Aims: The effects of oven – drying (OVD), brining and oven – drying (BOVD) and smoking (SMK) on quality and shelf – life of Catfish (Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus) and Tilapia (T. zillii) were evaluated. Study Design: Completely randomised block design. Place and Duration of Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2541
The behaviour of the subsurface soil upon application of a low potential field has been investigated utilizing Schlumberger configuration of Electrical resistivity survey. The characteristics of three different soil types which include sandy clay, sand-clayey loam and loamy sand...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/1818
Cherenkov radiation is an electromagnetic Radiation that occurs in different medium depending on the physical properties of the medium”. The sufficient scientific condition for the phenomenon to be occurred is that the velocity of charged particles moving with should be greater t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2826
Biostratigraphic work using palynology was undertaken in order to re-assess the lithofacies, chronostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of deposition of sediments in Murshe-1 well, Bornu Basin, northeastern Nigeria. Two hundred and ninety ditch cutting samples obtained from the expl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2665
Aims: This study was conducted to assess the risks connected to effluents released by laboratories performing biomedical analyses in four sanitary training units of Abomey Calavi and Sô-Ava area in Benin. Study Design: It is a transversal and analytical study. Duration of Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2296
This paper considers a condition-based maintenance optimization for continuously degrading systems under continuous noise response in terms of sound pressure level monitoring. After maintenance, the states of the system are randomly distributed with residual damage. An optimizati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2341
Organic nonlinear optical single crystals of 4-methoxy benzoin were grown by slow evaporation technique. The X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that 4-methoxy benzoin single crystals belong to orthorhombic crystal system with a space group Pca21.Optical absorption range of the g...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2587
Aim: A 56 days feeding trial was conducted with 225 Marshal Broiler chicks to evaluate the effect of activated coconut charcoal on their growth performance and nutrient digestibility. Study Design: The design of the experiment was completely randomized design (CRD). Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2085
Aims: The influence of extrusion cooking variables on the residence time and throughput of a single screw extruder were investigated using blends of African yam bean (AYB) and cassava flour. The main purpose was to optimize the throughput and residence time of AYB/cassava extrusi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2252
Aims: This research is aimed at determination of heavy metals concentrations in water (surface and ground) and aquatic macrophyte and to compare the values with the standard recommendations. Study Design: Water (surface and ground) and aquatic macrophyte (Ceratophyllum demersum)...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2619