Aims: To assess the safe level of cyanide in environment and occupational related activities. Methodology: Systematic literature search of the related articles were carried out using the following databases: PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Science Citation Index...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8962
A low speed, open circuit, laboratory wind tunnel was designed and built to facilitate the testing of airfoils designed for use with straight bladed vertical axis wind turbines. The wind tunnel built was the open-circuit type and was chosen due to the ease of fabrication and low...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10092
Natural and Human activities have overtime caused significant shift in the climate state creating climate change. The change in climate state affects all aspects of human life causing mass migration and great loss of human life. It is believed that agriculture is the most suscept...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4402
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of flow-distance on the empirical correlation between biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of wastewaters from a cluster of industries. Study Design: Wastewater samples were collected at poi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10500
In this paper, we have presented the bilinear form, a generalized double Wronskian solution of a non-autonomous Schrödinger equation. Furthermore, we found rational-like solutions by taking special case in general solutions.
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9769
Trado-medical practice variously referred to as ethno-medicine, folk medicine, native healing, and alternative medicine, is an ancient and culture-bound method of healing used against various diseases threatening human existence and survival. The aim of this study was to investig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/9477
The study was carried out to assess contamination and seasonal variations in bioavailable forms of trace metal (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Pb, Ni, Zn, Mn) concentrations in bed sediment. Sediment samples were collected from five sampling points during dry and rainy seasons along Mada River,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10521
The research work is focused on novel feasible structures of non condensing mode trilateral thermal cycles which differs from the recently known trilateral thermal cycles in that the conversion of heat to mechanical work is performed undergoing closed process transformations alon...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10074
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of temperature on sulphate removal from wastewater by selected bacterial (Pseudomonas spp., Klebsiella spp., Staphylococcus spp. and Lysinibacillus spp.) and fungal (Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium spp. and Absid...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10677
Aims: The operation of a single screw extruder under the influence of locally available raw materials (African yam bean (AYB) and cassava products were determined using the measures of torque and specific mechanical energy of the extruder. The specific mechanical energy (SME) is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8500