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A lot of similarities exist in the definitions of language. From another angle, there are highly technical usages of the word “language” reflecting the way the term has been...

 Background to Study

The mass media comprises the means by which a society disseminates and receives information. The traditional instruments of the mass media to the modern man are the newspapers, magazines, radio and television. The Journalist is...

Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement and is destroyed by heat or reduced by prolonged storage (Weinstein et al., 2001). Humans, unlike most...

Background of the study

In Nigeria, English is considered a second language by most people. Because Nigerians already had their first language, also known as their Mother Tongue (L1), before the introduction of the alien language known as "English" into the na...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Glycerine (propan 1, 2, 3 triol) is a discovered soluble in soap lye and as a residue in crude soap following the saponification of fats and oils with caustic soda. Traditionally, the process of soap production from fats and oils provides g...

INTRODUCTION

The production of alcohol through fermentation has been known since antiquity, with the primary goal of producing alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine. The raw material is palm wine and any feed stuffy rich in carbohydrates, such as wh...

1. 1. Background of the study

The term "pidgin" is used to describe a language that emerges out of a circumstance in which individuals who speak a variety of languages are forced to communicate with one another despite...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The rapid advances in technological technology have brought about significant developments in many facets of human existence. People, for example, are able to simply pay their taxes, get information from a variety of nations in a...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The capacity to convey one's thoughts through a set of signs (text), gestures, and noises is referred to as language. It is a distinguishing property of humans, who are the only organisms with such a system. Speech is the oldest and most exte...

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This study was carried out to examine synthesis, characteristics, of mixed ligand complex of zn(ii) ion with 8-hydroxyquinoline and benzoic acid. Specifically, the study examined Infra – red spectroscopy to determine the different functional groups presen...

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Agriculture comes from the Latin words "ager," which means "field," and "cultura," which means "cultivation." This shows that crop cultivation was the oldest type of agriculture (Are, Igbokwe, Asadu,...

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The impact of globalization on the education system is overwhelming as it has greatly affected not only the curriculum of but also the instructional process including the entire system. This study examines how to optimize the teaching of entrepreneurship educat...

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This work is aimed at designing and fabricating a spin dryer which can be used in drying spent grains after brewing. This will no doubt save considerable human labours and time wastage involved in conventional method of drying the spent grains...

1. INTRODUCTION

Intake of tomato and tomato based-products contributes to the absorption of a wide range of carotenoids in human serum and tissues. The prominent carotenoid in tomatoes is lycopene, a pigment principally responsible for the deep...

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          Everyone uses the computer for one reason or the other. For those with poor eye sight, it is always a problem to read texts from screen, either due to small font-size or bad eye sight. This has led to the d...

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Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) is perhaps the most useful traditional medicinal plant in India. Each part of the neem tree has huge insecticidal property and is thus commercially exploitaed. During the last two decades, apart from the chemistry of the neem c...

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The successes recorded at the laboratory for the synthesis of zeolite Y and ZSM-5 using Kankara kaolin sourced from Katsina state, Nigeria as starting material necessitated the need for upscale of the production process. This thesis focused on the development of three pilot siz...

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The methodology of the experiment involves three main stages. The first part describes the synthesis of the PF (novolac) resins. Novolac (resins) were prepared with an excess of phenol over formaldehyde under acidic conditions. PF molar ratio were varied from 1P:2F to 1P:8F. Th...

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Synthetic analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs have major side effects such as constipation, nausea and vomiting, sedation and mental clouding, etc.,which have significantly limited their use.There is therefore, an intensification of search for newer analgesic and anti-inflamm...

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Inspired by the previous findings on the structural requirements needed for good antimalarial activity by chalcones against Plasmodium proteases, seventeen chalcone derivatives were designed and synthesized using Claisen-Schmidt condensation of appropriate aldehydes and methyl...

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Tremendous effort was made in this work to synthesize the three isomeric 3- (dimethylphenyl)aminopropanamides through the Michael nucleophilic substitution reaction. However, some of the results obtained after spectroscopic analysis did not satisfactorily conform to the structu...

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The 3-ANPs (A01-A10) were prepared through acid catalysed Michael addition while the N-benzyl derivatives (A11-A15) were obtained through an uncatalysed amine exchange reaction with benzylamine. The structures of these compounds were established using various spectroscopic tech...

