The need to introduce farmers to new technologies in agricultural production cannot be over emphasized. This is because most of the farmers still utilize the traditional agricultural practices which affect their farm output. The study therefore examined the factors affecting the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/17272
The Experimental Plasma Generation System (EPGS) is proposed for studying and investigating plasma behavior in vacuum conditions and under the influence of the varying boundary conditions. Furthermore, (EPGS) is intended to verify the computational models with the physical data....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22559
This paper introduces an evolutionary game model in a mixed population. The simulation results show that competition between suppliers increases social welfare and can reveals the base price of a product in cases of some strategy profiles; however, collusion will benefit supplier...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22839
Bridge is the most neuralgic place on a ship. Currently a bridge control system of modern ship is designed for one-man-operation. Improper of bridge design and placement of equipment in bridge control console that is not based on ergonomics rules and physical condition of operato...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21887
Aims: In this work the effect of wind on a building with irregular geometry is analyzed. Today, many cases of computational fluid-structure phenomena are validated with Benchmark models; nevertheless, the structure analyzed in this work does not have an associated benchmark model...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22578
This study is mainly focused on finding the ratio between opportunity cost and spare parts inventory cost. Implicitly, the opportunity cost is represented by cost of production lost or loss in opportunity to make profits from reducing in production capacity when machine is in mai...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22097
Aims: The paper studied how fourier transformation infra-red (FTIR) spectroscopy can be used to monitor homogenous alkali catalyzed alcoholysis of peanut oil and methanol to produce biodiesel. The spectrum generated was used to identify the functional groups in the fuel sample fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22178
José Aderval Aragão, Maria Izabel Aragão Mota, Marcel Lima Andrade, Roberta de Oliveira Carvalho, Ivan do Nascimento da Silva, Marina Elizabeth Cavalcanti de Sant’Anna, Sheila Schneiberg Valença Dias & Francisco Prado Reis·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2015
Introduction: Depressive disorders in the general population are a matter for concern because of their increasing prevalence and high social cost. The healthcare professionals who are most susceptible to mental health problems are the ones who spend most of their time at work int...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22569
Aims: This study was aimed as the assessment of dried cassava-fermented chips (DFCC) efficacy in terms of their fermentation acceleration and cyanogens reduction potential. Study Design: An experimental study design was employed in order to achieve the objective of the study. Pla...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22262
The desirability of increasing the capability of business games in the direction of pedagogy raises the possibility of cooperation with existing intelligent tutors or intelligent e-learning systems. This is an issue not yet studied until now because the lack of detailed standards...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22321
This paper includes an analytical study for an investigation of the gravity load effect on the seismic lateral displacements of a R.C. building located in Khartoum city (which lies in zone 2, of zone factor, z = 0.1), Sudan. The R.C. building used in this study is a 6-storey resi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22074
For nitrogen gas discharge, the control of argon percentage in (Ar-N2) gas mixture and in different magnetic field strengths, both separately in effect were investigated the electrical characteristics of DC plasma at constant low pressure (0.7torr). Under the influence of Ar gas...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22016
Game theory has been increasingly used to model and analyze wireless communication networks. Cognitive radio is a promising technology to cope up with bandwidth demand of multimedia users. Cognitive Radio improves bandwidth utilization by Dynamic Spectrum Access. This paper model...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21625
Introduction: Chloroquine resistance is an emerging phenomenon in uncomplicated Plasmodium vivaxmalaria. Presentation of Case: This case report describes a 21 year old forest worker who was diagnosed to have Plasmodium vivax malaria on blood film microscopy and it was confirmed o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22553
Aims: Back-contact metallization-wrap-through (MWT) modules made with different materials were manufactured and tested at ECN in The Netherlands. Study Design: Damp heat testing (DH, 85°C and 85% relative humidity) was performed to investigate the effect of the module materials a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22565