Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2018 Edition


Publication for Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2018.

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Hybrid Algorithm for Approximate String Matching to be used for Information Retrieval[ ]


Conventional database searches require the user to hit a complete, correct query denying the possibility that any legitimate typographical variation or spelling error in the query will simply fail the search procedure. An approximate string matching engine, often colloquially referred to as fuzzy keyword search engine, could be a potential solution for all such search breakdowns. A fuzzy matching program can be summarized as the Google's 'Did you mean: ...' or Yahoo's 'Including results for ...'. These programs are entitled to be fuzzy since they don't employ strict checking and hence, confining the results to 0 or 1, i.e. no match or exact match.

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Performance Investigation of a Three-Bed (Unequal Bed) Adsorption Chiller on Mass Recovery[ ]


In this paper, the performance of a three-bed (unequal bed) adsorption chiller with mass recovery has been numerically studied. Silica gel-water is chosen as adsorbent-refrigerant pair. The three-bed adsorption chiller comprises with three adsorber/desorber heat exchanger, one evaporator and one condenser. In the present numerical solution, the heat source temperature variation is taken from 50°C to 90°C along with coolant inlet temperature at 30°C and the chilled water inlet temperature at 14°C. In the present strategy, mass recovery process occurs in all bed where the configuration of Hex1 and Hex2 are identical, but the configuration of Hex3 is taken as half of Hex1 or Hex2.

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Sustained Virological Response among Chronic Hepatitis C Patients Treated with Ledipasvir- Sofosbuvir in Yemen[ ]


Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a liver disease which spreads primarily through contact with the blood of an infected person. HCV infection can be either acute or chronic and affects mainly the liver. This non-randomized controlled trial study aimed to determine the success rate of SVR among chronic HCV patients treated with LDV/SOF in Yemen. This study was performed on 43 patients with chronic HCV infection who agreed to take the new treatment of HCV and attend hepatology clinics at HBGSRC. They were 21 (48.8%) males and 22 (51.2%) females, and the mean±SD of age was 54.0±9.7. All the information related to each individual was collected by using predesigned questionnaires that focused on socio-demographic data and risk factors. Blood specimens were collected from patients at four stages.

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HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROBUST DWT-DHT WATERMARK ON FPGA[ ]


This paper presents a novel hardware architecture for watermarking implemented using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Discrete Hadamard Transform (DHT). The algorithm utilises the space frequency property of wavelet transform and frequency separation property of DHT. We have used the Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau (CDF5/3) wavelet which is the basis of loss less JPEG2000 compression standard. The objective was to combine two different transforms to compensate their disadvantages and make the watermarking technique more robust. We have used serial-parallel combination approach which gives the best balance between speed and hardware utilisation. This real-time low cost and robust watermarking hardware solution can be incorporated into existing digital imaging systems such as digital camera, scanners, camcorders etc. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt of implementing the dual transform for watermarking on hardware platform as well as for DWT-DHT combined approach.

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Use of Acrylic polymer for stabilization of clayey soil[ ]


Soft Soils generally referred as clayey soils always remains problematic and usually not suitable for construction purposes because of their poor engineering characteristics. Prehistoric cultures of the Chinese, Romans and Incas exploited various techniques to enhance strength properties of clayey soils. Engineering works based on economy, strength and durability as soil need to provide foundation for structures.

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EARTHQUAKE DATA STORAGE AND STATISTICS VISUALIZATION[ ]


This paper focuses on the illustration and assessment of seismic hazard through the creation of an integrated database system that includes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s earthquakes. Each earthquake has a known magnitude, longitude, latitude and depth. We created another database that includes seismic divisions in the regions by using Ray-tracing approach and point in polygon algorithm, to know the location of each earthquake.

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Mapping Flood Prone Areas of Bilate Watershed Using Integration of Multicriteria Analysis and GIS Techniques[ ]


Flood disaster from all other natural disasters has got wider attention because of its big impact made still now on the loss of life, property damage and economic loss. Flood prone areas mapping has been taken as a device to minimize the impact of flooding events. Peoples developed an integration of Geospatial Techniques and Multicriteria analysis for this purpose. In this study flood prone area of Bilate watershed is mapped using Multicriteria and Geospatial techniques.

