This study examined the perceived effects of climate variability on food crop agriculture in Uhunmwode Local Government Area of Edo State. It adopted the survey research design. The local government area was first stratified into nine (9) based on existing towns in the area; afte...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/35946
The assessment of noise pollution caused by emissions from power generating sets in Nnewi, a fast-growing town in Anambra State of Nigeria is presented in this paper. Some areas were randomly selected from the four quarters (i.e. Otolo, Umudim, Nnewichi and Uruagu) of Nnewi North...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36092
Objective: The purpose of this study was development and validation of self-knowledge sources scale of Iranian people. Methods: The design of the study was an ex post facto and a survey study to be carried out in data collection. The population included all People between the a...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/35584
Background: Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a sudden unexpected death of an infant, the cause of which remains unexplained after a thorough investigation. Supine sleep positioning recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics since 1992 has significantly reduced the in...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36614
Aims: This study was carried out to determine the level of the retained β-carotene in processing yellow cassava (variety IITA TMS 01/1371 or UMUCASS 38) into gari using local processing method, in addition, it was also carried out to determine the residual cyanide after processin...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36428
Aims: This study aimed to screen and optimize Bacillus sp. IND6 for fibrinolytic enzymes production. The process parameters were optimized to enhance the production of fibrinolytic enzyme in solid state fermentation using wheat bran substrate. Methodology: In this study fibrinoly...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36748
Aim: Evaluation of various fungicides and their effectiveness at different doses against Phytophthora infestans, the causal pathogen of late blight disease of potato. Study Design: Descriptive statistics was used and each treatment was replicated thrice using complete randomize d...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36576
The aim of the study was to obtain a pulp by ecology safer method from flax fibers and nanocellulose from organosolvent flax pulp (OFP) by acid hydrolysis and to investigate of its quality indexes. The OFP has been obtained by cooking in solution of peracetic acid. For obtaining...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36571
Aim: To find out the defense enzymes synthesis due to pre-application of plant extracts as inducers. Study of Design: The experiment was conducted in glass house condition using three replications. The standard statistical analysis was done to find out the variance. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36560
This paper is focused on the construction and implementation of implicit one-step hybrid block methods for the solution of stiff ordinary differential equation. The research further investigates the basic properties of implicit one-step block hybrid method. We noticed that the mo...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36187
Assessment of physico-chemical parameters were carried out during April 2016 to March 2017 from ten different sites viz. site I (Langol bore well), site II (Thangmeiband pond) from Imphal west district; site III (Loktak lake), site IV (Thongjaorok river) of Bishnupur district; si...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36214
Aims: The present work has for objective to determine vitamins and essential minerals contents in the mucilage of food plants from Ivorian flora. Study Design: Mucilage food plants edible parts were dried, mucilage were extracted and vitamins and mineral analyzed. Place and Durat...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/34476
Optimal sizing of hybrid renewable energy system is very important in determining the overall performance of hybrid system in terms of cost, reliability and system integrity. However, most of the existing Hybrid Power System (HPS) models are very expensive and not suitable for ru...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36109
Few studies actually investigated the impacts of bad governance (corruption) on carbon dioxide emissions in Africa at different income levels with population age structure and other driver-triggers playing moderating roles. This study uses a unique observation collected from the...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/27664
In this study, the meteorological parameters of measured monthly average daily visibility, mean temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, rainfall and wind speed covering a period of 12-years were utilized to develop and evaluate one, two, three, four and five variabl...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2017/36670