Fresh water quality has become the principal limitation for sustainable development in many countries and the major human and environmental health dimensions of the global fresh water quality problem is constituted in numerous effects of water borne diseases. Therefore, the asses...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21541
Aims: To create a gait database with optimum accuracy of joint rotational data and an accu-rate representation of 3D volume, and explore the potential of using the database in studying the relationship between static and dynamic features of a human’s gait. Study Design: The study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/13426
This study involved investigation of the impact of the various factors affecting the use of biogas in a modified gasoline generator. A 1.5 kW gasoline generator was modified to function with biogas by advancing the engine timing and installing a Bernoulli suction device in the ca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22903
This paper addresses the problem of automatically tuning in an intelligent manner so that a balance between efficiency and computational speed is reached. In this paper a new proposed technique which uses Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to compute the best optimal value for the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23146
This study was intended to evaluate the extent of contamination of soils in the vicinity of some selected dumpsites (Enyimba, Ogbor Hill and World Bank) in Aba Metropolis by anions (nitrate, sulphate and phosphate), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and total petroleum hydrocarbo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22084
Removing deposits is one of the most important maintenance activities that applied to irrigation canal. This research aims to study experimentally the effect of different flow conditions such as discharge and water depth on removing sand by using jet pump. To achieve this goal, a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23000
New and known 1, 3-benzo- and naphtho- oxazine monomers were synthesized using a modified step-wise procedure in which formaldehyde which is a suspected human carcinogen and a confirmed animal carcinogen was replaced with methylene bromide for ring-closure reaction. Salicylaldehy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23494
Introduction: Rational waste sludge disposal means utilizing its fertilizing and calorific properties to their maximum. The ability to convert sewage sludge depends on many factors. Fermented or aerobically stabilized sludge contains components easily assimilable by plants, but i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23153
Aims: To investigate nail penetration enhancing effectiveness of a novel drug formulation and ingredients, 40% propylene glycol (PG) and 40 µM multifunctional photosensitizer (MFPS). Proposed formulation was proven effective in photodynamic treatment (PDT) of ex vivo fungal infec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23177
In this paper, a robust invisible watermarking system for digital video encoded by MPEG-4 is presented. The proposed scheme provides watermark hidden by embedding a secret message (watermark) in the sprite area allocated in reference frame (I-frame). The proposed system consists...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23171