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
This study was carried out to determine the mineral composition, ash content, percentage volatile content (PVC) as well as the pH, total alkalinity and conductivity of the aqueous solution of the ashes of palm bunch and plantain peels respectively. The mineral contents of the as...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22481
This study assessed effects of climate change on agroclimatic suitability of areas for Maize, Wheat and Barley production in Gamo Gofa zone, Southern Ethiopia between September 2014 and February 2015. Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to analyze the changes in suitabil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26572
This exercise was undertaken in order to simulate the movement of nitrates and phosphorus within a residential potable water network and to investigate the degree of human exposure to varying quantities of these contaminants from a cross-connection. Greywater was collected from 2...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24409