The use of enhanced oil recovery methods to improve oil productivity has grown and come to stay in the industry. This is as a result of its ability to improve productivity and sweep efficiency. Waterflooding, the most widely used method to recover oil becomes less effective when...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/30805
Advances in the field of Nanotechnology has shown great promise to enhance the photoconversion of photovoltaic cells and hence improved electrical output. This breakthrough in terms of efficiency seems meager when compared to the crystalline silicon solar cells. However, Quantum...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/32757
Interference effect that occurs when two or more waves overlap or intersect is a common phenomenon in physical wave mechanics. A carrier wave as applied in this study describes the resultant of the interference of a parasitic wave with a host wave. A carrier wave in this wise, is...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31687
Aims: The aim of this study is to measure the natural radioactivity levels in surface water from coastal communities in order to assess the radiological health hazards associated with the use of such water. Study Design: This study was purely an experimental work. Place and Durat...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31782
Thermal diffusivity variations of different soil types in a tropical location, Akure, Nigeria at three different depths over dry and wet seasons are presented. The time lag method was used to estimate the thermal diffusivity (D) of the experimental site using the hourly and mean...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/24135
The aims of this research are to carry out statistical and geostatistical analysis of geothermal data and to determine the spatial variation of geothermal gradient and heat flow of parts of Niger delta sedimentary basin. Corrected Bottom hole temperatures from 18 deep oil wells w...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31581
The notion of pentaquark was coined about thirty years ago. During the progress of time the original meaning of pentaquark has been extended and now it is used for describing particles that belong to several distinct classes. The objective of this work is to arrange pentaquarks i...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/32396
This paper presents a novel explanation of the cause of quantum probabilities and the Born rule based on the intuitionistic interpretation of quantum mechanics where propositions obey constructive (intuitionistic) logic. The use of constructive logic makes it possible (through a...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31668
The radiological impact of a municipal solid waste dumpsite on soil and groundwater in Port Harcourt municipality was investigated by gamma-ray spectroscopy. The objective of the study was to evaluate the radioactivity concentrations in soil and groundwater within the landfill. R...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/28074
This paper presents design analysis and implementation of a 0.5 KVA uninterruptible electronic power stabilizer (UPSz). Poor and instability of power supply delivery in Nigeria necessitated the need for a device that can stabilize voltage, protect equipment from damages and also...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31535
The increasing development in satellite technology has brought about several novel mobile satellite services and applications. Consequently, there is a pressing demand for seamless data transfer and accessibility to satellite-earth microwave links in SHF/EHF frequency bands. Howe...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31899
Wavelet based Multifractal analysis techniques provides a sophisticated statistical characterization of many complex dynamical phenomena related with Sun and its environment. In this work multifractal property of the Sunspot number time series, has been analyzed during Solar cycl...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/30319
Natural radioactivity levels in maize which is one of the staple foods in various regions in Tanzania have been studied. The radioactivity concentration of 238U, 232Th and 40K were determined using γ ray spectrometry employing HPGe detector of relative efficiency of 51%. The aver...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31697
The properties of superparticles within Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM) using experimental data obtained at the LHC were studied. The first run of the LHC made it possible the selection of experimental data for purposeful SUSY searches at energies of 13...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31669
The Cole-Cole relaxation equations were derived from the Debye equation. The dielectric constant E’ and loss factor E” of EMIM-BF4 were fitted using the derived equations at temperature range of 5°C to 65°C and frequency range of 0.1GHz to 10GHz. The result obtained shows that th...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2017/31315