The whole idea of World Wide Web (WWVV) was born out of the desire that information should be shared. Presently WWW is really information domain. Today, users of the Web can easily access this information by specifying URI addresses, searching, and following links to find other related resources, but, in some cases users are taken to an irrelevant site. Another limitation of WWW is that the information can only be understood and interpreted by human being, it is difficult for machine to...
Fourteen (14) sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas(L.)Lam.) clones, TIS.8441, Ex Igbariam, TIS.86/0356, TIS.86/0306, TIS.2271, TIS.2532.OP.1.13, CIP 4400168, TIS.2544 Rusanya 1.5, TIS.82/0270.OP.1.85, TIS.82/0070.OP.120, TIS.8/637, NRCRI/UN/13, TIS.87/0087 and a farmer’s variety(Dan-Mangu), were screened during the cropping seasons of 2000 and 2001, to evaluate their yield potentials under the Jos-Plateau environment. The randomized complete block design was used with four replications. On t...
ABSTRACT Honey is a sweet, thick and viscid fluid collected from beehives and usually found in cells of the honey comb. It is produced from nectar collected from various flowers by honeybees and processed. Among the important uses, pure and undiluted honey serves as natural sweetener and contains a broad variety of vitamins for human consumption. Due to its global demand, monitoring of the quality of honey is of great significance. In this study, honey samples were collected systematically fr...
A total of 1,075 fasting Human Serum and early morning urine samples were assayed for various biochemical parameters. The parameters include: Blood lipids, Total Cholesterol, High Density lipoproteins, Low Density lipoproteins, Vitamin A, Sodium, Potassium, Chloride, Bicarbonate, Urinary glucose, Protein and Blood. From the results obtained, the calculated phospholipids:cholesterol ratio was less than 1 amongst the hypertensives. This confirmed the work of Stroev and Makarova, 1986; Of...
ABSTRACT Mycoflora of mixed maize grains and the newly developed Abeleehi and Obaatanpa varieties and airspora in the Warehouse o f the Ghana Food Distribution, GFDC, at Balduzzi, Kumasi have been studied under normal and simulated ambient Environmental Relative Humidities (ERH ’s) representative of the Ghanaian conditions. Some important physical and processing characteristics of £. and normal stackbumed white and yellow maize (seed water absorption, swelling index, 1000-seed weight, ferm...
ABSTRACT The environmental impact of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Company for the environment and social conditions using the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) in Rivers State, Niger Delta area of Nigeria as a case study is analysed in this paper. Specifically, the paper analyses the environment and social consequences of the operations of NLNG on the immediate environment. Data were collected from both the secondary and primary sources. The paper reveals that air borne diseases are the...
A sa:cly of Royr.!1on l1Dh::s f;-0;1. o,Tice was ca:-ried out; to uriderstand the system and determinethe information rcqui:·emcnL Duri;1g the course or this study, problcn�s ai1cct ing the systems were identified. We then designed a new system which is computer based rulting into consideration the problems identified. This new sysl.crn will replace the olcl one. Conversion plan has been mapped out and users manual included.
The growing demand for potable water supply has been a major challenge in Ado-Ekiti, Southwestern Nigeria. Delivery of good quality water by the Ekiti State Water Board to individual consumers in the required quantity and under satisfactory pressure is suspect. Even in areas that are supposedly served by piped water, the supplies to homes are extra-ordinarily intermittent in flow. This inevitably undermines the confidence of consumers, resulting to complaints and possibly the use of water fro...
ABSTRACT Geological mapping and geochemical analysis of rock samples were made on pit rocks from Obuem Mining Concession found within the Birimian of Ashanti Belt of Ghana, in order to determine the nature of gold mineralisation. The study area consists of metavolcanics and metasediments with few intrusions of granitoids. Metasediments such as phyllites and schists as well as metavolcanics of andesitic and basaltic origin were sampled and analyzed for their major and trace element contents us...
ABSTRACT African trypanosomiasis is a disease caused by the parasitic protozoans of African trypanosomes. Despite several efforts at chemotherapeutic interventions, the disease poses serious health and economic concerns to humans and animals of various sub-Saharan African countries. Commercially available drugs such as suramin, eflornithine, pentamidine, melarsoprol and nifurtimox have reported cases of undesirable side effects, drug resistance, and difficulty in regimen application. Studies ...
ABSTRACT Subsurface samples of Mamu Formation from Ezimo 1235 and Enugu 1327 wells, located within the Anambra Basin were examined for organic geochemical characterization and biomarker content in order to determine the lithofacies association, hydrocarbon potential as well as the palaeodepositional environment. The sediments are made up of siltstone, dark coal, highly fissile shale and mudstone. Selected samples, made up of shale and coal from both wells were subjected to Rock Eval and gas c...
ABSTRACT This project is based on the results of candidates who sat for the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) conducted by the West Mrican Examinations Council (WAEC). The main objective of this project is to determine whether performance in SSSCE core subjects namely Core Mathematics, Integrated Science, English Language and Social Studies for the five-year period from 2001 to 2005 depended on sex. The data were obtained from the West African Examinations Council-for th...
ABSTRACT Accra has been experiencing periodic flooding that affects properties and lives. For instance on 41h and Sib June 1994, 8 persons lost their lives and 80 million cedis worth of properties belonging to Paloma Company were destroyed due the floods that occurred at that time. The government seeing the dangers involved. commissioned institutions such as Ministry of Works and Housing, Tourism and Country Planning and City Engineers to identify such areas and adopt measures that will ...
ABSTRACT This study focused on senior high school students’ perception of their computer laboratory learning environment and how the use of computers affects their learning in urban and community senior high schools. Data was obtained with the Computer Laboratory Environment Inventory questionnaire, administered to 278 second year senior high school students. The sample consisted of 171 males (61.5%) and 107 females (38.5%) with a mean age of students being 17.4 years. The data were analyze...
ABSTRACT The emergence of widespread drug-resistance strains of the malaria parasites militates against strives for more potent antimalarial drugs. Therefore, a renewed effort to search for new drugs from medicinal plants focusing on the mangroves in Ghana has become imperative. Hence, this study aimed at evaluating the in vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity and toxic effect of the crude extract of Avicennia africana leaf in rats. The pulverized dried leaves were extracted with 70% ethano...