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Reflexology and Behaviour; Elements of behaviour; General systems of adaptive behaviour observation and description of behaviour; Social organization; learning theory

Course Contents Types of livestock (for eggs, milk, meat, wool, etc). distribution of livestock in Nigeria. Livestock housing. Livestock processing equipment.

Protocol for antenatal care, nutrition in pregnancy, lie, presentation, position, attitude, engagement of the foetal presentations, the maternal pelvis, imaging in obstetrics, screening for congenital anomalies, prenatal diagnosis, drug use in pregnancy. Foetal growth and development. Antenatal assessment of the foetus. Intrapartum foetal assessment. Intrauterine foetal death (IUFD). Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). Foetal macrosomia. Pregnancy and labour in anencephalic and hydrocephalic foetuses. Rhesus isoimmunisation. Acute foetal distress. Disorders of the placenta. Umbilical cord and liquor. The newborn infant. Examination of the newborn. Asphyxia neonatorum. Other disorders and disease of the newborn. Birth injuries.

Antenna Systems: Review of Maxwell’s equations. Polarisation, polar diagrams, antenna gain, directivity, radiation resistance, impedance matching, effective length and capture area. Radiation by dynamic currents and charges, retarded potentials, the isotropic. Hertzian dipole, short and loop antenna, folded dipole antenna. Vertical and horizontal antennas, rhombic antenna, log-periodic antenna. Centre-fed linear antenna, linear arrays, radiation from diffraction gratings, Yagi-Uda arrays, integrated antennas. Microwave antenna, horn, parabolic reflectors, slot, and lenses. Field analysis of antennas. Transmitting-receiving system, reciprocity relations. Equivalent circuit of receiving antenna. Radar Systems: Principles of pulse radar and Doppler radar. Radar equation and system parameters. Components of radar systems. Study of a practical radar system. Radar signal detection. Synthetic aperture radar, tracking and scanning radar, HF (OTR) radar. Radio Wave Propagation: Electromagnetic waves, wave front, characteristic impedance of free space, reflection, refraction and diffraction. Ground waves and sky waves. The ionospheric layers, refractive index, virtual height, critical frequency and angle, maximum usable frequency, skip zone, skip distance, fading. VHF line of sight transmission. Tropospheric scattering communications. Relationship between transmitter power, antenna gains and received signal to noise in a free space radio link. VHF and microwave point-to-point link.

Chemistry of antimicrobial agents in clinical and industrial usage; Synthesis and production of antibiotics in microbial systems; Structure-activity relationships; Antimicrobial therapy of infectious diseases; Mechanism of drug resistance; Drug measurement in body fluids

Flow of inviscid and viscous fluids. Laminar and turbulent flow in pipes and boundary layers. Losses in pipe systems. Lift and drag forces on moving bodies and aerofoil theory. Incompressible-flow machines. Fundamentals of compressible flow. 1-D pipe flow. Compressible flow nozzles. Rayleigh flow. Fanno flow. external compressible flow around bodies including transonic and supersonic vehicles. Design considerations. Experimental techniques.

Biostatistics. Sources and types of data. Population, and samples. Probability. distribution, normal, Poisson and Binomial distributions, mean. Standard error. Standard deviation. Skewness, Chi test, student tests. F- distribution. Regression. Correlation coefficient and analysis of variance (one way and two ways). It covers vital and health statistics. 400 Level

Bioclimatology, agro climatology, climatology and the built environment, climate change and its impact on rural and urban environments, climate change and sustainable development goals, , and climate change and its implications on humans and various human and economic activities. Definition and delimitation of the “Tropics” Rationale for studying the climatology of the tropics. Radiation conditions in the tropics. Temperatures in the tropics. Tropical precipitation. Tropical disturbances: Tropical weather systems. Applied tropical climatology: Tropical agro climatology; tropical bioclimatology, global circulation system and its influence in the tropics., links between the tropical climates and the temperate climates, climate change and climate-premiership.

Scientific Design Methodology: creative application of the design process to engineering problems with emphasis on the manufacture of complete systems to accomplish overall objectives of minimum weight, high efficiency while satisfying the design constraints. An appreciation of the process of engineering design, and of systematic procedures and tools usable in the design process, with particular reference to mechanical systems and devices. Topics include systematic problem definition, search for possible solutions, statistical analysis of stress/strength interference, experiment planning techniques, optimum design for minimum weight and cost, and management of the design process. Design Project: Students will be required to conduct a design project under supervision, using the presented techniques, and taking at least to a workable layout drawing of a device. The design should involve simple mechanical systems (e.g. testing and assembling devices, heat drive, etc.) for a specified duty, analyse its operating conditions and after considering the design criteria, choose between potential solutions. Reports submitted by students should contain all calculations, a comparison of potential solutions, justification for the design finally chosen, and instructions on detail design, manufacture, testing and use. Use and evaluation of several CAD/CAM software packages. Students will gain experience with CAD/CAM software while carrying out an actual manufacturing design project.

Fundamental concepts: Electric fields, charges, magnetic fields. current, B-H curves Kirchhoff’s laws, superposition. Thevenin, Norton theorems, Reciprocity, RL, RC, RLC circuits. DC, AC bridges, Resistance, Capacitance, Inductance measurement, Transducers, Single phase circuits, Complex j - notation, AC circuits, impedance, admittance, susceptance.