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Land use changes from forest into cultivated ecosystems result in negative impact on soil structure and quality. The purpose of this study was to determine effect of land use and slope on selected properties and quality of an Alfisol in Afaka forest, Northern Guinea savanna of Nigeria....
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The concurrent use of herbal drugs and orthodox medicines for the treatment of various health conditions is a common practice amongst patients; a practice that could result in drug-herb interaction. This study evaluates the effects of Hibiscus sabdariffawater extract on thein vitro and in...
ABSTRACT This study determined the effect of computer assisted instruction on the academic performance of agricultural Science students in Kaduna State College of Education Gidan-Waya, Kaduna State Nigeria. The study had four specific objectives.Four research questions stated and four research...
ABSTRACT Seventy one (71) each of Streptopelia senegalensis and Columba livia domestica were trapped/bought from the wild and the market, anaesthetised and examined for ectoparasites and gastro-intestinal helminths. 7(9.86%) S. senegalensis and 43(60.56%) C. livia domestica were infested with...
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Playfair is one of the best-known traditional ciphers but it is limited to different aspects such as: white space, numbers and other printable characters. The existing technique is based on the use of a 5 × 5 matrix. This algorithm can only allow the text that contains uppercase...
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Pilot Contamination (PC) has been considered as a majorlimiting factor of Time Division Duplexing (TDD) Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (M-MIMO) systems, as itsaturates the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) saturated. Similarly, several mitigation techniques such as...
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This research is focused on the design of water supply (cold and hot) system of a three bedroom bungalow with adequate pressure. Polypropylene (PP) pipes imported from Italy and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes made in Nigeria, the two most common plastic materials used for potable water...
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The issue of unemployment is at the front burner of policy discussions in both developed and developing countries today. This is because, when left unchecked, the scourge of unemployment has the capacity to destabilize the most peaceful of societies and crash the most buoyant of...
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A penalized regression techniques which is a variable selectionhas been developed specifically to eliminate the problem of multicollinearity and also reduce the flaws inherent in the prediction accuracy of the classical ordinary least squares (OLS) regression technique. In this...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at the assessment of sawdust activated carbon in the treatment of aquaculture effluent with various objectives which includes the determination of the SAC properties, effluent parameters, effect of operating conditions and application of relevant adsorption isotherms....
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Local governments occupy a position of importance in the lives of their residents. This is because local governments are saddled with the responsibilities of providing essential public goods and services which have positive impact and directly affect the day-to-day lives of their...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the adaptation strategies to climate change on livelihood of rural communities in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. A total of 399 questionnaire were distributed to respondent in the 7 wards that were purposively sampled for the study. Data was analysed descriptively using...
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Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme (ACE) is a glycoprotein with peptidyl dipeptide hydrolase activity which cleaves Angiotensin I to produce Angiotensin II. Angiotensin II is a powerful vasoconstrictor that as well regulates the synthesis of aldosterone that consequently interferes with...
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In Nigeria, challenges of power sector include among others, insufficient power generation and inadequate or lack of quality apparatuses for efficient transmission and distribution of electric power to consumers. Jimeta, being one of the major cities in Adamawa State, has experienced...
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This study analysed gender differentials in career advancement of staff in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The objectives were to examine the nature ofgender differentials in career advancement of staff in ABU, Zaria, factors that influencesgender differentials in career advancement of...
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This study examined the challenges and coping strategies of married female students in Gombe State University. The objectives were to examine the challenges faced by married female students in Gombe State University, investigate how the challenges faced by married female students in Gombe...
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This study assessed the viability of community resource centres as alternative school in promoting girl child education in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Five objectives and five research questions were formulated. Five null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance....
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The purpose of the study was to comparePrint based graphic design facilities in selected universities and thegraphic design industry in Nigeria, as it relates to promote the impacting of productive knowledge among professionals in the universities and Print based graphic design industry,...
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Nigerian universities are facing serious challenges so much that their essence and philosophy as a centre of excellence for the production of graduates that will not just meet the national goals but can compete globally is threatened. Inadequate infrastructures, obsolete learning and...
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A four-parameter distribution called Exponentiated-Exponential Weibull (EEW)
distribution was proposed using a generator introduced in earlier research. Statistical
properties of the distribution were derived along with its reliability functions
and asymptotic behaviour. The...