This study analyzed the value chain of palm fruit production and processing in Abia state of Nigeria. The analysis was imperative, because of the increased emphasis on value addition to improve the market value of agribusiness products. The objectives considered included the soci...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/9461
This study investigated the socio-economic factors influencing adoption of dual-purpose cowpea production (DPC) technologies among farmers in Bichi Local Government Area of Kano State, Nigeria. Data were collected with the use of questionnaire administered to 200 farmers selected...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/7981
Food supply in Nigeria depends on the rural population who are the main producers of food for the entire population. However, due to the continuous movement of people, particularly, the youths, to the cities in search of lucrative jobs, very few people are left to work on farms....
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6441
The very sensitive, fairly selective direct spectrophotometric method is presented for the rapid determination of silver at ultra-trace level using1, 5-diphenylthiocarbazone (dithizone) as a new micellar spectrophotometric reagent ( max= 495 nm) in a slightly acidic (0.1-1.0 M H2...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8157
Ghana is one of the thriving democracies in sub-Saharan Africa. It has held relatively free, fair, and transparent elections and in 2000 and 2008, it passed Samuel Huntington’s (1991) ‘two turn-over test’ of democratic consolidation when peaceful alternation of power occurred. Ho...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9223
A 62 year old female patient was referred to the Department of oral medicine due to the severe oral reaction two days after she started to use cefuroxime axetil. Buccal and sublingual mucosa was very inflamed and covered with thick pseudomembranes. Patient was otherwise healthy a...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/10103
Virtual colonoscopy (VC) or computed tomographic colonography is now an established imaging test in the detection of colorectal cancer. Like other modern imaging tests VC requires highly compliant patients (rectal air insufflation, breath hold, imaging in supine and prone positio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10052
Aims: This study aimed to explore the use of ICTs by teachers in the primary cycle of the European School Brussels III, a school where, since its establishment, educational culture has been associated with the use of ICTs in everyday teaching. Study Design: Self-reports on use of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/10053
This paper discusses the effectiveness of installing two types of FACTS devices, namely STATCOM and DVR to enhance the fault ride through (FRT) capability of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) applied in wind energy conversion systems (WECS). The response of the DFIG to a 3-...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9895
Aim: To isolate, characterize and ascertain the anti-lipid peroxidation activity of a chromene propanoic acid from the stem bark of Brachystegia eurycoma Harms. Study Design: The study was designed to search, isolate and elucidate the structure of a novel compound and then test i...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8594
The isopropanolic extract of the leaves of Psidium guajava Linn was analyzed by Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Fourteen different phytochemical compounds have been characterized, including 1, 3, 3-trimethyl-2-oxabicyclo [2.2.2] octane, (2.06%), 4, 11, 11-trimethyl-...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2014/8592
Rumex vesicarius L is a valuable potent medicinal herb, which belongs to family Polygonaceae. It possesses antimicrobial, anti- inflammatory, antidiarrhoeal and antioxidant properties. An attempt to study the In vitro callus induction and regeneration of plantlets from...
Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations (SODEs) are present in engineering, mathematics, and sciences. Identifying them for effective simulation (or prediction) and perhaps hardware implementation in aerospace control systems is imperative. This paper considers only linear Initial...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9842
Aims: To compare various models describing the sorption of synthetic dyes in multicomponent systems. For selected models, their predictive ability (an ability to predict the sorption behavior in muticomponent systems from the model parameters obtained in the single-component syst...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9208
Background: Although implants are widely used in everyday practice there are insufficient data on the type of suprastructure fixation (screw versus cement) of the prosthetic appliance and presence of microbial species. Aim: The aim of the study was to analyse the relationship bet...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9011