A. R. Adetunji, D. A. Isadare, K. J. Akinluwade & O. O. Adewoye·Advances in Research·2015
Cassava plant and its products have long been used as food and feed but lately as industrial ingredients. The present study unveils various agricultural and industrial applications of cassava especially the waste cyanogenic component which hitherto has constituted a huge agricult...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/15417
The boundary values of problem that are determined from observations play a decisive role in solving any problem in mathematical models of dynamic systems. They lead to the search of answer to the following questions: From observations, is it possible to find such boundary values...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/15327
D. M. Nazmul Alam, Khandkar- Siddikur Rahman, Sourav Bagchi Ratul, Arifa Sharmin, Tania Islam, Md. Abu Wabaeid Hasan & Md. Nazrul Islam·Advances in Research·2015
Aims: This paper explores the properties of single layer particleboard produced from bamboo wastes and branches. Experimental: Three types of single layer particleboard i.e., branch-waste mixed particleboard (WBPB), bamboo branch particleboard (BPB) and bamboo wastes (shavings ob...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/15581
The effect of blanching on the proximate composition, nutritive value and antioxidant properties of five leafy vegetable species (Basella alba, Colocasia esculenta, Corchorus olitorius, Solanum melongena and Talinum triangulare) used in the preparation of Ivorian diets was invest...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/14509
Aims: Aims of the study were to describe socio-economic characteristics of cocoyam farmers, profitability of cocoyam production and determine the profit efficiency of cocoyam producers in Kaduna state. Study Design: Primary data were collected from cocoyam producers through the u...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16219
Aims: The aim of the project is to detect and enumerate the presence of indicator organisms in drinking water sources of open defaecation free (ODF) village development committees (VDCs) of Kaski district; to compare distribution of Total coliform (TC) and Faecal count (FC) among...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/16162
Coordination polymers derived from 1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylate (H2btec2- or btec4- ), Fe(II), Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Cd(II) or UO2(II) metal ions, 1,10-phenanthroline(1,10-phen) or 2,2'-bipyridine(2,2'-bipy) were prepared. The polymers were characterized by elementa...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/15754
Ability of a fertilizer to contribute to crop performance beyond a cropping season is a positive consideration in soil fertility management. Thus, the residual fertilizer effects of OBD-plus (new commercial compost from market organic wastes and animal manure with composting acce...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/15742
A field experiment was conducted during the 2008 and 2009 rainy seasons to determine the effects of land preparation and weeding regime on the type of weed population in sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) farms. The experiments were laid out in a split plot design with land prepar...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/14843
Aims: The study investigated students’ academic ability in school-based assessment as correlate of career choice using assessment and counselling as a base. Specifically, it determines the relationship between the gender of students’ academic ability in the school-based assessmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/11321
Aim: To investigate the effect of Calpurnia aurea seeds extract on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), first phase regimens (Lamivudine + Efavirenz + Zidovudine) induced heamtotoxicity in rats. Study Design: Thirty adult healthy male albino wistar rats of weighing about...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2015/15888
In the literature of information measure, there exist many well known parametric generalized information measures with their merits and limitations. In the present paper a ‘useful’ R-norm information measure of type and degree is introduce and characterized axiomatically. This ne...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14791
In this article, we study the conformal mean curvature equation in Thurston’s geometries of Sol space. The classification of revolution surfaces with mean curvature was obtained by studying the corresponding profile curves in Sol space. According to the characteristics of the con...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/9987
This study assessed the effects of education attainment and previous training on adoption of various cultural management practices among pineapple farmers in three barrangays in Cavite Philippines. The research employed a case study design. Respondents from the three adjacent bar...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/15971
The present study examines documentary submission by Air New Zealand (NZ) [1], Business NZ [2], Greenpeace NZ [3] and Oxfam NZ [4] to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Review Committee in 2009. In doing so, this paper consulted Lewins and Silver’s Computer Assisted Qualitative D...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/16042