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Composite flours were prepared by blending acha and Bambara flours in ratios 90:10, 80:20, 70:30 and 60:40. Functional, pasting and chemical properties of the blends were evaluated. Cold extruded spaghetti samples were produced from the composite flours and 100% wheat flour as control. Proximate composition, mineral content, anti-nutritional, colour, cooking qualities and sensory acceptability of the spaghetti samples were determined. There were no significant differences (p>0.05) in water absorption and oil absorption capacities between the control and the experimental samples. Loose and packed bulk densities, dispersability, water absorption and oil absorption capacities of the composite flours were as follows: 0.59 to 0.66 g/ml, 0.91 to 0.95 g/ml, 79 to 80 g/ml, 2.14 to 2.26 g/ml and 2.15 to 2.18 g/ml compared with wheat flour 0.48 g/ml, 0.77 g/ml, 75 g/ml, 2.26 g/ml and 2.46 g/ml, respectively. Swelling power of composite flour at 90 and 100oC were essentially the same, while slight differences occurred at 60, 70 and 80oC. Moisture, ash, fat, crude fiber, protein and carbohydrate contents of the blends were 12.58 to 12.91%, 1.00 to 2.50%, 2.30 to 2.40%, 0.25 to 1.00%, 12.58 to 14.63% and 67.09 to 71.20% compared with wheat flour 13.17%, 1.5%, 2.25%, 1.32%, 10.21% and 71.56%, respectively. Phytate, tannin and trypsin inhibitor contents of the extruded products were significantly reduced. The Ca and Zn of the composite spaghetti were higher than that of wheat spaghetti. Significant differences were observed in the colour of experimental spaghetti samples. There were no significant differences (p>0.05) between the cooked weight of composite spaghetti and wheat spaghetti. The overall acceptability of the experimental samples was about 60% of the control spaghetti.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent difficulties in social communication and interaction and restrictive, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior, activities, and interests. Children with autism also experience sensory processing issues and it is a part of diagnostic criteria for Autism. The executive functions are fundamental cognitive skills for achieving good performance in life, as well as in the school and social environment, allowing people to face new and complex situations and the major components of executive functions are working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility. executive functions in an early age evaluating a group of ASD preschool children and confirmed the presence of a significant deficit in some aspects of executive functions in subjects with ASD. The research indicated that children with ASD are often reported problem in executive function in order to have poor working memory capacity, difficulties in switching attention between tasks, and inhibition response problems, which can seriously affect their school performance and everyday functioning. An attempt has been made to review on executive functions in children with autism.

This research aims to examine the factors that influencing the Bumiputera Furniture Entrepreneurial Creativity in Kelantan, Malaysia. There are four (4) factors being studied, which is personality traits, environment, behavior and challenge. Based on some previous research, these four elements are very effective in assessing the level of creativity and innovation among entrepreneurs, especially those involving the manufacturing and production industries. Questionnaires were used as a method of data collection and were distributed to 57 furniture entrepreneurs. Then the data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 14.0 to test the reliability, the further analyzed using frequency analysis, descriptive-mean tests, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Regression Analysis. In general, the result of this study shows that there is a significant relationship between personality traits, environment and behavior with creativity of Bumiputera’s furniture entrepreneurship in Kelantan. This study is expected to produce a creative entrepreneur in the furniture production, thus will contribute to long-term success. In the academic world, researchers could then see how far the value of creativity among entrepreneurs furniture influenced by four factors referred to.

Much has been written about the putative virtues and vices of federal and unitary systems of government, but little experimental testing of the impact of such systems on the quality of governance has been conducted, The study was focused on the factors influencing the performance of federal Government of Somalia, a case study of Somali Federal Government, this time scope provides adequate information to the problem under investigation. The target populations of this study was120 include the elected leaders in various political fields. They included Members of Parliament of the Federal Government of Somalia, Community leaders, Youth leaders and Women leaders. The researcher used closed questionnaires. The researcher directly distributed questionnaires to the respondents. The sample size consisted of92 participants selected from the accessible population the Slovene's formula used to determine the minimum sample size. Data collected was analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The descriptive statistical tools were used to help in describing the data and determining the respondents? degree of agreement with the various statements under each factor. The data was analyzed and processed electronically using statistical package for social scientists (SPSS version 22) to analyze the factors influencing the performance of federal government of Somali. At the end of this study, the researcher is hopeful of coming up with recommendations that ensured peaceful coexistence of people in Somalia, while recognizing their diversity .it was found in this study clan interest table 4.5.3 shown the results researcher revealed that 79.7%percentage with the mean of 1.9% of the respondents mentioned that were agree that the main problem of Somalia the performance of federal government of Somali is clan interest. The study also revealed that an increase in clan interest and clan based federalism of Somalia positively affect the factors influence the performance of federal government of Somalia. The study recommends federalism was accomplishing the task of preserving natural unity through the distribution of powers and sovereignty between the central government and autonomous territorial entities operating within it. It ensured the peaceful coexistence of peoples, while recognizing their diversity and also to established formation fair division of natural resources between federal government and regional states.

