Lower River Kaduna catchment area is located in north part of Nigeria where climate variability is pronounce such as high rainfall which result to drought, ground water scarcity and high surface water to evaporation. As such it is importance to investigate the temporal variation...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/32984
Radiation is present everywhere on the Earth and humans are exposed to it without being aware of it. Exposure to natural ionizing radiation is inevitable as long as we live on Earth. An in-situ measurement of indoor and outdoor exposure dose rates of Federal Medical Center Umuahi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/34244
Automotive vehicles emit several exhaust gases and pollutants. The largest part of these gases consists of nitrogen (N2), water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) these are not toxic. Harmful gases i.e carbon monoxide (CO) produced because of incomplete combustion, nitrogen oxi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33781
Getting the latest weather parameters and taking the necessary precautions about the recent climate induced environmental disasters have become a major course of concern in this era of global warming. In this research a cost effective weather monitoring device was constructed usi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/32885
In recent decades, with the increase of energy demand and the development of wireless and micro-electro-mechanical technology, research in the field of energy recovery has been paid more and more attention. Because of piezoelectric materials can transform mechanical strain energy...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/34019
This study assesses the role of legislation in the development of the Nigerian solid mineral sector. The aim of the assessment is to determine how well Nigeria mining companies comply with some key provisions of mining and mineral legislation and also to determine the influence o...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/32575
The study on onion value chain primarily aimed to identify the actors in the value chain, quantify actors costs and profit margin and identifying constraints and causes of the main problem. The data was generated by mainly desk study from a wide range of secondary sources such as...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33398
Classification of causes of market fire in Nigeria is a study aimed at identifying and classifying the causes of market fire in Nigeria from the market users’ perspective. The study considered markets with high commercial activities and they were selected from three major cities,...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33347
In Ghana like many other countries, gender plays a central role in the way in which land rights and production relations are determined. Whilst existing studies have suggested that men are economically productive than their women counterparts, those studies fail to emphasize the...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/32531
In this study, the shortwave solar energy balancing at the edge of the earth’s atmosphere was employed to estimate the variation of albedo for Sokoto, Nigeria (Latitude 13.02 N, Longitude 05.25 E and altitude 350.8 m above sea level). The measured meteorological parameters of mon...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33196
The need for a cleaner environment free from unhealthy levels of Sulphur IV oxide (SO2) has prompted this study of setting regulatory limits of sulphur content in Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) especially that used in Nigeria. This study has used secondary and primary data to show th...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33241
We encountered a rare case of an anatomic variant of duplication of right ovarian vein in a 33 year old patient. Anatomic variant of the ovarian veins are extremely rare. However, with the increasing use of sophisticated diagnostic technology like computed tomography and magneti...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33294
Green pepper production based on the package of recommendations developed has not given the desired growth and yield performances in the world and specifically Kenya. Information is required with which to evolve the agronomic practices that will be adopted to maximize yield in gr...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33101
Aims: The main objective of this study is to analyse the extent to which Ghana depends on rice import to satisfy domestic food needs and how it affects domestic rice production. Study Design: The study employed a case study technique. Methodology: Both quantitative and qualitativ...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33016
Lester Brown asked “Who will feed China?” 20 years ago and asked “Can the United States Feed China? In March 2011 and wrote another article “Can the World Feed China?” in 25 Feb 2014. China is facing two problems: one, population. It is estimated that China's national grain consu...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/32332