Aims: To find out the feasibility of Vetiver grass in different row-spacing with special reference to soil erosion control, impact on soil fertility and water conservation at the erosion-prone barren banks of the Bhagirathi River in Nadia district of West Bengal. Methodology: The...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/39328
The present study is based on the adsorption of phenacetin on activated carbon prepared from ayous sawdust, Cucurbitaceae peelings and the mixture of the two materials using the batch technique. EDX analysis of the activated carbons showed that each one of them was constituted of...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/37300
Technologies have become more affordable and penetrate every aspect of life, even in developing country, like Nigeria. However many of the users in developing countries are still finding difficulty in using the technologies due to lack of experience as they undergo a technologica...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/37249
Malpractices in the use of pesticides in vegetable production have been reported in the horticultural sector in developing countries. This can result in excessive use of pesticides and, subsequently, in unacceptable levels of pesticide residues in foods of horticultural origin. C...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/38976
Non-adherence to adequate refuse disposal and increase in population of inhabitants dominated by students who continue to seek residence in Eziobodo community have been identified as one of the major threats to groundwater source in the study area. Borehole water samples were obt...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/36170
The present investigation was carried out at the Experimental Farm, Department of Horticulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (India) during March 2015 to June 2016 to know the effect of the application of different nutrient and their combination as bunch feeding on growt...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/38889
In order to use wood in a sustainable and rational way, it is necessary to estimate its characteristics, and in the case of civil construction, the physical and mechanical properties are the most interesting. The aim of this research was to estimate the modulus of elasticity of s...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/39531
The experiment was conducted in laboratory in aqueous environment to evaluate bioefficacy of fungicides against Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary causing late blight of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) during February, 2015. Infected leaves of potato var. Kufri Jyoti were colle...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/39402
Information retrieval and decision-making demand a scalable and efficient methodto process and extract relevant information from Big Data. Data mining is a refined analysis of a large quantity of data to determine new information in the outline of patterns, trends, and relations....
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/39546
A three-zone model based on the first law of thermodynamics has been developed for analysis of combustion in an Internal Combustion Engine. The three zones included an unburned zone, burned zone and transitory zone which is a mixture of burned and unburned gases. The model was us...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/39007
With the introduction of high yielding varieties and hybrids during green revolution, the soils are getting depleted in nutrient reserves at a faster rate. As a consequence, nutrient deficiencies are becoming one of the major constraints in crop production, especially in coarse-t...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/36852
Polyacrylamide, formaldehyde and carbamide or guanidine carbonate were used as raw materials, cationic polyacrylamide flocculants were synthesized with Mannich reaction, effects of technical conditions on rate of turbidity removal were investigated, and synthesis technics was opt...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/38533
In this present study, we have introduced a new type of ratio estimators for the estimation of finite population variance using standard deviation and deciles as auxiliary variables to improve the efficiency of proposed estimators. A comparison between suggested estimators and ex...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/37323
Mining is a crucial component of local and global economies, but it inevitably leads to substantial environmental disturbance. Reclamation ensures that a disturbed land is rehabilitated for a specified end land-use. The study examined the nutrient levels and risks status of a twe...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/39456
Aims: The paper presents a model of the power line and the equivalent scheme for the simulation of the transient processes. Many constructions of conductive lines are such that mutual parameters (inductance, capacitance) are the same for any pair of phases, and the phase paramete...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/39169