A study has been carried to determine the trends in atmospheric circulation forms in the beginning of the current warming in Middle Asia, on the basis of interannual changes of duration of synoptic processes in Middle Asia over the last 60 years. This study was conducted in Uzbek...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20497
The paper aims to clarify the influence of hard and soft power in online purchase decisions. A fundamental property of online social networks is that people tend to have attributes similar to those of their friends. To understand the effects of social power on the influence of op...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21580
With the exponential growth of textual information available from the Internet, there has been an emergent need to find relevant and in-time knowledge about crimes from this huge size of information. The huge size of such data makes the process of retrieving and analyzing texts m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21504
Aims: The aim of this research is to verify the suitability of local gravel aggregates obtained from the Southern part of Akwa Ibom State for designed concrete production in place of crushed granite aggregate sourced from distance places at exorbitant cost. This paper assesses th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20365
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) concept has been practiced in the manufacturing sectors. However, there is no model so far in the service sector to measure its system performance. This paper is therefore tries to develop an Overall Service Effectiveness (OSE) model for serv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19679
Mixed fruit jam was prepared from blends of pineapple, tomato and pawpaw at different ratios while, commercial jam from strawberry served as the control. Jams made from different fruit ratios and the control were examined for their proximate composition, mineral contents as well...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21123
Eigenvalues are a special set of scalars associated with a linear system of equations, that are sometimes also known as characteristic roots. In this work, a Java-based algorithm is developed to find the eigenvalues for Toeplitz matrices using Adomian’s decomposition method (shor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21872
Azanza garckeana fruits, leaves, stem-bark and roots were both quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed to determine the nutritional, non-nutritional, elemental and amino acid content. The nutritional (proximate) analysis reveals the highest and lowest moisture content in the fr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19811
Aims: Dynamics of invariant influenza frequently defies intuition and qualitative forecasting. In view of the re-emergence of H1N1 infection in India, as well as the rise in H1N1 cases and associated fatalities in the current year (2015), quantitative forecasting of swine flu dyn...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19950
Aims: To assess the impact of cyclone PAM on the rainwater harvesting prospects in the Pacific region. Study Design: The study was conducted based on the field observations, data from various government organizations and NGOs. Place and Duration of Study: The study was based in P...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/20526
This paper presents the study of the current Nigerian ICT policy, its evaluation and an investigation into its application and adoption for socio-economic development of Nigeria’s ICT infrastructure and a knowledge based society. The research is grounded in the co-evolving theory...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21675
In open normative multi-agent systems, norms are created dynamically. Some of these norms emerge and persist due to their benefits and strength. While other norms emerge for a short period of time, then vanish due to several reasons that lead to loss in their benefit or strength....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21653
The theoretical study of supersalts Na2MgX4 (X = F, Cl) has been performed. The formation of the supersalts was considered through association reactions between different building blocks: superalkalies and superhalogens, ionic (Na2X+ and MgX3−) and neutral (Na2X and MgX3), as wel...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21677
Eco-design and degrade remanufacturing of steel shells of high remanufacturability through increasing of disassembly and accumulation of drawbacks that prevent facilitation of recovery to be of smallest partition. Recovered steel is small uniform pieces which can be nested within...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/21370
This study, was conducted between April 2011 and July 2012, to estimate the degree of impact of road traffic noise on the exposed population in terms of sleep disturbances in daytime and nighttime periods in order to suggest ways of minimizing the impact if it appears adverse. Ac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/5974