{"title":"Impacts of Climate Variability and Climate Change and Adaptation Strategy among Small Scale Farmers of Kurfa Chele District, East Hararghe Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia","authors":"S. A. Omer, Nuradin Abdi Hassen","doi":"10.7176/jbah/10-21-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jbah/10-21-03","url":null,"abstract":"Climate variability and change has caused instability in production and decline in productivity exacerbating food insecurity particularly in Latin America, Africa including Ethiopia and some parts of Asia. The magnitude and frequency of extreme climatic events is projected to increase. The effects of these climatic changes will become even more pronounced among small scale farmers whose farming activities are weather dependent and vulnerable to climate change, and already affected by environmental degradation and socio-economic risks. Effective adaptation to climate change among small scale farmers is therefore of critical importance, and is dependent on adoption of climate smart practices. However, studies have shown low adoption of climate smart farming practices among small scale farmers world over, in East Hararghe Zone and Kurfa Chele District. This study therefore examined factors influencing adoption of climate smart practices among farmers Kurfa Chele District, East Hararghe Zone, evaluated their existing knowledge, attitude and practice of these practices, assessed their perception of climate change, examined the extent of climate information dissemination, and the resultant impact on uptake of these practices. The research adopted a survey research design, where both quantitative and qualitative research strategies were used. Data was gathered through Focus Group Discussions, questionnaires, key informant interviews, observations and desk review. Both simple random and purposive sampling was used to sample 420 small scale farmers and technical officers of the agriculture sector respectively. Data was analysed using both quantitative and qualitative techniques. To test the statistical significance of the findings and relationships between the variables, chi-square test was used.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129959075","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}
{"title":"Gut Histomorphometric and Blood Profile of Broiler Chicks Fed Varied Levels Of Protein","authors":"Shittu, A. Do, Ademola Sg, Alagbe Jo","doi":"10.32474/CDVS.2020.04.000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32474/CDVS.2020.04.000181","url":null,"abstract":"Gut plays active role in screening what goes into the blood stream and blood is very important parameter to access for us to establish the health status of animal to any dietary variation, this will help the producer ability to guaranty the consumers’ health. Therefore this research was designed to determine gut histomorphometry and blood profile of broiler starter fed varied levels of protein. Material and method is A total of 144 days-old-broiler chicks were used for the study. Broiler standard starter mash with varied protein percentages of 20, 23, and 26%, respectively for treatments 1, 2 and 3 were used. Data were analysed using ANOVA at α0.05. Results is Except crude protein and ash contents, others nutrient digestibilities were not affected by the dietary treatments. Birds fed lower crude protein had the lowest crude protein digestibility while birds fed standard diet (23% CP) had the best and highest crude protein digestibility. White blood cell decrease with decrease dietary protein, this might have serious effect on the immunity level of the broilers. Also globulin increases while albumin decreases with increase in dietary protein levels. Serum total protein increases with increase in the dietary protein levels and diet with26% CP recorded the highest value (5.82g/dL). Serum cholesterol values were significantly higher at lower protein level unlike serum protein whiledifferent gut parts response significantly different to dietary treatments. Conclusion is at early stage broiler growth, diet need to have higher CP to improve the immunity and health growth of gut.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124478711","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}
{"title":"Effect of dietary supplementation of neem oil (Azadirachtaindica) on the growth performance and nutrient digestibility of weaned rabbits","authors":"Oluwafemi R A, Oluwayinka E. O, A. J. O.","doi":"10.46379/jscer.2020.010404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46379/jscer.2020.010404","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the present study was to determine the effect of dietary supplementation of neem oil (Azadirachtaindica) on the growth performance and nutrient digestibility of weaned rabbits. A total of 50 weaned male cross bred rabbits between 5-6 weeks with an average weight of 565.4g-566.8gwere divided into five dietary groups of ten (10) weaned rabbits each in a completely randomized design. The dietary treatments include a control, T1 (basal) diet with no neem oil (NOL), T2, T3, T4 and T5 were fed basal diet supplemented with NOL at 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.4% respectively. Feed and water were offered ad libitum throughout the experiment which lasted for 12 weeks. The data obtained was used to evaluate the growth performance: weight gain (WG), feed intake (FI), feed conversion ratio (FCR), mortality and nutrient digestibility (dry matter, crude protein, crude fibre and ether extract). WG, ADFI, TFI were significantly (P˂0.05) different among the treatments. T5 had the highest weight gain (755.90 g) followed by T4(734.0g), T3(705.90g), T2(705.0g) and T1(621.80g) respectively. Highest mortality was recorded in T1 (2%) followed by T2 (1%), none was recorded in T3, T4 and T5. Neem oil significantly influenced (P˂0.05) all the parameters measured. It could be concluded thatneem oil contains some essential nutrients and bioactive chemicals and could be supplemented in the diet of rabbit at 0.4 % without any deleterious effect on the general performance of the animal.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117068741","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}
Bakhtawar Sajjad, Shaista Ali, Muhammad Akhyar Farrukh
{"title":"Synthesis of NiO/ZnO Nanoparticles: Application for Photodegradation of Methylene Blue","authors":"Bakhtawar Sajjad, Shaista Ali, Muhammad Akhyar Farrukh","doi":"10.46379/JSCER.2020.010403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46379/JSCER.2020.010403","url":null,"abstract":"NiO/ZnO nanocomposites synthesized by sol-gel method with zinc chloride and nickel nitrate hexahydrate in ethanol used as solvent. Material was characterized by Particle size analyzer, UV-Vis, FTIR, TGA and DSC. NiO/ZnO nanoparticles investigated as a suitable photocatalytic material for the methylene blue degradation i.e. an organic dye under visible light irradiation. The UV–vis absorption spectra of the NiO/ZnO nanoparticles shown peaks in the UV region, corresponding to the band gap of the NiO/ZnO nanoparticles. The band gap of NiO/ZnO nanoparticles is calculated 3.55 eV by Tauc’s plot method. Then UV visible data showed the methylene blue degradation with NiO/ZnO nanoparticles, behaving as active catalyst.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117210414","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}
