This study analysed the prevalent learning styles (auditory, visual and tactile) among secondary school mathematics students and how this prevalence was influenced by students’ gender and age in Benue State, Nigeria. A sample of 191 students from five randomly selected secondary...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16781
The study examined the perception and adaption of rice farmers to climate change in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Three Local Government Areas were purposively selected based on level of rice production in Ekiti. Well-structured and pre- tested interview schedule was used to collect rele...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16707
Introduction: Evaluating the proximate composition of locally utilized crop with nutritional and industrial potentials is a timely gesture. Aim: The study was to determine the proximate contents of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranean (L.) Verdc) grown in MadobiLGA, Kano state,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16577
Vulnerability which is a factor of concern within the context of disaster risk reduction is considered in this study. The widespread flooding which impacts massively on urban residents in the Lagos metropolis of Nigeria highlights the prevailing needs to explore the lack of socia...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17518
In the present paper, the Iranian spacecraft is considered, and is studied from an aero thermo dynamic viewpoint to design the proper thermal protection system, for its first mission: the sub-orbital flight. The design procedure is based on the decoupling of the aerodynamic heati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17528
Aims: The article is dedicated to give an assessment of the applicability of the popular access control models for designing the information security subsystem of an electronic master plan (EMP) web-based geographic information system. An overview of access control models used fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16844
Four-armed star poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) terminated with carboxy group was prepared by two-step reaction. The carboxy group of star PCL was activated and chemically conjugated to the amine group of PLL (polylysine) to produce sPCL-b-PLL copolymer. The structure of final produc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17180
In this paper, Legendre polynomials was used to get numerical solution of high-order linear complex differential equations in a circular domain. The solutions in the form of power series were obtained. The method was applied on three test problems. Obtained results demonstrated i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16690
Energy production is one of the significant challenges our world will face in the future. The utilization of fuels originating from plants as an alternative energy source will impact fossil fuel utilization and energy production. This research focuses on the hydrothermal treatmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16536
YouTube and its impact on young people of the two communities (Jordanian and Saudi Arabia) is the subject of the research. Therefore it was important to present a simplified definition and explanation of what YouTube is, the extent of its impact on the youth of both the Hashemite...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/11956