A major concern of entrepreneurs worldwide is how to identify and engage the services of workers that would stay for a reasonable period of time with minimal personnel turnover consequences on the organization. Understanding the worker’s initial attraction to the organization pro...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16537
Aims: The objective of this study was to examine the distribution of microorganisms in different types of agricultural soils. Study Design: Comparative analysis of quantity of microorganisms in a crop rotation and constant (permanent) in a dry subtropical zone in different types...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/12126
Acute abdomen is a clinical emergency with core symptomatology of acute abdominal pain and hallmark requisite of speedy intervention. There are myriads of aetio-genesis that are basically multi-disciplinary. Radiological imaging complements clinical examinations to arrive at mean...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13288
This experimental research was undertaken to show the concentration distribution of different physiochemical parameters in a soil polluted by crude oil. Various physiochemical parameters were investigated in the laboratory two months after extensive crude oil spillage using stand...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14473
The research investigated the effects of building ventilation resulting from different combinations of building orientation and opening on some reproductive parameters. The study was 2 x 4 factorial design and carried out at rabbitry section of the Teaching and Research Farm, Oba...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15479
Cocoa beans processing for human consumption is growing into different products from time to time. Demand for it’s processing equipment is also at increase and costly to purchase. One of the processing workstations that needs urgent attention is the winnowing section, where the s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16161
Conventional 5052 aluminium alloysare known to exhibit characteristics response to deformation having a rebound effect on their corrosion propensity. This study investigates this phenomenon with a view to establishing the appropriate processing method that confers enhanced corros...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16681
This research deals with the development of predictive model for the concentration distribution of Nigerian crude oil in porous soil media. Three (3) different soil media were considered: sand, loam and clay. Oil spillage has been the most prominent source of ground water contami...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14472
Climate change has been described as among the major challenges of the twenty-first century. However, this trend cannot be completely halted but can only be slowed down through the development and adoption of adaptation practices especially among the rural people whose major sour...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13193
This paper presents genetic algorithm based on K-means clustering technique for solving multi-objective resource allocation problem (MORAP). By using k-means clustering technique, population can be divided into a specific number of subpopulations with dynamic size. In this way, d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16570
Introduction: The palm beetles, Oryctes rhinoceros L. (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera) and Termites, Macrotermes nigeriensis Sjostedt, (Termitidae: Isoptera) are prominent edible insects in Nigeria. Aim: Nutrient analyses were carried out on the winged reproductive termites, M. nigerie...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15344
Aim of Study: To optimize a triplex real-time PCR assay developed elsewhere and to evaluate the performance characteristics of two different multi-channel real-time PCR systems on the newly optimized assay. Methodology: A triplex real-time PCR assay developed for three key genes...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2015/12939
Aim: The objective of this study was to describe the spatial patterns of selected soil properties and biomass yield at fine and coarse scale in a switchgrass field to determine the appropriate sampling approach to enable the calculation of means with minimum variance. Methodology...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16727
The overall aim of this paper is to evaluate potential new modifications to methods for re-creating heathland habitats. Heathlands need acidic soils so the specific objectives are to evaluate the effectiveness of a new method for heathland re-creation by soil acidification using...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14519
Objective: The low phosphorus content and fixation by oxides in acidic soils is an important yield-limiting factor to common bean production in Brazil. The study was conducted to evaluate the common bean yield rate, leaf area development, level of phosphorus in the leaf, variatio...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16532