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{"title":"Solving fractional variable-order differential equations of the non-singular derivative using Jacobi operational matrix","authors":"M. Basim, N. Senu, A. Ahmadian, Z. Ibrahim, S. Salahshour","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1221","url":null,"abstract":"This research derives the shifted Jacobi operational matrix (JOM) with respect to fractional derivatives, implemented with the spectral tau method for the numerical solution of the Atangana-Baleanu Caputo (ABC) derivative. The major aspect of this method is that it considerably simplifies problems by reducing them to ones that can be solved by solving a set of algebraic equations. The main advantage of this method is its high robustness and accuracy gained by a small number of Jacobi functions. The suggested approaches are applied in solving non-linear and linear ABC problems according to initial conditions, and the efficiency and applicability of the proposed method are proved by several test examples. A lot of focus is placed on contrasting the numerical outcomes discovered by the new algorithm together with those discovered by previously well-known methods.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"419 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123271939","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":"A DFT study of optoelectronic, elastic and thermo-electric properties of the double perovskites Rb2SeX6 (X=Br,Cl)","authors":"Wasiu Yahya, A. A. Yahaya, A. A. Adewale, A. A. Sholagberu, N. Olasunkanmi","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1418","url":null,"abstract":"Thermo-electric (TE) material applications reduce reliance on traditional energy resources by converting heat to electric energy. We have studied, for the first time, the thermo-electric properties of Rb2SeX6 (X=Br,Cl). Using norm-conserving pseudo potentials in a plane wave basis set of Quantum Espresso code, the optoelectronic, elastic and thermo-electric properties of Rb2SeX6 (X=Br,Cl) have been investigated using density functional theory. Generalized Gradient Approximation of Perdew Burke Ernzerhof (GGA-PBE) and Generalized Gradient Approximation of Perdew Burke Ernzerhof adapted for Solid (GGA-PBESol) exchange correlation functionals were employed in all calculations. The band structure plots suggest that the studied double perovskites have indirect band gaps. Rb2SeBr6 band gap values of 1.7574/ 1.569 eV (using GGA-PBE/PBEsol) are remarkably similar to that of two effective inorganic/organic perovskites FAPbI3 and MAPbI3 . Maximum peaks generated from refractive index results indicate possible solar cell uses of the materials because they are in the visible and ultraviolet ranges. The results of other optical properties such as absorption coefficients, electron energy loss, conductivity, and reflectivity concludes that Rb2SeX6 (X=Br,Cl) have good values for electron generation, high potential for applications in the optoelectronic industry and are semiconductor in nature. The calculated shear anisotropy values of Rb2SeBr6/Cl6 are 3.09/1.71, suggesting that they are isotropic materials. With calculated Poisson’s ratio of 0.32 and 0.26, the materials are predicted to be ductile in nature. The two materials are appropriate for thermo-electric applications since their thermal to electrical conductivity ratio are small (the order of 10-5). The calculated minimum values of Seebeck coefficient values of 0.198×103 / 0.166 ×103 (mV/K) at 750 K, for Rb2SeBr6/Cl6 are positive, indicating that they have p-type conduction. Figure of merit values at all temperature range considered are greater than one (ZT > 1) for both Rb2SeBr6 and Rb2SeCl6, suggesting that they are good thermo-electric materials. The results of the calculations provide the basis for the industrial application of Rb2SeBr6/Cl6 as solar cells.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115005953","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":"Tuning the optical properties and some surface structure of Cd-O thin film electrodeposited by two-electrode: An effect of Cobalt incorporation","authors":"R. A. Busari, E. Omotoso, L. Animasahun, S. Adewinbi, E. Adewumi, Comfort T. Famoroti, B. Taleatu, A. Fasasi","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1222","url":null,"abstract":"The tuning of optical and dielectric parameters, structural and microstructural properties of CdO synthesized via a solution growth two-electrode cell arrangement under ambient environment, with the incorporation of Co ion into its matrix was investigated. The energy band gaps of the films was estimated in the range of 1.69 eV</=Eg</= 1.96 eV. The extinction coefficient, k for all the samples decreases as the incident photon energy increases. The films exhibit considerably high optical conduction across the photon energy with estimated power of 1013 (Omega m)-1. The elemental composition of the samples was determined using the energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry technique. The micrograph images from scanning electron microscopy technique shown that the films are polycrystalline and well-adhered to the substrates with their crystal grains evenly dispersed across the substrates’ surface. The x-ray diffraction analysis confirmed that the deposited films are of polycrystalline in nature. The films show preference for orientation along the (111) plane.