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Epilepsy is a disorder of public concern worldwide and has been widely treated via pharmacotherapy, which are faced with challenges such as cost of therapy, side effects, toxicity and lack of selectivity. As such, researchers agree on the need to identify more selective, readil...

1. 1. Background of the Study

Proteins are essential nutrients for the human body (Hermann, 2002). They are one of the building block of the body tissue, and also serve as a fuel source. As a fuel, protein contain...

ABSTRACT Curcuma longa are traditionally used for the treatment of ulcers, hepatic disorder, wound healing and boost glucose control. This study assessed the phytochemical compositions (quantitative and qualitative), antibacterial activities of C. longa crude extracts, synthesis and characterisat...

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The process for the development of a reliable and ecofriendly metallic nanoparticle (NP) is an important step in biomedical application of nano technology. Zinc oxide nanoparticle (ZnONps) and silver nanoparticle (AgNps) is gaining attention in nanobiomedical due to their bioco...

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 78 This research investigated the phytochemical and anti-inflammatory properties of methanol extract of Crateva adansonii stem bark. Although several edible and non-edible plants parts are used in inflammatory treatment, many record has been found of the use of Crateva ad...

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This dissertation has two contributions. The primary contribution is to present a trie based routing table lookup algorithm named CP-Trie. The secondary contribution is to present a high-level synthesis tool named C2RTL that can generate routing table lookup implementation in A...

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. The technical document is an entity that consists of several essential and interconnected parts, often referred to as modalities. Despite the extensive attention that certain parts have already received, per say the textual information, there are several aspects that severely...

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The thrust of this work is the evaluation of the expropriation of Nigeria’s vital human resources through the brain drain and its implications for its overall development. Nigeria has been adjudged a top emigration country on account of the continuous efflux of its human...

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This work is a linguistic stylistic study of Chukwuemeka Ike’s novels. It involves a rigorous analysis and synthesis that examine how a special configuration of language has been used in the realization of a particular subject matter, quantifying all the linguistic means...

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The discharge of dyeing wastewater containing high concentration of contaminants from the local dyeing industry has caused a serious environmental concern. The present study reports the synthesis of graphitic carbon nitride and itsutilization in degradation of dyeing effluent p...

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Low power conversion efficiency resulting from recombination of photogenerated charges in TiO2 based photovoltaic devices has caused serious challenges in photoelectrode efficiency of such devices. Hence the need to replace TiO2 with ZnO and the composite of Zinc Oxide and Carb...

Purpose of the Study

This work aims:

1. To explain Isaiah’s vision of peace from the prism of eschatology.
2. To give an exegesis of the Isa 2:1-5.
3. To investigate the eschatological elements of the passage.
4. To apply the...

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Terrorism is on the increase in Nigeria. Basic socio-political activities in Nigeria feature acts of terrorism as citizens employ terroristic modes to actualize their goals. Almost all the ethnic groups in Nigeria have splinter groups that purposes to be agitating for their pec...

Background to the Study

Over centuries, the development and mass production of chemically synthesized drugs have revolutionised healthcare in most parts of the world. However, the apparent problems associated with these synthesised drugs in forms of adulteration and potency have resulte...

Statement of the Problem

Globally, the Renewable Energy Network for 21st century (REN21) and other national strategies like the Nigerian Renewable Energy Master Plan (REMP), National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy (NREEEP), Renewable Electricity Policy Guidelines (REPG) e...

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Two types of biodiesels (methyl esters and butyl esters) were synthesized from Cucurbita pepo, Afzelia africana and Hura crepitans seed oils using acid catalysis. Solid acid catalysts were prepared from biowastes (seed cake/shell) from the oil seeds via partial carbonization to...

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The deregulation of the telecommunications sector in 2000 led to increased use of the Global System for Mobile Telecommunications (GSM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). Despite the perceived benefits associated with the utilisation of these services, problems of qualit...

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The studyexplored the information behaviour of adolescent females suffering from dysmenorrhea; the objectives of the study were achieved by formulation of and answering five (5) research questions. Some of the research questions sought to ascertain what are the information need...

Background of the Study

Over the last 25 years, global demand for postsecondary education has increased rapidly as a result of population growth, rising wages, and the increasing emphasis placed on tertiary education as a driver of individual social mob...

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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, w...

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Antibiotic resistance has recently emerged as a significant and alarming problem in the medical community. It is a result of the overuse or improper prescription of antibiotics, which has affected the empirical treatment of patients. Many pathogenic bacteria have dev...