In ionospheres, the orbital debris population presents a significant threat to ongoing and future space endeavors. The Electrostatic (ES) tether is an innovative tool to reduce the further buildup of space junk from abandoned satellites. We introduce the dynamics of the tether by...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29194
Small manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) are important because they provide the majority of new jobs created especially in developing counties like Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, despite the enormous potential of vibrant small manufacturing enterprises to contribute to job creation, income...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28332
In recent times there has been emphasis on value chain development especially in Africa so as to allow farmers derive maximum benefit from farm produce. This study therefore examined market participation and value chain of cassava farmers in Abia state, Nigeria; using primary dat...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/27950
Restaurant operation has always been an essential profit source for international hotels. Although food is the core element for a restaurant, there are other clues for attracting customers according to past research, such as store atmosphere. Store atmospheres significantly influ...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28598
Image information measures such as mutual information and entropy quotient can do more than just giving a quantitative impression on how good an image is. In recent times, they have found application in radiotherapy, especially in treatment planning. Thinking about maximizing inf...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28108
Rosmini’s works and philosophical ideals purport to propitiate Catholic theology with the susceptibilities of modern day political and social thought. With regard to his instruction from Pope Pius VII, Rosmini found himself wedged between the obligation to renew Catholic philosop...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/26363
Fruits and vegetables are generally valued for their rich content of vitamins and minerals. The present study has been undertaken to determine the proximate composition (moisture, protein, fat, total ash and total dietary fiber) and water soluble vitamins (Thiamin, Riboflavin, vi...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28541
There are many challenges to be faced in order to achieve the optimum use of available resources against the increasing food and other demands of the world population with the shrinking resources. Optimization can be considered as the ensemble of steps which must be taken to find...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/27504
The superharmonic solutions of a weakly nonlinear second order differential equation governed the dynamic behavior of a microcantilever based on TM (Tapping mode) AFM (Atomic force microscopy) are studied analytically by applying the method of multiple scales (MMS). The modulatio...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28140
Rice is a crop that is grown by subsistence farmers in Lokoja-Nigeria at a very small scale. The elemental chemical composition of the soil has great influence on the plant on it, hence, both the soil sample and rice husk from the same site(s) were used to determine silica percen...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/27541