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116917815","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":"On Bivariate Nadarajah-Haghighi Distribution derived from Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern copula in the Presence of Covariates","authors":"Yakubu Aliyu, U. Usman","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.871","url":null,"abstract":"An important alternative distribution to the Weibull, generalized exponen-tial and gamma distributions that is used in survival analysis is the Nadarajah-Haghighi exponential distribution. Similar to the Weibull, generalized exponen-tial and gamma distributions, the Nadarajah-Haghighi exponential distributionis an extension of the well known exponential distribution. In this paper, a copulafunction commonly used to model very weak linear dependence was used to intro-duced a bivariate Nadarajah-Haghighi distribution. The joint survival function,joint probability density function and joint cumulative distribution were givenin closed form. Bayesian method of estimation was used to estimate the modelparameters considering the presence of right censoring and covariates. Posteriorsummaries of interest were obtained via standard Markov Monte Carlo (MCMC )technique. Two real data sets were used to illustrate the importance and flexi-bility of the bivariate model in comparison with some competing models. It wasobserved that, the bivariate Nadarajah-Haghighi distribution provides a better fltthan bivariate exponential, bivariate Weibull, bivariate generalized exponentialand bivariate modified Weibull distributions.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"298 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115449121","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":"Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear and Non-Isothermal Liquid Chromatography for Studying Thermal Variations in Columns Packed with Core-Shell Particles","authors":"A. Ahmad, N. F. Okechi, David U. Uche, Abdulwasiu O. Salaudeen","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1350","url":null,"abstract":"A high-resolution flux-limiting semi-discrete finite volume scheme (HR-FVS) is applied in this study to numerically approximate the nonlinear and non-isothermal flow of one-dimensional lumped kinetic model (1D-LKM), for a fixed-bed column loaded with core-shell particles. The developed model comprise a system of convection-dominated partial differential for mass and energy balances in the mobile phases coupled with differential equation and algebraic equation in the stationary phase. The solution of the model equations is obtained by utilizing a HR-FVS, the scheme has second-order accuracy even on the grid coarse and its explicit nature has the potential to resolve the arisen sharp discontinuities in the solution profiles. A second-order total variation diminishing (TVD) Runge-Kutta technique is used to solve the system of ODEs in time. Several forms of a single-solute mixture are produced to investigate the influences of the fractions of core radius on thermal waves and concentration fronts. Moreover, a particular criterion is introduced for analyzing the performance of the underlying process and to identify the optimal parameter values of the fraction of core radius.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125693161","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":"An integral approach for complete migration from a relational database to MongoDB","authors":"Abdelhak Erraji, A. Maizate, M. Ouzzif","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1089","url":null,"abstract":"Today, computing has become an obligation in the lives of individuals and institutions alike. This magical sector uses and develops very rich, important, and sensitive tools and solutions, which make everyone's life easier. Computers with their tools have become indispensable and they have transformed the world into a small town. These tools revolve around data, the type, nature, and size of which continually increases up to zeta bytes of storage capacity, thus creating BigData. Considering that Relational databases present difficulties in the management of BigData, and Knowing that companies want to keep their data accumulated over decades of exercises and studies on the market, and also taking into account the cost impact if they kept both systems in terms