This project discusses the influence of genomic structure on phenotypic expression in plants and animals, emphasizing intraspecific variations arising from diverse genomic structures. It highlights historical misinterpretations of structural rearrangements and advocates for comprehensive whole chromosome comparisons. The project focuses on using the SyRI tool to validate findings from whole-genome analysis of sugar beet and sea beet genomes, revealing insights into the role of the Rz2 locus i...
ABSTRACT The local bean varieties most common among farmers of Narok south is depended upon by other residents of Narok county and other regions within the country as their main source of food which has got high protein content and as well as source of income .This research was mainly aimed at determining the best performing local bean varieties in lowland areas of Narok south. It also aimed at determining if there exists a significant difference between blocks which are the yearly mean yield...
ABSTRACT The operation of maize markets has been associated with a number of challenges. These challenges have affected maize supply in the markets. Because the adaptation of interrelationships among construct is limited in most of studies especially in Tanzania, this study intended to analyze the maize supply in Kibaigwa maize market using Time Series Techniques and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The study employed retrospective longitudinal research design. Secondary data that were u...
ABSTRACT The dissertation was on Time Series Analysis of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Ghana for the period 1964 to 2009. The main objective of the study was to determine the general trend pattern and to develop a model for forecasting the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the old and new series. In order to achieve these objectives, CPI figures for the period were obtained from the prices section of Ghana Statistical Service. The major statistical software used to analyze the data was the M...
ABSTRACT This project presents an empirical study of time series modeling and forecasting of the official daily Exchange rate of Nigeria Naira for US Dollar in terms of buying rate, central rate and selling rate, from the period of 1st January 2016 to 19th of May 2017 (recession period). In this view, Box Jenkins approach was applied for the modelling of naira/dollar daily exchange rate using ARIMA model. The results of the analysis show that the series became stationary after first differ...
This is an 86 page research project evaluating institutional repositories in Africa SCOPE OF THE STUDY This study focuses on Institutional Repositories in Africa in the three major directory of repositories. The webometrics ranking will be the main focus for this study with keyattention to repositories that have their contents in English Language. A brief review isgiven to OpenDoar and ROAR for comparison with webometrics ranking. Data to be used will be generated online and will be analy...
The objective of this study was to examine the fertility differentials in terms of education and location of females of reproductive ages in Oghara metropolis, to achieve this aim, the direct observation method of data collection was used in obtaining the vital information needed for this study from the medical records. The t-test was used to test the sameness of the fertility differential by location and by educational level. From the analysis, it was found that there is an existence of....
This study was to investigate the method and application of statistical quality control in the operation and production of glass bottles in Beta Glass Plc. A secondary source of data was used through the method of review of records and the control chart quality control tool for mean, range and proportion defective was used to analyze the data for this study using SPSS. Result on the non-conformity indicated that the process defectiveness was under effective control while that of volume capaci...
ABSTARCT The major aim of this study is to express the viability of statistical procedures in making decisions of production, using the linear programming approach in detecting the best possible decision. The effective use of liner programming has been scarcely used by managers and hence, this study tends to explore the application of linear programming on production companies. The data used were obtained from Our Choice Bakery, Benin City. The computer approach of the excel solver was used ...
Abstract This study was aimed at ascertaining the most preferred drugs in treating malaria fever in Delta State. A field survey was carried with 200 questionnaires distributed to health professionals at some selected hospitals. The data obtained were analyzed using percentages, bar chart and hypothesis testing via ANOVA and Chi-square. The result indicated that at 0.05 level of significance, some anti-malaria drugs are more preferred than others and Sulphadoxine/Pyrimethamine (SP) combinatio...