Aims: This study was done in an attempt to reduce the percentage of losses in water treatment plants and networks by reducing its possible causes. Study Design: There are many causes for losses in water treatment plants and networks like water lost in water treatment plants due t...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29574
Electrical resistivity method was used to study the movement of municipal solid waste landfills leachate of Niger-Cat, Donparkar and Orhuwhorun dump sites in Warri Metropolis, Southern Nigeria. Both Electrical Resistivity Profiling and Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) were carr...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29577
When teaching elementary statistics courses, instructors may find themselves frequently drawing by hand the probability density functions of normal and t distributions. The author presents the R-package fastGraph, containing new functions in R, allowing graphs of probability dens...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29429
Aims: The study assesses the extent of lead pollution in contaminated site from artisanal gold mining for remediation purposes. Study Design: Experimental design was used in field sampling of soil and water samples based on the land use and sources of water. Study Area and Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29551
Jatropha gossypiifolia L. [Euphorbiaceae], widely known as “bellyache bush”, is a medicinal plant native to Mexico, south America, India and commonly found in many west African countries such as Nigeria. Folkloric uses of the different parts of this plant in the tropics for the m...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28793
The great target for mankind is always to achieve the optimum use of available resources against the increasing food and other demands of the world population versus the shrinking resources. This paper provides snapshots of research and practical implementation of optimum design...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28828
Air can play a vital role as a reservoir for both pathogenic and non pathogenic living microorganisms. Microbial contamination of air hospitals is considered as a source of hospital-associated infections. This study aimed to assess microbial profile of air contamination in diffe...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29066
The objectives of the present investigation were to determine the type of gene action, heritability and expected genetic advance from selection for agronomic and yield traits of maize under water stress and optimum irrigation and to identify the parents that contain favorable gen...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28281
A 28-day experiment was conducted to determine the effects of graded levels of sweet potato (Ipomoea batata) root meal (SPRM) on growth performance and haematological parameters of broiler starter birds. 240 day old unsexed Anak broiler chicks were used for this experiment. The b...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27951
This study mainly measure the level of technical inefficiency and the determinants factors among rice farmers in Ezza south of Ebonyi State, Nigeria using stochastic frontier production function. Multi- stage random sampling technique was used to select 120 rice farmers from whi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27465
Aims: The objective of this research was to evaluate the water pollution levels in the Aurá River basin and to provide subsidies to public decisions for the protection, preservation and conservation of basins for the supply the Metropolitan Region of Belém (MRB). Study Area and M...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28249
ICT has brought unprecedented changes and transformation to banks such as online banking, mobile banking, branch networking, automated teller machine (ATM)and Point of sale services. In Ethiopia, in particular to the government-owned Commercial Bank the lack of assistance of empl...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27924
As a developing nation, Zambia has a number of setbacks to its economic development. One adverse setback that has affected the country’s economic development pursuits is poverty. The economy of Zambia has faced some draw backs and domestic distress has increased, making it very d...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/26464
Mahan Makado Romuald, Konan N’Guessan Ysidor, Koffi N’dri Emmanuel, Deigna-Mokey Viviane, Coulibaly Adama, Sidibe Daouda & Biego Godi Henri Marius·Archives of Current Research International·2016
This study aims to apply central composite design for the fortification of the meal deriving from new shoots tubers of Palmyra (Borassus aethiopum M.) with powders of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata W.) beans and Moringa (Moringa oleifera L.) leaflets for gathering simultaneous maximiz...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28431
Aims: To estimate the above ground biomass and carbon stocks of Cocoa, Oil palm and Rubber based agroforestry systems in the humid forest region of Cameroon. Place and Duration: A field survey was carried out on 39 typical perennial crop-based agroforestry farms, distributed arou...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/26632