Understanding the vertical microstructure of rain is one of the key tools to the physical processes of rain attenuation. In this paper, one-year (January 2010- December, 2010) data of rainfall parameters were considered and the microstructure of rain were studied using a vertical...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/36981
This study aimed at detecting and assessing the concentrations of heavy metals in Pumpkin irrigated using surface and groundwater sources grown along the banks of River Benue, Makurdi, Nigeria. Eight heavy metals were detected to include cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, m...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/39036
Morphometric parameters of unbroken quartz pebbles recovered from the basal section of Awi Formation exposed around Ewen area, southeastern Nigeria were studied for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. The study involved the determination of the roundness and measurement of the thr...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/39806
The exact analytical bound state solutions of wave equations are still very interesting problems in fundamental quantummechanics. However, there are only a few potentials for which these wave equations can be exactly solved. In this paper, Spin and pseudospin symmetries of the Di...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/38209
Aims: Flow in annular regions encounters in many fields such as bio-medical, petroleum, aerospace and chemical industries and among them, the flow between two coaxial pipes has rather become interesting due to its asymmetry nature. Study Design: Theoretical solution and numerical...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/40076
In this paper, we illustrate the computational capability of the collisional radiative model ATMED CR for calculating the temporal evolution of accurate atomic populations including nlj-splitting, mean charge and atomic processes rates. The present work contains computed time-dep...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/40246
This work involved the study of heat transfer in a cemented hip replacement. The recent rise in cemented hip replacement in Orthopaedic and trauma surgery is of alarming concern to the material usage and conditions it been subjected to. Bone cementing which is the main technology...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/39318
In communication systems engineering, designers tend to optimize the channel capacity of radio links through frequency re-use by deploying dual independent orthogonally polarized channels in the same frequency band. Such frequency re-use techniques via linear or circular polariza...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/39940
This research work deals with estimation of Curie point depth isotherm using aeromagnetic data of part of middle Benue Trough, North-East, Nigeria. The study area lies within the Longitude 9ºE – 10ºE and Latitude 8ºN – 9.50ºN with an estimated total area of 18150km2. Regional/Res...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/38651
This paper sought to evaluate the potential of oil obtained from balsam apple (Momordica balsamina) for biodiesel production. Oil was extracted from the seed using n-hexane in a soxhlet extractor, then transesterified to biodiesel using single step alkali hydrolysis. The biodies...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2018/37547