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 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 ...

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 ...

EFFECTS OF BODY ADIPOSITY INDICES, DIGIT RATIO AND LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON METABOLIC SYNDROME AND SERUM BIOMARKERS AMONG THE HAUSAS OF KANO STATE, NIGERIA  

2018-06-26
Various anthropometric markers of adiposity such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), neck circumference (NC), hip circumference (HC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), waist-height ratio (WHtR) and body adiposity index ...

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 ...

OCCURRENCE, DISTRIBUTION AND ALTERNATIVE HOSTS OF CASSAVA VIRUSES IN KANO AND KATSINA STATES, NIGERIA  

2018-06-26
Cassava mosaic virus is said to occur in all growing areas in Africa and a substantive land area is devoted to cassava in Kano and Katsina State of Nigeria. There ...

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 ...

EFFECTS OF ETHANOL EXTRACT OF Vernonia amygdalina LEAF IN CEREBRAL AND CEREBELLAR CORTICES OF YOUNG MICE INOCULATED WITH Plasmodium berghei  

2018-06-26
Malaria is the world’s most important parasitic disease especially when Plasmodium falciparum is the cause of most of the morbidity and mortality. The disease has been challenging human health and ...

BIOREMEDIATION OF HYDROCARBON POLLUTED SOIL USING PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA  

2018-06-26
The bioremediation potential of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on hydrocarbon contaminated soil was studied. Twenty five kilograms of hydrocarbon polluted soil sample was collected at a depth of 20cm using an auger ...