Fish is one of major sources of dietary protein in Nigeria, as such; private and public fish ponds abound across the country. Fish pond owners across the country face multiple problems such as seepage, ponds overtopped, subsidence, dike crack, reduction and settlement and piping...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24815
This is a very short research work representing an homage to the regretted Professor George Isac, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, P.O. 17000, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 7B4. Professor Isac introduced the notion of “nuclear con...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24007
Tourism is one of the rapidly growing service industries. Jakarta as one of the tourism destinations in Indonesia, has a variety of unique attractions such as culture, shopping and historical attractions. One of the goals of tourism in Jakarta is the Old City. Tourism Area Develo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25435
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the protective antioxidant capacity of edible wild plants in the decreasing effect of ultraviolet B (UVB) on the skin of albino mice. Study Design: Thirty skin biopsies were taken from the mice to detect and compare the hyperplastic eff...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23989
Solar dryer was developed and comparison between using solar energy and air-sun drying methods with sliced plantain and maize (shelled corn) were assessed. The dryer consist of a solar collector panel (concentrator type), a thermal storage unit and a drying chamber. The solar cha...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24682
Information, now a day, is considered equally valuable as monetary resources. Extension communication media disseminate precious information that can change the life of many rural poor farmers. This study was progressed with the purpose determining shrimp farmers usage and prefer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24637
This paper is going to deal with the topic of trust within real existing leadership relations. The design tries to test trust and trustworthiness in ongoing relations of leaders and followers in existing companies in order to gain more validity of data than other designs, often u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25073
The article presents a system, including a multi-sensor instrument, for measuring, recording, processing and displaying the level of biologically active UV-B radiation. The multi-sensor instrument comprises of solar erythemal UV detectors distributed on a spherical (faceted) dome...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24334
The mechanism of adsorption for methylene blue from aqueous solution using an activated carbon prepared from plantain pod was studied at varying time. The adsorption reached at equilibrium in 90 minutes of contact time. The kinetic data were fitted to the pseudo first-order, pseu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24079
The idea of overlaying sub-elements in the inelastic constitutive models is studied. The main objective of this study is to propose an algorithm to find the effective distribution of sub-elements in Overlay model. In the course of study, experimental cyclic inelastic responses of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22787
It is identically significant in today's vastly dynamic background with fluctuating requirements to improve test plans at each phase of the Software Development Life Cycle. Testing helps to make sure that the final software product works according to user needs and requirements....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24860
The paper proposes a model of Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine for Marathi, Hindi and English languages. The characters and their representation are analyzed and synthesized with the help of TTS-engine. The engine would be spoken utterances produced from text. A concatenative approach...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24869
The paper presents the reliability of Reinforced Concrete (RC) shallow footings designed following the provision of Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) 2006. The principal objective of the study is to evaluate the reliability and corresponding failure probability of shallow...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24396
Hydraulic conductivity is the single most important hydraulic parameter for flow and transport-related phenomena in soil, but there is concern arising from the suitability, efficiency and ease of the different measuring methods under different conditions. The various methods of d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24413
This paper focus on the variable inclined magnetic field on the peristaltic flow of non-Newtonian fluid. The angle between the magnetic and velocity fields is variable and all the flow variables are functions of two parameters coordinates and time. The equations which describing...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/23407