Building sector is responsible for consuming nearly 40 percent of the total primary energy in Iran. There have been implemented several efforts to diminish the amount of energy utilization in building sector. In early 90s, Iranian Ministry of Housing and Urbanism released the fir...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27401
Palm kernel shells (PKS), waste product of oil mill industrials, were used to produce activated carbon by chemically activating with ZnCl2. The shells were carbonized at temperature ranging from 500°C to 800°C, for an hour and activated with 10%, 20% and 30% concentration of ZnCl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27324
Coastal recreations in South Western Cameroon are a representative ecosystem critically important for global climate change, biodiversity and local livelihoods of indigenous communities. In order to increase awareness of the significance of these resources in the stability of eco...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27904
Twenty surface soil samples were used to evaluate status of soil Mn using five extraction procedures (Coca-cola, EDTA, HCl, EDTA + NH4OAC and NH4OAC methods). The results show that Coca-cola method extracted the highest amount of the Mn while NH4OAC extracted the least amount of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26986
The study investigates the acquisition of English copula be by adult L1 Arabic speakers learners of L2 English. It sets out to test two competing hypotheses with respect to the characterization of L2 acquisition in post-critical period non-native interlanguage (IL) namely, the Fu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/5248
The automated analysis of facial expression is a long investigated subject in the computer vision community and has been boosted by applications in the field of human computer interaction (HCI). Besides mapping of facial expressions to basic emotion categories, what is often of l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/27294
This work presents the effect of low temperature- below Zn melting point oxidation of Zn film on the optical, morphological and structural properties of thermally oxidized Zn films. Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films were synthesised from thermal vacuum deposited metallic zinc thin film...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26853
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