Aims: The study assesses the extent of lead pollution in contaminated site from artisanal gold mining for remediation purposes. Study Design: Experimental design was used in field sampling of soil and water samples based on the land use and sources of water. Study Area and Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29551
Jatropha gossypiifolia L. [Euphorbiaceae], widely known as “bellyache bush”, is a medicinal plant native to Mexico, south America, India and commonly found in many west African countries such as Nigeria. Folkloric uses of the different parts of this plant in the tropics for the m...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28793
The great target for mankind is always to achieve the optimum use of available resources against the increasing food and other demands of the world population versus the shrinking resources. This paper provides snapshots of research and practical implementation of optimum design...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28828
Air can play a vital role as a reservoir for both pathogenic and non pathogenic living microorganisms. Microbial contamination of air hospitals is considered as a source of hospital-associated infections. This study aimed to assess microbial profile of air contamination in diffe...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/29066
The objectives of the present investigation were to determine the type of gene action, heritability and expected genetic advance from selection for agronomic and yield traits of maize under water stress and optimum irrigation and to identify the parents that contain favorable gen...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28281
A 28-day experiment was conducted to determine the effects of graded levels of sweet potato (Ipomoea batata) root meal (SPRM) on growth performance and haematological parameters of broiler starter birds. 240 day old unsexed Anak broiler chicks were used for this experiment. The b...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27951
This study mainly measure the level of technical inefficiency and the determinants factors among rice farmers in Ezza south of Ebonyi State, Nigeria using stochastic frontier production function. Multi- stage random sampling technique was used to select 120 rice farmers from whi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27465
Aims: The objective of this research was to evaluate the water pollution levels in the Aurá River basin and to provide subsidies to public decisions for the protection, preservation and conservation of basins for the supply the Metropolitan Region of Belém (MRB). Study Area and M...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/28249
ICT has brought unprecedented changes and transformation to banks such as online banking, mobile banking, branch networking, automated teller machine (ATM)and Point of sale services. In Ethiopia, in particular to the government-owned Commercial Bank the lack of assistance of empl...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/27924
As a developing nation, Zambia has a number of setbacks to its economic development. One adverse setback that has affected the country’s economic development pursuits is poverty. The economy of Zambia has faced some draw backs and domestic distress has increased, making it very d...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/26464