The field performance of palm fibre insulation board treated with cassava starch solution has been studied. This was done in search of local substitutes for imported insulation materials used in low temperature (45°C – 200°C) ovens. Fresh oil palm fibre was collected from palm-ke...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23998
Aim: This paper presents a statistical analysis of the performance of two age estimation algorithms namely Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) and Self Organizing Feature Map (SOFM) on human face images. Methodology: 630 human face images with age ranges 0 - 69 from the FG-NET...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24303
Ozone (O3) phytotoxicity is a serious concern all over the globe. O3 can cause both biochemical and physiological changes to plants that could lead to reduction in growth and yield. Its effect on agricultural crops is usually detected as foliar injury. Although foliar injury has...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24821
The potential of using Moringa oleifera seed cake to increase the rate of the microbial degradation of crude oil-spilled soil was investigated. This investigation was carried out at the National Research Institute for Chemical Technology, Zaria, Nigeria, within a 28 day period in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/9358
The focus of the research was to assess the impact of the Warri Refinery operations on the outdoor air quality within the refinery and its environs. The Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) is an industrial complex of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23688
This article reports the synthesis of iron (Fe) encapsulated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) prospective to the formation of magnetic semiconductors, by the arc discharge method. Morphology of the samples was studied from transmission electron microscope (TEM) and scanning electron micro...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/18853
Aims: This research is aimed at investigating the corrosion behaviour of welded austenitic stainless steel (ASS) immersed in an alkaline sodium hydroxide medium. The tensile properties of the structure were also determined. Study Design: Weight loss method, Factorial Design of Ex...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23837
In the last 30 years there has been growing interest in additive manufacturing technology. Co-authorship of published papers plays such an important role in scientific development. The collaborative research social network on the field of additive manufacturing is paid particular...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24462
If two non isomorphic graphs are Tutte-equivalent then they are chromatic-equivalent. The opposite is not always true. We give a case of chromatic-equivalence implying Tutte-equivalence.
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24262
The role of banks is very vital in the overall development of a given country. While Credit risk is one of the main risks of banks and affects the development of the financial system, little study is done to examine its determinants. This study was conducted to investigate the fa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23563