This study empirically explored the short run and long run relationship between stock market development and economic growth by comparing two leading emerging economies in Africa: Nigeria and South Africa from 1981 to 2015. Growth rate of gross domestic product was used to measur...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/38116
Ethiopia is well-known as origin of Arabica coffee that produce largely in the country. Coffee plays crucial role in generating foreign currency to the country at large level. Ethiopia’s coffee has its own peculiar quality that produced in the different parts of the country. It i...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/31486
In this paper, we have investigated a string cloud with perfect fluid matter distributions for Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) space-time in reconstructedƒ(R,T) = α1R + α2ƒ3(T) gravity. To obtain exact solutions of the field equations we have used a time periodic varying deceler...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/37691
Information on groundwater recharge is essential for sustainable groundwater resources management. Estimation of recharge, by any method is normally subject to large uncertainties and errors. In this paper, various empirical methods of estimating natural groundwater recharge were...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/37432
Aims: To calculate the time independent Schrӧdinger’s equation for an electron in a one dimensional periodic potential so as to obtain the eigenvalues of the energy. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Physics, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. Jan 2016 and July 2017. Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/37145
The study was conducted to investigate the yield performance and heavy metals uptake of Solanum lycopersicum irrigated with contaminated stream water. For this purpose tomato plants was cultivated in soil irrigated with heavy metals contaminated stream water. Heavy metals content...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/37840
Commonly known as “zobo”, Hibiscus sabdariffa has been used in different parts of the world for medicinal and nutritional purposes. This work studied its activity on the liver in its course of daily usage as a refreshing social drink. The methanol extract of the dried plant’s pet...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/37777
Garcinia kola fruit pulp is consumed by few human populations as food for its medicinal usefulness. The aim of this work was to identify compounds in dichloromethane/methanol and methanol extracts of G. kola fruit pulp using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry analysis. Twenty e...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/36190
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the quality control of white cheese (Gibna bayda) processing in traditional plants. Methodology: White cheese was manufactured using raw cow milk from two areas in North Kordofan (Riash and Cazgail). Samples were collected from three sta...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/35212
The work evaluates the exposure of radio frequency field (RF) radiation from Mobile Communication Base Stations in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The instruments used in this study include: RF field strength meter, a portable meter and a GPS. Some locations within Port Har...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/34549
Aims: A pot experiment was conducted to assess potential health risk for adult male and female human through consumption of spinach and tomato grown in soils artificially contaminated with arsenic (As). Study Design: The experiment was laid out followed by completely randomized d...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/37612
This paper assessed and cartographically analysed the impact of recent coastal geo-environmental hazards upon coastal resources and also human life. Cyclonic storms, high wave action, tidal bore, coastal flood and also coastal erosion are the main geo-environmental hazards over t...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/36601
Background: Cardiovascular disease complication is the current issue throughout the world. Objective of the Study: The aim of this study was to analyze the major risk factors which lead to cardiovascular disease complication in hypertensive patients. Method: A retrospective cohor...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/36017
Strong associations between yield and given traits along with high heritability for such traits would allow plant breeder to use these traits as selection criteria for selecting high yielding genotype. The present investigation aimed at elucidating the relationships among agronom...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/37215
This study investigates empirically the volatility spillover and co-movement between oil price shocks and equity return behavior in Nigeria. Data for the study were obtained from secondary sources particularly from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigeria Stock Exchange Publicat...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33919