Aims: The knowledge of water sorption Isotherm gives information about water activity of foods; to investigate chemical reactions during drying and storage. This study therefore, was to determine the sorption properties of pupuru flour during storage at ambient temperature. Study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/613
This paper presents a provisional design proposal for the modification of the numbering and address representation of Internet Protocol 4 (IPv4), the Internet address system nearing exhaustion, based on biology. Biologically-inspired designs have been applied in diverse technolog...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1217
Aims: The scope of the model lies in its applicability in the management inventories of time-quadratic demand. It is also seen that large pile of goods displayed in a supermarket will motivate the customer to buy more. So the presence of inventory has a motivational effect on the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1180
Vibration is one of the most annoying problems faced during metal cutting operation, and it occurs frequently in manufacturing industries. The vibration level depends on many different parameters such as material type, rigidity of tooling structure, cutting data and operation mod...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/1115
Aims: This paper attempts to improve automatic temporal change detection on a pair of beans images, acquired before and after storage under high temperature (≥ 25°C) and high relative humidity (≥ 65%), conditions that promote « Hard-To-Cook » phenomenon. Study Design: Image proce...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/796
Electrical resistivity survey was carried out to delineate subsurface layers and to determine the ground water potential in the study area. The study was carried out using the ABEM SAS 1000 terrameter which worked on 16 vertical electrical sounding (VES) points within the area. A...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/677
Aim: This study examines the characteristics of harmattan dust and its composition in Enugu, Nigeria. Study Design: Survey Study. Place and Duration of Study: Enugu urban between October – April of 2009/10 and October – April, 2010/11. Methodology: Five different sites were selec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/950
In present paper authors have used the theoretical model for calculation of value of different model parameters of potassium halides by using the effect of Many body (Puri and Verma, 1977) (Basic model for calculation and aurthor directley used the all calculated value of many bo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/499
This work was aimed to apply the artificial neural network (ANNs) for predicting indoor air temperature in modern building, seven hours in advance in humid region, using as inputs only the outdoor air temperature and the last six hourly values of indoor air temperature. The build...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/641
Aims: To evaluate the potential of cocoyam (Colocasia and Xanthosoma species) for the production of ethanol and methane for use as energy sources. Study design: Laboratory experimentation. Place and duration of study: Federal College of Agriculture Ibadan and Institute of Agricul...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2012/603