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This research work investigated the relationship between awareness and usage patterns of electronic information resources among undergraduate students of Ekiti State University, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population was made up of undergraduate students in the faculties of the social sciences and engineering in Ekiti state university, Nigeria. Data were collected using questionnaire designed to elicit response from respondents and analysed using descriptive statistics method of frequency count and percentages. However, out of four hundred (400) copies of questionnaire administered to the students three hundred and fifty (350) were returned which represents 87.5% response rate for the study. Findings revealed that there is low awareness of some e-resources such as CD-ROM databases and OPAC among the respondents which could possibly influence their usage of e-resources. The study concluded that e-resources are widely used in the surveyed university, and that awareness about e-resources could possibly lead to increased usage. Good internet connectivity will go a long way to further encourage users to use the e-resources for which the university library has subscribed. However, it was recommended that subscriptions to e-resources should reflect the priorities and preferences of users as well as increasing the level of awareness of the availability of new e-resources and additions of new databases for users of the library among other recommendations.

Biofertilzers are substances obtained from living microorganisms with the potential to supply crops with useful nutrients. Commonly used Biofertilizers supply nitrogen and phosphorus, and these nutrients are the most limiting ones in Sub-Saharan African. Nitrogen has a higher leaching capacity and thus more losses are experienced in agriculture than what is up taken by crops for growth while P sources are getting depleted. Despite many soils lacking these elements, the peasant farmers cannot afford their high cost. On the other hand, if supplied in higher amounts, lead to pollution of ground and surface bodies and eutrophication in the water bodies in the catchment areas. Biofertilizers are therefore considered to be eco-friendly and cost effective. These micro-organisms once inoculated in the soil show different modes of action that promote nutrient availability to crops. These mechanisms include; scavenging for nutrients from soil layers, solubilization of some inorganic compounds, and production of growth promoting metabolites, decomposition, and fixation of the free nitrogen from the atmosphere. However, the use of these biofertilizers has different challenges which may contribute for low adoption by farmers. The review therefore seeks to understand mode of application, mechanisms of plant uptake and the reasons that dissuade farmers from adopt these noble techniques.

The study examined the mentors? perception on the challenges and the opportunities encountered by the mentors while mentoring the undergraduate research project in colleges under Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) with special reference to Gedu College of Business Studies. The study has been motivated by the realization that some of the mentors are reluctant to take the undergraduate research groups. Therefore, it is important to find out what are some of the challenges and opportunities faced by the respective mentors in the process of mentoring the research projects. To make the study more authentic and realistic, purposive sampling had been used and personal interviews were conducted to collect data for the study. The data collected through personal interviews were analyzed thematically. The study intends to highlight the most challenging factors and try to provide suitable recommendations. The findings of the study entails that the most challenging part of mentoring is time management and lack of students? knowledge on research. Most of the respondents find it difficult to adjust their time for research due to their teaching workload. Nevertheless, the study also found out that they also get various benefits and opportunities in the process of mentoring.

The Kenya Vision 2030, which is the blue print of development in Kenya, aims at making Kenya a globally competitive and prosperous nation through security, peace building, conflict management participatory governance, legal reforms and inculcation of a culture of respect for sanctity of human life. The general objective of this study was to identify the challenges faced by teachers in implementing peace education and determine the approaches used in the implementation of peace education. This study is grounded on the integrative theory of peace in which. The descriptive research design was used to conduct the study. The study targeted all the 8 public primary schools with a population of 97 teachers. Purposive sampling techniques were used to get 8 head teachers and get 40 teachers. Questionnaires were used to collect the required information. Data were analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 22. Challenges faced by teachers in the implementation of peace education in the sub county included lack of peace educational materials, trained teachers in peace education, inadequate time allocated and teachers being overloaded due to shortage of teachers. The study recommended that the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducts comprehensive civic education and social cohesion to the residents in the area, to mitigate instances of recurrent conflict which is witnessed every electioneering year, that the ministry of education provides more in-service courses on peace and that the KIE provides guidelines on the methodologies of teaching peace education.

Calculated indices are now emerging as clinically useful tools for the preliminary diagnosis for a variety of disorders/diseases. Such indices are derived from a measured analyte or set of analytes and they will then be used as tools to monitor/evaluate the preliminary clinical condition associated with a particular organ such as liver, kidney or respiratory related problems. Among such calculated parameters, eGFR and FENa for renal, liver enzyme ratios, FIB-4 and APRI for liver and anion gap for acid base disorders have been extensively used. This review article highlights the recent research findings in the use of such calculated parameters for clinical use, and its merits and demerits in providing awareness to clinicians about its significance and use in clinical practice.

Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) are considered an indication of a response either to a stimulus or spontaneously in the absence of a stimulus, as OAEs display the frequency range and response time (latency) and show the effects of random roughness present along the basilar membrane in the cochlea. The primary goal is to determine whether roughness is responsible for the change in the behavior and activity of the OAE by observing the wave behavior and the propagation of transient otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs), which gives an interpretation in the frequency domain of your acoustic behavior of the non-linear model and to help accurately determine hearing thresholds and determine the presence of impairment.

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of loneliness and emotional intelligence on mobile phone addiction among adolescents. The sample for the current study consisted of 200 adolescents (100 males and 100 females) in the age group of 14-19 years from Chandigarh. The subjects were administered a measure of UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, 1980) along with Emotional intelligence scale (Singh & Narain, 2014) and Mobile phone addiction scale (Velayudhan & Srividya, 2012). Inter- correlation analysis, t-test and regression analysis were applied. Results revealed that loneliness was positively related and emotional intelligence was negatively related to mobile phone addiction. Also, loneliness and emotional intelligence were negatively related with each other. It was also found that loneliness significantly predicted the levels of mobile phone addiction in male adolescents. Males as compared to females were higher on loneliness and mobile phone addiction; however, females in comparison to males were higher on emotional intelligence.

This work aims to study the collection field behavior of the most interesting banana and plantain cultivars for the populations surveyed in the province of Maniema. A 40 x 60 m collection field was installed in the experimental field of the Faculty of Agronomy of Kindu University, located on the Lwama 1 district. The spacings adopted were 3 x 3 m. The parameters collected for each cultivar were as follows: pseudostem length, neck diameter, number of leaves, leaf length and width, number of rejects, number of hands per diet, number of fingers / hand, finger circumference, finger length and diet weight. The results obtained showed that these cultivars have different vegetative and productive characteristics. The average values obtained were as follows: The length of the pseudostem varied from 120 cm to 351 cm; the neck diameter varies from 42.90 cm to 84 cm; the number of rejects varies from 2 (1.60) to (20.40); the number of hands varies from 1 cm to 8.50 cm; the number of finger / hand varies from 5.50 cm to 88.40 cm; the circumference / finger varies from 12 cm to 18.70 cm and finally the diet weight varies from 7 kg to 18.60 kg for all cultivars.

Levels of proximate and amino acid compositions were determined in Maggot meal (MM), Earthworm meal (EM) and Soybean meal (SM). Maggot meal was best in Ile, Leu, Lys, Try, Asp, Cys and Pro whereas Earth worm meal was best in Arg, His, Met, Phe, Val, Glu, Ser and Tyr while Soybean meal was only best in Gly,  when compared on pair-wise basis. The total amino acid contents were: Maggot meal (58.4g/100g crude protein), Earthworm meal (56.3g/100g crude protein) and Soybean meal (34.9g/100g crude protein) and an average of 49.9g/100g crude protein with respective essential amino acids of 34.5g/100g crude protein, 31.4g/100g crude protein and 18.3g/100gcrude protein. The Predicted Protein Efficiency Ratio (P-PER) levels were: 2.16 (Maggot meal), 1.45 (Earthworm meal) and 1.14 (Soybean meal). On average basis, the limiting amino acid based on whole hen’s egg amino acid scoring pattern and Provisional amino acids scoring pattern was threonine. However, significant differences occurred between Maggot meal/Earthworm meal (MM/EM), Maggot meal/Soybean meal (MM/SM), Quality of amino acid (QAA) of Maggot meal/ Earthworm meal (MM/EM) and Maggot meal/ Soybean meal (MM/SM) at r = 0.05 and n-2 degree of freedom. When comparing the quality of amino acids of feedstuffs on pair wise basis, the coefficients of alienation (C_A) were fairly low (24.0 - 40.7%), meaning that there is a better relationship between them while on the other hand the Index of Forecasting Efficiency (IFE) values were very high (59.4 – 76.0%) indicating that the error of prediction was very low. The three feedstuffs could then be compounded in other to employ them in feed formulation for fish, poultry and other animals.

Aluminium-3%Magnesium-10% silicon carbide composite is prepared in an induction heating furnace. The physical characteristics of both as-casted sample and corroded samples have been studied. A slice of the composite sample is kept in sea water for 6 weeks (42 days) and the weight loss was measured with the help of an electronic weighing machine in every 7 days to study the corrosion behavior.