False smut, caused by Ustilaginoidea virens, has recently been found in temperate agro-climatic conditions of Kashmir and is sporadic where rice is cultivated. In this study, rice false smut was surveyed in major rice production areas of Kashmir during two seasons. Disease incidence and severity varied significantly between seasons and locations. Seed germination in smut infected samples was 72.4% which is 21.45 per cent lower than the non - smutted samples (92.20%). Shoot and rood length were reduced to the extent of 32.53 and 22.65 per cent, respectively. Rice genotypes Jhelum and Shalimar rice-1 were found resistant while Pusa sughandh 3 and 5 were highly susceptible to false smut. Kashmir valley being mono cropped area of rice in Kharif season, further studies are needed to investigate the viability of the fungal spores and sclerotia during winter, variation between fungal isolates, ability to produce mycotoxins and devise control measures using integrated disease management practices.

This Paper studies the flexural strength and deflection of Sawdust–Quarry dust–Plywood Composite Slab. The materials used include Cement, Quarry dust, Sawdust, Plywood, Nails, and water. Laboratory test were carried out on this composite according to standard test procedures. They were tested for flexural strength and deflection. It was observed that for a 1200mm width of slab with thicknesses between 100mm to 175mm and Plywood Thickness 12.5mm to 20mm, the average flexural strength of this composite slab ranges from 1.32MPa to 3.30MPa. The deflection slab ranges from 106mm to 33mm while those of plain composite slab ranges from 20mm to 5mm

The association of a posterior dislocation of the radial head with a diaphyseal fracture of the ipsilateral radius is uncommon condition. We report a rare case of a fracture-traumatic luxation of the radial head associated with a diaphysary fracture of homolateral radius in 52 old patient.

In today’s globalised and competitive economic environment, insurance companies are continually faced with situation of risk where decisions are taken in the face of uncertainty. The variability of claim costs and the challenge of estimating the cost of insurance at inception of the policy make it necessary for companies to frequently assess the credibility upon which pricing, valuation and other product management decisions are made. The accuracy of estimated future claim costs plays a fundamental role in determining the underwriting profit of these insurers. This study proposed an industry-wide information based experience rating in a regulated and competitive Nigeria business environment for credible underwriting and profitability. The proposed structure incorporates various initiatives for having in place reliable, up-to-date, efficient and effective statistical system such as the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics (MAPS), General Data Dissemination System (GDDS), Partnerships in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21), the Reference Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical Capacity Building in Africa (RRSF), National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) and AFRISAT. It also integrates variation in expected claim costs from insurer to insurer in the industry, variation between expected claim costs from group to group for a given insurer, and variation from insured to insured within a group. Inferences can be made about the industry’s average, companies’ average and group-specific average.

The molecular vibrations of 2-methylnaphthalene was investigated by FT-IR and FT-Raman spectroscopies. Normal coordinate calculations of 2-methylnaphthalene have been carried out using Wilson’s FG matrix mechanism on the basis of General Valence Force field (GVFF) for both in-plane and out-of-plane vibrations. The potential energy constants obtained in this study are refined using numerical methods.

The new shielding using a mixed of Barium Sulfate (BaSO4) and cement accordingly to the ratio that desired which is from (1:99) to (20:80) respectively. The samples were in thickness of 1 mm, 5 mm and 10 mm with the ratio of BaSO4 are 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20%.The samples are examined with XRD. The mixture ratio of barium sulfate that has 20% in the sample shows that the absorption of the energy is high. A high mass density material of sample as barium, which has high atomic number is suitable to absorb the energy of radiation. Increasing the material density leads to increase the attenuation. The results have shown a significant protection for hazardous of gamma ray.