In regions where water is in short supply, wastewater treatment offers the possibility for the efficient removal of unwanted pollutants and germs so that the water may be used for irrigation. Water scarcity is an old problem in Palestine because of various geographical settings a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2872
Aims: Use a natural compound derived from cashew nut shell liquid to the production of an additive inhibitor of the oxidation of lubricants oils. Study Design: This article describes the syntheses, characterization and evaluation of the antioxidant action of a phosphorylated comp...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3046
The majority of women during the menopausal period have great hormonal changes that affect both somatic and mental aspects. In modern life, regular exercise has become a necessity and recently is considered as a new alternative method to improve post menopausal symptoms. Aims: Th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3159
Aims: This paper reports the investigations pertaining to the adsorbability of ferri/ferrous impurities found in commercial grade sodium sulphide (which is not suitable for manufacture of pharmaceutical grade chemicals and dyes chemicals) by using chalk powder as an adsorbent in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2871
Fuel ethanol research development deals with process design integration for improving production of ethanol. This paper investigates the effect of variable reflux ratio on the design of distillation column using developed JAVA based simulation software. This was done by varying r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2717
Because of the technical complexities involved in the plasma heating process in most reactions a simple method has been introduced by this author in ITC/12 conference, Japan. In the present approach rather colder plasmas are stimulated by using positronium atoms as stimulus eleme...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2825
The postharvest quality of Jew’s mallow was tested using two types of plastic liners and two temperatures, 4ºC and 10ºC. The plastic liners were normally sealed low density polyethylene and modified atmosphere package. Six quality parameters (weight loss, chlorophyll content, dec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2873
Heritability and correlation are the key components while, conducting an experiment for some specific traits on plant breeding. Keeping in view that importance this study was carried out utilizing 10 mungbean genotypes. Field Experimental was conducted in Randomized Complete Bloc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2588
Aims: This study was carried out to determine the groundwater flow pattern in order to identify the converging centres with high yield expectations. Study Design: The study area, Okigwe District in Imo State Nigeria, lies between latitude 5º30′N to 5º57′N and longitude 7º04′E to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3133
To properly characterizing and modelling a hydrocarbon bearing reservoir is not an easy task because the reservoir properties vary spatially due to reservoir heterogeneities which occur at all scales, from pore scale to major reservoir units. The level of reservoir complexities u...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3089