801. DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED FRUIT FLY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM BASED LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR CONTROLLER FOR AIRCRAFT PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

This research is aimed at the development of a modified fruit fly optimization algorithm (mFFOA) for the determination of optimized weighting matrices (Q which is a positive definite matrix that penalizes the states and R which is also a positive definite matrix that penalizes the control inputs) of the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) to be used for the aircraft pitch control system (PCS).The standard fruit fly optimization algorithm (FFOA) is an optimization algorithm ins...

802. DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED EAST-WEST INTERFACE FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTROL PLANE IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK FOR WIDE AREA NETWORKS

ABSTRACT

This research is aimed at the development of a modified East-West Interface for distributed control plane in Software Defined Network (SDN) for Wide Area Network (WAN). The East-West Interface is important in achieving communication across a Software Defined WAN, to enable scalability and distribution of the control plane. The Communication Interface for Distributed Control Plane (CIDC) was developed to ensure communication in WANs. However, the interface does not address t...

803. DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED TOKEN BASED CONGESTION CONTROL SCHEME WITH ADAPTIVE FORWARDING FOR OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORK

ABSTRACT

This research presents the development of a modified token-based congestion control scheme with adaptive forwarding mechanism (mTBCC) algorithm for addressing congestion problems in opportunistic networks (OppNets). The algorithm addresses the limitations associated with the standard token –based congestion control (TBCC) in terms of its ability to redirect the traffic from more congested nodes of OppNet to congestion-free nodes without necessarily compromising comput...

804. THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION TOOLS BY YOUTHS IN ORGANIZING PROTESTS (A CASE STUDY OF ENDBADGOVERNANCE PROTEST IN NIGERIA)

THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION TOOLS BY YOUTHS IN ORGANIZING PROTESTS (A CASE STUDY OF ENDBADGOVERNANCE PROTEST IN NIGERIA)

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

In contemporary protest movements, technology and communication tools have become integral in organizing, mobilizing, and sustaining activism. The EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria, which began in 2024, exemplify how digital p...

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806. DEVELOPMENT OF A FILLER-BINDER DISINTEGRANT FOR DIRECT COMPRESSION TABLETING BY CO-PROCESSING MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE AND CROSPOVIDONE

ABSTRACT

The aim of the study was to improve the disintegration functionality of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) as a direct compression excipient in tablet formulation by co- processing MCCwith crospovidone (CPV), a superdisintegrant. Design of Experiment (DoE) approach was adopted to optimize the composition of the co-processed excipient (CPE). The optimized CPE containing MCC (99 %) and CPV (1 %) was prepared using wet massing technique. Solid-state properties of CPE were charac...

807. DEVELOPMENT OF A CLONAL SELECTION ALGORITHM BASED SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF MULTIPLE SHAPES

ABSTRACT

In this dissertation a Clonal Selection Algorithm (CSA) based system that detected multiple instances of circles, quadrilaterals and triangles in an image scene was developed. CSA models how B-cell antibodies of the immune system protect the body from invading antigens. The developed system eliminated the need for separate implementations of the CSA for detecting the different shapes in an image. The implementation of the system was done using MATLAB 2015a, the edges and co...

808. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THREE NEW SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF LAMIVUDINE IN PURE AND PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORMS

ABSTRACT

In this study three rapid, simple, accurate, economical and reproducible spectrophotometric methods for the quantitative determination of lamivudine in pure form and tablet formulations were developed and validated. The first method is based on dissolution of standard lamivudine powder or extraction of the drug from tablet formulation using methanol as solvent. The resulting extract was filtered and scanned using Helios Zeta Model 164617 UV/Vis spectrophotometer; having a &...

809. DEVELOPMENT OF A DYNAMIC OUTPUT-FEEDBACK REGULATOR FOR STABILIZATION AND TRACKING OF NON-SQUARE MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT

This research work is aimed at the development of an observer-based dynamic output feed- back controller for stabilization and tracking of nonlinear systems. The developed controller is designed after the immersion-invariance and internal model principle (IMP) frameworks and tar- gets non-square systems such as rotational-translational actuator (RTAC), cart-driven inverted pen- dulum (CIP) and quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). However non-square multiple-input multip...