{"title":"Impacts COVID-19 pandemic Diseases on Ethiopian Agriculture, Food Systems, Industries, and Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy","authors":"S. A. Omer, Nuradin Abdi Hassen","doi":"10.33122/ejeset.v1i1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33122/ejeset.v1i1.6","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic is a recent outbreak in almost all parts of the world including Ethiopia influencing the socio-economy of people and mainly threatening the agriculture and food security of the least developed countries. The current desk review and opinion synthesis by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from Haramaya University aimed at assessing the probable impact of the virus on the Ethiopian agriculture and food security and suggesting the possible mitigation and adaptation strategies to all responsible. Experts’ opinion and desk review of existing information were employed for the analysis and conclusions drawn, due to the difficulty of data generation at this time of movement restriction and poor database availability on websites of relevant institutions. Accordingly, the information gathered were synthesised and described following the major stages of food supply chains as production, handling and storage, processing and packaging, distribution and marketing, and consumption are key messages drawn from the overall assessment.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121861991","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}
{"title":"Role of Difficulty in Emotion Regulation, Suicidal Ideation and Distress in Patients with Substance use disorders","authors":"Muhammad Zakaria, Shazia Hasan","doi":"10.46379/jscer.2020.010301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46379/jscer.2020.010301","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive theory explains that the substance intoxication develops a syndrome which\u0000directly affects the central nerves system. It further creates troubles in perception, thinking,concentration and emotion regulation. The difficulty in emotion regulation problem causes the suicidal ideation and psychological distress in substance patients, but most of the clinician is unaware about the role of emotion dysregulation in substance intoxication and other psychological problems that they didn’t provided specific treatment for emotion regulation problem to controlled substance intoxication and its related problems. The present study explore the role of difficulty in emotion regulation with suicidal ideation and psychological distress among patients with substance use disorders. The date was collected from 60 patients with substance use disorders, with age range from 18 to 35 years. The sample size was arranged through the G Power software. Data of the current study was collected from different government and private hospitals and drug rehabilitation centers of Lahore city Pakistan by using of convenient sampling technique. The difficulty emotional regulation, suicidal ideation attributes and depressions, Anxiety, Stress (DASS) scales were used for data collection. The simple linear regression statistical analysis was used for data analysis. Simple linear regression analysis indicated that difficulty in emotion regulation (β= .214) is positively associated with suicidal ideation and psychological distress, depression is (β= .322), anxiety is (β= .326) and stress (β= .320). Among patients with substance use disorders. Difficulty in emotion regulation has positively predicated the suicidal ideation and psychological distress among patients with substance use disorders. The present study was found that the difficulty in emotion regulation plays a significant role in suicidal ideation and psychological distress among patients with substance use disorders.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125555349","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}
{"title":"Lifi technology in future benefits in several sectors","authors":"S. Bari","doi":"10.46379/jscer.2020.010302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46379/jscer.2020.010302","url":null,"abstract":"Whether you are the usage of wireless net in an espresso shop, stealing it from the\u0000man subsequent door, or competing for bandwidth at a conference, you have probable gotten\u0000pissed off at the gradual speeds you face when extra than one system is tapped into the network.\u0000But radio waves are clearly one section of the spectrum that can raise our data. What if we can\u0000also wish to use exclusive waves to surf the internet? One German physicist. Harald Haas, has\u0000come up with a reply he calls “Data Through Illumination”—taking the fiber out of fiber optics\u0000with the resource of potential of sending records thru an LED moderate bulb that varies in\u0000intensity faster than the human eye can follow. And safety would be a snap—if you can’t see the\u0000light, you can’t get entry to the data. Li-Fi is a VLC, considered slight communication,\u0000technological perception developed by way of using a crew of scientists collectively with Dr\u0000Gordon Povey, Prof. Harald Haas and Dr Mostafa Afgani at the University of Edinburgh. The\u0000time size Li-Fi used to be coined via skill of the use of Prof. Haas when he amazed humans by\u0000means of potential of means of streaming high- definition video from a modern-day LED lamp,\u0000at TED Global in July 2011. Unseen with the resource of practicable of the human eye, this\u0000variant is used to elevate high-speed data,” says Dr Povey, Product Manager of the University of\u0000Edinburgh's Li-Fi Program ‘D-Light Project’.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121298904","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}
{"title":"Development of Fire Monitoring and Extinguishing\u0000Robot Using IoT","authors":"Dr.Ramkumar prabhu","doi":"10.46379/jscer.2020.010204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46379/jscer.2020.010204","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the research project is develope to an autonomous moving and\u0000controlling the vehicle that capable of file extinguishing automatically and access by anywhere in\u0000the world using IoT. This robot is detecting the fire and taking appropriate distinguisher\u0000operation just to protect the human’s life. The robot consist of Flame sensor and Gas sensor that\u0000detects the fire, smoke as well as gas leakage. Whenever it detects the fire it will be extinguishing\u0000fire by sprinkling the water into the fire. The obstacles can be identified by ultrasonic sensors\u0000The video and audio can be accessed anywhere by using the webcam installed on it. We can\u0000control the robot using wifi as well as IoT. The data collected has been sent through the cloud\u0000server and can access the data across the world using IoT.","PeriodicalId":174399,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128102123","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}