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RIPPABILITY SURVEY USING GEOPHYSICAL METHODS WITHIN AN AREA OF ILESA, OSUN STATE, NIGERIA[ ]


In developing countries where relatively recent roads are soon riddled with gashes, potholes, and sinkholes, the rippability survey is a useful tool of reconnaissance. Seismic Refraction and Electrical Resistivity were used to delineate the ‘habitat’ suitable for road construction along four untarred interconnected lanes within the study area. The objectives of the survey were to estimate the elastic properties of the sub-surface materials, determine their distribution, and thickness in order to provide information relevant for determining the cost of cutting the selected roadbeds down to consolidated soil.

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Natural phosphate supported vanadium as a recyclable heterogeneous catalyst for reductive amination of carbonyls[ ]


A new interesting application of natural phosphate (NP) as heterogeneous catalyst for reductive amination of carbonyls is reported. The modification of NP by vanadium leads to a new catalyst V/NP with a high catalytic activity in this type of transformation. The reaction was performed with a small catalytic amount of catalyst and the envisioned amines were obtained with a high yield at room temperature. The scope and limitations of the catalyst were evaluated, and the results are discussed.

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A Methodology for Developing Onion Ontology in Nigerian Domain[ ]


With the recent Nigerian government’s effort for the diversification of its economy, efforts are put in place to revitalize Nigerian Agricultural sector. Part of those efforts is to incorporate technology in to the process of revitalizing of Nigerian agriculture. This paper proposed a methodology for developing ontology for Nigerian agriculture domain. Although few works attempted to develop Ontology of Nigerian agriculture domain, due to the complex nature of natural language the area is still subject to research. This paper proposed a methodology for developing effective Nigerian agriculture ontology development methodology. The proposed methodology will be tested using protogee ontology editor and OntoGraf is used for visualizing the developed ontology.

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Review on Semantic Query Formulation Approaches[ ]


Semantic Web plays important role in the access of Web data based on the meaning instead of traditional keyword search. However, the main challenges of semantic search systems is complex structured queries such as SPARQL are needed in order to retrieve data semantically. To address this challenge, several efforts have been put in place by researchers to enable user use natural language query for retrieval instead of using complex structured query syntax.

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Factors affecting internal efficiency of secondary schools in northern region of Bangladesh[ ]


To assess the internal efficiency of secondary schools in Dinajpur district, northern region of Bangladesh using purposive sampling technique for the collection of data in this study. The study utilized exploratory factor analysis to identify appropriate factors and multivariate analysis of variance to determine differences in secondary schools in the district. Results showed that a significant relationship existed between the internal efficiency (grade point average) and adequacy of physical resources, reasons for chosen the school, factors responsible for low grade, and teaching methods that will be beneficial to teacher and students in the development of appropriate efficiency to differentiate themselves in a meaningful way to potential students, not just in the Bangladesh but also over the world.

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Remittances and development: A local perspective on the impact of remittances in developing of sending communities[ ]


This study analyzes the impact of migration in economic and social development of sending areas through financial and social remittances. A series of recent studies have demonstrated the growth potential of migration in developing the sending communities with remittances and savings accumulated abroad facilitating investment in education, small family enterprises etc. Since 1990 Albania has experienced massive international migration due to political, economic and social changes occurred in Albanian society.

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Hydrogeological Issues Associate with Hydropower Tunnels through Hard Rock Terrain: An Experience from Sri Lanka[ ]


In the hard rock terrain of Sri Lanka, underground hydropower tunnels, constructed to convey water from reservoirs to power houses, have experienced a number of hydrogeological problems during and or after their construction. These problems often not only had delayed the work but also caused heavy economic losses. Hydrogeological issues encountered in tunnels can be related with the geological environment and therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate encountered hydrogeological problems in four tunnels; Castlereagh, Polgolla, Kothmale and Victoria constructed in the central highland of the country and through crystalline rocks. Under the present study, the encountered problems; mainly high groundwater ingresseswere considered.

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Estimation of Runoff with respect toTemporal and Spatial Land use changes in Cochin Urban Agglomerate, India: A case-study of 2018 flood[ ]


Urban flash flooding is a common scenario in the recent years. As a fast growing Tier-II metro, Greater Cochin,Kerala experiences rapid increase of impervious surfaces since last five decades. During the S-W monsoon of 2018 Kerala state witnessed intense flooding and landslides. Cochin urban area undergone severe urban pluvial flooding during the same event. This study focused on change in direct surface runoff volume due to the improper planning of land cover changes. Land use/Land cover (LU/LC) changes for the years 1968, 1990, 2000, 2017 was prepared.. Kerala flood-2018 event has assigned as a base rainfall event for calculating the runoff volume for these periods by using Soil Conservation Service- Curve number (SCS-CN) method. The runoff volume amplified from 61-78% since 1968 to 2017 respectively.

