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The topic “Fuel subsidy removal and Nigeria economy” was selected from the verities of topic due to the inspiration the research felt forms the topic. Petroleum is the major source of income of Nigeria and it determines most of other aspect of lifes and sectors of the economy. He researcher examines how Nigerians reacted towards the fuel subsidy removal, the strikes, violent demonstrations, high cost of fuel and transportation, high cost of food items and so on. This motivated the research to carry out this research. The research tries to find out how the subsidy removal on fuel has affected the economy and the lifes of the people, he developed so theories (3) which he used to explain the topic and from the research he discovered that majority of Nigerian did not benefit from the fuel subsidy removal as it was mainly enjoyed by rich fuel importers. Also it was discovered that the removal of fuel subsidy lead to an imbalance in the economic sector as prices of goods and services rise drastically leading to protest, strikes, low standard of living in inflation. Finally, the researcher discovered that the fuel subsidy regime is very corrupt, this is because good sum of money were missing and misused and cannot be accounted for. The money gotten from the subsidy removal was supposed to be channeled into other aspect of the economy but this was not the case because there was low impact in Agricultural sector, infrastructures and provision of basic social amenities. Therefore, he discovered that if the other sectors of the economy are in a very good shape, it will go a long way in sustaining and reviving the economy and promote growth and development in Nigeria.

The study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the identified five dimensions of emotional intelligence, namely self-awareness, emotional management, self motivation, empathy, interpersonal skills and academic performance. This study aims to identify whether the five dimensions of emotional intelligence have been able to contribute to academic performance. Statistical inference of the Pearson-r and multiple regression is used to analyze the data. The results showed that the significant relationship between self awareness (r = 0.21), emotional management (r = 0.21) and empathy (r = 0.21) at the level of p <0.05 with academic performance. Findings from multiple regression analysis (stepwise) showed that only three dimensions of emotional intelligence which is self-awareness (ß = 0261), self motivation (ß =- 0182) and empathy (ß = 0167) accounted for 8.7% of variation in criterion (academic performance). Research also presented a model designed to reflect the relationship between the dimensions of emotional intelligence and academic performance. These studies imply that the level of emotional intelligence contributes to and enhances the cognitive abilities in student. Thus, in increasing student academic performance. The stability of the emotional intelligence of a student will help to produce a competent generation and successful country in line with the philosophy of education.

In this study the author studied the natural radioactive pollution in the samples water of natural spring in the governorate of Irbid due to leakage of radon gas to natural springs from the source of radon (the soil). The study started from June 20, 2015 to August 30, 2015. After 70 days the collected dosimeters were chemically etched under the conditions (30% solution of KOH at a temperature of 70 C° for 8 h).Samples of groundwater from eight springs in the governorate of Irbid were used, which were respectively from Rahoop spring, Ash Shalalah spring, Wadi Al Ruman spring, Sama Al-Rousan spring, Tabqet Fahel spring, Dhiraj spring, Al-Wadi spring, and Taqat al Ain spring. The radon concentrations were found to be 4.1 Bq/l for Rahoop spring water, 3.7 Bq/l for Ash Shalalah spring water, 3.2 Bq/l for Wadi Al Ruman spring water, 2.1 Bq/l for Sama Al-Rousan spring water, 2.6 Bq/l for Tabqet Fahel spring water, 4.9 Bq/l for Taqat al Ain spring water, 1.8 Bq/l for Al-Wadi spring water and 1.6 Bq/l for Dhiraj spring water. The average concentration of radon in the water for these springs was 3.0 Bq/l. The radon concentration in the water samples in this study was less than the allowable upper value, which is equal to (18 Bq/l), and it does not cause danger to human life

The aims of this study were to investigate the performance characteristics of a farm tractor during ploughing (chisel plough) using variable weights from (0 to 500 kg) on the rear tractor wheels, and different traveling speeds from (3.58 to 5.68 km/h). The ploughing depths were (15-20 cm), and the average moisture content was (20.15 %). The soil texture was found to be a (Silty clay). The rear tier sizes of the tractor and inflation pressure were 16.9/14-38 and 150 kPa, respectively. The study was concentrated on the rate of fuel consumption, specific energy, drawbar pull, tractor wheel slippage, tractive efficiency and field efficiency. The obtained results, for the range of tests, showed that the use of 500 kg weight on the tractor rear wheel at 3.1 km/h traveling speed produced the highest value (74.4 %) of tractive efficiency, and (in the meantime) the wheel slippage, filed efficiency, fuel consumption, required power, specific energy were 7.46 %, 80.22%, 15.11 l/h, 46.58 kW, and 43.13 kW.h/fed, respectively. In general, the traveling speed and the weight on the rear tractor wheels were the most important factors that affecting the drawbar pull and the specific energy.

An analytical solution of two-dimensional MHD free convective double diffusive dusty flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting and heat-absorbing fluid past a vertical permeable porous plate in presence of radiation and chemical reaction is presented. The plate is assumed to move with a constant velocity in the direction of fluid flow, while free stream velocity is assumed to follow the exponentially increasing small perturbation law. The Velocity, Temperature, Concentration, Skin friction, Nusselt number and Sherwood number distributions are derived and have shown through graphs and tables by using simple perturbation technique.