of software, technical support and user training; therefore it is legitimate to find a reliable way to migrate their data from the relational system to a NoSQL system, which designed specifically to handle BigData. In this optic, several studies and approaches have been developed, but they present a lack or weaknesses in the treatment of the main components of the database, which we are going to deal with in our new and integrated approach to migration from the relational database system to MongoDB as a NoSQL system. In this article, we will present our contribution by developing a complete concept of our approach, starting with an introduction, which will be followed by a discussion of what other researchers have done in this direction, then we move on to a phase of analysis and modeling to develop the models and meta-models of the two systems: source and destination, also during this section we also present our analysis and modeling methodology, to present our global approach which divides its treatment into three axes, each of which processes a part of the RDBMS with a particular nature of data: data stored in tables, data carried on the structure of the RDBMS and data coming from the semantics of relational databases. The overall architecture of our approach, which we named ''TMSDRDND'', is formed by two layers: ''TSRSNLayer'' which deals with the transformation of the structure and the transfer of semantic data, and the ''MDRSNLayer'' layer, Which takes care of data migration using an ETL to be developed according to a specific concept and architecture and exploiting the results of the first layer.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115054305","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":"Solar Energy Storage by Fuel Cell Technology at Abomey-Calavi (Benin)","authors":"Odilon Joseph Towanou, H. Donnou, G. K. N'Gobi, Augustin Enonsi Leode, Basile Kounouh´ewa","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1264","url":null,"abstract":"West Africa has a great amount of sunshine power, varying between 5 kWh.m^{-2}.day^{-1} and 7 kWh.m^{-2}.day^{-1}. This power constitutes high energy source in the region. However, several locations in that area have no access to energy because of the lack of suitable technology and projects exploiting the source. The fundamental problem related to sun power or to renewable energies in general is the lack of efficient technology for energy storage. Batteries are generally used for this storage, but once charged, the excess of the energy from the solar photovoltaic panels (PV) is lost. Therefore, it is very important to find a system to recover the excess in order to optimize its use. In this context, hydrogen is considered a very promising candidate to fulfill this function and could become a highly developed energy vector in the future. The very numerous works undertaken over the past decade for the production of electricity by hydrogen fuel cells bear witness to this. The objective of this study is to test a more reliable solar energy storage system by using fuel cell technology. To achieve this, three steps have been necessary: (i) make an electrolyser using materials, (ii) produce hydrogen using a system of PV panels and (iii) convert the hydrogen produced into electricity through a fuel cell. The results obtained indicate a production of 0.020 m^3 of hydrogen after 150 min with a yield of 85.86%. The production of electricity by a 2 V fuel cell gives an efficiency of 0.0042%. Even if this value is low, a part of the lost energy has been recovered. In view of these results, the improvement of the device for converting chemical energy into electricity deserves to be deeply explored in West Africa.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126827847","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":"An Empirical Study on Anomaly Detection Using Density-based and Representative-based Clustering Algorithms","authors":"Gerard Shu Fuhnwi, Janet O. Agbaje, K. Oshinubi, O. J. Peter","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1364","url":null,"abstract":"In data mining, and statistics, anomaly detection is the process of finding data patterns (outcomes, values, or observations) that deviate from the rest of the other observations or outcomes. Anomaly detection is heavily used in solving real-world problems in many application domains, like medicine, finance , cybersecurity, banking, networking, transportation, and military surveillance for enemy activities, but not limited to only these fields. In this paper, we present an empirical study on unsupervised anomaly detection techniques such as Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN), (DBSCAN++) (with uniform initialization, k-center initialization, uniform with approximate neighbor initialization, and $k$-center with approximate neighbor initialization), and $k$-means$--$ algorithms on six benchmark