Ahmed Abubakar Jajere, Muhammad Isma’il & Ibrahim Jaro Musa·Advances in Research·2014
Landuse/landcover change detection is an essential process in monitoring and managing natural resources and urban development because it provides quantitative analysis of the spatial pattern, distribution, and variation of the physical and cultural landscape features. Damaturu to...
K. M. Anigo, A. S. Abdullahi, A. Olagunju & A. S. Michael·Advances in Research·2014
Aims: The effect of open and controlled fermentation on the proximate and anti-nutrients compositions of Glycine max were investigated. Study Design: Ability of fermentation to improving the proximate composition and lowering the antinutrients in G. max was studied. Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2015/10359
This study empirically sought to establish the pattern of relationship between employees’ altruism and organisational adaptation in Nigeria. As a cross sectional survey, the instrument for data collection was the questionnaire which top executives of the organisations responded t...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/12430
P. N. Warutere, J. T. Mailutha, E. Gatebe & E. Mwachiro·Advances in Research·2014
Background: There is shortage of knowledge on the methods used to manage injuries in high schools in Kenya. Objective: To describe the injury management intervention practice in high schools in Kenya. Methods: Injury related data was collected in year 2010 from 287 nationally rep...
Mahtab Nabovat, Abolfazl Saeidifar & Mohammad Ali Keramati·Advances in Research·2014
Performance evaluation and efficiency analysis of economic units are of great importance. Measuring the efficiency of the banking industry has been one of the most interesting areas of research for the past few years. There are literally various techniques for measuring the relat...
P. N. Warutere, J. T. Mailutha, E. Gatebe & E. Mwachiro·Advances in Research·2014
An accident is an unintended happening, sometimes resulting from negligence that may result in injury, loss of life or damage to property. Accidents are especially common among children within home or school environments. Schools are supposed to be safe centers of academic and ex...
This article presents some topical ideas about effectiveness of foreign language education of little children and some trends in this sphere. The special attention is paid on bilingual education of children at preschool and elementary school age. The author underlines the strateg...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/10873
Proven- Adzri Emmanuel, Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Dickson Adomako, Prosper Kofi Ashilevi & Eric Aggrey·Advances in Research·2014
Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute, in collaboration with Square Kilometre Array (SKA) -South Africa, is currently converting a redundant 32-metre telecommunications antenna at Kutunse, Ghana into a radio telescope. The aim is to add this antenna to the Africa Very Long...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/12228
The aim in this paper is to present the comparison of results from the present study and published results for sand with fines (clay or silt) contents. The stress ratio and normalized peak deviator stress for sand-clay specimens are discussed, while the stress path and stress rat...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/12109
A study is herein presented aiming to detect structure cohesion failure before its appearance in form of cracks on precious painted canvas surfaces subjected to transportation. Transportation is of prime importance for the deterioration mechanisms that disintegrate the structural...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11388
The effect of the pipe wall temperature on the heat transfer and the internal solidification phenomena during the pouring of pure molten iron in a pipe is studied in this work. A mathematical model consisting in the motion, mass balance and heat equations is proposed. The Reynold...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11625
In this work, the use of a cost-effective biosorbent Lawsonia inermis was investigated for removal of Zn (II) ions from aqueous solutions. Different operational parameters such as the effect of pH, biomass dose, equilibrium time, temperature and initial metal ion concentrations w...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/12314
Hamed Abshari, M. Reza Emami Azadi & Madjid Sadegh Azar·Advances in Research·2014
There are various theoretical methods and procedures to evaluate instability of members in steel frames, in which effects of overall buckling and also geometrical nonlinearity are considered. In the first part, aims are to compare these conventional methods and investigate the po...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11358
Purpose: This study aimed to explore possible factors which may influence the implementation of new-born and infant hearing screening programmes at Primary Healthcare Clinics in South Africa at Maternal Child Woman’s Health (MCWH) immunisation clinics. Participants: Thirty primar...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2014/11387