iWalks in Plymouth (with Derek France, Chester)

Nature, 1968

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Dialectical Anthropology, 2024

This article explores the contradictions the category of "essential workers" entails, especially in conjunction with the governance of their mobility, citizenship, and the dilemmas thereof. I concentrate on the temporary/seasonal migrant workers as the epitome of essential workers' paradoxical assemblage of rights and value to scrutinize both labor and its production and reproduction in contemporary capitalism. The essential workers were not only caught between mobility and immobility but also between visibility and invisibility vis-à-vis their activity as labor and, outside of it, between worthlessness and being of value. Their governance and location in society and economy reveal the structural dilemmas of capital and labor, as well as social reproduction in contemporary capitalism.

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Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia, 2003

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Ekonomski izazovi ISSN: 2217-8821, god. 1, br. 1 (2012), 2012

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NON-EPILEPTIC PAROXYSTIC DISORDERS AS DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF SEIZURES IN PEDIATRICS - LITERATURE REVIEW (Atena Editora), 2023

Introduction: Seizures are common events in childhood, affecting up to 10% of children. 1. Non-epileptic paroxysmal disorders are conditions that begin abruptly, with a stereotyped course and spontaneous termination, often leading to altered consciousness and clonic/tonic motor manifestations that mimic seizures. 3. Goal: Such conditions need to be known by the pediatrician and neuropediatrician, as their treatment is absolutely different from epilepsy and, therefore, this article aims to describe them. Method: The search was carried out in the PubMed, BVS and Scielo databases, and was limited to articles between the period 2019 to 2023 that met the criteria of being literature reviews and case reports. Result: It is essential to be able to understand the difference between paroxysmal non-epileptic disorders (NPPE) and epileptic seizures for an adequate treatment for children3. For neonates, we have as DPNE concussions and benign sleep myoclonus. For infants, shortness of breath, shivering, paroxysmal torticollis, spasmus nutans and jactatio capitis. Finally, in preschoolers and schoolchildren, we have vasovasagal syncope, syncope associated with cough, and long QT syndrome.

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International Oil Companies (IOCs) are constantly interested in expanding or diversifying their investment portfolios and as such searching for markets that are favourable for these purposes. A major determinant in the making of investment decisions in the oil and gas industry in any country or region is the Petroleum Fiscal System (PFS). It helps describe the relationship between the Host Government (HG) of the oil producing region and the IOC involved in terms of profits sharing. For these purpose, finding the comparative analysis of each country’s fiscal system for performance becomes imperative as it directly involves the IOCs. In this study, a comparative performance analysis of fiscal systems is carried out for the three largest producers of Oil in Africa namely; Nigeria, Angola and Algeria. An economic model is developed for these countries for a 28 years’ timeframe incorporating features of each fiscal system. The use of sensitivity analysis has been used to account for risk and uncertainties in making investment decisions by the IOCs. A wide range of economic indicators were used for the purpose of comparison in this study such as Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Accounting Rate of Return (ARR), Net Present Value (NPV), Discounted Net Cash Flow (DNCF), Profitability Index (PI), Contractor take (CTake), Government Take (GTake) and Payback Period (PP). A brief summary of the results gotten show that Algeria had the most NPV of the the three countries with $5.1 billion while Nigeria had the lowest with $443 million. Angola had highest Contractor take (CTake) and shortest payback period of 34.79% and 5 years respectively while Angola and Algeria had almost similar IRR rates of 23.5% and 23.69% respectively making them highly profitable countries. Generally, all three countries had positive returns on investments with each having different rates. This gives HG, Petroleum analysts and most importantly IOCs a varied option of performance indicators for making policy decisions. As it as been ascertained, many other factors influence the attractiveness of a particular country’s fiscal regime such its geographical location, crude oil quality, management structure, risk profile, etc. As such, a comprehensive qualitative analysis has also been done by looking at each country’s management structure, overview of petroleum prospective and ultimately drawing out a SWOT analysis for each case country.

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2012

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