Aims: The aim of this study was to develop an easy but robust method for mass production, to formulate and compare the efficacy of mass produced conidia of a local isolate Metarhizium anisopliae against aphids and oil-formulated conidia against whiteflies. Study Design: The rando...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17882
A cross-sectional study to investigate prevalence, seasonal prevalence and causative agents of clinical and subclinical dromedary camel mastitis in Saudi Arabia (KSA) was conducted. The prevalence of acute mastitis was 3.6% and of chronic mastitis was 2.2%. Physical tests, Califo...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17593
A comprehensive review on the methodology to obtain two dimensional stress field around a discontinuity in the form of a circular hole in the plate subjected to various types of, uniform, axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric monotonic loads at infinity viz. uni-axial tensile, equal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17762
Introduction: The measurement of human motion, or kinematics, is becoming increasingly important. More specifically the measurement of human motor control can give important information about a number of cognitive processes. However, due to the restricted environment of functiona...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17411
The biogas production potential of the co-digestion of plantain (Musa parasidiaca) peels, yam (Discorea rotundata) peels and cow (Bos primigenius) dung was investigated. Two waste combinations of plantain peels with cow dung (A) and yam peels with cow dung (B) were used for the b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18135
This paper is focused on the dynamic analysis and simulation of a novel microgripper and its components: microcantilever and V-shape thermal actuator. These devices are designed on silicon and implemented on Professional Autodesk Inventor 2014. Simulations were realized using Ans...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18042
Laboratory experiments were conducted and the results were analyzed for rice husk ash (RHA) stabilization of laterite soils for utilization as sub base materials in road construction. The index properties classified the soils as (A-7) under the AASHTO soil classification scheme....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17090
In [1], a kernel-type estimator for the intensity obtained as the product of a periodic function with the power function trend of a non-homogeneous Poisson process has been formulated. In addition, asymptotic approximations to the bias, variance and mean squared error of this est...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17391
Aims: The objective of this paper is to develop a rectangular solar dryer box in which grains are dried by direct radiation through the transparent walls and roof of the cabinet and by the heated air from the solar collector. The temperature development of the dryer is also evalu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/16308
Introduction: In Brazil part of the production of ginger is of inadequate quality for export. The production of spirit from felt-over rhizomes is an alternative of great interest to producers of these rhizomes. Aim: Aiming to increase the value of felt-over rhizomes, this work ai...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/17704