Radon-222 is a radioactive gas in the natural decay series of Uranium-238. It easily
emanates from the soil to constitute radiological hazard and is the leading cause of
lung cancer apart from smoking. High indoor radon ...
Worowo (Senecio biafrae) is a semi-wild, indigenous and nutritious vegetable.
Demand for worowo is increasing due to its nutritional values, thus necessitating its
domestication for increased production. However, there ...
Maize is an important staple crop widely used in domestic and industrial processes. It is
usually stored in Polypropylene (PP) bags, where it is prone to heavy insect infestations,
resulting in high economic losses. A ...
Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STHs) which affect approximately two billion people globally
is a common public health concern in developing nations. Dynamics of host and
environmental factors results in fluctuations in the ...
Calabar River is an important waterbody in South-south Nigeria that supports a thriving
fishery in the surrounding communities. Middle Calabar River, at Okomita area
experiences intensive sand mining, effluents and solid ...
Breast cancer is a major public health concern and early diagnosis is important in the
treatment of the disease. In Nigeria, there has been an increase in breast cancer-related
deaths, mostly because of delayed diagnosis ...
Overdispersion, often associated with count data is difficult to handle by a single
parameter regression model such as the Poisson regression model. Previous attempts to
modify the Poisson regression model with additional ...
Neural Network (NN) allows complex nonlinear relationships between the response
variables and its predictors. The Deep NN have made notable contributions across
computer vision, reinforcement learning, speech recognition ...
Several warm and hot springs exist all over the world whose microbial diversity and
physicochemical properties have been explored using both conventional and metagenomic
methods to reveal biotechnologically relevant ...
Indiscriminate use of antibiotics in poultry production is among the factors responsible for antibiotic
resistance by microorganisms. Large amounts of poultry droppings are generated annually which
are used in fish feeding ...
Schools’ Food Service Establishments (FSEs) have been incriminated in numerous
foodborne diseases outbreaks globally and have been linked to the environment and food
handling procedures in the establishments. Despite ...
Schubert varieties are subvarieties of the flag variety F‘n(C), a smooth complex
projective variety consisting of sequences of sublinear subspaces of an n-dimensional
complex vector space, ordered by inclusion. They are ...
Change in saturation levels occurs in reservoirs during hydrocarbon production resulting in fluid
replacement. This impacts on the mechanical and elastic properties of reservoirs and consequently,
alters production model ...
Over the years, various biostratigraphic approaches (foraminifera, pollen and spores)
have been used for determining age and biozonation which are useful for exploration
and production activities in the Niger Delta. ...
Globalisation, harsh economy and insecurity are catalysts for most migrant workers in
Nigeria. International and national migrant workers streams are increasingly dominated by
females. Extant literature has focused largely ...
Plant seeds are sources of readily available nutrients and raw materials for man and industries,
respectively. Although commonly regarded as wastes, flours, oils and spent cakes from these seeds
can be used in animal ...
Oxidative-stress, inflammation and glycation processes cause cell damages in the human
body and may lead to aging and different disease conditions. Drugs that ameliorate oxidative
stress can solve several disease ...
Blighia sapida (Bs), Lecaniodiscus cupanioides (Lc) and Paullinia pinnata (Pp) (family
Sapindaceae) are ethno-medicinal plants used as antimicrobial and antioxidant agents in the
treatment of fevers, skin infections, ...
Increasing release of harmful metal(II)/metal(III) into the environment has led to a search
for ligands with high sensitive and selective abilities to detect these ions. Studies on
metal(II) are known but there is need ...
The Niger Delta is a mature basin in Nigeria with petroleum reserve of about 40 billion barrels.
The onshore Niger Delta Paleogene-Neogene, where exploration commenced and was
concentrated before activities shifted to ...