A survey was carried out to determine the causes of low vegetable production by looking at the challenges faced by organic based smallholder farmers and the potential coping strategies employed and their experiences, coping and adaptation strategies to climate change and variabil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/16270
Nuclear waste dumping site found to contain the traces of organic compounds and heavy metals; in spite of the present physicochemical and biological treatment. The organic waste was commonly found to contain traces of Trichloroethylene. The remediation technology has been develop...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28673
A research lasting six months was carried out with progenies of mongrel rabbits to investigate the pattern of early growth traits and to predict body weight. Rabbits were managed extensively, and fed ad libitum proprietary feed (15% CP and 2300 Kcal/kg ME), supplemented with fora...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28092
Consolidation is the reduction of soil volume with time. This phenomenon generates a stresses transfer process beginning with the application of load and subsequent increase in pore water pressure. This increase in pore water pressure generates a flow of water that reduces the vo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30219
Aim: To investigate the effect on milk yield and composition of feeding Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) seed cake as a protein source to lactating dairy cows. Study Design: Nine multiparous Friesian dairy cows in mid-lactation were assigned to a 3 x 3 Latin square design (three repli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29682
Edge detection is a preliminary process in many image processing and computer vision applications such as object detection and object extraction. It detects important events in the image where sharp discontinuity in pixels intensity is found. Several edge detection techniques hav...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29653
Cotton samples were modified with the reactive composite with different methylolation percentage varying from 20 to 80%. The Fourier transforms infrared (FTIR) spectra of modified cotton fabrics have followed at each condition which had been prepared via graft copolymerization of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28761
It is a very vital issue for a network administrator to monitor all the devices or services. A system administrator always has to aware whether all the devices or services are running properly or not but it is too difficult to monitor when an administrator is out of his system. T...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/28453
Distribution losses contribute to energy shortages and therefore power outages in Nigeria’s industries. This work evaluated the technical losses in the distribution networks of selected industrial cities in Nigeria. Power flow simulation of network data collected over the period...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29910
Breakdown is an ever present risk in engineering facilities and infrastructure. Effective maintenance reduces such risks and improves reliability of facilities, plants and infrastructure. This study introduces a new method of accessing breakdown risk using fuzzy set theory. It in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29811