Corrosion is ubiquitous and ravages all sectors of world economies of which agricultural industries are not immune. Techniques abound to stop corrosion theoretically and practically however, human errors and over enthusiastic application of available methods of protection have re...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14847
This paper investigates the pinning control strategy of BA scale-free network through numerical analysis. A new cost function is defined to measure the cost of pinning control. Compared with the control gain and the cost of pinning nodes with smallest degrees or biggest degrees,...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14574
A radiological characteristic of surface waters of the mining areas of Plateau State, Nigeria covered by the Naraguta Topographical sheet 168 was carried out in the month of March 2012. For this purpose forty – eight (48) surface water samples were collected from 25 mine ponds a...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14992
We report on electrical and optical measurements to probe the energy gap in single molecular devices. The closeness of energy of the high occupied molecular orbital - low unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO-LUMO) energy gap was detected by electric (ΦBΣ) and optic measurements (Δo...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/14438
Background: Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) is the commonest tumour in Africa. It is a rapidly growing tumour. Its multi-organ involvement and complexity of signs and symptoms, call for an urgent diagnosis and treatment to achieve a better prognosis. Objective: To determine the occurrenc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13724
Aims: The study was designed to investigate the hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity of automobile gas oil (Diesel oil) and its biochemical effect on hematological and oxidative stress parameters in Wistar male albino rats. Methodology: Preliminary toxicity study to determine the vo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13719
The severity, epidemic duration and general epidemiology of viral epidemic depends on determinants such as viral strain, ecological, environmental and socioeconomic factors. The West Africa Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and in Ivory Coast, Liberia an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14257
Aims: To study the effects of cataflam, aspirin and the ethanolic extract of Cannabis sativa on nociception in CD1 albino mice of both sexes. Method: Twenty (20) albino mice were divided into four (4) groups of five (5) each. The control group (group 1) received normal saline ora...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15032
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a neurobiological frontier that isolates brain tissues from the blood vascular system. Its main role is to protect the brain and the central nervous system from external fluctuations in hormones, nutrients and drugs, while allowing the passage of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15493
Eclampsia has been studied extensively over the last decades. Several pathophysiological mechanisms and animal models have been proposed for the disease. However, to date, none of them can fully explain the neuronal pathophysiology of eclamptic convulsions and the associated dele...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14598
Phosphorus is most limiting mineral in the diet of fish and must be supplied in the right quality and quantity to prevent its deficiency or toxicity in fish. A 70 day feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the utilization of Dicalcium phosphate and different bone meals as phosph...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/9118
There is gender division of women in farm labour in Niger State. The gender division of women in farm labour assigns women more works in the processing of groundnut as Agricultural food products and yet, women have no access to improved methods of groundnut processing and depend...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/10957
Aims: Rivers often are twisting (meandering). There is no a simple physical model, which would explain the cause of formation of meanders and would describe their main (general) features, abstracting from the peculiarities of the real rivers. The resent work is devoted to creatio...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2014/14888
Aims: The aim of the present paper was to define the agro-climatic suitability of the Argentinean semiarid and subhumid regions to produce grains from A. caudatus. Study Design: Agro climatic zonation utilizing Arc-Gis 9.3. Place and Duration of Study: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ju...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2014/15198
Aim: The objective of this study was to isolate microbial species having the ability for production of invertase enzyme and to study some optimal culture conditions for maximum invertase production by an isolate of Aspergillus niger OSH5 which showed the highest invertase activit...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/11539