eCommerce systems have been targeted by cyber criminals as they receive and use the money, rely on technology, outsourced services and use of payment technologies like mobile money and online banking channels to carry out their day-to-day transactions. This study sought to invest...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30312
Finance is a major obstacle to software ownership in Nigeria and indeed most developing countries. This paper advocates the adoption of software rental/subscription as a way of ameliorating the problem of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software ownership among engineers in Nigeria a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29812
An investigation was conducted of mechanoluminescence of aqueous suspension of SrAl2O4:(Eu2+, Dy3+) phosphor fine-disperse powder in the process of water crystallization (liquid-crystal phase transition) under fast cooling in liquid nitrogen. At the instant of water crystallizati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29871
This work focuses on enriching the already available theory concerning public sector management. Experiential validation of employing the Balanced Scorecard for the public sector organisations is examined. An interpretive paradigm in combination with an action research strategy w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29531
Natural resources (land, water, biodiversity and genetic resources, biomass Resources, forests, livestock and fisheries) – the very foundation of human survival, Progress and prosperity, have been degrading fast, and the unprecedented pace of their Erosion is one of the root caus...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/16055
The elderly have been considered disadvantaged social classes, and their widening problems will have a tremendous impact and influence on society. This study aims to apply data mining techniques to investigate the demographic features of socially disadvantaged groups in Taipei an...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26707
Therapeutic glycoproteins, which are produced in different expression systems are effective as biopharmaceuticals in medical applications and glycan engineering technology can open a new world to facilitate production of these proteins to overcome some pharmacological problems by...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29679
Aims: The present study was aimed at finding the geomorphological impacts on the quality groundwater quality along the Bay of Bengal of Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Study Design: Groundwater samples were collected and assessed for the identification of various...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29538
José Eduardo Soubhia Natali, Paulo Nogueira Starzynski, Ingird Machado Cusin Ahmed El-Dash, Thiago Paes de Barros de Luccia, Vivian Machado Cusin Ahmed El-Dash & José Guilherme Chaui-Berlinck·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2016
Aims: There are several entropy estimators to address the organization of time-series. However, the behavior of a given estimator in relation to the size N of the data is not often studied in terms of improving the analysis. Here, we investigate size-related properties of the est...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29596
The study was conducted in Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality of the Ashanti Region and the Atebubu-Amantin Municipality in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana, in May 2013, to investigate the technological change in rice production in the two municipalities in Ghana using the output dec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29805