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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE VARIABILITY OF COST AND TIME RELATED ITEMS OF PRELIMINARIES IN BUILDING CONTRACTS IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACTPreliminaries in building construction contracts are allowed for the support services provided on to the main work. Some studies show that they account for as much as ten percent (10%) of the total cost of the contract. There has not been any precise approach to the determination of the t...

Environmental Design Type: PROJECT

📄 83 pages | 🧠 10413 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE IMPACT OF LEGAL AUDIT REQUIREMENTS ON THE AUDITORS PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThis study is intended to find out the impact of legal audit requirements on the auditors performance in Nigeria context specifically. The literature review describes the various audit requirements in conjunction with the professional standards, and how they are applied to secure the audi...

Accountancy Type: PROJECT

📄 144 pages | 🧠 17352 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIGN, SIMULATION, CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A THERMOSYPHON SOLAR WATER HEATER

ABSTRACTA thermosyphon solar water heating system which captures and utilises the abundant solarenergy to provide domestic hot water was designed, simulated, constructed and tested. Thesystem was designed to supply a daily hot water capacity of 0.1m3at a minimum temperature of70oC for domestic us...

Mechanical Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 145 pages | 🧠 11119 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EVALUATION OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH CENTRAL GEO - POLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThis study, "Evaluation of Management Practices of Colleges of Education in North Central Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria" was carried out with a view to providing the information on how Colleges of Education were managed in the area of study. The objectives of the study were to identify how ...

Education Type: PROJECT

📄 94 pages | 🧠 10483 words | 📚 5 chapters

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COMPARATIVE GENOMICS ANALYSIS OF GROWTH HORMONE (GH), INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 1 (IGF-1) AND MYOSTATIN (MSTN) GENE SEQUENCES IN CHICKEN, RABBIT AND SHEEP

ABSTRACTThe gene sequences of Growth hormone (GH), Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1) and Myostatin (MSTN) were downloaded from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database, through Entrez of the database as non-redundant reference sequence in FASTA format, using respective acc...

Agricultural Science Type: PROJECT

📄 84 pages | 🧠 10640 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE STUDY OF SOME ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS, NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

A CASE STUDY OF ZARIA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA.

ABSTRACTNutrition is a fundamental part of human life and good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, health and well-being. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between Nutritional Status and Academic performance of Primary School Chil...

Medicine Type: PROJECT

📄 99 pages | 🧠 6815 words | 📚 5 chapters

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RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF PRESTRESSED ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION CONCRETE POLES

ABSTRACTReliability and economy are inherently competing demands; the study of which is becoming an increasing concern for the designers of electric transmission line structures and more generally to the profession of Structural Engineering. The work covered in this study deals with the assessmen...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 95 pages | 🧠 12891 words | 📚 5 chapters

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ON LINEAR ELASTIC STRAIN ENERGY-RELEASE RATE AND THE J-INTEGRAL

ABSTRACTA brief review of the trend in Fracture Mechanics studies was provided. Some solutions of elementary fracture mechanics problems were re-investigated. Many of those solutions were shown to have some limitations. These limitations were in the form of introducing some unrealistic stress and...

Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 91 pages | 🧠 11439 words | 📚 5 chapters

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IMPACT OF COMPUTER MEDIATED SYSTEMS TEACHING APPROACH ON MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE, ATTITUDE AND ANXIETY OF NIGERIAN POLYTECHNIC ENGINEERING STUDENTS

ABSTRACTThis study investigated the impact of computer mediated systems teaching approach (CMSTA), used to teach mathematics to Nigerian Polytechnic engineering students, on the students' mathematics performance, attitude and anxiety. Specifically, the study determined whether the mean mathematic...

Education Type: PROJECT

📄 94 pages | 🧠 6972 words | 📚 5 chapters

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CONSTRUCTION OF PROPELLER AGITATOR

ABSTRACT    Propeller agitator is a specialized of various types of substances.  It consists of three basic components which are the shaft, blade and the vessel.    In the construction, mild steel was chosen due to it's inherent properties.  After the procu...

Chemical Engineering Type: PROJECT

📄 48 pages | 🧠 6005 words | 📚 6 chapters

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AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION OF VISUAL INSPECTION WITH ACETIC - ACID FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING BY HEALTH CARE WORKERS

A CASE STUDY OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThe study aims at assessing the awareness, availability, and utilization of visual inspection with acetic-acid in cervical cancer screening among health workers in secondary health care institutions of Kaduna-state. An Ex-post facto design was used for the study. The study population comp...

Education Type: PROJECT

📄 88 pages | 🧠 9595 words | 📚 5 chapters

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AN EXAMINATION OF TAX ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS UNDER THE FEDERAL INLAND REVENUE SERVICE ACT, 2007

ABSTRACTFrom the inception of modern taxation in Nigeria in the first decade of the 20th century the problem of poor tax administration has been the cankerworms that militate against an optimum revenue generation which affect negatively the government ability to render essential services to the c...

Law Type: PROJECT

📄 87 pages | 🧠 9158 words | 📚 5 chapters

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RURAL MANAGEMENT AS A STRATEGY FOR REDUCING RURAL - URBAN MIGRATION IN NIGERIA

A CASE STUDY OF ISHIELY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EBONYI STATE

ABSTRACT Rural resources have a lot of potential which needed to be brought into full production as to uplift the values. These values can only be achieved when other resources like times, money, infrastructure, expertise an d the like are applied. The high demand of products is expected to prope...

Estate Management Type: PROJECT

📄 69 pages | 🧠 10432 words | 📚 5 chapters

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UTILIZATION OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

A CASE STUDY OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACTThis research work on "Utilization of Print and Electronic Information Resources and Services by Undergraduate Students of University Libraries in Niger State" was conducted to find out the available print and electronic information resources and services and their utilization by undergra...

Education Type: PROJECT

📄 86 pages | 🧠 8805 words | 📚 5 chapters

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THE IMPACT OF BANK LOANS ON SMEs IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACTSmall and Medium enterprises are the catalyst for economic growth in most economies thus, the fundamental objective of this study is to investigate the impact of loans on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. So that the ability of SMEs to develop positively and drive economic g...

Entrepreneur Type: PROJECT

📄 65 pages | 🧠 8015 words | 📚 5 chapters

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