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Volume 7 Number 2 Year 2013

13 articles in this issue 

C. J. Ejieji, M. R. Baiyeri, A. A. Adebayo

The water characteristic of the an alfisol predominantly sandy loam in texture was measured with undisturbed core samples in a pressure plate apparatus at pressures of  5, 10,  33,  60,  100, 1000, and 1500 kPa. The core samples were o... see more

Pags. 1 - 7  

E. A. Duodu, J. D. Owusu-Sekyere

The study assessed the Maintenance Performance of the Kwanyaku Water Treatment Plant. Availability and reliability of eleven facilities from the old and Jubilee treatment plants were compared. Twenty respondents view on the Maintenance Schedule at the Kwa... see more

Pags. 8 - 13  

Anthony Afful-Broni, Rev. Fr. Prof, E. A. Duodu

The study was conducted in Nyakrom Secondary Technical School, sought to find out whether the teaching space facilities were being used efficiently. In other words, whether with facilities available the school had indeed reached their enrolment limit. Bot... see more

Pags. 13 - 18  

A. Taiwo, E. A. Otoo

There is need to generate  information required for the development of facilities for reducing  environmental pollution caused by careless dumping of raw faecal materials from swine production facilities into streams, channels, ponds and other w... see more

Pags. 19 - 26  

R. O. Oladele, H. O. Adedayo

Software inspection is a necessary tool for software quality assurance. To this end a number of inspection techniques have been proposed in the literature with the ad hoc and Checklist-Based Reading (CBR) being the most widely used. This paper investigate... see more

Pags. 27 - 30  

O. U. Dairo, T. M. A. Olayanju, O. Amusan

The effect of alcohol seed ratio(0.5,1.5 & 2.0) and initial catalyst amount(0.5,1.0 & 1.5%) on the in-situ production of biodiesel from raw Jatropha Curcas seed was studied at a reaction temperature of 600C and reaction time of 120min.  Central compo... see more

Pags. 31 - 36  

S. O. Jekayinfa, O. E. Olawuni

Energy management is a technical and management function which is to monitor, record, analyse, critically examine, alter and control energy flows through systems so that energy is utilized with maximum efficiency.  In line with this, a study was cond... see more

Pags. 37 - 52  

O. J. Oyelade

The objective was to investigate the effect of domestic processing on the digestion attributes of gari, a low-moisture food product from cassava commonly consumed in tropical developing nations, and important ethnic food amongst population groups in Europ... see more

Pags. 53 - 60  

N. O. Adebisi, O. D. Odutayo, A. S. Kehinde, F. A. Ogunwo

Consolidation of lateritic soils and related properties had been the subject of few investigations. Previous studies have evaluated the coefficients of compressibility and consolidation of lateritic soils. Initial results indicated that the soils have con... see more

Pags. 61 - 69  

E. O. Sunny-Roberts, D. Knorr

The survival of cell concentrates of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) in selected dissacharides after drying under vacuum was evaluated. Drying is a useful technique for preserving foods, agricultural products and pharmaceuticals. However, biological mate... see more

Pags. 70 - 76  

S. I. Adedokun, J. R. Oluremi

Retaining walls are engineering structures constructed to resist lateral forces imposed by soil movement and water pressure; they are used as protection against the erosive forces of water and as a method of slope stabilization along highways, railroads a... see more

Pags. 77 - 86  

R. O. Oladele, O. T. Oladele

In many Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), a crossover with two parents is commonly used to produce offsprings. Interestingly, we need not restrict ourselves to two-parent crossover since EA allows us to emulate natural evolution in a more flexible fashion. T... see more

Pags. 87 - 92  

O. T. Oladele, R. O. Oladele, O. S. Adewale

Priority Queuing with Buffer Management (PQBM) has been recently proposed in the literature. The protocol is acclaimed to be a very attractive candidate in current (2.5G and 3G) and next (4G) multiservice wireless networks. However, it suffers bandwidth m... see more

Pags. 93 - 96