CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF OLEORESIN FROM FRESH AND DRIED PEPPER ( Capsicum frutescens and Capsicum annuum) in Nigeria  

2021-09-01
Pepper (Capsicum spp.) oleoresin, a food additive is known for its antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. Nigeria is the largest pepper producer in Africa. However, due to lack of production of ...

DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTIMAL PV-DIESEL-BATTERY HYBRID POWER SYSTEM MODEL FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHM  

2021-09-01
A vast portion of the energy requirements all around the globe is supplied from non-renewable conventional energy sources. However, the use of only non-renewable energy sources to generate electricity suffers ...

PREDICTION OF SHADOWING EFFECT OF TALL BUILDINGS ON DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION USING THE KNIFE-EDGE DIFFRACTION MODEL  

2021-09-01
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV) is the means of broadcasting digital TV signals through line-of-sight. Losses due to shadowing caused by edges from tall structures along the propagation path can be ...

EFFECT OF FERTILIZER APPLICATION ON FOOD QUALITY OF YAM (Dioscorea spp) TUBERS  

2021-09-01
Yam is a tuber crop grown for food security, cultural value and income generation. Due to its high nutrient demanding nature, soil fertility is required for its cultivation but yam ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A PARAMETER OPTIMIZATIONAND FEATURE SELECTION-BASED HYBRID RULE EXTRACTION METHOD FROM SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE  

2021-09-18
Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is a learning technique that generates comprehensible classification results for a wide range of applications which are difficult for man analyst to understand due to ...

SCAVENGING SELECTED PHARMACEUTICALS FROM SOLUTION USING FUNCTIONALIZED ADSORBENTS  

2021-09-19
The presence of non-ecofriendly pharmaceutical drug metabolites in water bodies even at low concentrations is of great concern to human health, animals and the ecosystem at large. The need for ...

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND ANTI-HYPERGLYCEMIC EVALUATIONOF Ni (II) COMPLEXES OF SODIUM BARBITONE AND METFORMIN  

2021-09-20
The menace of diabetic mellitus has been a major challenge to scie?tists globally and linked with several commercial and sociologic problems. Barbiturates are used as anesthetics and sleeping agents, and ...

DEVELOPMENT OF BAT ALGORITHM-FEED FORWARD NEURAL NETWORK FOR CLASSIFICATION OF DEEP FEATURES IN DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS IMAGES  

2021-09-22
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is one of the methods used for early detection of breast cancer through Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems. Distinguishing between cancerous and non-cancerous breast abnormalities is ...

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENHANCED COGNITIVE MEASURE FOR SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS  

2021-09-27
Software complexity is the degree to which a system or component has a design or implementation that is difficult to understand and verify. Some existing software complexity measures such as ...

SHORT TERM LOAD FORECASTING USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TRAINED WITH PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION  

2021-10-03
Load forecasting is a way of estimating future electric power load for a given forecast horizon based on the available information about the state of the system. However, accuracy in ...