810. DEVELOPMENT OF A DISCRETE-FIREFLY ALGORITHM BASED FEATURE SELECTION SCHEME FOR IMPROVED FACE RECOGNITION

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This research presents the development of a Discrete Firefly Algorithm (DFA) based feature selection scheme for improved face recognition. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Haar wavelet based Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) were used for feature extraction, and Nearest Neighbour Classifier (NNC) was used as classifier. Extracted features are mostly discrete in nature and most of the optimization techniques used in feature selection are continuous so DFA is employed for f...

811. DEVELOPMENT OF A 5KG CAPACITY INDUCTION FURNACE FOR MELTING ALUMINIUM

ABSTRACT

Aluminium in Nigeria is a popular metallic element. Widely used to produce single domestic appliances and even industrial engine components. These components display a decrease in performance level after many years of service are discarded and they become waste that tend to be a problem to manage. Furnaces are required for student practice to improve their technical skills, to reduce stress of local blacksmiths and the reduce delays due to frequent power in...

812. DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA

1.1Background of Study

Building has evolved through many centuries from dwelling in caves to skyscrapers and recently to intelligent structures that can smartly respond to stimuli in its environment (Azhar, 2010). This view was corroborated by Kiviniemi, Fischer and Bazjanac (2005) that building practice has also undergone a great deal of metamorphosis in response to the dynamic nature of human needs and development. Hence, the submission of Grillo (2010) that building design and co...

813. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF RISPERIDONE IN PURE AND TABLET DOSAGE FORMS

ABSTRACT

Two simple, sensitive, accurate and extraction-free spectrophotometric methods were developed and described for the determination of risperidone in pure and in tablet dosage forms. The methods are based on the formation of ion-pair complex between risperidone and the dyes bromocresol green in method A and thymol blue in method B at room temperature to form yellow coloured products having absorption maxima at 414 nm and 404 nm respectively. The composition of the ion-pairs w...

814. DEVELOPMENT OF A DISTRIBUTED BIG DATA FUSION ARCHITECTURE FOR MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION USING ENSEMBLE LEARNING

ABSTRACT

This research developed a distributed big data fusion architecture for machine to machine communication using ensemble learning. This is implemented to mitigate the challenges that characterize centralized big data fusion architecture commonly adopted through the use of Hadoop MapReduce platform. These challenges include bandwidth consumption, latency, and high computational cost. Fog computing technique approach was adopted through the implementation of ensemble learning;...

815. DEVELOPMENT OF A DEEP LEARNING BASED VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE DETECTION SCHEME

ABSTRACT

This research developed a license plate and classification scheme using deep learning architecture which utilized transfer learning using pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The developed scheme used images obtained from Caltech dataset, Peking University VehicleID (PKU VehicleID) dataset and a developed dataset of vehicle licence plates from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria called the ABU dataset. De-noising, downscaling operation and grayscale conversion was app...

816. THE INFLUENCE OF INDISCIPLINARY ACT ON STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IFAKO IJAYE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LAGOS STATE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the Study

Discipline, according to Jemibewon (1976) is a highly desirable quality of human being or social group.  Discipline behavior is accepted as essential characteristics of any educated or cultured person.  Discipline, therefore, is a subject of great concern to parents, teachers, and administrators who are interested in the moulding of the character of y...

817. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF PSYCHOMOTOR COMPETENCY BASED PROGRAMME FOR RETRAINING ARTISANS IN ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION WORKS IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA

Background to the Study

The 21st Century is best described as the age of science and technology, exploration, experimentation and development. This has resulted to innovations in all fields of human endeavour with its attendant socioeconomic consequences. Thus, every nation must be abreast with such innovations to be economically viable. In view of this, Dauda, Daniel, Paul and Danlami (2017) opined that Nigeria needs to grow and compete favourably with other nations in business and...

818. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF MEETING UNMET NEED PROGRAMME FOR FAMILY PLANNING IN BENUE STATE OF NIGERIA :IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSELLING

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to develop and implement unmet need programme for family planning in the Benue State of Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to: determine the objectives and contents of meeting unmet need programme for Benue State and implement it in Benue State; determine the counselling implications of meeting unmet need programme; and determine if a significant difference exists between the mean scores of counselled and non-counselled women in...

819. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF INSTRUMENT FOR ASSESSING STUDENTS PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE IN ELECTRONIC WORK IN TECHNICAL COLLEGES

Background to the Study

The major objective of teaching and learning at any level is that teachers/instructors bring about changes in their students.The achievement of this objective is very much dependent on assessment which can be carried out through examinations, tests, interviews, and projects (Bukar, 1994). Based on this premise, Chiejile (2006) mentioned that a simplistic measure of quality of teaching is dependent on how effective and efficient the students carry out the lear...

820. DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF FOUR NEW UVSPECTROMETRIC METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ISONIAZID IN PURE AND TABLET DOSAGE FORMS

ABSTRACT

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease which is on increase since emergence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) leading to TB/HIV co infection, causing complications and treatment failure. Isoniazid is a first line drug for the treatment of TB therefore it is important to develop methods that will monitor its quality. In this study, four rapid, simple, relatively accurate, and precise spectrophotometric methods for the quantitative determination of isoniazid in...

821. DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY EVALUATION OF MEAT FLOSS FROM BEEF, CHEVON AND PORK

ABSTRACT

Meat Floss (MF) is a meat product traditionally produced from beef. The MF is a shredded meat product that is light, easy to pack and nutrient retaining. However, information on yield and nutritional quality of MF has not been well documented. Therefore, MF from beef (MFB), chevon (MFC) and pork (MFP) were developed and evaluated for yield and quality.

The raw beef, chevon and pork were obtained from thigh muscle and analysed for Dry Matter (DM) and Crude Protein...

822. DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION OF A TWO-ROW ENGINE-PROPELLED SEEDRIDGE PLANTER

ABSTRACT

In the bid to find solutions to the problems associated with planting on ridges and for the fact that existing planters for cereals in Nigeria are not built on the concept of ridges but on flat land planting, this research work was embarked upon to develop anengine- propelled two-row ridge planter for cereals. The planter was designed, fabricated and evaluated. The planter has the functional units of two hoppers, two seed metering units, two delivery chutes, two coulters, t...

823. DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE THRESHING PERFORMANCE OF A MULTICROP THRESHER

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The existing IAR multicrop thresher was evaluated and found to have low feed rate and output with millet and soybean crops. The machine was modified and reconstructed to increase its threshing performance. Its components were increased in size and a shredder was added below the feed hopper to cut stems of crops that entangle the threshing cylinder and stop its motion. The beaters were tilted and arranged spirally on the threshing cylinder to facilitate the flow of threshed...

824. DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A CO-PROCESSED EXCIPIENT FROM ACID HYDROLYZED CASSAVA STARCH, GELATIN AND LACTOSE (STARGELAC) IN TABLET FORMULATIONS

ABSTRACT

Co-processed excipients are a mixture of two or more existing excipients at subparticle level. These multipurpose excipients have significantly reduced the number of incorporating excipients in the tablet. The aim of this work is to design and prepare a co- processed excipient from acid hydrolyzed cassava starch, gelatin and lactose and evaluate its functionality in tablet formulations. Native cassava starch (NCS) extracted from cassava tubers ( Mannihot esculenta crantz )...

825. DEVELOPMENT AND HEAT TRANSFER SIMULATION OF EPOXIDIZED JATROPHA BIOLUBRICANT FOR SPARK IGNITION ENGINES

ABSTRACT

Vegetable oils need to be chemically modified before being used for biolubricant production for internal combustion engines applications. One of the most effective chemical modifications for vegetable oils is epoxidation of its double bonds. In this work, Crude Jatropha oil (CJO) was epoxidized using peracid generated in-situ by the reaction of formic acid and hydrogen peroxide using sulfuric acid as catalyst. FTIR and Iodine Value were used to confirm the formation of epox...