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Effects of Fadama III Project on Dry Season Onion Farmers’ Income in Sokoto State, Nigeria Fadama III项目对尼日利亚索科托州旱季洋葱农民收入的影响

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.22

Salisu D. Dogon-Daji, I. S. Mohammad

{"title":"Effects of Fadama III Project on Dry Season Onion Farmers’ Income in Sokoto State, Nigeria","authors":"Salisu D. Dogon-Daji, I. S. Mohammad","doi":"10.4314/equijost.v8i1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/equijost.v8i1.22","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of Fadama III project to the improvement in the income of participating dry season onion farmers inSokoto State was studied. Population of the study comprised of all dry season onion farmers in Sokoto State.Purposive sampling was used to select six Local Government Areas, while random sampling technique was usedto select 15 respondents each from the project participants and non-project participants in each of the six LocalGovernment Areas. Descriptive statistics and gross margin analysis were used for data analyses. Findings of thestudy revealed that Majority (63.53% and 76.40%) of project beneficiaries and non-project beneficiariesrespectively did not attain any form of formal education. Cost of fertilizer dominated the production cost for boththe project beneficiaries (46.61%) and non-project beneficiaries (55.99%) of total cost. Result of the gross marginanalysis shows that the project participants made more profit in dry season onion production (₦241, 854.89)compared to the non-project participants (₦63,328.59). It was recommended that Fadama III project should as muchas possible expand their area of operation so that more farmers can benefit from their services.","PeriodicalId":158544,"journal":{"name":"Equity Journal of Science and Technology","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126638497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Phytochemical and Antibacterial Study of Ethanol and Ethyl acetate Extracts from Leaves of Alchornea Cordifolia Against Isolates from Infected Wounds Cordifolia叶片乙醇和乙酸乙酯提取物对伤口感染分离株的植物化学及抗菌研究

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.11

A. Mohammed, Bashir K. Ado

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Design and Simulation of an Advanced Solid-state Photomultiplier for Fiber-Optic Communication Systems 一种用于光纤通信系统的先进固态光电倍增管的设计与仿真

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.4

S. Rabiu, Salisu Musa, Jerry Raymond

{"title":"Design and Simulation of an Advanced Solid-state Photomultiplier for Fiber-Optic Communication Systems","authors":"S. Rabiu, Salisu Musa, Jerry Raymond","doi":"10.4314/equijost.v8i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/equijost.v8i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Detection of weak infrared light is essential for high data rate fiber-optic communication systems since itsperformance depends heavily on the sensitivity and bandwidth of photodetectors. Semiconductor diodes are themost common types of photodetectors that are widely considered. Indium Arsenide (InAs), being an AvalanchePhotodiode (APD), has become a solid-state photodetector of choice owing to its ability to detect infrared light ofup to about 3.5 μm. In this work, the depletion width and electric field profile of p-i-n InAs were simulated andused to obtain the multiplication gain. The effect of combining a series of p-i-n InAs in order to obtain longerdepletion width for the purpose of achieving high multiplication gain was investigated. To achieve this main target,the work was designed in two stages. The first stage involved designing a simple p-n junction of InAs to test themodel. Further improvement of the design to increase the depletion region was carried out by sand-witching anintrinsic piece of semiconductor material between the p and n-regions to form p-i-n InAs. The results obtainedshowed that the modification led to an interesting increase in the depletion width, electric field and themultiplication gain. In the second stage, the series of p-i-n InAs were combined to form an “Advanced solid-statephotomultiplier”. For the first time, a larger depletion width was achieved and thus increased multiplication gain.The results presented deduced that this novel design is promising since an appreciable gain much greater than 1000was achieved at about 6 V. Therefore, this could be used as an alternative to photomultiplier tube as well as otherexpensive photodetectors available.","PeriodicalId":158544,"journal":{"name":"Equity Journal of Science and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129305028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Integrity of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Extracted from Whole Teeth Samples Burnt with Different Accelerants Using Two Extraction Protocols for Forensic Sex Determination 用两种提取方法从不同促进剂烧伤的全牙样本中提取脱氧核糖核酸(DNA)的完整性，用于法医性别鉴定

