African Evaluation Database

9120 records found

Source	Electronic ID	Title▲	Authors	Publication Year	Source Title	Volume	Issue	DOI	Affiliations	Authors with Affiliations	Abstract	Author Keywords	Index Keywords	Funding Details
Scopus	2-s2.0-84934289768	Comparative studies on growth and evaluation of some harvested parts of fluted pumpkin (Telfairia...	Chukwurah N.F., Eze S.C., Aruah C.B., Onyeonagu C.C., Onyeke C.C.	2015	Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences	25	3	None	National Biotechnology Development Agency, Airport Road, Lugbe, Abuja, Nigeria; Department of Cro...	Chukwurah, N.F., National Biotechnology Development Agency, Airport Road, Lugbe, Abuja, Nigeria; ...	A study was conducted to compare the growth and evaluation of some harvested parts of fluted pump...	Photosynthates; Telfairiaoccidentalis; Vegetative growth; Yield evaluation	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-78650711819	Comparative study of the effect of depth and season on the performance of the reverse-side absorb...	Njoku H.O., Ekechukwu O.V., Odukwe A.O.	2009	International Journal of Sustainable Energy	28	4	10.1080/14786450903194510	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria; National Universiti...	Njoku, H.O., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria; Ekechu...	The 'reverse-side absorber-plate shallow solar pond' (RASSP), consisting of a semi-cylindrical re...	Cylindrical reflector; Reverse absorber-plate collector; Shallow solar pond; Solar pond; Solar wa...	Comparative studies; Cylindrical reflectors; Depth variation; Glass covers; Plate collectors; Sha...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-58849114080	Comparative study of the impact of past pregnancy outcome on future fertility	Orji E.O.	2008	Singapore Medical Journal	49	12	None	Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awo...	Orji, E.O., Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences,...	Introduction: The impact of previous pregnancy outcome on future fertility in Nigeria has not bee...	Fertility; Future fertility; Mismanaged pregnancy; Past pregnancy outcome; Pregnancy outcome	article; comparative study; controlled study; female; female fertility; female infertility; hospi...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84922418256	Comparative study on the impact of copper sulphate and copper nitrate on the detoxification mecha...	Lyubenova L., Bipuah H., Belford E., Michalke B., Winkler B., Schröder P.	2015	Environmental Science and Pollution Research	22	1	10.1007/s11356-014-3402-x	Department of Environmental Seienees, Researeh Unit Mierobe-Plant Interaetions, German Researeh C...	Lyubenova, L., Department of Environmental Seienees, Researeh Unit Mierobe-Plant Interaetions, Ge...	The present study focused on cupric sulphate and cupric nitrate uptake in Typha latifolia and the...	Antioxidative enzymes; Cupric nitrate; Cupric sulphate; Typha latifolia	concentration (composition); copper compound; detoxification; enzyme activity; monocotyledon; nit...	FA0995, DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84946962360	Comparative validation of five quantitative rapid test kits for the analysis of salt iodine conte...	Rohner F., Kangambèga M.O., Khan N., Kargougou R., Garnier D., Sanou I., Ouaro B.D., Petry N., Wi...	2015	PLoS ONE	10	9	10.1371/journal.pone.0138530	GroundWork LLC, Crans-près-Céligny, Switzerland; Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Ouagadou...	Rohner, F., GroundWork LLC, Crans-près-Céligny, Switzerland; Kangambèga, M.O., Laboratoire Nation...	Background Iodine deficiency has important health and development consequences and the introducti...	None	formic acid; iodine; potassium iodate; potassium iodide; sodium chloride; analytic method; Articl...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84908498374	Comparing a paper based monitoring and evaluation system to a mHealth system to support the natio...	Neupane S., Odendaal W., Friedman I., Jassat W., Schneider H., Doherty T.	2014	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making	14	1	10.1186/1472-6947-14-69	School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa; Health Systems ...	Neupane, S., School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa; Od...	Background: In an attempt to address a complex disease burden, including improving progress towar...	Community based services; Community health workers; mHealth; Monitoring and evaluation	comparative study; evaluation study; health auxiliary; human; medical record; public health; Sout...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84904573626	Comparing determinants of alien bird impacts across two continents: Implications for risk assessm...	Evans T., Kumschick S., Dyer E., Blackburn T.	2014	Ecology and Evolution	4	14	10.1002/ece3.1144	Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, United K...	Evans, T., Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7P...	