the study was carried out to assess the effects of the root and tuber expansion programe (rtep) on the livelihood of project beneficiaries in kwara state, nigeria. a 3-stage sampling technique was adopted for the study, selecting a total of 80 cassava processors from two agricultural development programe (adp) zones in the state. structured interview schedule was used as instrument to elicit pr...

The escape-time method was introduced to generate images of Julia and Mandelbrot sets, then applied to visualize attractors of iterated function systems. This paper extends it further to language-restricted iterated function systems (LRIFS's). They generalize the original deeni-tion of IFS's by providing means for restricting the sequences of applicable transformations. The resulting at-tractor...

11 I n the United States and most industrialized countries, cardiovascular disease and cancer are ranked as the leading causes of death. These diseases have been linked to lifestyle choices, one of the most important of which is diet. It has been estimated that eating a healthy diet could prevent 30 percent of all cancers. Many of us as children were told to “eat your vegetables because they ar...

This study examines the socioeconomic and risk behaviour of small–scale oil palm processors in Akwa Ibom State, southern region Nigeria. The multi-stage sampling technique was used to collect cross-sectional data from one hundred twenty-five (125) micro-oil processors. results revealed that majority were married males dominant sex. average years processing experience, age, membership social org...