THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHICKEN FEATHER-CONCRETE COMPOSITE AND PROCESS FOR UTILISATION IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION  

2015-09-01
Chicken feathers are in abundance in Nigeria and currently pose serious disposal problems. The use of chicken feathers as raw materials in producing cement- bonded composite panels is the focus ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR PLANNING AND MANAGING RUNWAY SAFETY  

2015-09-01
The investments to improve runway safety are huge and are mostly undertaken by the government particularly in the developing countries. The generally agreed proactive safety performance indicator to justify the ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF TROPICAL DISEASES USING FUZZY-ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS  

2015-09-03
Tropical diseases account for some of the major causes of deaths in Africa. However, most existing medical systems for early diagnosis of tropical diseases are less effective owing lo its ...

FINANCING PRACTICES OF ENTREPRENEURSIN SMALLAND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH WESTERN NIGERIA  

2015-09-19
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are of critical economic importance to all economies, however, the general claim that lack of finance in its appropriate forms has continued to hinder their ...

THE INVESTIGATION OF SUBSURFACE FABRIC IN OGBAGBA SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA THROUGH INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES  

2015-09-19
Geophysical investigations were carried out in Ogbagba Southwestern part of Nigeria for evaluation of the subsurface fabric in the area using ground magnetic and vertical electrical sounding (VES) survey, with ...

ANALYSIS OF ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW OF THIRD GRADE FLUID IN A VERTICAL CHANNEL  

2015-09-26
In this work, the analysis of Electroosmotic flow of a third grade fluid in a vertical channel is considered. The third grade fluid in a vertical channel was subdivided into ...

SHELF-LIFE STUDIES OF CATFISH (Clarias gariepinus) SMOKED USING DIFFERENT TYPES OF WOOD  

2015-09-27
Fish is an important source of protein in human diet, but highly perishable. Smoking is one of the ways of preserving fish using different wood types. However, the type of ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHICKEN FEATHER- CONCRETE COMPOSITE AND PROCESS FOR UTILISATION IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION  

2015-09-28
Chicken feathers are in abundance in Nigeria and currently pose serious disposal problems. The use of chicken feathers as raw materials in producing cement bonded composite panels is the focus ...

COMPARISON OF PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD AND REGULAR MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION OF TWO - PARAMETER EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION  

2015-10-03
There has been on going search to find efficient, unbiased and minimal variance estimators for the two-parameter Exponential distribution. The two-parameter Exponential distribution has location (y) and scale (1) parameters. ...

EFFECTS OF PLANT EXTRACTS IN THE CONTROL OF FIELD INSECT PESTS ASSOCIATED WITH WATERMELON (Citrullus lanatus Thumb.)  

2015-10-24
Field trials were conducted during the rainy and dry seasons of 2011 and 2012 to evaluate the biological activities of four selected plant extracts namely Tephrosia vogelii, Moringa oleifera, Annona ...