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Thermodynamic analysis of release volatile species during high pressure gasification of biomass[ ]


Biomass gasification released high level of volatile species (e.g. Na-,K-,Cl-, and S).These gaseous species may deposited on super heater tubes leading to strong damage by acceleration of oxide formation moreover also causes of eventual problems such as agglomeration, fouling, slagging and corrosion. Thermodynamic Study of high released volatile species is informative prior to carry out experimental work. Therefore, thermodynamic equilibrium was calculated using FactSage 5.2, simulating gasification conditions at elevated pressure (6, 12 and 18 bar) at 1000 °C.

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Performance Evaluation of Vertical Greening System of Exterior Wall on Indoor Thermal Environment in Residential Buildings of Dhaka City[ ]


The application of horizontal and vertical greening has a significant impact on the thermal performance of residential and commercial buildings and on the urban environment. Plants are functioning as a solar filter and prevent the absorption of heat radiation of building materials extensively. Vertical greening can provide a cooling potential on the building surface, which is very important during summer periods in our climatic context of Bangladesh.

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Software Engineering Requirement Model[ ]


The paper deals with essential inclusive coverage of the fundamentals and basics of requirements engineering model. Requirements engineering (RE) pacts with the range of requisites that must be encountered by a software system within an organization for that system to yield better results. With that description in mind, this research presents a disciplined methodology to the engineering of high-quality requirements.

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Description of Oscheius karachiensis n.sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae), a new entomopathogenic nematode from chicko (Manilkara zapota), saeedabad, Sindh Pakistan[ ]


Oscheius karachiensis n. sp., was isolated from fruit growing areas of Sindh, identified using a combination of morphological and morphometric characters. O. karachiensis n. sp., belongs to dolichura group by having peloderan bursa. The new species is characterized by the presence of lateral field marked by 4 ridges and 5 incisures, that is a key diagnostic feature. On the basis of spicule length O. karachiensis n. sp., distinguished all species of dolichura group having larger size of spicule i.e. (50-52) µm except O. pherosphi. In female O. karachiensis n. sp. differs from all species having larger tail (116-160) µm except O. guentheri (126-162) µm and O. pherosophi (120-183) µm but differs from both species having longer pharynx (208-233) VS (126-162); (158-184) µm respectively. Entomopathogenicity bioassay revealed that this nematode is capable of infecting larvae of Galleria mellonella and Tribolium castaneum.

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DNA Damage and Pulmonary Hypertension[ ]


Aspiratory hypertension (PH) is characterized by a mean pneumonic blood vessel weight more than 25 mmHg very still and is analyzed by right heart catheterization. Among the diverse gatherings of PH, pneumonic blood vessel hypertension (PAH) is described by a dynamic hindrance of distal aspiratory corridors, identified with endothelial cell brokenness and vascular cell expansion, which prompts an expanded pneumonic vascular obstruction,

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Smokeless tobacco induced histological changes in the endometrial glands of the female Swiss albino rats: An experimental study[ ]


Tobacco use is the prevalent among females in the region of subcontinent. ST is used in either betel quid or gutka form .ST contains much larger quantities of nicotine than most cigarettes. Over the past few decades the use of tobacco among women of reproductive ages increased globally. Exposure to the toxins present in the tobacco interferes with the endometrial receptivity. It disrupts endometrial angiogenesis and uterine blood flow. Quasy experimental study design was selected.

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Understanding Korean Management through Korean Culture[ ]


The paper examines Korean management system from the perspective of the cultural context of business. Although psychological consciousness of Koreans share the values of Oriental culture as well as receiving cultural influences of other neighboring countries, but South Korea still maintains a unique culture. This culture, combined with the effects of the geographical environment, the politics of the Korean peninsula, leading to a management model unique behavior in society. Therefore, the managers and employees of Korean management systems behave differently and depend on which cultural direction that they follow and depend on the country which the partner come from.

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ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF SOIL AT SOME ABANDONED WASTE-DUMP SITES IN AMASSOMA AND ALONG TOMBIA-AMASSOMA ROAD IN BAYELSA STATE[ ]


It is a common practice in Bayelsa State to use abandoned waste dump sites for farming for a host of reasons. However, such dump sites are big reservoirs of heavy metals and heavy metal pollution largely affects the quality of soil for farming activities. Hence, it is of great importance that such sites are assessed for their level of pollution. Soil samples (15 cm depth) were collected from abandoned waste-dump sites in Amassoma and along Tombia-Amassoma Road in Bayelsa State.