imbalanced data sets. Findings from our in-depth empirical study show that k-means-- is more robust than DBSCAN, and DBSCAN++, in terms of the different evaluation measures (F1-score, False alarm rate, Adjusted rand index, and Jaccard coefficient), and running time. We also observe that DBSCAN performs very well on data sets with fewer number of data points. Moreover, the results indicate that the choice of clustering algorithm can significantly impact the performance of anomaly detection and that the performance of different algorithms varies depending on the characteristics of the data. Overall, this study provides insights into the strengths and limitations of different clustering algorithms for anomaly detection and can help guide the selection of appropriate algorithms for specific applications.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124120611","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":"Annual Effective Dose and Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk due to Ingestion and Inhalation of Radon in Groundwater of Bosso Community Minna, North-Central Nigeria","authors":"M. Kolo, O. Olarinoye, S. Salihu, Hyginus Anayo Ugwuanyi, P. Onuche, Opeyemi Falade, Nwachukwu Chibueze","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.896","url":null,"abstract":"Radon in potable water has become an issue of public health concern, especially when consumed or used directly from source for domestic purposes without any pre-treatment. In this study, 222Rn concentration in 22 water samples collected from 2 groundwater sources (open wells, 12 samples and boreholes, 10 samples) in Bosso town, North central Nigeria were measured using Durridge RAD-7 radon detector with RAD-H2O accessories. 222Rn concentrations in open wells varied from 2.1±0.7 to 27.9±2.5 Bq L-1 with a mean of 10.2±1.5 Bq L-1, while that in boreholes ranged from 2.8±1.1 to 39.2±1.5 Bq L-1 with a mean value of 14.3±1.7 Bq L-1. These values are lower than the 100 Bq L-1 upper limit proposed by the European Union Commission, above which any practical intervention may be necessary. Mean annual committed effective dose to adults, children and infants from ingestion of water were 74.64, 71.58 and 53.17 muSv y-1 respectively for the open wells and 104.24, 99.96 and 74.26 muSv y-1 respectively for borehole water samples. Mean whole body dose due to ingestion and inhalation of waterborne radon from open wells and boreholes are 27.56 and 38.48 muSv y-1 respectively, which are below the reference level of 0.1 mSv y-1 for potable water recommended by the World Health Organization for public safety. The excess lifetime cancer risk were 0.10 × 10-3 for the open wells and 0.13 × 10-3 for the boreholes, which are lower than the world safety limit 0.29 × 10-3. Water from the two groundwater sources investigated is therefore fit for consumption and other domestic usage from the point of view of radiation protection.   ","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114748185","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":"Understanding the Transmission Dynamics and Control of HIV Infection: A Mathematical Model Approach","authors":"Saheed Ajao, I. Olopade, T. Akinwumi, S. Adewale, A. Adesanya","doi":"10.46481/jnsps.2023.1389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46481/jnsps.2023.1389","url":null,"abstract":"New challenges like the outbreak of new diseases, government policies, war and insurgency etc. present distortion, delay and denial of persons’ access to ART, thereby fuelling the spread and increasing the burden of HIV/AIDS. A mathematical model is presented to study the transmission dynamics and control of HIV infection. The qualitative and quantitative analyses of the model are carried out. It is shown that the disease-free equilibrium of the model is globally asymptotically stable whenever the basic reproduction number is less than unity. It is also shown that a unique endemic equilibrium exists whenever the basic reproduction number exceeds unity and that the model exhibits a forward bifurcation. Furthermore, the Lyapunov function is used to show that the endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable for a special case of the model whenever the associated basic reproduction number is greater than unity. The model is calibrated to the data on HIV/AIDS prevalence in Nigeria from 1990 to 2019 and it represents reality. The numerical simulations on the global stability of disease-free equilibrium and endemic equilibrium justify the analytic results. The fraction of the detected individuals who stays in the treatment class plays a significant role as it influences the population of the latently-infected individuals and AIDS class by preventing individuals from progressing into the AIDS class.","PeriodicalId":342917,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116607962","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}