Aim and Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of El -Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on rainfall variation in Kaduna metropolis from the year 1973-2013. Study Design: Precipitation data was sourced from NIMET (Kaduna airport) while Sea Surface Tempera...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27287
The UK's waste management had greatly changed due to the influence of the European Union (EU) waste hierarchy that gives preference to waste recycling and thus keeps Energy from Waste (EfW) next to recycling. In addition, the European Commission (EC) demanded its member states to...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28528
The aim of this study was to identify the problems of domestic water supply in Dutsen Kura Gwari Area of Chanchaga Local Government Area, Niger State, Nigeria and to determine the major source of domestic water supply in the area, while finding out the extent and challenges encou...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27973
This article deals with speleology applied to the exploration of a siphon named “Combe du Creux”. It is located in France, in the department of the Doubs. We present surveys and the specific forms that are encountered in this flooded cave; eventually we propose a possible evoluti...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29223
This study was designed to proposed a multivariate model of monthly mean daily Photo synthetically active radiation (PAR) from the constant ratio of the global solar radiation for six selected tropical ecological zones between 4.40°N and 13.03°N of Nigeria (Port Harcourt, Enugu,...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27945
The Mediterranean Sea receives domestic, agricultural and industrial untreated wastewaters from many cities and surrounding villages between Damietta and Port Said. The present study was to obtain a preliminary assessment about the level and distribution of some heavy metals (Fe,...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26887
An integrated 3D sesmic data and a suit of well logs of Fareed six wells located at the Fareed field Niger Delta Nigeria were analysed with Petro Tech Software for reservoir characterization and volumetric analysis. Average reservoir parameters such as porosity (0.30), hydrocarbo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/29113
Fjords occur in different parts of the world suggesting a common origin. Although being the subject of debate for more than a century, a common origin has not yet been disclosed; the relative importance of glaciation is still controversial. Here I propose that the primary origin...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28016
Aim: There is no doubt that the world is now under a serious threat from the environmental hazards due to the fact that the frequency and intensity of hydrological hazards such as floods have been increasing in recent years. Flood risk is a probability of loss which depends on th...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28623
Land use/land cover change studies are very crucial to understand how land conditions shifted and where changes happened. In central Ethiopia, most of the natural ecosystems have shifted to agriculture and human settlement. More recently, expansion of Eucalyptus woodlots has been...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26606
The standard method of measuring wellbeing or poverty is usually by associating poverty with material deprivation and describing the poor per incomes or nature of consumption. In other words, poverty is viewed in material terms as not having a sufficient level of income to pay fo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28064
An assessment of storage changes within the Cretaceous sandstones of Lokoja Formation constituting the sedimentary part of Lokoja and its environs was carried out using USGS GSFLOW-1.0 software to investigate reasons for water problems such as drying of streams and failure of wel...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28505
Anatolia is a region dominated by Turkish Islamic Civilization for nearly one thousand years. During this long period, the region has had a rich civilization growing under the rules of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey especially Anatolian Seljuk Empire. Talas is one...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24254
The distribution of precipitation on runoff, evapotranspiration and groundwater recharge and the change of this distribution in response to human activities plays rather important role in the availability of water resources, especially in areas of Mediterranean climate. This stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28027
The subsoil conditions of Gbaran North Bank area, parts of the Nigerian wetland were evaluated using both disturbed and undisturbed soils, which were subjected to various laboratory tests adopting the British Standards methods, with the aim of establishing the subsoil conditions...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25806