This research was conducted to investigate mortality using logistic regression (Models) for River red-gum (Eucalyptud camaldulensis Dehnh) in Afaka Forest Reserve, Kaduna, Nigeria. Stratified random sampling and proportional sampling allocation were used in selecting plots and in...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i1-230173
Luan Danilo Ferreira de Andrade Melo, João Luciano de Andrade Melo Junior, Edilma Pereira Gonçalves, Jeandson Silva Viana, Priscila Cordeiro Souto, Vilma Marques Ferreira, João Correia de Araújo Neto & Reinaldo de Alencar Paes·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2019
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of the application of treated sewage sludge on the initial development of soybean plants (Glycine max L.). Seven treatments were used: (T1) only the soil (absolute control); (T2) soil + residue at the dose of 5.0 g/dm...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630172
The need for clean energy and removal of toxic emission from internal combustion engines have led researchers and engineers into exploring and developing new drive systems. The development of hybrid cars has greatly reduced the emission level of vehicles. However, this is not eno...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630170
Since the last quarter of the 20th-century technological advances and energy production and consumption processes in Parallel with the increasing urbanization of the world's energy demand, however, it raises ecological problems. Since the nineties, reducing the pressure on the ec...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630169
The soil and edible vegetable samples were collected from Obanliku Urban Area of Cross River State and were digested and analyzed for the cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe) and mercury (Hg) (heavy metals) concentration using Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS) in Chemi...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630171
Instructors’ publication (IP) is one of the major activity in higher education institutes. Currently, IP faced problem both high prevalence and severity in Ethiopia public universities. Even if the problem is common to both developed and developing countries, about 352 (73.9 %) o...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i630168
Background: Globally 36.7 million people living with HIV, 1.8 million new HIV infection, and 1 million AIDS-related deaths in 2016.Patient mortality was high during the first 6 months after therapy for all patient subgroups and exceeded 40 per 100 patient years among patients who...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i530167
In this paper, the result of a study carried out to determine the impact of static VAr compensator on voltage profiles and reactive power flow in the Nigerian 330kV transmission grid network is presented. The research seeks to mitigate the challenge of high reactive power on Jos...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i530166
Soil, water, kales and tomatoes from Ewaso Narok wetland were collected during wet and dry seasons and analyzed for 15 pesticide residues. Multi-residues method (QuEChERS EN) was used for sample preparation and Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) used for an...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i530165
The presence of radionuclide in water poses a number of health hazards, especially when the radionuclide is deposited in the human body through drinking water. The aim of this study was to evaluate natural radioactivity and its associated health risk in hand dug well water of Tai...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i530164
The novel statistical approach ‘equivalence testing’ has been proposed in order to statistically examine agreement between different physical activity measures. By using this method, researchers argued that it is possible to determine whether a method is significantly equivalent...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i530163
The ability to track vehicles is useful in many applications including security of personal vehicles, public transportation systems, fleet management and others. Furthermore, the number of vehicles on the road globally is also expected to increase rapidly. Therefore, the developm...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i430162
This study investigated the abundance and some morphometric parameters of lizards (Agama. agama, Hemadactylus. brookii, Trachylepis. affinis and Trachylepis. quinquetaeniata) in the University campus, Ile-Ife. The specimens were collected in five different locations in the Univer...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i430161
As a result of the limitations of physical and chemical methods for monitoring pollution, interest on the more reliable biological monitoring intensified over the past four decades. Soil microarthropods, specifically the free-living mites (Cryptostigmata, Mesostigmata, Prostigmat...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i430160
The study was conducted to investigate phytochemicals, anti-nutrients and mineral compostions of Telfeira occidentalis and Cleome rutidospermas leaves. The High Performance Chromatography (HPLC) was used in the Quantitative analysis of Phytochemicals as well as the anti-nutrient...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v24i430158