Biosorption potentials of activated carbons from pentaclethra Macrophylla (PMAC) and Tetracarpidium Conophorum (TCAC) seed shells for the removal of Pb(II) from aqueous solution were investigated. The adsorbents were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27255
Nigeria, though blessed with more natural gas than any other country in Africa, has very little capacity to put it to good use. The country lacks pipelines, processing facilities, petrochemicals plants and much of the other infrastructure needed for a thriving sector As a result...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27214
Aims: In this period of economic quandary, Nigeria needs to make workable and precise economic policies and decisions based on accurate information in all sectors of the economy. However, dearth of empirical study on construction sector for economic decisions has made this aspira...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26268
The research study was aimed at investigating the potentials of Banana Peel, vegetable waste (Telfairia occidentialis) and pig dung substrate for biogas production. Marian market, Watt Market and University of Calabar Pig farm were randomly sampled within Calabar Metropolis for c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27454
Aims: This study assessed the effects of Climate variability on Agro-pastoral farmers’ livelihoods and response strategies. Study Design: The study employed a social survey research design, to examine household perceptions on climate variability and response strategies by agro-pa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27227
Practically, it is not viable to obtain the optimization of production mixture of the raw material for high recital and quality which is subject to numerous performance controls by trial and error through the normal process can be a extremely tricky task and time intense. This le...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22814
We present the case of a 47-year-old man who developed a non-union of the left radius following an open double barrel fracture to the left forearm sustained in a road traffic accident. Whilst initially treated with internal fixation, only the ulna fracture united. The patient the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26427
The hypothesis of the spin of an electron, leading to its angular momentum, is no longer an open question, in science. Experimental evidence like the hydrogen fine structure and the Stern-Gerlach experiment in the 1920s and, recently, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) have for lon...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26498
The paper has appraised the implications of abuse of water in Nigeria. Through critical review of related works the paper has discovered that Nigeria’s water resources are getting polluted daily as a result of such increased anthropogenic activities like modern agriculture, minin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26792
This paper deals with the existence and nonexistence of self-similar solutions for a nonlinear heat equation arising from electrostatic MEMS. We show that there exists a critical value A*, such that if the initial data is less than A*, then there is no global forward self-similar...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26468