Serum samples from 20 out of 180 (11.1%) apparently healthy Nigerian indigenous chickens were negative for antibodies against chicken anaemia virus using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Of the 160 positive sera (88.9%), 12 (7.5%) had titres ranging from 1500-3000, 46 (28.8%) had titres from 3000-5000 while 102 (63.8%) had titres between 5000-11000. The overall mean titre value wa...

An investigation was conducted to study the haematological parameters of Nigerian local chicken using a total 100 chickens out which 30 were randomly selected for bleeding. The blood samples subjected laboratory analysis identify their haemoglobin contents, fragility and sedimentation rates as well red cell counts, white counts coagulation time. results indicated that content ranged from 63.82 ...

In a bid to study consumers preference and perception of the different types of meat among staff and students of the University of Ibadan, a well structured questionnaire was administered to 370 randomly sampled respondents staff and students of the University. The respondents belong to different categories within the university: Non Academic Staff Union 17 (4.6%); Senior Staff Association of N...

This working note describes the system we used while participating in RusProfiling PAN 2017 shared task. The objective of the task is to identify the gender trait of the author from the author’s text written in the Russian Language. Taking this as a binary text classification problem, we have experimented to develop a representation scheme for target classes (called class vectors) from the text...