The Bible does not define the heresies in the Colossian Church. The author of the book took it for granted and thus biblical scholars over centuries have been thrown into the sea of endless search for what the heresies are. This is because of the way they understand the problem at Colossae and the way they interpret Paul’s admonitions. The purpose of this paper is to unearth the heresy and its implication on the present day church in Nigeria. In this work, analytical and sociological methods...

Software Defect Prediction (SDP) is an approach used for identifying defect-prone software modules or components. It helps software engineer to optimally, allocate limited resources to defective software modules or components in the testing or maintenance phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Nonetheless, the predictive performance of SDP models reckons largely on the quality of dataset utilized for training the predictive models. The high dimensionality of software met...

Text data is highly voluminous and performing mining tasks on it can be daunting due to large memory usage, thus researchers have considered different techniques to reduce the data while still maintaining or increasing the level of accuracy. Stop word removal is one of the pre-processing techniques used in text data mining. This paper investigates the effect of stop words removal on the text data mining performance. The machine learning algorithms used are C4.5 Decision Tree and Multinomial ...

Serious concerns have been expressed by college administrators, lecturers and students in Kwara state colleges of education over the behaviour and performance of library staff as well as the quality of services rendered which seems to be unsatisfactory. This has left the researcher to wonder if some of these staff were examined before they were recruited, or they receive further training after been recruited, or whether they are adequately motivated and disciplined. This study therefore as...

This study comparatively examined students' satisfaction with library services in public and private Colleges of Education in Kwara State. A descriptive survey research design was employed for this study. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select a total of 500 respondents for the study. A self-developed questionnaire titled: "Satisfaction with Library Services Questionnaire (SLSQ)” was used for data collection. 4 - point likert scale and SPSS were used to analyse the data colle...

This study examined Students' Assessment of Academic Library Services at the University of llorin, Ilorin, Nigeria A survey method of case study approach was employed for this study. A sample of 568 respondents was used in this study which is 10% of the total population. A researcher - designed structured questionnaire titled "Students" Satisfaction with Library Services (SSLS)" was used for data collection. Mean score and standard deviation were used to analyse the data obtained where mean s...

Sexual violence is any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act unwanted sexual comments or advances or acts to traffic and otherwise directed against a person's sexuality, using coercion by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim in any setting including but not limited to home and work. The harm caused by sexual violence can last a lifetime and span generations with serious adverse effects on health, education, employment, and on the economic wellbeing of individual f...

Manpower otherwise referred to as human resources is cardinal to effective health service delivery. In rendering services of health care to the people, human resource is required to operate the equipment and utilize fund in rendering the services to the people. The quality of manpower is determined by the level of training and motivation of the workers. World-wide, the public health sector has been facing the problems of human resources, particularly in developing countries like Nigeria with ...

Dental caries is one of the commonest oral diseases in children, severe caries detracts from children's quality of life: they experience pain, discomfort, disfigurement, acute and chronic infections, and sleeping and eating disruption as well as higher risk of hospitalization, high treatment costs and loss of school days with consequently diminished ability to learn. All of which can be prevented by good oral hygiene. The study compared the prevalence of dental caries and practice of oral hy...

Based on standard collocation technique, four (4) different orthogonal polynomials were used as basis functions in the numerical treatment of seventh (7th) order boundary value problems in Ordinary Differential Equations. The performance of each of these polynomials as basis function in the trial solution was then compared. The results obtained from three examples showed that Chebyshev polynomial is the best in term of performance, and closely followed by Hermites polynomial, which was follo...

Integro – differetial equations find special applicability within scientific and mathematical discipline.. In this work, the application of some collocation methods for solving Integro-Differential equations presented. We employed two collocation methods namely, Standard and Perturbed collocation methods and the following collocation points namely, Equally spaced interior collocation, Chebyshev Gauss – Lobatto collocation and Chebyshev Gauss-Radau collocation points were used. Errors analysis...

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of high order linear and nonlinear boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations by Multiple Perturbed Collocation Tau Method (MPCTM). We assumed a perturbed apporoximate solution in terms of Chebyshev polynomial basis function which is subtituted into the special class of the problem considered. Thus, resulting into n-folds integration. After evaluation of n-fold integration, the resulting equation is then collocation at equall...

In this paper, iterative decomposition method is coupled with the Laplace transformation method and used to solve time fractional partial differential equations. The results obtained by the new proposed method are exact. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the reliability and applicability of the proposed method.

In this paper, a time- dependent model of prophylactic vaccination HBV is considered. This epidemic model is being investigated for various infectious disease classes, counsel and uncounsel. Mathematical analyzes are performed to determine the positivity and we applied an optimal control strategies in the form of vaccination to minimize or eradicate transmission from mother to child. The study concluded that prophylactic vaccination is not an efficient way to curb the epidemic.

In this paper, we present an Age-Structured hepatitis B model. This epidemic model is investigated for different classes of infectious diseases that can be transmitted through an effective contact with infective individuals, who are contagious. The Graph-Theoretic Method for the Basic Reproduction Number was obtained. In addition, the numerical simulation is used to virtually verify the model predictions. The result suggest that the endemic nature of the model is approaching equilibrium with ...

In this paper, we present an hepatitis B model with multiple transmission ways of the acute counsel, uncounsel and carrier infection classes and derive the basic reproduction number, which indicates that hepatitis B is endemic. Existence of Disease Free and Endemic Equilibrium State are carried-out. The disease free and endemic equilibria are shown to be globally asymptotically stable. In addition, we obtained the numerical simulation to verify the model was predictions. The results suggest t...

In this paper, we consider the numerical treatment of one-dimensional time-fractional partial differential equations by Iterative Decomposition Method (IDM) and Laplace Iterative Decomposition Method (LIDM). Comparative study of the numerical results of illustrative examples of the two methods show that the two methods compared favourable in terms of efficiency, conveniency and accuracy. The major advantage demonstrated by the two methods over some other methods in the literature is their a...