ABSTRACT Pollution of aquatic ecosystems with heavy metals is now of global concern due to their effects on human health and persistence in the environment. The study was carried out to determine the heavy metal pollution in Sebakwe River Kwekwe, Zimbabwe. To provide information on heavy metals chromium, lead, copper, magnesium and iron concentrations in water and sediments, samples were collected at five sites in January 2019 and in February 2019. The samples were acid digested and analysed ...
ABSTRACT: The rate of accidents involving tools, equipment and personnel in many technical college workshops in Rivers State is alarming and this has drastically dropped the students’ academic performances. As a means of reducing accidents to improve the students’ academic performance, this study is undertaking to determine Workshop Safety Standard Compliance on Students’ Academic Performance in Technical Colleges in Rivers State. Descriptive survey research design was employed for this...
Abstract The molluscan community living in the three moles of Tarkwa Bay, Lagos was studied monthly between April 2008 and March 2010. These moles are made of rock known as the west, training and east. They provide attachment surfaces for the settlement of littoral communities. The study investigated the physico-chemical parameters, nutrients, heavy metals concentration levels in sea surface water, algae and resident molluscs of the three moles. Molluscan diversity, feeding, guts content ana...
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1 1.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1 1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ................................................................................ 1 1.2.1 Background of the Organization ............................................................................... 1 1.2.2 Org...
ABSTRACT Undergraduate medical education in Nigeria like other areas of human learning is under pressure due to students‟ over-population, unmanageable classroom and laboratory teachings coupled with the need to expose students to clinical, theatre and surgical experiences. Thus, this study was driven by the need to undertake a baseline investigation that will explore and evaluate strength and weaknesses in utilization and impact of Computer-Mediated Learning on medical undergraduate studen...
ABSTRACT Global concern over Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) emanates from its effects on health, general well-being and labour productivity because 60-90% of daytime is spent indoors. Evidence of Building Related Illnesses (BRI), Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and absenteeism from work due to poor IEQ has made IEQ one of the indices of environmental sustainability. There is, however, paucity of research on IEQ and its relationship with workspace utilisation and maintenance practice in Niger...
ABSTRACT In this 21st century of Information and Communication Technoiogy, a motivating and captivating approach should be encouraged to help students better learn. The use of multimedia in education has proven its importance due to its positive impact on the teaching and learning process. The study investigated the effectiveness of using Multimedia on students learning outcomes in biology. 180 students were randomly selected from three secondary schools and were randomly divided into three g...
Abstract The “main objective of developing a Client management system was triggered by the need to improve and manage client more effectively. The current system shows several bottlenecks which include Hansole Investments failing to remind all its clients to make payments whenever these payments are due to be paid since they keep records about payments manually. There is no effective contact between the client and the company. A feasibility study was carried out to determine if the system c...
ABSTRACT This research study aims at producing a proposed ZENT Employee Social Security System that delivers an automated employee access to social security credit. The development of this system was driven by the incompetence processing of the long serving social security access system. More so, the proposed ZENT social security system was developed using the modern technology adopted from the object oriented language classes. The benefits of developing such as a statement proved to outstand...
ABSTRACT Candida species are the most common cause of fungal infections in humans. Candida species produce infections that range from non life-threatening mucocutaneous illnesses to invasive processes that may involve virtually any organ and this broad range of infections. Candida albicans coexists with a highly diverse human bacterial microbiota. Candida tropicalis is a common pathogen in neutropenic hosts in whom it may spread through the bloodstream to peripheral organs. Candida tropicalis...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was aimed at technologically bringing change to the current system in order to increase customer satisfaction and will work as a self-assistant to the guest. The system allows the guests to order and send food order instantly to the backend application from mobile device and also proving capability of providing digital receipts back to guest account. In addition, the application will permit the guests to browse and peruse each restaurant menus. This applicati...
ABSTRACT The need to develop the Zimbabwe National Water Authority Electronic Record Support System was necessitated by the lack of a fast and efficient way to search and record file entries in the records department. Various data gathering methodologies were exercised to render this research such a resounding success. These include interviews and observations to mention but a few. Various alternatives to produce the System Software were considered but fortunately at the end an in-house syste...
ABSTRACT Use of sewage sludge and effluent in cultivation of crops and vegetables is a common practice in Zimbabwe. However, high concentrations of heavy metals such as Cadmium (Cd) in sewage sludge and effluent does not only result in environmental contamination, but may lead to elevated heavy metal uptake by crops, which may affect food quality and safety. The current study aimed to investigate if high concentration of Cd in sludge and effluent from Gimboki Sewage Treatment Plant translates...
Abstract BDO Zimbabwe Auditors Scheduling and Leave Control system is an intranet-based application which is ideal to be used in the auditing sector that aims to automate the company‟s scheduling and control leave activities to provide convenient services to clients. It allows employees to assign staff to clients based on the resources available, inform staff of client schedules through SMS (small message service), notifying management of leave applications that might have concerns over and...
ABSTRACT The procurement of goods and services has been at the heart of many organizations as they procure to allow for work to run smoothly. This Chapter lays the foundation for the research that was undertaken to create a Online Public Procurement System. It spells out briefly the stimuli that triggered off this research. The target organization which is the Sanyati District will be examined, its background, organisational structure, vision, mission and method of operation in relationship t...