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.6

O. Iroanya, Abdul-Warith Akinshipo, J. P. Mairiga

{"title":"The Integrity of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Extracted from Whole Teeth Samples Burnt with Different Accelerants Using Two Extraction Protocols for Forensic Sex Determination","authors":"O. Iroanya, Abdul-Warith Akinshipo, J. P. Mairiga","doi":"10.4314/equijost.v8i1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/equijost.v8i1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Sex determination is usually the first step in forensic identification of victim(s) in disasters, jungle justice and arsonscenarios for many medical and legal reasons. The use of DNA in forensic analysis offers a good method in sexdetermination and the quality of extracted DNA is very important for downstream PCR. The aim of this study is toinvestigate the viability of DNA obtained from burnt teeth for forensic sex-determination. Two DNA extractionmethods consisting of silica based commercial kit and phenol-chloroform organic method, followed by polymerasechain amplification of amelogenin gene for sex determination were employed. Based on the DNA yield and opticaldensity values, the kit extraction method performed better than the phenol-chloroform method with 100% and85.71% success respectively. A Mann-Whitney U test of 260/280 absorbance showed no statistically significantdifference in the median absorbance for aviation fuel (median = 1.34) and gasoline (median =1.32) burnt samples.Amplification of AMEL genes using the commercial kit and phenol-chloroform method were 52.38% and 22.22%positive respectively compared to pre-extraction sex determination. This study shows that the use of the silica basedcommercial kit technique yielded higher DNA quality and quantity from whole teeth burnt with gasoline andaviation fuel as accelerants for downstream PCR amplification of AMEL genes compared to organic phenolchloroform method.","PeriodicalId":158544,"journal":{"name":"Equity Journal of Science and Technology","volume":"149 Suppl 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121234758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Proximate Analysis and Mycological Assessment of Suya Sold in Kabuga, Kano State, Nigeria 尼日利亚卡诺州Kabuga出售的Suya的近似分析和真菌学评估

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.7

Albert O. Fasogbon, J. Odewade, L. O. Odewade

{"title":"Proximate Analysis and Mycological Assessment of Suya Sold in Kabuga, Kano State, Nigeria","authors":"Albert O. Fasogbon, J. Odewade, L. O. Odewade","doi":"10.4314/equijost.v8i1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/equijost.v8i1.7","url":null,"abstract":"Suya is a cherished food delicacy which can serve as a source of infection as it can harbor pathogens of clinicalimportance. However, there is paucity of data on mycological assessment and proximate analysis of suya soldwithin Kabuga area, Kano State, Nigeria. Therefore, this study examined the proximate composition andmycological qualities of suya sold within this area in Kano State. A total of thirty-six samples were randomlycollected from selected suya spots from the study area and microbiologically analyzed. Total fungal counts,identification of fungi and proximate analysis were NH determined using standard microbiological techniques. Atotal of fifty-one (51) fungal isolates were obtained from all the suya samples collected. The highest frequency ofoccurrence was shown by Aspergillus spp (16) while Fusarium spp had the lowest frequency of occurrence (10).Proximate analysis revealed the mean percentage of moisture as 24.00 - 48.00%, crude protein (24.64 - 46.32%), crudefiber (5.25 - 8.75%), fat (8.80 - 17.30%), carbohydrate (0.11 - 14.58%) and ash (1.05 - 2.45%) contents. This studyshowed the presence of Penicillium, Aspergillus, Fusarium and Rhizopus spp in suya samples examined and hencethe need to improve on good hygiene practice by the suya vendors to control associated health risk.","PeriodicalId":158544,"journal":{"name":"Equity Journal of Science and Technology","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124031170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Constructivist Approach to Learning Activity: The Case of Junior Secondary Students’ Misconception on the Three States of Matter in Basic Science, Nigeria 建构主义的学习活动观:以尼日利亚基础科学课程中学生对物质三态的误解为例

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.2

I. Libata, Mohd N. Bin Ali, H. Ismail

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Hybrid Energy Systems: Optimal Resource Determination and Cost Evaluation Using Homer Grid Software 混合能源系统:使用荷马网格软件的最优资源确定和成本评估

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.5

J. Okhaifoh, G. Uzedhe, I. Odigwe

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Design and Implementation of a Custom, Web-Based Cooperative Loan Application Management System 基于web的定制合作贷款申请管理系统的设计与实现

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.1

Dauda M. Rilwan, A. Oyelakin, Mohammed Usman

{"title":"Design and Implementation of a Custom, Web-Based Cooperative Loan Application Management System","authors":"Dauda M. Rilwan, A. Oyelakin, Mohammed Usman","doi":"10.4314/equijost.v8i1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/equijost.v8i1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative societies are growing in Nigerian Educational institutions. Members of different groups within theseacademic settings have been coming together to support each other financially through saving and incidental accessto loans. A good example of such cooperative groups is ASUP SICHST Makarfi cooperative society limited. Oneof the key challenges that most of these societies face in their day-to-day administration is the use of manualtechniques for management of cooperative records. ASUP SICHST Markarfi cooperative society limited is used asthe case study in this work. The society is registered by government of Kaduna State and is operating at Shehu IdrisCollege of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi. Despite having some proposals for deploying ICT solutionsto manage cooperative activities, it was observed that there is paucity of works that specifically identify the needto provide solutions to loan application management problem in a custom scenario. This study proposed a webbased loan application management system that addresses the identified problems in the current manual system.The solution was developed with focus on features that cater for loan application management function in thecooperation society, in a custom manner. MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS and JQuery were the tools used for theimplementation. The new system is found to be custom-developed and can promote the creation and managementof members’ loan applications in the cooperative society. It is believed that this approach is better when it comesto deploying solutions for the management of custom operations of cooperative society activities.","PeriodicalId":158544,"journal":{"name":"Equity Journal of Science and Technology","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124095125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Aflatoxin Total and Microbial Contamination of Grains, Oil Seeds, Yam Chips and Fish Sold in Maiduguri Market 在迈杜古里市场出售的谷物、油籽、薯片和鱼的黄曲霉毒素总量和微生物污染情况