Invasive alien species can have serious adverse impacts on both the environment and the economy. ...	Alien birds; Biological invasion; Habitat generalism; Impact prediction; Life history traits; Ris...	None	SNSF, Swiss National Science Foundation	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84878951146	Comparing farmers' perception of soil fertility change with soil properties and crop performance ...	Karltun E., Lemenih M., Tolera M.	2013	Land Degradation and Development	24	3	10.1002/ldr.1118	Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box7001, 750 07,...	Karltun, E., Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box...	Farmers' perceptions of soil fertility change were compared with observations on soil quality cha...	Biotest; Chronosequence; Ethiopia; Farmers' perception; Nitrogen; Plant indicators; Soil fertilit...	Biotest; Chronosequences; Ethiopia; Farmers' perceptions; Soil fertility; Biomass; Crops; Nitroge...	SWE2004-295, Sida-Sarec	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84929655475	Comparing impacts of alien plants and animals in Europe using a standard scoring system	Kumschick S., Bacher S., Evans T., Markova´ Z., Pergl J., Pysˇek P., Vaes-Petignat S., van der Ve...	2015	Journal of Applied Ecology	52	3	10.1111/1365-2664.12427	Department of Botany and Zoology, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Private B...	Kumschick, S., Department of Botany and Zoology, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch Univer...	Alien species can change the recipient environment in various ways, and some of them cause consid...	Arthropod; Biological invasions; Environmental impact; Generic impact scoring system; Management ...	biological invasion; bird; comparative study; environmental impact; habitat fragmentation; introd...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84858827980	Comparing levels of use of project plans and performance of traditional contract and design-build...	Idoro G.	2012	Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology	10	1	10.1108/17260531211211863	Department of Building, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria	Idoro, G., Department of Building, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria	Purpose: The prominent role of traditional contract and design-build methods in the procurement o...	Construction industry; Contracts; Document management; Nigeria; Procurement management; Project m...	Document management; Nigeria; Procurement management; Project performance; Project planning; Cons...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-77951641138	Comparing modelled predictions of neonatal mortality impacts using list with observed results of ...	Friberg I.K., Bhutta Z.A., Darmstadt G.L., Bang A., Cousens S., Baqui A.H., Kumar V., Walker N., ...	2010	International Journal of Epidemiology	39	SUPPL. 1	10.1093/ije/dyq017	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, M...	Friberg, I.K., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Healt...	Background: There is an increasing body of evidence from trials suggesting that major reductions ...	Bangladesh; Child survival; India; Lives saved tool; Modelling; Neonatal mortality; Pakistan	child mortality; comparative study; data set; empirical analysis; health policy; neonate; numeric...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84864567452	Comparing occupational health and safety (OHS) management efforts and performance of nigerian con...	Idoro G.I.	2011	Journal of Construction in Developing Countries	16	2	None	Department of Building, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria	Idoro, G.I., Department of Building, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria	The study compares the management efforts and performance of construction contractors in Nigeria ...	Multinational Contractors; National Contractors; Nigeria; OHS Management Efforts; OHS Performance	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84901400302	Comparing orthogonal force and unidirectional strain component processing for tool condition moni...	Freyer B.H., Heyns P.S., Theron N.J.	2014	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	25	3	10.1007/s10845-012-0698-6	Dynamic Systems Group, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Preto...	Freyer, B.H., Dynamic Systems Group, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Unive...	Signal processing using orthogonal cutting force components for tool condition monitoring has est...	Neural network; Self-sensing actuator; Structure dynamic modelling; Tool wear-monitoring; Wavelet...	Computer simulation; Cutting; Neural networks; Piezoelectric actuators; Sensors; Signal processin...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84894187929	Comparing performance of MLP and RBF neural network models for predicting South Africa's energy c...	Oludolapo O.A., Jimoh A.A., Kholopane P.A.	2012	Journal of Energy in Southern Africa	23	3	None	Department of Industrial Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa; Department ...	