Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most important cereal crop in Nigerian agriculture. The crop occupies a crucial place than other cereal crops since it is used as food, feed, fodder and other industrial raw material. The aim of this study was to conduct a comparative study on th...
This research intends to carry out a comparative study, on the yield of hybrid and open-pollinated maize, with the involvement of farmers in Giwa local government area of Kaduna state. Specifically, it evaluated existing hybrid and open-pollinated maize production technologies by...
Medicinal plants are reservoirs of natural products with anti-diabetic potentials. In the present study we screened Costus afer for the presence of plant products and to study the effects of the methanolic leaf extract of the plant on fasting blood glucose of normal rats. Adult m...
Introduction: Epidemiology of skin diseases has been studied and evaluated occasionally. In view of high incidence of skin diseases and economic burden that it poses, there is a need to evaluate the present epidemiology and prescribing pattern of skin disorders. Objective: To ass...
Image noise is unwanted information of an image. Noise can occur during image capture, transmission, or processing and it may depend or may not depend on image content. In order to remove the noise from the noisy image, prior knowledge about the nature of noise must be known othe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2011/189
Impurities like V2O5, SiO2 and MnO2 present in sodium aluminate liquor during thermo chemical leaching has a detrimental effect on the efficiency of alumina extraction from red mud. The objective of this study was to obtain information on the immobilisation of above impurities fr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2011/205
A study of groundwater potential of Pompo Village in the neighborhood of Gidan Kwano campus of Federal University of Technology, Minna, was carried out using Vertical Electrical Resistivity Sounding. A total of 12 Vertical Electrical Soundings (VES) were carried out across the ar...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2011/192
The study aimed to measure the competitiveness of the Sudanese sheep export from 2001/02 to 2006/07. The study depended mainly on primary data which was collected through questionnaire. Also, secondary data was collected from relevant sources related to topics of the study. The d...
The root knot nematodes are included within the genus Meloidogyne Goldi, 1892 and belong to a relatively small but important polyphagous group of highly adapted obligate plant pathogens. Typically, they are distributed worldwide and parasitize nearly every species of higher plant...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of gestation and season on the haematological and biochemical parameters in domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) to improve the conditions of breeding and conservation in Saudi Arbia. For this study. 30 non-pregnant and 30 pr...
A unified description of a series of Phonon properties of potassium iodide (KI) by means of van der Waals three-body force shell model [VTBFSM] is presented. This model includes van der Waals interactions (VWI) and three-body interactions (TBI) in the framework of both ion polari...
‘Asset–liability control’ is meant for managing the risk arising from changes in the relationship between assets and liabilities, due to volatile interest rate in critical situations like economic recession, inflation, etc. A stochastic asset-liability model (ALM), if adopted, an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2011/183
Oxidative stress induced by streptozotocin (STZ) has been shown to damage pancreatic beta cell and produce hyperglycemia in rats. In the present study an attempt was made to examine the action of Basella rubra against experimental diabetes as well as the antioxidant potential of...
Velocity shear electrostatic ion cyclotron instability has been studied in the region of auroral ionosphere in the presence of perpendicular A.C. electric field for higher harmonics. The expression for dispersion relation and growth rate has been derived by using the method of ch...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2011/195
The projected 40% increase in global deaths resulting from injury between 2002 and 2030 is predominantly due to the increasing number of deaths from road traffic accidents. Road crashes deserve to be a strategic issue for any country’s public health and can lead to overall growth...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2011/106