SCIENCE LABORATORY & TECHNOLOGY PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 101. ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECTS OF HONEY, LIME (Citrus aurantifolia), LEMON(Citrus limon) ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Earlier civilization believed that certain herbs have remedial supremacy naturally in them to heal some specific aliment (Gorg et al., 2010). Nation like India, one of the developing countries fulfils their requirement of medicinal sources mainly from plants to cure infectious diseases (Zumla and Lutat, 1989). The continuous escalation of resistant ...Continue Reading »

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• 102. EVALUATION OF THE ANTIBIOTIC EFFECT OF ONION (Allium cepa) EXTRACT

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Since ancient times Allium cepa (onion) Liliaceae of the family have an important dietary resource and have bben of interst for edicinal purpose (Rose et al., 2005) Allium is the largest and important representative genus of the liliceae family comprising 450 species. Onion (Allium cepa) is the bulbous plant widely cultivated in almost every cou...Continue Reading »

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• 103. EVALUATION OF SOIL MICROORGANISMS IN OKWALE COMMUNITY FARMLAND

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Farmland refers to lands used for agricultural purpose. Agricultural soil is an excellent source for unknown microorganisms, since bacteria, algae, protozoan’s, yeasts, molds, and microscopic worms are routinely found in this environment (Whiteley and Bailey, 2000). Okwale community, is one of the communities in Nyor Khana region, of Khana...Continue Reading »

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• 104. EFFECT OF AQUEOUS Moringa LEAF EXTRACT ON HYPERGLYCEMIA IN STREPTOZOTOCIN INDUCE...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose level. It could be insulin dependent, where there is absolute deficiency of insulin, and non insulin dependent, where there is some insulin secretion though insufficient. People use different plants traditionally for the treatment of diabetes mellitus and Moringa o...Continue Reading »

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• 105. INVESTIGATION OF THE PRESENCE OF Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Cu, Cd AND Pb IN OKRA (...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A rainfall simulator allows the generating of rainfall with a known intensity and duration which can always be determine by a well calibrated rain gauge over an area in a collaborated manner, making it possible to quantify or measure. In this way, rainfall simulator have widely contributed to the understanding of rainfall, rainfall determination...Continue Reading »

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• 106. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF BACTERIA ON HAWKED SUYA MEAT

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Food is a complex issue, where animal proteins such as meats, meat products, fish and fishery products are generally regarded as high risk commodity in respect of pathogen content, natural toxins and other possible contaminants and adulterants (Yousef et al.,2008). Food health problem with consequent economic reduction. It is a major cause borne inf...Continue Reading »

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• 107. HEALTH IMPLICATION OF POTABLE WATER SCARCITY IN BODO-CITY, RIVERS STATE.

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Water is in essential and the most important natural resource to mankind. It is a vital element to virtually all production processes and for human consumption. Every organism and ecosystem depends on water for survival. The availability of potable water is on the increase due to increase in human population of which demand to access to potable water already exceed to ...Continue Reading »

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• 108. ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF FUNGAL ISOLATE FROM BREAD

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Bread is the most common food in the world which provides energy in form of carbohydrate and essential nutrient to the body. Bread is composed of flour which comes from wheat kernel and made up of starch. Water serves as hydration in the composition of bread, while sugar help to sustain yeast activity and salt to mask off flavours, all these...Continue Reading »

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• 109. SEDIMENT PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ANDONI RIVER INTERTIDAL MUDFLATS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Intertidal mudflats are prominent sub environment found on the fringe of estuaries and in low relief sheltered coastal environments. The fine grained sediments of the intertidal mudflats (70 90%) are derived from terrestrial and marine regions. Mudflats act as a major sink for trace metals, metals which are discharged into aquatic environments from ...Continue Reading »

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• 110. THE EVALUATION OF AQUEOUS GARLIC EXTRACT FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ATHEROSCLEROS...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Natural product of animals, plants and microbial sources have being used by man for thousands of years either in the pure form or crude extract to treat many disease (Parekh 2007). Garlic is one of those plants those plants that where seriously investigated over several years and used for century to fight infectious diseases (Onyeayba 2005).The ...Continue Reading »

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• 111. THE PHYSIOCHEMICAL CHARACTER OF THE AFFECTED SOIL AFFECTED WITH SOLID WASTE DISP...

