A long series of attempts have been made to identify factors influencing the number of males per 100 females at birth, also called the secondary sex ratio (SR). Earlier studies have noted regional variations in the secondary SR, and racial differences seem to exist. Statistical a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18393
A study was conducted to investigate the effect of varying dietary levels of processed orange peels on the performance of broiler finisher birds. A total of 60 4-week old Anak broiler birds were allocated into four treatment groups of 15 birds each. The experiment lasted for four...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/6052
Nowadays; there are many higher educational institutes are established for education purpose. The main aim of higher education institutions is to provide standard and quality education to their students. There are many ways present to get the standard and quality education. To ac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18251
Aim: This paper tends to put a different perspective for the reasons that had contributed to the drop in interest for further development of organic farming in Macedonia. Anno Domini 2001 is the year considered as official beginning of organic farming in the Republic of Macedonia...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17947
The use of medicinal plant to prevent and or cure liver problems is a practice not peculiar to developing countries. This research work evaluated oral LD50 and hepatoprotective properties of aqueous stem bark extract of Khaya senegalensis (ASBEKS) in rats. The rats were grouped i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16545
Aims: Rice blast disease (RBD), which is caused by the pathogenic fungi of Magnaporthe oryzae is the most devastating diseases of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L) Although many strategies have been applied to control the RBD, chemical anti-fungal agents are the most effective sol...
Existing potential-field based path planning methods in the literature often do not take into account environmental constraints and robot dimensions. Moreover, they normally do not provide the shortest path either. In this paper, we develop a new repulsive potential function that...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18275
In the present work the effect of working fluid (Al2O3 + water nanofluid) on the efficiency of a parabolic trough solar collector was investigated experimentally. The weight fraction of nano particles was 0.1% and the particles dimension was 40 nm. Experiments were performed with...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/11946
Wide application and versatility of steel have resulted in the need to improve its mechanical properties at desired temperature and microstructure to achieve production goal and reliable service performance. Quenching, a method of improving mechanical properties of steel, is char...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13674
Aims: This study investigates the antifungal activity of green tea, neem leaf and aero root medicinal herbal extracts on organic cotton and bamboo knitted fabrics against Aspergillus and Trichoderma reesei. Study Design: To evaluate the antifungal activity of treated fabric using...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17709