A field experiment was carried out at Kapgari village of Jhargram district of West Bengal, to study the effects of NPK, humic acid and zinc sulphate on the growth and yield of African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.), during the year 2018 and 2019. The experiment included three treat...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2020/v21i930231
Godspower Onyekachukwu Ekwueme, Charles Okechukwu Aronu & Nkechi Udochukwu Otty·Advances in Research·2020
Aim: This study examined the physicochemical and bacteriological parameters of Odor River in Orumba North, Anambra State. The parameters considered were pH, turbidity, temperature, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Alkalinity, total hardness, Sulphate ( ), Chloride, Calcium ( ) hardness, Ma...
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T. R. Sridevi Krishnaveni, R. Arunachalam, M. Chandrakumar, G. Parthasarathi & R. Nisha·Advances in Research·2020
The state tree of Tamil Nadu, Borassus flabellifer L. is a nature’s gift to the mankind. It is plant that serves various ecological, medicinal, economical and sociological benefits to the society. It a plant of heaven that could sustain adverse climatic conditions and withstand n...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2020/v21i930229
A novel compartmental model is proposed to project the COVID-19 dynamics in Bangladesh. The exposed population is divided into two classes: tested and not tested. Model parameters are estimated by fitting the output with empirical COVID-19 data of Bangladesh from 7 April 2020 to...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2020/v21i930228
Water stress is one of the major and challenging abiotic stress that affects the plant mostly at all stages like tillering, booting, anthesis, grain formation and grain filling. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of water stress on relative water content, l...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2020/v21i930227
Curry leaf, Murraya koenigii (L.) Sprengel is mainly propagated through seeds, which have poor storage potential due to recalcitrant in nature. The present study evaluated the suitable storage method for prolonging the viability of the seed. The results showed that the shelf life...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2020/v21i830226
João Francisco Severo Santos, Danuza Costa Leite, Fernanda Alves Silva Severo & Liliana Pena Naval·Advances in Research·2020
The MarkSim climate data generator is designed to have global validity in scales of up to five degrees. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of the MarkSim-HadGEM2-ES and MarkSim-MIROC5 models to estimate average rainfall in the last agricultural fron...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2020/v21i830225
Oluwatoyin O. Akinsete, Toyin Y. Abdulraheem, Salawu B. Naheem & Adebiyi S. Leke·Advances in Research·2020
As the challenges associated with hydrocarbon exploration rises with upsurge in energy demand, the need to minimize risk associated with hydrocarbon exploration if supply is to keep up with demand. In this work, high resolution aeromagnetic, 3D seismic and well-logs data were ado...
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Aliyu Mahmuda, Mansur Sani, Tukur Adamu, Aminu Sanda & Lauwali Galadima Gobir·Advances in Research·2020
In spite of the effectiveness of most anthelmintic agents in use, there is still need to identify more due to their unwanted side effects. Hence, the need to develop more that can be safe for all, cheap and available even in our localities. In the light of the current need for th...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2020/v21i830223
L. Dash, S. Das, S. Mohanty, F. H. Rahman, S. K. Sahoo & S. N. Mishra·Advances in Research·2020
Goat rearing under semi intensive farming conditions is characterized by high kid mortality and low weaning weight percentages. The root cause which needs to be addressed for various diseases and parasites leading to low body weight gain and kid mortality is improper housing prac...
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