Aims: Software quality assurance is a formal process for evaluating and documenting the quality of the work products during each stage of the software development lifecycle. The practice of applying software metrics to operational factors and to maintain factors is a complex task...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10548
Structural properties of the compounds were examined using an X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique to confirm the formation of phase at different temperature. The electrical current response for equivalent circuit of PZT-5A, resonant frequencies, antiresonant frequencies and mechani...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2014/10723
A one dimensional model of population growth called logistic map can be used as platform for introducing beginners to the phenomenon of chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Despite the simplicity of logistic map, it has been used with success for the introduction of fixed point attracto...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9246
The chemical composition of groundwater samples in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State of Nigeria was experimentally investigated. Parameters as pH, temperature, redox potential, iron oxidizing bacteria, dissolved oxygen, iron and manganese were analysed. Results indicate the groundwater samp...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10830
Aims: Customer value can be used to segment customers, and to determine which customers should be the focus of marketing efforts and dollars. Attributes are reduced by rough set theory, redundant attributes are removed and the core attributes are gained. Information gain is used...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/10549
This paper examines the impact of risk management on economic development in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank, we use a sample of seventy-eight developing economies and find that selected risk indicators do have an effect on economic development in these co...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10378
This study compares export performance for seven agricultural commodities prior to, during and after initiation of the Agricultural Diversification project (1991-1999) in Ghana. This is to help identify the impact of the initiative on Ghana’s agricultural exports and to ascertain...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10715
Annual GDP growth rate in the period of 2000 – 2006 averaged to 7.5% and the inflation was approximately 5%. In the period of 2007-2012, Vietnam’s macroeconomic policy shifted to the aggregated demand management policy. This research used the Keynes – Leontief relation to estimat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10160
This study analysed peasant farmers’ access to agricultural credit in Benue State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 130 randomly sampled peasant farmers in Benue State using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyse data c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/3883
The term “bioremediation” refers to the process by which toxic contaminants such as xenobiotics are reduced into non-toxic by-products (carbon dioxide and water or organic acids and methane) with the help of biological agents. Most of the organisms’ especially human beings are co...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9914
Aims: The effects of commercial logging on tree species diversity in the Tekai Tembeling Forest Reserve (TTFR), Jerantut, Pahang is unknown. This article is focus on inventory of two forest plots having one ha area of each. Study Design: This study based on inventory conducted wi...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/6058
Aims: To compare the performance of ThinPrep® 5000 processor with the conventional method of preparing pleural and peritoneal smears as well as to study the possibility of replacement of the conventional method with ThinPrep® 5000 system. Methodology: Forty-one samples of serous...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10078
Background: Urinary tract catheterization is a major risk factor for urinary tract infections (UTIs). Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) still remain a major reservoir of antibiotic resistant pathogens with attendant increase in morbidity and mortality. Objecti...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/10097
Aim: The study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MDRE), their susceptibility to carbapenems and tigecycline, and subsequently carbapenemase producers among clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae. Study Design: Investigative...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/9719
Objective: To investigate the antimicrobial activity of different solvent extracts of leaf and stem of M. quadrifolia (L.) against selected human pathogenic microorganisms. Methods: The antimicrobial activity was evaluated by well diffusion method. The antibacterial and antifunga...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/9969