EVALUATION OF MAIZE GRAINS QUALITY STORED IN A MODIFIED METALLIC SILO  

2016-01-21
Grains lose their value during storage due to insects attack and absorption of moisture when stored in sacks, rhumbus, cribs, underground pits and silos. Newly fabricated metallic silos in Federal ...

SYSTHESIS OF A TRANSPARENT n-TYPE Cd1-xZnxS NANOPARTICLES BY MICROWAVE ASSISTED CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE FOR SOLAR CELL APPLIATIONS  

2016-02-28
Cadmium Zinc Sulphide (Cd1-xZnxS) is a ternary semiconductor which is formed by the combination of two binary compounds of CdS and Zns. It is useful as heterojunction layer of solar ...

SYNTHESIS OF TRANSPORTATION n-TYPE Cd1-xZnxS NSNO PARTICLES BY MICROWAVE ASSITED CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS  

2016-02-29
Cadmium Zinc Sulphide (Cd1-xZnxS) is a ternary which is formed by the combination of two binary compounds of CdS and Zns: It is useful as heterojunction layer of solar cell ...

STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF SOME CLIMATIC VARIABLES ON ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY RADIO PROPAGATION IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA  

2016-03-01
The dependence of Ultra High Frequency (UHF) mobile communication industries on the tropospheric layer of the atmosphere for network distributions, particularly in tropical climatic regions like south western region of ...

CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS OF ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS USING RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORK  

2016-03-01
Contingency analysis is a tool used by power system engineers for planning and assessing power system reliability. The conventional analytical method is both tedious and time consuming because of large ...

DEVELOPMENT OF CLIMATIC MODELS FOR ESTIMATING CLEARNESS INDEX FOR SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA  

2016-03-03
Global Solar Radiation (GSR) estimate is important for a wide range of applications available in Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine, Research and most especially in designing of any solar energy system at ...

SELECTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS  

2016-03-20
Soil contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) requires clean-up due to its health and environmental hazards. Technical limitations and expensive nature of most of the conventional clean-up methods brought about ...

OPTIMAL PROCESS CONDITIONS FOR ENHANCED BIOMETHANATION OF ANIMAL AND FRUIT WASTES  

2016-03-25
Biomethanation of animal and fruit wastes is an environmental benign and cheap source of energy. However, biomethanationhas the problem of large hydraulic retention time and low gas production which has ...

MODELLING OF VERY HIGH FREQUENCY RADIO PROPAGATION LOSS IN THE LONG TROPICAL FOREST DURING WET AND DRY SEASONS  

2016-04-01
It has been observed that Very High Frequency (VHF) radio wave propagation in the tropical forest suffers severe fading due to pathloss which leads to poor quality signal reception and ...

DEVELOPMENT OF AN HYBRID CONTEXT-CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL IN PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS  

2016-04-02
The goal of information retrieval is to provide users with documents that are relevant to their information needs. The existing content based Image Retrieval (IR) is plagued with semantic problem ...