Coconut oil (Cocos nucifera L.) has a unique role in the diet as an important physiologically functional food. The health and nutritional benefits that can be derived from consuming coconut oil have been recognized in many parts of the world for centuries. Optimization has found several applications in various processes widely used in the food industry and other industrial applications. In this study, the mechanical oil expression process for coconut was optimized using Response Surface Methodology. Experimental factors were moisture content, heating temperature, heating time and pressing time. Data analyses were done using multiple linear regression at p = 0.05. Predicted optimum conditions were validated using experimental values. Highest oil yield of 43.78% was obtained at moisture content of 14%, temperature of.........

Keywords - Coconut oil, response surface methodology, optimization, oil yield.

Energy conservation and environmental protection has become the most important and eternal theme in the world.Compressor industry as the pillar industry of national economic life, its response to the slogan of energy saving is even more urgent.In this study, the retrofit design of screw compressor unit, such as adding frequency converter and optimizing pipeline, is analyzed by numerical calculation, and the performance of some aspects of screw compressor unit after retrofit design is preliminarily estimated.The results of this study will provide direction and theoretical basis for the subsequent energy-saving renovation design of screw compressor unit.

Keywords - Screw compressor unit；Transformation design；Piping design.

This paper presents a conceptual basis for a paradigm shift in looking at how the brain works. This paradigm shift is embodied in the proposal that generating endogenous electromagnetic (EM) fields, observed as EEG "brain waves," is a neuron's primary function rather than being a by-product of its direct, synaptic message function. Thus, the synaptic interconnections between neurons are a facilitating mechanism for the neurons' primary role in creating EM fields. Furthermore, these EM fields function to stimulate the cerebral cortex and maintain a feed-back loop between brain regions. If this is the case, the conventional neuronal model of mental activity needs to be revised. This concept is explored, along with its implications in terms of sensory perceptions, consciousness, memory and related mental functions.........

Keywords - Consciousness, electromagnetic fields, neuronal networks.

High concentration of urinary oxalate may lead to the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones. There are many medications and surgical treatments are available for the management of kidney stone disease. But they have their own benefits and drawbacks. Degradation of urinary oxalate by bacteria by using them as probiotics can be a new therapeutic tool for the management of kidney stone disease. Present study focuses on the isolation of oxalate degrading bacteria from various food sources by using ATCC 1352 medium. Identification of isolated bacteria was carried out based on Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology and molecular techniques. Quantitative determination of oxalate degradation was carried out by using Barber's medium and concentration of oxalate was determined by oxidation of KMnO4 by oxalic acid. One bacterial strain showed 19.2% oxalate degradation. Based on Bergey's Manual............

Keywords - Oxalate, kidney stone, Bacillus subtilis, probiotics.

Bryophyte are the oldest land plant. Bryophyte places this group between algae and Pteridophyte. Bryophyte exist in a wide variety of habitats. They can be found growing in a range of temperatures, cold arctics and in hot deserts, in a range of elevations sea-level to hilly land, and moisture dry deserts to wet rainforests. The usefulness of bryophytes is relatively unknown to most people. Studies of HTL to proceed bryophyte into bio-oil was attempted. Process parameters were attempted such as temperature (300,350 dan 374 oC). Increase the temperature reaction increased the degradation rate, liquid and gaseous products. Residual solid decreased from 70.82% to 52.65%, liquid product increased from 16.34 to 27.44%, and gaseous product increased from 12.84 to 19.11%. Substrate bryophyte load of.........

Keywords - bryophyte, HTL, bio-oil, conversion.

The high resolution aeroradiometric data of Wukari and Donga Middle Benue Trough used for this work were obtained from the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA). The analysis of radiometric data revealed concentrations distribution pattern of primary radioelements: potassium (K), thorium (Th) and uranium (U). The count rate range of K (0.11 - 2.75%), Th (6.79 - 27.71 ppm) and U (1.69 - 6.21 ppm) were observed within the study area. From the analysis of the maps, the relative lower values of Uranium abundances in Wukari area are roughly related to the presence of sedimentary rocks such as carbonates and sandstones in the study area while higher values of Uranium abundances in Donga area are roughly related to the presence of metamorphic rock such as schist. Results from statistics and map analysis............

