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The study of major pollutants: oil and petrochemical; heavy metals; solid wastes of aerial; terrestrial and aquatic environment and their effects on other components of ecosystems; The study of radiation and plant life; Survey of environmental pollution control and measures

Sources of exposure to toxins; Natural and man-made toxins; Toxins in the Nigerian environment; Bioassay for ecotoxins; Resistance and evaluation of toxicity; Radiation biology

Formulation of the Linear Theory; General Theorems; Plane Strain and generalised Plane stress; Airy's solution: Papkovich-Neuber representation; Basic singular solutions; Boundary-value and Boundary-initial value problem

Advanced electrical resistivity (E.R); Self-potential (S.P) and the induced polarization techniques of geophysical prospecting; Data collection; Correction and consideration of specialized interpretation technique; Application of the electrical methods in geological mapping; mineral investigation; engineering site investigation; groundwater and geothermal energy investigations; Electromagnetic theory; Description of EM fields; Combination of fields; Amplitude and phase relations; Mutual Inductance; Ground Electromagnetic processing methods; Tilt (or Dip) Angle Methods; VLF and AFMG-Field Techniques and Interpretation: Types curves and phasor (Argand) diagrams; Airborne EM methods; Quadrature methods; Long wire system; AFMAG; VLF and Input methods; Field and Data interpretation procedures

Electrical properties of earth material; Self potential and resistivity methods (theory; instruments; array systems; sounding and profiling and depth of investigation); Induced polarization methods in time and frequency domains; Electromagnetic methods (Magneto-telluric; dipole-dipole; Turam; large loop; transient and continuous wave; airborne etc); Applicability and field examples; Radioactive decay and equilibrium; Radioactivity of rocks; Geiger and Scintillation Counters; Gamma-ray spectrometers; Ground and airborne survey procedures; Field examples

Course Description

Maxwell's Equations; Electromagnetic Potentials: Tensor Calculus; Stress and Energy; Electro Static and Magnetostatics; plane Waves; cylindrical and Spherical waves; Boundary Value Problems; Relativistic Kinematics and Lorentz Transformation: Electrodynamics

Electrostatic potential problems; Poisson and Laplace's equation method of images; Green's theorem; multiple expansions; Magnetic fields; Stokes theorem; vector potential; Electromagnetic Maxwell's equation; Propagation of electromagnetic waves in different ionized and non-ionized media; phase velocity; group velocity and pulse propagation; attenuation; refraction; energy propagation and transfer; polarization and dispersion; Green function methods; diffraction theory; simple radiating systems; Lagrangian derivation of Maxwell's equations and the covariant structure of electromagnetism

Introduction; the sociology and psychology of electronic commerce: building; recognising; managing and making use of online communities in web-based environments; theories of online presence and cooperation; a guide to e-commerce in general: how to differentiate e-commerce today from e-commerce yesterday; current problems of e-commerce and interesting solutions and approaches to those problems; a guide to knowledge commerce: understanding knowledge as a commodity and as a process; and representing it in web-based environments; web architecture: structural design of e-commerce systems; client-server architecture; 2-; 3-; n-tier design; server farms; scalability; integration of legacy systems; Java beans; Enterprise Java beans and java server pages; particular problems posed by 24/7 operation and an open user community; data interchange: exchanging data over the internet; XML; style sheets; document type definition; metadata and document discovery; interchange of processes using WSDL and SOAP as examples; usability: user-interfaces design for websites; use of human computer interaction methodologies in evaluating user interfaces; electronic payments: technologies that support the processing of electronic payments; characteristics and properties of electronic payment systems; mass personalisation and the virtual customer: automation of the customer relationship; use of data to customise the web experience; cookies and their risks; rule-based filtering; implicit profiling; collaborative filtering

Nano technology; stretchable silicon; pervasive wireless; nuclear reprogramming; nano biomechanics; epigenetics and cognitive radio