Trans fatty acids (TFA’s) are the isomerization form of carbon double bonds and give desired physical and chemical properties as saturated fatty acids in food products. Some trans fatty acids occur naturally, while most of it is artificial. Major contributors of the TFA’s in the...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/33297
Aims: Simple sequence repeat markers derived from expressed sequences tags (ESTs) were used to carry out transferability studies across members of Asteraceae family. Study Design: NTSY Spc ver.2.0 was used to construct similarity matrix and dendrogram. Place and Duration of Study...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/32005
Olugbenga Olusola Odu, Eyitope Oluseyi Amu, Samson Ayo Deji, Victor Adovi Aduayi, Olubayo O. Owoeye & Eyitayo Ebenezer Emmanuel·Advances in Research·2017
Background: Parents and guardians are important stakeholders in disseminating information about family life education (FLE) to their children. This study was carried out to assess the perception and attitude to FLE among parents and guardians in Osun State Nigeria. Methods: The s...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/33217
E. S. K. Ofori, S. Yeboah, F. Apaatah, J. Sintim, E. Ofori-Ayeh & M. Osae·Advances in Research·2017
Aims: To assess the knowledge base of farmers regarding herbicide use and secondly determine the attitudes and practices of herbicide use among peri urban vegetable farmers. Study Design: The study design is by survey and collation of questionnaire in selected urban areas noted f...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/33406
A new guidance law is derived for missile against maneuvering target by adopting nonlinear control theory. The guidance law is based on three dimension (3D) nonlinear kinematics described by modified polar coordinate (MPC). In MPC, only three differential equations are used to d...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/33186
Mohamed Osman Mohamed Abdalla, Saniya Saleem Jabir Ahmed & Siham Abdalla Rahamtalla·Advances in Research·2017
Aims: This investigation was conducted to evaluate the physicochemical and sensory characteristics, fatty acid and cholesterol contents of butter processed in Khartoum State, Sudan. Methodology: Butter was manufactured traditionally by farmers in Khartoum North (T1) and Omdurman...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/33140
An attempt was made to control dry root rot using consortia of bioinoculants. A total of 10 fungal (Trichoderma) and 30 bacterial (Pseudomonas and Bacillus) isolates were collected and screened for their antagonistic activity against mycelial growth of Rhizoctonia bataticola unde...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/33195
Shrinking oil resources increases the importance of substitutes in the form of biofuels. A variety of extraction processes for the generation of biodiesel out of vegetable based oils have been established in the last decades. This research investigates in the implementation of hy...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/32179
The leachate was analyzed for physicochemical parameters and Total Organic Carbon (TOC). The pH and electrical conductivity (EC) levels were determined using pH meter and EC meter respectively, whilst TOC analyzer and Palintest Photometer were used to collect TOC and Ammonia (NH3...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/29620
Nishu Lohmor, Mujahid Khan, Kiran Kapoor & Nitin Tanwar·Advances in Research·2017
A uniformity trial for the determination of optimum size and shape of blocks was conducted at CCS Haryana Agricultural University research farm, Hisar, Haryana from February 2014 to June 2014 on sunflower hybrid 66A507 Pioneer, on a field of size 35 m × 40 m, which reduced to 32...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/31573