Keywords - radiometric, mineralization, spectrometric survey, threshold value.

The study aimed to clarify the geological characteristics of the peat mine in Thoi Trang canal, in Kien Giang province, Vietnam and determine the quality of peat for the needs of organic fertilizer production. Research results have identified geological structure of the mine area; thickness, width of peat seam on mine area of 60ha. Sampling and analysis of silicate chemistry, semi-quantitative spectra have also assessed the quality of peat, whereby the industrial mineral body with organic humus content reaches ≥ 10% and the other technical specifications such as humic acid, N, P, K all meet the requirements to produce organic fertilizer.

Keywords - peat, geological characteristics, organic fertilizer.

Now-a-days, the construction of high-rise building is ever increasing due to the limitation of space in horizontal direction in urban areas. Even the vertical extension can be commonly seen in urban areas of developing countries like Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh is situated at earthquake prone region. Therefore, it is important to consider lateral loads in designing high-rise building emphasized on storey drift. In this present study, a ten-storied RC regular rectangular building has been studied under lateral loads-seismic and wind-using finite element based computer software ETABS (version 9.6) for five different slab systems. Five slab systems are edge supported slab with deep beams, column supported slab with interior shallow beams, flat plate with edge beams and without cantilever portion, flat plate with cantilever portion and without edge beams, and flat plate without cantilever portion and without edge beams. Storey drift for every storey and inter storey drift index have been calculated for lateral loads for all five conditions and compare with allowable drift limitations. The result shows, the building with flat plate without cantilever portion and without edge beams may be vulnerable under lateral loads.

Keywords - Ten-storied RC building; slab systems; lateral loads; storey drift; inter storey drift index.

These days, numerous enemy of phishing frameworks are being created to recognize phishing substance in online correspondence frameworks. In spite of the accessibility of hordes hostile to phishing frameworks, phishing proceeds with unabated because of lacking recognition of a zero-day assault, pointless computational overhead and high bogus rates. In spite of the fact that Machine Learning approaches have accomplished promising exactness rate, the decision and the exhibition of the component vector limit their successful location. Phishing is a typical assault on guileless individuals by making them to unveil their one of a kind data utilizing fake sites. In this work, an upgraded AI based prescient model is proposed to improve the effectiveness of against phishing plans. The prescient model comprises of Feature Selection Module which is utilized for the development of a successful element vector. These highlights are removed from the URL, website page properties and site page conduct utilizing the gradual segment-based framework to introduce the resultant component vector to the prescient model. The proposed framework utilizes CNN, KNN AND SVM which have been prepared on a 30-dimensional list of capabilities. AI is an incredible asset used to endeavor against phishing assaults.

Keywords - Phishing, Phishing Websites, Detection, CNN,SVM,KNN.

The study environment is located south of the small Senegalese coast. It has been distinguished over the past two decades by a strong advance in salt lands. The objective of this article is to characterize the spatial variation of land salinity. The methodological approach is based on the analysis of the electrical conductivity (EC) of 794 soil samples spread over 182.3 ha using the 1/10 diluted extract method and the ordinary kriginggeostatistical method for spatialization salinity of the land. The results obtained show that the salinity of the soils is characterized by a large spatial variation on the horizontal and vertical plane following a decreasing salinity gradient from bare tannes near watercourses to cropland. The salinity is rising. It grows from depth (20-40 cm) to the surface (0-20 cm). We also note an extension of extremely salty soils (bare tannes), with electrical conductivities well above 2,000 μs / cm, to the detriment of very salty and salty soils.

Keywords - Spatialization, Salinization, Electrical Conductivity, Ordinary Kriging, Saloum Estuary

In Brazil, the remnants of Pampa biome represent an area of high environmental fragility due to the expansion of the agricultural frontier and to overgrazing, which promotes conditions for the rapid spread and establishment of invasive species such as Eragrostis plana Nees. The area most susceptible to invasion by this species are the areas degraded by overgrazing and intensive agriculture, abandoned crop fields, and roadsides. Considering the problems that arise from species invasion in natural areas, and particularly from Eragrostis plana in the Pampa biome, the objective of this study was to use the GARP (Genetic Algorithm Rule-set Production) species distribution model to map, at the local scale, the probability to invasion by this species using as input variables remotely sensed data, as well as..........

