Over years’ work related accidents have temporarily or permanently disabled workers as a result of inadequate safety knowledge on handling machines and equipment, neglecting to follow simple procedure in accomplishing task or management not providing the right safety standards and resources for employees. This has also resulted in low productivity by the workers. Implementation of health and safety standards is the only remedy to this organizational challenge on productivity. The aim of this study is to identify the health and safety standards in Scientific Equipment Development Institute, Enugu (SEDI-E), to determine the effect of health and safety standards on employees’ productivity, to determine employees’ level of understanding of health and safety policies, to assess the attitude of management towards the health and safety of employees and to identify challenges of the implementation of health and safety standards in the organization. This can be achieved by organizing staff and management training on the significant of health and safety measures and its applications on day to day work activities. This training should also have legal back up for effectiveness and efficiency. Results from the descriptive survey design in SEDI-E show that a distinctive number (69) representing 98.57% of the staff agreed in implementation of health and safety standards in response to the questionnaires shared to 70 selected staff members.

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This paper is designed to highlight the concept of ‘Add me’ and expose the negative consequences of its practice among academic personnel of higher education institutions in Nigeria, with a view to maintaining the purpose and integrity of research and development. The paper is an exploratory survey through extensive review of related literature which at whatever humble a scale, has succeeded in highlighting the importance of research and development, the effects of ‘Add me’ on research and development and the way forward. Fifty (50) academic staff members of AkanuIbiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana were used as population for the study. Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyze data collected from the research subjects through mean values. Major findings show that the practice of ‘add me’ by many academic personnel of Nigerian higher education institutions have intrepid and negative consequences on the purpose and integrity of research and development. The recommendations drawn from this study is that since ‘publish or perish’ culture has birthed ‘add me’ and other negative research and development practices, it should be reviewed; other responsible academic related activities (such as peer review for grants and publications, mentoring, leadership ability, outreach, teaching and knowledge exchange) should be increasingly considered for promotion and career advancement.

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This work is a review of related researches in LTE with SDR from 2008 to 2017. The review is carried out by analysing the keywords in articles downloaded from web of science using the search topic "LTE signal processing" with a time span from 2008 to 2017. The bibliometric map from the analysis is made of three clusters. The clusters are arranged in such a way that keywords relevant to LTE parameters belong to one cluster, those relevant to steps in processing LTE signal belong to another cluster while the next cluster is made of keywords relevant to LTE related networks and technologies. The red cluster contains keywords which are LTE parameters and steps taken in processing LTE signals. The green cluster contains keywords such as SDR, power amplifier, CMOS and others which are related to LTE systems. The blue cluster keywords are concerned with networks similar to LTE and the processes in which these networks transmit data from one point to the other. This works shows that research in LTE signal processing has been at the increase. It equally reviews the terminologies use in processing LTE signal and many LTE system parameters.

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