A field trial was conducted at the CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI) experimental fields to evaluate the effects of organic and inorganic fertilizers, and time of harvesting on the yield and quality of white yam (Dioscorea rotundata). The experiment was a 4x3 factorial arranged...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/5522
Two soil bacterial isolates (Bacillus sp. and Staphylococcus sp.) were isolated from agricultural soil and used in the decolourization and degradation of two synthetic textile azo dyes blood red and turquoise blue. Of the two bacterial species employed, the isolate b (Staphylococ...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19993
Painful shoulder is a very common condition that results from periarticular lesions involving the rotator cuff, the biceps tendon, and the subacromio-subdeltoid bursa. Ultrasonography [1] (USG) has advantage of offering a dynamic examination enabling an assessment of both the ran...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/17674
Aims: We introduce a new estimator for population mean by using coefficient of variation as prior information in ranked set sampling (RSS). Then we compare it with the estimator of the mean in RSS, the estimator of the mean in simple random sampling (SRS) in the sense of mean squ...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19675
Variation in the hydro-climatic variables of River Kaduna at Shiroro Dam site, Nigeria is linked to a number of climate change activities around the river. In view of this, the paper aims at examining the trend of stream flow, rainfall, temperature and evaporation. Monthly discha...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18331
Background: Medical institutions, just like other institutions, have promotion issues on marketing the services they produce in the ever increasing competition. Because the effect of promotion methods change from consumer to consumer and according to environmental conditions, the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19605
Garcinia indica Choisy of the family Clusiaceae is a medicinally important polygamodioecious tree. It is widely distributed throughout Asia, Africa and Polynesia. In India it is found in Western Ghats of South India and North Eastern states. All the parts of the tree is being use...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/14550
Since power generation is one of the key factor in developing the country’s economy in Nigeria, the need to look at the way of reducing the negative impacts of these power plants are also required so as not to hinder the life of inhabitants of the country. In this paper, emphasi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18874
Patricia E. Miranda-Félix, Bertha Cecilia Salazar-González, Esther C. Gallegos-Cabriales, Patricia M. Valles-Ortiz & Rosario E. Ortiz- Fèlix·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2015
Objective: To test the psychometric properties of the health problem solving scale (HPSS) adapted for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Study Design: Cross sectional study, scale validation. Methodology: 238 T2DM patients from 18 to 70 years of age (Mean =64.81 years,...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19351
In Ethiopia, crossbred cattle are mainly cross of zebu with Holstein-Friesian. The cattle have been used for milk production for decades. Therefore, the objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of crossbreeding on performance of crossbred dairy cows and indigenous cattle...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/18508