Melon husks are shells usually discarded in large quantities (tonnage) as agricultural waste materials in different parts of Nasarawa State in Nigeria, thereby polluting the environment. An experiment was therefore conducted to determine the nutritional value and effect of utilizing melon husks meal in broiler diets as feed ingredient with or without wild mushroom (Ganoderma sp) and exogenous e...

Personal Learning Environments have emerged as a complementary, even challenging, paradigm to Adaptive Learning Systems. One can argue that Pervasive Learning Environments aim at replacing the physical learning environment while Adaptive Learning Systems focus on replacing the instructor. We believe that amalgamation of these two approaches in a complementary manner, i.e. through setting an app...

Four parents (Mash 1, Mash 3, MM 33-40, and 45726) were used to study inheritance of four qualitative characters, i.e., pubescence, seed coat colour, presence of spots on the seed coat and pod colour. All the four traits revealed monogenic nature of inheritance segregating in Mandelian ratio (3:1). The hairiness pattern was observed dominant over non-hairiness; brown seed coat colour dominant o...

Sigma-delta modulators use a noise-shaping technique to curtail the noise power in band of interest during digital-to-analog conversion. Error feedback modulator employs an efficient transfer function for time varying inputs than any other sigma-delta modulators. However, efficiency conventional degrades and quantizer saturation issue provokes when input signal reaches full scale. This work pro...

Producing semantic metadata requires efficient methods, e.g., concept finding, for accessing and using ontologies. To add such functionalities to metadata applications such as cataloging systems in museums, we propose a mash-up approach where ready-to-use user interface components for using specific ontologies are made available to be integrated into applications. As a proof-of-concept, we pres...

Layers diets typically contain 15-20% soya due to its high crude protein content (ca. 36%). Reliance on soya for protein can result in large increases in cost of feed due to the law of supply and demand as a global commodity. Lupin grains have high protein content (35-40%) but previous experience with white lupins has shown toxic effects in poultry due to high levels alkaloids and poor performa...

Critical evaluations of audio mash-ups and remixes tend to congregate around two poles. On the one hand, these often clever recombinations of recorded music are celebrated as innovative and creative interventions in the material of bland commodity culture. On the other hand, they are often reviled as derivative, inauthentic, and illegal because they do nothing more than appropriate and reconfig...

This paper reports the transistor-level design of a continuous-time 2-1 MASH sigma delta modulator with digital adaptive tuning of the cancellation logic. The modulator is designed for broadband wireless applications and provides 12 bits of resolution for a 10 MHz signal bandwidth. A direct approach to design the CT MASH modulator is used which reduces the coupling between the MASH stages. The ...

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