Agricultural land is an important resource for farm households as it forms the base for their livelihoods. Therefore, the manner in which households utilize this resource influences to a large extent their food security situation. This study sought to establish the impact of agricultural land use on household food security in Kisii Central sub-County, Kisii County. To achieve this objective the study focused on the following; examination of the various land use activities, assessment of the f...
Abstract/Overview Children, mothers, and fathers in 12 ethnic and regional groups in nine countries (N = 1,338 families) were interviewed annually for 8 years (Mage child = 8–16 years) to model four domains of parenting as a function of child age, puberty, or both. Latent growth curve models revealed that for boys and girls, parents decrease their warmth, behavioral control, rules/limit‐setting, and knowledge solicitation in conjunction with children’s age and pubertal status as childr...
Abstract/Overview Families from nine countries (N = 1,338) were interviewed annually seven times (Mage child = 7–15) to test specificity and commonality in parenting behaviors associated with child flourishing and moderation of associations by normativeness of parenting. Participants included 1,338 children (M = 8.59 years, SD = 0.68, range = 7–11 years; 50% girls), their mothers (N = 1,283, M = 37.04 years, SD = 6.51, range = 19–70 years), a...
Kifilideen’s general matrix progression series of infinite terms is the summation of values of a collection of progressive members of the numbers series system. The number series system or set has endless terms where terms are progressive into levels and steps (within level) with increasing members set in successive levels and just one member in the first level. This kind of series is needed in determining the overall value(s) of the collection in the progressive members of the system ...
In this work, we briefly present fuzzy operations and related properties. As a precursor for studying fuzzy semigroup, we examine critically the fundamental concept of semigroups.. Finally, we describe some results of fuzzy semigroup with respect to fuzzy operations and α-cut of fuzzy set
This research paper proposes a novel approach to detecting skin diseases using machine learning techniques. The proposed system utilizes image processing techniques to extract features from skin lesion images and then applies machine learning algorithms to classify the lesion into different categories. The proposed system can be evaluated using a large dataset of skin lesion images and the machine can learn itself based on the provided data and achieve high accuracy in detecting various skin ...
Turnaround time of a vessel in a seaport exhibits the capability and ability of a port in providing efficient and effective services. Ship turnaround time is one of the most significant Port performance indicator. This is the total time, spent by the vessel in port, during a given call. It is the sum of waiting time, berthing time, service time (i.e., ship’s time at berth) and sailing delay. West African ports play a crucial role in trade and economy, as 95% of merchandise trade is handled ...
ABSTRACT Nigeria for over five decades now operates mono economy. Despite the diverse natural resources endowed to her by God. This started prior to the end of Biafra war in 1970, when Nigeria taps greatly from crude oil due to global rise in oil price. This over dependent on crude oil is to the disadvantage of other sectors such as; natural gas, solid mineral, water, environment, coal, tourism and agriculture that contributes enormously to the economy of any country like Nigeria. In 2017 N...
Pericopsis laxiflora (Family Leguminosae) is a medicinal plant that is ubiquitous especially in the tropical and savannah regions. There are many reports on folkloric and traditional medicinal uses that include haemorrhoids, rheumatism, abdominal pain treatment, diarrhoea, and dysentery, fever, skin diseases and jaundice. Peer-reviewed articles were gathered by consulting the databases of Scopus, Medline, Web of Science, PubMed, Science Direct and Google Scholar. Phytochemical investigations ...
Thermophilic Campylobacters are zoonotic bacteria which are universally famous for causing enteritis in humans. They are normally found as commensals in the digestive tract of food animals with poultry being a major reservoir of the pathogenic species. This study highlighted the presence of Campylobacter in poultry (commercial and domestic) and humans (patients and asymptomatic individuals) and characterized strains by biotyping and susceptibility test in the Northern region of Ghana where an...
Currently social networks are the pulse of humanity. For there are the platforms on which people share content and form links among themselves for various purposes The traditional social networks that were formed by human relationships or activities have been supplanted with the online social networks (OSNs). And due to the availability of affordable and portable digital devices and also the emergence of the Internet and services offered by the Web 2.0, there have been a tremendous amount of ...
The Hogg’s adaptive scheme is extended to the Gauss Markov Model. The Gauss Markov model is a statistical procedure which belongs to the class of general linear model. Gauss Markov model is very sensitive to nonnormality, variance heterogeneity as well as large sample size. These assumptions may be violated as a result of departures from normality and small sample size. To overcome these problems, an Adaptive Scheme is adopted. The Adaptive Scheme is a two step procedure in which a selector...
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) has become increasingly popular in the last few decades due to its very rich mathematical structure and therefore forming the theoretical basis for use in a wide range of real-life applications such as in speech and image recognition, motion analysis in videos, bio-informatics among others. However, an effective optimization of the parameters of these Models for enhanced performance has remained computationally challenging and there is no generally agreed method th...
In this thesis, a number of solutions are proposed to enhancing and improving the security and confidentiality of Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Data. Firstly, the Asmuth-Bloom, Blakley, Mignote and other Secret Sharing Schemes (SSS) are reviewed, adopted and modified in order to present a relatively improved secret sharing scheme. Conditions for the scheme is also presented as well as algorithms for implementation of the scheme presented by this research. Secondly, a hybrid of two ...
This study applied multilevel modelling to analyze data on child discipline practices from 8,156 households from the MICS 4 data collected by GSS in 2011. The analysis took into consideration intra-cluster correlation that results from the collection of such hierarchical structured data and unmeasured higher level characteristics that impact on values of the response variables. A key purpose of the study was to address the error terms of individual observations that correlate in such datasets...