Introduction: Evaluating the proximate composition of locally utilized crop with nutritional and industrial potentials is a timely gesture. Aim: The study was to determine the proximate contents of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranean (L.) Verdc) grown in MadobiLGA, Kano state,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16577
Vulnerability which is a factor of concern within the context of disaster risk reduction is considered in this study. The widespread flooding which impacts massively on urban residents in the Lagos metropolis of Nigeria highlights the prevailing needs to explore the lack of socia...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17518
In the present paper, the Iranian spacecraft is considered, and is studied from an aero thermo dynamic viewpoint to design the proper thermal protection system, for its first mission: the sub-orbital flight. The design procedure is based on the decoupling of the aerodynamic heati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17528
Aims: The article is dedicated to give an assessment of the applicability of the popular access control models for designing the information security subsystem of an electronic master plan (EMP) web-based geographic information system. An overview of access control models used fo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16844
Four-armed star poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) terminated with carboxy group was prepared by two-step reaction. The carboxy group of star PCL was activated and chemically conjugated to the amine group of PLL (polylysine) to produce sPCL-b-PLL copolymer. The structure of final produc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17180
In this paper, Legendre polynomials was used to get numerical solution of high-order linear complex differential equations in a circular domain. The solutions in the form of power series were obtained. The method was applied on three test problems. Obtained results demonstrated i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16690
Energy production is one of the significant challenges our world will face in the future. The utilization of fuels originating from plants as an alternative energy source will impact fossil fuel utilization and energy production. This research focuses on the hydrothermal treatmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16536
YouTube and its impact on young people of the two communities (Jordanian and Saudi Arabia) is the subject of the research. Therefore it was important to present a simplified definition and explanation of what YouTube is, the extent of its impact on the youth of both the Hashemite...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/11956
Few investigations have been made the biodiversity and biological properties of fungi in natural high salt and thermal environments. Halophilic and thermophilic fungi belong to extremophiles, which can survive in salt-affected habitats. Thermophilic and thermotolerant fungi are l...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/12292
Using molecular dynamics simulation method we investigated the correlation effects between the weak Van der Waals forces and intramolecular vibrations for the molecular system consisting of a small nucleotide chain, gold nanoparticles and carbon nanotube with periodic boundaries....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16619
Evolutionary optimization provides robust and efficient techniques for solving complex real-world problems. The aim of this paper is to present an enhanced evolutionary algorithm for solving constraint nonlinear programming problems NLPPs, which based on concept of co-evolution a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17059
Aim: To optimize conditions for maximum recovery of protein from wet blue as large quantities of chromium containing biological solid wastes are generated in the tanning industry which poses environmental hazard. The chromium recovery from this acidic (pH ≃ 3.5) solid waste is...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17107
Introduction: Industrial effluent often contains heavy metals which bio-accumulate in biological systems and persist in the environment, thereby constituting public health problems. Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) wastes, which are easily available, could be used to produce resource...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16989
Contamination of groundwater resources is more often associated with the infiltration of pollutants from anthropogenic activities such as waste dump sites and industrial effluents. Similar to this, reported results may be limited in its accuracy by poor sampling and analytical te...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14955
Four vegetable oils (cotton seed oil, palm kernel oil, neem seed oil and palm oil) were characterized with respect to their physicochemical properties and fatty acids profiles with the aim of investigating their suitability as quenching media for medium carbon steels. The physico...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16177