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Heat flow values were obtained from four boreholes located at Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria. The values obtained from the four wells, A, B, C and D was respectively 75, 68, 60 and 56mWm^-2. However, the average value of 64.75mWm^-2 is very close to the estimated value of 65mWm^-2 from the semi-empirical law of heat flow versus lithospheric age. The platinum resistance thermometer and the thermistor were used for the measurement of borehole temperature. From the measured temperature distribution, the temperature gradient was computed. The formation heat flow was obtained by multiplying the gradient by the mean thermal conductivity of the rocks. The interpretation of high and low values of heat flow in wells A and D respectively were explained.  However anomalous high heat flow values have been observed in well A.   The result reveals that a hot plate mobility of heat carrier through some structural boundary and chemical reactions of some organic matters are some specific causes of high heat flow anomaly in the area of the research.

Thermo-chemically cracked cocos nucifera shells were converted into useful adsorbent using chemical activation method. Regeneration of the spent carbon was carried out via thermal regeneration method. The re-derived filter was used in the adsorption of nickel (Ni) from a simulated Ni2+ solution. Qualitative characterization was carried out using the Fourier Transformed Infra Red Spectrophotometer while Atomic Adsorption Spectrophotometer was used to analyze the equilibrium phase Ni2+ concentration. Comparative study of the derived and regenerated activated carbons was carried out using kinetic adsorption studies approach. From the experimental runs, it was evident that derived cocos nucifera shells activated Carbon provided slightly higher removal efficiency values than the vice for Nickel uptake. Investigations with applicability test supported the pseudo second order kinetics as best model in explaining the sorption rate (k2 = 0.744) as against the proposed linear and first order kinetics. Generally, reuse of spent coconut shell carbon and its investigated film diffusion transport mode in removal of Ni2+ is critical a study with a worthwhile adoption in remediation study.

Vocational interests are an enduring and compelling aspect of individual differences and the most popular means for matching individuals to environments, to improve occupational success and job satisfaction. Interests have received its’ strongest impetus from vocational and educational counselling, gaining considerable attention in areas of vocational choice, such as career development and choice, interest testing and career counselling. It has been to a lesser extent incited by personnel classification and selection. This article attempts to analyse whether interest inventories accurately predict the kind of work in which individuals will be satisfied in.

Radon and its progenies are potential health hazards. The levels of radon concentration in homes and workplaces have been found to depend on meteorological and geological conditions, construction materials, and ventilation. The variation of radon concentration with ventilation conditions in ten offices at the campus of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, has been studied in this work.The measurement of Radon-222 concentrations at each of the locations was done using an active electronic radon gas detector (pro series 3, model HS71512). The statistical variation of the five ventilation conditions with Radon-222 was determined at 0.05 level of significance, using analysis of variance. The Radon-222 concentrations for various ventilation conditions ranged from 20.0 to 51.8Bq m-3. The average concentration of indoor radon in the offices was measured to be 37.0 ± 8.39 Bq m-3. Natural mode of ventilation was discovered to be the most efficient way to lower the radon levels which were observed to depend significantly on the ventilation conditions. Despite the significant effect of ventilation on the indoor radon level, the radon concentration values in all the ventilation conditions investigated however were lower than the recommended intervention level of between 200 – 600 Bq m-3.

Conducive organizational culture has been proved to be imperative for an efficient organizational performance. Organizations that ensure a favorable work environment for their employees are able to achieve a higher level of professionalism than others. Literature also reveals that a diverse workforce has advantages of more dynamic knowledge, variety of experiences from different backgrounds and multicultural pool of human capital that help create an improved organizational climate through better work involvement, supervisory support, innovation & flexibility, clarity of goals and welfare. Thus if ethnic diversity is integrated with organizational culture of an organization, then it creates a better work environment that leads to an enhanced employees’ productivity. The study was conducted on two higher level educational institutions in two different countries: a university in Pakistan having a homogeneous workforce and a college in the Sultanate of Oman carrying a heterogeneous workforce where diversity is integrated with organizational culture as a diverse work force from many different cultural backgrounds and nationalities is working in Omani educational institutions. After data analysis, it was found that faculty members working in a diversity integrated culture have a better perception about their organization than those serving in a culture without diversity. It was concluded that Employees perceive an organizational culture as more attractive and better in which workforce in ethnically diverse, which also means a favorable organizational climate.

