TOPICS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION: Outbreaks and foodborne pathogens pose a significant threat to human public health, leading to a substantial economic burden both in developed and less developed countries(Akhtar et al., 2014). More than 250 known foodborne diseases could be caused by food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, and toxins, which continue to be a public health problem in the world. Bacteria cause a large proportion (approximately 90%) of all foodborne illnesses(Bari...

Background of study

A problem for world health has been the spread of infectious diseases by hand contact. Gram positive and negative bacteria are notably known to infect surfaces that come into touch with people, such as door handles, tables, chairs, windows, etc (Itah et al., 2004). Since most countries lack statistics, it is difficult to estimate how much infectious diseases contribute to morbidity and mortality, and they c...

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Electronic commerce, also known as e-commerce, has developed rapidly in recent years. More and more and more consumers prefer to shop online for convenience and other benefits. E-commerce and auctions are also attracting attention. Many internet companies like eBay and Yahoo have launched their own auction platforms (Lin, Chang, Chang, & Zheng, 2020).Consumer to consumer (C2C) is a business model whereby customers can trade with each other. The consumer to co...

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Commercial banks play a significant role in the economic development of nations through the financial services they provide. Their intermediation role can be said to be a catalyst for economic growth (Kolapo, Ayeni and Oke, 2012). Lending is no doubt a significant part of the financial services rendered by these banks. This is why Kargi (2011) pointed out that credit creation is the main income generating activity of banks. However, commercial ba...

 Background to the Study

One of the most discussed themes over the past two decades in scholarly studies, political discourse, and international media is regional integration. The extent of the emergence of regional integration remains closely linked to the rise of globalization and the need for countries to negotiate agreements to facilitate all forms of exchanges and transactions. Regional integration has been an evolving process over many decades now and dif...

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Corruption has coexisted with human society for a long time and remains as one of the problems in many of the world’s developing economies with devastating consequences. Corruption is a global phenomenon which exists in varying degrees in different countries and it consists of one of the impediments of economic growth (Agbu, 2001). Corruption is not only found in democratic and dictatorial politics, but also in feudal,...

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Competition from nonbank financial institutions, technological advancements, rising non- performing assets, rising consumer expectations, rising profitability req...

ABSTRACT

This study examined the application of NLP Techniques to analyse sentiment and emotion on social media data. Sentiment analysis has proven to be one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Many AI systems have been developed which can detect the polarity of a sentence (degree of positivity, neutrality o...

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It is obvious that immunization is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions for reducing global child morbidity, mortality and life time disabilities (Lee, 2003) (Chen et al, 2004). Worldwide, immunization prevents more than 2.5 million child deaths each year (WHO/UNICEF and World Bank, 2009, WHO 2009). Global public health has greatly improved through the widespread use of vaccines, preventing millio...

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Prostitution has become rampant in our society today among growing teens and youths. These young people see selling of their bodies as the fastest way of getting income for their keeps. In the past those engaged in prostitution use to be women selling their bodies. However, today men have joined the trade of selling their bodies for different reasons including drugs, jobs or contracts and also good grades in exams. This is because sex consum...