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SUBSTANCE USE AMONG OUT-OF-SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS

A CASE STUDY OF BWARI AREA COUNCIL OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA

ABSTRACTSubstance use among adolescents has become one of the most disturbing health related phenomena world wide, with consequent physical, social and or mental complications. This menace could ruin the life and future of our youths, community and the nation in general. United Nations Children F...

Medicine Type: PROJECT

📄 83 pages | 🧠 8987 words | 📚 5 chapters

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STABILIZATION OF BLACK COTTON SOIL WITH IRON ORE TAILING

ABSTRACTResults of preliminary investigation of the natural black cotton soil used in the study shows that it belongs to A - 7 - 6 (13) or CH in the AASHTO and Unified Soil Classification System (USCS), respectively. Soils under these groups are highly plastic and of poor engineering benefit. The...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 95 pages | 🧠 8878 words | 📚 5 chapters

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STOCHASTIC EVALUATION OF OFFSHORE CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE PLATFORMS ON ALUMINUM GIRDERS

ABSTRACTA stochastic evaluation of the performance of Carbon Fibre Offshore Plastics (CFRP) offshore platform consideringsubmerged and partially submerged environmental conditions wasanalyzed usingSwedish code,Boverket (2004). A Probability-based analysis using First Order Reliability Method (FOR...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 96 pages | 🧠 7198 words | 📚 5 chapters

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IMPACT OF FARM EFFICIENCY ON SORGHUM PRODUCTION IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThis study focused at the impact of farm efficiency on sorghum production in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Three villages were randomly selected from three Local Government Areas and 143 sorghum farmers were randomly selected in this area. Primary data were collected from 143 respondents using s...

Agricultural Science Type: PROJECT

📄 100 pages | 🧠 9046 words | 📚 5 chapters

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HEALTH COMMUNICATION AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: A STUDY OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF NIGERIA INTERVENTION IN UNGUWAN MUAZU, KADUNA STATE

The level of women's access to information on health issues is rather low in rural communities and, therefore, women are seen as vulnerable to different forms of health hazard. In spite of the relentless effort and huge sunk sum, of money into women's health programmes in Nigeria, the knowledge o...

Arts Type: PROJECT

📄 98 pages | 🧠 11972 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE EFFECT OF DURATION OF BOILING AFRICANBREADFRUIT (Treculia africana) SEEDS ON PERFORMANCE AND LAYING CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE QUAILS

ABSTRACTTwo experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of duration of boiling African breadfruit seeds (ABS) on the growth and laying performance of Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica). In the first experiment, 540 unsexed two weeks old quail chicks with an average initial weight ...

Agricultural Science Type: PROJECT

📄 90 pages | 🧠 12686 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS PREMISES

TABLE OF CONTENTApproval/Certification                                           &...

Computer Science Type: PROJECT

📄 50 pages | 🧠 9696 words | 📚 5 chapters

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IN VITRO CONSERVATION OF GROUNDNUT (ARACHIS HYPOGAEA L.).

ABSTRACTExperiments were carried out between 2009 and 2013 in the Biotechnology laboratory, Department of Plant Science, Ahmadu Bello University Samaru, Zaria with the aim of developing tissue culture regeneration, cryopreservation and slow growth protocols for conservation of groundnut. Embryoni...

Agricultural Science Type: PROJECT

📄 86 pages | 🧠 9415 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE EFFECTS OF THE SOCRATIC METHOD ON STUDENTS ART PERFORMANCES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

A CASE STUDY OF KADUNA- NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThis study was carried out to determine the effects of Socratic Method on student's art performance in secondary schools in Kaduna Metropolis Nigeria. The specific objectives are to find out students performance when exposed to Socratic Method, determine if male students will perform bett...

Environmental Design Type: PROJECT

📄 82 pages | 🧠 11960 words | 📚 5 chapters

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APPRAISAL OF LAND DEPLETION THROUGH BUSH BURNING

ABSTRACTThe burning of natural vegetation no doubt removes the protective cover of the soil surface and depreciates the quality of the soil. Burning is done without regards to soil degradation and this called for this work have the project focuses attention on the merits and demerits of bush burn...

Agriculture Type: PROJECT

📄 67 pages | 🧠 12394 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR THE METHODOLOGICAL TEST ANALYSIS

A CASE STUDY OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE

ABSTRACTThis work is specially put together not to replace medical doctors or medical laboratory scientists but rather to assist them in accelerating in their diagnostic work which will go a long way to eliminate the trial and error method of treatment  (which the doctors usually do while wa...

Computer Science Type: PROJECT

📄 41 pages | 🧠 5402 words | 📚 6 chapters

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THE EFFECT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE ON SAFETY OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

THE EFFECT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE ON SAFETY OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN NIGERIACHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONResidential Building:  This is defined as the building which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes. It is provided with or without cooking or dining or both faci...

Architecture Type: PROJECT

📄 65 pages | 🧠 9515 words | 📚 5 chapters

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PERFORMANCE OF ONE-HUMPED CAMEL (Camelus dromedarius) FED VARYING LEVELS OF DRIED GAWO LEAVES (Faidherbia albida) IN THE NORTHERN GUINEA SAVANNAH OF NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThis study was carried out to evaluate the growth performance and nutrient digestibility of dromedary camel fed diets containing varying levels of dried Faidherbia albida (F. Albida) leaves. Four male camels weighing on average 228.51kg were randomly allocated to 4 diets containing 0, 10,...

Agricultural Science Type: PROJECT

📄 88 pages | 🧠 12991 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF CANNY OPERATOR BASED GUI FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF OPTICAL RETURN LOSS

ABSTRACTIn this dissertation we developed a fiber optic connector optical return loss (ORL) model from the connector endface image profile of a 200X inspection microscope. The connector endface profiles were histogram equalized and then evaluated with the Canny, Sobel, Prewitt, Laplacian of the G...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 81 pages | 🧠 11048 words | 📚 5 chapters

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IMPACT OF COMMUNITY BASED AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON CROP PRODUCTION AND OTHER FORMS OF RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN KADUNA AND BAUCHI STATES, NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThis study was conducted to assess the impact of the Community Based Agriculture and Rural Development Project on crop production and other forms of rural livelihoods in Kaduna and Bauchi States, Nigeria. Primary data for the study were collected using well-structured questionnaire, admin...

Agricultural Science Type: PROJECT

📄 83 pages | 🧠 6171 words | 📚 5 chapters

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