Aim: This article reviews the effects and consequences of improper drugs use among youth. We tried to broaden our understanding on its effects, causes, and also to learn new preventive measures and principles that can be used to cure or mitigate the effects of such habits on peop...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2019/35949
The study underlines that time is a socially practiced phenomenon and is a product of the interaction of socioeconomic and spatial practices in society. This study discusses an urban space where the process of globalization has intersected with the inter-subjective time to shape...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2019/46599
Background: Food handlers have an important role to play in food businesses and that is to guarantee that meals served are hygienic for consumption. Conscious or inadvertent contamination of such food places consumers at risk of suffering food-borne illnesses. The aim of this stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/45605
The study attempts to investigate the marketing channels of vegetables, to identify the actor who gets the major share of the marketing margins in vegetable marketing channels at the study area and to discover the major factors of market supply of vegetable in Mecha District. Des...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/45840
Treatment and disposal of spent (used) drilling mud have become an important environmental challenge in the oil and gas industry. Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPHs) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) constitute the major contaminants in spent drilling mud. In this study...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/45676
Aims: The study aimed to assess the nutritional profile and the ‘in vitro’ and ‘in vivo’ digestibility of two varieties of okra (Abelmoschus caillei and Abelmoschus esculentus), sun-dried and water-cooked, to determine the best harvest stage showing the best nutritional and diges...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/44575
Search for an alternative to chemical herbicides have prompted researchers to investigate the allelopathic potential of plants, which would serve as a remedy for contamination of soil, water bodies and crops products with toxic chemical residues derived from using synthetic herbi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/45397
This explores the direction of the causal relationship between banking, stock market and economic growth, while controlling for relevant variables in Nigeria for the period 1981–2014. Using principal component analysis for the construction of the financial development indices, Au...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/44009
This study examines the dynamic effects of crude oil price on energy consumption in Nigeria over the period 1975-2013 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration. The results show that crude oil price is a significant long-run and shor...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/43787
In a recent paper [K. Zhou, M. Han, Q. Wang, Math. Method. Appl. Sci. 40 (2016) 2772-2783], the authors investigated the traveling wave solutions of a delayed diffusive SIR epidemic model. When the basic reproduction number R0 > 1 and the wave speed C = C* ( C* is the critica...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2018/44885