Background: One reason for the low yield of rice in Nigeria is the use of inappropriate plant density. It has been found that as seeding rate increased; panicles m-2 significantly increased suggesting that adjustments in plant densities could enhance upland rice yield which const...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14489
Open gingival embrasures often pose complex functional and esthetic problems. Management of open embrasures requires careful evaluation of the underlying causes. A team approach comprising of general dentist, an orthodontist, and a periodontist is critical. The authors reviewed a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/11287
Aim: Analyze the prevalence of domestic violence and depression and their association with coping behaviors in a group of parents of children with Down´s Syndrome. Study Design: No experimental, descriptive-correlational. Sample: This study used a non probabilistic sample of 212...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13652
This paper explores the role of energy use in sustainable development and the potential sources to increase energy efficiency during the whole life-cycle of any material and its production process. It is the first paper of a research project exploring a decision making model for...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/10831
The closed form (analytical) solution for the displacement of a beam with semi-rigid supports under dynamic pulse loading has been developed. Essential (Dirichlet) boundary conditions are prescribed and the equation of motion and subsequent mixed (Robin) boundary conditions are d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13017
For larger areas in the Côte d’Ivoire and particularly in the Denguele’s land, agriculture is the main source of income. Thus, the search for suitable sites for the valorization of this activity requires the collection and organization of data available. The aim of this study is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14486
This research work was carried out to investigate the crop farmers’ assessment of information and communication technologies (ICT) used for innovation dissemination by E xtension A gents in Ogun State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select 105 crop farm...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13428
Statistical analyses reveal information of the hydrodynamics and environments of deposition of sedimentary rocks. The sediments of the outcrop sections from Uwakande 1, Obubra southeastern Nigeria were studied for their textural variations. Grain size analysis, and pebble morphog...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13540
Fractions of the total head loss which constitute the loss through duct fittings, obtained in an earlier study, for varying numbers of supply outlets and lengths of index duct run were used in a regression analysis to obtain second order equations which gave a general increase of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13651
Despite the ban of paraquat, its use among Nigerian farmers for weed control is still popular. Larger proportion of applied herbicide ends up in the soil matrix. Off-site transfer of the residual paraquat as contaminant to other environmental compartment depends on sorption proce...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13869