TOPICS

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Breastfeeding is the process of feeding an infant mother's milk, either through direct nipple-baby mouth contact or by expressed breast milk. Breast milk is classified into two types: colostrum, which is the initial yello...

1. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Every country's socioeconomic and political growth is aided by transport. As a result, transport may be considered the "lifeline" of every economy. It is very vital throughout the li...

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Because today's businesses are confronted with a wide range of conflicting situations, the term "conflict" has become ubiquitous. Conflict is widespread in human society and pervades all types of businesses, both fo...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Breastfeeding is the process of feeding an infant mother's milk, either through direct nipple-baby mouth contact or by expressed breast milk. Breast milk is classified into two types: colostrum, which is the initial yellowish...

1. 1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Water can be said to be polluted when there is an introduction of a harmful substances in such a way that its natural qualities are so altered as to impure its usefulness or render i...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The broadcast media have been considered an important public domain in the use, promotion and maintenance of language in line with the sociolinguistic nature and dictates of their host communities (Silentman, 1995; Davi...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

In 2002, an international observation proclaimed the Niger Delta as one of the most volatile regions of the world. This observation came on the heels of incessant crisis which the region have been witnessing for decades but which took alarming di...

Background of the Study

Hand washing is one of the most important aspects of preventing diseases in our country Nigeria; thousands of lives have been lost as a result of diseases caused by in adequate washing of hands. Hand washing or hygiene is the act...

Background of the study

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the most common chronic infections worldwide and the leading cause for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) worldwide.Based on WHO (2012) report, one‐third of the world population estimated a...

INTRODUCTION

Many reservoirs are made up of sediments that are just a few million years old, and since these sediments are so weakly cemented, sand will be generated along with the fluids from the reservoir unless the pace of production is greatly slowed down. Sand prod...

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Water is a liquid that has no taste, no smell, no color, and is completely transparent. It is necessary for life. Seventy-eight percent of the earth's surface is taken up by water and other natural resources (Adegoke, 2022). In order to ca...

Background to the study

Both direct negotiation with the owner or his agents and competitive bidding are viable options for securing construction contracts. Direct negotiation is the more common of the two (Adegbile, 2022). When just one company submits a bid for a job,...

Background to the study

In-service Teachers denotes an instructor who simultaneously engages in academic study and professional activity. An in-service program is a professional training or staff development initiative in which professionals are trained and di...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

 The mass media are seen as advances in science and technology in a culture, as well as catalysts for social and economic transformation in that society (Melkote, 1991). The mass media's actions are assumed to mobilize h...

 Background to the Study

Technological advancement in contemporary society of the 21stcentury heralded the arrival of information and communication technologies (ICT) that has enhanced the existing communication process and the entire material in which individual i...

Background Of The Study

Breastfeeding is the process of feeding an infant mother's milk by direct nipple-to-mouth contact or through expressed breast milk. Colostrum, which is the first yellowish and sticky milk produced from the mother's breast...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

In Nigeria, epidemiological reporting to the country's health authorities is being done on a weekly basis for a number of different diseases, including lassa fever. Over the years, reports indicated that the epidemiological p...

Background of the study

Over the past several decades, the economies of the world have become greatly connected through international trade and globalization. Foreign trade has been identified as the oldest and most important part of a country’s e...

Background of Study

The concept of traditional institution‖ has been the major phenomena in the recent years and most especially after United Nations General Assembly adapted resolution A/RES/61/295 on Thursday, 13th September 2007 in New York. Muc...

ABSTRACT

This study was carried out on the impact of corporate social responsibility on financial performance of the banking institution. Although an enormous body of literature has emerged concerning the nexus between corporate social responsibility and profitability,...

ABSTRACT

A new method for analysing productivity index (PI) on vertical wells is the main objective of this study. Well performance is often measured in terms of the well’s productivity which is dependent on a number of factors such as the reservoir’s config...

Statement Of The Problem

It is important to accurately predict the pressure drop accross a production system. This has been a difficult task in the oil and gas industry as the production system in real life is not homogenous (single phase) as assumed in most theories. T...

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The research presented in this work highlights a complex and rapidly changing set of dynamics in global terrorism. While on the one hand the top-line statistics highlight an improvement in the levels of global terrorism, the continued intensifi...

Background of the Study

The coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a tropical plant which belongs to the order Arecales and family Arecaceae. It is widely grown in about 90 tropical regions of the world (Peggy, 2007).Every part can be utilized roots, husk, leaves and fruit. The...

NUTRITIONAL DISORDER

Nutritional disorder is a pathological state due to a relative or absolute deficiency or excess of one or more essential nutrients; clinically manifested or detected only by biochemical, anthropometric or physiological tests. Nutritional disorder wh...

ABSTRACT

This thesis presents the development of a Three Degree of Freedom (3DoF) based outlet fluid temperature controller for Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger (STHX). Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers are classes of heat exchangers being used in industries for heat transfer between fluids....

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the antidiarrheal activity of the methanol stem bark extract of Hymenocardia acida in some laboratory animals. They methanol stem bark extract of Hymenocardia acida (MEHA) was prepared from the freshly collected stem bark of th...