Oludolapo, O.A., Department of Industrial Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, South Af...	In view of the close association between energy and economic growth, South Africa's aspirations f...	Energy consumption; Gross domestic product; Multilayer perceptron; Radial basis function	None	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84883391145	Comparing the Performance of Cluster Random Sampling and Integrated Threshold Mapping for Targeti...	Smith J.L., Sturrock H.J.W., Olives C., Solomon A.W., Brooker S.J.	2013	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases	7	8	10.1371/journal.pntd.0002389	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; London Centre for Neglect...	Smith, J.L., London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, London Centr...	Background:Implementation of trachoma control strategies requires reliable district-level estimat...	None	azithromycin; article; classification; cluster random sampling; computer simulation; disease cont...	B&MGF, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; 098045, Wellcome Trust	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84943573717	Comparing the performance of different meta-heuristics for unweighted parallel machine scheduling	Adamu M.O., Adewumi A.	2015	South African Journal of Industrial Engineering	26	2	None	Department of Mathematics, University of Lagos, Nigeria; School of Mathematics, Statistics and Co...	Adamu, M.O., Department of Mathematics, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Adewumi, A., School of Math...	This article considers the due window scheduling problem to minimise the number of early and tard...	None	Business machines; Simulated annealing; Comparative tests; Computational experiment; Identical pa...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-84862839070	Comparing the planning and performance of direct labour and design-bid-build construction project...	Idoro G.I.	2012	Journal of Civil Engineering and Management	18	2	10.3846/13923730.2012.671283	Department of Building, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria	Idoro, G.I., Department of Building, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria	This study compares the levels of planning and the outcome of projects procured by direct labour ...	Design-bid-build; Direct labour; Nigeria; Project planning and project performance	Construction projects; Construction stages; Cost-overruns; Design and construction; Design stage;...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-77955655391	Comparing the results from various performance models of IEEE 802.11g DCF	Kritzinger P.S., Msiska H., Mundangepfupfu T., Pileggi P., Symington A.	2010	Computer Networks	54	10	10.1016/j.comnet.2010.01.003	Data Network Architectures Group, Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town, South Afr...	Kritzinger, P.S., Data Network Architectures Group, Computer Science Department, University of Ca...	IEEE 802.11 DCF is the most widely-used CSMA/CA access control mechanism. Recent analytic perform...	Distributed coordination function (DCF); IEEE 802.11; Medium access control (MAC); Simulation mod...	Distributed coordination functions; IEEE 802.11s; Medium access control (MAC); Simulation modelli...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-69149110158	Comparing three-dimensional volume-rendered CT images with fibreoptic tracheobronchoscopy in the ...	Du Plessis J., Goussard P., Andronikou S., Gie R., George R.	2009	Pediatric Radiology	39	7	10.1007/s00247-009-1262-1	Department of Radiology, University of Stellenbosch, P.O. Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa...	Du Plessis, J., Department of Radiology, University of Stellenbosch, P.O. Box 19063, Tygerberg 75...	Background: Lymphobronchial tuberculosis (TB) causes airway compression in 38% of patients. The a...	Chest; Children; CT; Tuberculosis	prednisone; tuberculostatic agent; airway dynamics; airway obstruction; article; bronchoscopy; ch...	None	View
Scopus	2-s2.0-33747817988	Comparing trophic flows and fishing impacts of a NW Mediterranean ecosystem with coastal upwellin...	Coll M., Shannon L.J., Moloney C.L., Palomera I., Tudela S.	2006	Ecological Modelling	198	42371	10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.04.009	Institute of Marine Science (CMIMA-CSIC), Passeig Maritim la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, ...	Coll, M., Institute of Marine Science (CMIMA-CSIC), Passeig Maritim la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 B...	The NW Mediterranean has a number of structural features in common with upwelling ecosystems. The...	Ecological modelling; Ecosystem indicators; Fishing impact; Mediterranean; Trophic flows; Upwelli...	Biodiversity; Biomass; Ecology; Environmental impact; Mathematical models; Principal component an...	None	View

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