Aim: The aim of this research is to evaluate the selectivity in metal removal by coffee waste from binary-metal polluted water from contaminated water. Place: The work was done at Dillard University in New Orleans, LA, USA. Duration: The project was carried out between November a...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/31118
Aims: The objectives of the research are to examine the awareness and efficiency of the renewable energy law in Ghana; determine the main source for energy generated by the VRA, GRIDCO, and ECG; determine the distribution gap and find out how effectively these corporations are ma...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30428
Aim: In the rapid pace of competition in the current business environment, a firm or an industry is required to be more competitive and hostile. Competitiveness of the global agribusiness has raised concerns among economists and policy makers about the need for competitive advant...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30850
Background: Mother to child transmission of HIV has been one of the major health problems in Tanzania. It occurs when a HIV infected woman passes the virus to her baby at delivery and during breast feeding. It is not known if pregnant women are aware that HIV pregnant women can p...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/27090
The advent of technology has revolutionized systemic approach to issues and methodology in different areas of life. Technological apparatus has stepped up human performance and efficiency in transportation, agriculture, entertainment, resource management, training, assessment and...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29179
Pollutants have grievous impacts on human lives and aquatic ecosystem. Reducing them in our environment is a global objective that demands cooperation from all, and the services of experts. In view of this, a hydrodynamic model of the spread of pollutants in a bifurcating river i...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/26722
Cold and hot extracts of Lepidagathis alopecuroides were obtained using water, petroleum spirit and methanol as extracting solvents. The extracts were diluted to different concentrations (0.025, 0.035, 0.045 and 0.055 mg/L) and a control (0.00 mg/L). The extracts were then applie...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29296
Some wellhead pressure - flow rate correlations developed for Niger Delta region oil wells are in-house estimation tool by the operating companies in this region. However, the limited available correlations for wellhead pressure - flow rate prediction for Niger Delta oil wells ar...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28715
This study investigated the recycled lead in shot form with maximum radius of 1.18 mm that added to concrete constituents in different percentages of lead-to-cement ratio (20% to 140%) by weight. Several tests on fresh and hardened concrete were carried out. The fresh concrete wa...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28708
This study contributes to the fields of Statistics and Numerical Analysis by considering the Least Square method to develop new regression functions. Based on the chronological, discrete dataset for the national and international population with diabetes mellitus from 1980 throug...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30368
This paper highlights the negative impact of oil pollution in Nigeria with particular reference to the Niger Delta region. For a region that provides a majority of Nigeria’s revenue and foreign exchange earnings to bear an exclusive brunt of oil exploration and exploitation is qu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/26633
Aims: The objectives of the research were (i) to show that the mass concentration, molar mass of one-active site enzyme, and consequently, the type of human salivary alpha amylase (HSαA), can be determined using kinetic parameter dependent model, (ii) to show that the free energy...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/29395
Bayesian Acceptance Sampling Approach is associated with utilization of prior process history for the selection of Distributions (viz., Gamma Poisson, Beta Binomial) to describe the random fluctuations involved in Acceptance Sampling. Latha [1] has studied Bayesian Chain Sampling...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30036
This study examined teacher quality indicators as correlate of physics students’ achievement in Onitsha and Awka Educational zones of Anambra State. Fifty Physics teachers and 500 senior secondary two physics students were randomly selected from fifty schools in Onitsha and Awka...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/28993
Aims: Emerging losses caused by late blight of potatoes need new approaches to control Phytophthora infestans. Searching for novel molecules with antifungal activity, twelve medicinal plants from Ethiopia were investigated against this pathogen. Methodology: To accomplish this ta...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/30217