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» Abstract Africa’s history is of a struggle for self determination; this quest for self determination has gone through different phases and has also taken different forms. In the aftermath of the end of the Cold War and the onset of a multi polar world order in the 21st century, this struggle is best expressed in Africa’s quest for Pax Africana, a peace ‘that is protected and main...Continue Reading »
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
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» ABSTRACT Cathodic protection is used for stabilizing buried metal pipeline. In this study, photovoltaic current was used for the cathodic protection of metallic pipes at Nsukka. This was achieved by identifying the effective depths at which anodes could be placed in order to achieve corrosion control of buried pipes. This improved on the monitoring of cathodic protection systems. Two steel pipes, ...Continue Reading »
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CHEMISTRY
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» ABSTRACT The phytochemical, antioxidant, antimicrobial and antimalarial activities of the fluid inside an unripe coconut fluid were investigated and at the end of the day, the phytochemicals were found to be terpenoids, flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins and saponins and the percentage composition of these classes of compounds were also determined. This component of an unripe coconut had fluid which i...Continue Reading »
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CHEMISTRY
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» ABSTRACT Attempt was made to determine the nutritional and anti nutritional composition of Wild melon (C. ecirrhosus ) popularly known as “Gunar shanu in Hausa land, using suitable methods of analyses. The results for proximate analyses (% DW) showed a composition of 3.73 ± moisture, 2.12 ± 0.08 ash content, 26.36 ± 0.10 crude protein, 50.67 ± crude lipid, 2.17 &p...Continue Reading »
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CHEMISTRY
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION This research work would be carried out in one of the four (4) major areas of linguistics (phonology). Phonology is the systematic study of sounds system of a language. However, the research work does not include all aspects of phonology rather it will be restricted to two important phonological processes in Hausa language: Labialization and Palatalization whic...Continue Reading »
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LINGUISTICS
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» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction This project is centered on An In depth Study on Lexical Borrowing from English to Hausa, with the aim to study the English and Hausa lexical loan words. The concept borrowing has been defined and explains by different scholars. It is a universal socio linguistic phenomenon which is as a result of different cultures in contact, as a result of this contact cultural item...Continue Reading »
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LINGUISTICS
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» ABSTRACT This study has set to find out "an investigation on the level of phonological interference in the speech of Hausa English bilingual: A case study of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto." It was to find out the features that distinguish Hausa accent from the Received Pronunciation. The Recorded speech of ten selected native speakers of Hausa was used. Students who were native speakers of Ha...Continue Reading »
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LINGUISTICS
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» ABSTRACTS This research is designed to examine language variation in relation to gender as a social factor, the thrust of this study is a sociolinguistic analysis of gender on language use. The research through its data that encompasses various languages has proved beyond every doubt the existence of gender variation in language use. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL BACKGROUND 1.0 INTRODUCTION...Continue Reading »
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LINGUISTICS
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» ABSTRACT In to day’s word of mass media advertisement are ever present and influence people to high extent. It can be said that advertising, as a phenomenon has rapidly developed for the past few decades, thus becoming a futile ground for good communication, and the starting point for making sense of what is bees communicated, is that the participants (writer reader, sender receiver, produce...Continue Reading »
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LINGUISTICS
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» ABSTRACT This study analyses some selected Nigerian English expressions. The expressions context are made up of forty (40) established English expression interpreted based on meaning and level of intelligibility which access whether they are typically Nigerian English expressions or not. In presenting the data, table were used, this enabled the researcher to present the meaning and intelligibility...Continue Reading »
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LINGUISTICS
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» ABSTRACT This study was designed to obtain information on Nurse – Patient Communication as perceived by Nurses and Patients at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla in Enugu State. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The total population of 102 nurses and 122 patients at the medical and surgical wards of the hospital were studied. A researcher developed q...Continue Reading »
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NURSING
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» ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate the prevalence and outcome of postpartum haemorrhage among women who delivered in Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki from 2004 to 2013. It was a retrospective descriptive study of 588 women comprising all cases of PPH in the course of childbirth as recorded in FETHA from 2004 to 2013. A structured proforma was used to extract the required informa...Continue Reading »
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NURSING
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» ABSTRACT This descriptive survey study that was comparative in nature examined the staff mix and patient outcome in the state and federal teaching hospitals in Enugu State. The objective of the study were to determine the staff mix of health care providers in surgical units of ESUT and UNTH, compare the staff mix of the health providers, ascertain the outcome of care in surgical units of ESUT and ...Continue Reading »
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NURSING
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» ABSTRACT Oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation are central factors in the metabolic dysfunctions and pathologies associated with diabetes. The results from studies on the benefits of Selenium a trace element with antioxidant, anti lipidemic and anti inflammatory properties, in diabetes mellitus have been controversial without prospective outcome and Se appears to be a double edged sword in the p...Continue Reading »
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ANATOMY
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» ABSTRACT Obesity, a state of hyperleptinemia and leptin resistance, may play a role in the aeitiopathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Leptin hormone which was originally recognized for its role as a satiety factor has now been implicated in a wide variety of multisystem biological functions, including the regulation of glucose homeostasis. However, there is paucity of information regarding le...Continue Reading »
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ANATOMY
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» ABSTRACT Learning is the act of acquiring new or modifying and re inforcing existing knowledge, while Memory is relatively the permanent storage of the learned information. Exposure to lead affect brain regions such as hippocampus that are involved in learning and memory. Succimer drug or meso 2,3 – Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) is a metal chelator which is used as an antidote to lead toxic...Continue Reading »
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ANATOMY
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» Abstract Diabetes mellitus is characterized by hyperglycemia. Caffeine has been suggested to be capable of disrupting glucose metabolism. The effects of caffeine on blood glucose level and on lipid profile of alloxan induced diabetic Wistar rats were studied. The effect of caffeine by determining the blood glucose levels at intervals of 30mins, 1hour and 2hours respectively following administratio...Continue Reading »
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ANATOMY
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» ABSTRACT Vitamins C and E are naturally present in some foods and are available as dietary supplements. While vitamin C is also known as L ascorbic acid, vitamin E is a generic name for tocopherols and tocotrienols each with α, β, γ and δ subunits. Neurobehavioural models have been used to study behaviour in animals with models specific for each animal species and behaviour....Continue Reading »
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ANATOMY
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» ABSTRACT Phytoestrogens are natural estrogenic agents present in plants. Phytoestrogens are any plant compounds structurally and/or functionally similar to ovarian and placental estrogens and their active metabolites. Sesamumindicum is one of the phytoestrogen containing seeds used by man for food and medicinal purposes. Researches have shown that phytoestrogens present in plants might have both f...Continue Reading »
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ANATOMY
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» Abstract The effects of vitamin C on some heamatological parameters and biomarkers of oxidative stress in albino wistar rats exposed to lead acetate over a short term (3 weeks) was investigated. Studies have revealed that lead has a wide range of health effects that can result from exposure, and that lead can cause health effects at blood lead levels previously thought to be safe. An increasing bo...Continue Reading »
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ANATOMY
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