ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the utilization of teaching space facilities at Our Lady of Apostle College of Education at Cape Coast in the 2006/2007 academic year. The study sought to provide information on time, space and global utilization rates in order to plan for short and long term admissions of student into the College. The research design adopted in the study was the case study. Purposive, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select samples...
ABSTRACT The numerical solution of the linear system Ax = b, arises in many branches of applied mathematics, sciences, engineering and statistics. The most common source of these problems is in the numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, as well as integral equations. The process of discretization by means of finite differences often leads to the solution of linear systems, whose solution is an approximation to the solution of the original differential equation. If...
ABSTRACT Women economic empowerment is increasingly viewed as one of key elements in poverty reduction strategies. Position of women’s economic status in Tanzania has been low compared to men in which about 60 percent of women in Tanzania have low economic status. This study examined the contributions of Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILCs) towards improving women’s economic status. Specifically, the study examined the main source of income among women, and examined challenges...
ABSTRACT Beans production and consumption is common and form an important historical food and nutrition security in many parts of the world. In Tanzania, the availability of beans ensures food security because it mitigates or reduces hidden hunger since some families consider it as a dependable and complete meal during periods of food shortage. Due to its importance, the inquiry into production and consumption patterns is paramount. This paper contributes some insights in the consumption sid...
ABSTRACT This study analyzed Irish potato value chains so as to identify potential areas for interventions towards improving income for the various actors involved in the chain in Njombe Urban and Wanging’ombe districts. Data were collected from 202 Irish potato value chains actors using individual interview and focused group discussions (FGD). Sub sector mapping, gross margin analysis and regression analysis were used in the study. Subsector mapping analysis was used to map Irish potato v...
ABSTRACT Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) are lay persons who attend to deliveries and concerted efforts have been made to train them. Anecdotal reports suggest that many expectant mothers patronize TBAs in Ibadan. However, there is dearth of information relating to the TBAs’ maternal care knowledge and practices. This study was therefore conducted to assess TBAs’ knowledge and practices relating to maternal care in Ibadan, Oyo State. A cross-sectional survey of 407 out of 608 TBAs who...
Compliant mechanisms (CMs) above the traditional rigid-body mechanisms have the sole merit of no relative moving parts hence preventing any form of wear, backlash, noise and need for lubrication. Its applications are versatile and fully domicile in such sectors as medicine, robotics, aerospace, biomechanics, food processing and automotive industries to mention a few. The Pseudo Rigid Body (PRB) equivalence of compliant mechanisms have been the conventional approach used by earlier researchers...
ABSTRACT Studies were carried out to establish the role and significance of rice stem borers as pests in rice crop in Kahama District from November, 2013 to May, 2014. Twenty rice fields in four wards of Kahama District were surveyed to assess the presence of larvae and adult moths. Each field was divided into four strata within which four quadrats were established in each. In each quadrat, the damaged rice tillers (dead heart), damaged panicles (white head) and total number of tillers and pa...
ABSTRACT Three experiments were conducted at AVRDC-ESA, Arusha-Tanzania in 2014/2015, to assess performance of Tanzanian commercial tomato cultivars„Tanya‟, „Tengeru 2010‟, and „Tengeru 97‟ grafted on the tomato rootsock lines („BF OKITSU 101‟, „HAWAII 7996‟ and „R3034-3-10-N-UG‟) with specific objectives: (1) to determine survival rate of the grafted seedlings; (2) to evaluate the effect of grafting on vegetative growth (days to 50 % flowering (ND50FL), fruit maturit...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at developing mathematical models on the hydraulic performance of Sandbags as Checkdam for erosion control. Pilot studies were carried out at two sites. Site ‘A’ was a natural gully at a location in Ezinihitte-Mbaise, Imo State while site ‘B’ was an artificial channel excavated on the slope of Otamiri River at Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Artificial runoff was simulated into site ‘B’ by pumping water from Otamiri River. Sandbags of ...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at developing mathematical models on the hydraulic performance of Sandbags as Checkdam for erosion control. Pilot studies were carried out at two sites. Site ‘A’ was a natural gully at a location in Ezinihitte-Mbaise, Imo State while site ‘B’ was an artificial channel excavated on the slope of Otamiri River at Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Artificial runoff was simulated into site ‘B’ by pumping water from Otamiri River. Sandbags of ...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Interpretation of account is the art and science of translating the figures, this is such a way as to reveal the financial strengthen and weaknesses of a business. Ratio analysis is a powerful tool of accounting analysis. A ratio is defined as the indicated quotient of two mathematical expressions as the relationship between two or more things. In accounting analysis, a ratio is used as index or yardstick for evaluati...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria, a satisfactory degree of reliability has not been attained in our power systems in recent times. The average duration of interruptions that customers experience is quite high and the degree varies from place to place. This is evident all around the nation, most especially in urban commercial cities. Previous researchers have focused on the assessment of power system reliability indices using different models. In this work, a computationally efficient modified linear con...
ABSTRACT This study sought to establish the determinants of pre-primary school teachers‟ use of play as a teaching strategy in Mwanga District, in the northern part of Tanzania. The Early Childhood Education (ECE) program in Tanzania is a relatively young discipline as compared to other countries in the region. So far some studies have revealed problems in teachers‟ use of relevant teaching strategies to enhance pre-primary children learning at their own pace. Considering that one of the ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in blood pressure, cardiovascular disease bio-chemical risk markers, physical activity and nutrition, between an Urban (US) and Pastoral (PS) sample, in the context of the global epidemiological transition taking place globally causing a shift in mortality and morbidity from communicable diseases to non-communicable diseases. A total of 133 adults from both samples meeting the inclusion criteria, were randomly recruited from...