Two response surface methodologies involving historical data designs have been successfully developed with the aim of predicting optimum operating parameters for bioelectricity generation from sugar wastewater. The regression models evaluated the effect of waste water concentrati...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10402
Aims: This study was aimed at defining the peculiar demographic and associated risk factors of head injury. Study Design: This was a retrospective study Place and Duration of Study: We conducted this study at an Accident and Emergency unit of a tertiary hospital between February...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9645
As a combination of the fuzzy linguistic approach and the hesitant fuzzy set (HFS), hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) is an efficient tool to deal with situations in which experts hesitate between several possible linguistic terms to assess the membership of an element i...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11116
Zaher Khraibani, Zainab Assaghir, Hussein Khraibani, Dimitris Poursanidis, Anis Hoayek, Ghazi Bitar, Hassan Zeineddine, Argyro Zenetos & Hussein Badran·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2014
Aims/Objectives: Mediterranean Sea is one of the most severely affected by alien marine invasions regions worldwide. The reported alien species in the Mediterranean Sea represent approximately 6% of the known biodiversity which is estimated to approximately 17000 species. The num...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8718
Aims: Climate change is one of the most important challenges for human society, which will affect ecological, social and economical systems. Because of water scarcity issues, studying the potential climate change and its impacts on climate variables and water resources is necessa...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9436
When renting or purchasing a terrestrial laser scanner, consideration must be given to a variety of factors including ease of use, accuracy, speed and cost. The following paper considers these aspects with respect to civil engineering applications in urban areas. One particular c...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7482
Aims: This work seeks to provide information on the proximate and anti-nutritional constituents of Abelmoschus esculentus (okra) grown in Fadaman Kubanni farms where effluents from Zaria Industrial Estate are discharged, and compare it with that grown in Rafin Yashi (control) in...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9031
The technique for synthesizing powdered OFF-type zeolite of high phase purity and crystallinity has been developed. The effect of crystallization conditions on the characteristics of powdered OFF-type zeolite samples, namely, crystallinity, particle-size distribution, and adsorpt...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11500
Amino acid composition of a plant food is an indicator of its protein quality. This could be altered by the processing method. Processed fruit of Canarium schweinfurthii, a Bursereceae, is common traditional snacking item in Nigeria. The pulp of raw and macerated samples of C. sc...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10266
Introduction: There is persuasive evidence on the benefits of exercise during pregnancy such as; reduced time spent in labour, prevention of caesarean sections, quick recovery after childbirth and getting back to the pre-pregnancy figure. The aim of the study was to obtain inform...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10693
A modified release formulation of Solifenacin tablet, was investigated in rabbit for pharmacokinetic and in vitro–in vivo correlation studies. In vivo study was conducted in New Zealand albino male rabbit plasma and In vitro release studies were conducted in simulated gastric flu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9951
Aim: The present study investigated the effect of operating parameters on the mechanical extraction of oil from groundnut kernel using hydraulic press Methodology: A five factor, five levels central composite design (CCD) was applied to determine the effects of five independent v...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11662
Aims: The aim of this paper is to develop several 2-tuple linguistic power aggregation operators for aggregating 2-tuple linguistic information. Study Design: We first introduce several power aggregation operators and then extend these operators to 2-tuple linguistic environments...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/11083
Aims: This study examined the effects of exposure to mild hyperbaric oxygen on blood flow and resting energy expenditure. Study Design: Clinical study. Methods: Fourteen healthy women were exposed to mild hyperbaric conditions at 1.25 atmospheres absolute with 36.0% oxygen for 50...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/10101
The bacterial contaminants of poultry (Meat, Egg and poultry products) were investigated in three towns in Khartoum State (Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman) to estimate the level of their safety for human consumption. The study was conducted within the period August 2011 – A...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9395