This paper highlights the negative impact of oil pollution in Nigeria with particular reference to the Niger Delta region. For a region that provides a majority of Nigeria’s revenue and foreign exchange earnings to bear an exclusive brunt of oil exploration and exploitation is qu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/26633
Aims: The objectives of the research were (i) to show that the mass concentration, molar mass of one-active site enzyme, and consequently, the type of human salivary alpha amylase (HSαA), can be determined using kinetic parameter dependent model, (ii) to show that the free energy...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29395
Bayesian Acceptance Sampling Approach is associated with utilization of prior process history for the selection of Distributions (viz., Gamma Poisson, Beta Binomial) to describe the random fluctuations involved in Acceptance Sampling. Latha [1] has studied Bayesian Chain Sampling...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30036
This study examined teacher quality indicators as correlate of physics students’ achievement in Onitsha and Awka Educational zones of Anambra State. Fifty Physics teachers and 500 senior secondary two physics students were randomly selected from fifty schools in Onitsha and Awka...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28993
Aims: Emerging losses caused by late blight of potatoes need new approaches to control Phytophthora infestans. Searching for novel molecules with antifungal activity, twelve medicinal plants from Ethiopia were investigated against this pathogen. Methodology: To accomplish this ta...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30217
Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of quarry mining activities on malaria prevalence in rural communities of Ebonyi state, Nigeria. Study Design: A comparative cross sectional study design. Place and Duration of Study: Rural communities of Ebonyi State sou...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30004
In present paper we introduce the concepts of mixed g-monotone property and △g-symmetric property, where g is single valued mapping, for multi-valued mapping under any number of variables and use it to obtain some existence and uniqueness fixed points for hybrid pair of mappings...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28914
This paper adopts the principle of Malmquist productivity growth index calculation to analyze the Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) for recent 10 years and its reverse technological spillover to the home country. To this end, the paper uses the two-stage (parametri...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30099
Bamboo is an exceptional ancillary for timbers. It has more than 150 years history as indicated in different scientific investigations. Bamboo is a perennial plant, highest yielding, the fastest growing and renewable natural resource. Global climate change has been identified as...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28926
Worldwide, approximately 200 million individuals are currently suffering from Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Diabetes mellitus is associated with hyperglycemia; which induces oxidative stress that is responsible for the various complications associated with the disease. This stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29318