Problems in the waste water treatment system of a local micro-brewery brought up the question whether fruits as additional ingredients can have a significant influence on the pH and the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) of the waste water. To reach an answer to this question, five bat...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/30228
The increasing demand of customers in terms of speed of service and reduced cost at higher quality has generated a new platform on which manufacturing companies compete. The purpose of this report is to develop a Cellular Manufacturing Model, which is actually an application of g...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/27515
Computer assisted learning (CAL) has been implemented in schools to improve the quality of education. However, the application of CAL without the assistant of teachers is unsatisfactory. This study introduces computer assisted teaching and learning (CATL) with the teacher’s assis...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/29051
Kwame Nkrumah Hope, Mohammed Mujitaba Dawuda & Alex Otabil·Advances in Research·2017
Cabbage is one of the major vegetables cultivated on large scale in Asante Mampong for sale in the Ashanti Region and beyond. Low yield due to low yielding cultivars and inappropriate use of fertilizers is a setback in cabbage production in the area. The growth and yield response...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/29940
Generally, the voice samples are very much correlated with their past/ future samples and this feature has been exploited in the present research work. Here, various voice samples have been encoded with lower number of bits as compared to the original voice samples without much d...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/30234
Steady MHD fluid flow in a bifurcating rectangular porous channel is presented. The governing nonlinear equations are solved analytically by the methods of similarity transformation and regular perturbation series expansions. Expressions for the temperature, concentration and vel...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/26399
This paper presents the torsional behavior of R.C. beams strengthened with externally steel stirrups, steel links and Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP) systems, R.C beams with web opening subjected to pure torsion. A total six rectangular beams were tested. Two un-strengthened spec...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/30247
Reconnaissance to investigate on the integration of ICTs is not novel, and in case higher learning institutions in Tanzania as it is elsewhere remains indispensable to augment pragmatic corpus of knowledge and practice on ICTs integration in panoramic educational contexts. This s...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/30283
Inadequate quality-water is a major hindrance to rural development and food security in arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya. Technologies that can promote water harvesting and conservation are, therefore, instrumental in increasing resilience in recurring droughts and enhancing foo...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/28888
Aims: Study the repair and strengthening of the flat slab-edge column connections against punching shear. Study Design: Parametric study is carried out by varying the repair and strengthening number of stirrups rows and the stirrups materials. Methodology: This paper study the ef...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2016/30352