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ABSTRACT The research entitled  ‘’ adaptation  strategies  to climate change  and  variability by  farmers  in agricultural  zone  of  Niger  State,  Nigeria”  The  study  was  carried  out  to  describe  the  socio- economic characteristics of farming households, and to examine how much they know about climate change and variability, and to ascertain adaptation strategies to climate change and variability adopted by them and their perception of its effectiveness. It was also to ...

ABSTRACT The representation of women in traditionally male dominated jobs in developed countries has greatly increased due to changes in economies and worksite settings. However, women are still a minority group in the Nigerian Construction Industry (NCI), with a participation level of about 0.2% compared to 3.2% for men. Studies on women quantity surveyors’ (WQS) participation in the Nigerian construction industry (NCI) in Abuja-FCT area are scarce. This study's aim ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.0   INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study Water is necessary for human survival. This well-recognized fact is the basis for the emerging view of basic human water needs as a human right to water (Glieck, 1998; Cunha, 2009). Rivers are among the most-threatened ecological systems of the globe (Arimoro and Keke, 2016; Edegbene et al., 2020). Freshwater bodies in the tropics are recognised as important resources for global biodiversity ...

ABSTRACT There is need for accurate knowledge of performance, degradation rate and lifespan of photovoltaic (PV) module in every location for an effective solar PV power system. Outdoor degradation analysis was carried out on amorphous silicon PV module rated 10 W using CR1000 software-based Data Acquisition System (DAS). The PV module under test and meteorological Sensors were installed on a metal support structure at the same test plane. The data ...

ABSTRACT The study investigated the Effects of Computer Simulation on Academic Achievement and Retention in Geography Among Secondary School Students in Niger State. Gender and retention was considered. One hundred and sixty (120) students were selected from the four secondary schools in Minna Metropolis. The research design was pretest- posttest control group design. The experimental group taught with Computer Simulation Package (CSP) and the control group taught using the lecture ...

ABSTRACT There is a need for accurate knowledge of the performance, degradation rate, and lifespan of the photovoltaic (PV) module in every location for an effective solar PV power system. Outdoor degradation analysis was carried out on a mono-crystalline PV module rated 10 W using the CR1000 software-based Data Acquisition System (DAS). The PV module under test and meteorological Sensors were installed on a metal support structure on the same ...

ABSTRACT In spite of the extensive control efforts, over the years, mosquito still transmit serious human diseases, cause millions of deaths every year and the development of resistance to chemical insecticides resulting in rebounding vectorial capacity. This situation is aggravated with the re-emergence of drug resistance of mosquito borne diseases especially malaria. The current study was therefore designed to assess the mosquito larvicidal potency and antiplasmodial efficacy of the crude ...

ABSTRACT Urban runoff and human activities have become a major source of surface groundwater pollution sources most in developing nations where most of their domestic and toilet waste and deposited. The river landzum is located in Bida, Niger State, Nigeria which is the major river in Bida. The study assessed the effect of urban runoff and human activities or some physic-chemical parameters of lanzum Bida, Niger State, Nigeria. After triplicate ...

ABSTRACT A survey to determine the prevalence and intensity of coccidiosis among poultry birds within Minna metropolis Niger State, Nigeria, was carried out between July and October 2013. A total of 450 fresh faecal droppings and 80 carcasses were collected from 12 different poultry farms within Minna, and analyzed using parasitological techniques. From the 450 faecal samples collected, a total of 166(36.3%) were infected with oocyst of Coccidia. An overall ...

ABSTRACT This study analysed 60:40 ratio admission policy implementation for science and arts related courses in Kwara state tertiary institutions between 2011/2012-2015/2016 academic sessions. Content Analysis Research Design Approach (CARDA) was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of Thirty-Six Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven (36287) candidates offered admission for five academic sessions (2011-2016) was used. Purposive sampling technique was used for the study. Three research questions ...

