Brunei Darussalam government is putting in efforts to ensure every Muslims regardless citizens or tourists to be well informed on “Halalan Toyyiban” food and beverages. As ‘Halal’ is a priority for all Muslims, the abused of ‘Halal’ word equally misused by Muslims and Non-Muslims is not to be addressed lightly. Therefore, in order to provide solutions for the issues, a study is conducted with primary objectives to identify ‘Halal’ certified restaurants in Brunei Darussalam and to develop a prototype of ‘Halal’ Verification System using Augmented Reality (AR) Technology. A list of ‘Halal’ certified restaurants is obtained from Brunei Halal Food Council that is utilized as a guideline for conducting observation and questionnaire survey on every ‘Halal’ certified restaurant along with its coordinates in Brunei Darussalam. Augmented Reality feature within Android environment is the basis for the proof of concept. An informative, user friendly and interactivity are the main features of the application that functions mainly to identify ‘Halal’ certified restaurants within user current location. Tests are made with 10 users of smart phone in locating nearest ‘Halal’ certified restaurants. 107 ‘Halal’ certified restaurants in Brunei Darussalam are used as the data set for the prototype’s application development. All tests using the prototype’ application is proven success with users able to locate ‘Halal’ certified restaurants and information pertaining to it. This is aims to promote Brunei Darussalam image as a Muslim’s country as well as Islam as a way of life is further promote.

In any organization, the appropriate use of information systems will have an impact on the effectiveness of day-to-day operations. To find out how the performance of an information system is necessary to do an evaluation of the implementation of which has been run. This study evaluates the implementation of information systems in the Maternity Hospital St. Yosef. By adopting PIECES framework as an evaluation, primary data collection is done through questionnaires distributed. Of the 77 respondents who collected the data used factor analysis to get the factors and indicators that affect the successful implementation of the system and get the right model for the evaluation of the Maternity Hospital in St. Joseph. The results showed that the factor of ease of use and suitability to the needs of a positive effect on the success, while the reliability of the system negatively affect the success. On a scale of 0-100 obtained a minimum of system performance is at 45.75 and the maximum performance of the system is equal to 83.77.

Hotel management business is one that is promising for entrepreneurs. However, such businesses are more suitable for middle and upper towns where the business climate is promising. For businessmen hotel located in the scope of a small town, this kind of business is a gamble that one-one could bankrupt. Typically, the campaign conducted in the hotel in a small town is done by word of mouth. Research is underway to create a program application for reservation.\nAs one solution, the internet media is a solution that feels right. Where present, internet access is getting cheaper, easier and faster. Which is sufficient to help a particular hotel in a small town, in promoting themselves and show their existence. Web service as one of the services used, for this hotel information systems in the future can be developed according to the needs of the hotel. As in the integration with other systems that use different programming languages​​.\nThe study produced for the application program in the form of hotel bookings website. The results obtained are in the form of hotel reservation information system that provides information on the number of rooms available. Given this system, will help users outside the city to find out information about places to stay are. In addition, this application can also provide information rooms that can be used on a specific date according to the time we want.

Leptospirosis is a tropical disease and found almost in globe. Human as\nwell as mammals are mostly infected from this disease. This work presents a\nmathematical study of the leptospirosis disease with saturated incidence rate.\nInitially, we present the model formulation and their fundamental properties.\nThen we find the local stability of the disease free and endemic equilibrium. The\ndisease free equilibrium is stable both locally and globally when R0 ≤ 1. Further,\nwe find that endemic equilibrium is stable locally and globally if R0 > 1. The\nnumerical results are shown for analytical results.

Lead (Pb) is one of the toxic heavy metals which reduce plants growth and development. Thus finding compounds which can be alleviate the toxic effects of Pb is necessary. Nitric oxide (NO) a ubiquitous bioactive signaling molecule, plays an important role in a broad spectrum of multiple physiological processes in plants such as response to biotic and abiotic stresses. A pot experiment was therefore conducted to study the effects of exogenously NO on Pb stress tolerance of cowpea. Seeds were soaked at various concentrations of sodium nitroprusside (SNP; NO donor) (0, 0.5 and 1 mM) for 20 hours, and then were sown in pots containing 0 or 200 mg kg-1 Pb (NO3)2. Results showed that Pb stress significantly reduced chlorophyll content, relative water content (RWC) and net photosynthetic rate but increased lipid peroxidation, proline content and superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and glutathione reductase (GR) activities. Nonetheless different levels of NO significantly lowered Pb toxicity by further increasing SOD, CAT, APX and GR activities as well as proline accumulation. NO pretreatment also raised chlorophyll content, RWC and net photosynthetic rate but reduced lipid peroxidation. Both NO levels (0.5 and 1 mM) were effective in Pb stress tolerance however 0.5 mM was more effective. These results indicate that NO pretreatment plays an important role in protecting the cowpea plants against Pb toxicity by enhancing the antioxidant enzymes activity and proline accumulation.

This paper examined the quality of teachers distributed to Secondary Schools in the South-South Geo-political zone of Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of 222,238 teachers adopted from the statistics of teachers in all Secondary Schools in the six Geo-political zone in Nigeria. A purposive sampling technique was adopted to extract a sample size of 44,934 teachers listed by their qualifications and gender in the South-South Geo-political zone. Two research questions were raised to give direction to the study. An expost-facto research design was adopted. Simple percentage was adopted and data presented in tabular form. Findings showed that 46.9% of distributed teachers had degrees with teaching qualification while 22.9% had degrees but do not have teacher qualification. 62% of the total number of teachers distributed to Secondary Schools in the zone were males while 38% were female teachers. Other notable findings were River State’s with the highest number of qualified teachers (60.3%) while Edo State had the least number of qualified teachers (38.6%). Arising from the findings, some recommendations were made; that all untrained degree holders should be encouraged to obtain teaching qualification; that more female teachers should be employed to bridge the gap in the disparity between the number of male to female teachers distributed to Secondary Schools in the area of study and that more teachers should be employed and deployed based on needs and not on selective posting reserved for privileged few.