MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND OPTIMAL CONTROL OF MALARIA USING VACCINATION TREATED NETS AND TREATMENT AS CONTROL STRATEGIES  

2021-05-28
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a parasite called Plasmodium for which anopheles mosquito serves as the carrier. Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, malariae and ovale are the four types 0f ...

DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED MODELS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKFORCE PLANNING IN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS  

2018-02-28
Maintenance Workforce (MW) planning enhances manufacturing system's sustainability through the optimal utilisation of MW and machines. However, the interrelationship between MW (size, cost, workloads and ergonomic factors) and machine parameters ...

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF CARBON NANOTUBE FOR CHARGE TRANSPORT LAYER IN ORGANIC SOLAR CELL  

2021-04-01
Solar cells based on organic films are preferred because of their ease in processing, mechanical flexibility and potential for low cost fabrication. However, low electrical conductivity and low charge mobility ...

EFFECTS OF GRANITE SOURCED FROM SELECTED LOCATIONS IN OGBOMOSO ON THE PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE  

2019-08-25
Granites are major aggregate which constitute 60 - 80% of total concrete constituent. The characteristics of concrete may be affected by production, quality and sources from which the aggregate was ...

DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION BASED CULTURAL ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING UNIVERSITY LECTURE TIME TABLING PROBLEM  

2016-09-24
Timetabling problems are search problems in which courses must be arranged around a set of timeslots so that some constraints are satisfied. Conflicts, variance of constraints, slow convergence speed and ...

ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE GENERATION OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON IN FISH DURING FRYING AND SMOKING PROCESSES  

2020-01-02
Cooking methods have been linked with formation of toxic chemicals known as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in processed foods and are highly detrimental to health. The prevalence of cancer ...

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 ...

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 ...

OPTIMAL PLACEMENT AND SIZING OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATOR USING FIREFLY ALGORITHM  

2021-01-20
The high resistance to reactance ratio of the distribution system results in huge power losses, low voltage stability index and large voltage drop under high power demand. The optimal placement ...

DEVELOPMENT OF STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR EQUAL GAIN COMBINER WITH PHASE ERROR OVER SELECTED FADING CHANNELS  

2020-03-01
The performance and capacity improvement of Wireless Communication (WC) are growing tremendously due to its global acceptability. However, it suffers from multipath fading, which is made worse as a result ...