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Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Growth and Financial Sector Development in Small Open Developing Economies
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON DRACUNCULIASIS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
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Impact of Capital Market on Domestic Resource Mobilization for Economic Development in Nigeria (2000-2015)
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- Generating massive investment for growth and development has been one of the main policy goals of most economies around the globe. Countries, most especially developing ones, are highly susceptible to investment volatility owing largely to the fragile nature of their economies as well as weaknesses in terms of dysfunctional institutions. Therefore, sound economic management suggests the need to better understand possible sources for mitigating the adverse effects of investment volatility. Remittances have been identified as important capital flows which do a good job of dousing macroeconomic volatilities. It is on this basis that the study sought to uncover the causal relationship between remittances and investment volatility via the intermediating role of institutions. Using a panel of 70 countries and the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator, three insightful outcomes come to the fore. First, remittances played countercyclical roles across the estimated regressions. Second, institutional quality had no significant role in mitigating investment volatility and lastly, the interactive terms of both remittances and institutions significantly mitigated the negative impacts of investment volatility with the exception of the political component of the institutional architecture. Policy suggestions are drawn based on our results. 4 results 4
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- "Interest is growing daily on the utilization of bamboo as a reliable supplement to wood in furniture production to mitigate the scarcity of wood raw material supply. This study explored the viability of recycling bamboo recovered from scaffold into intermediate raw material for indoor furniture production. Strips were processed from the recovered Bambusa vulgaris Schrad and were subjected to conventional treatment methods with some modification to simplify the treatment. The durability of the treated strip was evaluated in accordance with ASTM D2017. A storage shelf was designed and fabricated using laminates made from the bamboo strips. The diameter and wall thickness of the recovered bamboo culms ranges from 6.00cm -10.00cm and 10.00mm- 12.70mm respectively. The result shows that ordinary soaking of the strips in water for 3 weeks could make the strips to be sufficiently resistant to termite attack but fairly resistant to powder post beetle. Application of kerosene as a secondary treatment will make the resistance of the bamboo strip effective to powder post beetle. A Complete-Knock-Down (CDK) Magazine shelf suitable for office use was fabricated using road side carpentry workshop tools. This study was able to recycle Bambusa vulgaris recovered from scaffolding material into suitable raw material input for the manufacturing of indoor furniture." 1 results 1
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- Acrylic denture 1 results 1
- Agricultural soils as habitats for beneficial soil bacteria are usually invaded by weeds, an occurrence which has detrimental effects on crops. Chemical herbicides mostly employed for weed control adversely affect soil bacteria. Previous studies have reported chemical herbicides’ effects on soil bacterial diversity suppressing microbial growth, however, information on soil types, and organic herbicides that could be an alternative is limited. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the effects of chemical and organic herbicides on bacterial diversity in Alfisol and Inceptisol. Soils (Alfisol and Inceptisol) were collected from research farms at University of Ibadan, Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, National Horticultural Research Institute, and International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. In a screen house experiment using a factorial arrangement in a completely randomised design, Atrazine and S-Metolachlor (AS-M), Isopropyl Amine (IA), and Acetic Acid (AA) herbicides were applied as pre-, post- and organic herbicides, respectively on the soils. In the field experiments, AS-M, IA and AA herbicides were also applied to the Alfisol and Inceptisol. All herbicide-treated soils were sampled at 4 and 8 weeks and bulked to determine physico-chemical parameters and herbicides persistency of the treated and untreated soils using standard methods. The effect on bacterial diversity in herbicide treated Alfisol and Inceptisol were determined by DNA extraction from the soil samples using 16S rRNA amplicons sequenced on illumina miseq. