Maize yield in Kericho County, Kenya is limited by infertile acidic soils. The effect of inorganic sources of nutrients and amendments; triple superphosphate (TSP), calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) and lime, were compared to a range of organic nutrient sources; Farmyard manure (FYM...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/6415
The current study aimed to test the direct rooting response of rose and cotoneaster explants collected in winter and spring and grown on different culture media including WPM, B5 and MS supplemented with different concentrations of IBA and NAA. The experiments were arranged accor...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/8542
Background: The transition from primary to secondary schools in England is marked by a concern over potential learning loss, and the realisation that a small number of students have not reached an expected or threshold level of literacy. The latter can then impact on progress in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/8417
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of cropping sequence and Minjingu Phosphate Rock (MPR) on soil phosphorus (P) availability and yield of selected vegetable crops. The study involved a researcher managed on farm field experiment conducted in Mbeya, Tanzania usin...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/7780
Four Mango (Mangifera indica L.) cultivars: ‘Ewais’, ‘Sidik’, ‘Fajrikalan’ and ‘Zebda’ were investigated to study the electrical conductivity as a tool for determining damage index of mango cultivars and their relationship with the index of injury (Id), the Relative Water Content...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/8200
The additive 4, 4’ Bis (Dimethylamino) Benzophenone (DMDAB) is used as a photodegradable additive, which is commercially available and reported as UV active. DMDAB was melt blended with LDPE at three different formulations 1, 3 & 5 (w/w) % respectively in twin screw extruder....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4779
Aims: The study was design to show the effect of aflatoxicosis in hematological parameters of broiler fed with different doses of aflatoxin contaminated diets Place and Duration of Study: Sample: A day old broilers were purchased from a poultry farm in Oyo State Nigeria and the h...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4736
In this paper, based on the interval grouped data, Bayesian approach is used to obtain estimator for the Weibull scale parameter and some lifetime such as the reliability and hazard functions. The estimation procedures have been developed and modified under squared error loss fun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7930
Email spam is one of the major problems of the today’s Internet, bringing financial damage to companies and annoying individual users. Many spam filtering techniques based on supervised machine learning algorithms have been proposed to automatically classify messages as spam or l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/7675
We consider the DC conic programming in locally convex Hausdorff vector spaces. By using the infimal convolution of the conjugate functions, we present a new regularity condition, which turns out to be weaker than the regularity conditions given so far in the literature. Moreover...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8708
This paper presents an approximate analytical solution of the nonlinear Fornberg-Whitham equation using the new iterative method (NIM). A comparison is made between the NIM results, homotopy perturbation transform method (HPTM) and the Adomian's decomposition method (ADM). The so...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2014/8534
Background: Phyllodestumors (PT) of the breast are rare and their prognosis and treatment are still subject of discussion. The purpose of this study is to determine the prognostic factors of this rare tumor. Patients and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4979
The objective of the study was to comparatively verify the effects of aqueous extracts of three plants on some biochemical parameters following ethanol administration with a view to ascertaining the role of the extracts in ameliorating ethanol toxicity. A total of forty rats were...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7779
Background: Exclusive breastfeeding is the situation where the infant has received only breast milk from his/her mother for the first 6 months after birth. Research had found that factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding practices in different countries are varied. Little...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/8395
Aim: The aim of the study was to analyze how self- perceived satisfaction with dental appearance is affected by oral health status of an individual keeping in mind various socio-demographic factors. Methodology: A sample size of 850 was obtained from the Out Patient Department of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5228