A reputable fish farm in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria were used to carry out studies on the induced breeding of Clarias gariepinus under varying brood stock ratios. Six gravid females weighing 1.00 kg each and 6 reproductively matured males weighing 1.00 kg were used for the three induced breeding trials in ratios of 2:1, 1:2 and 2:3, female/male respectively. Females were injected at a dosage of 0.50 ml ovaprim/kg body weight and 0.25 ml/kg body weight for males. Hatching starts after 24 hours of incubation and lasted for 6 hours. Dissolved oxygen, pH, ammonium ion, nitrate ion levels and temperature were monitored. Mean weight of eggs produced is 285.00 g ± 65.00 with a relative percentage weight of eggs to body weight of 26 to 33%. Also, fecundity was the same in all the treatments with a value of 66,000+100 eggs. The lowest pseudo-gonadosomatic index of 41.50+6.50 was recorded in treatment 1, while the highest value of 51.00+3.00 was recorded in treatment 2. The effect of the varying brood stock (female:male) ratios in all the trials were not significantly different at (P<0.05) as indicated by the number of fertilized eggs, number of hatched eggs, % larval production and survival.

This retrospective study was to compare the cost effectiveness of oral ACT as a first line of treatment of malaria with non-oral ACTs in paediatric patients aged 5 years and below. The study was carried out at Children Outpatients Clinic of Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta Ogun State in Nigeria between April and September 2005. Clinical case notes of paediatric patients aged 5 years and below were used. Three hundred and fifty (350) patients were randomly selected with only 328 patients meeting the inclusion criteria. The number consisted of 153 (46.6%) males and 175 (53.4%) females. The mean age of patients was 2.3 years (SD 1.4). Oral Chloroquine/Sulphadoxine and Pyrimethamine (CQ/SP) was administered to 127 (38.7%) patients, 113 (34.5%) patients had Quinine/Sulphadoxine and Pyrimethamine (QSP) while 88 (26.8% ) patients had Arthemisine/ Sulphadoxine, Pyrimethamine (ASP). The cure rate for CQ/SP, Quinine/SP and Arthemisine/SP were (11.0%), (22.1%) and (97.7%) respectively. It was only Artemisinine/SP that met the 7.5% efficacy rate recommended by WHO. Data on the therapeutic efficacy of the treatment given to the patients were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency distribution and percentages with statistical package Microsoft SPSS 10.0 window version

In this paper author has established seven q-product identities, which are not available in the literature of special functions.

This paper provides an overview of the dynamics of religion, political godfatherism [i.e. the act of mentoring people into political office for purposes of indirect control of appointments and public funds] and democratization in the South Eastern Nigeria with a special focus on Anambra state since 1999 when the country returned to civilian rule after sixteen years of military rule. Methodologically, this paper adopted public choice theory and survey methods of inquiry with 1800 questionnaires distributed. With the aid of tables and arithmetic percentage formula, this paper observes that political elites hijacked party structures using party financing and impose candidates after reaching agreements with them on the party and the state for purposes of rent seeking and political dominance. Religious oaths using African Traditional Religious rituals were used to safeguard these pre-electoral agreements, and by the application of existing political schisms between Catholic and Anglican churches, they seek support for their candidates. Tussle for political power between these two churches, and between them and individual godfathers, which ended in the triumph of institutional godfathers followed. This opened sources of resources for churches through the appointment of their members into political positions. This paper therefore concludes that religious belief and affiliation fundamentally decide electoral choice and political appointments in Anambra state.

Study of behavioral finance has been the focus of many researchers. Various researches as well as empirical analyses have been conducted in different stock markets of the world in order to verify the seasonal anomalies and to observe behavioral patterns of investors by which they earn abnormal returns. This research attempted to find anomalous behavior in two different sets of data. The first data set includes period of thirteen years from 1997 to 2010 and the second set of data consists of 11 years excluding the years of market crash 2005 & 2008. Both data sets have been tested by different data analysis tools, which reveal that some of anomalous behavior e.g. Turn of the Month (ToM) effect exists in KSE in first data set whereas the second data set is free from such anomalies.

In this paper we have established certain indefinite integrals involving Gegenbauer polynomials. The results represent here are assume to be new.

This paper proposes a new digital image coding scheme that uses a three moduli set with a common factor. The proposed scheme is specific to a particular three moduli set {2n+2, 2n+1,2n}. The design of the scheme is based on the residue to binary converter which achieves in terms of area and critical path delay as compared to the state of the art. This scheme offers high-speed processing because in the reverse converter the computation of the multiplicative inverse is eliminated, and it achieves low-power VLSI implementation for image processing such as digital image transform and digital image filtering.

Child rearing has become challenging during past years and great expectations are placed for parenthood. Although the public upbringing has become professionalized and the day-care and school services are available in today’s society, parents have the main responsibility for rearing children. How and into what should children be raised? In this article, good parenthood is paralleled with parental love. As a result, two valuable and demanding underlying contents of parental love are discussed in this article: setting up safe boundaries and constructing good self-esteem as the core of good parenthood and parental love. The perspective in this article is fundamentally positive: parental love appreciates and cares about the child and does not abandon the child even when his/her behavior causes disappointments and trouble.

This study relates to determination of the content of aluminium oxide (%Al2O3) in different types of bauxite by the X-ray fluorescence method (XRF). The samples were prepared in the form of beads by the borax method from bauxite, which had been previously annealed. Standard reference samples of bauxite were used to produce a calibration curve and the calibration curve obtained was with very good coefficient of determination r = 0.9992 and standard deviation S = 0.091. After statistical verification of the method (F-test, reference method and standard sample of bauxite), it was concluded that the method was precise and correct and that there were no systemic errors. In addition to this, by the XRF analysis of different types of bauxite the average value of residuals between percent of Al2O3 determined by the standard method of SRPS B.G8.512 and XRF method was 0.254 with the deviation of 0.191.

Field Studies were conducted at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria to determine the influence of weed interference on the growth and yield of three okra (Abelmochus Keywords : Okra varieties, South-eastern Nigeria, weed interference, weed control efficiency, fruit yield. GJSFR-D Classification : FOR Code: 070308 Growth and Yield Response of Okra Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench Varieties to Weed Interference in South-Eastern Nigeria Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of : esculentus (L) Moench) varieties. Three varieties of okra (NHAe47-4, Lady’s finger and V35) were weeded using five weeding regimes (weedy check, unweeded till 5 weeks after sowing (WAS), weeding once each at 3 WAS and 4 WAS and weed free). The treatment combinations were laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Plant height for okra varieties was in the decreasing order of Lady’s finger < NHAe47-4 < V35 while leaf area was in the increasing order of NHAe47-4>V35> lady’s finger in both years. More flowers/plant were obtained from NHAe47-4 while the least number of flowers aborted were obtained from the Lady’s finger. Among the weeded plots, NHAe47-4 produced the highest fresh fruit yield (23.63t ha-1 in 2007 and 22.96t ha-1 in 2008) which were not insignificantly different from the yields obtained from weed free plots that produced 24.20t ha-1 in 2007 and 22.13t ha-1 in 2008.