Man’s relation with his natural environment is a complex one. Although, he is subject to natural controls and events, he acts as the dominant force creating major long term environmental challenges like soil degradation, water pollution among others. One of such activities of man is adopting...
Tax collection constitutes a major revenue source for any government to discharge its obligation to its citizens. However, loss of revenue resulting from noncompliance especially in a self-assessment system has been a major problem in Kwara State, Nigeria. This study was designed to examine the...
Rising cost of production has threatened the survival of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. These firms rely on the use of traditional approaches to managing costs most times. However, these approaches often failed to yield the desired results, especially in this contemporary time of intense...
Sustainable management of groundwater resources on a Basement Complex (BC) aquifer can be better undertaken with the spatio-temporal knowledge of groundwater recharge. Groundwater residence time of BC aquifers is between three to six months. This makes the knowledge of the monthly groundwater...
Nifedipine, one of the antihypertensive drugs is associated with various side effects on organs of the body but there is paucity of information on its effects on female reproductive system of Wistar rats. The study evaluated the effects of Nifedipine on the female reproductive system. The...
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of the most chronic and debilitating diseases in the modern society and represents not only a medical problem, but also a socio-economic problem. Computational Intelligence Techniques (CIT) have been successfully employed in diabetes disease diagnosis, risk evaluation,...
Probability proportional to size sampling (or unequal probability sampling) is a probability sampling in which every unit in the population has different probabilities of being selected in the sample. It can be with or without replacement. Most sample selection procedures in probability...
Malaria is a protozoan disease transmitted by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Globally, there is a marked increase in resistance to well-known antimalaria drugs. The increasing drug resistance of the parasite and insecticide resistance of the vector dims the possibility of...
Fraudulent activities with intent to defraud are pervasive in every system. The traditional statistical and long investigative auditors’ methods of fraud detection are becoming obsolete in dealing with the present trend of financial malpractices. The existing fraud detection methods are...
The increase in the rate of malaria infections called for more rigorous research efforts. Evidences have shown that complexities involved in malaria forecasting required computational approach. Most existing conventional malaria forecasting models examine the dynamics of binary cases of...
In face recognition system, several techniques have been proposed for extraction of facial features such as Local Binary Pattern, Gabor-filters, Elastic Bunch Graph Matching, Principal Component Analysis and Hidden Markov Models. Gabor-filters, among other feature extraction techniques, remain a...
Labour migration has long been an important livelihood strategy for most people in search of jobs and livelihood sustenance. The increase in the trend of labour migration in Nigeria in the last few decades and its attendant challenges has necessitated this study. The aim of this study was to...
The use of abortifacient herbs is now gaining acceptance over abortifacient drugs due to adverse effects and high cost. Citrullus colocynthis pods (Bitter Apple in English), have been claimed to be used as an abortifacient in Nigeria without scientific evidence to substantiate it. This study was...
In Nigeria, maternal mortality remains a social health problem as more than 140 women die daily from pregnancy - related complications. Studies have adduced a number of factors such as lack of skilled birth attendants, household income, education and distance from facilities without considering the...
The Church as the body of Christ comprises people who have a common bond and share life expressed in fellowship (koinonia) which is the basis and ground for mutual association and expression of the Christian relationship. Unfortunately the Church is also divided on the basis of certain factors such...
The problem of evil is explicit on how to reconcile the existence of the omnipotent and omnibenevolent God with the stark reality of evil in the world. Many theists have made several attempts to solve the problem but their proffered solutions are inadequate. The aim of the study was to examine the...
The study of classical Restricted Three-body Problem (RTBP) and its generalizations have been of major interest to researchers over the years. This is due to the rise in the need for accuracy in determining astrometric positions which would help to reveal some peculiarities of components of motion...
Let be a finite set, the semigroup of full contraction transformation and the subsemigroup of of all order-preserving full contraction transformation semigroup. Several works have been done on algebraic properties of semigroups and results were obtained among these are generating set, the...
The difficulty in gaining entrance into the Nigerian Banking industry by the Non-interest Banking (NIB) operations as a result of prominence of conventional banks and potentiality of stiff competition necessitates aggressive marketability of NIB products. Moreover the Nigerian banking system...
Motorized road transport has brought benefits that were unimaginable 100 years ago. However, the price being paid as a result of road traffic injury for such benefits is too high.The incidence of Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) is rising world-wide, with1.24 million people killed on the world’s...