Despite the law promulgated by the Federal Government of Nigeria prohibiting illicit felling of trees, the number of charcoal producers is on the increase coupled with a sharp rise in the quantity of charcoal produced with its attendants environmental consequences. Thus, this stu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/39422
Background: The call for use of improved Soil Fertility Management (SFM) technologies is a prerequisite to increase agricultural productivity among farmers. This study assessed farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for selected financially rewarding biofertilizer technologies/package...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40457
The present study examined factors associated with attitudes towards justification of wife-beating among currently married women in Zambia. This paper utilizes secondary data from the 2013 Zambia Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS). Logistic regression analysis was used to identify...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/41094
In the present study, we have utilized the tool of modification technique for the precision and improvement of estimators to estimate the finite population variance, when the survey under investigation does not account for some of the important conditional distribution properties...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40222
The study investigated ambient air quality and noise levels around Oil and Gas facilities in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA), Rivers State. Seven stations including a control were assessed for air quality and noise study. Standard air sampling instruments were us...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/39573
Water is considered as fundamental to development due to its contribution to economic growth and human welfare. If there is no good management of human activities such as agriculture, domestic, car washing, industrial wastes, water sources might be polluted. This study has been d...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/38362
In this paper, a simple irrigation pipeline system is proposed to represent the common situation of lifting water from a reservoir to another higher reservoir through a pipeline. Bentley HAMMER model is used to perform simulation and analysis of steady state and transients in the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40253
Our work aims to measure the conductivity of vanadyl complexes in an aqueous-organic medium at various temperatures ranging from (298.15, 303.15, 308.15 and 313.15 K). The experimental data of Λm and Λo were dissected in place of the calculation of formation constants for every f...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/39749
This paper is focused on the formation of 6 and 8 member block hybrid methods with multiple-mesh point’s for the solution of stiff ordinary differential equations. The research further investigates the basic properties of implicit three-step and four-step block hybrid methods. We...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/39319
In this study, bolted tension members connected with pretensioned bolts are investigated by using ANSYS 18.2 finite element analysis software. The effects of pretension, increasing bolt hole size and contact sizing density are examined. In the analyses, non-linear behaviors for m...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2018/40498