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Engineering Characterization of Course Aggregate Used in Cement Concrete from Local Quarries in Dir (Lower), KP, Pakistan[ ]


In District Dir Lower, coarse aggregates from local sources are used in cement concert in construction works, such as buildings, bridges, culverts, roads pavements etc. both in private and public sectors. There are only two established quarries of natural rocks, one at Chakadara and the other at Katkala, where coarse aggregates and stone metals of the required sizes for concrete and for roads bases are obtained from cutting and crushing of natural rocks.

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Molecular association between HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase (RT) Inhibitors and 3DLK Receptor[ ]


Research was done for obtaining the potent Human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors (HIV-1 RTI) within minimum energy conformation (s) to treat retroviral HIV infection, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other sexually transmitted disease (STD) through cost effective rapid drug design technology. Therefore, one hundred twenty analogues were docked on 3DLK protein. H-97, H-95 and H-44 were found highly potent as HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (HIV-1 NNRTI) that would possibly halt HIV-1 for infecting host cell by blocking reverse transcription.

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Bioactive Anti-HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase (RT) analogues for the treatment of Retroviral Infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)[ ]


Molecular docking is a modern, fast, cost effective drug design technique that work like induced fit or like lock & key models, simulate molecular recognition, bind medicinal substance to target receptors then block disease causing factors without affecting drug anti-targets to achieve potent drug within receptor’s catalytic pocket against life threaten clinical disorders. In this Paper, docking cycles were made between 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy) methyl]-6-(phenylthio) thymine derivates and 2ZD1 protein and obtained potent anti-HIV-1 RT life saving combaters.

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Study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Reverse Transcriptase (HIV-1 RT) Inhibitors by using Drug Design Alignment Patrons[ ]


Now a days, drug design and conformational studies are rapidly expanding fields to achieve bioactive drugs against different clinical disorders. In this work, three-dimensional quantitative structure activity relationship (3D-QSAR) was perform on 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy) methyl]-6-(phenylthio) thymine analogues by using comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA), comparative molecular similarity Indices analysis (CoMSIA) on three different alignments.

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Comparative Efficiency of Alpha Lattice Design Versus Randomized Complete Block Design in Wheat Field Trials[ ]


The present study was designed to estimate the relative efficiency of alpha lattice design over Randomized Complete Block design (RCBD) when the numbers of entries/genotypes are fifty in single block The precision of RCBD relies on the control of heterogeneity within blocks. The efficiency of RCBD is criticized by the researchers in advanced countries while dealing with particularly large field experiments.

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RISK FACTORS OF TABRCLOUSIS DISEASE AFFECTINIG THE HEALTH OF PATIENTS ATTENDING ALGREIF HEALTH CENTER 2017-SUDAN[ ]


Tuberculosis (TB) is still a health problem around the world. The study was conducted to determine the factors affecting TB, based on the patients who attending Al-Garif Health Center and were diagnosed as TB patients in (May-December 2017). Material &methods:- cross sectional health center base study were conducted in Al-Greif center. Sample size was selected by convenience sampling all patients who attended the health center and diagnosed with T.B (100 patients) at the period from May to December.2017. The information was collected by filling out questionnaire data regarding the factors. Data were also entered and analyzed statistically using the program Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS).

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Deconstruction of WordsWorth "The Solitary Reaper" [ ]


The paper aims at exploration of Wordsworth’s feminist stance. The Solitary Reaper has been deconstructed by specifically employing tripartite criticisms of Micheal Foucault, Judith Butler and Eco-feminists to unveil feminist tendencies in Wordsworth’s poetry. The researcher analyses the perfect balance point of feminism in Wordsworthian poetry who challenges the norms and patriarchal set up in a subtle but typical traditional manner. The deconstruction has helped to conclude that the everlasting song is in fact an internal voice of female that was rising from the ashes during those times. The significance of women to the society, as depicted in the poem, made Wordsworth predict women future in the society

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Comprehensive Cluster Labels Generation for Arabic Documents[ ]


The process of picking descriptive labels for a cluster of documents is called cluster labeling. A major challenge of automatic cluster labeling is the higher redundant information that can be found, whereas only few numbers of labels are required to represent a cluster. In this paper, a new technique for automatic cluster labeling is introduced. The main concepts of text documents cluster are represented by keyphrases that maximize both the relevance and coverage to the cluster. The experimental results on Arabic documents proved that the proposed technique is more efficient to generate comprehensive cluster labels than the commonly used term frequency method.

