This present research was aimed at studying the adsorption characteristics of Cu(II) ions from aqueous solutions onto two samples of low-cost, cocoa shell-based activated carbons (CSBAC) using the batch adsorption mode. Activated carbon samples were obtained by chemical treatment...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12742
Joyce Agyei-Amponsah, Mavis Owureku-Asare, Wisdom Selorm K. Agbemavor, Jonathan Armah, Abena Okyere, Elvis Baidoo, Solomon Dowuona & Charles Tortoe·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2014
Aims: The objective of this research was to study the effect of irradiation on some quality characteristics of yam chips produced from irradiated yam tubers. Study Design: In this study, irradiated yam (Lariboko) was processed into yam chips and quality characteristics (moisture,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/13081
Aims: The distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals in soils from Onitsha municipal solid waste landfill were studied. Study Design: The Onitsha solid waste dumpsite were divided into two groups, the active site labelled (A), where waste dumping is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12324
The assessment of background ionization radiation of oil spillage site at Obodo Creek in Gokana L.G.A of River State, Nigeria was carried out. An In-situ measurement was done usinga well calibrated nuclear radiation meter (Radalert-100) and a geographical positioning system (GPS)...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/12502
Aims: The purpose of this work was to compare the efficiency of Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Ensifer fredii to infect and develop nodules on soybean. Furthermore we also evaluated the competitive ability of both species and how this was altered by the plant genotype and the soil...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/13163
A 56-day experiment involving 150 day-old Anak 2000 broiler chicks was carried out in a completely randomized design to evaluate the performance, haematological parameters and serum metabolites of the broilers fed Water leaf Meal (WLM) supplement for 8 weeks at Ibadan in Oyo stat...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/11754
Four fundamental biological functions are responsible for bacterial pathogenicity in a multi-cellular host organism: the adhesive function, the function of invasion and penetration into the cell, the function of evasion of host defense, and the damage function. The action of the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11104
Picture maze is a maze on which some picture appears when it is solved. This paper aims to present a very simple method to construct a picture maze. It is always possible to construct a spanning tree on a connected region of a binary picture. A spanning tree connects all vertices...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12048
An analysis of eight physical and chemical parameters was realized to determine the influence of species on the biodiversity of water mites. A total of 292 water mites belonging to 9 species were collected from the two lakes (Tonga and Oubeira), El-mellah lagoon, and Goureate poo...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/12677
In this paper, the triple fractional Riccati expansion method is applied to solve fractional differential equation. To illustrate the effectiveness of the method, the nonlinear space-time fractional Klein–Gordon equation is studied. The obtained solutions include generalized trig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12974
This paper presents mathematical method of estimating the latency of a corporate computer network through broad classification into propagation, serialization and queue delays. The parameters of interest considered are the sending rates, arrival times, connection bandwidth and th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10770
The betel leaf (Tambula patra brint) is extensively cultivated in warm moist parts of India for its leaves; the antifertility properties of the betel plant were studied in both male and female rats. It was suggested that the contraceptive effect of the extract of leaf stalk of pi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11560
In this paper, a similarity transformation is devised to construct a Miura type transformations between one type of variable coefficient nonlinear Schrodinger equations and the cubic NLS equation. This transformation is devoted to obtain the travelling wave solutions of a complic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/12685
This study investigated the protective and anti-oxidative effects of silymarin on rats treated with MgO NPs. Number of 32 male wistar rats were used in this experiment, assigned to four groups; one, the control group and the three others were treatment groups. The treated groups...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/10949
Background: Considerable attention is focused on effects of static magnetic field (SMF) and its increasing use in everyday life. Appliances and various equipments are sources of static magnetic fields with awide – range of technical characteristics. Objective: In this study we in...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2015/11323