ABSTRACT Water  intake  towers  are  typically  tall,  hollow,  reinforced  concrete  structures  and  form entrance to reservoir outlet works. It is observed that most dam intakes in Nigeria are not functional due to no way to monitor assets. In this work, the best type of tower was selected and the optimum design of the water intake tower was designed using Random Finite Element Method (RFEM) to analyses according to British standard ...

ABSTRACT The Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP), which was established by the Public Procurement Act of 2006 to oversee the procurement of public projects through inter-alia the application of Value for money (VfM) practices, has admitted that “…lowest initial price may not equate to lowest cost over the operating life of the item procured”. The application of Whole Life Costing (WLC) in building projects is still limited and there is ...

ABSTRACT Health and Safety (H&S) training is one of the most widely adopted practices for improving workplace safety. Existing H&S literature focuses more on the training of workers in construction firms of developed nations. This leaves out issues of H&S training of workers in the construction firms of developing nations such as Nigeria. The result of this is the problem of poor safety performance in the form of higher rate ...

ABSTRACT The  study  is  aimed  at  appraising  the  Birnin  Kebbi  city  Master  Plan  with  a  view  to providing information that can influence policy for sustainable urban development. The objectives of this study are to assess the land use and land cover change from 1991-2018 and simulate the 2027 land cover change; to appraise the level of implementation/mismatch of the 1980  Master  Plan;  to  assess  the  level  of compliance of  the ...

ABSTRACT The airline industry in most countries is strategic to economic development as it ensures safe and timely travelling and encourages business activities while generating employment opportunities. The Nigerian air transport industry system faces a lot of challenges due to unwanted waiting lines or delay of passengers who are eager  to meet up for appointments or in preference to road transport systems. These problems include many passengers queuing for boarding, ...

ABSTRACT This research was aimed towards the assessment of geothermal potential part of Borno Basin north-east Nigeria using aeromagnetic and aeroradiometric data. Regional/Residual separation was performed on the total magnetic intensity map using polynomial fitting, and the residual map was divided into nine spectral blocks of which the log of spectral energies were plotted against frequency. Centroid depth and depth to top boundary obtained was used to estimate the Curie ...

ABSTRACT Fish are particularly sensitive to a wide variety of agrochemicals including glyphosate herbicide that may arise from not only deliberate discharge of these chemicals into waterways but also from approved agricultural practices. The toxic effects of glyphosate on Clarias gariepinus juveniles of mean weight 10.05 ± 1.50 g and mean length of 10.75 ± 1.80 cm were investigated for a period of 12 weeks. The concentrations of the toxicant ...

ABSTRACT This research presents the “Optimization Studies of Process Parameters for the Adsorption of Copper and Arsenic Ions from Simulated Waste Water using Chitosan and Chitosan – Zeolite Beads” which was achieved by developing adsorbents of chitosan and chitosan – zeolite composite beads under acidic and alkaline conditions such as acetic acid and sodium hydroxide mediums. The prepared adsorbents were characterized using X – Ray Diffraction, Brunauer Emmett Test, Fourier ...

ABSTRACT To resolve the problem of artisanal miners using trials and error method to locate solid minerals, a geophysical technique was employed to delineate structures that host mineral in the study area. The study focused on both (Qualitative and Quantitative) analyses of high resolution Aeromagnetic data to delineate the geological structures that could serve as host to mineral within Wawa (Sheet 128) and Kubil (Sheet 159) Niger State, Nigeria. The ...

ABSTRACT Femtocells are overlayed on existing Macrocells to form Macro-Femto heterogeneous network (HetNet), to reduce cost of mounting expensive macrocell nodes, improve cellular network capacity and throughput performance. However, HetNet has a major problem of cross-tier and co-tier interference, which hinders its optimal performance, especially when the network capacity expands. With emergence of 5G technologies, interference would become more consequential. Therefore, curbing the effect of this interference is indispensable to ...