Furniture is a must have product that everyone would have it. There are many types of furniture makes from various types of materials and need some working skills to produce them. Furniture industry is a well-known industry all over the world and contributes to the increasing of Malaysian economic growth. High workforce demand in furniture industry can give a future career option towards graduates’ students of Vocational College in Furniture Operation and Manufacturing Course. By TVET, students can learn the proper skills in furniture industry so that they can adapt and getting involve with the industry.

The increasing viability of 3D silicon integration technology has opened new opportunities for chip architecture innovations. One direction is in the extension of 2D mesh based chip multiprocessor architecture into three Dimensions. We present an efficient architecture to optimize system performance, power consumption, and reliability of stacked mesh 3D NoC is proposed. Stacked mesh is a feasible architecture which takes advantage of the short inter-layer wiring delays, while suffering from inefficient intermediate buffers. To cope with this, an inter-layer communication mechanism is developed to enhance the buffer utilization, load balancing, and system fault-tolerance. The mechanism benefits from a congestion-aware and bus failure tolerant routing algorithm for vertical communication.

An economic evaluation of crop and dairy production system study was taken up in the Erode district of Tamil Nadu, India to study the post-harvest losses in crop production system, milk losses in dairy production system, to analyse the factors influencing the post-harvest losses and milk losses and finally analyze the resource use efficiency and technical efficiency of crop and dairy production system. In crop production system, net income was higher in turmeric than sugarcane by 10.98 per cent. The gross income and net income was higher in foreign breed by 99.95 per cent and 79.24 per cent over local breed respectively and hence turmeric and foreign breed are more profitable in crop and dairy production system respectively. The post-harvest losses in turmeric production were 0.048 per cent of total production. Milk losses in dairy production system due to various diseases were 9.97 per cent in local breed and 13.34 per cent in foreign breed. The education and inadequate storage had significant positive influence on post-harvest losses. The milk fever, Mastitis and foot and mouth disease in local breed had influence on milk losses. In foreign breed, milk fever and Mastitis had significant positive influence on milk losses. In crop production system, the planting material, manures and fertilizer, irrigation and human labour were significant in turmeric production. In sugarcane production, planting material and irrigation were positively significant. In dairy production system, green fodder, dry fodder and human labor were significant in local breed. With respect to foreign breed, green fodder, dry fodder and concentrates were positively significant. The mean technical efficiency and scale efficiency of sugarcane and turmeric was almost similar in crop production system. In dairy production system, the mean technical efficiency and scale efficiency of foreign breed and local breed was almost similar. The policy advocacy is finally suggested for Agriculture Department, Animal Husbandry Department and Government for minimizing economic losses, for achieving efficiency in production systems and finally for sustainable agricultural development of the region.

Deck- drain samples obtained from five oil wells in the Niger Delta Basin of Nigeria were analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), digital meters , American Standard and Testing Materials. The results shows that the pH of the deck-drain samples varies from 5, 10 to 5.4 while the total dissolved solids(TDS) varies from 4,585 to 27,170 mg/l. The electrical conductivity varies from 7,054 to 21,277µS/cm while the chloride content varies from 4 ,000 to 4,400mg/l. The H2S concentration ranges from 1.10 mg/l. These values do not conform with the Nigerian Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) effluent water standard and thus constitute a threat to the environment. The result also show that the deck-drain samples are hard and contains high concentrations of calcium and sodium. The concentrations of the major cations in decreasing order is: Na+ > Ca2+ > Mg2+ >. K+ while that of the anions is: Cl- > HCO3- > SO42- > NO3- implying that the fluid type is NaCl. The pollution index (PI) of the samples varies from 17.81 to 42.47; this is in excess of the PI critical value of 1 and thus confirms high rate of degradation of the deck-drain samples.. The Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR) values of the samples ranges from 28.04 to 28.97 indicating that the deck-drains are poor for irrigation purposes. Piper and Stiff diagrams shows that the deck-drain samples exhibits the same chemical trend and model. Although, the deck-drain samples contains high concentrations of pH, TDS, electrical conductivity, H2S, Cl-, Ca2+ and Na+ ; these parameters can be treated and reduced to tolerable levels using soda ash, reverse osmosis , electro dialysis and aeration methods thus preventing soil and water pollution which can arise from the discharge of untreated deck-drains into these environments.

Globalization brings some negative results in addition to its number of positive aspects. One of the biggest results is the global crisis which affects the world and our country to a large extent. Virtually the global crisis which has been assumed to be appeared as the result of Mortgage crisis in USA has been affecting all establishments active in all kinds of sectors. The research has been implemented for the workers employed in white meat sector in Bolu where the effects of global crisis were widespread in 2009. The scale used in the research has been prepared in order to measure the general affects of the crisis on the workers and their motivations. As a result of the research, the meaningful statistical relations were determined regarding the motivation position of the workers and the demographic variables such as their ages, education status and work experiences. According to the research, it is understood that the workers did not know how to think during the crisis period and they were got into panic and they experienced a felling of losing their trust to the administration and also their jobs. This result is parallel to the prior studies performed regarding this subject.