Deficit irrigation is a strategy which could be applied to utilize water efficiently. The goal of the article was to review and examine different irrigation deficit to compare its crop morphological characters, yield, water productivity and water use efficiency under different cr...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v18i217204
The study focused on the physico-chemical characterization of raw water samples from the Kongou Gorou pond treated with almond powder from Moringa oleifera seeds. The powder which was used for the present study was dried in the oven for one month at the respective temperatures of...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v18i217202
Aims: This study proposed an alternative method for the estimation of maintenance cost of roads in Anambra State, Nigeria. The proposed method referred to as the permuted quadratic model (PQM) involves permuting of the dependent variable of the quadratic model. Place and Duration...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v18i117200
Driven by the company vision to become a high-volume manufacturing (HVM), increasing throughput in the manufacturing line is critical to meeting market demands. The ever-growing demand for integrated circuits in part requires additional capital investment to purchase new equipmen...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v18i117201
The paper focused in addressing the auto align defect at in-strip testing of a semiconductor scalable device in a leadframe technology. Pareto diagram and potential risk analysis were completed to identify the top reject contributors and eventually come-up with the robust solutio...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v18i117197
Education is the cradle of development and must be properly guarded. Higher institutions are citadels of learning engaging in high intellectual discourse that require quiet ambience. The high noise level in Nigeria’s institutions of higher learning has become a growing concern. T...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v18i117198
Aims: This study considered the optimal maintenance cost of water boreholes for a multiple pumping scenario in South-East Nigeria. The objective of the study was to determine the optimal maintenance cost of water boreholes for the Southeastern region of Nigeria. Place and Duratio...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v18i117199
Die attach epoxy dispensing is an automated factory environment that creates some special challenges. A robust production process begins with an understanding of the adhesives in their fluid state and which important parameters must be controlled. One of the most common problems...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v17i417196
This paper presents the modification and improvement done on the wire clamp and top plate (WCTP) design to eliminate the bouncing effect of the silicon die that leads to smashed ball reject during the formation of wire. The protrusion of the unit on the vacuum hole produced movem...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v17i417195
Heat-generating equipment (such as transformers, computer microchips, car engines, nuclear reactors, etc.) requires an efficient cooling mechanism to safeguard them from thermal degradation and to enhance their life span. The use of Nanofluids as opposed to conventional heat tran...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v17i417192