  » ABSTRACT This study examined the physiochemical character of the affected soil affected with solid waste disposal in the dumpsites in mile one market. The findings of this study indicate that solid waste had varying effects on the physical and chemical properties of ferrealsol such as bulk density, total nitrogen, organic carbon, available phosphorus, heavy metals etc. Bulk density and pH were low...Continue Reading »

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• 112. THE DETERMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON SURFACE TENSION OF WATER

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1INTRODUCTION Surface tension is caused by various intermolecular forces that attract molecules of the liquid toward one another.In the bulk of the liquid, each molecules is pulled equally din all directions by the neighboring liquidmolecules. This results in a net force of zero. At the surface of the liquid, the molecules are pulled inwards by other liquid molecules deep inside the ...Continue Reading »

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• 113. INCIDENCE OF URINARY SCHISTOSOMIASIS AND THE CONTRIBUTORY RISK FACTORS AMONG SCH...

  » ABSTRACT The purpose of this investigation was to determine the incidence and association of urinary Schistosomiasis among a cross section of two primary school (Agulu migrant and Umuowelle primary school) in Agulu,Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra state.A cross sectional study was done with a total of 60 participants that provided urine samples to be examined for urinary Schistosomiasis.Th...Continue Reading »

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• 114. EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION AND LABORATORY PRODUCTION OF GEOPOLYMER CEMENT USING R...

  » ABSTRACT The geopolymer of fly ash (FA) and rice husk ash (RHA) was prepared. The burning temperature of rice husk, the RHA fineness and the ratio of FA to RHA were studied. The density and strength of the geopolymer mortars with RHA/FA mass ratios of 0/100, 20/80, 40/60, and 60/40 were tested. The geopolymers were activated with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), sodium silicate, and heat. It is revealed t...Continue Reading »

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• 115. CAUSES OF LOW PRODUCTIVITY BY PUBLIC SERVICE WORKERS A CASE STUDY OF THE NATIONA...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Productivity is very vital for the development of any country because it will help to improve the standard and quality of life of the citizens. The issue of low productivity by public service workers have in recent time been a matter of great concern to the nation. Let us first of all define the term or rather make an attempt to the definit...Continue Reading »

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• 116. ANTIBACTERIAL AND PHYTOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF Phyllanthus niruri ON SELECTED BAC...

  » ABSTRACT The antibacterial and phytochemical properties of the leaf, stem and root extracts of Phyllanthus niruri were carried out against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella sp. and Staphylococcus aureus. The identification of the isolates was done by standard microbiological techniques which include Gram staining and biochemical methods. The various solvents used include: hot wa...Continue Reading »

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• 117. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IN-VITRO ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF UDARA LEAF

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION The search for healing power from plants in as old as man people in all continents of the world have long applied poultices and imbibed infusions of hundreds (if not thousands) of indigenous plants dating back to prehistorically period (Duke and Wain 1981: Nostro et al, 2000). Till date, natural plant of various hyper are used in traditional African medicine for provid...Continue Reading »

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• 118. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CAUSES AND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF FLOOD DISASTER ON HEA...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION African countries have been identified as amongst the most vulnerable places in the world due to climate change and climate variability, anthropogenic activities are a contributory cause to the extreme rise in global atmospheric temperature and the resulting climate change phenomena (IPCC{intergovernmental panel on climate change}, 2007). Flooding disaster is when a place ...Continue Reading »

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• 119. BIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY OF MABOLO RIVER IN ANKPA KOGI STATE NIGERIA

  » ABSTRACT Urban River, streams and wetlands are susceptible to pollution and so, river Mabolo faces a similar problem. This river is a source of water for domestic industrial and agricultural activities for Ankpa municipality and its environs but due to poor waste management proliferation of motor gurage, markets, hotel, hospital, school and industrial setups it waters quality could have got compro...Continue Reading »

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• 120. ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL CLINIC OF GENE...

  » ABSTRACT Studies on asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women attending antenantal clinic of the General Hospital Ekwulobia was undertaken, hundred urine samples were collected then centrifriged and 1ml of the supernatant was inoculated on the prepared Nutient Agar and Mac Conkey agar then incubated at 370c for 48 hours. Pure colonies were obtained by sub culturing. Morphological and biochemic...Continue Reading »

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