Aim: To assess the effectiveness of water-reducing additives in relation compressive strength of cement pastes. Methodology: Experimental study, Materials used were natural zeolite from Egypt, with a grain size up to 0.08 mm, containing zeolite (clinoptilolite) - 75%, and ratio S...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/23541
We reported an improved performance of a dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) using silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) modified fluorine tin oxide (FTO) electrode through successive ion layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR). The resulting photoelectrode was successfully incorporated in th...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/24439
Background: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPMC) is a rare but devastating cardiac failure of indeterminate etiology occurring in late pregnancy or early puerperium. Dry lake salt (Kanwa) is usually consumed in many parts of Nigeria as laxatives. In the Northern Nigeria, with a high...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/23765
Aims: To determine the phytochemicals and cytotoxicity of methanolic crude extracts of Carissa edulis, Azadirachta indica, Cassia siamea and Harrisonia abyssinica, from Masumbi village, Siaya county-Kenya. Study Design: Qualitative analysis of the phytochemicals and brine shrimp...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/23819
In this paper we discussed the unsteady flow of an incompressible electrically conducting viscous fluid in a rotating porous media, with a variable pressure gradient and in the presence of hall current. We have considered three different cases, like impulsive change, cosine and s...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/24123
The Dirichlet’s theorem (1837), initially guessed by Gauss, is a result of analytic number theory. Dirichlet, demonstrated that: For any two positive coprime integers and , there are infinite primes of the form a+bn, where n is a non-negative integer ( n = 1, 2,… ). In other word...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/24470
Aim: To assess phenological and morphological parameters of Uapaca kirkiana Müll. Arg. provenances at sixteen years of age. Place and Duration of the Study: The trial was established in 1997 at Nauko in Liwonde Forest Reserve, Malawi. Methodology: Data collection on phenology and...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/24030
Aim: The objective of the research was to verify a simple mathematical model for the determination of mass concentration and the molar mass of an enzyme in any solution using standard solution of Aspergillus oryzea alpha amylase and the action of A. oryzea alpha amylase on heat t...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/24321
Corrosion of materials such as mild steel causes big losses in the economy of many countries due to the huge amount of funds needed in order to minimize it. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Prosopis juliflora leaves extract as an effective and eco-friendly so...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/23101
The solar radiation has been known to have skewed distribution rather than normally distributed irrespective of how large the sample size. The Bayesian statistical analysis of the solar radiation sort to find out from the Bayesian perspective how solar radiation is distributed in...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/12030