In this study 312 Microsatellite markers were used to analyze DNA polymorphism of three Egyptian wheat aiming to develop specific molecular markers useful in future Egyptian wheat breeding programs. DNA was extracted using the CTAB method and PCR products were separated in an ABI...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9235
Aims: Planting healthy coconut seedlings will reduce cost of establishment and increase total yield of coconut fruits for high economic value. Therefore, two experiments were carried out in 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 cropping seasons to evaluate the effects of different fertilizers...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/4338
This study was undertaken to determine the comparative effects of cobalt (II, III) oxide (Co3O4) macro- and nano-particles and cobaltous chloride hexahydrate (CoCl2.6H2O) on seed germination, growth and some biochemical parameters of Hordeum vulgare L. seedlings. Macro- and nano-...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8206
In order to evaluate the performance of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes under drought stress at heading stage, 100 Iranian landraces and two commercial cultivars were grown under well- watered irrigation and a drought stress treatment as 50% field capacity (FC) irrigation...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8937
Aims: The aim of this study is to present students’ views concerning the attendance of conference and/or seminars via Internet (webinars) and also how online social network are used in distance learning. Study Design: Descriptive quantitative research. Especially, a survey using...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/8556
Several studies have emerged on education being adequately challenged in Nigeria, yet little is known in the literature on the social analysis of moral decadence that has become a common feature of the nation’s education system and spread to other institutions like an harmattan f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/9139
Background: Many criticisms face theoretical bases and measurement tools used for identifying learning styles. The Intellectual Style Inventory (ISI) introduced in this work provides a new approach for learning style assessment based on cortical functional specialization. The ISI...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/8751
Aims: Pearl is a non-planar object and its surface has a certain degree of curvature. It is necessary to obtain the image of the entire surface of a pearl for the aim to achieve the grade based on size, shape, luster, blemish and color. This paper designed a detecting device to s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5544
Aims: The dynamics of HIV-1 induced AIDS is attributed to several biological variables, which characterize the stage, virulence and morbidity of the disease. The aim of this research is to use a necessary and sufficient subset of these immunological variables to construct a clini...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/1815
The paper considers nearness to singularity for which the Co-variance matrix in the least squares equation is well known. A synchronization of the condition number with ill-conditioning is highlighted which relates the quality of approximate solution to the described system. Vari...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8110
The step-stress accelerated life tests allow increasing the stress levels on test units at fixed time during the experiment. In this paper, accelerated life tests are considered when lifetime of a product follows a Kumaraswamy Weibull distribution. The shape parameter is assumed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7560
The problem of minimizing the dynamic response of an anisotropic rectangular plate of variable thickness with minimum possible expenditure of force is presented for various cases of boundary conditions. The plate has a principal direction of anisotropy rotated at an arbitrary ang...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7515
Background: The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) is one of the main strategies to control malaria in Uganda. The Uganda’s Ministry of Health had set a target of 50% of households to be covered with ITNs by the year 2007. This study aims at determining ITN possession, at...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2014/6496
Aims: This study operationalized a theoretical framework, the “brand-choice sequences” theory, to empirically measure and analyze consumers’ loyalty to brands of bottled water in Nigeria, using Awka, a capital city of Anambra State, Nigeria and six bottled water brands as study s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/7104
The Prolactin (PRL) hormone, a very ancient hormone, first discovered by Oscar Riddle and his colleagues in the late 1920s, is a 199 amino acid multifunctional polypeptide hormone, that has been found in all vertebrates to influence more than 300 physiologic functions of the body...