Weirs are important hydraulic structures which are widely used for various purposes. Recently, the need for irrigation water increased due to the expansion of agriculture areas, and hence a need to increase the discharge capacity of canals evolved. In canals with weir systems, as...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17358
Aims: To determine the effects of various processing methods on the pasting and functional properties of Aerial yam (Dioscorea bulbifera) flour. Place and Duration: Department of Food Science and Technology, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, between June 2012 and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17915
This work studies the behaviour of some working fluids to be applied on trilateral thermal cycles characterised by the conversion of heat into mechanical work undergoing controlled isothermal expansion path functions. The considered trilateral cycles are relevant because of its a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18624
The presented work proposed a wavelet packet and Shannon entropy (SEWP) technique for handwritten Arabic characters recognition system. Entropy has been applied in many applications. However, the combination of Shannon entropy with wavelet transform (WT) is proposed in this study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15512
Onitsha is a commercial, ecclesiastical and administrative city located on 6º49′30″E and 6º8′30″N in South-Eastern Nigeria with a high population density. The study area is close to a confluence and occupies a landmass of 300 km2 and geologically belongs to the Ameki group in Ana...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16279
Aims: The paper describes some methods based on statistical tools and time-frequency analysis for extracting features in frequency and temporal domain that may be used as predictors of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Place and Duration of Study: Department of Computer Engineering,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17451
Bruno Henrique Leite Gonçalves, Sarita Leonel, Marco Antonio Tecchio, Rafael Augusto Ferraz, Jackson Mirellys Azevedo Souza & Lucas Lencioni Arruda·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2015
The carbohydrate storage is necessary to support the plant growth in periods of stress, during the dormancy, in the beginning of the vegetative development and during the fruiting time. In this context, this work intended to evaluate the carbohydrate concentrations of the peach (...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17846
Aims: The aim of this study was to develop an easy but robust method for mass production, to formulate and compare the efficacy of mass produced conidia of a local isolate Metarhizium anisopliae against aphids and oil-formulated conidia against whiteflies. Study Design: The rando...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17882
A cross-sectional study to investigate prevalence, seasonal prevalence and causative agents of clinical and subclinical dromedary camel mastitis in Saudi Arabia (KSA) was conducted. The prevalence of acute mastitis was 3.6% and of chronic mastitis was 2.2%. Physical tests, Califo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17593
A comprehensive review on the methodology to obtain two dimensional stress field around a discontinuity in the form of a circular hole in the plate subjected to various types of, uniform, axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric monotonic loads at infinity viz. uni-axial tensile, equal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17762