Keywords - Invasive species, South African lovegrass, NDVI, Grasslands, Rangelands, MODIS, Landsat.

The penetration properties of some soils around Lagos were evaluated using the 2.5 Tons Dutch Cone Penetrometer. The aim of the test is to provide data that will be used alongside other field and laboratory test results to characterize soil properties around areas marked for development and also provide data for foundation design. The scope of the assignment was limited to investigating the suitability of the areas for erecting shallow building foundations. Results obtained from the site were found to be favourable for location of shallow foundations as the Penetration resistance obtained on all the four locations ranged between 60 KN/m2 to 300 KN/m2for depthrange of1 to 3 meters. It was observed that the tip resistance for places where Sand were encountered were considerably higher than areas where clay and other soil types were encountered. Results of 16 Cone Penetration Test points are presented.

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The road from Papalanto to Sagamu located inOgun State of Nigeria is a very busy route. Daily a minimum of 300 fully loaded articulated vehiclescarrying up to 90 tons of cementeach;usethe route as a transit point to distribute products from factories of Dangote Industries Ltd (DIL)and Lafarge Plc. located at Ibese and Ewekoro in Ogun State of Nigeria respectively to other parts of the country. The road however is in a state of constant distress as a result of the heavy load plying the route and this is further worsened by poor maintenance culture of roads across the country. To curb this menace, arrangement was made by Dangote industry limited (DIL) and Lafarge Plc.to explore ways of carrying out palliatives that will ease hardship road users facebymaking the road motorable albeit temporarily until a permanent solution is put in place by the Federal Government of Nigeria...........

Keywords - Articulated Vehicles, Base Course, California Bearing Ratio, Stabilization, Compressive Strength, Soil-Cement.

This paper presentsvoltage regulation at Karu 132/33KV substation in Abuja, Nigeria using static var compensators. Flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) devices aremodern electrical equipments that have gained wide applications in power transmission and grid stability. To improve the power quality and stability through good voltage profile, the role of static var compensators was examined using PowerFactory Digsilent software models. From the results gotten, the voltage profile at the busbar was greatly improved hence proving the efficiency of such device.

Keywords - Static VAR, TCR, fixed capacitor, susceptance, real power, and reactive power.

The integration of sedimentary petrography, paleocurrent and heavy mineral analyses of the conglomeritic lithofacies of the Ameki Formation in the northeastern part of the Niger Delta Basin was donein order to determine the provenance, tectonic and paleoclimatic setting. The sandstone has more than 95% quartz and it is quartz arenite.Petrographic analysis shows the preponderance of monocrystalline nonundulose quartz and absence of inclusions suggesting a volcanic igneous source terrain. The absence of feldspar suggests that the detritus was derived under a hot and humid palaeoclimate. The abundance of euhedral zircon and pink euhedral tourmaline suggest that the sediment was derived from an igneous source terrain. However, the paucity of kyanite and sillimanite indicate a minor contribution from a metamorphic source. Analysis of cross-beds data gives a unimodal paleocurrent patterntrending southwest which indicates that the provenance is northeast.The mineral composition of the sand considered in conjunction withpaleocurrent direction points to the northeastern granitic basement complex rocks of the Cameroon Massif.

Keywords - Provenance, petrography, conglomeritic lithofacies, Niger Delta, paleoclimate

A Multimedia System forEarly Child Learning is an online system for assisting children during their early learning stage. It provides an opportunity for a child to get acquainted to a Computer system early in life. The teacher and also the parents can login, use the system to teach a child how to recognize alphabets and numbers for children between ages 1 to 3 years. How to spell words and listen to pronunciations were also developed for children under the age of 4 to 9 years. Animations were used to show when they fail or pass the exercise. The system comprises of various GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) for various modules of the system and also separated according to age brackets. The GUIs were implemented using the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C# razor view engine and Bootstrap template for making the website responsive. At the backend, C#, Asp.Net MVC5 was used while Entity framework was used for interfacing with the database. MSSQL was used for the database as it has high security features.

Keywords - Multimedia, Aid, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, Asp.Net MVC5, C# razor view engine.