Based on diurnal horizontal visibility and wind speed, three dust storms types and non-dusty days are identified in spring and summer seasons during 2005-2013 for Baghdad city to evaluate the impact of dust storm (DS) intensity on some meteorological elements and aerosol optical...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/31460
The study of the excitation of two circular slot antenna modes fed by coupling effect for bi-band or broadband applications is proposed in this paper. The different configurations of circular to semicircular antenna with rectangular slot having 1 mm to 12 mm length, lead respect...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/31385
The study investigates the coating performance of oil pipelines. To examine the coating parameters, different type of coatings were developed based on paint group and electroless nickel phosphorous group (Electroless Ni-P) with or without nano additives. The substrate considered...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30753
Smart irrigation is done by extracting climatic data such as historical data, off-site data, weather station, moisture sensor, wireless sensor network and web-based forecast. In existing sensor-based smart irrigation schedule, the decision-making of current irrigation depends on...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30934
In this paper, the author presents a new algorithm computing the inverse of any nonsingular heptadiagonal matrix. The computational cost of our algorithms is O(n2) operations in . The algorithms are suitable for implementation using computer algebra system such as MAPLE, MATLAB a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/31213
This research work involves the study of the sedimentological processes and depositional environment from two major exposed sections of the Benin Formation in the vicinity of the southern fringes of the Calabar Flank. Stratigraphic logs were produced; 20 samples collected from th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/31138
Aim: The study aimed to measure the amount of fluoride released from fluoride containing materials. Zirconia reinforced glass ionomer cement (Zirconomer, SHOFU INC), high density glass ionomer cement (KetacTM Molar, 3MTM ESPETM) and packable posterior glass ionomer restorative ma...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26398
Aims: The purpose of this paper was to continue the previous study of arm rotation movement where A.V. Hill’s force-velocity relationship was transformed into a constant maximum power model consisting of three different components of power. Methodology: In the present study a new...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30766
The article presents the confirmed validity of the established global prediction thermohydrogravidynamic principle (of the developed thermohydrogravidynamic theory containing the cosmic geophysics and the cosmic seismology based on the author’s generalization of the first law of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30049
The interconnection of devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people with the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction known as Internet of Things (IoT) can only be successfully achieved with...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30737