This study was conducted between November, 2013 and April, 2014 in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria to empirically identify factors affecting the rate of adoption of chemical fertilizer by urban crop farmers. Through the multistage sampling procedure, 60 urban crop fa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/11553
Aims: To reduce the inorganic fertilizers used to grow Asian vegetables (Luffa and Bitter gourds) by incorporating cover crops without compromising yield in piedmont soils of North Carolina Study Design: A split-split plot design was used in this study with two main plot treatmen...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/11720
Leishmaniases are included in the group of reemerging neglected tropical diseases caused by flagellated parasites of the Leishmania genus. WHO recommends the use of chemotherapy as the main control measure for all the types of the disease. Antimonials are the first drug of choice...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2015/13391
Objectives: This study aimed at bioremediation potentials of organic pollutants, in particular, used lubricating oil contaminated soils, using commercial microbial nutrient. Other objectives were the evaluation of kinetic model to determine the rate of biodegradation of petroleum...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/11742
Investigations on characterization of various sunflower genotypes regarding their morphological, physiological, chemical parameters, seed oil and its quality through studying fatty acid composition under different salinity levels was carried out at Saline Agriculture Research Cen...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/12086
Joel L. Meliyo, Boniface H. J. Massawe, Leon Brabers, Balthazar M. Msanya, Didas N. Kimaro, Loth S. Mulungu, Nganga I. Kihupi, Jozef A. Deckersbel, Hubert Gulinck & Herwig Leirs·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2014
A study was carried out in Western Usambara, Tanzania to assess the status of soil micronutrients across three geomorphic units viz., plain, escarpment and plateau in order to provide essential information for on-going studies on plague epidemiology. Nineteen soil profiles were o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/13717
Aims: There are considerable pressures in various health economies at present to reduce costs whilst maintaining patient safety and clinical efficacy. We report a new simplified regime for the administration of Sub-Tenon’s anaesthesia offering a cost saving of up to 95% whilst ma...
Intensive care unit is a particular medical environment, sometimes creating particular stress to patients prone to psychological and psychiatric phenomenology. ICU psychosis, delirium and depression have been originally diagnosed in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. There is a...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/13955
Aims: To report the extent of contamination of floodwater by physicochemical parameters (total suspended solids, total dissolved solid, chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity, nitrate, nitrite, chloride and sulphate and heavy...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/12649
The kinetic investigations of the redox reaction between malachite green, MG+, and hypochlorite ion, ClO–, were carried out in aqueous HClO4 medium at [H+] = 1x10–3 mol dm–3, µ = 0.1 mol dm–3, T = 25±1°C. The reaction showed a stoichiometry of 1:2, which conforms to the equati...
Aims: Evaluation of the presence of the important medicinal tree genus Camptotheca in the Red River Delta (northern Vietnam) during the Holocene. Place and Duration of Study: Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology (Greifswald University), between March 2003 and May 2006. Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/14153
This paper presents a new formalization of information flow detection in concurrent logic programming and applies it to the problem of deadlock detection. This work is based on a recent study of the detection of information flow in Datalog programs. Firstly, we define the concept...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14398
In recent years, fingerprint recognition has been moving through series of evolutions with the intent to decrease the False Acceptance Rate (FAR) and the False Rejection Rate (FRR) in order to achieve minimum Equal Error Rate (EER) while increasing recognition rate. In practical...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/13000
Aims: To report on a case of bilateral retrobulbar optic neuritis in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV); and to review the literature focusing on: cases reported, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment....
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/14259
Aims: The study was designed to investigate cytotoxic and anthelmintic activity of aerial parts of Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb. (Family: Cucurbitaceae, locally known as ‘Jhinga’), Luffa aegyptiaca Mill. (Family: Cucurbitaceae, locally known as ‘Dhundul’) and Momordica cochinchinen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJPR/2014/4613