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.10

H. K. Saka, I. Bala, F. Ahmad, A. Adamu, Ahmad K. Yerima, Abdullah Ibrahim, A. K. Alkali, Eunice I. Bamishaiye

{"title":"Aflatoxin Total and Microbial Contamination of Grains, Oil Seeds, Yam Chips and Fish Sold in Maiduguri Market","authors":"H. K. Saka, I. Bala, F. Ahmad, A. Adamu, Ahmad K. Yerima, Abdullah Ibrahim, A. K. Alkali, Eunice I. Bamishaiye","doi":"10.4314/equijost.v8i1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/equijost.v8i1.10","url":null,"abstract":"Aflatoxins are secondary metabolites of fungus Aspergillus flavus and closely related species that infects severalagricultural commodities. The consumption of contaminated commodities adversely affects the health of humansand animals and also a cause of significant economic losses to producers. This study surveyed the aflatoxincontamination level of cowpea, maize, melon, groundnut, yam chips and fish sold in Maiduguri metropolis.Samples from each product (250 g) were bulked and thoroughly mixed using coning and quartering method to geta representative sample for analysis. Laboratory observations were carried out regarding microbial analysis,proximate composition and aflatoxin content. Samples for aflatoxin detection were classified into three; unsortedsamples, sorted samples and sorted/washed dried samples. Fish had the highest bacterial load 2.48 x 106 cfu/ml andAspergillus species were found to be the predominant fungi identified. Maize and groundnut with moisture contentof 5.63 and 5.62 had the highest total aflatoxin contamination (320.51 μg/kg and 236.3 μg/kg respectively) both inthe unsorted group. Total aflatoxin reduction of (58.82 - 99.99%) was observed in all the sorted samples andsorted/washed dried samples. It can be concluded that commonly sold food in Maiduguri had fungal and Aflatoxincontamination. Food should undergo several rounds of sorting to remove discoloured grains and grains that showsevidence(s) of deterioration to reduce the ingestion of food contaminated with aflatoxin.","PeriodicalId":158544,"journal":{"name":"Equity Journal of Science and Technology","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121811515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tripping Profile Analysis of the 33 kV Feeder of Ugbowo 2 x 15 MVA, 33/11 kV Injection Substation Ugbowo 2 × 15mva 33/11 kV注压变电站33kv馈线脱扣分析

Equity Journal of Science and Technology Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.4314/equijost.v8i1.3

F. O. Akpojedje, Y. O. Abu, Onoriode Onowighose

{"title":"Tripping Profile Analysis of the 33 kV Feeder of Ugbowo 2 x 15 MVA, 33/11 kV Injection Substation","authors":"F. O. Akpojedje, Y. O. Abu, Onoriode Onowighose","doi":"10.4314/equijost.v8i1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/equijost.v8i1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigated the tripping profile of the 33 kV feeder of Ugbowo 2 x 15 MVA, 33/11 kV electric powerdistribution network. The annual data of daily tripping of the 33 kV feeder from September 2019 to August 2020were collated and collected from the Ugbowo injection substation. The daily outage of the 33 kV feeder was usedto compute the monthly and yearly tripping profile of the sub-transmission line (33 kV feeder) of the Ugbowoinjection substation. The monthly and yearly failure rate, MTTR, MTTF, MTBF, availability, unavailability, SAIFI,SAIDI, ASAI, ASUI, etc. for the period of twelve (12) months were analyzed using the Load Point Indices (LPI)and Microsoft Excel was used graphically to interpret the results of the tripping profile of the 33 kV feeder. Theresults obtained from the analyses of the 33 kV feeder of the network showed that yearly failure rate, MTTR,MTTF, MTBF, unavailability, availability, SAIFI, SAIDI, ASAI and ASUI were 4.32%, 6.520 h, 23.148 h, 29.668h, 21.98%, 78.02%, 0.0358 interruptions/customer/yr, 0.2336 h/customer/yr, 78.03%, and 21.97%, respectively.These results revealed that the performance indices of the 33 kV feeder with annual total outage frequency (SAIFI)and percentage availability (ASAI) were a far cry from the recommended values of the internationally acceptablestandard value (IASV) of 0.01 and 99.99% respectively. This poses a threat to the reliability and availability ofelectricity supply to consumers.","PeriodicalId":158544,"journal":{"name":"Equity Journal of Science and Technology","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132036573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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