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The plant Combretum hypopilinum has been used in traditional medicine to treat diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal diseases. This study aimed to investigate the antidiarrhoeal activity and toxicity profile of the methanol leaf extract of Combretum hypopilinum (MECH) in mice an...

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Sickle cell diseases (SCD) have numerous complications which vary widely among patients making drug treatment difficult. In addition, SCDs are associated with deficiencies in some micronutrients; supplementation of which may ameliorate some of the complications and contribute t...

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Customer service is the most important aspect of every business that builds its processes on the basis of customers going through the queue before receiving any service from the organization. These businesses become ineffective and inefficient if the queues are not moving well...

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The aim of this study was to enhance the solubility and hence dissolution rate of two poorly soluble drugs: ibuprofen and piroxicam using Eudragit RS 100 and hydroxymethylpropylcellulose (HPMC) as carriers, by solid dispersion technique and to evaluate the effect of trona (sodi...

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Plant gums are natural polymers with low toxicity, high biodegradability and high compatibility with drugs making them useful as pharmaceutical excipients in solid, semi-solid and liquid formulations. This work was aimed at evaluating the surface activity and release properties...

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Gums find application in tablet formulation as binder because of their adhesive nature. Natural gums are promising biodegradable polymeric materials. The aim of this study was to prepare a gelatin and acacia co-precipitate (GelAc) to be used as a release retardant in the formul...

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The use of medicinal plant extracts to maintain health, prevent or cure various diseases is known since ancient times. However, most times, there is little or no knowledge of the associated possible toxic injuries on vital organs morphology or functions from the use of such pla...

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The increasing use of artemether-lumefantrine combination as an effective treatment for resistant malaria demands the need for analytical methods for the quality control of these drugs in tablets and suspensions. Though some UV Spectrophotometric methods have been developed for...

INTRODUCTION

The most common type of heat exchanger used in industry contains a number of parallel tubes enclosed in a shell and is thus called a shell and tube heat exchanger.  These heat exchangers are employed when a process required large quantities of fluid to...

Introduction and Background

Understanding the physics of our surrounding has driven science and technology for a long time and while some part of the earth is well know and understood, its subsurface is mostly unknown. The subsurface is one of today’s most important challenges. Fi...

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The involvement of Listeria monocytogenes in bacterial meningitis and spontaneous abortion in some towns in northern Nigeria was investigated. Three hundred cerebrospinalfluid (CSF) samples, 300 blood and 300 placenta swab samples were collected from meningitis and spontaneous...

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The purpose of this work is to model and simulate the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) riser of a refinery having Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) Kaduna as a study. The unit’s operation is cracking of heavy gasoil (VGO) to light weight oils in the pre...

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One way to investigate the physics of a medium is to study the forces on intruders moving through the media. A special case of intruders moving in media is the locomotion of organisms. Locomotion within fluids (flying in air and swimming in water) has been extensively studied...

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The parametric analysis of a tugboat propeller blade was carried out with solidworks computer aided simulation software. The aim is to achieve vibration and noise mitigation as well as performance improvement of the propulsion system by varying the number of propeller blade to...

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The chemotherapy of African trypanosomiasis, a fatal protozoal disease of man and animals is beset with many problems including a limited repertoire of expensive compounds, drug toxicity and resistance and protracted treatment protocols. In order to improve chemotherapy, some n...

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Thermal management of data centers remains a challenge because of their everincreasing power densities and decreasing server footprints. Current lack of dynamic control over global provisioning and local distribution of cooling resources often result in wasteful overcooling. Th...

Background to the Study

Psychoactive substance abuse is a major problem in the world that causes mental disorder, social violence, gang formation, cultism,armed robbery, 419 syndrome, Internet frauds, social miscreants (area boysand girls) lawlessness among youths, lack...

Background to the Study

Knowledge is required for society, community and individuals to exist, survive and advance so as to cope with the continued challenges of the changing world expectations. This suggests that, efforts should be made by institutions, organizations a...

SUMMARY

In industry, business, and homes worldwide, metal alloys called stainless steels are used extensively. Stainless steel is a generic term for a large family of iron-based alloys containing a minimum of 10.5% chromium content by weight. The primary alloying element, chromium, form...

SUMMARY

The objective of the proposed research is to design low power, miniaturized and ultrasensitive microwave transmission line based metamaterials, evaluate their performance then utilize them for bulk materials’ constitutive parameters extraction and other practical applicati...

Introduction

The YZ field is located within the Niger Delta Basin, onshore Niger Delta Nigeria (Figure 1.1). Major focus in recent time, in hydrocarbon exploration has been moved towards the renewal of older fields and the identification of new prospects from these old fields (Emina et...

Background of the study

The effect of ionizing radiation on biological systems has been a subject of extensive research, particularly concerning its implications on various organs within the body. Among these organs, the kidney holds significant importa...

INTRODUCTION

Breast cancer (Malignant breast neoplasm) is cancer originating from the tissue most commonly from the inner living of the milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. According to one of the breast cancer journals (