlling for business cycles. Originality/value – Due to its benchmark in equities, stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials make it a very interesting case study. This paper reconsiders the aggregate uncertainty hypothesis for two main reasons. First, the financial press and traders keep a very close track on the daily evolution of VIX. Second, recent research emphasizes the formal predictive power of VIX in US stock markets. For the variance equation, existing works report positive values for the VIX-coefficient on the S&P 500 index but they have not examined individual stocks as the authors do in this paper.

Purpose Studies on the maturity status of Sub-Saharan African property markets are scanty. The absence of such studies appear to have made African property markets – such as the Nigerian market – unattractive to foreign investors who require market information to assess the viability of proposed investments. The purpose of this paper is to explore the maturity status of selected city property markets in Southwestern Nigeria (i.e. markets in the capital cities of Lagos, Ibadan and Osogbo), with a view to providing information for enhanced property investment in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted and expanded on property market maturity paradigms suggested by Keogh and D’Arcy (1994), Akinbogun et al. (2014) and Jones Lang LaSalle (2014) to measure the maturity status of the property markets in the Nigerian cities. The study investigated the maturity of three markets in Nigeria by scoring the stated views of a range of stakeholders (estate surveyors and valuers, public land administrators and financiers represented by commercial banks) across a range of ten indicators. The responses were classified by means of a five-point classification scale which expanded on the initial four-point scale developed by Dugeri (2011). Findings The three property markets were found to exhibit varying maturity characteristics (with weighted mean scores of 3.07, 2.71 and 2.51, respectively), representing emerging and immature stages of evolution on the maturity path. These results suggest that there is a correlation between the tier of the market and the level of property market maturity. Practical implications The study concluded that first- and second-tier city property markets have emerged sufficiently to the point where they may safely attract foreign direct and indirect investment from courageous foreign investors. However, the state governments and real estate professional regulatory bodies in the second and third markets need to undertake substantial remodeling of market structures to make them attractive to international investors. Originality/value The value of the paper is in providing much needed information for enhanced property investment in Africa.

This study was conducted on an assessment of the various mitigation strategies to combat desertification in Jibia and Kaita Local Government Areas of Katsina State, Nigeria. The data use includes Satellite imageries for the study such as landsat MSS of 1976, landsat TM of 1987, SPOT XS of 1995 and landsat ETM of 2006 as well as structured questionnaires. Sixty close ended copies of the Questionnaire were administered in the study. Purposive sampling method of administering questionnaires was adopted. The percentages land mass covered for each of these variables was determined and estimated in M2. literature was obtained from various agencies which were responsible for desertification control in Katsina state. It was found from the reserved forest that in 1976 the percentage of reserved forest was 2.57%. In 1987 however, it increased by 73.9% to 76.47 %. By 1995, it declined by 9.42% to 67.05% and further declined by 0.52% in 2006. Effort to combat desertification through the use of reserved forest has been quite significant over the years. Also, noticed was a declined in shelter belt from 5.91% in 1987 to 1.097% in 1995 and a shot up to 7.39% in 2006. About 37% of the respondent opined that the deforestation leads to the disappearance of trees while 33% pinioned that it leads to reduction on agricultural productivity. The major strategy adopted to combat desertification is tree planting as supported by 88% of the respondents. It found that desertification as major environmental problem of the study area has reduced drastically from 43.34% in 1976 to 1.29% in 2006. It was also revealed from this study that some organizations such as European Economic Community/Katsina State government EEC/KTSG, Katsina Afforestation Project Unit KTAPU and Local Government Councils are the major agencies that are responsible for mitigating desertification in the study area. 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Abstract Three species of chigger mites are recorded in our collections from four species of cricetid rodents on Chiloé Island (southern Chile, Los Lagos Region), an area endemic to scrub typhus (Orientia sp.). Two species are described as new—Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) eloisae sp. nov. and Quadraseta chiloensis sp. nov. One species, Paratrombicula goffiStekolnikov and González-Acuña 2012, is for the first time recorded on a mammal host (one species of cricetid rodent), and its distribution is extended to the Los Lagos Region of Chile. The genus ProschoengastiaVercammen-Grandjean, 1967 is synonymized with the subgenus Herpetacarus (Abonnencia)Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960, and four new combinations are established: Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) herniosa (Brennan and Jones, 1961), comb. nov., Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) insolita (Brennan and Jones, 1961), comb. nov., Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) macrochaeta (Brennan and Jones, 1961), comb. nov., and Herpetacarus (Abonnencia) antarctica (Stekolnikov and Gonzalez-Acuña, 2015), comb. nov.