The goal of this research is evaluation of some of the effective environmental attractions on Khorasan Razavi sport tourism development. The research statistical population include of all in charge expert and professors in field of sport and tourism as 120 persons. This research is past-event descriptive that had been performed based on field method. Sampling had been performed as Categorized to determine effective environmental attraction effects on Khorasan Razavi tourism development, the questions had been analyzed by researcher that its validity had been confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha had been calculated as 0.82. Data had been analyzed using spss software and Kolmogorov–Smirnov test had been performed to confirm normal data. Also one sample t test and Friedman test had been used to analyze hypothesis. Findings show that from experts and managers view points, effective factors on sport tourism development with emphasis on sport natural attractions include of tourism and pilgrim attractions, natural treatment and warm water attractions and summer and water sports that are the most important items in Khorasan Razavi. Also there are three important factors in relation to problem and obstacles as Management problems, cultural problems and infrastructure problems. Research results show that pilgrim locations are effective to attract tourism and knowing the effect of tourism industry development effects and present obstacles and limitation in the province, attention to sport tourism development importance and applying various benefits of sport tourist attraction are necessary and programming and sport tourism developments by province planner and policy makers would be required.

Background: Iron oxide nanoparticles can be used for medical imaging, disease diagnosis, drug delivery, cancer treatment, gene therapy and other cases. These particles accumulate in liver cells and lead to oxidative stress with generation of reactive oxygen species. Aim: This study investigates the effect of iron oxide nanoparticles on liver tissue and enzymes [alanine aminotransfere (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP)] in male rat. Methods: 40 adult male rats of wistar strain, weighing 250-300 g were used for this study. The rats were randomly assigned to four groups. One group was control and other three groups were fed with iron oxide nanoparticles at 20, 50 and 150 µg/kg concentrations respectively for 15 days. Venous blood was taken to measure liver enzymes at the end of treatment. Liver of rats removed for histological experiments. Results: Significantly enhanced (P<0.05) AST level obtained as well as ALT and ALP level with used of maximum concentration of iron oxide nanoparticles (150 µg/kg) as compared to normal group. Conclusion: Based on our result, using high concentration of iron oxide nanoparticles could be caused undesirable effects on liver with damage to hepatocyte and level elevation of liver enzymes.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived social support and achievement motivation and personality of students of Payam Noor University is Gilangharbcity. This study is a descriptive and correlational terms. The population in this study, all students in Year 912011 to 2012 PNU city Gilangharb that number is 1,100, and the number 290, according to Morgan, and cluster sampling were randomly selected.Data collection tools, including questionnaires, self-concept questionnaire hardiness Ahvaz, questionnaires SCL-90-R, Locus of Control Scale (Drvny- external), Rutter (1996), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), motivation scale education (Ams), form studentsData using multiple regression, Pearson correlation coefficient and T (mean difference test) were no analyzes of the data analysis showed that the perceived social support and personality characteristics (self-confidence, tenacity, anxiety, locus of control) there is a student progress and motivation.

A Multi Hole pressure Probes (MHP) with five holes and conically shaped was designed for Air craft data sensors for calibrating the total pressure, static pressure, flow angle and flow speed. The main principle of five-hole probe is based on the notion that Mach number, pressure and directionality of the incoming stream may correlated with the combination of pressure readings. The general aspects of the five-hole conical probe were studied by various research papers and concluded with the final design of conical probe with 600 included angles which is applicable Air craft data sensors and also for both subsonic and supersonic wind tunnel test sections. Numerical calibration using ANSYS FLUENT 14.0 is done.

The present study deals with impact of physical factors on extracellular cellulase activity of some dominant post-harvest fungi. Post-harvest fungi were isolated from different varieties of papaya fruits by agar plate method. Out of 20 species 10 species of fungi were selected to study their cellulase enzyme activity. Different physical parameters such as light, incubation period, temperature and pH were studied in order to determine the optimum conditions for cellulase production of ten dominant fungi. The cellulase present in the broth was assayed by cup-plate method. It is observed that cellulase activity of post-harvest fungi was found to be optimum at temperature 200C, pH 6.0-6.5, incubation period of 20 days and continuous light