The Nigerian state has been suffering the negative environmental consequences of oil development upon the discovery of oil in the 1950s. A local OILSPILLMAP model was developed for managing oil spill incidents on Nigerian ...

Urban designers looked through diverse technological windows including engagement of mobile applications to manage urban infrastructures; interactive monitoring; real-time data collection and display; urban mapping and ...

Ayo is an indigenous game among the Yorùbá. This paper looks at the game, its function, techniques and psychological import. The paper also explores the verbal art in the game and its peculiar language. It concludes ...

Objectives: To assess the value of percentage free prostate-specific antigen (%fPSA) in the detection of prostate cancer among Nigerian men with an intermediate total PSA level (4–10 ng/mL), and to show if the optimum ...

Abstract Objectives: To assess the value of percentage free prostate-specific antigen (%fPSA) in the detection of prostate cancer among Nigerian men with an intermediate total PSA level (4–10 ng/mL), and to show if the ...

result of an investigation into the possible taxonomic value of comparative petiole anatomy in 46 taxa of the genus Biscutella (Cruciferae) is presented. The shape of the petioles varies from dorsiventrally flattened to ...

The pervasive influence of computerization has had the greatest impact on surveying because of the routine nature of most of the operations. From instrumentation to field procedures and methods to final office data processing ...

BACKGROUND: Van der Woude syndrome (VWS), an autosomal dominant condition associated with clefts of the lip and/or palate and lower lip pits and is caused by mutations in interferon regulatory factor six gene. It is ...

Van der Woude syndrome (VWS) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by clefts of the lip and/or palate (CL+/-P), lip pits, bifid uvula and hypodontia. Mutations of the interferon regulatory factor 6 gene (IRF6) ...

This paper presents the impact of diurnal, seasonal and solar activity effects on the variability of ionospheric foF2 in the African equatorial latitude. Three African ionospheric stations; Dakar (14.8°N, 17.4°W, dip: ...

In 2003, Nigeria adopted the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) sexuality education curriculum. Our analysis interrogates variation in sub‐national implementation. We conducted 52 interviews with persons knowledgeable ...

Morphological studies have been made on herbarium specimens and 25 population samples of Biscutella valentina (Cruciferae) in Spain. The discontinuities in morphological characters warrant the recognition of three varieties, ...

Centred on occurrences of pipeline explosion and oil spills in a host community; a supervised classification technique, of land use/land cover variation detection was carried-out, with Landsat imageries of three time ...

The notion of variation or of style dates from the period of Prague Linguistic Circle. It is, at least, from the conception of potentiality of the phenomena of language that we have conducted our study. The immediate context ...

Low levels of high-density cholesterol (HDLc) accompany chronic kidney disease, but the association between HDLc and the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in the general population is unclear. We investigated the ...

Study of 14 living population samples of Biscutella sempervirens from Spain revealed considerable variability in vegetative characters. Two varieties, one of which is new, are recognised. Experimental cultivation showed ...

Global interconnectivity of systems has left inter-networked systems vulnerable to various forms of complex attacks. Researchers continue to work on new ways, which includes proactive ones of securing such systems, in order ...

Ten acha accessions (Digitaria sp.) collected from Kaduna (K1, K2, K3, K4 and K5), Nassarawa (NA1 and NA2) and Niger (NI1, NI2 and NI3) States, in the Northern parts of Nigeria were evaluated for their size (length and ...

The impact of drying methods, namely, air, sun and oven-drying on the quality and quantity of the essential oil of Artemisia afra was studied. The oil yields from the plant differed according to the drying methods; viz: ...

Claims for tax credits are an inherent part of VAT which is a tax on differences. Any attempt to curb input is therefore wrong in principle because it changes the way VAT operates from a tax on value added to a tax on gross ...