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, QIIME 2, and ANOVA at α0.05. Untreated Alfisol pH (6.20±0.12), organic carbon (3.90±0.04g/kg) and clay content (112.20±0.55g/kg) were significantly higher than Inceptisol pH (5.50±0.15), organic carbon (1.90±0.01g/kg) and clay content (103.90±0.81g/kg). At week 4, pH and organic carbon were significantly higher in Alfisol (6.30±0.21: 0.40±0.06g/kg) than Inceptisol (5.40±0.21; 0.10±0.06g/kg). Herbicides’ persistency was higher in Alfisol than Inceptisol. Intermediate products (acetamide) in AA-treated soil (Alfisol: 30.2%; Inceptisol: 25.0%) < 2-amino-3-4- dihydro-4-4-dimethyl-6-pyrimidinone (Alfisol: 48.7%; Inceptisol: 35.3%) in IA < atrazine (Alfisol: 50.9%; Inceptisol: 37.1%) in AS-M at week 4, with a similar trend Alfisol: 22.1%, Inceptisol: 19.2%; Alfisol: 42.6%, Inceptisol: 33.2%; Alfisol: 43.9%, Inceptisol: 35.1% at week 8. Alfisol had significantly higher bacteria taxa of 79% than 21% in Inceptisol. Methylomicrobium, Saccharopolyspora, Domibacillus, Blatococcus, Fuctibacillus, Limnobacter, Sneathiella, Nocardiopsis, Aquisphaera, and Stenotrophomonas were found in Alfisol and Inceptisol. However, Limnobacter and Methylomicrobium; Sneathiella and Nocardiopsis; Aquisphaera and Saccharopolyspora; were the bacterial genera that survived in AS-M, IA and AAtreated-soils, respectively. Significant effect in relative abundance of bacterial genera Chthoniobacter (Alfisol: 0.5%, 0.4%, 0.3%, 0.6%: Inceptisol: 0.3%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.5%) and Pedosphaera (Alfisol: 0.6%, 0.6%, 0.5%, 0.9%, Inceptisol: 0.7%, 0.5%, 0.5%, 0.9%) were observed at week 4, Chthoniobacter (Alfisol: 0.5%, 0.4%, 0.4%, 0.6%: Inceptisol: 0.3%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%) and Pedosphaera (Alfisol: 0.6%, 0.8%, 0.5%, 0.9%, Inceptisol: 0.3%, 1.2%, 0.9%, 1.3%) at week 8 in untreated and soil treated with AS-M, IA and AA, respectively. Alpha and beta diversity indicated significant differences in the relative abundance of bacteria between Alfisol and Inceptisol. The relative abundance of bacteria diversity in Alfisol and Inceptisol were reduced by chemicals but increased by organic herbicides 1 results 1
- Alfisol and Inceptisol 1 results 1
- BCCA 1 results 1
- Calories 1 results 1
- Chemical and organic herbicides 1 results 1
- Creatine 1 results 1
- Domestic Resource Mobilization 1 results 1
- Earthquake 1 results 1
- Economic Growth 1 results 1
- Economic Growth (GDP) 1 results 1
- Economic globalization 1 results 1
- Ergogenic 1 results 1
- Financial Sector Development 1 results 1
- Financial sector 1 results 1
- Focal depth 1 results 1
- Food crops 1 results 1
- Foreign Direct Investment 1 results 1
- Glycogen 1 results 1
- Gmelina arborea sawdust 1 results 1
- Gravity measurements were made along a roughly east-west profile across the lower Benue trough, with the main objectives of investigating the nature and configuration of the basement beneath the trough and determining the thickness of the sedimentary cover rocks. I87 gravity stations were established at 2-4km intervals and standard corrections were applied to the observed gravity values. A Bouguer gravity map of the whole Benue trough is compiled from the results of these measurements and data obtained from previous works. The map shows that the positive anomaly along the axis of the trough is a most prominent regional feature that extends over the whole length of the trough. The abrupt truncation of the positive anomalies along a NNE-SSE line may represent the Cretaceous continental margin. The axial positive is ascribed to the doming of the basement underlying relatively dense Albian Shales and their associated intermediate to basic intrusives along the trough axis as a result of tectonic processes. "Growth” of the positive anomaly towards the South is attributed to the basement being at a shallower depth in the lower Benue than in the upper Benue trough and to the probability that oceanic crust underlies the sediments at the southwestern end of the trough. The negative anomalies are due to thick sedimentary sequences which fill the flanks of the trough. The sediments are estimated to have a maximum thickness of 4.25km in the surveyed area of the lower Benue trough. 1 results 1
- Gross Domestic Product 1 results 1
- Herbicide persistence 1 results 1
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