This study was carried out to establish the effect of “Ionic Soil Stabilizer 2500” (ISS 2500) on black cotton soil. Samples were collected along Dikwa–Gamboru Ngala road in North-East Nigeria. Initial results indicated that the black cotton soil could be expansive with over 60% p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/3041
Aims: Thermal cracking of waste plastic (without catalyst) to useful chemicals. Study Design: To design the experimental procedure, we primarily concentrated on the thermal stability of the materials by bearing in mind the results of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Based on the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/1984
Aims: The effects of oven – drying (OVD), brining and oven – drying (BOVD) and smoking (SMK) on quality and shelf – life of Catfish (Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus) and Tilapia (T. zillii) were evaluated. Study Design: Completely randomised block design. Place and Duration of Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2541
The behaviour of the subsurface soil upon application of a low potential field has been investigated utilizing Schlumberger configuration of Electrical resistivity survey. The characteristics of three different soil types which include sandy clay, sand-clayey loam and loamy sand...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/1818
Cherenkov radiation is an electromagnetic Radiation that occurs in different medium depending on the physical properties of the medium”. The sufficient scientific condition for the phenomenon to be occurred is that the velocity of charged particles moving with should be greater t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2826
Biostratigraphic work using palynology was undertaken in order to re-assess the lithofacies, chronostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of deposition of sediments in Murshe-1 well, Bornu Basin, northeastern Nigeria. Two hundred and ninety ditch cutting samples obtained from the expl...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2665
Aims: This study was conducted to assess the risks connected to effluents released by laboratories performing biomedical analyses in four sanitary training units of Abomey Calavi and Sô-Ava area in Benin. Study Design: It is a transversal and analytical study. Duration of Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2296
This paper considers a condition-based maintenance optimization for continuously degrading systems under continuous noise response in terms of sound pressure level monitoring. After maintenance, the states of the system are randomly distributed with residual damage. An optimizati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2341
Organic nonlinear optical single crystals of 4-methoxy benzoin were grown by slow evaporation technique. The X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that 4-methoxy benzoin single crystals belong to orthorhombic crystal system with a space group Pca21.Optical absorption range of the g...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2587
Aim: A 56 days feeding trial was conducted with 225 Marshal Broiler chicks to evaluate the effect of activated coconut charcoal on their growth performance and nutrient digestibility. Study Design: The design of the experiment was completely randomized design (CRD). Place and Dur...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/2085