Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2022
On behalf of the Editorial Team and Reviewers, I have the great pleasure of presenting this volume 4, issue 4, 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 24 articles by authors from nine different countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Iraq, India, Gambia, the UK, Morocco, and Malaysia. The papers included in this issue are in the areas of nanoparticles, magnetic helicity, biomass combustion, environmental chemistry, numerical analysis, geometric function theory, material chemistry, ionospheric physics, forecasting and data analysis, soft computing techniques, cryptography, matrix theory, and database management.
It has been observed that despite the giant strides made in the detection and prevention of SQLiAs by several researchers, an ideal approach is still far from over as most existing techniques still require improvement, especially in the area of addressing the weak characterization of input vectors, which often leads to low prediction accuracy. To deal with this concern, Shehu Magawata Shagari and co-researchers put forward a hybrid optimized Logistic Regression (LR) model with Improved Term Frequency Inverse Document-Frequency (ITFIDF-LR). To show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, attack datasets are used and evaluated using selected performance metrics, i.e., accuracy, recall, specificity, and false-positive rate.
In another interesting report by Oluwasina et al., it was found that anacardic acid holds potential for the preparation of some nanosized cellulose. The study by El Mehdi Chouit in the area of forecasting and data analysis and co-researchers shows that the FBProphet model is more accurate in predicting the prevalence of COVID-19. It can help guide the government's efforts to prevent the virus' spread. The interesting results presented in this issue are not limited to these. Others can be found there, in the arches.
In general, researchers and practitioners working in related fields, as well as the general public interested in physical sciences, would be interested in this issue.
Babatunde James Falaye
Department of Physics,Federal University of Lafia,
Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Editor-in-Chief, JNSPS
Original Research
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1991 836 Cited —Identification of suitable areas for yam production is critical for ensuring yield in yam production in Nigeria. The study is aimed at determining suitable lands for yam production in Nigeria. Climate, …
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1268 587 Cited —The new generation of security threats has been promoted by real-time applications, where several users develop new ways to communicate on the internet via web applications. Structured Query Language …
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1489 875 Cited —Rice-husk is one of the most abundant and commonly utilized biomass. It can be used directly to generate primary heating agent in combustion plants. However, emission characteristic of biomass usually vary …
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1369 2259 Cited —Levels of heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Fe, Cd) were determined in soil, rice grain, and rice stalk from Federal College of Agriculture Ishiagu rice field, Ebonyi state, Nigeria. The dried samples were digested …
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1147 851 Cited —In this work, a collocation technique is used to determine the computational solution to fractional order Fredholm-Volterra integro-differential equations with boundary conditions using Caputo sense. We …
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1062 795 Cited —Lie was the first to consider linearization of differential equations many years ago. Since then, a great deal of research has been done on linearization of differential equations using various …
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1415 705 Cited —Sustainable groundwater yield in aquifers depends on the protective capacity of the subsurface lithologies and conduit systems. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and its Schlumberger vertical …
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735 591 Cited —In this article, we introduce the q-analogue of functions characterized by the lemniscate of Bernoulli in the right-half plane and define the class $\mathbb{L}^{\ast}_{q}(A, B)$. Furthermore, we study the …
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991 572 Cited —Magnetic reconnection can be used for studying the geoeffective processes in the coupled Sun–Solar wind – Magnetosphere dynamics leading to geomagnetic disturbance. In this study, 1-hour resolution solar …
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833 702 Cited —This study investigates the flow of magnetohydromagnetic (MHD) Eyring-Powell chemical reaction nanoliquid in a permeable boundless device with wall cooling and thermal radiation. The fully developed Cauchy …
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1241 694 Cited —Since the coronavirus pandemic started, many people have died due to the disease. The epidemic has been challenging to predict, as it progresses and spreads throughout the world. We used Auto-Regressive …
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1061 602 Cited —We use the contraction mapping theorem to present the existence and uniqueness of solutions in a short time to a system of non-linear Volterra integral equations in a certain type of direct-sum H[a; b] of …
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1079 561 Cited —X-ray fluorescence provides a powerful means of non-destructively determining the elemental composition of a sample. X-rays from a Molybdenum (Mo) source was fired on copper, molybdenum, lead, steel and …
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1006 569 Cited —Solving boundary value problem with semi-infinite domain in a conventional way or using some of the available approximate methods poses a lot of challenges or better still seems almost impossible over the …
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1080 963 Cited —Nowadays, Semiconducting thin films are the efficient candidates for good optical and electrical properties. In this study, the thin films of pure V2O5 together with 2 different …
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1181 730 Cited —It is reported here that the phytochemicals present on the surface of the Musa paradisiaca (MPL) prevent water and other corroding agents from having direct access to the surface of mild steel. …
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1131 587 Cited —The main aim of present analysis is to develop a novel efficient and intelligent irrigation system (EIIS). The proposed irrigation system configured using five components arranged in a series configuration …
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798 638 Cited —Goldreich-Goldwasser-Halevi (GGH) encryption scheme is lattice-based cryptography with its security based on the shortest vector problem (SVP) and closest vector problem (CVP) with immunity to almost all …
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605 592 Cited —In this work, we demonstrate that the integral formula for a generalised Sato-Levine invariant is consistent in certain situations with Evans and Berger's formula for the fourth-order winding number. …
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976 569 Cited —Mayiladuthurai is situated on the banks of river Cauveri. This research work aims to determine the quality of water which were collected from twenty groundwater sources. From the identified twenty …
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987 543 Cited —Potential of Anacardic Acid for Nanosized Cellulose Preparation Under Different Treatment ConditionsHerein, anacardic acid was applied for the preparation of nanosized cellulose using three different 11 treatment conditions including ultrasonication, microwave irradiation, and reflux. Physico-chemical 12 …
Specia Issue : Maiden Conference of NSPS
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1107 714 Cited —Nanoparticles, NPs synthesis has gained attention recently due to their ease of preparation (especially green synthesis), availability of raw materials and usefulness. The green synthesis of copper …
Review Article
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1439 625 Cited —The main target of this research is a quantitative review of literature on global solar radiation (GSR) models available for different stations around the world. The statistical analysis of 400 existing …
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2405 1111 Cited —Humans are exposed to Potentially Toxic Metals (PTMs) through many routes. Cooking foods in cookwares which are prone to material leaching can be an exposure route to PTMs. This study assessed the effect …
