New palladium (II) and platinum (IV) complexes with a series of unsymmetrical tetradentate Schiff bases derived from aromatic 2-hydroxy aldehydes in an ethanolic medium were synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, melting points, magnetic susceptibility, thermogravim...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2012/1584
Aims: The objective of this study is to establish the fundamental model on methane hydrate formation and to accelerate the rate of methane hydrate formation with a small amount of ionic liquid and to investigate the effect of ionic liquid on hydrate formation. Study Design: Exper...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2012/1512
The main purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the relationship between per-capita sales and per-capita GDP is given by an inverted U. The paper considers that lottery sales increase together with increases in GDP up to a point where a country has reached a level a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1411
Background: The Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) established by the World Health Organization (WHO) is dedicated at estimating the global burden of a selection of foodborne diseases. Peanut allergy has been included in this initiative because of the se...
This paper adopted the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) test and the error correction model (ECM) techniques to establish the long-run and short -run relationship between worker remittances and economic growth in Pakistan during the period 1976-2010. The results demonstrate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1426
Aim: This study focuses on the construction of a multi-dimensional dynamic indicator of the persistence of poverty over time between different generations from the quantitative and qualitative survey Vulnerabilities and Chronic Poverty in Senegal carried out in 2008/2009. Place a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1239
The paper focuses on the effects of risk assessment (Hirarc) on organisational performance in selected construction companies in Nigeria. Risk assessment (Hirarc) is a structured approach for identifying, evaluating and controlling hazards in the workplace with a view to achievin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1317
This study examined the awareness and adaptation to climate change among farmers in the Sahel Savannah agro-ecological zone of Borno State, Nigeria. Data for the study were collected from 225 respondents selected through the Multi-stage sampling technique. A socio-economic profil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1475
An intelligent electronic module for managing battery power in a wind/diesel, solar/diesel or wind/solar/diesel hybrid systems was designed, fabricated and tested. It is made of five blocks mainly a power supply unit, a battery voltage monitor, a programmable interface controller...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1513
Aims: In this article, we will consider the possibility of raising children to be good and moral people and what kinds of ethical challenges this aspiration involves. We will discuss these issues, the problems that arise when raising children to be good—including its moral dimens...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1331
Assessment of climate change impact on hydrology at watershed scale incorporates downscaling of global scale climatic variables into local scale hydrologic variables and evaluation of future hydrologic extremes. The climatological inputs obtained from several global climate model...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2012/1505
This study was carried out to investigate the effect of the mycorrhizae; Glomus mosseae and Trichoderma harzianum; singly and in combination on the level of phytohormones (auxin, gibberrelin and abscisic acid) of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr) planted in sterilized and unsterilize...
Water reuse continues to rise as demand for fresh water supplies increases worldwide. By recycling and reusing treated wastewater, communities and industries can save on the costs of clean water, ensure adequate supplies and help to preserve a diminishing natural resource. The in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1520
Aims: 1. To investigate the students’ levels of geometric thinking while engaging in in-class tangram activities in a large-enrollment class; 2. To find out the student’s perception towards the use of tangrams in learning geometry. Study Design: Case study research design. Place...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1612
Aims: This work aimed at using B. cereus strain to decolourize a textile dye and also to study the influence of various environmental parameters on the decolourization processes. Study Design: Decolourization efficiency of B. cereus. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Mic...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2012/1519