This work evaluated the exposure dose rates emanating from five (5) selected waste dumpsites within the Owerri metropolis, Nigeria. The objectives are to measure the dose rates emanating from the selected dumpsites, evaluate the rates at which the radiation exposures diminished w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16360
Consumption of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) contaminated fish poses carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks to human. Levels of Cd and Pb residues in cooked flesh of Clarias gariepinus have not been fully explored inspite of their public health importance. This study therefo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18781
Aims: To investigate larvicidal activity of solvents (Ethanol, Ethyl Acetate, n-Hexane) extracts of Persea americana seed against Aedes vittatus and partially purify the most potent solvent extract and characterise most effective fraction isolated. Place and Duration of Study: En...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16392
Biocorrosion due to dumpsite leachates can lead to rupture and failure of engineering materials such as mild steel. This study was carried out to assess the effect of dumpsite leachates in corrosion process of mild steel. Mild steel coupons were prepared and immersed completely i...
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Research Article10.9734//BJAST/2015/16703
The goal of this paper is to study the possibility to build a 100 MW Photovoltaic Plant in small countries like Lebanon, it gives a general review about the basis of photovoltaics. Different electronic models of photovoltaic cells are presented. This paper presents also the funct...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13609
The effectiveness of indigenous daily collector system in terms of security and growth of savings of smallholder agribusiness entrepreneurs has attracted the brilliant minds of Economists. This study investigates the effectiveness of Indigenous Daily Deposit collector system in s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16878
This paper focuses on the development of new mathematical model for image normalization base on the projective geometry. For this purpose several decompositions of full projective group and their subgroups were developed that allow technical realization such as: displacement, com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18234
Aims: Comprehension of the local solar radiation is important for many applications of solar energy systems. The global solar radiation on horizontal surface at the location of interest is the most critical input parameter employed in the design and prediction of the performance...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19129
The granular computing with l∞-norm is used to zoom the image. Firstly, a granule is represented by l∞-norm and has the form of hypercube. Secondly, the bottle-up computing model is adopted to transform the microcosmic world into the macroscopic world by the designed join operati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19722
The closed-form solution for European options on foreign assets did not consider the impact of strike price volatility. Therefore, these models overestimate the value of European options [1,2]. Using the pricing relationships among European, American and Bermudan option proposed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18835