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MATHEMATICS SELF EFFICACY AND ANXIETY AND MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION STUDENTS[ ]


Behavior can be affected by the beliefs of the students about their capabilities. Students often made statements about their unpleasant experiences about mathematics or their inability to succeed in their mathematics subject. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mathematics self-efficacy and anxiety, and mathematics performance of the 354 elementary education students enrolled at the University of Northern Philippines during the first semester, S.Y. 2015-2016.

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Physical violence behavior among male secondary school students in Taif: prevalence and correlates[ ]


Background: Worldwide, violence in secondary schools is an apparent problem that requires urgent attention because of the damage it causes. It has led to deaths, destruction of school property, and disruption of teaching and learning, resulting to poor academic performance.

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SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERCEPTIONS ON CTE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS[ ]


This research employed the descriptive and correlational research design with the College of Teacher Education faculty as respondents. The instrument used was adopted from Macarandan (1981) with the inclusion of some socio demographic characteristics of the respondents. The researcher utilized frequency count and percentages for the description on the personal profile of the respondents; mean for the level of organizational effectiveness; and simple correlation analysis in order to determine the relationship between the respondents’ profile and their perceptions on organizational effectiveness. Results showed that the overall level of organizational effectiveness is high.

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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF BSEd2 STUDENTS IN LITERATURE 102[ ]


Literature is considered by students especially those who could hardly articulate their ideas and feelings as one of the most annoying and difficult subjects. In spite of this, Literature faculty do everything they can in order to make their students appreciate the diverse literary pieces discussed in class, thereby the performance of these students in the subject will improve.

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Intelligent Traffic Light System(ITLS)[ ]


Traffic is a popular problem in many cities of India including other countries. updation of signals, poor law and bad traffic management has lead to traffic issue. One of the major problems with Urban Cities in India is that the existing infrastructure cannot be enlarged more, and thus the only option available is better management of the traffic. Traffic has a negative impact on economy, Hence this is the high time to effectively manage the traffic problem. There are various methods available for traffic management such as video analysis, infrared sensors, inductive loop detection, wireless sensor network, etc.

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Optimal Predictive Analytics of Blood Cancer(Leukemia) using Restricted Boltzmann Machine[ ]


A predictive model utilizing deep learning is proposed to anticipate the patient health and condition of blood cancer (Leukemia). In this model, we are using the deep neural network which helps to predictive analysis on blood cancer to get optimal results. The existing model is used to predict the patient health and condition of the diabetics. In this case, a feature selection algorithm is run for the selection process. The model involves deep neural network which utilizes a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) as an essential unit to examine the information by allotting weights to the each branch of the neural network. The results increment the estimation of additional reports in light of the way that the amount of focuses done on blood cancer using a deep learning model few to none. This will predict blood cancer with considerably more precision as showed up by the result obtained.

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BEHAVIOR CHANGE IN LIVESTOCK ANIMALS INTO THE INSTITUTIONAL WASTE COMPOSTING ORGANIC FERTILIZER[ ]


The Studies to see behavior change have been carried out through a psychological approach with individual intervention, limited research that looks at behavioral changes from a sociological perspective in the form of local institutions that surround it. This study will look at changes in the behavior of individuals in utilizing beef cattle waste into organic fertilizer to become a collective behavior in a local institution. How farmers' behavior changes in the local institutional perspective that surrounds them with a sociological approach rather than behavioral changes caused by individual interventions with psychological approaches.

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Trace Element Geochemistry of Groundwater around Dump Site, a Case Study of Apete, South Western Nigeria[ ]


Assurance of drinking water safety is a foundation for the prevention and control of waterborne diseases. This research work was carried out to use geochemical methods: to determine percentage of the trace elements present in the water samples, the pH and temperature of the groundwater, and the effect of dumpsite on the groundwater quality in the study area. A total of five (5) water samples were collected in plastic bottles. Physical parameters like pH and Temperature of the water were measured at the point of collection. Hydro-chemical analysis using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) to determine the concentration of trace elements Mn, Zn, Pb, Cu and Fe present in the water samples. The pH date of the water samples varies from 8 to 9 with an average of 8.2 indicating that the water is basic.

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