Users’ perspectives approach provides an unbiased assessment of Quality of Service (QoS) of voice offerings in telecommunication networks. This approach is implemented using subjective or objective technique. Though the ...
Emotional intelligence, an important construct that has been extensively used globally, is
a critical factor in adolescent growth. However, extant literature have shown that locallybased Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) ...
There are enormous Agricultural Residues (AR) such as Coir Dust (CD), Coir Fibre
(CF), and cashew nut shells, which are sources of environmental pollution in Nigeria.
However, these residues can be deployed in Cement ...
Scheduling problems involve the processing of jobs on processor(s) subject to constraints to optimise performance measures. Determining schedules that minimise tardiness-related performance measures for single processor ...
Recent trends in poverty analysis have focused more on multidimensional poverty measures such as the Fuzzy Set Schemes (FSSs) rather than the unidimensional approaches. A major criticism of the unidimensional approaches ...
Despite the importance of quarry operations to the construction industry in developing
countries, the excessive occupational noise involved in quarry operations is a threat to the
health of workers. Studies have shown ...
Distributed Lag Model (DLM) is a major workhorse in dynamic single-equation regression, which
requires stringent assumptions for its validity. One of the critical assumptions of DLM is the
normality of the Error Term ...
Accurate information on solar radiation at a specific location on the earth’s surface is indispensable for energy applications and atmospheric research. The required data could be obtained from a dense network of solar ...
Leaders emerge from among the citizens. Civic Education is taught in secondary school to
make students responsible and effective citizens but adequate provision has not been made to
develop their leadership skills. ...
Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) models have been used to model non-constant variances in financial time series models. Previous works have assumed error innovations of GARCH models of ...
Approximately seventy per 100,000 children are blind worldwide. Early detection and prompt treatment play vital roles in prevention of blindness from cataract and other eye diseases in children. However, there are no ...
The African Greater Cane Rat (AGCR) is a precocial hystricomorph rodent largely restricted to the African ecosystem. The drive for home-grown animal research models within the African context has increased studies on the ...
Petroleum migration from source rock to the reservoir is one of the most critical geological processes responsible for the accumulation of hydrocarbon in sedimentary basins. The differential fractionation of dibenzofurans ...
Obesity and hypertension are risk factors for diet-related non-communicable diseases and
are associated with poor quality of life, increased morbidity and mortality. There is a
growing burden of obesity in Nigeria, ...
Poor eating habit and dietary pattern predispose adolescents to Diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases (DrNCDs) including hypertension. The dietary pattern, nutritional status and blood pressure of adolescents needed to ...
Availability of data on dietary patterns and food composition is fundamental to decision making in all nutrition-related programmes and policies. Data onmineraland heavy metal concentrations of foods and blood have been ...
Employment Discrimination (ED), bias towards or against workers, is a common
phenomenon in organisations. Evidence has shown that the Organised Private Sector (OPS)
is bedevilled with ED in Oyo State which hinders ...
The Pro-Biafra Protests (PBPs) by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and other pro-Biafra groups for the rights of the Igbo and their secession ...
Discourse representations ascribed to social actors unveil ideological orientations in
newspaper reports on migration. Previous studies on migration have explored sociolinguistic,
media and literary issues, with little ...
Electioneering campaigns feature a specialised political language pivotal to the decision making of the electorates. Existing studies on political campaigns have largely given attention to the styles, ideologies, metaphors, ...