ABSTRACT Joloo is a formulation extracted from seven medicinal plants used in folk medicine practice for the management and treatment of breast cancer and some other health malaise in southwestern Nigeria. The study evaluates some of its traditionally acclaimed pharmacological properties in mice and rats as well as the safety of Joloo. Three toxicity levels of study which included acute, subchronic and chronic toxicity were undertaken to evaluate the extract. Joloo was prepared using plants i...
ABSTRACT This project addresses the effects of increase in fines contents on the geotechnical properties of sandy soils and the roles the fines play in slope instability in Nsukka, Enugu state in Nigeria. Field investigation revealed that the major landslides and gully erosion sites in south eastern Nigeria are localized within areas where these sandy soils are present. Geotechnical investigation of these sandy soils was carried out to assess their importance in the numerous geohazards in the...
ABSTRACT This work suggests an exact and systematic model identification approach which is entirely new and addresses most of the challenges of existing methods. We developed quadratic discriminant functions for various orders of autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models. An Algorithm that is to be used alongside our functions was also developed. In achieving this, three hundred sets of time series data were simulated for the development of our functions. Another twenty five sets of simulat...
TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ii DECLARATION iii CERTIFICATION iv DEDICATION v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi TABLE OF CONTENTS viii LIST OF TABLES xviii LIST OF FIGURES xxiii SCHEME OF REACTIONS xxix EQUATIONS xxxi LIST OF PLATES xxxi DEFINITION OF OPERATIONAL TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS xxxii ABSTRACT xxxvii CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background of Study 1 1.2 Statement of Problem 2 1.3 Aim and Objectives of Study 3 1.4 Significance of Study 4 CHAPTER TWO 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 5 2.1 Schiff Bases 5 ...
Abstract Rhizosphere studies of two local green vegetables, Celpsia argentea Linn and Hibiscus esculentus. Linn (new name Abelmoschus esculentus) were studied from vegetative stage to senescence. The viable seeds of both vegetables were collected and planted on garden beds made from sandy loam soil. Samples were collected at two-week intervals at 9.00 hrs in the the morning. Morphologically, A. esculentus (okra) had 3 leaves with more dense rooting system at 2 weeks than C.argentea (solo) wit...
Abstract This model was developed with close reference to the model used by Japan in their implementation of Mobile Suica a mobile wallet system which has served their transport woes since 2001 .The findings from this research showed that the previously proposed model for the adoption and acceptance of mobile technology, the TAM and the UTAUT can fully apply to the Zimbabwean economy with the additional of three more cons tructs which are political influence, economic influence and interopera...