Luvunga scandens is a plant species belongs to the family of Rutaceae which come from the same family as citrus. Only a few studies on antifungal and insecticidal activities of L. scandens have been reported [1]. Yet, no study have reported the cytotoxic activity of this plant. Based on the traditional usage, stem of L. scandens via decoction was t

Background and Aims: It is well known that medical students are subjected to different levels of stressors during various stages of their study. Exposure to severe and prolonged stressors may cause serious psychological distress that may hinder students’ academic performance and may affect their mental and physical health as well. Therefore, this

This article is a study of the origins and consequences of the Arab Spring through highlighting the higher objectives of the Shariah in governance, as well as the basic rights and responsibilities of the citizens and the rulers in Islam. The paper suggests that maintaining peace, harmony and social stability are the main objectives of Islam in gove

This study proposes an automatic sign language translator, which is developed as assistive technology to help the hearing/speech impaired communities to communicate with the rest of the world. The system architecture, which includes feature extraction and recognition stages is described in detail. The signs are classified into two types: static and

There has been dearth of studies on how universities, in developing nations, govern their information technology (IT) to leverage the business goals of teaching and learning, research and administration. The purpose of this paper is to present how a public university governs IT and learn from “over the years” experiences to improve disposition

Can Nigeria afford to be oblivion of governance of information technology (IT)? This study explores the dearth of research in the field of Information Technology Governance (ITG) in the developing nation context. It goes to show the reason behind the need to think out of the box which informed the focus on ITG in developed nations. ITG is seen as t

Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-studied combinatorial optimization problem and recently a number of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based methods have been investigated to solve TSP. Among the popular conventional PSO based methods, several methods consider Swap Sequence (SS) and Swap Operator (SO) for velocity operation to get a new s

This paper presents an agent-based simulation of the processes involved in granuloma formation for the inspirations on the development of energy charging mechanism for swarm robotic systems. Granuloma formation is a process in which unwanted substances are removed by immune system. To better understand the components and the processes in granuloma

A possible solution to address the problem of Scorpion stings is the capability of detecting its presence earlier before it stings. This paper presents efforts in Scorpion detection using substrate vibration modelling approach. An eight stage approach has been presented in this work. Using sinusoidal signal, signal representing Scorpion behaviour w

ÑAbd al-RaÍmÉn Ibn KhaldËn was a Muslim historiographer and historian of Arab origin, and one of the founding “fathers” of modern historiography, sociology and economics. He is best known to modern readers for his Muqaddimah (Prolegomena [To History]), the introductory book to the magnificent seven-volume account on history of the world ent