A network consisting of Braced quadrilateral and central figures with some overlapping diagonals was designed at the Ikpoba Dam site. From this network a braced quadrilateral was chosen as horizontal control baselines while the above quadrilateral together with an adjourning one were chosen as vertical control baseline.
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Aim: To evaluate the association between selected potential socio-demographic and behavioral risk factors and infertility in Nigerian men.
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The paper presents a checklist of diversity and distribution of desmid flora in Nigeria. Samples of desmids were collected by means of 55-micrometer mesh plankton net from different locations. There was a high diversity of desmids.
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A braced quadrilateral control was established across the Mission road end of the Ikpoba River. All the angles and side length were measured using a ZEISS 15C COMPUTER TOTAL STATION instrument.
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This study compared the estimated Maximal Oxygen Uptake (Max VO2)capacities of visually-impaired and sighted subjects. The investigation was necessary because of the pausity of literature on the Max VO2 levels of Nigerian
Visually-Impaired subjects; as affected by their life-styles. Ten male sighted and five male visually-impaired students of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo and five Hausa Visually-impaired beggars from Oyo town made
up the subjects of the study.
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his study investigated the academic performance of some selected private and public Junior Secondary III Students in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Purposive sampling procedure was adopted to select ten out of fifteen (15) registered private schools. A simple random sampling procedure was adopted to select 10 Public Junior Secondary Schools out of the existing 13 in Egor Local Government Area. The Junior Secondary School Certificate results of the selected schools were analysed for three consecutive years, 1996-1998. Data
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This paper presents the results of studies into the use of the emerging techniques of nutrient induced fluorescence transients (NIFTs) and Fourier Transform InfraRed (FTIR) spectroscopy to determine the nutrient status of microalgae. Four species of microalgae were grown under conditions where growth rate was P-limited or P-replete, and NIFT responses and FTIR spectra in response to the re-supply of P (as PO¾-) measured.
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A Computer Aided Design (CAD) of a completely closed cavity forging die by the Die Expansion Method was used to select the optimum interface diameters in composite dies and punch/counterpunch dimensions in order to have minimum die expansion. Given a set of forging conditions such as forging load, product dimensions, product
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The vanguard for non-sexist language reforms has started counting its gains in many parts of the world as government bodies, private and public institutions are overhauling their language use in a bid to conform with the dictates of gender neutrality in language use. However, it appears that similar responses are far less evident in some African countries, e.g., Nigeria, thus this paper appraises the linguistic content of Nigeria’s ‘National Anthem’ from a non-sexist perspective.
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Research concludes that there is a finance gap for small rapidly growing profitable firms in Nigeria and most parts of Africa who...
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Following on the seminal works of (1966) and Altman(1968), this paper studies the critical indices and financial ratios that delineate failing from non-failing...
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Variants of Different Class 1 alchohol dehydrogenase (ADH) genes have been shown to be associatedwith an effect that is protective against alchoholism. Previous work from our laboratory has shown that the two sites showing the association are in linkage disequilibrium and has identified the ADH1b Arg47His site as causative, with the ADHIC I1e349Val site showing association only because of the disequilibrium.
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The spate of violence in our society is an evidence of society’s failure to engage its youth in worthwhile activities through positive socialization. Among the agents of socialization is the school system that ought to provide an all round education.
The school system is unable to function appropriately in that direction due to inadequate facility provision resulting in school outputs that are not able to function adequately and positively.
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We investigate energy conservation law and the decomposition kinetics for...
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This article is based on an empirical study of livelihood organization in a forest community in southern Ghana. It uses a qualitative methodology to examine the farm and non-farm livelihoods of the community in terms of their access to resources and the social and production relations within which livelihoods are constructed and organized. It identifies intra household, inter household and community relations, as well as relations between community and state actors to mediate community livelihoods.
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This paper presents a pioneer investigation of the phytoplankton of River Okhuahe located in Uhunmwode Local Government Area of Edo State. Samples were collected Fortnightly for phytoplankton and physico-chemical analysis. Phytoplankton samples were collected by means of 55µm mesh plankton net while water samples for physical and chemical parameters were collected directly into clean plastic containers. The river was acidic, with a pH of 4.97-6.74 and very low in nutrients with a conductivity value of 9.4- 17.9 µScm-1.
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This paper deals with safety in the Nigerian construction industry. Three aspects of safety were identified as paramount in the study and include accident causations, accident prevention and the most violated safety rules and regulations.
