226. FUNGAL-DEGRADED MAIZE BY-PRODUCTS AS FEED FOR WEST AFRICAN DWARF RAM

ABSTRACT

Maize by-products are potential feed resources for ruminants if properly harnessed. Their uses are however limited by high fibre content and low digestibility which can be enhanced by fungal degradation. Information on the use of fungal-degradation of maize by-products as feed for ram is scanty. The nutritive value of biodegraded maize by- products in West African Dwarf (WAD) ram was therefore assessed. Maize Cob (MC), Maize Husk, Maize Stover, and Maize Straw were degraded...

227. FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN NIGERIA: A DYNAMIC COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH

ABSTRACT

Environmental challenges such as climate change continue to threaten human existence globally. This has necessitated renewed focus on some existing policies that by design or otherwise may counter global efforts at addressing these challenges. Various engineering solutions have been championed while economic and social development tools have focused on using various policy instruments to reduce the concentration of emissions in the atmosphere. One of such policies is the fu...

228. Game-Theoretic Relay Selection and Power Control in Fading Wireless Body Area Networks

ABSTRACT

The trend towards personalized ubiquitous computing has led to the advent of a new gener- ation of wireless technologies, namely wireless body area networks (WBANs), which connect the wearable devices into the Internet-of-Things.

This thesis considers the problems of relay selection and power control in fading WBANs with energy-efficiency and security considerations.

The main body of the thesis is formed by two papers. Ideas from probabi...

229. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONTRACT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

In November 1999, at Counter Entropy Strategies’ Summit on Software in Chicago, USA, 60 top executives from major engineering and software companies agreed that “the Internet will change how engineering software is used by facilitating collaborative efforts involving large numbers of people” (...

230. FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN FCT-ABUJA

ABSTRACT

Deciding what to provide in-house and what to outsource is not always easy, because of the pros and cons of each approach. This study assessed the suitability of outsourcing and in-house routes for procurement of facilities management (FM) services in public buildings so as to develop a framework to assist FM practitioners in making decisions on procurement of FM services in Abuja. Mixed method research methodology was adopted involving the administration of 122 structured...

231. Forwarding loop attacks and counter measures in content centric networks

ABSTRACT

Content Centric Networking (CCN) is a novel networking approach that aims at overcoming some of the limitations of the current Internet. In particular, CCN aims at providing better security and privacy by focusing on the data rather than on the location of data. However, this new networking concept opens up avenues for launching several new types of attacks including the “Forwarding Loop attacks”.

232. FORMULATION STUDIES OF TABLETS CONTAINING ADANSONIA DIGITATA L. MUCILAGE AS MATRIX FORMER

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of Adansonia digitata mucilage (ADM), a hydrophilic plant polymeric material to prolong the release of Metoprolol tartarate (MPT) from matrix tablet formulations compared with semi -synthetic polymer-HPMC60SH4000 matrices. Phytochemical screening and physicochemical characterization of the extracted ADM was performed using standard and official procedures. Physicochemical tests such as simple (quantitative yield, aqueous...

233. FORMULATION STUDIES OF ACACIA SIEBERIANA GUM IN CHOROQUINE AND METRONIDAZOLE MATRIX TABLETS

ABSTRACT

The crude plant gum from African Acacia sieberiana was purified and investigated for use as a matrix excipient for chloroquine phosphate and metronidazole tablet formulations. The chromatographic analysis of the acid hydrolysed gum revealed the presence of rhamnose, galactose, ribose, xylose and fructose. The viscosity was found to increase with increase in concentration of the gum. Ten percent mucilage had pH of 5 and pH change has no effect on the viscosity of the mucilag...

234. FOREIGN AID AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS (1996-2010)

ABSTRACT

This study examined the relationship between foreign aid and economic development in sub Saharan Africa. The study seeks to examine the role of institutions in aid effectiveness and economic development in Sub Saharan Africa. The study adopted a theoretical framework similar to the Endogenous or New Growth model, as well as; the system generalized method of moments (GMM) technique of estimation was adopted in order to overcome the challenge of endogeneity perceived in the i...

235. FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT OF OFU RIVER CATCHMENT IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to carry out a flood risk assessment for Ofu River Catchment in Nigeria. Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission Digital Elevation Model (SRTM DEM) and River Map of Africa were used to delineate the catchment boundaries in ArcGIS

10.2.2 coupled with ArcHydro and HEC-GeoHMS extensions while the stream ordering was done using the spatial analyst hydrology tool in ArcGIS 10.2.2. Stage and discharge measured from February, 2016 to January, 2017 wer...

236. FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT ON COOPERATIVE CREDIT SOCIETY’S WEALTH MAXIMIZATION IN NIGERIA: MODERATING ROLE OF RISK COMMITTEE SIZE

ABSTRACT

Risks are fundamentally a part of business operational models. They cannot be completely eliminated and, if not efficiently managed it can result to loss of value. Wealth creation can only take place when the prevailing financial risks in any business are identified and carefully handled. In line with this, this research was carried out to investigate the effect of financial risk on cooperative credit societies using risk committee as a moderating factor. A survey research...

237. FISCAL POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

The study evaluated the relationship between fiscal policy and economic growth in Nigeria using time series data spanning from 1981 to 2019. The specific objectives include: to ascertain the extent of relationship between oil revenue and economic growth in Nigeria; to determine the degree of relationship between non-oil revenue and economic growth in Nigeria; to evaluate the extent of relationship between capital expenditure and economic growth in Nigeria; to find out the e...

238. FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY INTERACTIONS IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY- A NEW KEYNESIAN APPROACH

ABSTRACT

A political economy environment typified by political corruption, poor implementation of economic policy rules and weak policy coordination, can alter the fiscal behaviour of government and how it interacts with the monetary policy of the Central Bank. This study solved and estimated a Small Open Economy New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model with a modified fiscal bloc. This is done in order to examine fiscal and monetary policy interactions under alter...

239. FIRM CHARACTERISTICS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

The study examines the impact of firm characteristics on corporate social responsibility: the moderating role of firm life cycle in quoted non-financial firms in Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was used in this research alongside the positivism research philosophy. The population of the study comprises of all non-financial firms quoted on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The sample for the study is 73 companies which have available and a...

240. FAMILY VIOLENCE IN CLASSICAL AND IGBO LITERATURES

ABSTRACT

Classical and African literatures have portrayed the family as a nucleus of the societies. Existing studies from the old Graeco-Roman times and Igbo cultures acknowledged this significance by paying adequate attention to issues of marriage, inheritance, finance, and social class in their literatures. However, hardly any one of these studies has exclusively concentrated on or compared the representations of family violence in the literatures. This study therefore, examines t...

241. FEEDING ECOLOGY AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SOME FISH SPECIES FROM TUNGAN KAWO RESERVOIR, KONTAGORA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

The study of the biology of three fish species; Tilapia zillii, Clarias gariepinus and Synodontis clarias with reference to their diet composition is an important aspect in fish biology. This research was aimed at evaluating the Feeding Ecology and nutritional status of selected fish species from Tungan Kawo Reservoir, Kontagora, from July 2018 February 2019. The Physicochemical parameters, stomach content analysis, proximate composition and amino acid profile were determin...

242. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND DIVIDEND POLICY OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the relationship between financial performance and dividend policy for a sample of fifteen deposit money banks quoted on the Nigeria Stock Exchange between 2010 and 2019. The statistical methods used for the analysis are descriptive statistics, correlation results, and panel least square. The study revealed that there is a positive but no significant relationship between financial performance and dividend payout ratio; and there is a positive but not...

243. FEMALE CIVIL SERVANTS PERCEPTION AND PATTERN OF USE OF NEW MEDIA IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA

INTRODUCTION

The term “new media” refers to a class of media that are digital and interactive and hence differ from the mass media that McLuhan addressed in Understanding Media. The new media that McLuhan studied were the electronic media of mass communication and the mainframe computers, which he showed had a radically different impact compared to the mechanical media and technologies such as the printing press, the clock, the assembly line, and newspapers. Although the...

244. FINANCIAL INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the effect of financial integration on economic growth in Nigeria from 1986 to 2020. In this study, financial integration variables such as foreign direct investment inflow, foreign portfolio investment inflow, trade openness, financial deepening, foreign remittances and official development assistance were employed as the independent variables, while real gross domestic product was used as the dependent variable. Six research questions and six hypot...

245. FAILURE EVALUATION OF ENGINEERING PROJECTS IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF PIPELINE AND PRODUCT MARKETING COMPANY LIMITED, A SUBSIDIARY OF NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION)

ABSTRACT

This study centres on Failure Evaluation of Engineering Projects in Nigeria, A case study of Pipeline and Product Marketing Company Limited (PPMC). The instrument used in this study is analysis of some randomly selected Projects and questionnaires administered to Professionals involved in the execution of projects in PPMC. The result of this study show that there is still no consensus among project Management experts on what constitute a project failure, some consider failu...

246. FEW-SHOT MALWARE DETECTION USING A NOVEL ADVERSARIAL REPROGRAMMING MODEL

ABSTRACT

Kumar, Ekula Praveen. M.S.C.S., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2022. Few-Shot Malware Detection Using A Novel Adversarial Reprogramming Model.

The increasing sophistication of malware has made detecting and defending against new strains a major challenge for cybersecurity. One promising approach to this problem is using machine learning techniques that extract representative features and train clas- sification models to de...

247. FEDERALISM AND NATIONAL INTERGRATION IN NIGERIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

The problem of federalism and the associated crises of national integration in Nigeria raise serious alarm. The situation attracts growing interest and concern. The crises are very severing such that they culminate in a strong force being mounted on the federation with tendency to disintegrate the country. The works addresses this phenomenon by investigating and analysing the problem. Documentary research method is used in gathering and analysing data. So textbooks, journal...

248. FEDERAL CHARACTER PRINCIPLES AND THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA

1.1Background of the Study

Federal character principles or quota system of representation became an issue and as a part of constitutional arrangement following major serious disagreement between Northern and Southern leaders over the issue of self- government for Nigeria. In the 1950s, Northern leaders felt that the North needed more time to prepare itself to catch up with the South in Western education and in matters of employment opportunities. In spite of these strong feelings, a...

249. FINANCIAL REFORMS AND CREDIT GROWTH NEXUS ON INCOME INEQUALITY IN SELECTED SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES

ABSTRACT

Income inequality stalls economic growth with undesirable socio-economic consequences. Despite measures targeted towards reducing the inequality gap, disparities in income distribution persists. The link between financial reforms and income inequality is still relatively unexplored in the literature. This study appraises the impact of financial reforms including credit growth on income inequality using a sample of twenty selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 1...

250. FACTORS THAT REDUCE SAVINGS IN NIGERIA (1980-2010)

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the core leading factors that reduce savings in Nigeria between 1980 -2010 using ordinary Least Square (OLS) econometric framework, which will enable us proffer solutions for the improvement of savings in the economy, which is also an important component for economic development in any country. Base on data collected, it is discovered that savings output in Nigeria during the period was unsatisfactory but was later discovered as a necessary factor fo...