Aims: To investigate the effect of variations of plasma levels of thyroid and growth hormones on the physical growth indexes, the variation of these hormones with age, correlation of thyroid and growth hormones at varying concentrations of growth hormone in children aged 6-10 yea...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/18659
Aims: To produce Rhodobacter sphaeroides strain UMSPSB3 biomass with the reduction of chemical oxygen demand (COD) from palm oil mill effluent. Study Design: Locally isolated phototrophic bacterium with different inoculum levels were used in Palm Oil Mill effluent (POME). Collect...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/17827
The effect of crude leaf extract of Morinda lucida on germination and growth of Amaranthus spinosus and Amaranthus hybridus was studied. However, the aim was to use crude water extract from leave of M. lucida to germinate, nurture and compare the growth of A. hybridus and A. spi...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/18173
Aim: To determine the performance of grasscutter does with litter fed cassava-based energy diets. Study Design: The Completely Randomized Design was used in this study. Place and Duration of Study: The study, which lasted for 12 weeks, between March 2014 and June 2014, was carrie...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/16920
Aim: The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth and chemical analysis of two of Moringa oleifera and Moringa peregerina under three watering intervals. Place and Duration of Study: Field experiments were conducted for two consecutive seasons (2011\2012- 2012\2013) in...
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Research Article10.9734/JALSI/2015/15954
The paper examined the impact of innovation for 21st century educational sector in Nigeria. The paper employed the secondary data and sourced from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Statistical Bulletin of Central Bank of Nigeria. With the aid of statistical package (E-view...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/14700
The growth performance of Clarias gariepinus Burchell, 1822 fed Gliricidia sepium leaf meal and supplement with enzymes (Roxazyme®) and Maxigrain® were examined. The fingerlings having weight of about 6.34±0.43 g were stocked in12 plastic aquaria with 50 liters capacity at the ra...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15321
Aims: Fertilizer management is an important factor for a successful growth of officinal plants and the identity of suitable fertilizers in plants could have the desirable effects on quantitative and qualitative indices. In order to study the effects of biological fertilizers and...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/16697
This study was conducted to evaluate growth rate and haematological profiles of crossbred weaner males rabbits fed cassava and yam peels meal diets. Thirty-six crossbred weaner male rabbits aged 5-6 weeks were randomly allocated to 4 dietary treatments. Each treatment having 3 re...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/15903
A greenhouse trial was carried out at Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan in 2013 to evaluate the effect of cocoa pod husk (CPH) biochar fortified with NPK fertilizer formulations on kola seedling nutrient uptake and soil properties. The treatments consisted of a control,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2015/16111
A field experiment conducted in 2014 at Nsukka, Nigeria was aimed to study the effect of cutting height and poultry manure on the growth of Panicum maximum. Nine treatments were evaluated as factorial combinations of poultry manure applied at 0, 5 and 10 ton ha-1 and cutting heig...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16424
Patricia Adu-Yeboah, F. M. Amoah, A. O. Dwapanyin, K. Opoku-Ameyaw, M. O. Opoku-Agyeman, K. Acheampong, M. A. Dadzie, J. Yeboah & F. Owusu-Ansah·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2015
Cashew cultivation in Ghana has been seriously hampered by high cost of production. This necessitated investigation into practices that will reduce establishment cost and improve field performance of cashew transplants. An experiment was conducted at Cocoa Research Institute of G...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16122
The growth and yield response of sweet maize (Zea mays (L.) saccharata) to varying levels of organic and inorganic fertilizers during the growing seasons of kharif 2010 and 2011 was studied under temperate conditions of Kashmir Valley. Twelve treatments comprising of sole and com...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/16159
In this work, effect of cow dung and urea fertilization on soil properties, growth and yield of cucumber was evaluated. Four different rates of treatments [12 kgplot-1 cow dung (CW), 391 g ureaplot-1 equivalent to 150 kgha-1, 6 kg cow dung + 196 g urea equivalent to 75 kgha-1 tho...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/14084
The aim of this paper is to study the income convergence process according to economic growth in the world. In addition of the income countries analysis, the paper introduce a deeper analytical framework involving groups of countries in the word. The study concerns 135 countries...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15584