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Two different samples of fish were procured from Ombi River, Lafia – Jos Road, Nasarawa State, North-central Nigeria. Catfish (Claria gariepinus) and Tilapia fish (Oreochronis niloticus) and shared into two parts, smoked and unsmoked: The fish samples were analysed for protein, moisture, ash, lipid and carbohydrate content. The unsmoked and smoked Tilapia fish showed higher protein and carbohydrate content (31.50 % - 32.81 % and 13.00% - 16.27%) respectively compared to unsmoked and smoked cat fish (21.00% - 19.80% and 0.48% - 2.47%) respectively. While the unsmoked and smoked Tilapia fish showed low moisture, ash, and lipid content (12.00 % - 10.40 %; 15.60 %-16.00 % and 26.50 % - 25.83 %) compare to the unsmoked and smoked cat fish (21.00% - 19.80 %, 20.40% - 21.40 %, 28.33 % - 27.50%) respectively. High protein content in Tilapia fish proved the fact that Tilapia fish belongs to the category of fish with high protein. While high lipid content in Catfish, gave an indication of cat fish belonging to category of fish with higher lipid. The results of the analysis showed variation compared to the result of other similar researches. This could be as a result of some factors, which may include geographical location, sex, species, age, nutrient, migration and Season. The processing method altered the composition of the Cat and Tilapia fish as a result of heat where denaturisation of the fish composition is believed to have occurred. The low moisture content in smoked fish samples is as a result of water loss during smoking process and low ash content in the unsmoked fish samples can be ascribed to low content of inorganic elements. It can thus be concluded that fresh fish is more nutritious for human consumption.

Psychoanalytic theories of both modern and postmodern dimensions have given us infinitely rich, complex and subtle ways of thinking. It most cases it has crossed the boundaries of speaking about body and sexuality, identity and difference, and also knowledge, language, culture. These theories mostly see gender as fluid suggesting our gendered subjectivity as unstable as it is vulnerable to the subversion of unconscious desire. In particular, psychoanalysis not only suggests the variety of biological drives but also the complicated social construction which arise out of the experiences within our particular historically and culturally situated families. Psychoanalysis still remains central to contemporary work on gender despite imperfections, limitations and omissions even in the light of powerful later developments. It has opened up crucial insights about conceptualizing the construction of identity and their changes by the meanings of language and culture.

Earthquake is one of the frequent non-human natural disasters that would expose an individuals to the risk of potentially traumatic events. Traumatic events like earthquake leads the survivors to different resilent responses, short-term and long-term clinical and sub-clinical symptoms or consequences that fall outside of diagnostic criteria. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) represents one of the most frequently occuirng psychiatric sequelae to earthquake exposure. Research evidences suggest variation in the prevalence and factors effecting PTSD including age, sex, exposure to other traumatic situations and so on. The present study aims at exploring the prevalence of PTSD and its influencing factors. 169 school teachers of 19 different government schools of Kavre district who experienced the earthquake of April 25th 2015 (Richter Magnitude 7.8) were assessed by using The PTSD checklist (PCL: weathers, litz, Huska & Keane, 1994). The result showed significantly higher rates of PTSD among the school teachers effecting femles more than males. There was statistically significant association between sex and PTSD. Besides sex, other factors influencing PTSD included their situation after earthquake, beliefs about the huge aftershock and life after earthquake. There was strong association between their belief about the huge aftershock, life and status after earthquake and PTSD where as the situation of the subjects during earthquake had marginal association with the PTSD.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of developing Questionnaires of Deviant Sexual Behavior and Awareness on Sexual Deviation Behavior Based on Islam. Some criteria’s has been identified to develop these questionnaires in the aspect of psychology, counseling and Islamic education. The benefit is to produce an applicable instrument to the Islamic context. These questionnaires were developed through integrated discipline of psychology, counseling and Islam and the aim is for enable to measure sexual deviant behavior from the Islamic perspective. The main sources of these references were based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Text Revision (2000), Checklist Sexual Behavior Inventory (Friedrich, 1997), Al Ghazali Model (Yatimah and Mohd Tajudin, 2008) and the tendency of immoral behavior based on human sense according to Islam (Amir Hassan, 2007). DSM-IV-TR (2000) which involved some clinical items such as exhibitionism, frotteurism and voyeurism. Meanwhile Checklist Sexual Behaviour Inventory (Friedrich, 1997) were refers to personal boundaries, exhibitionism, self-stimulation, sexual interest, sexual knowledge and voyeuristic behavior. Counseling Model Based On Human Traits Al Ghazali (Yatimah and Mohd Tajudin, 2008) involved some items such as limitation in intermingle, aurat limitation, sense limitation, and the tendency of immoral behaviour based on human sense according to Islam (Amir Hassan, 2007) such as part of body, hands, mouth, ear and eye. These questionnaires has been evaluated for the content validity and expert validity from the internal expert and external expert. The result of these questionnaires showed a commonly acceptable for the Cronbach alpha value more than 0.6 (Kerlinger, 1979). The Questionaires of Deviant Sexual Behaviour Based on Islam for the value of Cronbach Alpha was 0.7038 and Awareness on Sexual Deviation Behaviour Based on Islam for the Cronbach Alpha was 0.7183.

