Aims: Increasing food production through improving land productivity, while conserving the environment and preventing climate change is pertinent to policy makers. This study assessed the predictors of composted poultry waste use intensity (CUI) among arable farmers and its impli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20774
Drought is grouped into meteorological, hydrological and agricultural classes. These classifications are done according to a number of criteria involving several variables, used either alone or in combination: rainfall, temperature, humidity, and evaporation from free water, tran...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19951
Diabetic retinopathy is a disease that is a primary cause of blindness among diabetes patients. A regular screening of patients with diabetes is important to enable early intervention. The focus of this paper is on designing a robust and computationally efficient automated system...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20702
Aims: The main objectives of this study are to submit significant contribution to the field of environmental assessment of flexible pavement construction method in Egypt based on a life cycle assessment study. This contribution will be useful in the planning and management of sus...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20620
The present study was conducted to observe distribution of meio-fauna community structure and its variation both spatially and temporally in relation to the sediment temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll – a, organic carbon and soil composition. A monthly sampling...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19467
Industrialization has been the major source of waste generation leading to heavy metal accumulation in soils. It has become major environmental challenge especially as it affects soil quality, biota, ecosystem processes and ground water pollution. This study was targeted at deter...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19357
Aims: This study was conducted to determine the effect of tupler technique on post natal diastasis recti. Study Design: Pretest post-test design. Place and Duration of Study: Subjects of this study were selected from physical therapy department in Kasr Al Aini university hospital...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/17876
Olusola Adedeji Adejumo, Olusoji James Daniel, Yetunde Abiola Kuyinu, Kikelomo Ololade Wright, Ebunoluwa O. Jaiyesimi & Olumuyiwa O. Odusanya·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2015
Background: The success of the directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) strategy depends on the ability of the health-care system to identify and follow-up tuberculosis (TB) suspects. This study compared the knowledge of private and public DOTS providers in Lagos State Nig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21206
Aims: The main objective of this work is to develop a simple robot that can imitate the jumping spider (Salticidae) in its motion, as a first stage to building a complete robot that mimics them in many ways. Methodology: Biological systems are really complex in their complete mak...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20538
Numerous studies have evaluated the monetarization of the ecosystem services throughout the world, but few have showed the oasean ecosystem services (Desert oasis). The purpose of this research is to identify and quantify ecosystem services as a tool to provide useful information...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19689
An overview of the success, challenges and prospects of the use of boreholes to meet the potable water supply target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria was carried out. The study employed an extensive review of literature on the quantitative and qualitative ass...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20254
BiSb, Bi2Sb and BiSb2 alloys were prepared by direct melting of weight from elements, which was followed by quenching then the alloy used to prepared on quartz substrates by using the thermal vacuum evaporation technique at room temperature. The optical characteristics of the pr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19845
Low heat-air exchange in a dynamic vein of the solar collector still remains one of the major issues to solve in the use of thermal solar energy. These exchanges do not enable to achieve better performance or increased energy efficiency with these Systems. Instead, the fitting of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20741
This paper investigates experimentally the influence of different types of coatings with nano-additives on the corrosion behaviour of steel pipe lines used in petroleum industry of Oman. The investigation was carried out with several types of coated samples to examine the rate of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/20077
It is widely expected that fertilizer has great effect on the soil crops, especially when it contains a radioactive elements. The radioactive content present in crops will increase the number of deferent type of cancer cases in consumers and will explain the importance of this st...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19983