Aim: Prevalence of dermatophytic infections amongst students of Nigerian higher institutions using occlusive leather footwear was carried out. The aim was to evaluate the prevalence of dermatophytic infection associated with occlusive leather footwear worn by students of Nigerian...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27332
Aims: This research attempts to empirically evaluate the local image character and language text concept to better explain the stages of change model to predict the behavioral change in smokers. Study Design: The current research study is descriptive, applied and deductive in na...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25703
Introduction: The climate in Bangladesh is changing and it is becoming more unpredictable every year. The nature of relationship between climate change and livelihood assets of urban poor was experimented by the study. Aims: To understand the dynamics of climate change of urban p...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/26501
The experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of different manure sources on selected soil chemical properties, sweet potato tuber yield and tuber nutrient compositions. The high yielding sweet potato varieties are fertilizer responsive. Research evidences indicated t...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25918
Due to concentration of industries in the study area and indiscriminate disposal of industrial effluent into Ele River, this study therefore aims at assessing the suitability of Ele River in Nnewi, Anambra State of Nigeria for irrigation purpose. Water samples were collected from...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25885
Recently, it has been focused on how to increase organizational development and entrepreneurship in order to ensure the development in the country. The first thing to do on the issue is to determine what innovations can be made to improve the organization. At this point, the cont...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/26178
Several researchers have developed models to predict corrosion rate in buried structures with good results using methods such as artificial neural networks, Monte Carlo to mention a few. This paper presents a novel approach to predicting corrosion rate in buried structures using...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25564
We have considered the variable heat and mass transfer boundary on an unsteady MHD flow through a loosely packed porous medium over an impulsively started vertical plate. The temperature of plate is made to rise linearly with time. The fluid considered is gray, absorbing-emitting...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/25971
Logically, government expenditure is expected to boost economic activities and performance. However, this study conjectured that capital and recurrent expenditure or a combination of both would impact differently on the economy. Thus, this study evaluated whether there is no shor...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/24579
This study examines the impact of financial structure on performance of agricultural and healthcare firms listed in Nigerian Stock Exchange for a period of twenty one (21) years 1993 to 2013. This study selected fifteen (15) out of the sixteen (16) firms listed on agricultural an...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/24570