This paper describes two possible alternatives to the more traditional Pearson’s R correlation coefficient, both based on using the mean absolute deviation, rather than the standard deviation, as a measure of dispersion. Pearson’s R is well-established and has many advantages. Ho...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/11381
Aims: This study evaluated nutritional parameters for optimum methionine production Study Design: Methionine was assayed using the colorimetric method of Greenstein and Wintz (1961). Place and Duration of Study: Department of Applied Microbiology and Brewing, Nnamdi Azikiwe Unive...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/2444
Namibia became independent in 1990. Since then, the democratic government has pursued various development policy tools to empower Namibians economically. The 4th National Development Plan identified four strategic economic growth enhancing activities, namely agriculture, manufact...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9299
Aims: The specific objective of this study was yield comparison the garlic genotypes for cultivation in region and evaluation some agronomic traits and determination correlation of coefficients these with yield in order to using in breeding programs. Study Design: Randomized Comp...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/9090
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of flow-distance on the empirical correlation between biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of wastewaters from a cluster of industries. Study Design: Wastewater samples were collected at poi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/10500
Forty one chilli genotypes were grown in a randomized block design with three replications during autumn-winter season of 2010-11, at the AB block Farm, Kalyani, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, India, to estimate variability and heritability for important reproductive and y...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2014/7236
A field study was set to highlight the relationships and contributions of yield and yield-related traits to the choice of a superior cowpea variety. Five cowpea varieties, Sampea-7 (IAR 48), Sampea-8 (IAR 452-1), Sampea-10 (IAR 499-35), Sampea-11 (IAR 288) and Sampea-12 (IAR 391)...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9000
The revolution potential of the new Information and Communication Technology lies in its capacities to instantaneously convert vast network of individuals and organizations across great geographical distances at very little cost. This paper dwells on the correlation between IT in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6409
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the association of different yield related traits to seed yield of mungbean Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at the Haramaya University Rare research site and Hirna Research site during the 2012 cropping season. Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/5473
This paper deals with reducing the risk of stockholders investment by implementing portfolio management in Bangladesh’s stock market. The Markowitz portfolio model derives the expected rate of return for a portfolio of stocks and a measurement of the expected risk, which is the s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5958
Condensate-to-gas ratio (CGR) plays a significant role in sales potential assessment of both gas and liquid, design of the required surface processing facilities, reservoir characterization and modeling in gas-condensate reservoirs. This work aim at the use of regression method t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/4586
Grain yield is a complex phenomenon which results from the interaction of various contributing factors highly influenced by different selection procedures. Recurrent selection is vital selection method for improving morphological and yield related attributes in maize crop. Half-s...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2914
To study the effect of nitrogen rate and plant density at different levels on yield, yield components and quality traits of safflower (cv. Giza 1) an experiment was conducted as split plot design in randomized complete block design arrangement with three replications, during the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2886
Accurate prediction of fluid properties is essentials for all reservoir engineering calculations such as estimation of reserves, well testing analysis and in numerical reservoir simulation. Oil formation volume factor is one of the properties that can either be gotten from empiri...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2280
Aims: It is utmost desire for plant breeders to know the extent of relationship between yield and its various components, which will inevitably facilitate selection of desirable characteristics. This research focused on computing the correlation coefficients and path coefficients...