Natural & Applied Sciences

Natural & Applied Sciences Research Papers/Topics

WORKFLOW BASED COMPLAINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

ABSTRACTContemporary workflow management systems are driven by explicit process models, i.e., a completely specified workflow design is required in order to enact a given workflow process. Creating a workflow design is a complicated time-consuming process and, typically, there are discrepancies between the actual workflow processes and the processes as perceived by the management. Therefore, we have developed techniques for discovering workflow models. The starting point for such techniques i...

FINANCIAL ACCOUNT AUDIT USING AUDIT COMMAND LANGUAGE (ACL).

The primary objective of this study is to develop the best practices that provide management with a reasonable assurance that information assets and IT infrastructure of the organisation are protected and controlled in a manner that will ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets and technology that supports an organization. Other objectives are to: 1.Enable IT auditors, newcomers to IT auditing who do not have a background in IT, functional, operational and fina...

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S EXPENDITURE AND REVENUE

ABSTRACT This research work was aimed at carrying out statistical analysis of federal government’s revenue and expenditure 2003-2008. Secondary data was obtained from National Bureau of Statistics. The statistical package used is Mintab. The result of the analysis shows that there is positive and strong relationship between expenditure and revenue 0.938 and the regression equation is expenditure = 123 + 0.367 revenue. The regression equation shows that when the revenue increase, the expendi...

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES RECORDED ABUJA (FCT) FROM 1999 – 2007

ABSTRACT Statistics is playing an important role in virtually all aspect of human life. This role is used to analyze a project, which is aimed at analyzing the rate of crime in Kuje-Abuja. This analysis is meant for correction, up-dating, forecasting the future accordance events. The objectives of the project are the criminal offences in Kuje. The project comprises of five chapters; chapter one, contains the introduction of the project and the historical background of Kuje Police Station also...

Natural Water, Hardness, Pollution, Water Cycle, Treatment and Uses

ABSTRACT Water plays a very vital role in our daily lives. Human and other forms of life practically depend on water for survival. Water also plays an important role in the World Economy, as it functions as a solvent for a wide variety of chemical substances and facilitates industrial cooling and transportation. Water is an infinite resource; it moves continually through the water cycle and covers about 71 percent of the earth’s surface. However, clean and safe drinking water is becoming sc...

Additives and preservatives used in food processing and preservation and their health implication

Additives is “any substance the intended use of which result or may reasonably be expected to result directly or indirectly in its becoming a component or otherwise affecting the characteristics of any food” (United States Government 1981). Additives is any substance not commonly regarded or used as a food, which is added to or used in or on food at any stage to affect its keeping qualities, odaur, alkalinity or acidity or to serve any other technological function in relation to food (foo...

An investigation on the effect of various packaging material on the quality attributes of suya (meat)

Meat is a flesh of animals consumed for foods.  In the topics, the bulk of the meat consumed is derived from cow, sheep, cattle, pigs, camel etc.  The other aspect of a dead animal such as the offal’s (kidney, liver, intestine etc) and the skin are often consumed, but one not termed meat; which ever part of it is meat is usually consumed for its high quality protein content essential for body growth and repairs. The proportions of meat derived foods that one consumed are related to the ge...

Economic assessment of some methods adopted in yoghurt production

Yoghurt is a fermented milk product, produced with a yoghurt starter culture which is a mixed culture of streptococcus thermophilus and lactobacillus bulgaricus in a 1:1 ratio. S thermophilus enjoys a faster growth than L hulgricus.  It adds flavours and aroma to the yoghurt, though both organisms in association produces lactic acid but acetaldehyde and dimethyl propanol, the chief favour component of yoghurt is produced by L bulgaricus. TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Approval Page Dedicatio...

Physico-Chemical and Organoleptic properties of flour and fufu processed from cassava varities

ABSTRACT This study was designed to evaluate the potentials of sweet cassava variety TMS 4(2) 1425being manihet palmata and bitter varieties TMS 30572, TMS 30555, and NR 8082 being Manihot utilisima Crantz flours used in the production of fufu,in carrying out the process the root was weighed before and after washing then peele, washed, sliced, fermentation, washing of the fermented mash and dried erther sundrying or oven drying. The sensory evaluation were carried out when the products from 4...

Process for Refining Vegetable Oil and its Food Value

Palm oil is one the commercial product of palm fruit (Elaesis Guineesis). It is derived from the fleshy messieurs of the fruit of the oil palm which contains 45 – 55% oil. Palm oil belongs to a class of food known as fat and oil, which are generally termed lipid. It is oil from plant origin.  TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Approval Page Dedication  Acknowledgement  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER TWO 2.1The Oil Palm  2.2Extraction and Refining of Vegetable Oil 2.3Types and Sources of...

The effect of food packaging material on the environment

Food packaging is just one among ways of food preservation for when food is been packaged, it is set for shipment and marketing. Food Technologist who must have a good knowledge of technology materials, labour equipment, money research, engineering and management is in any food-processing establishment. Particularly, food packages purposely protect the products from environment hazards throughout the period of the shelf life. Some industries can even be instituted purposely for food packaging...

The role of packaging in food processing

The role of packaging in food processing is just one among many ways of food preservation.  As soon as food is packaged, it is set for shipment and marketing.  For many food technologists to embark on food packaging, the food technologist must have food knowledge of the technology, materials, labour equipments, capital, research, engineering and management involved in any such food processing establishment.  The package purposely protects the product from environmental hazards throughout t...

The utility potentials of some dioscorea species with particular reference to D. Rotoridata and D. Dumatorum

Yams are any of the economically useful plants belonging to the genues Diocorea; yams are also the tubers or rhizomes of these plants (Coursey 1967). The yam tuber is economically the most important part of the plant.  The structures of the tuber is variable, depending on the species, most yam tubers are cylindrical in shape; weight of individual tubers ranges from 200g – 50kg (Asiedu 1992). TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT PAGE DEDICATION ACKNOWELDGEMENT  TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE;INTRODUCT...

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM FOR PATIENTS

ABSTRACTThis work provides a basic introduction on the use of computer in medical practice is aimed at designing an automated diagnosis system for patient care in clinics and hospitals. Diagnostic systems in the establishments, organisations and environments operating a full manual system and the impact of such shift. The problem of efficiency, effectiveness and scientific methods of processing data in any organization is very important and the application of computer in the search for soluti...

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERISED GRADING SYSTEM

ABSTRACT One of the major and most concerned roles of academic institution is result computation and grading for this proves both the school and student academic performance and attainment. This research work studied the departmental result, its nature, mode of preparation, the hitches hindering smooth and fast production of departmental result. After the analysis, a new computerized system was developed for effective management of the department result. The new computerized system is very ve...


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