ABSTRACT In the face of deteriorating quality of housing environment in urban areas in developing countries, including Nigeria, the need for strategies that can help reverse this trend cannot be overemphasised. It is in search for such strategies to improve the quality of residential environment that the assessment of housing quality in mass housing estates has continued to engage the attention of scholars and researchers within and outside Nigeria. However, there has been very little attemp...
ABSTRACT South Kordofan State is rich in its natural resources mainly vegetation cover, the area characterized by dense forests, rich pasture and arable land, as well as the occurrence of wildfire in the dry season, There is no suitable information available on when, and where, how often and how much wildfires, large areas of forests and pastures are subject to wildfires in the dry season. The objective of study is to investigate the fire regime (extend, seasonality and frequency of wildfire...
ABSTRACT The Nubian lake is one of the largest industrial lakes resulting from the establishment of High Dam in Egypt and is located in the Sudanese-Egyptian border. This research deals with the study of changes in Nubian Lake using Geographic Information System and remote sensing. The ArcGIS capabilities had been utilized. The Remote sensing technique had been applied to assess the change that occurred at the lake boundary. Moreover, the urban development and the increased in the agricultur...
ABSTRACT Sustainability of forests globally is threatened by human activities through deforestation for fuel wood, human settlements, cultivation, mining and forest fires. A study was conducted at Kibele forest of Zanzibar to assess extent of encroachment and forest disturbance, and their effect in forest performance based on specific objectives: (1) to assess types of anthropogenic activities and extent of forest encroachment, (2) to determine effect of forest disturbances on stem density, ...
Abstract This thesis consists of two parts. The first part deals with existerice and approximation techniques for finding solutions of operator equations or fixed points of operators belonging to certain classes of mappings. The classes of mappings studied include the K-posztz~~dee finzte operators, the suppressive mappings and accretive-type rntippings. In particular, it is proved that for a real Banach space X, the equation Au = f , f E X, where A is a Kpd operator with the same domain�...
Abstract Background:-Public and private institutions practice their work through their staff s in order to implement their objectives in the near and long terms. In order for these institutions to reach the goal, it is necessary to find a professional staff capable of delivering the institution to that goal, and this institution to repay the first hand to motivate the engineers to continue in good performance and effectiveness .Research Problem:-Incentives play a significant role in influenc...
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Title Page i Certification ii Approval Page iii Dedication iv Acknowledgement v Table of Contents vi List of Tables ix List of Figures x Abstract xi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Background to the Study 1 Statement of the Problem 3 Purpose of the Study 4 Objectives of the Study 4 Research Questions 5 Hypotheses Significance of the Study 5 Scope of the Study 6 Operational Definition of Terms 6 CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Conceptual Review 7 Pathophysiology 7 Di...
Abstract Sand encroachment is one of the main problems threatening the agricultural production in some parts of Sudan, particularly in Omdurman locality. As the accumulations of sand dunes move, they bury villages, roads, oases, crops ,market gardens, irrigation channels and dams, thus causing major material and socioeconomic damage .The integration of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) prove to be reliable tools to monitor the sand encroachment processes. It can be seen, ...
Abstract This cross-sectional study was conducted in Shendi city, River Nile State- Sudan to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection and their associated risk factors among children during the period from March 2018 to March 2019. The study was conducted on 272 children, 137 (50.4%) were males and 135 (49.6%) were females. Fecal samples were taken from all children included in the study, in addition to the epidemiological and parasitological data were obtained and recorded...
Abstract This research deals with the urban fabric of the historic areas, the impact of the urban environment on this existing fabric, which carries the spirit of heritage and history through ancients. The research also deals with the urban, environmental and social problems of historical areas and the impact of these problems and failures on the urban fabric of the region. The main objective of the research; was to study the origin of the urban fabric that had existed since ancient times in...
ABSTRACT Against the recent increasing criticism against the reliability and consistency of investment method of valuation practice in the country, this study examined the professional ability of estate surveyors and valuers at interpreting the selling prices of residential properties in the open market in the Lagos metropolis with a view to either invalidate or validate the claim. In an attempt to satisfy the objective of the study, questionnaires backed up with interviews, were adminis...
ABSTRACT Very little is known about the architectural firms in Nigeria. The study thus explored the characteristics of architectural firms in Nigeria empirically using the systems approach to the study of organizations. The study investigated the organizational profiles, cultures, strategies and structures of the architectural firms. The tasks and information technology characteristics of the architectural firms as well as the external influences on the firms were also investigated, culminat...
ABSTRACT The study examined the use of facilities management as a potent management tool in hotel asset management within six States of South-Western geo-political zone of Nigeria. The aim of the study is to investigate the degree of beneficial application of facilities management principles in the management of hotel organizations in the study area with a view to curtail widespread disinvestment. The population of the study comprised of all hotels within the six States namely Ekiti, Lago...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to analysis the arterial road network and commercial property values in Ikeja, Nigeria. This was with a view to conducting detailed investigation into the relationship between arterial road network in the presence or absence of other variables and commercial property values in the city. In attaining the stated aim and objectives of the study, two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The hypotheses are that there is no significant relationship betwee...
ABSTRACT The study addressed the gap in research on heuristics in valuation which has hitherto been confined to only anchoring and adjustment heuristics at the neglect of the other three major types of heuristics, namely availability, representative and positivity heuristics. The aim of this work was accordingly to investigate the nature and conduct of all four types of heuristics amongst Nigerian valuers with a view to ascertaining possible effects on valuation accuracy. The specific objecti...