Aims: To improve the nutrient quality of fura, an acha based flour food by adding bambara groundnut flour. Study Design: Product development approach. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi and for six months. Methodolo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4782
An endeavour has been made to analyze the hydrodynamic magnetic fluid based finite journal bearing by making use of finite difference method and MATLAB. Under the assumptions of hydromagnetic lubrication the Reynold’s equation is derived, in turn, which is solved resorting to fin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5799
Aims: This research was designed to evaluate the Bisphenol A (BPA) level in five selected canned food products (sweet corn, baked bean, green pea, tomato paste and sardine) on sale in Lagos markets, South West Nigeria. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biochemistry and D...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5881
Climate extremes threaten livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa hence the need for adaptations strategies. The objective of the study was to analyze adaptation strategies used by smallholder farmers by examining their knowledge of climate extremes and the perce...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5725
Aims: To fit a time series model to daily Naira-Pound exchange rate series. Study Design: Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5535
The study aimed at measuring the profitability of swine farmers, as well as determining the influence of the farmers’ socio-economic characteristics on their output. It was conducted in Kaduna State, Nigeria using structured questionnaire administered to 120 swine farmers. The re...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4137
In many situations, instead of a complete sample, data are available only in grouped form. In this situation the values of individual observations are not known, but the number of observations that fall in each group is only known. Here the model under consideration is the expone...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4408
Evaluation of Eyram field reservoir has been undertaken in this work for determination and distribution of petrophysical properties, fluid type and hydrocarbon contact within B-Horizon using log data. Eyram field is located in onshore area of the Niger Delta and it essentially co...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5462
Aim: The aim of this study was to report the seasonal variation in phenological pattern as a function of rain fall and temperature. Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted in Nikyal valley located at altitudinal range of 1500-1900 m within the longitude 74o 04′ to 1...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5329
Soil contaminated with heavy metals can result to very serious environmental hazard. As a result of this problem, this research was carried out to investigate the concentration of heavy metals (Fe, Zn, Pb, Cu and Cr) in and around Uwelu scrap car dumpsite in Benin City, southern...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/5052