Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2022
The Editor in Chief, on behalf of the Editorial Team and Reviewers, has great pleasure in presenting this volume 4, issue 1 of the Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences (JNSPS), to the research community and the world at large, comprising those seeking to publish their works and those who wish to keep up with the latest findings in their areas of research.
This current edition includes 20 articles by authors from five different countries: Nigeria, UK, Oman, Malaysia, and India. The papers included in this issue are in the areas of minerals engineering, glass technology, biodiesel production, nanotechnology, mathematical sciences, and bio statistics.
This issue would be useful to researchers and practitioners working in the related areas and as well to the public interested in physical sciences.
Dr. Babatunde James Falaye
Department of Physics, Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Editor-in-Chief, JNSPS
Original Research
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The early rejection of gangue minerals, at coarse ore particles size (preconcentration), has been shown to be a viable option to cost reduction in many mineral processing applications. A promising …
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Elastic moduli of {[(TeO2)0.7 (B2O3)0.3]0.8 (SiO2)0.2}1-y (Er2O3 NPs)y …
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Biodiesel is the fatty acid alkyl esters that are used as the substitute for petro-diesel. The aim of the present work is to optimize biodiesel production from plant based non-edible crude oils with …
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The suitability of fine and coarse Okelele clays as refractory raw materials for furnace lining application was investigated. The clay samples were crushed and pounded with a mortar and pestle to a …
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This paper considered the formulation of continuous third derivative trigonometrically fitted method for the solution of oscillatory first order initial value problems using the technique of interpolation …
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The surgent availability of data and the demand for more data to implement several technological products which heavily depends on data have made the issue of cyber attacks, a global threat, of great …
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In this study, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were synthesized directly on coated silicon substrate via commercial microwave oven at 2.45 GHzf for3 minutes (Sample A) and 4 minutes (Sample B). The plasma provides …
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Experimentally the motional resonances spectra of an electron cloud confined in a quadrupole Penning trap, weakly excited with RF field, which is swept from 1 MHz to 1 GHz was examined. The higher order …
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Abstract We study pursuit differential game problem in which a countable number of pursuers chase one evader. The problem is formulated in a Hilbert space l2 with pursuers’ motions described by …
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This paper considers the current global issue of containing the coronavirus pandemic as an optimal control problem. The goal is to determine the most advantageous levels of effectiveness of the various …
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In this paper, we investigate by putting side by side the rate at which Human Immuno-deficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS spreads through Vertical Transmission (VT) in a typically …
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In this study, the physicochemical characteristics of crude oil, dispersant and crude oil-dispersant test systems and their toxicities on representative marine organisms in a simulated marine ecosystem was …
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Modeling the onset of a pandemic is important for forming inferences and putting measures in place. In this study, we used the Vector autoregressive model to model and forecast the number of confirmed …
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In this study, Bismuth (Bi) doped ZnSe thin films were deposited on conducting glass substrates by electrochemical deposition technique and the influence of precursor temperature (room, 50, 55, 60 oC) on …
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In this study, the analytical solution of steady hydromagnetic double exothermic combustible reaction fluid flow in a porous medium with convective cooling wall is presented. The viscous heating reactive …
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Ab-initio calculations are performed to examine the structural, mechanical, electronic, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the half-Heusler ternary alloys XCrSb (X = H f , Ti, Zr). In this study, the …
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This study presents a computational technique developed for solving linearly constraint optimal control problems using the Gradient Flow Method. This proposed method, called the Modified Gradient Flow …
Special Issue "Machine Learning Computational Methods"
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Tetragonality occurs as a result of stretching the crystal structural lattice of perovskite along one of its lattice vectors such that the three axes are mutually perpendicular with two of the axes having …
Review Article
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Current Understanding of the Equatorial E x B Drift velocities in the African Sector: A Short Review 327A short review of the pattern and morphology of the equatorial plasma drift velocities, particularly during the evening-time Pre-reversal enhancement (PRE) period in the African region had been presented. …
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The application of plastics in various sectors led to its increased production globally and this demand, in turn, caused an overflow of plastic waste in landfills, illegal dumping in the sea, and …

