Comparative Analysis of Ecological Footprint of Urban and Rural Households in Minna Emirate of Niger State, Nigeria

Nigeria is an unsustainable country due to ecological deficit arising from the excessive utilisation of natural resources. Resources are consumed more than its bio-capacity. Lifestyle and variation in the needs of households has exert demands on the natural resources and eventually on the global environment. This research therefore aimed at estimating the Ecological Footprints of the average individual in a household in the urban and rural areas of the Minna region in Nigeria. It identifies the types of resource consumption; the impact of consumption on the EF and compare the EF of both in relation to level of sustainability. Data were collected employing primary and secondary sources for the study. A total of 400 households was selected for the study. Questionnaire administration was employed to collect the data and random sampling was employed. The data were analysed through explanatory and inferential statistics. The result of the study shows that the EF of Minna and Maikunkele were 1.10 and 0.892 gha. Households require average 0.91 and 0.74 planets to sustain their living standard and generate 6.2 and 4.3 tonnes of CO2 annually. There are 9 and 6 factors that influence EF. It is recommended that the lifestyle of the household in Minna region has to be modified to reduce pressure environmental resources and emission of GHG for sustainable development

Analysis of the Extent of Red Light Running in Minna, North-Central Nigeria

This research pursued the objectives of assessing the awareness, perception, and levels of adherence of road users to traffic rules and regulations. The study was carried out in Minna and the major signalized roads were the target of the research. The research applied the survey research methodology, which involves carrying volumetric count of vehicles running the red lights on the signalized routes. The research, therefore, found out that, majority of the violators of the traffic signals were the motorcycle riders, closely followed by the tricycle operators; the commercial vehicle owners also form a major percentage of violators of the red light rules in the city. The research, therefore, recommended that strict measures aimed at ensuring immediate compliance with the traffic signals should be implemented, through fines and sanctions on violators to impoundment of offending vehicles. The research concluded that, if instant measures are not put in place to check the menace of the red light running, it will have a serious adverse effect on the social and economic strata of the city

Financial Development and Energy Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence From Panel Vector Error Correction Model

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Elasticity of Stiff Biopolymers

We present a statistical mechanical study of stiff polymers, motivated by experiments on actin filaments and the considerable current interest in polymer networks. We obtain simple, approximate analytical forms for the force-extension relations and compare these with numerical treatments. We note the important role of boundary conditions in determining force-extension relations. The theoretical predictions presented here can be tested against single molecule experiments on neurofilaments and cytoskeletal filaments like actin and microtubules. Our work is motivated by the buckling of the cytoskeleton of a cell under compression, a phenomenon of interest to biology.Comment: Submitted for publication, five pages, three figure

Sinkhole distribution and density of Columbia Quadrangle, Monroe and St. Clair Counties, Illinois

Relief shown by contours and spot heights"Geology based on field work by S.V. Panno, J.C. Angel, D.O. Nelson, and C.P. Weibel, 2000.""Digital cartography by J. Domier, D. Nelson, M. Jones, M. Widener, S. Geegan, and S. Radil, Illinois State Geological Survey."Includes text, 1 location map with index diagram, and 2 aerial photosIncludes bibliographical references (p. 5-6 of text

Sinkhole Distribution and Density of Renault Quadrangle, Monroe County, Illinois

Relief shown by contours and spot heights"Geology based on field work by S.V. Panno, J.C. Angel, D.O. Nelson, C.P. Weibel, and J.A. Devera, 2000.""Digital cartography by J. Domier, D. Nelson, S. Geegan, and S. Radil, Illinois State Geological Survey."Includes text, 1 location map with index diagram, and 2 aerial photosIncludes bibliographical references (p. 5-6 of text

Sinkhole Distribution and Density of Waterloo Quadrangle, Monroe County, Illinois

Relief shown by contours and spot heights"Geology based on field work by S.V. Panno, J.C. Angel, D.O. Nelson, C.P. Weibel, and F.B. Denny, 2000.""Digital cartography by J. Domier, D. Nelson, M. Jones, S. Geegan, and S. Radil, Illinois State Geological Survey."Includes text, 1 location map with index diagram, and 2 aerial photosIncludes bibliographical references (p. 5-6 of text

Zoonotic potential of simian arteriviruses

Wild nonhuman primates are immediate sources and long-term reservoirs of human pathogens. However, ethical and technical challenges have hampered the identification of novel blood-borne pathogens in these animals. We recently examined RNA viruses in plasma from wild African monkeys and discovered several novel, highly divergent viruses belonging to the family Arteriviridae. Close relatives of these viruses, including simian hemorrhagic fever virus, have caused sporadic outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fever in captive macaque monkeys since the 1960s. However, arterivirus infection in wild nonhuman primates had not been described prior to 2011. The arteriviruses recently identified in wild monkeys have high sequence and host species diversity, maintain high viremia, and are prevalent in affected populations. Taken together, these features suggest that the simian arteriviruses may be “preemergent” zoonotic pathogens. If not, this would imply that biological characteristics of RNA viruses thought to facilitate zoonotic transmission may not, by themselves, be sufficient for such transmission to occur