1. MISREPRESENTATION OF AFRICA IN BROADCASTING MEDIA
Communication has been an effective tool of conveying knowledge throughout history. In reality, communication has evolved into an infrastructure for information flow across all industries. Fabian is a character in the film Fabian (2013). Radio broadcasting, in particular, has made significant con...
2. AN ASSESSMENT OF LABOR OUTPUT DETERMINATION ON WINDOWS AND DOORS FIXING
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The construction industry's productivity is extremely important to its efficiency. According to...
3. AN ASSESSMENT OF READING CULTURE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS AND THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
There is no question that a country's degree of development is directly related to its literacy level. Rather than improving its literacy ranking, several research indicate that Nigeria continues to regress (Olanrewaju, 2008)...
4. AN EVALUATION OF THE CAREER EXPERIENCES OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
In terms of economic growth and job prospects, the construction industry is one of the most significant (Powell, Hassan, Dainty,...
5. MISREPRESENTATION OF AFRICA IN BROADCASTING MEDIA
Background of the study
Communication has been an effective tool of conveying knowledge throughout history. In reality, communication has evolved into an infrastructure for information flow across all industries. Fabian is a character in the film Fabian...
6. MISREPRESENTATION OF AFRICA IN BROADCASTING MEDIA
Background of the study
Communication has been an effective tool of conveying knowledge throughout history. In reality, communication has evolved into an infrastructure for information flow across all industries. Fabian is a character in the film Fabian...
7. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY RATE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Infant mortality refers to the death of a child born alive before its first birthday and child mortality is the death of a child aged between one and five years (Butane, 2018). Demographers have for a long time been interest...
8. IMPORTANCE OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE IN BROADCASTING MEDIA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The broadcast media have been considered an important public domain in the use, promotion and maintenance of language in line with the sociolinguistic nature and dictates of their host communities (Silentman, 1995; Davi...
9. ASSESSMENT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN AND ITS EFFECT ON THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT
The main aim of the study is to find out the effects of domestic violence on performance of students in public secondary schools. The case study was conducted in Lekki, Lagos State. Chapter one entails the background of the study which has grounded out th...
10. AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF YOUTHS IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF IKWO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL, EBONYI STATE, 2015-2020
Background of the study
Without a doubt, a country's growth is mainly determined by its youthful population's productivity and creativity. As a result, youths' contributions to national development cannot be overlooked in national developmen...
11. ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA; ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
Background of the study
Ethnic consciousness is the loyalty or attachment to an ethnic group either as a social, political and economic entity, or a cultural community. Whichever way we look at it, ethnic consciousness is based on the distinctiveness of...
12. THE IMPACTS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON NON-PROFIT MAKINGS ORGANIZATION IN OSOGBO (A CASE STUDY OF UNION BAPTIST CHURCH, OSOGBO, OSUN STATE)
INTRODUCTION
The applications of Accounting Information have contributed to the growth and development of every business entity. Non-profit making organization on the other hand has immensely benefited from accounting information to survive, integ...
13. IMPACT OF COMPUTER IN TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ECONOMICS IN PARTICULAR AND EDUCATION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Economies is said to be a study of prudent use of merger resources in the society. The aim of economic activity is the production of goods and services for the satisfaction of human wants, but broad aim of economic policy may be...
14. AN EXAMINATION OF IMPROVED FAULT LOCATION ON POWER SYSTEM TRANSIMMISION LINES USING FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH
BACKGROUND
The reliable operation of large power systems with small stability margin is highly dependent on systems and protection devices. The application of microprocessor based (numeric) relaying protection has improved performance over time but, this has not...
15. EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND TEACHERS MOTIVATIONON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN CHEMISTRY (A STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS STATE)
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education is largely a matter of a learning process that involves interactions between teacher and learner. When this process works well, real learning takes place. In the past, academic performance was often measured more by ear...
16. THE ROLE OF FEMALE JOURNALISTS ON NIGERIAN BROADCAST MEDIA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The media has an important part to play in the man for gender transition and in narrowing the social woman gap that exists between women and men. Communication studies, especially of the radical critical inclination, have...
17. MODELING THE EFFECTS OF CARRIERS ON TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
For certain infectious diseases, there are individuals who are able to transmit their illness but do not exhibit any symptoms. These individuals are called “carriers” and they play an important role in the t...
18. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NUMERIC SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND HAUSA LANGUAGES
Abstract
Linguists are of the belief that, no two languages are phonologically identical. As such, every language has a set and definite numeric systems peculiar to it for writing. But in spite of such a difference between Haus...
19. IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN ASSESSMENT OF ROAD AND RAIL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN LAGOS STATE
ABSTRACT
The study looked at impact of transportation infrastructure improvement on economic growth in Lagos state between 1981 and 2011 using Central Bank of Nigeria (...
20. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN AND ITS EFFECT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATEDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN AND ITS EFFECT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATE
The main aim of the study is to find out the effects of domestic violence on performance of students in public secondary schools. The case study was conducted in Lekki, Lagos State. Chapter one entails the background of the study which has grounded out...
21. PUMP CAPACITY DETERMINATION FOR TWO-PHASE VERTICAL FLUID FLOW
Statement Of The Problem
It is important to accurately predict the pressure drop accross a production system. This has been a difficult task in the oil and gas industry as the production system in real life is not homogenous (single phase) as assumed in most theories. T...
22. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NUMERIC SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND HAUSA LANGUAGES
Abstract
Linguists are of the belief that, no two languages are phonologically identical. As such, every language has a set and definite numeric systems peculiar to it for writing. But in spite of such a difference between Haus...
23. ROLE OF COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL COMMUNITIES
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of CBOs particular influence on the development of the rural communities in Delta state of Nigeria. The empirical study on CBOs activities influence on community development was a gap being addressed. Th...
24. INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Business produce goods and services to satisfy the demand of customers. Much as these businesses declare profit year-in-year-out, they also face element of risk and uncertainties that may causes losses. This includes fire, theft, damage by artificial or natural...
25. MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICIES AS EFFICIENT TOOLS FOR ECONOMIC STABILITY WITH SPECIFIC TO CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This research wok, treated monetary and fiscal policies as efficient tools for economic stability. This research work was done to examine the monetary and fiscal policies and ascertain how effective they have been in making the poor conditions of the rural area...
26. THE INFLUENCE OF EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Abstract
This study examines the influence of employee commitment on organizational performance with special interest in Nigeria Bottling Company. Much of the interest in analysing employee commitment stems from concern for the behavioural consequences that are hypothes...
27. THE IMPACT OF CREDIT RISK ON BANK PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA
Abstract
This study intends to examine the impact of credit risk on bank performance in Nigeria for the period 2004-2014. The pervasive incidence of non-performing loan is one of the prime causes of failure in the banking system. The internal exams to a...
28. THE CHALLENGES OF THE INTERNET IN TODAY'S NIGERIA BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Background to study
A study by BMG et al. (2015) found that almost all SMEs used the Internet for commercial purposes, but the intensity of use varied with size. The most common use of the Internet was to be in contact with customers. Although the use o...
29. THE EFFECT OF PROMOTION ON CONSUMER PURCHASE DECISION
Abstract
Sales promotion is among the important communications medium that has powerful effect on consumers’ purchase decision. Marketing is the link between a societies need and it’s pattern of industrial response. This implies that the su...
30. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AUTOMATED CAR PLATE NUMBER RECOGNITION SYSTEM
Background of the study
Massive integration of information technology into all aspects of modern life caused demand for processing vehicles as conceptual resources in information systems. Because a standalone information system without any data has no sense, there was a...
31. AN INVESTIGATION IN TO THE PROBLEM FACING TEACHERS IN TEACHING COMPUTER SCIENCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL TODAY
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The How fast the world has grown, from the days of the primitive man, to the days of the medieval man and down to the day of the modern man. The world at large seen by the myopic man a...
32. A STUDY OF MODIFICATIONS OF FILLER DIMENSIONS AND THE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PINEAPPLE LEAF FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES
ABSTRACT
This research studied the effect of filler dimensions on some major properties of pineapple leaf fibre-reinforced polypropylene composites. In this study, composites of PALF/PP were produced, the PALF were extracted from pineapple leaves. This was achieved by adopting the mecha...
33. PREDICTING STUDENTS PERFORMANCE USING FUZZY LOGIC
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The increasing demand for education in Nigeria especially tertiary education has been an issue in recent times. Government–owned tertiary institutions as well as those privately owned do not possess the capacity and manpower needed to accom...
34. YOUTH LIFE STYLE AND CHURCH GROWTH
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One key problem is the inability to examine youth life style and church growth.Another problem is how best to measure numerical growth. A variety of indicators for attendance and occasional offices...
35. PREDICTING STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Predicting student academic performance has long been an important research topic. Among the issues of education system, questions concerning admissions into academic institutions (secondary and tertiary level) remain important (Ting, 2008). The...
36. RADIO FREQUENCY BASED WIRELESS BATCH COUNTING DEVICE FOR BREWERY
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Owing to the high rate of industrial espionage and theft, industrial security techniques need to be improved to arrest/combat pilfering in industries. This project work tries to...
37. ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS FOR THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
The subject of intellectual property rights without doubt, has attained considerable universal prominence, especially in its ever growing significance to the core values of human enterprises. In today’s world, the subject of intellectual property rights is so central and...
38. A DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS IN PLATEAU STATE: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION SERVICE PROVISION
ABSTRACT
The demographic survey of handicapped children was conducted in schools in Plateau State. Five special schools for the handicapped and twenty-one integrated schools were covered in the survey. A total of five hundred and thirteen children that were made up of the auditorily imp...
39. APPLICATION OF ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY MODEL FOR THE PURCHASE AND GROWTH OF ORGANIC POULTRY WITH INCREMENTAL QUANTITY DISCOUNTS
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study is to develop a lot sizing model for growing chickens if the supplier of the products offers incremental quantity discounts. A mathematical model was derived to determine the Optimal Inventory Policy which minimizes the total inventory cost in both the...
40. ACOUSTIC DAMPING MECHANISMS OF HALF-WAVE RESONATORS IN A ROCKET ENGINE ENVIRONMENT
ABSTRACT
Combustion instabilities in rocket engines are caused by coupling between the combustion processes and pressure oscillations in a combustor, and they are characterized by the frequencies and shapes of the acoustic modes of the combustion chamber. Acoustic resonators are commonl...
41. MODELING FOR INVERSION IN EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS
Introduction and Background
Understanding the physics of our surrounding has driven science and technology for a long time and while some part of the earth is well know and understood, its subsurface is mostly unknown. The subsurface is one of today’s most important challenges. Fi...
42. A Hybrid Adjacency and Time-Based Data Structure for Analysis of Temporal Networks
Background
Related Work I begin with background information on ways for representing temporal networks and data structures for storing (static) networks. I then discuss work related to this thesis, including the use of hybrid data structures and other types of temporal network data stru...
43. BEAM DISCOVERY AND TRACKING FOR MOBILE MIMO
ABSTRACT
The real-time applications and the IoT promote the need for a newer idle spectrum to support the required high traffic. This pushes toward the emergence of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and the sub-Terahertz (sub-THz) bands in wireless communication. Albeit these higher frequenc...
44. Game-Theoretic Relay Selection and Power Control in Fading Wireless Body Area Networks
Abstract
The trend towards personalized ubiquitous computing has led to the advent of a new generation of wireless technologies, namely wireless body area networks (WBANs), which connect the wearable devices into the Internet-of-Things. This thesis considers the problems of relay...
45. DEVELOPMENT OF FALKNER-TYPE METHOD FOR NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF SECOND ORDER INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS IN ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
ABSTRACT
This research focuses on the formulation of block hybrid methods with power series as basic function through interpolation and collocation techniques for numerical solution of second order initial value problems in ordinary differential equations. The step number for the derive...
46. ONE-STEP SECOND DERIVATIVE BLOCK INTRA-STEP POINTS FOR STIFF SYSTEMS OF INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS
ABSTRACT Modified class of single-step numerical schemes were proposed to improve the order of accuracy by imposing intra-step points in the formulation process of the proposed algorithms. The behaviour of modified numerical algorithm is of great concern when varieties of countable off-grid point...
47. SIMULATION AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF SWIMMING AND RESISTIVE FORCES WITHIN GRANULAR MEDIA
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One way to investigate the physics of a medium is to study the forces on intruders moving through the media. A special case of intruders moving in media is the locomotion of organisms. Locomotion within fluids (flying in air and swimming in water) has been extensively studied...
48. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND ENHANCEMENT OF PEUGEOT 307 TIMING BELT
ABSTRACT
In this study of Performance analysis and enhancement of Peugeot 307 timing belt, the effect of the engine speed, run time on the timing belt geometry were investigated and also a model were built to test how an engine should stop working when the timing belt cuts using sensor....
49. COMPARISON OF IMPLICATIONS OF CHILDLESSNESS AMONG CHRISTIAN COUPLES OF THE NONGO U KRISTU U I SER U SHA TAR (NKST CHURCH) IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This study focused on comparison of implications of childlessness among Christian Couples of the Nongo u Kristu u iSer u Sha Tar (NKST church) in Benue state, Nigeria. The pain associated with childlessness is a concern throughout the world and particularly in African societies...
50. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE ON SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OWERRI ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE, NIGERIA, 1968-2016
Background to the Study
The Church from inception has rendered various levels of social welfare services to humanity as a duty and an embodiment of the church. Jesus Christ in His time engaged in welfare services to people apart from teaching the word of God. He healed...
