This investigation was conducted to study the degradative ability and cellulase production of microorganisms from waste dump sites soil, cellophane and cellulosic materials of three different dump sites in Akure metropolis. ...

Methylotrophic bacteria are ubiquitous bacteria that are capable of using one carbon compounds such as methane, methanol, halogenated methane, and methylated amine as sources of carbon and energy for their diverse metabolic ...

The solvent extraction of Bismuth (III) from nitric acid solutions with Hexanol and Methyl Isobutyl Ketone (MIBK) in n-heptane as extractants has been investigated. The effect of various parameters such as extractants ...

The method of Ranked Set Sampling has been proved to be one of the efficient methods of sampling technique. This was suggested as an efficient method compared to the well-known Simple Random Sampling (SRS) method. However, ...

This study is conducted for natural radioactivity of some cow organs and fish tissues consumed by the populace of Akure, Ondo State in South-western Nigeria using a Hyper-Pure Germanium (HPGe) detector. The fish and cow ...

The logistic map is one of the oldest mathematical model that exhibit chaos. It was originally used to model population dynamics but has now found applications in many other fields. In this work the logistic map is simulated ...

Biofertilizer is a substance that contains living microorganisms which when applied to seedlings or top soil, colonizes the rhizosphere and promotes growth by increasing availability of primary nutrients to the host plant. ...

Studies on the moulds and mycotoxin contaminating poultry feeds in South-Western Nigeria were conducted in May- October 2008 and November –April 2009. A total of 300 samples of finished commercial poultry feeds (layers and ...

The use of agricultural wastes as a bioenergy source has aroused increasing interest in the bioenergy sector and combustion of fossil fuel has been posing threat to the environment, therefore the search for an alternative ...

Hybrid numerical methods for solving direct solution of initial value problems of general second order differential equations have been studied in this dissertation. Using power series as the basis function, the collocation ...