This study was carried out to determine the mineral composition, ash content, percentage volatile content (PVC) as well as the pH, total alkalinity and conductivity of the aqueous solution of the ashes of palm bunch and plantain peels respectively. The mineral contents of the as...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/22481
This study assessed effects of climate change on agroclimatic suitability of areas for Maize, Wheat and Barley production in Gamo Gofa zone, Southern Ethiopia between September 2014 and February 2015. Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to analyze the changes in suitabil...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26572
This exercise was undertaken in order to simulate the movement of nitrates and phosphorus within a residential potable water network and to investigate the degree of human exposure to varying quantities of these contaminants from a cross-connection. Greywater was collected from 2...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/24409
This work investigates the components of Kaolin (nzu) in the five South Eastern states of Nigerian and the possible health benefits by using Neutron Activation analysis. The results of the investigation show the concentration of eighteen elements. These elements are Mg, Al, Ti, V...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25418
This paper presents the effectiveness of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique in analyzing iris texture by performing dimensionality reduction and extracting unique feature codes of images for efficient ethnicity classification using iris images from African and two Asian...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26131
Aims: To evaluate the opinions of the automotive trainers on the extent to which their training programs were futuristic in content and organization. To establish whether the training was in line with changes in technology in industry; the main emphasis of training and suggestion...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/25391
The drive to ascertain the paleodepositional environments of the inland sedimentary basins of Nigeria, necessitates a detailed biostratigraphy studies of limestone-shale sequences of Gboko Formation; Middle Benue Trough, Nigeria. A total of 26 representative samples were collecte...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/10869
Production of methanol from methane was investigated by a low pressure impulse discharge on the surface of the water without using catalysis. Methane was introduced above the water surface and mixed with steam generated by the heat supplied by the discharge. Discharge parameters...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26682
In this paper, the energy dependence of saturation thickness for Sn target has been investigated at different gamma rays photon energies of 122, 511 and 662 keV using backscattering technique. The back scattered photon spectra for different thicknesses (0.2 – 2.13 cm) of tin (50S...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/26514
The effect of dietary fortification of two levels of bakers yeast and yeast plus Lactobacilli against negative control and positive control (antibiotic) was assessed on in vitro gas production (IVGP) kinetics and methane production at 24 hours incubation. A concentrate diet was f...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19166