This paper seeks to investigate whether dividend payments possess significant information content capable of causing changes in stock prices in Nigerian stock exchange. Applying the panel model of the Generalized Least Square (GLS) regression which allows for the influence of…

The global economy has gone through the past ten years a severe recession triggered by the financial catastrophe and the collapse of the commercial and industrial activity in the world. This slowdown has weighed its effects on the growth of…

The socio-environmental impact of rapidly increasing piles of electrical and electronic waste or E-waste at global level has been evaluated in detail. Malaysian scenario was selected as a case study to analyse various issues regarding generation, storage, transportation and disposal…

A general framework of hydraulic fault diagnosis system was studied. It consisted of equipment knowledge bases, real-time databases, fusion reasoning module, knowledge acquisition module and so on. A tree-structure model of fault knowledge was established. Fault nodes knowledge was encapsulated…

Anaesthetic management of cardiac patient’s coming for non cardiac surgery has always been challenging. Goal of anaesthesia management is to keep myocardial oxygen supply greater than demand to avoid ischemia. Choice of anaesthesia has been general anaesthesia (GA) by achieving…

Antifoams are often added to bioprocesses with little knowledge of their impact on the cells or product. However, it is known that certain antifoams can affect the growth rates of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms in addition to changing surface…

For the energy management problems for demand response in electricity grid, a Metropolis Criterion based fuzzy Q-learning consumer energy management controller (CEMC) is proposed. Because of the uncertainties and highly time-varying, it is not easy to accurately obtain the complete…

The basement membrane is a term, originally given to a layer of variable thickness and distinction found at the basal surfaces of epithelia Michel Ross, (1989). Since the layer was positioned immediately below the bases of the epithelial cells, this…

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management and organizational resilience. The sample for the study consisted of one hundred and twenty eight (128) employees from the thirty four manufacturing companies that are registered with the manufacturers Association of Nigeria,…

Academic engineering graphics curricula are facing a rapidly changing knowledge base and current teaching and assessment methods are struggling to keep pace.  This paper is the second in a two-part series which examines practicing engineering graphics professionals to discover their…