Performance of FDI in commercial real estate in Nigeria when compared to international benchmark figures is yet to be established and documented in literature. The aim of the study was to appraise the performance of FDI in commercial real estate in Nigeria from 2006 to 2017 in a bid to empirically assist foreign direct investors’ decisions on investing in the Nigerian commercial real estate sector. The objectives were to; ascertain and compare returns from foreign direct investments in commercial real estate in Nigeria with international benchmark; and to examine how FDI tax responsibilities in Nigeria compare with the global benchmark rate. The study adopted ex post facto research design, and the unit of analysis was selected foreign controlled commercial real estate investments in Lagos and Abuja. The study adopted the Jones Lang LaSalle benchmark settings for commercial real estate performance indicator due to its empiricism from an international perspective where yield is 5.7%, capital growth is 7% and rental growth is 5.5%. Data were collected on rental values, capital values, tax responsibilities, and was analyzed using T-test. The study showed a yield of 4%, (t = 6.364; p < 0.05) and a capital growth rate of 21%, (t = 1.592; p > 0.05), while there was no negative variation in FDI tax responsibilities in Nigeria and international benchmark rate cap of 30% (t = .8666; p > 0.05). The study recommended that property managers should practice tenant mix and flexible leases and spaces.

Abstract The aim of this study is to clear up Pietist Jonas Lagus point of view to Jonas Lagus's objects, aims, courses of action, results and background effectors of the education work by the sources of materials. Jonas Lagus's home backround made him to interest already in the early years of his life in philosophy and literature. He continued to study them in youth at the University of Turku in the atmosphere of enlightenment, neology and preromanticism. At the age of 19 he started to work as a priest at Vöyri where his Christianity concept became more serious by the work and friends in the mid 1920's. In 1828 he mowed to Ylivieska where he worked as a assistant vicar. At Ylivieska there started in the beginning of 1830's an impressive religious revival that was led by Lagus as an ecclesiastical movement. Jonas Lagus took care of the Pietist movement besides the traditional education and teaching of the family and parish. He was one of the developers of the prayer meetings typical of the Pietists. Lagus was 1834-1838 one of the most important initiators, reporters and contributors in the Pietist journalism. He also worked actively in the end of 1830's to get a missionary association to Finland but it did not succed. He defended the Pietist movement and its way of working by speeches, announcements, letters, writings, plays and newspaper articles when the movement was attacked. Besides these things he took part of the development of the children's education work. He expressed his opinions about the reformation of so-called Ahlman's schools already 1828. In 1839 he presented a very modern plan of a village school to be established at Ylivieska. His plan was that the school would be a kind of a working school. The school was not accepted by the cathedral chapter. By the same time of outside misfortunes and losses in his family Jonas Lagus made friends with Paavo Ruotsalainen and his teaching got new contents. The extrovert, active person started to become an introspective person at the same time. He moved 1845 Pyhäjärvi (Oulu area) and was an assistant vicar there until his death 1857. Though he concentrated more on his parish and family there, he also did a lot of pastoral care of the souls, education and teaching by letters. It also included normative guiding of his friends to keep them on the right way in the schism of the Pietist movement
Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksen tarkoitus on selvittää herännäispappi Jonas Laguksen (1798-1857) käytännön kasvatus- ja opetustoimintaa, sitä koskevia suunnitelmia sekä niiden saamaa vastaanottoa. Tehtävä käsittelee kansanopetusta Suomen 1830-1850-luvun yhteiskunnassa, johon Jonas Lagus osaltaan vaikutti. Tutkimus on empiirinen kasvatuksen historian työ, jossa pyritään lähdeaineiston avulla avaamaan näkökulmaa Laguksen kasvatustyön kohteisiin, tavoitteisiin, menettelytapoihin ja tuloksiin sekä taustavaikuttajiin. Valistuneen kodin kasvatuksen ja opetuksen perusteella Jonas Lagus kiinnostui jo varhain filosofiasta ja kirjallisuudesta, joiden opiskelua jatkoi nuorukaisena Turun yliopistossa valistuksen, neologian ja esiromantiikan ilmapiirissä. Hän aloitti sitten 19-vuotiaana papin tehtävät Vöyrillä, jossa 1820-luvun puolivälissä hänen kristillisyyden käsityksensä vakavoitui työn ja ystävien vaikutuksesta. Vuonna 1828 hän muutti kappalaiseksi Ylivieskaan. Siellä alkoi 1830-luvun alussa voimakas herätys, jota Lagus ohjasi kirkollisena liikkeenä. Perinteisen perheen ja seurakunnan kasvatuksen ja opetuksen ohella Jonas Lagus suoritti herännäisliikkeen hoitamista. Hän oli mukana kehittämässä heränneille ominaiseksi tulleita hartauskokouksia, seuroja, yhdeksi seurakunnan toimintamuodoksi. Lagus oli vuosina 1834-1838 yhtenä merkittävänä alullepanijana, toimittajana ja avustajana heränneitten lehtityössä sekä aktiivisena puuhamiehenä yrittämässä maahan 1830-luvun lopulla lähetysseuraa, mutta tuloksetta. Hän puolusti herännäisliikettä ja sen työtapoja puheiden, lausuntojen, kirjeiden, kirjoitelmien, näytelmän ja lehtiartikkelien avulla, kun sitä vastaan hyökättiin. Näiden toimien lisäksi hän osallistui meneillään olevaan lastenopetuksen kehittämiseen. Jo vuonna 1828 hän otti kantaa Ahlmanin koulujen uudistamiseen, ja vuonna 1839 hän esitti hyvin uudenaikaisen köyhäinkoulun perustamista Ylivieskaan. Se oli tarkoitettu maaseudun oppilaitokseksi, joka toimi työkouluperiaatteella, mutta koulu ei kuitenkaan saanut tuomiokapitulin hyväksymistä. Samaan aikaan, kun hän koki ulkoisten vastoinkäymisten rinnalla perhepiirissä menetyksiä, hän ystävystyi Paavo Ruotsalaisen kanssa ja hänen opetuksensa sai uutta sisältöä. Samalla ulospäinsuuntautuva toiminnan henkilö alkoi kääntyä sisäänpäin. Hän muutti 1845 Pyhäjärvelle Oulun lääniin kappalaiseksi, jota tehtävää hoiti kuolemaansa, vuoteen 1857 saakka. Vaikka hän nyt keskittyi entistä enemmän seurakuntaansa ja perheeseensä, harrasti hän kirjeitse laajaa yksilöllistä sielunhoitoa, kasvatus- ja opetustyötä. Siihen kuului myös normatiivinen ohjaus ystävien pitämiseksi hänen oikeaksi katsomassaan opissa herännäisliikettä ravistelevissa skismoissa

Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones provide an analysis of women’s representation in Argentina. Argentina no longer retains the title of the most successful case of women’s representation in the region. Women’s legislative representation is just over the quota threshold—33%. They point out that the country has had more female presidents than any other Latin American country but lags behind in women’s representation among subnational executives, in national and subnational cabinets, and in party leadership. Gender quotas and electoral rules explain legislative representation, while political factors and informal institutions related to party selection processes for candidate and elected leadership positions are key for executives and parties. The consequences of women’s representation in Argentina have been significant in getting women’s issues represented and increasing men’s and women’s trust in government, and political engagement of women highlights that quotas have had pros and cons for women in Argentina.