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Gender inequality has remained an area of reverberating interest for decades unend due to its multifaceted perspectives. It covers a wide range of themes ranging from the economic, the medical, the socio-cultural to the psychological. However, the interaction between gender inequality, mental health and psychological well being is often overlooked causing a dearth of research work in this very important area.
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The paper presents a derivation of the governing equations for microseisms in the far field. These equations are for small amplitudes oscillating earth’s tremors associated with bottom pressure effects of the generating swell in shallow water.
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The study explored the fundamental cardiovascular basis of fitness and wellness that exercising individuals acclaim to acquire during their exercise programmes. A conceptual framework of the differences between fitness and wellness vis-à-vis exercise participation or lack of it were properly examined. In addition, what fitness and wellness stand for and how they radiate happiness and well-being to the exercising individual were closely investigated.
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Leukaemias are diffuse clonal neoplastic disorders of the bone marrow and blood cells. With recent advances in management of leukaemia, prolonged survival and perhaps cure of the disease is a real possibility. A study of ocular lesions is important both because of their local morbidity and because they might act as a reservoir for proliferation of leukaemic cells and eventual systemic relapse. Almost any ocular tissue can be involved in leukaemia either by direct infiltration, haemorrhage, ischaemia or toxicity from various chemotherapeutic agents or radiotherapy.
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This study is a semiotic analysis of Nigerian newspaper obituaries (NNO). A semiotic approach explores meaning potentials and how meaning is communicated in a text. The study involves identifying the constituent units in a semiotic system and how these units interact to communicate meaning. The units are the features of the
text, the signs within the text and the interpretative codes that give these signs meaning.
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1.1 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This research applies a semiotic approach to the study of the Nigerian Newspaper Obituary Announcements (NNOA). The study explores the meaning potentials of the NNOA as a semiotic system. This involves identifying the constituent units in the system and examining how these units interact to make meaning. To achieve this, ...
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A Simple syringe ‘viscometer’ for measuring plasma viscosity has been described. The apparatus was found to be highly reproducible, with a coefficient of variation of 0.64 percent. Normal mean relative plasma viscosity was 1.67 +
0.09 in a control group compared to 1.80 + 0.13 in a diabetic group (t = 5.5935; p < 0.001).
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A case of indolent/smoldering myeloma in a 70-year-old man is reported. He presented with an unusual multiple symptomatic myeloma with extramedullary impairment and absence of bone pain. He was treated with pulses of high-dose dexamethasone with commendable clinical improvement.
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This is a short book of seven chapters on administrative law. It deals essentially with the definition, nature and scope of the subject. Other sub-themes treated include;
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The distribution of phytoplankton at different salinities in the eastern Niger Delta of Nigeria was investigated. The paper aims to contribute to the dearth of salinity – based distribution of organisms as well as phytoplankton studies in the region. A total of 64 taxa of phytoplankton were identified and classified into four divisions of Bacillariophyta (49 taxa), Chlorophyta (7 taxa), Cyanophyta (4 taxa) and Dinophyta (4 taxa). Salinity was found to produce floristical gradients.
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This study investigated anti-malarial prophylaxis during pregnancy and children’s malaria care-seeking behaviour by mothers with children 5 yrs of age and below drawn from 2 rural communities in southern Nigeria. Findings showed that 37% of mothers said they had used anti-malarial prophylaxis (chloroquine,50%) during pregnancy, while only 30% of them had bed net(untreated) at home, with 44% of the bed net damaged.
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A survey of insect species associated with eultivars of pigeon (Cqjanus cajan L.) was conducted in Benin City, Southern Nigeria for a two year period. This was to ascertain the various insect species contributing to the pigeon pea damage in this region. Of the 31 insects identified that infests the pigeon peas, only a few of them causes severe damage and grain yield loss. Those that caused significant damage included Aphis craccivora and Empoasea fabae which fed on the leaves, the flower-feeding thrip megalurothrips sjosytedti and the pod-slicking bug.
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The study is an exploratory investigation into the use of ergogenic drugs by athletes in Nigerian Universities. Two hundred and forty eight athletes who participated in the 1997 biennial all Nigeria University Games (NUGA) in Kano were the subjects for this study. They were made up of 132 males and 116 females athletes drawn from ten of the thirteen NUGA Sports. A questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The result showed that a majority of elite
athletes in Nigerian Universities know about ergogenic drugs.
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