This study examines the problem of MHD mixed convection flow between a horizontal parallel flat wall and a long wavy wall in the presence of thermal radiation, Dufour effect and first order chemical reaction embedded with slip boundary condition. The governing equations include the continuity, linear momentum, energy and mass transfer equations which are solved analytically by using exact solution method. The results of this parametric study on the velocity, temperature and concentration distributions are shown graphically and the physical aspects of the problem are highlighted and discussed. The effect of shear stress, rate of heat and mass transfer coefficients at the channel walls are displayed in tables.

The disaster management in any country is a process that works at various activities of prevention levels and operational models. An important element of the improvement of the civil protection in the individual countries and of their coordination in joint activities is the improvement of the existing Integrated Disaster Prevention Policy activity. The huge variety of organizational concepts of the systems for disaster prevention, accidents and catastrophes in the different countries, pose a lot of questions related to the improvement of the efficiency. The coordination that could benefit from the good and effective practices and produce a common, integrated and comprehensive European view and concept for the Regional Disaster Prevention Policy. This issue is getting more and more important, the large-scale emergency events and disasters are covering the territories of several regions, and- because of their magnitude and consequences- require the assistance and cooperation of international bodies working in the sphere of civil protection.

The present article discuses the problems of relativistic invariance and commutation relations at unitary quantum theory. The scalar analogue of the main (principal) equation of the unitary quantum theory together with the Poisson equation are solved numerically in this paper. The value of the electrical charge and also the fine-structure constant, are found, which are in good agreement with the experiment. The evaluation of the electrical form factor end the mass of such a particle is also carried out.

Environmentally sustainable (green) supply chain management (GSCM) has emerged as an important organizational philosophy to achieve corporate profit and market share objectives by reducing environmental risks and impacts while improving ecological efficiency of these organizations and their partners companies. The number of organizations contemplating the integration of environmental practices into their strategic plans and daily operations is continuously increasing day to day. Numerous initiatives have provided incentives for organizations to become more environmentally benign. Organizations view many of these environmental programs, which may include technological and organizational development projects, as possible alternatives for gaining or maintaining a competitive advantage. One environmental program area that continues to gain in importance is one that focuses on the external relationships among organizations. Environmentally conscious business practices have been receiving increasing importance from both researchers and practitioner’s point of view. Interdisciplinary research has integrated the efforts of management, engineering, physical and social sciences to investigate the issues relevant to this GSCM. Similarly, multifunctional groups within organizations and external stakeholders have a role in decisions related to organizations and the natural environment. Green supply chain decisions are one of the latest issues facing organizations with strong internal and external linkages.

This paper presents a study which examines the foundation of the present day scientometric as laid down by Derek de Solla Price in his award winning work: A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes, published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science. In the study, the importance of scientometric in research evaluation is identified, and a new concept of scientometrick is introduced. The error made and concealed in the trivial modification of the effect of contagion single-edged success introduced by Derek de Solla Price is exhumed with elucidatory discussion. The features of the Price’s model do not seem to correlate well when compared with the real time situations in academic publishing process. Except that Derek de Solla Price stated so, it is doubtful that the Price’s model is relevant and useful in real time bibliometric and academic publishing processes.

This study examined the impact of fish farming on household food security and livelihoods for fish farming and non fish farming households in Siaya County. Currently fish farming remains under developed in Western Kenya where pond productivity is low and not rising, despite the effort of several players. Further, capture fish in Lake Victoria and rivers has subsequently declined. These scenarios called for the need to examine the production systems and their current performances. The objective of the study was to determine the socio-economic characteristics of fish farmers and their fish farming practices. A cross sectional survey research design was adopted for the study. Stratified random sampling was used to select fish farming and non fish farming households. Key informants were selected through purposive sampling method. Data gathering was through multiple methods; where primary and secondary data were collected. Data analysis made use of descriptive statistics, where numerical and non-numerical summary of data were used. Chi-Square was used to test the independence between variables. Findings were; fish farming in the study area is economically rewarding and profitable. It is capable of creating employment, increasing income and improving the livelihoods of the people. Fish farming in the area is male dominated, however, women are used to manage the ponds and there is less participation of youth in fish farming. Females and youths need to be encouraged to participate in fish farming in the area as a means of increasing their income and improve their standard of living. The main production level is semi-intensive where mixed sexed tilapia production system provides seed for subsequent restocking. Most of the fish farms are privately owned by individuals who have little access to finance. Therefore, government participation in fish farming should be encouraged to boost the quantity of fish available for consumption. Fish farmers should be organized into formidable groups such as self help and cooperative to realize economies of scale in the purchase of inputs and sale of their fish.