A study of the use of geoelectric sounding employing Schlumberger configuration in delineating aquifer(s) and estimation of hydraulic parameters has been carried out at Orerokpe, Western Niger Delta. Twenty (20) depth soundings were carried out with a maximum current electrode sp...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14541
Aims: To propose a new method of estimating the phase velocity of Rayleigh wave using one linear array based on the spatial auto-correlation (SPAC) method and complex coherence function (CCF) and confirm its availability and robustness using both the numerical simulation and a fi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14961
Geoelectric investigation of Iwaro-Oka, SW Nigeria was carried out with the aim of evaluating its groundwater potential for future groundwater development. The area is underlain by Precambrian Basement Complex of southwestern Nigeria with local geology essentially made up migmati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14584
Segmentation is one of the prominent and crucial steps in any image processing applications. Segmentation subdivides the image into its constituent regions or objects. In this paper we propose a novel automatic segmentation method for extracting portion of breast which contains t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14383
Aims: To estimate the market scale and characteristics of religious consumption in rural community in Tibet. Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted in 2012 in rural community in the Midland of Tibet. Methodology: The present study is an applied research. Using fiel...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14403
This study sought to determine the effect of combining sawdust of Piptadenia africana with Ceiba pentandra on the physical and mechanical properties of briquettes produced at room temperature using low compacting pressure without a binder. Briquettes were produced from a mixture...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/12315
Exergy is a property of a system and its environment and it is defined as the maximum available energy that could be converted into a useful work. This study determined an approach to analyse exergy of human physiological response of the outdoor conditions during blocklaying. Tot...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14885
The kinetics of pyrolysis of powdered laboratory safety examination gloves (PLEG) by the thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was studied and the corresponding parameters were evaluated. The goal was to look for approaches to save the condensed energy within the PLEG wastes in order...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13716
Aim: Choice of medical treatment option, in the event of illness, is a critical factor in determining the fate of a patient. It is influenced by several factors. The aim of this paper, therefore, is: To determine the exact factors that influence the choice, by rural dwellers, of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13505
Aims: The aim of this paper is to achieve information about surface and sub-surface layers after hard turning by mixed ceramic tool with different geometry – Wiper and conventional and to compare achieved results to find out advantages of its use. Second aim is to obtain graphs o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14506