ASSESSMENT OF EXTRACELLULAR BETA-GALACTOSIDASE PRODUCTION POTENTIAL OF FUNGI ISOLATED FROM DAIRY EFFLUENT  

2018-06-07
Dairy wastewater is increasingly becoming an environmental concern. There is a widespread interest in the use of beta-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) to hydrolyze lactose in milk and dairy products which aid ...

ASSESSMENT OF AFLATOXIN M1 AMONG LACTATING MOTHERS AND THEIR INFANTS IN DAMATURU, YOBE STATE NIGERIA  

2018-06-14
Aflatoxin M1 is a biomarker of aflatoxin B1 which is detected in breast milk, a possible risk factor for infant early exposure to Aflatoxin. Aflatoxin M1(AFM1) is a measure of ...

A STUDY ON EXPONENTIATED-NEW WEIGHTED EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION  

2018-06-14
Statistical probability distributions are vital in explaining real world situations. It has been shown overtime that extreme value distributions are found to be useful in various field of studies such ...

ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN KADUNA SOUTH AND ZARIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA, 2004-201  

2018-06-15
For decades, there have been a lot of complaints about the performance of local governments in terms of the quality of service delivery and the level of impacts of such ...

GROWTH RESPONSE OF YANKASA RAMS FED DIETS CONTAINING VARYING LEVELS OF SHEA NUT CAKE AT DIFFERENT FEEDING FREQUENCIES  

2018-06-21
The study aimed at evaluating the effects of inclusion levels and feeding frequencies of shea nut cake on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility, nitrogen balance, haematological, blood serum and economics ...

PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ANTIMICROBIAL STUDIES ON THE LEAF OF Senna singueana (Delile) Lock (FABACEAE)  

2018-06-26
Senna singueana (Dell) Fabacea is a shrub widely used traditionally to treat numerous disease conditions such as sexually transmitted diseases (STD), intestinal complications as a laxative, antimalaria, antimicrobial and antioxidant ...

STUDY OF NIGERIAN BALANCE OF TRADE: CO-INTEGRATED VAR MODEL APPROACH  

2018-06-26
The impact of exchange rate, money supply, Gross Domestic Product and Foreign Direct Investiment on trade balance has been at the center of literature debate over time with varying empirical ...

EFFECT OF FEATURE SELECTION AND DATASET SIZE ON THE ACCURACY OF NAÏVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER AND LOGISTICS REGRESSION  

2018-06-26
Binary Logistics Regression and Naïve Bayesian classifier are two of the common classification modelling techniques that allow one to predict the category that a new observation belongs, on the basis ...

FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT OF OFU RIVER CATCHMENT IN NIGERIA  

2018-06-26
The aim of this study was to carry out a flood risk assessment for Ofu River Catchment in Nigeria. Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission Digital Elevation Model (SRTM DEM) and River ...

DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRIBUTION NETWORK RECONFIGURATION SCHEME FOR LOSS MINIMIZATION AND RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE: A CASE STUDY OF UNGWAN BORO INJECTION SUB-STATION  

2018-06-26
This research work developed a distribution network reconfiguration scheme for active power loss minimization and reliability improvement using particle swarm optimization technique. The Backward Forward Sweep (BFS) algorithm was used ...